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18 May 2012

Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers
Celebrate Gaelic Awareness Month in Nova Scotia by exploring four Gaelic newspapers published in Nova Scotia nearly a century ago. Fear na Céilidh ('The Visitor'), An Teachdaire Gàidheal ('The Messenger of the Gaels'), Am Mosgladh ('The Awakening') and An Solus Iùil ('The Guiding Light') were all published in the Sydney area and are now available online in digital format (1435 pages) for Gaels everywhere.

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01 April 2012

RMS Titanic Resource Guide
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the loss of RMS Titanic, we've added newly-digitized content to our existing Resource Guide. Read the diary of Clifford Crease, a crew member on the Mackay-Bennett, and explore 328 Fatality Reports compiled for bodies retrieved at the disaster site. We are proud to make this contribution towards honouring the memory of those who died in Titanic's catastrophic end.

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9 December 2011

Township Records at the Nova Scotia Archives
Detailed information about the contents of 34 township books or record collections  documenting the early history and founding families of Nova Scotia's oldest English-speaking communities. Use this database to plan in-depth family or community history research, and visit the Selected Items section to explore original documents digitized for online viewing.

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01 October 2011

'Nova Scotians at Home and Abroad'
Our newest virtual exhibit is available on the Flickr social media website — 150 stunning turn-of-the-last-century black-and-white photographs showing Nova Scotians having fun at home and far away, including the Canadian West, America, Italy, Japan, maybe Russia…. and some places we can't identify. Perhaps you can help us? The images were digitized from nitrate negatives and provide an incredibly crisp and 'immediate' viewing experience. Read more about them here….

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01 October 2011

Nova Scotia Archives Launches Flickr Site
Join us on Flickr (a social media website) to explore our newest virtual exhibit, 'Nova Scotians at Home and Abroad'. You can link to Flickr and look at everything as a visitor, without registering — but if you'd like to help us identify 'who, what, when and where' in the images, sign up for a Flickr account and join our crowd-sourcing dialogue.

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23 September 2011

African Nova Scotian Diaspora
This significant new online resource features unique documents reflecting the struggles and survival of African Nova Scotians, as the world marks the United Nations' International Year for People of African Descent. It contains over 500 digitized and fully searchable government documents relating to early African Nova Scotian immigration and emigration. Many of the documents are rich in the names and reflect the experiences of Black Refugees who came here at the close of the War of 1812.