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Book Yarmouth  Nova Scotia

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Stayley Brown
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2013-10
  • ISBN : 9781289902964
  • Pages : 550 pages

Download or read book Yarmouth Nova Scotia written by George Stayley Brown and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book A History of the County of Yarmouth  Nova Scotia

Download or read book A History of the County of Yarmouth Nova Scotia written by John Roy Campbell and published by Saint John, N.B. : J. & A. McMillan. This book was released on 1876 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Descendants of John Grant and Mary Sabean

Download or read book The Descendants of John Grant and Mary Sabean written by George Allen Grant M.A. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nova Scotia, the focus of study about Scottish settlers, including the Grants, has been on the eastern counties of the province, and on Cape Breton Island. In the United States, when Grants are mentioned, a significant concern seems to be to find a genealogical or DNA link to Ulysses Grant. No one has seriously examined and written about the Grant families of southwestern Nova Scotia. That leaves a space for me to act in, and to develop a narrative history of a family founded in the soil, strengthened by the forest, and challenged by the sea environments that comprise the fundamental essence of Nova Scotia. And so, my passion has been to tell the story of my family and their relatives in southwestern Nova Scotia and to follow the paths of many of them to New England (especially to Massachusetts). This study will fulfill an implicit task left to me by my Aunt Ruth Dexter. That is the essence of why I have spent so much of my retirement on this task. But there is more to come as I follow suggestive clues left by my ancestors, or seek to overcome “brick walls” that stump every genealogist from time to time. When I began this project, my aim was simply: “To collate and present a family history of the line descending from John Grant and Mary Sabean to myself.” If I had stayed within that framework this book would have been much shorter and less interesting. As it turns out, there are many fascinating aspects to our story. Not only will you read about the hard-working and courageous children of John and Mary, but you will follow them and their offspring as they find love and marriage, sometimes with close or distant cousins. • You will ride or sail with them as they migrate within Nova Scotia and outward to New England. • You will wonder at their expressions of faith and sense their hidden, internal conflict as they make religious choices based on factors we can only imagine (spirituality, simplicity, availability, or energetic missionaries), reflected in obituaries, burial sites, or their answers to census questions. • You will share their sorrow at the deaths of loved ones through accident, disease, suicide, loss at sea or in the service of their country in war, particularly in World War I. • You will learn of their varied occupations, trades and professions, from farming, fishing and forestry to shoemaking, carpentry and sailing, nursing and teaching. • You will join them as they strive to become master mariners, volunteer in their churches, train young women with the YWCA in China, or succor the sick and wounded with the Red Cross in Siberia – follow them south to Boston and the Caribbean, east to Europe and across the Pacific to Asia. Only then you will come to understand why, at its core, my passion has been to be the voice of my direct ancestors and extended family within a defined framework of time and place, to record their activities where sources allow, in essence, to be the story they could not write.

Book Yarmouth  Nova Scotia

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Stayley Brown
  • Publisher : Boston : Rand Avery
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Yarmouth Nova Scotia written by George Stayley Brown and published by Boston : Rand Avery. This book was released on 1888 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament in Alphabetical and Subject Order

Download or read book Annual Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament in Alphabetical and Subject Order written by Canada. Library of Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Markland Or Nova Scotia

Download or read book Markland Or Nova Scotia written by Robert Randall McLeod and published by [Berwick, N.S.] : Markland Publlishing. This book was released on 1903 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Microforms in Print

Download or read book Guide to Microforms in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Long Way Home

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  • Author : John Demont
  • Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
  • Release : 2017-10-03
  • ISBN : 0771025114
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Long Way Home written by John Demont and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write. No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history. The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the story of what is, from the European view of things, the oldest part of Canada. Before Confederation it was also the richest, but now Nova Scotia is among the poorest. Its defining myths and stories are mostly about loss and sheer determination. Equal parts narrative, memoir and meditation, The Long Way Home chronicles with enthralling clarity a complex and multi-dimensional story: the overwhelming of the first peoples and the arrival of a mélange of pioneers who carved out pockets of the wilderness; the random acts and unexplained mysteries; the shameful achievements and noble failures; the rapture and misery; the twists of destiny and the cold-heartedness of fate. This is the biography of a place that has been hardened by history. A place full of reminders of how great a province it has been and how great—with the right circumstances and a little luck—it could be again.

