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Nova Scotia Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

Nova Scotia Birth Indexes & Birth Records

• Canada – Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959, index
• Canada – Dictionnaire national des Canadiens-français: 1608-1760
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896, index
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Births, 1864-1877, index & images
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001, index & images (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Delayed Births, 1837-1904, index & images
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957, index (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, Antigonish Catholic Diocese, 1823-1905, index & images (baptism, birth, marriage)
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, Queens County, Notes of Thomas Brenton Smith, 1700-1950, index & images (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – In which county? Nova Scotia surnames from birth registers, 1864 to 1877
• Nova Scotia – Birth records, 1864-1877
• Nova Scotia – Registers of births, 1864-1877; deaths, 1864-1877; and marriages, 1864-1918
• Nova Scotia – An index to birth, marriage, and death announcements found in The Novascotian newspaper, vol. XI, 1838
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia delayed birth registrations, 1837-1838, 1846-1905; marriage registrations, 1907-1930; City of Halifax burial permits/death registers, 1890-1908; and death registration certificates/books, 1908-1957 (including Halifax Explosion victims, 1917, and deaths at sea or overseas, 1940-1954)
• Nova Scotia – Births, deaths and marriages from Nova Scotia newspapers
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia vital statistics from newspapers …
• Nova Scotia – Palladium, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: vital statistics, Sep. 1843 to May 1845 (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – The Presbyterian witness and evangelical advocate: vital statistics, 1848-1887
• Nova Scotia – The Presbyterian witness and evangelical advocate: vital statistics, 1888-1908
• Nova Scotia – Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l’état civil, catholique
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, Canada: The Chronicle Herald Vital Statistics 7/13/66-9/9/66
• Nova Scotia – A partial history of the Burpee family in America: sixth generation [1783-1948]
• Nova Scotia – Formerly of New Brunswick, now of Nova Scotia: an index to New Brunswickers in Nova Scotia vital statistics records, 1864-1877

Nova Scotia Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

• Canada – Canada Marriages, 1661-1949, index
• Canada – Dictionnaire national des Canadiens-français: 1608-1760
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001, index & images (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909, index
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918, index & images
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Marriages, 1907-1932, index & images
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957, index (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, Antigonish Catholic Diocese, 1823-1905, index & images (baptism, birth, marriage)
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, Queens County, Notes of Thomas Brenton Smith, 1700-1950, index & images (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – Marriages in Nova Scotia (excluding Halifax City) 1752-1841
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia marriage bonds [typed extracts], 1763-1871
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia marriage bonds, 1763-1871
• Nova Scotia – Marriage bonds index 1763-1864
• Nova Scotia – Marriage licenses, 1849-1918
• Nova Scotia – Marriage records, 1864-1875
• Nova Scotia – Registers of births, 1864-1877; deaths, 1864-1877; and marriages, 1864-1918
• Nova Scotia – An index to birth, marriage, and death announcements found in The Novascotian newspaper, vol. XI, 1838
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia delayed birth registrations, 1837-1838, 1846-1905; marriage registrations, 1907-1930; City of Halifax burial permits/death registers, 1890-1908; and death registration certificates/books, 1908-1957 (including Halifax Explosion victims, 1917, and deaths at sea or overseas, 1940-1954)
• Nova Scotia – Births, deaths and marriages from Nova Scotia newspapers
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia vital statistics from newspapers …
• Nova Scotia – Palladium, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: vital statistics, Sep. 1843 to May 1845 (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – The Presbyterian witness and evangelical advocate: vital statistics, 1848-1887
• Nova Scotia – The Presbyterian witness and evangelical advocate: vital statistics, 1888-1908
• Nova Scotia – Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l’état civil, catholique
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, Canada: The Chronicle Herald Vital Statistics 7/13/66-9/9/66
• Nova Scotia – A partial history of the Burpee family in America: sixth generation [1783-1948]
• Nova Scotia – Formerly of New Brunswick, now of Nova Scotia: an index to New Brunswickers in Nova Scotia vital statistics records, 1864-1877

Nova Scotia Divorce Records

• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes case files, 1759-Jan. 1951

Nova Scotia Death Indexes & Death Records

• Canada – Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955, index
• Canada – Dictionnaire national des Canadiens-français: 1608-1760
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001, index & images (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877, index & images
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Deaths, 1890-1955, index & images
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Deaths, 1956-1957, index & images
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957, index (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, Antigonish Catholic Diocese, 1823-1905, index & images (baptism, birth, marriage)
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, Queens County, Notes of Thomas Brenton Smith, 1700-1950, index & images (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – A list of elderly people from Nova Scotia (both living and dead)
• Nova Scotia – Coroners’ inquisitions, Nova Scotia : 1755-1928
• Nova Scotia – Death information taken from Nova Scotia town books
• Nova Scotia – Death records, 1864-1877
• Nova Scotia – Deaths, burials, and probate of Nova Scotians, 1749-1799, from primary sources
• Nova Scotia – Deaths, burials, and probate of Nova Scotians, 1800-1850, from primary sources
• Nova Scotia – Registers of births, 1864-1877; deaths, 1864-1877; and marriages, 1864-1918
• Nova Scotia – An index to birth, marriage, and death announcements found in The Novascotian newspaper, vol. XI, 1838
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia delayed birth registrations, 1837-1838, 1846-1905; marriage registrations, 1907-1930; City of Halifax burial permits/death registers, 1890-1908; and death registration certificates/books, 1908-1957 (including Halifax Explosion victims, 1917, and deaths at sea or overseas, 1940-1954)
• Nova Scotia – Births, deaths and marriages from Nova Scotia newspapers
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia vital statistics from newspapers …
• Nova Scotia – Palladium, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island: vital statistics, Sep. 1843 to May 1845 (BMDs)
• Nova Scotia – The Presbyterian witness and evangelical advocate: vital statistics, 1848-1887
• Nova Scotia – The Presbyterian witness and evangelical advocate: vital statistics, 1888-1908
• Nova Scotia – Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l’état civil, catholique
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, Canada: The Chronicle Herald Vital Statistics 7/13/66-9/9/66
• Nova Scotia – A partial history of the Burpee family in America: sixth generation [1783-1948]
• Nova Scotia – Formerly of New Brunswick, now of Nova Scotia: an index to New Brunswickers in Nova Scotia vital statistics records, 1864-1877

