Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Bearing WitnessJournalists, Record Keepers and the 1917 Halifax Explosion |
Bearing Witness tells the story of the Explosion, and the catastrophic damage it caused, through the eyes and words of more than two dozen journalists and record keepers who experienced it first … | Michael Dupuis | 221 | 2017 | View |
![]() Fastest in the WorldThe Saga of Canada's Revolutionary Hydrofoils |
Like the builders of the Avro Arrow, the pioneers of hydrofoils are celebrated in this book for their world-class accomplishments. When Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with flying … | John Boileau | 98 | 2004 | View |
![]() Merchant PrincesHalifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel |
This book tells the story of an extraordinary family of merchants and entrepreneurs. It begins in 1810, when William Stairs opened a small general store on the Halifax waterfront. Over the next … | James D. Frost | 376 | 2003 | View |
![]() Rebuilding HalifaxA History of the Halifax Relief Commission |
Using the perspectives of law, politics, public policy and intergovernmental relations, historian Barry Cahill describes the complex activities of an almost-unaccountable agency that took the … | Barry Cahill | 226 | 2020 | View |
![]() Righting Canada’s Wrongs: AfricvilleAn African Nova Scotian Community is Demolished – and Fights Back |
Righting Canada’s Wrongs: Africville is designed to provide an introductory-level overview of the history of Halifax’s Africville community with particular emphasis on the lived … | Gloria Ann Wesley | 98 | 2019 | View |
From ![]() AcknowledgementsFrom: Fastest in the World |
Acknowledgements | John Boileau | 1 | 2004 | $0.10 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Bearing Witness |
- | Michael Dupuis | 14 | 2017 | $1.96 Add |
From ![]() Introduction |
The introduction provides a brief summary of the history of Africville, introduces some of the individuals whose stories are told in the book and outlines the goals of the book. | Gloria Ann Wesley | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Rebuilding Halifax |
The introduction provides a brief overview of the history of the Halifax Relief Commission and it’s activities over the course of its six-decade existence. | Barry Cahill | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() The Stairs Family: An Overview; Foreword by Peter G.White; Introduction: A Nova Scotia DynastyFrom: Merchant Princes |
Provides an overview of the Stairs family and its history, the preface notes an oddity and missing information from their research which has revealed a mysterious aspect to the Stairs family, the … | James D. Frost | 18 | 2003 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() BeginningsFrom: Merchant Princes |
1730-1797. Looks at the marriage between Hannah Roe and John Steers (not Denis Stairs as was previously thought) their time in Grenada, examines Hannah’s two other marriages after … | James D. Frost | 24 | 2003 | $2.40 Add |
From ![]() Halifax ReliefFrom Citizen’s Committee to Government Commission (1917-1918) From: Rebuilding Halifax |
Chapter 1 Discusses the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the Mont Blanc in Halifax harbour. The chapter describes how, within hours of the catastrophe, local government and business … | Barry Cahill | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionAir Water, and Nova Scotia From: Fastest in the World |
A brief overview of the evolution of high speed transportation throughout the 20th century and an introduction to Nova Scotia’s role in the development of two record breaking watercraft: … | John Boileau | 1 | 2004 | $0.10 Add |
From ![]() PrologueSlavery in the Americas |
This chapter looks at the history of slavery in North America. It illustrates this with drawings, photographs, documents and firsthand accounts. | Gloria Ann Wesley | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() The Role of Canada’s Chief Press CensorFrom: Bearing Witness |
- | Michael Dupuis | 7 | 2017 | $0.98 Add |
From ![]() Triumph of TechnologyFrom: Titanic Remembered |
Explains the triumph that was the Titanic and the reasons for them calling it the unsinkable ship, and the luxury involved in the travel, the onboarding of the passengers in European ports, Looks … | Alan Ruffman | 3 | 2013 | $0.30 Add |