Bibliography of Nova Scotia

This is a bibliography of major works on Nova Scotia.

Bibliography

Surveys

* Beck, J. Murray. ''The Government of Nova Scotia'' University of Toronto Press, 1957, the standard history
* Choyce, Lesley. ''Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea. A Living History.'' Toronto: Penguin Books Canada, 1996. 305 pp.
* Conrad, Margaret. ''At the Ocean's Edge: A History of Nova Scotia to Confederation'' (U of Toronto Press, 2020).
* Girard, Philip; Phillips, Jim; and Cahill, Barry, ed. ''The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle'' U. of Toronto Press 2004.
* Johnson, Ralph S. ''Forests of Nova Scotia: A History.'' Tantallon: Nova Scotia Dept. of Lands and Forests; Four East Publ., 1986. 407 pp.

Localities

* Donovan, Kenneth, ed. ''Cape Breton at 200: Historical Essays in Honour of the Island's Bicentennial, 1785-1985.'' Sydney, N.S.: U. Coll. of Cape Breton Pr., 1985. 261 pp.
* Fingard, Judith; Guildford, Janet; and Sutherland, David. ''Halifax: The First 250 Years'' Halifax: Formac, 1999. 192 pp.
* Loomer, L. S. ''Windsor, Nova Scotia: A Journey in History.'' Windsor, N.S.: West Hants Hist. Soc., 1996. 399 pp.
* Robertson, Allen B. ''Tide & Timber: Hantsport, Nova Scotia, 1795-1995.'' Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot, 1996. 182 pp.

Special topics

* Beaton, Jim, and Eleanor Meek. '' Offshore Dream: A History of Nova Scotia's Oil and Gas Industry'' (2010)
* Campey, Lucille H. ''After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852'' (Dundurn, 2007)
* Campey, Lucille H. ''Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers: English Settlers in Atlantic Canada'' (2010)
* Girard, Philip; Phillips, Jim; and Cahill, Barry, ed. ''The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle'' U. of Toronto Press 2004.
* Johnson, Ralph S. ''Forests of Nova Scotia: A History.'' Tantallon: Nova Scotia Dept. of Lands and Forests; Four East Publ., 1986. 407 pp.
* Robertson, Barbara R. ''Sawpower: Making Lumber in the Sawmills of Nova Scotia.'' Halifax: Nimbus; Nova Scotia Mus., 1986. 244 pp.

Historiography

* McKay, Ian, and Robin Bates, eds. ''In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia'' (2010
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Since 1900

* Beck, J. Murray. ''Politics of Nova Scotia. vol 2: 1896-1988.'' Tantallon, N.S.: Four East 1985 438 pp.
* Bickerton, James P. ''Nova Scotia, Ottawa and the Politics of Regional Development.'' U. of Toronto Press 1990. 412 pp.
* Creighton, Wilfred. ''Forestkeeping: A History of the Department of Lands and Forests in Nova Scotia, 1926-1969.'' Halifax: Nova Scotia Dept. of Lands and Forests, 1988. 155 pp.
* Earle, Michael, ed. ''Workers and the State in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia.'' Fredericton: Acadiensis, 1989.
* Frank, David. ''J. B. McLachlan: A Biography - the Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners.'' Toronto: Lorimer, 1999. 592 pp.
* Fraser, Dawn. ''Echoes from Labor's Wars: The Expanded Edition, Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s, Echoes of World War One, Autobiography and Other Writings.'' Wreck Cove, N.S.: Breton Books, 1992. 177 pp.
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* McKay, Ian. ''The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia.'' McGill-Queen's U. Pr., 1994. 371 pp.
* McKay, Ian. ''The Craft Transformed: An Essay on the Carpenters of Halifax, 1885-1985.'' Halifax, N.S.: Holdfast, 1985. 148 pp.
* March, William DesB. ''Red Line: The Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star, 1875-1954.'' Halifax, N.S.: Chebucto Agencies, 1986. 415 pp.
* Morton, Suzanne. ''Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s.'' U. of Toronto Pr., 1995. 201 pp. about Richmond Heights
* Sandberg, L. Anders and Clancy, Peter. ''Against the Grain: Foresters and Politics in Nova Scotia.'' U. of British Columbia Pr., 2000. 352 pp.
* Sandberg, L. Anders, ed. ''Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.'' Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis, 1992. 234 pp.