Cemeteries

• Canada – Canadian Headstones, index
• Canada – Burial permits, 1882-1887
• Canada – Cemetery records
• Nova Scotia – Cemetery transcriptions, Nova Scotia, 1700’s-1900’s
• Nova Scotia – Life how short, eternity how long: gravestone carving and carvers in Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia, reports on archives … Hannay’s reports …
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Museum graveyard inventory guide and data dictionary
• Nova Scotia – Locality index to cemetery records in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, 1800’s-1950’s
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia delayed birth registrations, 1837-1838, 1846-1905; marriage registrations, 1907-1930; City of Halifax burial permits/death registers, 1890-1908; and death registration certificates/books, 1908-1957 (including Halifax Explosion victims, 1917, and deaths at sea or overseas, 1940-1954)
• Nova Scotia – Elizabeth Logan genealogical collection (cemeteries, burials, census)
• Nova Scotia – Index to Borden Undertakers’ registers : ca. 1870-1942

Obituaries

• Canada – Canada, Royal Canadian Mounted Police obituary card index and notices, 1876-2007, index & images
• Canada – Beck, M.E. Louise (UEL, WRCNS, OCA): 16 Jan. 1916 – 8 Jan. 1999
• Canada – Howey, M. Opal L. UE

Wills & Probate

• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia Probate Records, 1760-1993, index & images
• Nova Scotia – Deaths, burials, and probate of Nova Scotians, 1749-1799, from primary sources
• Nova Scotia – Deaths, burials, and probate of Nova Scotians, 1800-1850, from primary sources
• Nova Scotia – Nova Scotia probate records, 1760-1993

Nova Scotia Residence Records

Census

• 1671 – [Acadian census of 1671]
• 1671-1752 – Acadian census, 1671-1752
• 1686 – The Acadian families in 1686
• 1708 – The east coast of Acadia in 1708
• 1714 – Acadian families in 1714
• 1752 – The 1752 census of Isle Royale (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia)
• 1752 – Tour of inspection made by the Sieur de La Roque : census, 1752
• 1752 – Tour of inspection made by the Sieur de La Roque : census, 1752
• 1770 – 1770-1787, Nova Scotia
• 1770 – Census records and poll tax rolls for Nova Scotia, 1770-1838
• 1770 – Nova Scotia 1770 census (some 1773 and 1787) : from report of the board of trustees of the public archives of Nova Scotia for the year ended 31st December 1934
• 1770 – Nova Scotia 1770 census, some 1773 and 1787
• 1770-1838 – Census records and poll tax rolls for Nova Scotia, 1770-1838
• 1787 – 1770-1787, Nova Scotia
• 1811 – Appendix A: census rolls of Cape Breton Island, 1811 and 1818
• 1811 – Holland’s description of Cape Breton Island and other documents
• 1827 – Census of Nova Scotia, 1827; census of district of Pictou, 1817
• 1851 – 1851 Nova Scotia
• 1851 – Canada census, 1851
• 1851 – Census of Canada, 1851
• 1861 – Census of Canada, 1861
• 1861 – Nova Scotia census, 1861
• 1861 – The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 3 (1973) – v. 3, no. 1 (Mar. 1973)
• 1861-1901 – Index of Jews resident in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island according to the 1861 to 1901 censuses of Canada
• 1871 – Canada census mortality schedules, 1871
• 1871 – Canada census, 1871
• 1871 – Census of Canada, 1871 (“nominal return of the living” schedule no. 1 only)
• 1871 – Census of Canada, 1871 (schedules no. 1-9)
• 1871 – Check-list of Census Returns : New Brunswick, 1951-1871
• 1871 – Check-list of census returns, New Brunswick, 1851-1871, Nova Scotia, 1871
• 1871-1901 – Jewish residents of the Maritime provinces in the 1871-1901 censuses of Canada
• 1881 – Canada Census, 1881
• 1881 – Census schedules, 1881
• 1891 – Canada census, 1891
• 1891 – Census schedules, 1891
• 1891 – Jewish residents of the Maritimes in the 1891 census of Canada
• 1901 – Canada census, 1901
• 1901 – Census schedules, 1901
• 1901 – Jewish residents of the Maritimes in the 1901 census of Canada
• 1911 – Canada Census, 1911
• 1911 – Fifth census schedule of Canada, 1911: schedule 1, population
• Acadian census and church records
• Recensements des colonies françaises

Colonization

• Acadia and Nova Scotia: documents relating to the Acadian French and the first British colonization of the province, 1714-1758
• The black loyalists: the search of a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870
• Colonel Alexander McNutt and the pre-loyalists settlements of Nova Scotia
• Pre-revolutionary settlements in Nova Scotia

Directories

• McAlpine’s maritime provinces business directory for 1880-81: containing names of all business men and women in the cities and provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland; with complete indexes to the different branches of business and localities
• Pre-1900 Canadian directories = La collection de répertoires d’avant 1900
• Index to the 1871 dominion directory of Canada

Emigration/Immigration/Migration

• Canada Passenger Lists, 1881-1922, index & images
• Canada, Nova Scotia, Records of Aliens pre-examined at Halifax, 1923-1933, index links to images
• The Acadian exiles in Chatellerault, 1773-1785
• The Acadian exiles in Nantes, 1775-1785
• The Acadian exiles in Saint Malo [Ille-et-Vilaine], 1758-1785
• Acadian marriages in France: department of Ille-et-Vilaine, 1759-1776
• Acadian odyssey
• Acadians in exile
• The Acadians in France, 1762-1776: rolls of the Acadians living in France distributed by towns for the years 1762 to 1776
• Des Acadiens déportés à Boston, en 1755: un épisode du grand dérangement
• After the Hector: the Scottish pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852
• The black loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870
• Canada passenger lists, 1881-1922
• The civil sword: James Delancey’s Westchester Refugees
• Collection of original documents selected from the Public Record Office relating to the Palatine immigration : original documents selected for filming from the Colonial Office and Treasury Papers
• Discoveries of America : personal accounts of British emigrants to North America during the Revolutionary era
• The first foreign Protestants of Nova Scotia: where they came from–
• Foreign Protestants who sailed from continental Europe
• The “foreign Protestants” and the settlement of Nova Scotia: the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century
• German emigration to Nova Scotia in the mid-eighteenth century
• A great and noble scheme : the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American homeland
• The Hessians of Nova Scotia
• Immigrants to America, 1600s – 1800s: immigration records
• Immigration Form 30A, ocean arrivals, 1919-1924
• A List of passengers landing in ships in the Maritime provinces
• A list of the settlers from Montbéliard to Nova Scotia 1749-1752
• Miscellaneous records on emigration from England and Scotland to Canada located in the Public Archives of Canada
• Montbéliard immigration to Nova Scotia, 1749-1752
• New Englanders in Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia immigrants to 1867
• Nova Scotia immigration records, 1819, 1847-1903
• Ontario and Nova Scotia settlers, 1790-1860
• Our children in old Scotland and Nova Scotia: being a history of her work
• Passenger lists of the ships Dove and Sarah coming to Nova Scotia from Scotland, 1801
• Passenger lists, 1880-1899
• The Rhode Island emigration to Nova Scotia
• Scotland farewell: the people of the Hector
• Scottish-Nova Scotian Centennial at Waipu, 1st-2nd-3rd January 1953 : souvenir programme
• Settlers of Lunenburg and Queens counties, Nova Scotia
• Ships’ passenger lists for Canada, 1900-1922, 1925-1935
• Strangers from a secret land: the voyages of the brig Albion and the founding of the first Welsh settlements in Canada
• To the ends of the earth: Norman McLeod and the Highlanders’ migration to Nova Scotia and New Zealand
• To the hill of Boisdale: a short history and a genealogical tracing of the pioneer families of Boisdale, Cape Breton, and the surrounding areas
• La tragèdie d’un peuple: histoire du peuple acadien de ses origines à nos jours
• Whereabouts of some American refugees, 1784-1800 : the Nova Scotian land grants
• New England Planters in the Maritime provinces of Canada, 1759-1800 : bibliography of primary sources
• Yorkshire immigration (1772-1775) bibliography: selected sources on early European settlement in the Chignecto region
• A dictionary of immigrants to Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia’s ethnic roots
• Planters, paupers, and pioneers: English settlers in Atlantic Canada
• Trade in strangers: the beginnings of mass migration to North America
• Atlantic Canada’s Irish immigrants : a fish and timber story
• The Highlanders of Waipu, or, Echoes of 1745: a Scottish odyssey
• Watchman against the world : the remarkable journey of Norman McLeod & his people from Scotland to Cape Breton Island to New Zealand
• Index – Acadians in exile : by Rev. Donald J. Hebert

