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I produced an overview with links to major works on the Province. As you know Nova Scotia is New Scotland and so history of this Province should be of interest to Scots. According to the 2011 Census of Canada, the number of Canadians claiming full or partial Scottish descent is 4,714,970, or 15.10% of the nation's total population.
In 2011 the population of Nova Scotia was 945,437 with Scots making up 29.3 percent of the population.
THERE are already two historical works on Nova Scotia one by Thomas C. Haliburton, and the other by Beamish Murdoch, both natives of the Province; the former an author of unquestionable genius, and the latter one who bequeaths to his country a work containing, in three volumes, a body of facts, in chronological order, which will continue to be consulted in coming generations as a valuable literary deposit. The interesting narrative of Haliburton closes with the year 1763 embracing only two hundred and forty-two pages the latter part of his first volume consisting of a chronological table of events, extending from 1763 to 1828, and his second volume being devoted to a Statistical account of the Province. Mr. Murdoch's history, so far as published, comes down to the year 1828.
The above was written by Duncan Campbell in his book and serves to show the major histories of Nova Scotia.
I have thus created a page to provide you download links to both these publications and another by Duncan Campbell which also takes in Industrial relations.
You can get to this at http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...tory_links.htm
I also added an early history to 1900 of the Bank of Nova Scotia at http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...tia/bankns.htm in which you can see many Scottish names.
Alastair
In 2011 the population of Nova Scotia was 945,437 with Scots making up 29.3 percent of the population.
THERE are already two historical works on Nova Scotia one by Thomas C. Haliburton, and the other by Beamish Murdoch, both natives of the Province; the former an author of unquestionable genius, and the latter one who bequeaths to his country a work containing, in three volumes, a body of facts, in chronological order, which will continue to be consulted in coming generations as a valuable literary deposit. The interesting narrative of Haliburton closes with the year 1763 embracing only two hundred and forty-two pages the latter part of his first volume consisting of a chronological table of events, extending from 1763 to 1828, and his second volume being devoted to a Statistical account of the Province. Mr. Murdoch's history, so far as published, comes down to the year 1828.
The above was written by Duncan Campbell in his book and serves to show the major histories of Nova Scotia.
I have thus created a page to provide you download links to both these publications and another by Duncan Campbell which also takes in Industrial relations.
You can get to this at http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...tory_links.htm
I also added an early history to 1900 of the Bank of Nova Scotia at http://www.electriccanadian.com/hist...tia/bankns.htm in which you can see many Scottish names.
Alastair