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Preface

D.A. Sutherland

An American in Halifax: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and the Design and Construction of All Saints Cathedral

William Naftel

The Edward Ross Diaries

Deborah Trask

Nova Scotia as Represented in The Master by Israel Zangwill

Lilian Falk & Sandra Barry

The Rev. Dr. Andrew Brown: Nova Scotia’s Elusive Historian

Sara Beanlands

The Halifax Protestant Orphans’ Home: Triumphs and Tragedies in the Life of A Victorian Institution, 1857-1970

Donald Chard

 Missions to the Mi’kmaq: Malagawatch and Chapel Island in the 18th Century

B.A. Balcom & A.J.B. Johnston

The University Contribution to Canadian Multiculturalism: A Case Study of St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia: Correction and Addendum

James D. Cameron

Policy Regarding Genealogical Articles

Terrence M. Punch

A Genealogy: Introduction

Terrence M. Punch

Genealogy of the States Family of Kings, Cumberland and Hants Counties, Nova Scotia

David W. States

Book Reviews

Curse of the Narrows: The Halifax Explosion, 1917 Laura

Reviewed by: David A.Sutherland

The Dynamite Fiend: The Chilling Story of Alexander Keith Jr., Nova Scotian spy, Con Artist and International Terrorist

Reviewed by: Francis I.W.Jones

Prince Edward’s Legacy. The Duke of Kent in Halifax: Romance and Beautiful Buildings

Reviewed by: Henry Roper

Sods, Soil, and Spades: The Acadians at Grand Pré and their Dykeland Legacy

Reviewed by: Malcolm MacLeod

Crossings: Fifty Years of the Angus L. Macdonald Bridge

Reviewed by: Malcolm MacLeod

Visiting Grandchildren: Economic Development in the Maritimes

Reviewed by: Janet Guildford

Fifty Years in the Practice of Law

Reviewed by: William Laurence

Preface

Judith Fingard

From Eliza Frame to Phyllis Blakeley: Women and the Nova Scotia Historical Society

Judith Fingard

The Women of the St. John Ambulance Brigade: Volunteer Nursing Auxiliaries in War-time and Post-war Halifax

Frances Gregor

Halifax: The Wharf of the Dominion, 1867-1914

James D. Frost

The Starr Manufacturing Company: Skate Exporter to the World

Brian Cuthbertson

Celebrating the Joseph Howe Centennial in 1904: an Exercise in Selective Recall

David A. Sutherland

Samuel Cunard 1787-1865: “As Fine A Specimen of a Self-made Man as This Western Continent Can Boast Of”

John G. Langley

The University Contribution to Canadian Multiculturalism: A Case Study of St. Francis Xavier University Antigonish, Nova Scotia

James D. Cameron

Policy Regarding Genealogical Articles

Terrence M. Punch

A Genealogy: Introduction

Terrence M. Punch.

The Parentage and Progeny of David Archibald, Esquire, of Truro, Nova Scotia

Allan E. Marble

Book Reviews

Georges Island: The Keep of Halifax Harbour

Reviewed by: Ronald H. McDonald

European Origins and Colonial Travails: The Settlement of Lunenburg/Steiniger Weg in die Neue Welt: Protestantische Siedler Gründen Lunenburg

Reviewed by: Christine Horne

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle

Reviewed by: Allan Dunlop

Cape Bretoniana: An annotated bibliography

Reviewed by: Karen Smith

Merchant Princes : Halifax’s First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel

Reviewed by: David B. Flemming

The Siege of Fort Beauséjour, 1755

Reviewed by: Brian Cuthbertson

Frigates and Foremasts: The North Atlantic Squadron in Nova Scotia Waters

Reviewed by: David R. Jones

After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton 1773-1852

Reviewed by: Terrence M. Punch

Preface

Judith Fingard

Early Libraries in Halifax

Karen Smith

From Frontier to Borderland: The Acadian Community in a Comparative Context, 1605-1710

David R. Jones

“A slave to business all my life.” Joshua Mauger c. 1712- 1788: The Man and the Myth

Julian Gwyn

The “People’s Daily Paper:” The Glace Bay Gazette under UMWA Ownership

Michael Earle

Fortress, Seaport, Community: Three Faces of 18th-Century Louisbourg

A.J. B. Johnston

African and New World African Immigration to Mainland Nova Scotia, 1749-1816

Harvey Amani Whitefield

“Even If I Cannot Finish…:” Winthrop Bell and His Register

Terrence M. Punch

DesBarres’ Reliance on Holland’s “Plan of the Island of Cape Britain” and the Beaton Institute’s Chart 667.1

William Davey

Policy Regarding Genealogical Articles

Terrence M. Punch

Father Hubert Girroir (1825-1884), One of the two “Human Milestones” in the Revival of Acadian Society in 19th Century Nova Scotia