Land & Property

• Nova Scotia, Halifax County, Deed Indexes, 1749-1958, index & images
• Archibald of Rusland
• Case of the honourable baronets of Scotland and Nova Scotia: showing their rights and privileges, dignitorial and territorial
• Claims of American loyalists
• Land records, 1763-1914; index, 1784-1877
• Loyalists and land settlement in Nova Scotia
• Loyalists and land settlement in Nova Scotia
• Loyalists and land settlement in Nova Scotia
• Loyalists and land settlement in Nova Scotia
• Loyalists in the American Revolution
• Nova Scotia: some assessment, tax grantees, tenants and other lists, 1765-1789 : supplemental to the Nova Scotia 1770 census
• Nova Scotia Crown land grant registers, 1732-1901; indexes, 1707-1999
• Nova Scotia land grants, 1732-1864
• Ontario and Nova Scotia settlers, 1790-1860
• Whereabouts of some American refugees, 1784-1800: the Nova Scotian land grants
• Crown land index sheets, Nova Scotia Province, Canada

Maps, Almanacs, & Gazetteers

• Atlantic provinces
• Atlas de l’Acadie: petit atlas des francophones des Maritimes
• Atlas of the maritime provinces of the dominion of Canada: with historical and geological descriptions
• Atlas of the United States of North America, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Mexico, Central America, Cuba, and Jamaica: on a uniform scale with a map showing the free and slave-holding states of America, distinguishing by colour the importing and exporting slave states, from the most recent state documents, marine surveys, and unpublished materials, with plans of the principal cities and sea-ports
• Cartes de l’Acadie ancienne (1604-1755)
• Cleartype county-town Maritime provinces
• Close-up, U.S.A: Maine with the Maritime provinces of Close-up, Canada
• County map of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton Id. and Pr. Edward’s Id
• Crown land index sheets, Nova Scotia Province, Canada
• Diocese of Nova Scotia
• An illustrated atlas, geographical, statistical, and historical of the United States, and the adjacent countries
• A map of the surveyed parts of Nova Scotia
• Maritime provinces
• A new map of the most considerable plantations of the English in America
• Northern approaches, Maine and the maritimes
• Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
• [Nova Scotia map]
• A plan of the route from Halifax to the River du Loup on the St. Lawrence: with a table of distances from Halifax to Quebec
• Theatre of empire: three hundred years of maps of the Maritimes = Ambitions impérialistes : trois cents années de cartographie dans les Maritimes
• [Index to the map/cartographic collection in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1600’s-1900’s]
• A catalogue of maps, plans and charts in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia
• Acadian maps
• Acadianna, Acadia, then and now
• Historic Nova Scotia
• Historic Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia variant place names
• The origin of the East-Canadian place-names, Gaspé, Blomidon, and Bras d’Or
• Place names in Nova Scotia: a paper read before the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota on May 16th, 1959
• Place names of Atlantic Canada
• Place-names and places of Nova Scotia
• Place-names and places of Nova Scotia
• Place-names of the province of Nova Scotia
• Places-names and places of Nova Scotia
• The boundaries of Nova Scotia and its counties
• Le français en Acadie
• Acadianna, Acadia, then and now
• Gazetteer of Canada. Nova Scotia
• Gazetteer of Canada. Nova Scotia
• Harpers’s statistical gazetteer of the world: particularly describing the United States of America, Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
• McAlpine’s gazetteer of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland: a geographical and historical data of provinces and cities–location of towns, villages and hamlets–barristers, hotels, express offices and banks
• Nova Scotia variant place names
• Place-names and places of Nova Scotia
• Place-names and places of Nova Scotia
• Places-names and places of Nova Scotia

Merchant Marine

• Agreements and accounts of crews, 1890-1920
• Canada, Merchant Marine agreements and accounts of crews, 1890-1920
• Nova Scotian vessels shipwrecked or disabled in US coastal waters: 1875-1914
• Ships and seafarers of Atlantic Canada

Naturalization & Citizenship

• Naturalization papers, Nova Scotia, ca. 1849-1917

Orphans & Orphanages

• Our children in old Scotland and Nova Scotia : being a history of her work

Taxation

• Census records and poll tax rolls for Nova Scotia, 1770-1838
• Nova Scotia: some assessment, tax grantees, tenants and other lists, 1765-1789 : supplemental to the Nova Scotia 1770 census

Nova Scotia Daily Life Records

Bibliography

• Bibliographie des publications de l’Acadie des provinces maritimes: livres et brochures, 1609-1995
• Inventaire général des sources documentatires sur les acadiens

