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