All Books/Publications
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Newport, Nova Scotia: A Rhode Island Township
$35.00 Add to cartThese popular books have now been reprinted by the West Hants Historical Society. Including historical notes, maps, photographs and extensive genealogy on local families, John Duncanson’s works are considered by many to be an authority on the areas they feature.
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Rawdon and Douglas: Two Loyalist Townships in Nova Scotia
$35.00 Add to cartThese popular books have now been reprinted by the West Hants Historical Society. Including historical notes, maps, photographs and extensive genealogy on local families, John Duncanson’s works are considered by many to be an authority on the areas they feature.
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The Family Book of Fact and Fiction
$15.00 Add to cartThe Family Book of Fact and Fiction has been written in the hope that family members from grandparents to teens may find something of interest between its covers. Divided into sections, its short entertainment section contains one short play and several contests and readings from my years of writing entertainment material for various groups who held social evenings, or put on programmes in the community halls along the Shore.
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Going Over: A Nova Scotian Soldier in World War I
$22.00 Add to cartGoing Over is the biography of Titus Mossman, a veteran of the “Great War†who served with the 85th Canadian Infantry Battalion (Nova Scotia Highlanders) on the Western Front. This book blends social, political and historical issues of those turbulent times with the story of one young Canadian turned soldier, caught at the sharp edge of history.
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Gravestone Inscriptions: Falmouth Area
$10.00 Add to cartAuthor: John V. Duncanson
34 pages; coil bound; published by the West Hants Historical Society
Introduction
This record of gravestone inscriptions has been compiled over many years and many of the inscriptions were referred to in the local history Falmouth, a New England Township in Nova Scotia.
It is a listing of the inscriptions on gravestones in the old section of the Falmouth Centre Cemetery and a number of family burying grounds in Falmouth and Mount Denson. In addition, the list also includes a number of inscriptions from other cemeteries where Falmouth residents or their descendants or relatives were buried.
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Nova Scotian Vessels Shipwrecked or Disabled in United States Coastal Waters 1875-1914
$10.00 Add to cartThis is an account of more than 250 Nova Scotian vessels shipwrecked or disabled in United States Coastal waters between the years 1875 and 1914.
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Old Parish Burying Ground
$10.00 Add to cartIt is believed that there have been slightly more than 4,000 burials at Windsor’s Old Parish Burying Ground, though only a fraction are still identifiable. The Majority of these burials range from 1771 to the late 1800’s.
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Comfort Me With Apples
$15.00 Add to cartIn 2013-14 the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers’ Association celebrated its 150th anniversary. Surrounding themselves with the best scientific and business advice they could find, the members of NSFGA led the way in the creation of the earliest commercial apple growing district in Canada, for many decades crucial to the prosperity of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. Comfort Me with Apples tells the compelling story of an enduring agricultural institution.
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Riverview Haven Cemetery (Old Presbyterian), Brooklyn, Hants Co.
$8.00 Add to cartThis is an alphabetical listing of the gravestone inscriptions made in 1986 and 1987 at the Riverview Haven Cemetery (Old Presbyterian), in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia.
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St. Michael’s Anglican Church: Baptisms, Marriages, Confirmations
$10.00 Add to cartAuthor: Margaret Tuttle
Contributor: David Cameron
Extracted from Original records by Margaret Tuttle and David Cameron.