Biography

• Architects of Nova Scotia: a biographical dictionary, 1605-1950
• Away : Maritimers in Massachusetts, Ontario, and Alberta: an oral history of leaving home
• Biographical directory of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Free Baptist ministers and preachers
• A biographical history of the judges of Nova Scotia: 1754-2004
• Biographical review: this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of the province of Nova Scotia
• Biographical review: this volume contains sketches of leading citizens of the Province of Nova Scotia
• Builders of Nova Scotia : a historical review: with an appendix containing copies of rare documents relating to the early days of the province
• Canadian historical and biographical collection
• Cape Breton ships and men
• Clansmen of Nova Scotia
• A directory of the members of the legislative assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1958
• Famous Nova Scotians
• The Hessians of Nova Scotia
• History of Nova Scotia
• Loyalists in Nova Scotia
• Maritime Presbyterian ministers: biographical sketches of over 400 ministers of the various Presbyterian churches in the lower provinces of British North America ordained by 1875, together with notes on the divisions of Presbyterianism
• Middlemore memories: tales of the British home children
• Miscellaneous articles relating to Nova Scotia
• Miscellaneous histories and diaries of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
• No place like home: diaries and letters of Nova Scotia women 1771-1938
• Nova Scotia blue book and encyclopedia
• Nova Scotians at home and abroad: biographical sketches of over six hundred native born Nova Scotians
• Nova Scotians at home and abroad: biographical sketches of over six hundred native born Nova Scotians
• Les origines françaises des premières familles acadiennes : le sud Loudunais
• Prominent people of the Maritime Provinces
• Three premiers of Nova Scotia: the Hon. J. W. Johnstone, the Hon. Joseph Howe, the Hon. Charles Tupper, M.D., C.B.
• The women pioneers of North America
• [Genealogy/biography card index to materials in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, ca. 1650-1990]

Buildings and Dwellings

• Atlantic hearth : early homes and families of Nova Scotia

Business Records & Commerce

• Cape Breton ships and men
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 7 (1977) – v. 7, no. 2 (June 1977)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 7 (1977) – v. 7, no. 4 (Dec. 1977)

Church

• Acadian church records
• Acadian church records index: with annotations
• Acadian families in 1714: an ecclesiastical census of Port Royal, Les Mines, Rivière des Gaspards, Rivière de Pigiguit, Rivièredes Habitants, Rivière des Canards, Rivière de la Vielle Habitation, Beaulieu, Cobeguit and Beaubassin
• Actes de baptêmes, mariages et sépultures concernant les Acadiens et extraits de Registre A de l’Archevêche de Québec, 1679-1757: résumés
• Annual genealogical report, Form E, 1921-1951; record of members, 1921-1942; district history, 1924-1932
• Annual genealogical report, Form E, 1950
• Church records 1865-1934, 1865-1934
• Dimock’s marriages 1794 – 1845
• Nova Scotia records of baptisms, 1832-1843 and marriages, 1832-1844; Tarbat records of baptisms, 1823-1826, 1848-1852 and marriages, 1823-1826, 1848-1859
• Nova Scotia, Antigonish Catholic Diocese, 1823-1905
• Nova Scotia, church records, 1720-2001
• Nova Scotia, reports on archives … Hannay’s reports …
• Record of members and missionaries, 1919-1940
• Record of members cards, early to 1942
• Record of members, 1938-1940
• Records of members, 1921-1951
• Registre de l’abbé Charles-François Bailly, 1768 à 1773 (Caraquet)
• Le registre de Ristigouche, 1759-1795, Baie des Chaleurs et Acadie, historique, transcription et index
• Registres de l’Acadie et de la Gaspésie 1680-1757
• Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Registres paroissiaux, 1662-1848
• Registres paroissiaux, 1759-1795, 1842-1876
• Registres paroissiaux, 1768-1920
• Transcript of record of members, 1937-1951
• Acadian census and church records
• [Locality index to church records in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, ca. 1750-1940’s]
• Nova Scotia, Antigonish Catholic Diocese, 1823-1905
• Nova Scotia, births and baptisms, 1702-1896
• Nova Scotia, marriages, 1711-1909
• The Wesleyan [Canada]: a periodical devoted to the interests of Wesleyan Methodism in the provinces of Nova-Scotia, New-Brunswick, &c., &c. including articles under the different heads of biography, divinity, history, literature and science, religious correspondence, original and select poetry, missionary intelligence, general and provincial news, obituary, advertisments. &c. &c. &c.
• Biographical directory of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Free Baptist ministers and preachers
• L’Acadie et ses 40 robes noires
• L’Acadie, ses missionnaires: jésuites, récollets, capucins, prêtres des missions étrangères, sulpiciens
• Atlantic Canada to 1900: a history of the Anglican Church
• The Baptist year book of the Maritime provinces of Canada
• The Baptists of the Maritime Provinces, 1753-1946
• Biographical directory of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Free Baptist ministers and preachers
• Bishop Black and his preachers
• The Catholic Church in the Maritime Provinces
• Centenary of Methodism in Eastern British America, 1782-1882
• A century ago at Arichat and Antigonish and other familiar surroundings : reminiscences of Mary Belle Grant Ormond (1860-1947)
• The Chignecto Covenanters: a regional history of Reformed Presbyterianism in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, 1827-1905
• The Church of England in Nova Scotia and the Tory clergy of the Revolution
• Congregational churches in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 1749-1925
• The contribution of Presbyterianism to the Maritime Provinces of Canada
• Every popish person: the story of Roman Catholicism in Nova Scotia and the Church of Halifax, 1604-1984
• Fifty years with the Baptist ministers and churches of the Maritime Provinces of Canada
• The first foreign Protestants of Nova Scotia : where they came from–
• The great Canadian Mission: a jubilee history
• History of Methodism in eastern British America : including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Bermuda: from the beginning till the consummation of union with the Presbyterian and Congregational churches in 1925
• History of the Baptists of the Maritime Provinces
• A history of the Catholic Church in eastern Nova Scotia
• History of the Methodist Church within the territories embraced in the late Conference of Eastern British America : including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Bermuda
• Life of Rev. Dr. John and Mrs. Geddie and early Presbyterian history, 1770-1845
• Maritime Presbyterian ministers: biographical sketches of over 400 ministers of the various Presbyterian churches in the lower provinces of British North America ordained by 1875, together with notes on the divisions of Presbyterianism
• McKerrow: a brief history of the coloured Baptists of Nova Scotia, 1783-1895
• More stately mansions: churches of Nova Scotia, 1830-1910
• Review of the rise and progress of the Church of England in Nova Scotia : being a sermon preached before the honorable Board of Governors and the members of the University of King’s College, Windsor, on the 24th June, 1858
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 20th anniversary, 1953-1973 : with photographs and brief historical notes on each of the churches and missions in the Diocese ; also a list of the clergy: references to leading institutions and other interesting information
• Settlements and churches in Nova Scotia 1749-1776
• The story of the Kirk in Nova Scotia
• Thy dwellings fair: churches of Nova Scotia, 1750-1830
• Two hundred and fifty years young: our diocesan story, 1710-1960
• The well-watered garden: the Presbyterian Church in Cape Breton, 1798-1860

