What's New

 

9 December 2011

Township Records at the Nova Scotia Archives
Detailed information about the contents of 34 township books or record collections  documenting the early history and founding families of Nova Scotia's oldest English-speaking communities. Use this database to plan in-depth family or community history research, and visit the Selected Items section to explore original documents digitized for online viewing.

 

01 October 2011

'Nova Scotians at Home and Abroad'
Our newest virtual exhibit is available on the Flickr social media website — 150 stunning turn-of-the-last-century black-and-white photographs showing Nova Scotians having fun at home and far away, including the Canadian West, America, Italy, Japan, maybe Russia…. and some places we can't identify. Perhaps you can help us? The images were digitized from nitrate negatives and provide an incredibly crisp and 'immediate' viewing experience. Read more about them here….

 

01 October 2011

Nova Scotia Archives Launches Flickr Site
Join us on Flickr (a social media website) to explore our newest virtual exhibit, 'Nova Scotians at Home and Abroad'. You can link to Flickr and look at everything as a visitor, without registering — but if you'd like to help us identify 'who, what, when and where' in the images, sign up for a Flickr account and join our crowd-sourcing dialogue.

 

23 September 2011

African Nova Scotian Diaspora
This significant new online resource features unique documents reflecting the struggles and survival of African Nova Scotians, as the world marks the United Nations' International Year for People of African Descent. It contains over 500 digitized and fully searchable government documents relating to early African Nova Scotian immigration and emigration. Many of the documents are rich in the names and reflect the experiences of Black Refugees who came here at the close of the War of 1812.

 

21 July 2011

'Seeing Yarmouth': Celebrating 250 Years of Community Life
Hop aboard the 'Seeing Yarmouth' touring car from the early 1900s and take a drive around town! Over 60 historical photographs, presented here in a partnership with the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives to celebrate the community's 250th Anniversary.

 

14 July 2011

New Content Available on Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics
An additional 27,028 historical vital statistics are waiting for you on www.novascotiagenealogy.com! These records were released on 31 December 2010 and since then have been digitized, fully indexed and checked for quality control. This year's accruals include 16,800 births (1910), 4,109 marriages (1935) and 6,119 deaths (1960), plus 'delayed' registrations for individuals born in 1910 or earlier, but not registered at the time of birth. The delayed registrations this year include several records for individuals born in Nova Scotia as early as the 1830s. Happy searching!

 

17 June 2011

An Acadian Parish Reborn
Calling all those with family links to Yarmouth County! Explore this wonderfully rich research product created by the Argyle Township Court House and Archives, and hosted on this website — a searchable database providing the names of all Roman Catholics baptized, married or buried, 1799-1849, in the predominantly Acadian French township of Argyle.

 

21 April 2011

Government Administrative Histories Online
Government Administrative Histories Online has been updated. The Nova Scotia Archives’ one-stop source for comprehensive but concise information on all Government departments – past and present – as well as all current agencies, boards, commission and offices, has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect government restructuring initiatives over the past few months.

 

18 April 2011

Search Virtual Archives
We've introduced a new Search Tool ('Search Virtual Archives') at the top right corner of your screen, imbedded in our banner image. Read more about it....

 

18 April 2011

Nova Scotia Archives
If you haven't been to our website for awhile, you may notice something different — our name has changed to 'Nova Scotia Archives' (NSA).

 

18 April 2011

Historical Maps of Nova Scotia
You asked for them and here they are! Many of you have told us that you would like more digitized historical maps of Nova Scotia available on this website. We've been listening!

 

18 April 2011

Woolford's Surveys: The Roads from Halifax to Windsor and Truro, 1817-18
Explore Nova Scotia's two earliest highways through a series of seventeen beautifully  detailed watercolour strip maps, showing the two roads as they appeared about 1817.

 

01 April 2011

Nova Scotia Archives - YouTube Tour
Ever wonder what it would be like to take a stroll through the vaults of the Nova Scotia Archives? Join us on a video tour of the building and take a peek at some of Nova Scotia's greatest treasures.