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Independent Order of Odd Fellows Maritime Provinces of Canada and Newfoundland
Programme and Historical Book : Seventy-Fourth Annual Session of the Grand Lodge I.O.O.F. : Maritime Provinces of Canada and Newfoundland Halifax NS : Typographical Union Label, 1931. 24 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #13 - Vertical File
Programme and Historical book for the Seventy-Fourth Annual Session of the Independent Order of Oddfellows at the Grand Lodge.
Independent Order of Odd Fellows — Rituals
Nova Scotia — History
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Why the Plymouth Story is the Right Story on Rope Economy / distributed by Plymouth Cordage Company. Plymouth Cordage Company, 1951. 16 pages : illustrations ; 13 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #12 - Vertical File
Booklet distributed by the Plymouth Cordage Company, Welland, Ontario, about "Why the Plymouth Story is the right story on rope economy".
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The history of the family of James Reardon and son Francis Reardon / compiled and edited by Robert Joseph Peter Reardon. 3rd edition Halifax : 2018. 51 pages : illustrations, port. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #11 - Vertical File
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Useful Knots and How to Tie Them / distributed by the Plymouth Cordage Company. Plymouth Cordage Company, 1949. 20 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #10 - Vertical File
How to booklet distributed by the Plymouth Cordage Company, Welland Ontario for tying knots.
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Souvenir Programme : Bridgewater Memorial Arena Bridgewater, NS, Bridgewater Memorial Arena, 1950. 4 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #9 - Vertical File
Souvenir Programme for the Bridgewater Memorial Arena's official opening on Friday, December 1, 1950.
History — Bridgewater (N.S.)
Skating rinks — Bridgewater (N.S.)
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A History of Oldfield Consolidated School 1962-2017 : School Section #98 Enfield, Nova Scotia / by John N. Grant. Milford Station, NS : Quarter Castle Publishing, 2018. 36 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #8 - Vertical File
Schools — History
Schools — Nova Scotia
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Chronicles of Another Era : Book Two / by Vernita M. Murphy. Little Fort, BC : A.H. Journeay, 1993. 60 Pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.547 #7 - Vertical File
Continuation of 'Chronicles of Another Era'
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — Anecdotes
Annapolis (N.S. : County) — History — 20th century
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Nova Scotia Small Rural High Schools Task Force
Small Rural High School Task Force Halifax : Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1993. 51 pages : tables ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.415 #44a - Vertical File
Bound version of V/F V.415 #44. Chair: Peter Lawson.
Rural schools — Nova Scotia
Education, Rural — Nova Scotia
Education, Secondary — Nova Scotia
Educational surveys — Nova Scotia
High schools — Nova Scotia
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Atlantic Canada Related Theses Available at the Public Archives of Nova Scotia / compiled by Robert J. Cloney. Halifax (N.S.) : Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies, 1993. 35 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.279 #30a - Vertical File
Printed June 17, 1993 and is an updated list of theses related to Atlantic Canada in the Nova Scotia Archives holdings. PANS Special Document No.3-0384. Originally compiled by Alan Dunlop, October 30, 1984
Cloney, Robert John, 1963-
Dissertations, Academic — Atlantic Provinces
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A brief history of firsts and other interesting stage and railway facts, etc. in ye goode olde tymes / by W.W. Clarke. Windsor : Hants Journal Press, 1925-. 63 pages, 19 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.218 #2a - Vertical File
Cover title: Clarke's history of the earliest railways in Nova Scotia. Caption title: Early history of railroading in the Annapolis Valley and elsewhere in Nova Scotia. Author's name appears with caption title.
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The Protection of the Workman's Life, his Family, his Home : A Story Halifax : 1916. 12 pages : 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.204 #13a - Vertical File
Other title: The Bread winner's law. At head of title: "The passing of the Nova Scotia Workmen's Compensation Act means - Nova Scotia's most material industrial progress." Date from text. Signed page at the back for the Worker's Compensation Board, 1976 member Stephen Riker
Workers' compensation — Law and legislation — Nova Scotia.
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A Brochure and Compendium of Information Appertaining to the Building Trades Halifax, NS : Piercey Supplies, 1940. 102 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.138 #20a - Vertical File
Released for Piercy Supplies LTD's Silver Anniversary in 1940. Includes index.