Court Records

• Coroners’ inquisitions, Nova Scotia: 1755-1928
• The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia and its judges, 1754-1978

Description & Travel

• Acadia: the geography of early Nova Scotia to 1760
• Acadia, or, A month with the blue noses
• Historic Nova Scotia
• Historical and descriptive sketches of the Maritime colonies of British America
• History of Nova Scotia..
• The Land of Evangeline, Nova Scotia : annotated guide, with introduction, notes and illustrations
• Lieux et monuments historiques de l’Acadie
• Nova Scotia sketches
• These are the Maritimes
• This is Nova Scotia
• Les Acadiens des provinces maritimes : guide historique et touristique
• The Baronnie de Pombcoup and the Acadians : a history of the ancient “Department of Cape Sable,” now known as Yarmouth and Shelburne counties, Nova Scotia … containing a complete tourist guide to the South Shore of Nova Scotia from Yarmouth to Halifax
• McAlpine’s illustrated tourists’ and travellers’ guide … of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island
• Nova Scotia tour book: an official guide to the highways of Nova Scotia
• Nova Scotia tour book: official guide to the main road of Nova Scotia

Employees, Officials, & Occupations

• Architects of Nova Scotia: a biographical dictionary, 1605-1950
• A biographical history of the judges of Nova Scotia: 1754-2004
• Life how short, eternity how long: gravestone carving and carvers in Nova Scotia
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 2 (1972) – v. 2, no. 1 (Mar. 1972)
• Cape Breton ships and men
• The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758-1983 : a biographical directory
• A directory of the members of the legislative assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1958

Ethnic Records

Jewish Records

• Index of Jews resident in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island according to the 1861 to 1901 censuses of Canada
• Jewish residents of the Maritime provinces in the 1871-1901 censuses of Canada
• Jewish residents of the Maritimes in the 1891 census of Canada
• Jewish residents of the Maritimes in the 1901 census of Canada

Native American Records

• American woodland Indians
• Indians of Quebec and the maritime provinces,an historical review
• Someone before us: our Maritime Indians
• The Indians of Maine and the Atlantic Provinces: a bibliographical guide
• The east coast of Acadia in 1708: a census of the Indian and French inhabitants of Port Royal, Cap Sable, La Hève, Les Mines, Mouscoudabouet, Cap Breton, Chiquenictou, Pintagouet, Canibeky, Port Rasoirs, and the River St. Jean
• We were not the savages: a Mi’kmaq perspective on the collision between European and Native American civilizations

Minorities

• “For their God”: education, religion and the Scots in Nova Scotia
• Winthrop P. Bell fonds, index to foreign Protestants and families, 1749-1775
• A great and noble scheme: the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American homeland
• A land of discord always: Acadia from its beginning to the expulsion of its people, 1604-1755
• A state of mind: the Scots in Nova Scotia
• After the Hector: the Scottish pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852
• Atlantic Canada’s Irish immigrants: a fish and timber story
• Beneath the clouds of the promised land: the survival of Nova Scotia’s Blacks
• Bibliographie acadienne
• Bibliographie des publications de l’Acadie des provinces maritimes : livres et brochures, 1609-1995
• Black and Bluenose: the contemporary history of a community
• Black Nova Scotians
• Bulletin d’histoire et de généalogie La Société Saint-Pierre : Cheticamp, Nouvelle-Ecosse
• Carleton’s loyalist index: a select index to the names of loyalists and their associates contained in the British headquarters papers, New York City, 1774-1783 (the Carleton papers)
• Chu nous Par-en-Bas: histoires acadiennes d’accoutume
• Dutch
• English
• Erin’s sons: Irish arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853
• Forgotten Canadians: the Blacks of Nova Scotia
• Germans
• Greeks
• Histoire des Acadiens
• History of the Acadians
• History of the Acadians
• Les Acadiens
• Les Acadiens: état de la recherche
• Les cahiers (Société historique acadienne)
• Les français du sud-ouest de la Nouvelle Ecosse
• Les parlers français d’Acadie [selections]
• McKerrow: a brief history of the coloured Baptists of Nova Scotia, 1783-1895
• Notes for research of families of Acadien descent who were in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, Canada, 1605-1944
• Nova Scotian blacks: an historical and structural overview
• Scotland farewell: the people of the Hector
• Some sons of Erin in Nova Scotia
• Sources of Acadian research materials in Acadian Genealogy’s repertoire
• The “foreign Protestants” and the settlement of Nova Scotia: the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century
• The Acadians of Nova Scotia: past and present
• The black loyalists: the search for a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870
• The black loyalists: the search of a promised land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870
• The Hessians of Nova Scotia
• The Huguenot heritage of some families of Nova Scotia
• The Irish in Atlantic Canada, 1780-1900
• The Irish in Nova Scotia: annals of the Charitable Irish Society of Halifax (1786-1836)
• The Latin Americans
• The new pioneers: ethnicity and the Vietnamese refugees in Nova Scotia
• The second generation: culture and the East Indian community in Nova Scotia
• The true story of the Acadians
• The true story of the Acadians
• Tidbits: a collection of little known Acadian genealogical information
• Two beginnings: a brief Acadian history
• Voyageurs to a rocky shore: the Lebanese and Syrians of Nova Scotia
• Who’s who in Acadian/Cajun genealogical research

