Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: World War, 1939-1945 — Canada
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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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
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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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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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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
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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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Mackenzie King to the people of Canada Ottawa, National Liberal Federation, 1935-. 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - JL197 M156
World War, 1939-1945
Campaign literature, Canadian, 1940 — Liberal Party
Canada — Politics and government — 1935-1957.
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Mona Parsons : from privilege to prison, from Nova Scotia to Nazi Europe / Andria Hill. Halifax : Nimbus, 2000. 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D802 N4 H645 2000
World War, 1939-1945 — Underground movements — Netherlands Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Prisoners and prisons, German
Prisoners of war — Germany Biography
Prisoners of war — Canada Biography.
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Running the gauntlet : an oral history of Canadian merchant seamen in World War II / by Mike Parker. Halifax : Nimbus, 1994. xi, 344 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D810 T8 P37 1994
Merchant marine — Canada — History — 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Atlantic Ocean
Merchant mariners — Canada — Biography.
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Ships mean victory / by Lieutenant-Commander William Strange; with illustrations by sub-Lieutenant Max Newton and official naval photographs. Story and illustrations by courtesy, The Department of Naval Services. Toronto : Navy League of Canada, 1942. 63 pages, illus.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.203 #1 - Vertical File
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
Canada — History, Naval — 20th century.
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Small town soldiers : the people from Economy, N.S. who served in World War II / by Lloyd Wylie Taggart. 2003. iv, 32, xxiv pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2349 E21 Z48 2003 - Open Shelf
Date from introduction.
World War, 1939-1945 — Veterans — Biography. — Economy (N.S.)
Veterans — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Canada — Armed forces — Biography
Economy (N.S.) — Biography.
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Canada. Department of National Defence
The battle of brains : Canadian citizenship and the issues of the war / Dept. of National Defence. Ottawa : King's Printer, 1943. 182 pages : 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.203 #3 - Vertical File
Also published in French under title: La guerre des idéologies.
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada.
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Canada. Dept. of National Defence. Geographical Section
The Canadian army, 1939-1945 : an official historical summary / by C.P. Stacey ; illustrated with paintings by Canadian Army war artists ; maps drawn by C.C.J. Bond. Ottawa : E. Cloutier, 1948. xv, 354 pages, [25] pages of plates (some folded) :
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - UA600 S77
Published by authority of the Minister of National Defence Issued also in French under title: L'armée canadienne, 1939-1945. Maps on lining papers. Includes index.
Stacey, C. P. (Charles Perry), 1906-1989.
World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada.
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The Legionary Ottawa : Legionary Executive Committee, Royal Canadian Legion. illustrations 35 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.132 #7-9 - Vertical File
Official national publication of the Canadian Legion, -June 1961; official national magazine of the Royal Canadian Legion, July 1961-Dec. 1968.
Canadian Legion
Canadian Legion. Dominion Executive Council
Royal Canadian Legion
Royal Canadian Legion. Legionary Executive Committee.
World War, 1914-1918 — Societies, etc
World war, 1939-1945 — Societies, etc
Veterans — Canada — Periodicals.
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The RCN in retrospect, 1910-1968 / edited by James A. Boutilier. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1982. xxx, 373 pages, [48] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5040 B778 - Open Shelf
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
Canada — History, Naval — 20th century
Canada — History, Naval — 20th century.
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The war brides Toronto : PMA Books, 1978. xix, 160 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HQ759 H53
Wives — Canada
World War, 1939-1945 — Women
Canada — Emigration and immigration.
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Valour remembered : Canada and the Second World War, 1939-1945 / written by Patricia Giesler. Ottawa : Veterans Affairs Canada, 1981. 45, 47 pages : illustrations; 21 x 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.352 #5 - Vertical File
English and French. Title on added t.p.: Souvenirs de vaillance.
Canada. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
World War, 1939-1945 — Canada
Canada — Armed Forces — History — World War, 1939-1945.
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War brides & rosies: Powell River and Stillwater, B.C / Barbara Ann Lambert. Bloomington, IN : Trafford On Demand Publishing, 2012. 332 pages: illustrations, portraits, map; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3845 P882 L222 2012 - Open Shelf
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316 and index.
War brides — Canada — Biography
War brides — British Columbia — Powell River Region — Biography
War brides — Great Britain — Biography
World War, 1939-1945 — Women
Powell River Region (B.C.) — Social life and customs
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West Novas : a history of the West Nova Scotia Regiment / by Thomas H. Raddall. Liverpool : The Author, 1986, 1947. 326 pages, [44] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F88 R11 1986
World War, 1939-1945 — Regimental histories — Canada.
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White plumes astern : the short, daring life of Canada's MTB Flotilla / C. Anthony Law. Halifax : Nimbus, 1989. 170 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D779 C2 L38
Includes index.
World War, 1939-1945 — Naval operations, Canadian
Torpedo-boats — Canada.
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