Musquodoboit Pioneers

Musquodoboit Pioneers

Author: Jennie Reid

Publisher: [Nova Scotia] : Musquodoboit Enterprisers Historical Committee

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13:

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Covers the village of Middle Musquodoboit and the Musquodoboit Valley in Halifax County, Nova Scotia.


Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers

Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers

Author: Lucille H. Campey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2010-08-30

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1459705084

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The first in a series of three titles on The English in Canada, this book focuses on factors that brought the English to Canada, tracing the English arrivals to the various settlements. Drawing on wide-raging documentary resources, this book is essential reading for individuals wishing to trace English and Canadian family links.


Letters from Rupert's Land, 1826-1840

Letters from Rupert's Land, 1826-1840

Author: James Hargrave

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2009-11-23

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0773576444

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James Hargrave left an economically depressed Scotland in 1819, found work as a North West Company wintering clerk, and went on to survive the company's 1821 merger with the rival Hudson's Bay Company and subsequent downsizing to spend most of his forty years in the fur trade at York Factory on the desolate shores of Hudson Bay in the service of Governor George Simpson.


The Loyalist Guide

The Loyalist Guide

Author: Public Archives of Nova Scotia

Publisher: [Halifax] : Public Archives of Nova Scotia

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13:

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The Heirs of Francis Layton

The Heirs of Francis Layton

Author: Jack F. Layton

Publisher: Innisfail, Alta. : J.F. Layton

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13:

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Francis Layton (1746-1829) married Elizabeth West in 1772, later the family emigrated in 1774 from England to Nova Scotia. Descendants and relatives lived primarily in Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada and the United States.