Volume 1, Number 1, 1981

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• The Earl of Halifax and the Settlement of Nova Scotia, 1749-1753 — Steven G. Greiert — 4
• "And They Shall Devour Israel" — John G. Leefe — 24
• Robert Murray Tackles Confederation — E. M. Stevenson — 33
• The Town of Yarmouth: 1867 and 1923 — Kenneth Winter — 39
• Where Did They Come From and Where Did They Go? — M. Noreen E. Gray — 50
• The Micmac Indian Petroglyphs: Evidence of Self/Nature Concept Changes — Alice Taylor Cheska — 54
• The Blackadar Family of Halifax — Charles St. Clair Stayner — 67
• A Census of Yarmouth and Barrington Townships, 1762 — 73
• Book Reviews 79

Volume 1, Number 2, 1981

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• Early Money in Nova Scotia: A Short History of Currency, Exchange and Finance — Donald H. Flick — 4
• The Survey Plan of Cornwallis Township, Kings County — Ernest L. Eaton — 16
• A Microcosm within the Canadian Mosaic: Researching and Writing a Local History in Nova Scotia — Philip L. Hartling — 34
• Sir Isaac Coffin and the Halifax Dockyard "Scandal" — James E. Candow — 50
• The First American Conquest: Acadia, 1710-1760 — Malcolm Macleod — 64
• George Tattrie: A Nova Scotian Pioneer from Montbeliard — Gordon M. Haliburton — 74
• A Tattrie Line of Descent — Gordon M. Haliburton — 91
• Poll Book for the County of Annapolis, 1786 — 106
• Book Reviews — 125

Volume 2, Number 1, 1982

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• Advertisements — 5
• Jane Soley Hamilton, Midwife — Joan Elizabeth Kennedy — 6
• The Most Famous Rum-Runner of Them All — Robert Webb — 30
• Captain John Harris of Clements — Leone Banks Cousins — 44
• Western Pioneers from Halifax, 1883 — Jean Pettey-Jones — 57
• Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: School Readers from a Century Ago — Judith Ann Evans — 63
• Where Currant Bushes Grew: An Introduction to the Sackville Fultzes — Robert Paton Harvey — 74
• The Fultz Family of Sackville, Halifax County: A Case Study to 1881 — Lois Y. Kernaghan and Terrence M. Punch — 86
• List of Sydney Area Labourers, 1785 and 1786 — 107
• Book Reviews — 113

Volume 2, Number 2, 1982

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• Nat Butler and Bums Pierce: Nova Scotian Heroes of the Cycle Tracks — Heather M. Watts — 4
• As Others Saw Us: Nova Scotian Travel Literature from the 1770s to the 1860s — Paulette M. Chiasson — 9
• The Journal of Nathaniel T.W. Carrington: A Barbados Planter's Visit to Nova Scotia in 1837 — James C. Brandow — 15
• American Tourism in Nova Scotia, 1871-1940 — James H. Morrison — 40
• Fort Sainte-Marie-de-Grace, LaHave, Nova Scotia: 350 Years of History — Joan E. Dawson — 51
• Helping, Unheeded: Newfoundland's Relief Effort and the Historiography of the Halifax Explosion, 1917 — Malcolm Macleod — 65
• Piper John MacKay and Roderick McLennan: A Tale of Two Immigrants and Their Incomplete Genealogy — John G. Gibson — 69
• LaHave in the Late Seventeenth Century: A Comparison of the 1686 and 1693 Census Returns — Joan E. Dawson — 83
• Book Reviews — 96

Volume 3, Number 1, 1983

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• The Shelburne Loyalists — Mary Archibald — 5
• The Port Roseway Associates — Marion Robertson — 21
• The Antigonish Highland Games: A Community's Involvement in the Scottish Festival of Eastern Canada — Alyce Taylor Cheska — 51
• There's No Life Like It: Reminiscences of Lightkeeping on Sambro Island — Barbara Shaw — 64
• David George: Black Loyalist — Kathleen Tudor — 71
• The Loyalist Printers: James and Alexander Robertson — Marion Robertson — 83
• The Barrington Robertsons — Herbert R. Banks — 94
• Court of General Sessions of the Peace, Shelburne County: Selected Documents — 112
• Book Reviews — 15