Folklore

• Héritage d’Acadie

Genealogy

• 1992 directory of members, surname interests, and subject index to The Nova Scotia genealogist, vol. I to vol. IX
• A catalogue of published genealogies of Nova Scotia families
• A catalogue of published genealogies of Nova Scotia families
• A checklist of secondary sources for Planter studies
• A partial history of the Burpee family in America : sixth generation [1783-1948]
• A record for time: an exhibition of decorated family and individual records, memorials, tokens of friendship and embroidered memorials and samplers produced in Nova Scotia prior to 1900
• Acadian genealogy and notes concerning the expulsion
• Acadian-Cajun family trees
• Acadians in exile
• An index of family tree climbers, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Maine
• Atlantic hearth: early homes and families of Nova Scotia
• Baronia anglica concentrata, or, A concentrated account of all the baronies commonly called baronies in fee : deriving their origin from writ of summons, and not from any specific limited creation
• Bulletin d’histoire et de généalogie La Société Saint-Pierre : Cheticamp, Nouvelle-Ecosse
• Centre Acadien collection généalogique
• Compiled genealogical materials of the Maritime Provinces-New England Genealogy Interest Group … 1650 to 1995
• Corrections & additions to Arsenault’s “Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens”
• Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes
• Directory of members and surname interests, 1999
• Directory of members and surname interests, 2000
• Discrepancies within Bona Arsenault’s Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens, volumes 2-6
• English supplement to the Dictionnaire généalogique des familles acadiennes
• Familles acadiennes
• Fiches acadiennes du Fonds Drouin
• Finding your Acadian ancestors–
• Genealogical and local history materials in the collection of Eastern Counties Regional Library
• Genealogical file of Beaton Institute of Cape Breton College
• Genealogical manuscript collection [of the Nova Scotia Archives], 1700’s-1900’s
• Genealogical newsletter of the Nova Scotia Historical Society
• Genealogical research in Nova Scotia
• Genealogical research in Nova Scotia
• Genealogical research in Nova Scotia
• Généalogie des familles acadiennes
• Généalogie des familles acadiennes: avec documents
• Genealogist’s handbook for Atlantic Canada research
• Genealogy/biography card index to materials in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, ca. 1650-1990
• Genesis of Nova Scotia Bigelows
• Harrison family collection
• Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens
• Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens
• Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens
• History of the county of Annapolis, including old Port Royal and Acadia : with memoirs of its representatives in the Provincial parliament, and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families by W.A. Calnek ; edited and completed by A.W. Savary
• History of the county of Annapolis, including old Port Royal and Acadia : with memoirs of its representatives in the Provincial parliament, and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families by W.A. Calnek ; edited and completed by A.W. Savary
• Index – Acadians in exile: by Rev. Donald J. Hebert
• Index and key words to Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens by Bona Arsenault
• Index by place (Nova Scotia communities and counties) to various records in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, 1700’s-1900’s
• Index to Bona Arsenault’s “Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens”
• Index to the miscellaneous collection in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1600’s-1900’s
• L’Acadie des ancêtres: avec la généalogie des premières familles acadiennes
• L’etoile d’Acadie: Dans le monde entier, l’Acadie cherche ses enfants
• Les origines françaises des premières familles acadiennes : le sud Loudunais
• Maps associated with Lunenburg County family history
• Men of the soil : century farms
• Montbéliard immigration to Nova Scotia, 1749-1752
• Newsletter (Cape Breton Genealogical Society)
• Nova Scotia : Research outline
• Nova Scotia : research outline
• Nova Scotia ancestry
• Nova Scotia families
• Nova Scotia genealogical resources
• Nova Scotia genealogy and local history: a trial bibliography
• Our Nova Scotian ancestors: a partial genealogy of 23 South Shore families
• Planters and pioneers
• Planters and pioneers: Nova Scotia, 1749-1775
• Pour la postérité: une exposition de documents familiaux et personnels, d’oeuvres commémoratives, de témoignages d’amitié et de modèles de broderie exécutés en Nouvelle-Écosse avant 1900
• Research in Atlantic Canada
• Researching Acadian families
• State and provincial archives, treasure houses for historians and genealogists : Nova Scotia
• Stayner collection
• Stray leaves from Highland history
• The Acadians and their genealogy
• The Atlantic Canadians, 1600-1900: an alphabetized directory of the people, places and vital dates
• The east coast of Acadia in 1708: a census of the Indian and French inhabitants of Port Royal, Cap Sable, La Hève, Les Mines, Mouscoudabouet, Cap Breton, Chiquenictou, Pintagouet, Canibeky, Port Rasoirs, and the River St. Jean
• The Huguenot heritage of some families of Nova Scotia
• The Nova Scotia genealogist
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 5 (1975) – v. 5, no. 1 (Mar. 1975)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 5 (1975) – v. 5, no. 2 (June 1975)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 6 (1976) – v. 6, no. 1 (Mar. 1976)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 6 (1976) – v. 6, no. 3 (Sept. 1976)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 7 (1977) – v. 7, no. 4 (Dec. 1977)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 9 (1979) – v. 9, no. 2 (June 1979)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 9 (1979) – v. 9, no. 4 (Dec. 1979)
• Thorton H. Lodge collection and Curran collection
• To the ends of the earth : Norman McLeod and the Highlanders’ migration to Nova Scotia and New Zealand
• To the hill of Boisdale : a short history and a genealogical tracing of the pioneer families of Boisdale, Cape Breton, and the surrounding areas
• Tracing ancestors through the province of Quebec and Acadia to France
• Tracing your ancestors in Nova Scotia
• Tracing your ancestors in Nova Scotia
• Tracing your ancestors in Nova Scotia
• Tracing your ancestors in Nova Scotia
• Winthrop P. Bell fonds, index to foreign Protestants and families, 1749-1775

Government & Legal

• Nova Scotia Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry, 1849-1984 : a checklist

Government & Politics

• Local government in Nova Scotia
• Political Pictonians: the men in the Legislative Council, Senate, House of Commons, House of Assembly, 1767-1967