Book Zephaniah Kingsley Jr  and the Atlantic World

Download or read book Zephaniah Kingsley Jr and the Atlantic World written by Daniel L. Schafer and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zephaniah Kingsley is best known for his Fort George Island plantation in Duval County, Florida, now a National Park Service site, and for his 1828 pamphlet, A Treatise on the Patriarchal System of Society, that advocated just and human treatment of slaves, liberal emancipation policies, and granting rights to free persons of color. Paradoxically, his fortune came from the purchase, sale, and labor of enslaved Africans. In this penetrating biography, Daniel Schafer vividly chronicles Kingsley's evolving thoughts on race and slavery, exploring his business practices and his private life. Kingsley fathered children by several enslaved women, then freed and lived with them in a unique mixed-race family. One of the women--the only one he acknowledged as his "wife" though they were never formally married--was Anta Madgigine Ndiaye (Anna Kingsley), a member of the Senegalese royal family, who was captured in a slave raid and purchased by Kingsley in Havana, Cuba. A ship captain, Caribbean merchant, and Atlantic slave trader during the perilous years of international warfare following the French Revolution, Kingsley sought protection under neutral flags, changing allegiance from Britain to the United States, Denmark, and Spain. Later, when the American acquisition of Florida brought rigid race and slavery policies that endangered the freedom of Kingsley's mixed-race family, he responded by moving his "wives" and children to a settlement in Haiti he established for free persons of color. Kingsley's assertion that color should not be a "badge of degradation" made him unusual in the early Republic; his unique life is revealed in this fascinating reminder of the deep connections between Europe, the Caribbean, and the young United States.

Book Geological Survey Bulletin

Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North to Bondage

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  • Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
  • Publisher : UBC Press
  • Release : 2016-02-01
  • ISBN : 0774832312
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book North to Bondage written by Harvey Amani Whitfield and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Canadians believe their nation fell on the right side of history in harbouring black slaves from the United States. In fact, in the wake of the American Revolution, Loyalist families brought slaves with them to settle in the Maritime colonies of British North America. The transition from slavery in the American colonies to slavery in the Maritimes required slaves to use their traditions of survival, resistance, and kinship networks to negotiate their new reality. While some local judges chipped away at slavery, Maritime slaves fought against the institution of slavery by refusing to work, by running away, by reconstituting their families, and by challenging their owners in court. Harvey Amani Whitfield’s book, the first on slavery in the Maritimes, is a startling corrective to the enduring and triumphant narrative of Canada as a land of freedom at the end of the Underground Railroad.

Book Blacks in Canada

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  • Author : Robin W. Winks
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1997-02-13
  • ISBN : 0773566686
  • Pages : 577 pages

Download or read book Blacks in Canada written by Robin W. Winks and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an impressive array of primary and secondary materials, Robin Winks details the diverse experiences of Black immigrants to Canada, including Black slaves brought to Nova Scotia and the Canadas by Loyalists at the end of the American Revolution, Black refugees who fled to Nova Scotia following the War of 1812, Jamaican Maroons, and fugitive slaves who fled to British North America. He also looks at Black West Coast businessmen who helped found British Columbia, particularly Victoria, and Black settlement in the prairie provinces. Throughout Winks explores efforts by African-Canadians to establish and maintain meaningful lifestyles in Canada. The Blacks in Canada investigates the French and English periods of slavery, the abolitionist movement in Canada, and the role played by Canadians in the broader continental antislavery crusade, as well as Canadian adaptations to nineteenth- and twentieth-century racial mores. The second edition includes a new introduction by Winks on changes that have occurred since the book's first appearance and where African-Canadian studies stands today.

Book Canadian Books in Print

Download or read book Canadian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Head Waters of Canadian Literature

Download or read book Head Waters of Canadian Literature written by Archibald McKellar MacMechan and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Head-Waters of Canadian Literature" by Archibald McKellar MacMechan. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Elias Trask  His Children and Their Succeeding Race

Download or read book Elias Trask His Children and Their Succeeding Race written by Gwen Guiou Trask and published by Stoneycroft Pub.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Trask (1589-1666) emigrated from England to Cape Ann, Massachusetts in 1624. In 1627, he moved to Naumkeg (later named Salem). He and his wife, Sarah, had seven children. One descendant, Elias, (1707-1780) moved to Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia about 1760. He married Mary Bolter, daughter of Thomas Bolter and Rebecca Thayer. They had four children. Mary died in 1743. He married Abigail Woods (1715-1798), daughter of Richard Woods and Hannah Edmunds. They had five children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Nova Scotia, Ontario and Massachusetts.

Book Canada and its Provinces

Download or read book Canada and its Provinces written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canada and Its Provinces  Index

Download or read book Canada and Its Provinces Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: