Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: World War, 1939-1945
A century of rifles, 1860-1960 : the Halifax Rifles (RCAS) (M) Cede nullis / editor & historian, John Gordon Quigley. Halifax : Printed by Wm. McNabb, 1960-. xvii, 230 pages : illustrations, portraits(2 folded) ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F105 H13 Qu4
Corrected caption mounted on plate between pages 12-13.
World War, 1939-1945 — Regimental histories — Canada
World War, 1914-1918 — Regimental histories — Canada.
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Navy League of Canada. Dominion Educational Committee
A league of nation builders Toronto : Dominion Educational Committee, Naval League of Canada 194--. 12 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.59 #12 - Vertical File
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
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A Mariner's Memories : a Chronicle of the Life and Times of Earle S. Wagner, Master Mariner, 1929-1999 / Earle S. Wagner. Nova Scotia : Earle S. Wagner, 2017. 272 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 W346 1999
At age 17, Earle Wagner joined Canada's marchant navy and served in it for four years during World War II. For nearly a quarter of a century he managed a fleet of vessels owned and operated by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. He was involved for a total of 48 years in the marine industry.
Merchant marine > Canada > Biography
Pilots and pilotage > Manitoba > Churchill > Biography
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Atlantic Ocean > Biography
World War, 1939-1945 > Transportation > Biography
West La Have (N.S.) > Biography
Autobiographies
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Addresses delivered before the Nova Scotia Liberal Association on November 25, 1943 / by Hon. A. S. MacMillan, Premier of Nova Scotia and Hon. J. L. Isley, K. C., M. P., Minister of Finance. Halifax : Nova Scotia Liberal Association, 1943-. 25 pages; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.93 #7 - Vertical File
Cabinet officers — Canada
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1933-1956
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Alex Colville : diary of a war artist / compiled by Graham Metson and Cheryl Lean. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1981. 159 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 32 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D743.2 C727
Lean, Cheryl
Metson, Graham, 1934-
Painters — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Art and the war.
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Alongside the navy, 1910-1950 : an intimate account / Jean Donald Gow. Quyon, Quebec : Chelsey House Publications, 1999. viii, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V743 C3 G68 1999
Navy spouses — Canada — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax.
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An East coast port-- Halifax at war, 1939-1945 / compiled and edited by Graham Metson ; with the assistance of Cheryl Lean. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1981. 157 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D768.15 H173
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Social aspects — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History.
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And it was my war too : a companion to This was my war (1992) / collected and edited by Ian Maxwell. Tancook Island : Little Daisy Press, 1994. 313 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 A2 A62 1994
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives.
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B...was for butter and enemy craft / Evelyn M. Richardson. Halifax : Petheric Press, 1976. 112 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5229 R522 - Open Shelf
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian.
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Canada's war at sea Montreal : A.M. Beatty, 1944. 2 v. in 1. : illustrations (part col.), ports., maps ; 30 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 C3 1944
Leacock, Stephen Butler, 1869-1944
Roberts, Leslie, 1896-
Morton, J. Alexander
Ward, Wallace.
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada
Canada — History, Naval.
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Canadian welcome home medals, 1899-1945 / author, George A. Brown ; publication coordinator, Vickey Kidd ; photography, Don LeBlanc. Langley, B.C. : Western Canadian Distributors, 1991. ix, 155 pages : col. illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UB435 C3 B76 1991
Presented by: J. Douglas Ferguson Historical Research Foundation. Includes index.
J. Douglas Ferguson Historical Research Foundation.
South African War, 1899-1902 — Canada — Medals
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada — Medals
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada — Medals.
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37. Canadian women and the Second World War / Ruth Roach Pierson. Ottawa : Canadian Historical Association, 1983. 31 pages : illustrations : 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16a B64 #37
Canadian Historical Association.
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada — Women.