History

• Acadia : missing links of a lost chapter in American history
• Acadia : the geography of early Nova Scotia to 1760
• Acadia and Nova Scotia: documents relating to the Acadian French and the first British colonization of the province, 1714-1758
• The Acadian exiles: a chronicle of the land of Evangeline
• Acadian genealogy and notes concerning the expulsion
• An Acadian Idyll
• The Acadians: creation of a people
• The Acadians and their genealogy
• The Acadians of Nova Scotia: past and present
• The Acadians of the Maritimes : thematic studies
• Acadie and the Acadians
• L’Acadie anglaise (1713-1755)
• L’Acadie des ancêtres : avec la généalogie des premières familles acadiennes
• L’Acadie des origines a nos jours : essai de synthèse historique
• L’Acadie des origines, 1603-1771
• L’Acadie perdue
• L’Acadie vivante : histoire du peuple acadien de ses origines à nos jours
• Les Acadiens des Maritimes : études thematiques
• Les Acadiens des provinces maritimes : guide historique et touristique
• After the Hector : the Scottish pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852
• L’Association des Societes Historiques Acadiennes de la Nouvelle-Ecosse : commentaires historiques
• Atlantic Canada before confederation : the Acadiensis reader, volume one
• The Atlantic provinces : the emergence of colonial society, 1712-1857
• The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation
• The Atlantic region to Confederation : a history
• Atlantic yesterdays : unusual stories of the famed Atlantic Provinces
• Aux sources de l’histoire de l’Acadie
• Back when — : a collection of stories about people, places and happenings in northern Nova Scotia
• Bay of Fundy : its tides, its first settlers, its marine life
• Beyond the Atlantic roar : a study of the Nova Scotia scots
• Brief history of Acadie, 1604-1984
• Builders of Nova Scotia : a historical review : with an appendix containing copies of rare documents relating to the early days of the province
• Canadian historical and biographical collection
• A century at Chignecto : the key to old Acadia
• Colonel Alexander McNutt and the pre-loyalists settlements of Nova Scotia
• Une colonie féodale en amérique: l’Acadie (1604-1881)
• The contexts of Acadian history 1686-1784
• The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia)
• Les défricheurs d’eau
• The first English conquest of Canada : with some account of the earliest settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland
• First things in Acadia: “the birthplace of a continent” (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, parts of Maine, Quebec, Newfoundland)
• The “foreign Protestants” and the settlement of Nova Scotia : the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century
• Fortune & La Tour: the civil war in Acadia
• From migrant to Acadian: a North American border people, 1604-1755
• Genesis of Nova Scotia Bigelows
• Glimpses into Nova Scotia history
• Généalogie des familles acadiennes : avec documents
• Histoire de l’Acadie
• Histoire de la survivance acadienne, 1755-1935
• Histoire des Acadiens
• Histoire des Acadiens
• Histoire du Cap-Sable de l’an mil au traité de Paris, 1763
• Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens
• Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens
• Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens
• Historic glimpses of picturesque — Bear River, Nova Scotia
• Historic Nova Scotia
• Historic Nova Scotia
• Historic Nova Scotia
• Historical and descriptive sketches of the Maritime colonies of British America
• A history and geography of Nova Scotia
• A history of Belfast, with introductory remarks on Acadia
• A history of early Nova Scotia
• The history of New France
• History of Nova Scotia
• The history of Nova Scotia
• History of Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, the Sable Islands, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, the Bermudas, Newfoundland. etc., etc.
• A history of Nova Scotia, or Acadie
• History of Nova Scotia..
• History of the Acadians
• History of the Acadians
• Holland’s description of Cape Breton Island and other documents
• An illustrated history of Nova Scotia
• Intimate relations: family and community in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800
• Journey through Nova-Scotia: containing a particular account of the country and its inhabitants with observations on their management in husbandry; the breed of horses and other cattle, and every thing material relating to farming to which is added, an account of several estates for sale in different townships of Nova Scotia, with thier number of Acres, and the price at which each is set
• A land of discord always: Acadia from its beginning to the expulsion of its people, 1604-1755
• The Land of Evangeline, Nova Scotia: annotated guide, with introduction, notes and illustrations
• Lieux et monuments historiques de l’Acadie
• Life in Acadia
• The lion and the lily: Nova Scotia between 1600-1760
• Lt. Col. John Winsolw’s list of the Acadians in the Grand-Pre area in 1755
• Making adjustments: change and continuity in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800
• The making of the maritime provinces, 1713-1784
• Maritimers ashore and afloat
• Men of the soil: century farms
• Minutes of His Majesty’s Council at Annapolis Royal, 1736-1749
• Miscellaneous articles relating to Nova Scotia
• Miscellaneous histories and diaries of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
• Mélanges historiques: études, éparses et inédites
• New Brunswick, with a brief outline of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
• Nova Scotia articles from Acadian recorder, 1905-1913
• Nova Scotia blue book and encyclopedia
• Nova Scotia in grandfather’s day
• Nova Scotia in its historical, mercantile and industrial relations
• Nova Scotia sketches
• Offshore islands of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
• Original minutes of His Majesty’s Council at Annapolis Royal, 1720-1739
• Le pays d’Acadie
• People and place: studies of small town life in the Maritimes
• Petit manuel d’histoire d’Acadie
• Planter links: community and culture in colonial Nova Scotia
• Pre-revolutionary settlements in Nova Scotia
• Proceedings of Atlantic Oral History Association Conference, Glace Bay, 1981
• Reginald V. Harris collection
• Relation of the voyage to Port Royal in Acadia or New France
• La Renaissance acadienne au XXe siècle
• Resumé d’histoire d’Acadie : 1604-1988
• Review of the people of Evangeline, with historical sketches of the present and future
• Sable Island
• Sable Island: its history and phenomena
• The Scot in New England: chapter III Alexander’s plan of colonization
• The Scot in New England: part II Sir William Alexander and the Scottish colonists
• The Scot in New England and the maritime provinces : part IV Sir William Alexander’s policy and part V French attempts at settlement
• Selections from the public documents of the province of Nova Scotia : Pub. under a resolution of the House of assembly passed March 15, 1865
• Settlements and churches in Nova Scotia 1749-1776
• Shipwrecked on Sable Island
• Six crucial decades : times of change in the history of the Maritimes
• Someone before us : our Maritime Indians
• Stayner collection
• Studies in Nova Scotian history
• Les Sulpiciens et les prêtres des missions-étrangeres en Acadie (1676-1762) …
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 10 (1980) – v. 10, no. 2 (June 1980)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 10 (1980) – v. 10, no. 3/4 (Dec. 1980)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 2 (1972) – v. 2, no. 1 (Mar. 1972)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 2 (1972) – v. 2, no. 2 (June 1972)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 2 (1972) – v. 2, no. 3 (Sept. 1972)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 2 (1972) – v. 2, no. 4 (Dec. 1972)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 3 (1973) – v. 3, no. 1 (Mar. 1973)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 3 (1973) – v. 3, no. 3 (Sept. 1973)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 4 (1974) – v. 4, no. 1 (Mar. 1974)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 4 (1974) – v. 4, no. 3 (Sept. 1974)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 4 (1974) – v. 4, no. 4 (Dec. 1974)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 5 (1975) – v. 5, no. 1 (Mar. 1975)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 5 (1975) – v. 5, no. 2 (June 1975)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 5 (1975) – v. 5, no. 3 (Sept. 1975)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 6 (1976) – v. 6, no. 1 (Mar. 1976)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 6 (1976) – v. 6, no. 4 (Dec. 1976)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 7 (1977) – v. 7, no. 2 (June 1977)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 7 (1977) – v. 7, no. 4 (Dec. 1977)
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 9 (1979) – v. 9, no. 2 (June 1979)
• They planted well: New England Planters in Maritime Canada
• This unfriendly soil: the Loyalist experience in Nova Scotia, 1783-1791
• Township of Falmouth, Nova Scotia
• The tribune of Nova Scotia : a chronicle of Joseph Howe
• The true story of the Acadians
• The true story of the Acadians
• Truro, Nova Scotia: home of four Archibald brothers
• Two beginnings: a brief Acadian history
• Williston manuscripts: local history scraps, Newcastle and Miramichi; Acadians, history
• The women pioneers of North America
• The American Loyalists: origins and nominal lists
• The American Loyalists: origins and nominal lists
• The Atlantic provinces: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island
• A checklist of secondary sources for Planter studies
• Genealogical and local history materials in the collection of Eastern Counties Regional Library
• New England Planters in the Maritime provinces of Canada, 1759-1800 : bibliography of primary sources
• Nova Scotia genealogy and local history : a trial bibliography
• Sources of Acadian research materials in Acadian Genealogy’s repertoire
• Sources of Canadian history : with special reference to Nova Scotia
• More essays in Cape Breton history
• Atlantic Canada research directory = Répertoire des chercheurs dans les provinces de l’Atlantique
• Acadiensis : a quarterly devoted to the interests of the Maritime provinces of Canada
• Acadiensis : journal of the history of the Atlantic region
• Bulletin d’histoire et de généalogie La Société Saint-Pierre : Cheticamp, Nouvelle-Ecosse
• The busy East of Canada
• Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society
• Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society
• The New Brunswick magazine
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly
• Nova Scotia historical review
• The Acadiensis index, 1971-1991
• An index to Acadiensis, 1901-1908
• Acadiensia Nova, 1598-1779
• A Calendar of two letter-books and one commission-Book in the possession of the government of Nova Scotia, 1713-1741
• Documents relatif à l’histoire acadienne
• Lt. Col. John Winsolw’s list of the Acadians in the Grand-Pre area in 1755

