Nightingale's Vision : Nurses' Voices from the 1920s and 1930s / by Barbara Keddy. Halifax : New World Publishing, 2023. 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RT37 N87 K43
Based upon the oral histories of 40 nurses who trained, lived, and worked in the early 1920s, and 1930s ; recorded in a project done 40 years ago (https://ns-archives.accesstomemory.net/barbara-keddy).
Women nurses — Nova Scotia — History — 20th century
Nurses — Nova Scotia — History — 20th century
Women nurses — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nurses — Nova Scotia — Biography
Nursing — Nova Scotia — History — 20th century
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Sisters of Service : I Have Come to Serve - From 1922 to the Present / by M.C. Havey. Toronto, ON : Sisters of Service, 2022. 401 pages : portraits, illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX4705 S57 H38 2022
Written for the 100th anniversary of the Sisters of Service and looks into their history in North America. Two chapters with very specific and relevant information to the Sisters in Nova Scotia: Chapter 3 - The Ports : history of the sisters' immigration work at Pier 21 Chapter 6 - Home Away from Home : the women's residence they called home in Nova Scotia.
Sisters of Service — History
Monasticism and religious orders for women — Canada — History
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An Apostolate of fifty years : published on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the Monastery of the Good Shepherd at Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1890-1940 Halifax : Monastery of the Good Shepherd, 1940. 57 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX4485.5 Z9 H35 1940
In grateful tribute to His Excellency the Archbishop of Halifax and to all the devoted clergy of the Archdiocese for their kind interest in our community.
Sisters of the Good Shepherd — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
Monastery of the Good Shepherd (Halifax, Nova Scotia) — History
Monasticism and religious orders for women — Nova Scotia — History
Nuns — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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The odyssey of Frances Fish : a first Canadian woman lawyer / Barry Cahill. Halifax : Chadwick Press, 2023. 117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - K19 F531 C13 2023
The subject of this book is the New Brunswicker who was the first woman called to the bar of Nova Scotia. Frances Lilian Fish (1888-1975) was part of an evolution occuring in Canada between 1890 and 1940, a gradual transition from an all-male to a mixed legal profession to which New Brunwsick contributed significantly... Includes bibliographic references.
Fish, Frances Lilian
Lawyers — Nova Scotia
Women — Nova Scotia — History
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Women Making History : 1948-2015 / by Judy Whalen. Halifax, NS : Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW), 2016. 32 pages : illustrations : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.549 #17 - Vertical File
A brief history of the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) and the women who run the organization. Outlines the individual and group responsibilities and accomplishments for about 70 years from 1948-2015.
Canadian Federation of University Women — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — History
Women — Canada — Societies and clubs — History
Women — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — Societies and clubs — History
Women — Nova Scotia
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Woman Warrior at Wounded Knee : "Micmac"/Mi'kmaq Legend Anna Mae Pictou Aquash / by Don (Byrd) Awalt. Parrsboro : Mi'kma'ki Media Arts, 2021. 109 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 A692
Biography of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, member of the American Indian Movement (AIM) as told by the people who knew her.
Micmac Women — History
Micmac — History
History — Truro (N.S.)
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Woman, her character, culture and calling a full discussion of woman's work in the home, the school, the church and the social circle, with an account of her successful labors in moral and social reform / by a galaxy of distinguished authors in the United States and Canada ; with introduction by Frances E. Willard ; edited by the Rev. Principal Austin. Brantford, Ont. : Book & Bible House, 1890. 253 frames : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 06583 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Austin, B. F. Benjamin Fish, 1850-1932.
Women — Employment
Women — History
Women — Health and hygiene
Women — Suffrage
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I can manage my own business affairs female industrial workers in Halifax at the turn of the twentieth century Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1990.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche M996 I15 - Open Shelf
Women — Employment — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
Women — Social conditions — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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Nurses and nursing in early twentieth-century Halifax / by Kathryn M. McPherson. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1984. 137 frames ; 11 X 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche M143 - Open Shelf
Nursing — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
Women — Employment — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History
Nursing — Social aspects — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History.
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Dartmouth's memorable women 1750-1994 : an exhibition at the Dartmouth Heritage Museum June 6 to July 24, 1994 / guest curator, Joan Payzant. Dartmouth : Dartmouth Heritage Museum, 1994. 43 pages : 28 cm. +1 folded sheet 4 pages : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.542 #6 - Vertical File
Includes bibliographical references.
Women — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — History
Museums — Nova Scotia — Dartmouth — Periodicals.
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History of hobby crafters : 1974 - 2005 / resource person, Elisabeth Macmillan ; scribe, Majorie Mott. Kentville : Hobby Crafters, 2006-. 63 pages : illustrations some copies; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.540 #15 - Vertical File
Presented to Nova Scotia Archives by Hobby Crafters, Kentville, N.S. May 2, 2006. Title from cover. Publication details from preliminary pages.
Macmillan, Elisabeth
Mott, Majorie.
Hobbyists — Nova Scotia — Kentville — History
Women artisans — Nova Scotia — Kentville — History.
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Nova Scotia Advisory Council on the Status of Women
International Women's Day Halifax : The Council, 1990. 5 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.396 #17 - Vertical File
Women — Nova Scotia — History
International Women's Day
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Immigrant domestic servants in Canada / Marilyn Barber. Ottawa : Canadian Historical Association, 1991. 29 pages : 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.385 #13 - Vertical File
Canadian Historical Association.
Women domestics — Canada — History
Alien labor — Canada — History
Canada — Emigration and immigration.