William Dawson Gerrior

A Genealogy: Introduction

Terrence M. Punch

Book Reviews

Inspired Halifax: The Art of Dusan Kadlec

Reviewed by: Mora Dianne O’Neill

Historic Kentville/Historic Wolfville: Grand Pre and Countryside

Reviewed by: Gordon Haliburton

Miracle on Brunswick Street: the Story of St. George’s Round Church and the Little Dutch Church

Reviewed by: Julie Morris

Hope Restored: The American Revolution and the Founding of New Brunswick

Reviewed by: Carole Watterson Troxler

The Stanfield Government and Social Policy in Nova Scotia: 1956-1967

Jennifer Smith

Heaven is Herds & Crops: The Life & Career of Agricultural Editor Malcolm MacLeod, 1878-1935

Malcolm MacLeod & Cameron MacLeod

Melville Island Prison During the War of 1812

Brian Cuthbertson

William Eagar: Artist and Gentleman

Mora Dianne O’Neill

Black Refugee Communities in Early Nineteenth Century Nova Scotia

Harvey Amani Whitfield

“The Destruction of the Efficiency of the Hospital through Jobbery and Malfeasance”: The Provincial and City Hospital Dispute, 1885-1887

Allan E. Marble

The Story of Studley

Joan Payzant

“A Vista of Infinite Development:” Surveying Nova Scotia’s Early Tourism Industry

Jay White

Policy Regarding Genealogical Articles

Terrence M. Punch

A Genealogy: Introduction

Terrence M. Punch

The Meisner Family of Glauberg, Stolberg-Gedern, and Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, 1650-1810

Kenneth S. Paulsen

 Book Reviews

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

Reviewed by: Barry Shears

The Smoke-Eaters: A History of Firefighting in Nova Scotia, c. 1750-1950

Reviewed by: B.E.S.Rudachyk

Celebrate! The History and Folklore of Holidays in Nova Scotia. Halifax

Reviewed by: Laurie Stanley-Blackwell

Casting a Legend: The story of the Lunenburg Foundry

Reviewed by: Robert Tennant

Historic Sackville

Reviewed by: Terrence M. Punch

Banker, Builder, Blockade Runner: A Victorian Embezzler and His Circle

Reviewed by: Francis I.W. Jones

Preface

Robert P. Harvey

Art, Fiction and Adventure: The Jones Sisters of Halifax

Gwendolyn Davies

A Tale of Two Preachers: Henry Hartley, Francis Robinson and the Black Churches of the Maritimes

Judith Fingard

The Halifax Diphtheria Epidemic (1940 to 1944): A Disaster Waiting to Happen or a Blessing in Disguise?

John Farley

The Inquiry into the Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917: The Legal Aspects

Janet F. Kitz

Abraham Gesner, the 10th Earl of Dundonald and Kerosene

Elizabeth Haigh

Violence, Sex, and Politics in Mid-Victorian Halifax: The WINCHESTER Affair of 1853

David A. Sutherland

The Nova Scotia Historian: A Creature of Paradox?

John G. Reid

The Rockefellers, the Cape Breton Island Health Unit and Public Health in Nova Scotia

Peter L. Twohig

The Collection of Vital Statistics in Nova Scotia, 1864-1908

Allan C. Dunlop

Policy Regarding Genealogical Articles

Terrence M. Punch

A Genealogy: George Frédéric Bailly

Terrence M. Punch

Book Reviews

Sir John George Bourinot Victorian Canadian: His Life Times, and Legacy

Reviewed by John Leefe

The search for Heinrich Stief: A Genealogist on the Loose

Reviewed by Kenneth S.Paulsen, Kenneth S

John Wesley’s Nova Scotia Businessmen: Halifax Methodist Merchants, 1815-1855

Reviewed by D.A.Sutherland

Brígh an Oraín = a story in every song: the songs and tales of Lauchie MacLellan

Reviewed by John G. Gibson

Preface

Robert P. Harvey

Camp Avon at King’s College: Henrietta Russell’s Visit to Nova Scotia in 1893

Henry Roper

Robert Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Uniacke at St. George’s Church: Evangelical Fervour and Good Works, 1825-1870

Brian Cuthbertson

“I will not pin my faith to his sleeve”: Beamish Murdoch, Joseph Howe, and Responsible Government Revisited

Philip Girard

From Intimacy to Detachment: The History of Relations Between St. Francis Xavier University and the Diocese of Antigonish to 1970

James D. Cameron

Frederick William Wallace: The Making of an Iron Man

M. Brook Taylor

Public Health in Industrial Cape Breton, 1900-1930s

Peter L. Twohig

Louisbourg And Versailles, 1713-1745: A Case Study of Policy Initiatives From Below

Joy Varkey

Mathieu Da Costa along the Coasts of Nova Scotia: Some Possibilities

John Johnston

Book Reviews

New Voices on the Shores: Early Pennsylvania German Settlements in New Brunswick. German-Canadian Yearbook/ Deutschkanadisches Jahrbuch Vol. 16 [2000]