History – 1603-1713

• Acadia, Maine and New Scotland: marginal colonies in the seventeenth century
• The baronets of Nova Scotia: their country and cognizance

History – To 1763

• Done at Grand Pré
• Expulsion of the Acadians
• A great and noble scheme: the tragic story of the expulsion of the French Acadians from their American homeland
• The history of Acadia, from its first discovery to its surrender to England by the Treaty of Paris
• History of the county of Annapolis, including old Port Royal and Acadia : with memoirs of its representatives in the Provincial parliament, and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families by W.A. Calnek; edited and completed by A.W. Savary
• History of the county of Annapolis, including old Port Royal and Acadia : with memoirs of its representatives in the Provincial parliament, and biographical and genealogical sketches of its early English settlers and their families by W.A. Calnek; edited and completed by A.W. Savary
• The lion and the lily: Nova Scotia between 1600-1760

History – 1763-1867

• Genesis of Nova Scotia Bigelows
• Highland settler : a portrait of the Scottish Gael in Nova Scotia
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 2 (1972) – v. 2, no. 2 (June 1972)

History – To 1784

• Planter links: community and culture in colonial Nova Scotia

Language and languages

• Grammar of the Mikmaque language of Nova Scotia

Libraries, Museums, & Archives

• A Calendar of two letter-books and one commission-Book in the possession of the government of Nova Scotia, 1713-1741
• Nova Scotia, reports on archives … Hannay’s reports …
• Report of the Board of Trustees of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia
• State and provincial archives, treasure houses for historians and genealogists : Nova Scotia
• Atlantic libraries and archives: a directory of special collections
• [Genealogy/biography card index to materials in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, ca. 1650-1990]
• [Index by place (Nova Scotia communities and counties) to various records in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, 1700’s-1900’s]
• [Index to commissions in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, 1749-1867]
• [Index to the map/cartographic collection in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1600’s-1900’s]
• [Index to the miscellaneous collection in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1600’s-1900’s]
• [Locality index to cemetery records in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, 1800’s-1950’s]
• [Locality index to church records in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, ca. 1750-1940’s]
• Annapolis County
• A catalogue of maps, plans and charts in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia
• City of Halifax
• Colchester County
• [General card catalog to the Public Archives of Nova Scotia library collection, ca. 1750-1998]
• Guysborough County
• Halifax County
• Inventory of manuscripts in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia
• Kings County
• The Loyalist guide: Nova Scotian Loyalists and their documents
• Lunenburg County
• Nova Scotia genealogical resources
• Pictou County

Medical

• Les hospitalières de Saint-Joseph et leur oeuvre en Acadie

Names & Surnames

• Acadian surnames: “dits”–progenitors, anglicized
• Patronymes acadiens = Acadian family names
• In which county? Nova Scotia surnames from birth registers, 1864 to 1877

Newspapers

• Nova Scotia vital statistics from newspapers …
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 6 (1976) – v. 6, no. 1 (Mar. 1976)
• Nova Scotia newspapers : a directory and union list, 1752-1988
• A survey and listing of Nova Scotia newspapers, 1752-1957, with particular reference to the period before 1867
• Index du Courrier des provinces maritimes, 1885-1903
• An index to birth, marriage, and death announcements found in The Novascotian newspaper, vol. XI, 1838

Notarial Records

• Actes de notaire, 1687-1741
• Actes de notaire, 1737-1753
• The Loppinot papers, 1687-1710: genealogical abstracts of the earliest notarial records for the province of Acadia

Population

• Nova Scotia’s ethnic roots
• A list of elderly people from Nova Scotia

Public Records

• Joseph Howe
• Selections from the public documents of the province of Nova Scotia : Pub. under a resolution of the House of assembly passed March 15, 1865
• Nova Scotia Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry, 1849-1984 : a checklist
• [Index by place (Nova Scotia communities and counties) to various records in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, 1700’s-1900’s]
• [Index to commissions in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, 1749-1867]
• [Index to the miscellaneous collection in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1600’s-1900’s]
• A Catalogue of manuscript documents between 1748 and 1841
• Inventory of manuscripts in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia

Religion and Religious Life

• The journal of Reverend Jonathan Scott : genealogical notes on the Scott, Marbury, Thwing, Ring and Bass families

Schools

• Nova Scotia school papers, 1789-ca. 1959
• The Nova Scotia historical quarterly – v. 2 (1972) – v. 2, no. 1 (Mar. 1972)
• Les écoles acadiennes en Nouvelle-Écosse, 1758-2000

Social Life & Customs

• Héritage d’Acadie
• Nova Scotia in grandfather’s day
• Planter links : community and culture in colonial Nova Scotia
• Se marier en acadie française : XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
• Wood, hay and stubble

Societies

• Annals, North British Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia : with portraits and biographical notes
• History of St. John’s Lodge, F. & A.M. of Saint John, New Brunswick, together with sketches of all Masonic bodies in New Brunswick, from A.D. 1784 to A.D. 1894

Nova Scotia Military Records

• Pay lists of the Army Hospital Corps in Malta, Nova Scotia, St. Helena and New Zealand, 1861-1870
• [Index to commissions in the Public Archives of Nova Scotia collection, 1749-1867]
• The civil sword : James Delancey’s Westchester Refugees
• The Hessians of Nova Scotia
• Muniments, 1719-1825

War of 1812

• Deadman’s : Melville Island & its burial ground

American Civil War

• The American Civil War : the service records of Atlantic Canadians with the State of Maine volunteers
• The civil sword : James Delancey’s Westchester Refugees

World War I

• Merry hell : the story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919
• Nova Scotia’s part in the Great War
• Soldiers of the King

World War II

• West Novas : a history of the West Nova Scotia Regiment