Volume 3, Number 2, 1983

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• Some of North Sydney's Loyalists — Elva E. Jackson — 5
• A Loyalist Crucible: Digby, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792 — D. Peter MacLellan — 23
• The Life of Loyalist Colonel James Delancey — George DeLancey Hanger — 39
• Some Valley Loyalists — Leone Banks Cousins — 57
• Loyalist Squire, Loyalist Church — Susan Burgess Shenstone — 71
• The Moody Families of Weymouth and Yarmouth — John Wentworth Moody — 89
• Book Reviews — 112

Volume 4, Number 1, 1984

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• The Evacuation of the Loyalists from New York in 1783 — Esther Clark Wright — 5
• The Belleisle Marsh and a Cavalcade of History — Jean Petley-Jones — 27
• Trees, Treaties and the Timing of Settlement: A Comparison of the Lumber Industry in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 1784-1867 — Barbara R . Robertson — 37
• Elizabethan English on Nova Scotia's South Shore — Lewis J. Poteet — 57
• Memories of Hillside Hall — Emmalee Hopkins — 65
• "A Duke's Mixture": From Rudolph to Lamb — Kathleen Allen Parkman Lamb — 69
• Voyage from LaHave: A Journal of Summer, 1684 — Joan Dawson — 85
• A Letter to the Editor — 100
• Book Reviews — 103

Volume 4, Number 2, 1984

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• Henry Alline (1748-1784) — Barry Cahill — 4
• The Death of Henry Alline: Some Contemporary Reactions — D.G. Bell — 7
• Henry Alline's "Articles & Covenant of a Gospel Church" — Frederick C. Burnett — 13
• Early Maritime Baptists — Robert Gardner — 25
• Maritime Methodists and Black Bermudians, 1851-1870 — Graeme S. Mount — 38
• The Reverend Robert Jamison: "An humble ambassador of my Divine Master" — Philip L. Hartling — 53
• All Things New: The Transformation of Maritime Baptist Historiography — D.G. Bell — 68
• Loyalist Brothers: John and James Mann — Nellie Fox — 82
• "Ministre des Etrangers suisses allemands" : A Halifax Letter of 21 September 1750 — Barry Cahill — 90
• Book Reviews — 97

Volume 5, Number 1, 1985

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• ''Anybody here from the West?" — Kay Piersdorff — 5
• "Sleepless and veiled am I'! An East Coast Canadian Port Revisited — Jay White — 15
• A Saga of the Caribou — Howard K. Yorke — 31
• Naval Footnotes: Gunshield Graffiti — Thomas G. Lynch — 37
• The Doucets of St. Mary's Bay: Community Leaders amongst an Uprooted People — Neil J. Boucher — 43
• The Siege of Annapolis Royal, 1744 — Bernard Pothier — 59
• The Life and Death of the Cumberland Coal Mines — Hope V. Harrison — 73
• Kirkpatrick of Kirkhill and Crossroads, Nova Scotia — Robert F. Kirkpatrick — 85
• The Governor's Goods: The Inventories of the Personal Property of Isaac de Razilly — Joan Dawson — 99
• Book Reviews — 113

Volume 5, Number 2, 1985

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 3
• DesBarres the Founder — Robert J. Morgan — 5
• DesBarres and His Contemporaries as Mapmakers — Stephen B. MacPhee — 15
• DesBarres the Town Planner — Douglas B. Foster — 29
• "A most eccentric genius" The Private Life of J.F.W. DesBarres — Lois K. Kernaghan — 41
• An Apostolic Visit to Cape Breton in 1812 — Brian D. Tennyson — 61
• Montbeliard: An Unknown Homeland — Terrence M. Punch — 75
• Jacob Ueltschi and Family: Nova Scotia Pioneers from Switzerland — Barry Cahill — 93
• "You come late Monsieur Le'Governor, why you not come bedore?" — Mary Ellen Wright — 117