Pre 1900

* Beck, J. Murray. '' Joseph Howe Volumes I & II : Conservative Reformer 1804-1848; The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873'' (1984)
* Beck, J. Murray. ''Politics of Nova Scotia. vol 1 1710-1896'' Tantallon, N.S.: Four East 1985 438 pp.
* Bell, Winthrop P. ''The "Foreign Protestants" and the Settlement of Nova Scotia: The History of a Piece of Arrested British Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth Century.'' (1961). reprint Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis for Mount Allison U., Cen. for Can. Studies, 1990. 673 pp.
* Brebner, John Bartlet. ''New England's Outpost. Acadia before the Conquest of Canada'' (1927)
* Brebner, John Bartlet. ''The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia: A Marginal Colony During the Revolutionary Years'' (1937)
* Byers, Mary and McBurney, Margaret. ''Atlantic Hearth: Early Homes and Families of Nova Scotia.'' U. of Toronto Press, 1994. 364 pp.
* Campey, Lucille H. ''After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton'' Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2004. 376 pp.
* J. A. Chisholm, ed. ''Speeches and Public Letters of Joseph Howe'' 2 vol Halifax, 1909
* Conrad, Margaret and Moody, Barry, ed. ''Planter Links: Community and Culture in Colonial Nova Scotia.'' Fredericton, : Acadiensis, 2001. 236 pp.
* Conrad, Margaret, ed. ''Intimate Relations: Family and Community in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800.'' Fredericton, : Acadiensis, 1995. 298 pp.
* Conrad, Margaret, ed. ''Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800.'' Fredericton: Acadiensis, 1991. 280 pp.
* Cuthbertson, Brian. ''Johnny Bluenose at the Polls: Epic Nova Scotian Election Battles, 1758-1848.'' Halifax: Formac, 1994. 344 pp.
* Donald A. Desserud; "Outpost's Response: The Language and Politics of Moderation in Eighteenth-Century Nova Scotia
''American Review of Canadian Studies,'' Vol. 29, 1999 online
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* Frost, James D. ''Merchant Princes: Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships, and Steel'' Toronto: Lorimer, 2003. 376 pp.
* Gwyn, Julian. ''Excessive Expectations: Maritime Commerce and the Economic Development of Nova Scotia, 1740-1870'' McGill-Queen's U. Pr., 1998. 291 pp.
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* Hornsby, Stephen J. ''Nineteenth-Century Cape Breton: A Historical Geography.'' McGill-Queen's U. Pr., 1992. 274 pp.
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* Krause, Eric; Corbin, Carol; and O'Shea, William, ed. ''Aspects of Louisbourg: Essays on the History of an Eighteenth-Century French Community in North America.'' Sydney, N.S.: U. Coll. of Cape Breton Pr., 1995. 312 pp.
* Lanctôt, Léopold. ''L'Acadie des Origines, 1603-1771'' Montreal: Fleuve, 1988. 234 pp.
* LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles (2005). Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation: Nouvelles Perspectives Historiques, Moncton: Université de Moncton, 465 pages (book in French and English)
* McKay, Ian. ''The Craft Transformed: An Essay on the Carpenters of Halifax, 1885-1985.'' Halifax, N.S.: Holdfast, 1985. 148 pp.
* MacKinnon, Neil. ''This Unfriendly Soil: The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia, 1783-1791.'' McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1986. 231 pp.
* Mancke, Elizabeth. ''The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760-1830'
Routledge, 2005. 214 pp. online
* Marble, Allan Everett. ''Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799.'' McGill-Queen's U. Pr., 1993. 356 pp.
* Pryke, Kenneth G. ''Nova Scotia and Confederation, 1864-74'' (1979) ()
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* Waite, P. B. ''The Lives of Dalhousie University. Vol. 1: 1818-1925, Lord Dalhousie's College.'' McGill-Queen's U. Press, 1994. 338 pp.
* Walker, James W. St. G. ''The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870.'' (1976). reprint U. of Toronto Press, 1992. 438 pp
* Whitelaw, William Menzies; ''The Maritimes and Canada before Confederation'
(1934) online

19th century histories

Barrington History

Digby CountyAnnapolis ValleyKings County

Minas BasinQueen's County

See also

*Bibliography of Canada
* Bibliography of Canadian history
* Bibliography of Saskatchewan history
* Bibliography of Alberta history
* Bibliography of British Columbia
* Bibliography of the 1837-1838 insurrections in Lower Canada
*List of books about the War of 1812

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