Reviewed by: Allen B. Robertson

Atlantic Canada: A Region in the Making

Reviewed by: Brian Cuthbertson

So Obstinately Loyal: James Moody 1744-1809

Reviewed by:Allen B. Robertson

Colonel David Fanning: The Adventures of a Carolina Loyalist

Reviewed by: Allen B. Robertson

The Hatch and Brood of Time: Five Phelps Families in the Atlantic World 1720-1880

Reviewed by: Allen B. Robertson

Preface

Robert P. Harvey

The North End City Mission: Building Use in the Old North End

Judith Fingard

Birth of a Lawyer: James McGregor Stewart and the Halifax Bar on the Eve of the Great War

Barry Cahill

Halifax’s New South End, the North West Arm Land Company and a Parkland Legacy

Janet E. Chute

They Must Cultivate the Land: Abraham Gesner as Indian Commissioner, 1847-1853

Elizabeth Haigh

Nova Scotia’s Response to the Crystal Palace: The Provincial Industrial Exhibition of 1854

David A. Sutherland

Building a School of Nursing with Rockefeller Money: Three Nova Scotians at the University of Toronto

John Farley

“Hörte Ich dass…”: Travels of a Rhinelander in Nova Scotia in 1807

Terrence M. Punch; D. Litt

Travels of a Rhinelander through the North American States: In Nova Scotia, 1807

George Andreas Gottlieb

Yorkshire Settlement Beyond Chignecto

William B. Hamilton

Eugene Meuse’s Carding Bee: Portrait of an Acadian Village

Susan Young

Reverend William James Clarke: Chignecto Covenanter Castaway

Eldon Hay

The Pedigree of the Blind Piper of Gairloch

John G. Gibson, John G

The Almons of Halifax and Their Descendants (continued from Volume 2 of the Journal)

Heather Long

Book Reviews

African Exploits: The Diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1992

Reviewed by: John Eustace

St. Paul’s in the Grand Parade, 1749-1999

Reviewed by: Henry Roper

J. B. McLachlan: A Biography

Reviewed by: Scott Burbidge

Halifax: The First 250 Years

Reviewed by: Glenn Hancock

Working for the Best: The Life and Letters of Annie Leake Tuttle

Reviewed by:Lisa Gauder

Preface

David B. Flemming

“But Such is Life”: Growing Up in Nova Scotia in the Interwar Years

Margaret Conrad

Alderman Thomas Spence: The Dick Whittington of Halifax

Janet Guildford

The Aborted British Invasion: The Case of Swan Hunter Shipbuilders, 1899-1914

James D. Frost

A Hot Southern Town: Confederate Sympathizers in Halifax during the American Civil War

Francis I. W. Jones

History of the Grand Parade and Halifax City Hall

Brian Cuthbertson

The Bishop, the President and the Professor: Turmoil at the University of King’s College in the 1880s

Henry Roper

The Culture of Work: In the Halifax Naval Yard before 1820

Julian Gwyn

Rescue and Reward: Corporal George Liston’s Heroism on the Halifax Waterfront

Judith Fingard

City Upon A Hill: Architecture and Identity in Colonial Halifax

Allen B. Robertson

“To Consummate that Great Desideratum-A General Hospital”

Allan Marble

A Slave Ship Made Captive: The Schooner Severn

Dan Conlin

A Genealogy: The Almons of Halifax and Their Descendants

Heather Long

Book Reviews

Alone at Sea. The Adventures of Joshua Slocum

Reviewed by: George Parker

Preface

David B. Flemming

Marconi’s Three Transatlantic Radio Stations In Cape Breton

Henry M. Bradford.

John Cabot and His Historians: Five Hundred Years of Controversy

Brian Cuthbertson

“A Worrisome Time”: Life in the Maritimes During World War II

Helen Jean M. Nugent

“Come East, Young Man!” The Politics of Rural Depopulation in Nova Scotia, 1900-1925

Paul Brown

A Historiography of Private Sea War in Nova Scotia

Dan Conlin

A Prince, The Governor, and Mr. Mayor: Halifax and the Politics of Prestige in 1841

David Sutherland

The Perils of Dalhousie History and Analogous Ventures

P.B. Waite

A Slice Of Golfing History: The Development Of Golf In Nova Scotia, 1895-1945

Allan Dunlop

“To the Relief of Malignant Diseases of the Poor”: The Acquisition of Radium for Halifax, 1916-1926

Charles R. R. Hayter

Three Archbishops And A Cardinal: His Eminence James C. McGuigan And The Prelates Of Halifax, 1931-1964

Peter McGuigan

Bringing ‘Salvation’ to the ‘Heathen’: The Forty Year Sojourn of The Reverend Joseph Annand In The New Hebrides

Arthur M. Smith

Genealogy: Editorial Introduction

Allen B. Robertson

A Genealogy: The Descendants of Michael Donovan (1770-1998)

Gail Judge

Book Reviews

The Wellington Dyke

Reviewed by: Jim Snowdon