Volume 6, Number 1, 1986

• Editorial Page — 2
• Contributors — 4
• The Charter Membership of the Charitable Irish Society — 8
• Black Beans, Banners and Banquets: The Charitable Irish Society of Halifax at Two Hundred — Robert P. Harvey — 16
• The D'Arcy McGee Chair of Irish Studies, Saint Mary's University — Cyril J. Byrne — 36
• Finding Our Irish — Terrence M. Punch — 41
• A Letter of Father William Phelan, 1786 — Cyril J. Byrne — 63
• Father William Phelan, An Irish Trouble-Maker in Arichat — Phyllis C. Wagg — 75
• "Poverty, wretchedness, and misery'; The Great Famine in Cape Breton, 1845-1851 — Robert J. Morgan — 88
• A Scottish Baronet's Petition of 1790 for His Ancestral Lands in Cape Breton — F.K. Donnelly — 105
• The Effect of the Catholic Missionaries on the Micmac Indians of Nova Scotia, 1610-1986 — Katherine J. Brooks — 107
• Book Reviews — 116

Volume 6, Number 2, 1986

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 3
• The Coast Railway: 'Tom Robertson's Wheelbarrow Railroad" — Herbert R. Banks — 11
• The Athol Went A-Whaling — Hattie A. Perry — 17
• William MacKay, the Invisible Mapmaker — Walter K. Morrison — 23
• Nautical Instrument-Makers in Atlantic Canada — Randall C. Brooks — 37
• "This Dark Vale of Sorrow" — Graeme Wynn — 55
• Summerfield, a Coach Inn — M. Norem E. Gray — 63
• The History of the Nova Scotia Railway — Annie Wallace — 67
• Joe Howe: Faithful to the Nova Scotia Cause — Robert H. Pineo — 73
• In Search of the Promised Land: The Cannon/Canning Family of Cumberland County — Oedlite C. Juvelis and Lois K. Kernaghan — 83
• "Mr Desbarres – Description of Nova Scotia," ca. 1763 — 105
• Book Reviews — 120

Volume 7, Number 1, 1987

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• "Danger ... of famishing in grace" : The Idea of an American Episcopate, from Inception to Execution — Philip G.A. Griffin-Allwood — 8
• Charles Inglis and the Anglican Clergy of Loyalist New Brunswick — D.G. Bell — 25
• Charles Inglis and John Wesley: Church of England and Methodist Relations in Nova Scotia in the Late Eighteenth Century — Allen B. Robertson — 48
• The Reverend John Hamilton Rowland of Revolutionary America and Early Shelburne — Otto Lohrenz — 64
• "Soul-chearing doctrines" : Universalism in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia — Heather M. Watts — 83
• Jacob Norton: The Forgotten Christian of Atlantic Baptist History — Roland K. McCormick — 100
• The Barto Families from "Up the Bay" and Passamaquoddy Areas of the Bay of Fundy — Marion D. Oldershaw — 106
• A Tory-Loyalist Doctor's Prescription for Nova Scotia, 1784 — 124
• Book Reviews — 131

Volume 7, Number 2, 1987

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• Bessie Hall, Master Mariner — Catherine Campbell — 8
• Unnatural Mothers: Infanticide in Halifax, 1850-1875 — Mary Ellen Wright — 13
• Remembering: Growing Up as a Sea Captain's Daughter — Beulah Cullison Perry — 31
• "By fortune wounded" : Loyalist Women in Nova Scotia — Beatrice Ross Buszek — 45
• The Last Voyage of the Baltimore — Donald F. Chard — 63
• The Vieths of Niedergardern: A Tradition of Service — Terrence M. Punch — 71
• Bibliography of the Writings of Phyllis Ruth Blakeley — Wendy Duff — 88
• Book Reviews — 101

Volume 8, Number 1, 1988

• Editorial Page — 1
• Contributors — 2
• The Acadia Powder Company at Waverley, 1863-1886 — John Hartlen — 8
• Father Vincent de Paul Merle, Unusual Trappist; Unlikely Missionary — Paulette M. Chiasson — 20
• The True Story of the Legendary Cranny Ross — Elva E. Jackson — 42
• Origins of the Rawdon Loyalist Settlement — Carole W Troxler — 63
• The Williams Lobster Factory at Neils Harbour, 1901-1935 — Trevor Williams — 77
• The Charter Membership of the Charitable Irish Society Re-examined — Robert P. Harvey — 84
• The Ross Family of Rossville, Inverness County — Elva E. Jackson — 95
• The Solicitor-General Redivivus — 102
• Book Reviews — 105

