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C@P Projects
Special Projects undertaken with Industry Canada funding
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Tom Connors: 'The Old Sport'
Step back in time with Tom Connors, one of Nova Scotia's biggest sports-fans, and explore a collection highlighting amateur athletics in the province, 1830s to the 1940s — photographs, advertisements, engravings and artwork, showcasing star athletes of the day, sports events, a glimpse of the growing city of Halifax, and the natural beauty of Nova Scotia.
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The Royal Engineers in Halifax: Photographing the Garrison City, 1870-1885
Take a unique time-trip back to when Halifax was an outpost of the British Empire. Explore over 250 photographs taken by the Royal Engineers, capturing in minute detail buildings and fortifications at the Halifax Citadel and Dockyard, plus the perimeter installations at Bedford, Dartmouth, McNab's Island, Point Pleasant, York Redoubt and Sambro. You've never seen Halifax like this before!
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New Content Added to RMS Titanic Online Resource Guide
Come and explore the Titanic disaster as featured in The Daily Graphic and The Sphere, two British newsmagazines from April - May 1912 — detailed maps, diagrams, photographs and news articles covering one of the landmark events of the early 20th century. This new content joins the virtual exhibit and 'List of Bodies' already featured on our Titanic Website.
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Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia
Published in 1967, and still the best source available for basic, reliable and easily accessed information about Nova Scotia’s cities, towns and villages. Over 2300 entries, searchable by community name or by county. Each entry provides community highlights, including first settlement, first churches, first schools, primary industries, significant events and notable citizens.
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McAlpine’s Nova Scotia Directory, 1907-08
An invaluable tool for researching family or community history through alphabetical listings of residents living in the principal cities, towns and rural areas of Nova Scotia at the turn of the last century. We've scanned and made searchable every page in the 1907-08 Directory - all 1556 of them!
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An Acadian Parish Remembered
A fully searchable database containing information for over 3500 baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in the parish registers of St.-Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755. These two volumes are Nova Scotia's earliest surviving church registers, and a tangible link to the last generations of Acadian French living at Annapolis before the Deportation.
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