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05 June 2008
‘Canada’s Ocean Playground’: The Tourism Industry in Nova Scotia, 1870-1970
Take an armchair vacation back in time! Nine virtual exhibits present 6700 digitized images for you to explore — historical photographs, film clips, graphic art and dozens of early travel brochures, timetables and guidebooks, all telling the story of tourism’s first century in Nova Scotia. View the Cabot Trail under construction, canoe the backwoods with Mi’kmaq guides, take a tour of Keltic Lodge, and much more. ‘Ciad Mile Failte’ ... Enjoy!
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05 June 2008
Nova Scotia Information Service
We’re pleased to present a significant new searchable image database for you to explore — 2200 photographs, 1945 to 1970, capturing Nova Scotia and its people at mid-century, plus a selection of eye-catching colour film clips produced in the 1950s and 60s.
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05 June 2008
Clara Dennis Tours Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia's first woman travel writer, Clara Dennis, travelled extensively through mainland Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island during the 1920s and 30s. She had an observant eye, a keen sense of popular history, and captured in her work a Nova Scotia that no longer exists. We’ve updated our earlier Dennis exhibit to include almost all her photographic output — 2500 images in a searchable database, along with selected pages from her published works.
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30 May 2008
Mary E. Black
If you're a handweaver, you know who Mary Black is! Tour a virtual exhibit celebrating her life and career, then explore over 150 original textile samples based on her book, The Key to Weaving — still a classic, and the standard text for loom-controlled weaving. Each digitized textile sample can be magnified to enable close inspection. This online resource was developed by Atlantic Spinners and Handweavers, in cooperation with Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management.
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10 April 2008
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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07 April 2008
Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics Website — New Content and Corrections
We're pleased to announce online availability of 25,000 recently-released Vital Statistics — marriage registrations for 1931 and 1932, and death registrations for 1956 and 1957 — plus some 75,000 adjustments to content already online. The latter include corrections reported by many of you (our thanks!) over the past months, plus assorted other small 'fixes' that we've been working on since summer 2007. We believe you'll find lots to explore in this expanded content, and in the many small repairs which previously may have kept you from the information you hoped to find. Visit www.novascotiagenealogy.com and continue building your family's history in Nova Scotia!
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20 March 2008
Built Heritage Resource Guide
Finally, help in tracing the history of your property or heritage home! Visit our 'Built Heritage Resource Guide' and explore Nova Scotia house styles, building materials, the impact of disaster and change on communities, and a long list of archival resources to kick-start your research. Lots of detail, plus dozens of historical photographs and maps showing what's quintessential, quaint — and sometimes even quirky — in our province's built heritage.
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20 February 2008
NSARM Online Library Catalogue — Updated and Improved
We've expanded BookWorm, the online version of our library catalogue — it now includes over 20,000 entries! We've also added separate electronic searches of our self-serve Genealogy / Reference Collection, plus parts of the Akins Collection and a selection of published maps. Plan your research from home — visit BookWorm and explore what the NSARM Library offers.
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04 February 2008
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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