Retail trade — Nova Scotia
Selling — Building materials — Nova Scotia
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Bluenose : on board a legend / by Devyn Kaizer ; photography by Peter Zwicker. Halifax, NS : Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2018. 72 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VM395 B5 K33 2018
This book documents the beautiful Tall Ship Bluenose, now a sailing ambassador for the province of Nova Scotia, and tells the dramatic story of the battles and triumphs of original Bluenose. The original Bluenose, built in Lunenburg and launched in 1921, was designed to combine a career as a racing ship with the working role fishing the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Its captain, Angus Walters, took Bluenose to five international sailing races, and was undefeated for seventeen years. By the 1930s, the vessel's achievements made it an icon for Nova Scotia and an important Canadian symbol. The newly-restored replica, the Bluenose II, represents the wooden shipbuilding achievements and the dory-based cod fishery traditions of Nova Scotia. This book offers an interpretive guide of the ship and its complex traditional equipment. It also tells the story of the original Bluenose, with many historic photographs of the ship and its crew aboard the most famous Tall Ship in Canada in this souvenir of a vessel whose history and allure continues to captivate to this day. Includes index.
Bluenose II (Schooner) — History
Bluenose (Schooner) — History
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Chasse-Marée No 292 : Des Bateaux Et Des Hommes / Pol Corvez. Chasse-Marée (Douarnenez Cedex, FR). 93 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.552 #2 - Vertical File
French magazine that has an article about the Halifax Explosion ; article titled "La Grande Explosion de Halifax" by Pol Corvez (pages 60-73). The remaining articles are nautical in theme and cover different geographic areas.
Halifax (N.S.)—History—Explosion, 1917
20th Century — History — Halifax (N.S.)
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Steady as She Goes : The Exploits of a Captain and his Seagoing Family / by Dolly G. Newcomb. Ontario : Paul Heron Publishing Limited, 1996. 175 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - VK140 P82 N48 1996
The story of Captain James Leander Publicover, owner and ship captain at J.L. Publicover Shipping Company, and chronicles how he and his family would work and travel the seas together.
J.L. Publicover Shipping Co. — History
Ship captains — Nova Scotia — Biography
Sailing ships — Nova Scotia — History
Seafaring life — Nova Scotia — History
Publicover, James Leander, 1877-1960
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Adventures in bubbles and brine : what I learned from Nova Scotia's masters of fermented foods - craft beer, cider, cheese, sauerkraut and more / by Philip Moscovitch. Halifax : Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2019. 208 pages : color photographs ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TX827.5 M67 2019
There is something seemingly magical about fermentation - microscopic organisms acting on fruits, vegetables and grains and completely transforming their properties. Fermentation produces wonderful flavours, connects us to local producers, is good for our health and is a direct link with local cultures - both the culture steeped in history and tradition, and the microscopic live cultures embedded in our fermented foods. Philip Moscovitch travelled Nova Scotia to discover today's practitioners of the art of food fermentation. He found traditional sauerkraut makers still at work on Tancook Island and cider makers working with old techniques and 100-year-old apple varieties. But he also found dozens of newly-established breweries and wineries, sausage makers bringing French traditions to the province, and cheese makers creating innovative and unique local cheeses. He offers sample recipes featuring local ingredients to allow for experimenting in the kitchen with products that are not all that complicated to make, and which lend themselves to endless variations. This book introduces the new wave of fermenters in Nova Scotia who are creating delicious products using local ingredients, and encourages readers to try fermentation for themselves. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Moscovitch, Philip — Travel — Nova Scotia
Cooking (Fermented foods) — Nova Scotia
Fermented foods — Nova Scotia
Fermented beverages — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
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Garretts and the Bluenose Rugs of Nova Scotia / by Nanette Ryan and Doreen Wright. Halifax, Nova Scotia 118 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TT850 R93 1990
Pages 1-22: brief introduction with basic information on rug hooking and key figured in rug hooking in Nova Scotia and the Garrett Catalogue of patterns for rug hooking. Pages 23-118: patterns from the Garrett's catalogue "early times to 1974". See also: TT850 R93 1995 (reprint)
John E. Garrett Limited — History
Rugs, Hooked — Nova Scotia — History
Folk art — Nova Scotia
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f/8 and be there / by Jim Clark. Halifax, NS : Jim Clark, 2005. 112 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 x 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - TR680 C527 2005
Chiefly photographs. Includes index.
Portrait photography — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Photojournalism — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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I Never Knew : Part 1 / by Juanita Pleasant. Nova Scotia : Reflections Publishing, 2000. 111 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 B6 P44 2000
This book highlights important black people in Canadian history.
Black people — Nova Scotia — Biography
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The Name of Horne : Jacob Horn and his Descendents / John Hawkins. Enfield, NS : John Hawkins, 2016. 64 pages including table of contents : illustrations; 21 cm.
