Bibliography of Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast. This bibliography compiles major written and published works concerning the province.

Overviews

Choyce, Lesley (1996). Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea, A Living History. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada. ISBN 978-1-9897-2515-3.
Conrad, Margaret (2020). At the Ocean's Edge: A History of Nova Scotia to Confederation. Canada: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-2395-4.
Leinberger, Eric; Wynn, Graeme; McNutt, Mitchell A. (1994). Buckner, Phillip A.; Reid, John G. (eds.). The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-6977-0.
McCann, L. D.; Parenteau, Bill (1993). Forbes, E. R.; Muise, D. A. (eds.). The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-6817-0.
Pryke, Kenneth G. (1979). Nova Scotia and Confederation, 1864-74. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 0-8020-5389-0.
Whitelaw, William M. (1934). The Maritimes and Canada before Confederation. Oxford University Press. LCCN 34025363.

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Culture

Conrad, Margaret (1991). Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press. ISBN 978-0-9191-0733-5.
Conrad, Margaret (1995). Intimate Relations: Family and Community in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press. ISBN 978-0-9191-0742-7.
Conrad, Margaret; Moody, Barry (2001). Planter Links: Community and Culture in Colonial Nova Scotia. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press. ISBN 978-0-9191-0746-5.
Creighton, Helen (1968). Bluenose Magic. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-7710-8260-0.
Johnston, A. J. B. (1996). Life and Religion at Louisbourg, 1713-1758. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 0-7735-1525-9.
March, William DesB (1986). Red Line: The Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star, 1875-1954. Halifax, N.S.: Chebucto Agencies. ISBN 978-0-9691-7951-1.
McBurney, Margaret; Byers, Mary (1994). Atlantic Hearth: Early Homes and Families of Nova Scotia. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-7762-2.
McKay, Ian (1985). The Craft Transformed: An Essay on the Carpenters of Halifax, 1885-1985. Halifax, N.S.: Halifax Holdfast Press. ISBN 978-0-9692-1170-9.
McKay, Ian (1994). The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-6468-8.
Morton, Suzanne (1995). Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-0474-1.

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Economy

Frost, James D. (2003). Merchant Princes: Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships, and Steel. Toronto: Lorimer. ISBN 978-1-5502-8803-2.
Graham, John F. (1963). Fiscal Adjustment and Economic Development: A Case Study of Nova Scotia. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4875-9779-5. JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt1v2xwbd. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Gwyn, Julian (1998). Excessive Expectations: Maritime Commerce and the Economic Development of Nova Scotia, 1740-1870. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-1548-2.
Meek, Jim; Beaton, Eleanor (2010). Offshore Dream: A History of Nova Scotia's Oil and Gas Industry. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5510-9787-9.

Geography and toponymy

Brown, Thomas J. (1922). Place-Names of the Province of Nova Scotia . Royal Print & Litho. ISBN 978-0-8881-2143-1. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Fergusson, C. Bruce (1967). Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia. Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
Hornsby, Stephen J. (1992). Nineteenth-Century Cape Breton: A Historical Geography. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0889-7.

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Government and politics

Beck, J. Murray (1957). The Government of Nova Scotia. Canada: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-1-4426-3343-8. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Beck, J. Murray (1985). Politics of Nova Scotia: Volume One: Nicholson-Fielding, 1710-1896. Tantallon, N.S.: Four East Publications. ISBN 978-0-9204-2729-3.
Beck, J. Murray (1985). Politics of Nova Scotia: Volume Two, 1896-1988. Tantallon, N.S.: Four East Publications. ISBN 978-0-9204-2704-0.
Bickerton, James P. (1990). Nova Scotia, Ottawa and the Politics of Regional Development. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-6745-6.
Cuthbertson, Brian (1994). Johnny Bluenose at the Polls: Epic Nova Scotian Election Battles, 1758-1848. Formac Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-8878-0294-2.
Girard, Philip; Phillips, Jim; Cahill, Barry (2004). The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-8021-9.
Mancke, Elizabeth (2005). The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760-1830. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-4159-5000-8.

Premiers

Beck, J. Murray (1984). Joseph Howe Volumes I & II : Conservative Reformer 1804-1848; The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-6082-6.
Chisholm, Joseph A. (1909). The Speeches and Public Letters of Joseph Howe. Halifax, N.S.: Chronicle Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-3344-4603-0. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Leger, Dan (2022). Stephen McNeil: Principle & Politics. Halifax, NS: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 978-1-7747-1126-2.
Saul, John Ralston (2006). Joseph Howe & The Battle for Freedom of Speech. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press. ISBN 978-1-5544-7018-1.
Steele, Graham (2021). Nova Scotia Politics 1945-2020 From Macdonald to MacNeil. Lawrencetown Beach, NS: Pottersfield Press. ISBN 978-1-9897-2545-0.
Whitman, Dave; Whitman, Paulette (2014). Premier Stephen McNeil: A Story of a Nova Scotian Family. Paradise, NS: Bailey Chase Books. ISBN 978-0-9919-3441-6.