Volume 8, Number 2, 1988

• Editorial — 1
• Paths to the Law in the Maritimes, 1810-1825: The Bliss Brothers and their Circle — D.G. Bell — 6
• "He usefully exercised the medical profession": The Career of Michael Head in Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia — Allan E. Marble — 40
• The Rise and Fall of Urban Justice in Halifax, 1815-1886 — Philip Girard — 57
• Epidemics and Mortality in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799 — Allan E. Marble — 72
• The Error of Marriot Arbuthnot — Ernest A. Clarke — 95
• Bucknam Pasha — Ann Doull — 108
• Canning in the Seventies — Margaret E. Ells — 113
• Aalders, of Aaldersville — Carol Duncan Evans — 125
• Richard John Uniacke's Advice to a Young Lawyer, 1797 — D.G. Bell — 136

Volume 9, Number 1, 1989

• Editorial — 1
• Dr. John Halliburton: The Loyal Sufferer — Brenton Haliburton — 7
• The 1793 Capitation Assessment Lists for Nova Scotia — B.L. Anderson — 18
• Nova Scotia and the First Methodist Chapels in Mainland Canada — Eldon Hay — 31
• Colonists or Birds of Passage? A Glimpse of the Inhabitants of LaHave, 1632-1636 — Joan Dawson — 42
• The Fishermen of Eighteenth-Century Cape Breton: Numbers and Origins — A.J.B. Johnston — 62
• Pirates Defeated — Marion Robertson — 73
• A Seafaring Man: The Honourable Captain William B. Smith — Stephen Smith — 83
• The Descendants of Jasper and Elizabeth (Hanson) Harding — Eleanor Smith — 95
• Book Reviews — 120

Volume 9, Number 2, 1989

• Editorial — 1
• The "Heritage Property Act'; Ten Years Old — Brian Cuthbertson — 6
• Symbols of Change: The Legacy of Two Early Twentieth-Century Nova Scotian Builders — Peter Latta and Diane Tye — 18
• Nineteenth-Century Wealth Transfers in Nova Scotia: The Administration of Probate — Fazley K. Siddiq — 35
• That Incredible "Tinan'; Louis F. Babine, Professional Building Mover of Yarmouth County, 1898-1938 — Peter Crowell — 49
• The Acadian Seigneury of St.-Mathieu at Cobequid — Joan Bourque Campbell — 74
• St. Paul's Church, Halifax: The Contracts for Building the Addition and New Steeple, 1812-1813 — J. Philip McAleer — 89
• The Croscup Family of Karsdale, Annapolis County, and Their "Painted Room" — Cora Greenaway — 107
• Book Reviews and Notes — Allen B. Robertson — 126

Volume 10, Number 1, 1990

• Editorial — 1
• St. Paul's Church, Halifax: The Contracts for Building the Addition and New Steeple, 1812-1813. Addenda et Corrigenda — J. Philip McAleer — 7
• The Smith-Nickerson House of Smithville, Shelburne County: Its Occupants and "Painted Floor" — Cora Greenaway — 9
• Nova Scotian Entries from the Journal of Julius Friedrich Wasmus, Surgeon, 1781 — Helga Dohlin and Mary C. Lynn — 19
• John Umlach (ca. 1726-1821): a "Native of Scotland," Soldier and Settler — Joyce Hemlow — 35
• The Squires of Antigonish — Ronald A. MacDonald — 53
• The Bias of Probate: Using Deeds to Transfer Estates in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia — Phyllis Wagg — 74
• William Donkin, Northumbrian, and his Nova Scotia Descendants — Marion D. Oldershaw — 88
• Book Reviews and Notes — Allen B. Robertson — 121