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An interesting account of the life of Jacob Horn, one of the first citizens of Halifax, his business and military adventures and his final settlement at McNab's Island and Eastern Passage
Horn, Jacob, 1720-1821
Horn family
Nova Scotia — Genealogy
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First Aid to the Injured : the St. John Ambulance Association / by James Cantlie. London, UK : St. John Ambulance Association, 1915. 255 pages ; illustrations : 14 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC87 F58 1915
First aid resource that includes a list of illustrations (diagrams for first aid reference) and index of terms for easy searching for a practice. Booklet is broken up into two sections: Main Pages numbered 1-215: illustrations, text, and index of terms relating to different medical conditions and first aid practices to follow. Back Pages numbered 1-40: St. John Ambulance Association general price list for equipment and resources from stretchers and textbooks for businesses/military to military, railway, and civilian first aid kits, with index list of prices and products.
First aid in illness and injury — Canada
First aid in illness and injury — Wounds and injuries
Commonwealth countries
World War, 1914-1918 — Canada
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Nova Scotia and the great influenza pandemic, 1918-1920 : a remembrance of the dead and an archive for the living / compiled and edited by Ruth Holmes Whitehead. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2020. xvi, 399 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - RC150.55 C23 N86 2020
The definitive academic resource on the Great Influenza by celebrated historian behind Black Loyalists, in time for the pandemic's centenary. It could kill in as little as ten hours. Extremely high fever, bleeding from eyes, nose, and ears, terrible pain, especially in the head and the joints, delirium--and then its victims literally drowned in their own fluids. Fifty to 100 million people worldwide died in this global pandemic in the early twentieth century. The Great Influenza first entered Nova Scotia through ports. (Sydney, Cape Breton, received five hundred sick American troops in a single day.) For three years, the province coped with this vicious epidemic as it spread like wildfire. Local economies ceased functioning; fishing fleets, banks, and apple-canning factories reported all staff were suffering from the flu. The heart of this book, however, is its human element. Oral histories, family memoirs, newspaper articles, and provincial death records tell, county by county, stories of those who died. Accompanied by 20 photographs, Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920 chronicles both provincial and personal efforts to cope during this most perilous time. Includes bibliographical references.
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 — Nova Scotia — Sources
Influenza — Patients — Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — Biography — Sources
Nova Scotia — History — 20th century — Sources
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The History of Medicine in Nova Scotia from Confederation to Medicare : the Transition form Allopathic to Scientific Medicine / by Allan Everett Marble. Halifax, NS : Allan Everett Marble, 2022. 360 pages : illustrations : charts : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - R463 N69 M361
Chronicle about the changes that have happened in health care within Nova Scotia through the years including the expansion of health care into rural communities, the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918, the Halifax Explosion of 1917, and deployed health professionals during war. Includes a bibliography and an index for easy searching at the back of the book.
Medicare — Nova Scotia
Medical Care — History — Nova Scotia
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Abraham Gesner : the lure of the rocks and a burning ambition / Elizabeth V. Haigh. Victoria, BC : Tellwell Talent, 2019. xi, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE22 G47 H35 2019
Debt and bad management drove Abraham Gesner off his farm in Nova Scotia's bucolic Annapolis Valley in 1825. It turned out to be a stroke of luck. While doing medical courses in London hospitals, he encountered the industrial revolution. Attending sundry lectures and demonstrations, he got his first whiff of the rapidly developing new sciences of chemistry, geology and natural history. He was hooked! Back home, traveling about the country visiting patients, he honed his observational skills, finally producing pioneering geological surveys of all three Maritime provinces. Imitating procedures which he had first observed while abroad, he experimented with "cracking" coal to generate the tars, oils and gases which fueled the industrial revolution. In the process, he produced "kerosene" - an illuminating gas and an oil - which revolutionized artificial lighting and generated much industry. Because he explored with native guides and advocated on their behalf, he served for a time as Indian Commissioner. An engaging lecturer, he addressed audiences on many scientific subjects and developed the region's first natural history museum; he wrote articles and books describing the region and extolling its potential for development. His final publication was a textbook of hydrocarbon chemistry. Local lawsuits over mining rights and patent infringements caused him to move to New York. Still more lawsuits drove him back to his native land where he died, shortly after being appointed to a coveted lectureship in Dalhousie University. Includes bibliographic references and index.
Gesner, Abraham, — 1797-1864
Geologists — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Inventors — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Natural history — Maritime Provinces
Mining leases — Maritime Provinces
Mines and mineral resources — Maritime Provinces — History
Mineral industries — Maritime Provinces — History
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Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms / by Dan Soucoup; edited by Angela Mombourquette. Halifax, NS : Nimbus Publishing Limited, 2019. 217 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QC959 A85 S68 2019
Author Dan Soucoup takes readers from the eighteenth century to present day, detailing the blizzards, floods, tornadoes, and tsunamis that have brought havoc to the East Coast.
Storms — Atlantic Provinces — History
Storms — Nova Scotia — History
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