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History

Bell, Winthrop P. (1961). The Foreign Protestants and the Settlement of Nova Scotia: The History of a Piece of Arrested British Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth Century. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-9191-0728-1. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Brebner, John Bartlet (1927). New England's Outpost. Acadia before the Conquest of Canada. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-2319-2128-2. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Brebner, John Bartlet (1937). The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia: A Marginal Colony During the Revolutionary Years. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-8462-1488-5. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Campbell, G. G. (1948). The History of Nova Scotia. Toronto: Ryerson Press. LCCN 49005389.
Campey, Lucille H. (2007). After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852. Dundurn. ISBN 978-1-5500-2770-9.
Campey, Lucille H. (2010). Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers: English Settlers in Atlantic Canada. Dundurn. ISBN 978-1-4597-0508-1.
Earle, Michael (1989). Workers and the State in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia. Gorsebrook Research Institute of Atlantic Canada Studies. ISBN 978-0-9191-0721-2.
Frank, David (1999). J. B. McLachlan: A Biography - the Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners. James Lorimer and Company. ISBN 978-1-5502-8676-2.
Fraser, Dawn (1992). Echoes from Labor's Wars: The Expanded Edition, Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s, Echoes of World War One, Autobiography and Other Writings. Wreck Cove, N.S.: Breton Books. ISBN 978-1-8954-1516-2.
Hunt, M. Stuart (1920). Nova Scotia's part in the Great War. Halifax: Nova Scotia Veteran Pub. Co. ISBN 1845747747. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
MacKinnon, Neil (1986). This Unfriendly Soil: The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia, 1783-1791. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0719-7.
Marble, Allan E. (1993). Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-6385-8.
McCreath, Peter M.; Leefe, John G. (1982). A History of Early Nova Scotia. Tantallon, N.S.: Four East Publications. ISBN 0-969-0041-9-2.
Raddall, Thomas H. (1993). Halifax: Warden of the North. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing. LCCN 65013981.
Waite, Peter B. (1994). The Lives of Dalhousie University. Vol. 1: 1818-1925, Lord Dalhousie's College. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-1166-8.
Walker, James W. St. G (1992). The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-7402-7.

Acadians

Corbin, Carol; Krause, Eric; O'Shea, William (1995). Aspects of Louisbourg: Essays on the History of an Eighteenth-Century French Community in North America. Sydney, N.S.: University College of Cape Breton Press. ISBN 978-0-9203-3676-2.
Faragher, John Mack (2005). A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland. W.W Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-05135-3.
Griffiths, N. E. S. (2005). From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People, 1604-1755. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-2699-0.
Johnston, A. J. B. (2007). Endgame 1758. The Promise, the Glory and the Despair of Louisbourg's Final Decade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-1-897009-20-8. (Canada), ISBN 978-0-8032-6009-2 (USA)
Johnston, A. J. B. (2001). Control & Order: The Evolution of French Colonial Louisbourg, 1713-1758. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. ISBN 0-87013-570-8.
Lanctôt, Léopold (1988). L'Acadie des Origines, 1603-1771. Montreal, QC: Fleuve. LCCN 89177485.
LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles (2005). Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation: Nouvelles Perspectives Historiques. Moncton, N.B.: Université de Moncton. ISBN 978-1-8972-1402-2.
Moody, Barry (1981). The Acadians. Toronto, ON: Grolier Limited. ISBN 978-0-7172-1810-3.
Reid, John G.; Basque, Maurice; Mancke, Elizabeth; Moody, Barry; Plank, Geoffrey; Wicken, William (2004). Reid, John G.; Basque, Maurice; Mancke, Elizabeth; et al. (eds.). The "Conquest" of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, and Aboriginal Constructions. University of Toronto Press. doi:10.3138/9781442680883. ISBN 978-0-8020-8538-2. JSTOR 10.3138/9781442680883.

Forestry

Johnson, Ralph S. (1986). Forests of Nova Scotia: A History. Tantallon, N.S.: Four East Publications. ISBN 0920427081.
Robertson, Barbara R. (1986). Sawpower: Making Lumber in the Sawmills of Nova Scotia. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9208-5253-8.
Sandberg, L. Anders; Clancy, Peter (2000). Against the Grain: Foresters and Politics in Nova Scotia. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press. ISBN 978-0-7748-0765-4.
Sandberg, L. Anders (1992). Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press. ISBN 978-0-9191-0737-3.