Volume 10, Number 2, 1990

• Editorial — 1
• Beyond the Bastions: French Mapping of Cape Breton Island, 1713-1758 — Joan Dawson — 6
• Smallpox at Louisbourg, 1713-1758 — George Burns — 31
• The Men of the Garrison: Soldiers and their Punishments at Louisbourg, 1751-53 — A.J.B. Johnston — 45
• French and British Naval Power at the Two Sieges of Louisbourg: 1745 and 1758 — Julian Gwyn — 63
• The Expedition of the Second Battalion of the Cambis Regiment to Louisbourg, 1758 — Michel Wyczynski — 95
• Cape Breton Maps in The Atlantic Neptune: A Holland-DesBarres Connection — Walter K. Morrison — 111
• Lawrence Kavanagh I: An Eighteenth-Century Cape Breton Entrepreneur — Phyllis Wagg — 124
• William Donkin, Northumbrian, and his Nova Scotia Descendants. Corrigenda — Marion D. Oldershaw — 133
• Fraser's ''A Sketch of Shelburnian manners--anno 1787" — 135
• Book Reviews and Notes — Allen B. Robertson — 143

Volume 11, Number 1, 1991

• The Art of Remembering: The Influence of Great Village, Nova Scotia, on the Life and Works of Elizabeth Bishop — Sandra Barry — 2
• A Nova Scotian in West Africa: Lieutenant Clonard Keating, 1871-1898 — Bernard Pothier — 39
• The Legal Profession in Late Victorian Nova Scotia — Bernard F. Miller — 57
• The American Influence on Nova Scotian Apple Producers, 1850-1920 — Jennifer Kresrner — 91
• The Importance of Probate Inventories in Estimating the Distribution of Wealth — Fazley Siddiq and Julian Gwyn — 103
• Bandmaster William Blackman: Soldier of the Queen — Robert Blackman — 119
• Stephen Blucke: The Perils of Being a "White Negro" in loyalist Nova Scotia — Barry Cahill — 129
• Tracing a Family Tree and Other Obsessions — Marion Gates Waddell — 135
• A loyalist Attorney's Critique of the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1786 — 151
• Book Reviews and Notes — Allen B. Robertson — 156

Volume 11, Number 2, 1991

• "The Great Transformation": Changing the Urban Face of Nova Scotia, 1871-1921 — Del Muise — 1
• lmports and the Changing Standard of Living in Nova Scotia, 1832-1872 — Julian Gwyn — 43
• The Loyalist: Genesis of a Ship — Susan Burgess Shenstone — 65
• The People of EighLeenLh-CenLury Louisbourg — A.J.B. Johnston — 75
• The Glass-Workers of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, 1881-1917 — L. Anders Sandberg and Deborah Trask — 87
• The Philadelphia Merchants and the Petitcodiac — Margaret Ells — 102
• The Nova Scotia Tartan -- An Update — Roger Nickerson — 112
• The Umlachs and the McDaniels of Lhe West Cape of St. Mary's River — Joyce Hemlow and Iris Shea — 115
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 137

Volume 12, Number 1, 1992

• "This [is] the hardest I ever climbed": The Political Career of Senator Ezra Churchill — Elizabeth C. Snell — 1
• Family Influences on Thomas Chandler Haliburton in Windsor — Gordon M. Haliburton — 20
• Community and Cohesion in the Rawdon Loyalist Settlement — Carole W. Troxler — 41
• Thomas Chandler Haliburton and the Bliss Brothers: Secret Rivals in Literary Ambition — Richard A. Davies — 61
• A Blazing Rage: T.C. Haliburton's Reply to the Report of the Earl of Durham — Rhonda Bradley — 76
• The Reverend Alexander Clarke and the Cumberland Covenanters — Eldon Hay — 97
• List of Books for a Public Library in Halifax, 1793 — B.l. Anderson — 119
• The McFatridge Family of Coleraine, Northern Ireland, and Halifax, Nova Scotia — Wendy A. Purchase — 151
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 161

Volume 12, Number 2, 1992

• Some American Influences on the Law and Lawcourts of Nova Scotia, 1749-1853 — Alan B. Sprague — 1
• Nova Scotia's Forgotten Boxing Heroes: Roy Mitchell and Terrence "Tiger" Warrington — Brian Lennox — 32
• Halifax Through Russian Eyes. Fleet-Lieutenant Iurii Lisianskii's Notes of 1794-96 — Glynn R. deV. Barratt — 47
• Halifax Cabdrivers, 1939-1945 — Edward Sutton — 66
• Random Recollections: Mather Abbott's Boyhood, 1874-1893 — A.B. deMille — 74
• "Securing Obedience to Necessary Laws": The Criminal Law in Eighteenth Century Nova Scotia — Jim Phillips — 87
• The Autobiography of Chief Justice Sir William Young, aet. 21 — 125
• James Tory: A Scottish Loyalist and his Descendants — Raymond E. Torrey — 134
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 155

