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The database contains 2,595 entries and is searchable on the name of the deceased, date of death, cause of death, name of mine (where known), type of mine, and location (community and/or county) in Nova Scotia. Only 7 names have been identified for the years prior to 1866.

A fully searchable database containing information for 3551 baptisms, marriages and burials recorded in the parish registers of St.-Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755. These two volumes are Nova Scotia's earliest surviving church registers, and a tangible link to the last generations of...

Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes case files forms part of Supreme Court of Nova Scotia in Halifax County. Case files from 1759-1963.

Fatality Reports were created for 328 individuals whose bodies were recovered at the site of the disaster. These files form a unique sub-set within the records of the Medical Examiner for the City of Halifax and Town of Dartmouth (RG 41, Series C, Vols. 75, 76 & 76A) held at the Nova Scotia...

A fully searchable database containing 3865 names of Nova Scotian women and men that signed 18 petitions calling for the franchise to vote be extend to women the same as men in 1918.

The 'Halifax Explosion Remembrance Book' is the first really definitive listing for those killed in the disaster of 6 December 1917. The online version features a searchable database with detailed information for 1946 casualties - more than 300 of whom are recently-confirmed and identified victims.

In honour of African Heritage Month, the Nova Scotia Archives is pleased to present a digital version of the Nominal Roll of Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Men, No. 2 Construction Battalion (March 1917), the only battalion of Black soldiers raised in Canada during the First World War....

The "Book of Negroes" is the single most important document relating to the immigration of African Americans to Nova Scotia following the War of Independence. It provides the names of 3000 black refugees registered on board the vessels in which they sailed from New York to Nova Scotia between 23...

A fully searchable database containing over 113 historical sketches of all Government departments, past and present, as well as all current agencies, boards, commissions, offices and crown corporations. Accurate and complete to 2011.