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History of the ladies groups of the Onslow congregation as presented June 15th, 1988 at the dedication of the first memorial window in the Onslow United Church 1988. 9, 11 pages : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.364 #18 - Vertical File
Onslow United Church (Onslow, N.S.)
Women and religion — Nova Scotia — Onslow — History
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A violation of our history : theft of index file cards sours spirit at Public Archives 1990. pages 11.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.323 #27 - Vertical File
In: The Daily News, Sun. Nov. 11, 1990.
Blacks — Nova Scotia — History
Women's studies — Nova Scotia
Stealing
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Acadia University. Art Gallery
Women at Acadia University: the first fifty years, 1884-1934: / an exhibition of photographs from Acadia University Archives / organized by Acadia University Women's Centenary Committee. Kentville Publishing 1983-. 32 pages; illustrations, ports; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.261 #10a - Vertical File
Catalogue notes by Margaret Conrad, Elizabeth Rice and Patricia Townsend.
Women in Nova Scotia — History
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The widening sphere : women in Canada, 1870-1940 / by Jeanne L'Espérance. Ottawa : Public Archives Canada, 1982. 63 pages, 69 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z7964 C3 L637
Catalogue of an exhibition held Sept. 27, 1982-Jan. 4, 1983. Text in English and French with French text on inverted pages. Title on added t.p.: Vers des horizons nouveaux. Co-published by National Library of Canada.
National Library of Canada
Public Archives Canada.
Women — Canada — History — Archives — Exhibitions.
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Canadian women's history bibliography : catalogue / compiled by Klay Dyer, Sue Martin, Lucy Sussex = Bibliographie de l'histoire des femmes canadiennes : catalogue /compilâee par Klay Dyer, Sue Martin, Lucy Sussex. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1997. viii, 84 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z7964 C3 C37 1997
Includes indexes.
Dyer, Klay, 1961-
Martin, Sue
Sussex, Lucy, 1957-
Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions.
Canadian literature — Women authors — Bibliography — Microform catalogs
Women — Canada — History — Bibliography — Microform catalogs.
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Women's archives guide : manuscript sources for the history of women / Joanna Dean and David Fraser. Ottawa : National Archives of Canada, 1991. 110, 118, v pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z7964 C212 N277
Includes index. Text in English and French with French text on inverted pages. Title on added t.p.: Guide des archives sur les femmes.
Women — Canada — History — Sources — Bibliography — Catalogs
Women — Canada — History — Manuscripts — Catalogs.
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Provincial Archives of Alberta
Some sources for women's history at the Provincial Archives of Alberta / prepared by Jean E. Dryden. Edmonton : Alberta Culture, Historical Resources Division, 1980. viii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z7961 W6 D798
Includes index.
Alberta. Historical Resources Division.
Women — Alberta — History — Sources — Bibliography — Catalogs.
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The Grohmann Journey to Freedom : a true story / by Berta Grohmann-Babinec. Pictou : Berta Grohmann-Babinec, 2013. 136 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TS380.4 G764 2013
Berta Grohmann-Babinec was 25 years old when she arrived in Canada. She had immigrated here with her family and settled down in the small town of Pictou, Nova Scotia. She describes her childhood, what she and her family went through during the war, the nightmares after the war, and her journey to Canada. Grohmann Knives Limited is a small family business with a big reputation. It is an Old World story that began before the second World War, when a commercial buyer from Quebec traveled once a year to a factory in Sudetenland, then a German region of Czechoslovakia, to buy pocket knives. Every year the buyer would urge Rudolph Grohmann the production manager at a plant in Mikulasovice (Nixdorf), to come to Canada , promising him help to get started. Mr. Grohmann would always decline as he was happy in his own country, but after the war, the political situation grew desperate and in 1949 Rudolph Grohmann accepted the offer. Rudolph's daughter Berta married Michael Babinec Sr who was from Rudno nad Hrohom. Within a year, Grohmann and his family arrived in Nova Scotia at the invitation of the provincial government-funded Pictou Cutlery. Grohmann Knives Limited was formed in 1961 by the family and was run by one of Grohmann's daughters, Berta, & her husband Michael Babinec Sr.
Grohmann Knives Limited — History
Immigrants — Nova Scotia — Biography
Businesswomen — Nova Scotia — Biography
Business enterprises — Nova Scotia — History
Knives — Canada — Nova Scotia — History
Pictou (N.S.) — History
Pictou (N.S.) — Biography
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Beyond the image : a guide to films about women and change Ottawa : National Film Board of Canada, 1981. 49 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PN1998 N277 B573
Includes index.
National Film Board of Canada.
Women in motion pictures — Film catalogs
Women — History — Film catalogs
Aged women — Film catalogs.
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Mothers of the municipality : women, work and social policy in post-1945 Halifax / edited by Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005. viii, 318 pages, [24] pages of plates : illustrations, ports. ; 2
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HQ1460 H173 M918 2005
Fingard, Judith, 1943-
Guildford, Janet, 1946-
Women in community organization — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
Women volunteers in social science — Nova Scotia — Haifax — History — 20th century
Halifax (N.S.) — Social policy.
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Female reformers in Victorian Nova Scotia: architects of new womanhood / Michael J. Smith. Halifax : 1986. [v], 186 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HQ1459 N935 S655
Feminism — Nova Scotia — 19th century
Women — History — 19th century
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Separate spheres : women's worlds in the 19th century Maritimes / edited by Janet Guildford & Suzanne Morton. Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press, 1994. 253 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HQ1453 S46 1994
Guildford, Janet Vey
Morton, Suzanne, 1961-
Women — Maritime Provinces — History — 19th century.
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