Volume 13, Number 1, 1993

• The Parrsboro Shore-West Indies Trade in the 1820s: The Early Career and the Diary of Joseph Norman Bond Kerr — Julian Gwyn — 1
• The Expression of Second-Generation Loyalist Sentiment in the Verse Dramas of Henry Bliss (1797-1873) — Bertis Sutton — 43
• William J. Weaver (ca. 1759-1817): Halifax Portraitist — Paul D. Schweizer — 77
• The Lunenburg Indian Raids of 1756 and 1758: A New Documentary Source — Linda G. Wood — 93
• Haliburton Family Letters, 1789-1839 — Gordon M. Haliburton — 109
• From Mother to Daughter: Some Maritime Planter Family Links — Althea Douglas — 139
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 157

Volume 13, Number 2, 1993

• Nova Scotians Come to an Ohio College — Erving E. Beauregard — 1
• Lord William Campbell, Governor of Nova Scotia, 1766-1773 — Francis A. Coughlan — 11
• "There is no doubt of my Cape Breton allegiance": Remembering Father R.J. MacSween — Kenneth Donovan — 31
• A Scandal in Chignecto: The Reverend Alexander Robinson Affair — Eldon Hay — 45
• Mine Operators and Mining Leases on Nova Scotia's Sydney Coalfield, 1720 to the Present — Hugh Millward — 67
• The Family Economy and Boy Labour in Sydney Mines, 1871-1901 — Robert McIntosh — 87
• The Tyranny of Capital: Nova Scotian Miners under the Stars and Stripes, 1884-1885 — Peter R. Shergold — 101
• James Umlach and his Descendants in St Mary's River and the West Cape — Joyce Hemlow and Iris Shea — 105
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 127

Volume 14, Number 1, 1994

• James Bruce, Shelburne's First Collector of Customs — Marion Robertson — 1
• White Niggers, Black Slaves: Slavery, Race and Class in T.C. Haliburton's The Clockmaker — George Elliott Clarke — 13
• "'Tin hat' on the disciples of Brigham Young": Nova Scotians, Mormons and Polygamy, 1920-1928 — Gordon Pollock — 41
• Some Guernsey Connections with Cape Breton Island — John Sarre and Lorena Forbrigger — 69
• Secret Numerology and Geometry in the Churches of Nova Scotia — Atilla Arpat — 79
• Peter Barrett's Pictou County: From the Fenian Scare to the Drummond Colliery Explosion — Allan C. Dunlop — 135
• The Reverend James Thomas and "union of all God's people": Nova Scotian African Baptist Piety, Unity and Division — Philip G.A. Griffin-Allwood — 153
• The Tremaine Family of Nova Scotia, 1764--1994, Part I — Gail D. Judge — 169
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 193

Volume 14, Number 2, 1994

• The Canso Riots of 1833: "the lawlessness of these people is truly beyond ... comprehension" — John N. Grant — 1
• Gaelic and the Schools in Cape Breton — Lori Vitale Cox — 20
• The Schoolhouse in Nova Scotia: A Study of Influences on the Evolution of Schoolhouse Design in Nova Scotia, 1850-1930 — Robin H. Wyllie — 41
• Newspaper Altitudes as Reflected in MacTalla: Deja vu All Over Again — Ray MacLean — 61
• Three Winston Churchills: One of Them a Nova Scotian — Elizabeth C. Snell — 70
• From a Trade lo a Profession: The Beginnings of Dentistry in Atlantic Canada as Documented by Newspaper Advertisements — Oskar Sykora — 93
• The Family Origins of Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres: A Riddle Finally Solved — Jean-Marc Debard — 108
• The Tremaine Family of Nova Scotia, 1764-1994: Parl Two — Gail D. Judge — 123
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 167