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Combined operations: the strategy and tactics necessary to organize and conduct a payroll savings plan for Canada's fifth victory loan / National War Finance Committee. 1943-. 20 pages : illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.301 #13 - Vertical File
Canada. National War Finance Committee
World War, 1939-1945 — Victory loans
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Conscripted city : Halifax and the Second World War / by Jay White. Hamilton, ON. : The Author, 1994. xvii, 458 pages : illustrations, maps.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.4 W55 1994 - Open Shelf
Housing — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
City planning — Nova Scotia — Halifax — History — 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax.
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Description and presentation of our Book of Remembrance to the Halifax Memorial Library / by the Halifax County Chapter of the Remembrance Association of Silver Cross Women of Canada, May 29, 1955. Halifax : Remembrance Association of Silver Cross Women of Canada, 1955. 1 v. unpaged; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.431 #33 - Vertical File
On cover: Their memory is hallowed in the land they loved.
Remembrance Association of Silver Cross Women of Canada.
World War, 1939-1945 — Registers of dead — Nova Scotia — Halifax (County)
Korean War, 1950-1953 — Casualties (Statistics, etc.)
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Ethnic minorities during two world wars / John Herd Thompson. Ottawa : Canadian Historical Association, 1991. 20 pages : 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.385 #16 - Vertical File
Canadian Historical Association.
Minorities — Canada — History — 20th century
Racism — Canada — History — 20th century
Nativism
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada
Canada — History — 1914-1945
Canada
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Gunner Schmidt at the crossroads / Robert Dietz. Halifax, (Nova Scotia) : AB Collector Publishing, 1994. xii, 156 pages : illustrations, map, ports. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PR9199.3 D54 G86 1994
A play. Based on the author's autobiography: Oath of allegiance.
Dietz, Robert, 1924- Oath of allegiance.
World War, 1939-1945 — Drama
Dramatists, Canadian.
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Halifax at war : searchlights, squadrons and submarines, 1939-1945 / William D. Naftel. Halifax : Formac Pub. Co., 2008. 285 pages : maps ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2346.4 N146 2008 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references and index.
World War, 1939-1945 — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 20th century.
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Hidden costs, hidden labours : women in Nova Scotia during two world wars / Sharon M.H. MacDonald. 1999. iii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HD6100 N6 M3 1999
Women in war — Nova Scotia
Women and war — Nova Scotia
World War, 1914-1918 — Women — Nova Scotia
World War, 1939-1945 — Women — Nova Scotia
World War, 1914-1918 — War work — Nova Scotia
World War, 1939-19
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How to sell victory bonds / National War Finance Committee. National War Finance Committee, 1943. 16 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.290 #14 - Vertical File
Canada. National War Finance Committee
World War, 1939-1945 — Victory loans
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Central Mediterranean Forces, Italy
I Canadian base reinforcement group : order of divine service, Easter day, 9th April, 1944 7 pages : 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.203 #7 - Vertical File
World War, 1939-1945 — Religious aspects
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In all respects ready : the Merchant Navy and the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1945 / Frederick B. Watt. Scarborough, ON. : Prentice-Hall Canada, 1985. xviii, 222 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, po
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 W37 1985
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
World War, 1939-1945 — Transportation
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
Merchant marine — Canada — History — 20th century.
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In the morning : biographical sketches of the veterans of Victoria County, Cape Breton, that served in both World Wars / edited by Bonnie Thornhill and W. James MacDonald. Sydney, Canada : University College of Cape Breton Press. 1999. xiv, 567 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2345 V52 Z48 1999 - Open Shelf
MacDonald, W. James
Thornhill, Bonnie, 1948-
World War, 1914-1918 — Veterans — Nova Scotia — Victoria (County) Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Veterans — Nova Scotia — Victoria (County) Biography
Veterans — Nova Scotia Biography
Canada — Armed Forces Bi
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J'ai vécu la guerre : temoignages de soldats acadiens, 1939-1945 / Ronald Cormier. Moncton, N.B. : Éditions d'Acadie, 1988. 248, [6] pages : illustrations , maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D811 A2 C67 1988
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Acadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Western.
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John Coe's war / Clive Doucet. Toronto : McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1983. 321 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PS8557 O93 J65
World War, 1939-1945 — Fiction
Canadian fiction (English)
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