Volume 15, Number 1, 1995

• Early Fortifications on Sydney Habour — Brian Douglas Tennyson — 1
• A Dearth of Miracles: Governor John Pai, and the Settling of the Loyalists in Nova Scotia — Neil MacKinnon — 33
• "To be held in all honor": The Weldon Collection of China and the Construction of a Loyalist Myth — Claire Campbell — 45
• A Halifax Sailor's Taste in Poetry: Chari s J. Da Freytas's Log and Commonplace-book, 1841-1852 — Anne L. Stainton — 60
• Samuel Vetch Bayard (1757-1832): Loyalist and Methodist — Peter J. Mitham — 93
• The Alexander McLeod Endowment: A Legacy Rediscovered at Dalhousie University — Michael C. Haynes — 106
• The Sheet Harbour Loyalist Settlement of 1784 and Hiram's Lodge No. 8 — Jackie Logan — 118
• Attorney-General Uniacke's Advice to a Young Lawyer, 1798 — 127
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 147

Volume 15, Number 2, 1995

• 'In a glass clearly': Genealogy, History and the Professional Researcher — Allen B. Robertson — 1
• A Saga of Gilded Age Entrepreneurship in Halifax: The People's Heat and Light Company Limited, 1893-1902 — Kyle Jolliffe — 10
• 'To produce an article we are not capable at present of producing': The Evolution of the Dalhousie University School of Nursing, 1946-1956 — Peter L. Twohig — 26
• Scandal and Reform: The Treasurer's Office in Nova Scotia, 1845-1860 — Dan Bunbury — 43
• 'The very vitals of Christianity': The Baptismal Controversy and the Intellectual Awakening in Nova Scotia, 1811-1848 — Daniel C. Goodwin — 72
• Industry and the Development of Company Law in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia — Jonathan H. Davidson — 88
• The Mathematical Legacy of Fort Massey United Church, Halifax — Attila Arpat — 115
• The Heysons: A 'Foreign Protestant' Family of Lunenburg Township, 1753-1820 — Kenneth S. Paulsen — 124
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 148

Volume 16, Number 1, 1996

• Reflections on George A. Rawlyk's Contribution to the History of the Maritimes — Michael Boudreau — 1
• The Nujjinen of the Mi'kmaq People and the Construction of their Chapel at Bear River, Nova Scotia — Gerald C. Boudreau — 7
• From State Action to Private Profit: The Emergence of the Business Corporation in Nova Scotia, 1796-1883 — Barbara A.M. Patton — 21
• Some Fiscal Realities of School Reform in Victorian Halifax — David Hood — 61
• Nova Scotia at the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, 1907: Excerpts from the Diary of Harry Piers — Eileen D. Mak — 81
• The Development of the Homestead Property 'Oakdell' at Lochaber Lake, Antigonish County — Terry Wasson — 91
• Murder Among the Planters: A Profile of Malachi Caigin of Falmouth. Nova Scotia — Linda G. Wood — 96
• "There is ... no pernicious dualism between sacred and secular": Nova Scotia Baptists and the Social Gospel, 1880-1914 — Michael Boudreau — 109
• Henry Hemlow ( 1802-1878) of Liscomb Harbour — Joyce Hemlow, Iris Shea and Keith Parker Smith — 132
• A Nominal List of Slaves and their Owners in Ile Royale, 1713-1760 — Kenneth Donovan — 151
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 163

Volume 16, Number 2, 1996

• The Paradox of Bluenose//: Antimodemism, Capitalism and the Legacy of the Schooner Bluenose in Nova Scotia — Cheryl Sullivan — 1
• Davis Day through the Years: A Cape Breton Coalmining Tradition — Christina M. Lamey — 23
• Francklyn v. The People's Heat and light Company Limited: A Nineteenth-Century Environmental Lawsuit in Nova Scotia — Jonathan H. Davidson — 34
• A Muscular Regionalism: Gender and the 'Manly Appeal' of Maritime Rights in the Halifax Herald of the 1920s — Angela Baker — 49
• African-American Refugees to Annapolis and Saint John, 1783: A Ship Passenger List — D.G. Bell — 71
• William Hemlow (1814-1885) and the Liscomb Islands — Joyce Hemlow, Iris Shea and Keith Parker Smith — 82
• Isaac Deschamps's Pisiquid Diary, 1756-57 — 99
• Apprentices Beware!: Researching and Writing Local History in Nova Scotia — Julian Gwyn — 109
• Book Reviews — Allen B. Robertson — 113