The purpose for this page is to let you know about books on Lunenburg History or Families
that are now available or are in the works.
For starters, the books listed are those in my personal library.
Points of contact are given so that you can make your own arrangements to purchase with the authors or publishers.
Unless specified otherwise, prices are in Canadian $$$ and do not include taxes if any, shipping and handling.
If you know of any other relevant books currently available or those in progress (including your own) please Let Me Know so that they can be included here.
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by Christopher Young and Clyde G. Westhaver
Published privately by Chris Young
Description: This book covers 62 family groups and four succeeding generations with about 3000 individuals named. In addition to usual birth, marriage, and date information, there are extensive coverages of wills, land records, census records, and obituaries. There are also sections on the early history of Lunenburg, recollections of Evalina Westhaver covering about 1860-1880, recollections of Lillian Young covering about 1920-1930, over 125 mixed German-English expressions, and illustrated headstone symbols and explanations. 370 pages.
To Order: Contact Chris Young if you wish to have your name placed on a waiting list.
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From Montbéliard to the Head of Saint Margaret's Bay: An Illustrated History
by Barbara (Mason) Peart
Published privately by Barb Peart
Description: This book is a personal, well-researched, detailed history of the Head of Saint Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia, tracing the journeys of its early settlers from Montbéliard and surrounding areas in Europe to Halifax, Lunenburg, French
Village, and finally to the Bay. In the works for over 20 years, AS THE
LAST LEAF FELL consists of 525 perfect-bound pages (8.5 X 11), plus 25 for
the table of contents, index, and bibliography; it has approximately 700
photographs, some dating back to the early 1870's. The hopes and joys,
trials and tribulations, dreams and disasters of countless dear seniors
(many now deceased) hold one’s attention throughout the twenty-five
chapters. The life of our early Mi’kmaqs and the folks at Lunenburg is
revealed, and we can experience the gradual evolution of schools, roads,
churches, industries, subdivisions, the effects of war, folklore,
rum-running, the Nova Scotia Power Commission, country doctors, and much,
much more. Indeed, there is something for everyone. Several families have
been discussed including the Lunenburg names Boutilier, Burgoyne, Dauphinee, Dorey, Fader, Hartlen, Hatt, Hubley, Langille, Mason, Rhyno, Schlagenweit, Slauenwhite, Smith, Westhaver, and Young.
To Order: Contact Barb Peart at at 902-826-2827 or write to her at Barbara Peart at 77 Glenwood Drive, Head of St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia B3Z 2E7.
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(ca. 1749-1770)
Written by Winthrop P Bell and Published privately by Christopher Young
ISBN unknown Description: This book, in Winthrop Bell's own handwriting provides about 40 different types of information on about 700 Foreign Protestant families that settled in Lunenburg and Halifax. Also included: 1770 Census, 820 Indebtedness List Signatures, alternate spellings of Family names, and about 50 maps of Europe and Lunenburg County. It is expected to be about 900 pages long. Click here for a Table of Contents and List of Families Covered.
To Order: Contact Chris Young if you wish to have your name placed on a waiting list.
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by Terry James and Bill Plaskett
Published by Nimbus Publishing Limited, P.O. Box 9166, Halifax, NS B3K 5M8
Description: This 82 page book, in stunning full colour, illustrates the unique architecture of old Lunenburg. If you didn't know what a Lunenburg "Bump" was before viewing the book, you sure would after.
To Order: I purchased my copy from one of the many "souvenir" shops along Lunenburg's waterfront.
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From the Vineyards of the Odenwald to their Dispersion Through North America by Clyde G. Westhaver Published privately by Clyde Westhaver ISBN none Publication date 1997 Price: unknown
Description: This 179 page book is an update of his 1900 book on the Westhaver Family. It is also available in a CD-ROM version.
To Order: Contact Clyde G. Westhaver, 114 Marlborough Avenue, London, Ontario, N5Z 3S6
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3rd Edition
by Winthrop P Bell
Published by Nimbus Publishing Limited, P.O. Box 9166, Halifax, NS B3K 5M8
Description: This 673 page book, in scholarly fashion tells the What, When, Where, Why, and How the "Foreign Protestants" were enticed to leave Southern Germany, Protestant France, and Switzerland and come to settle in Nova Scotia, primarily in Lunenburg and Halifax. If you are a historian, this book is for you. It is weak on the Who.
To Order: Contact Chris Young if you wish to have your name placed on a waiting list.
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Ancestors and Descendants and Allied Families by Viva E. Freeman Published by - North Queens Heritage Society, Caledonia, Queens County, N.S. ISBN: unknown Publication date original 1986; reprint 2001 Price: comb-bound paper edition $150 + $10 postage; CD edition (searchable, uses Adobe Reader) - $75 + $5 postage
Description: In her 1531 page work, Mrs. Freeman included both comprehensive and easy to follow genealogical information on Nova Scotian Freemans and families related to them and included a 256 page index. She later published a 52 page Supplement. The reprint includes all of the above.
To Order: Contact North Queens Heritage Society, Box 88, Caledonia, Queens Co., N.S. B0T 1B0 nqheritage@auracom.com . http://www.northqueens.com
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The Days of Sail 1880-1930 by Mike Parker Published by Nimbus Publishing Limited, P.O. Box 9166, Halifax, NS B3K 5M8 ISBN 1-5510-297-2 Publication date 1999 Price: $17.95
Description: This 119 page book covers in considerable detail the hey-days of sail in Lunenburg. There are one or two black and white photographs on every page.
To Order: Contact Nimbus Publishers
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The Scotsman and the English Lady by Vernon S. Keddy Published by the New Ross Historical Society ISBN none Publication date 2000 Price: ?
Description: This 388 page book is an in-depth look at the Keddy family, particularly in the New Ross area. It covers 1128 family groups and about 6500 individuals.
To Order: Contact Vernon Keddy, New Ross, Nova Scotia, B0J 2M0
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by Robert Tuck Published privately by Robert Tuck ISBN unknown Publication date September 2001 Price: $19.95 + $6.00 for postage and packaging
Description: In March 1884 a newly ordained deacon, the Reverend Ned Harris, arrived in Mahone Bay. Every few days Ned wrote a letter home describing his adventures. The 220 page book is lavishly illustrated with 18 pages of early Mahone Bay photographs and sketches in black and white. The book offers insight into what life was like in both church and community on Nova Scotia’s South Shore in the 1880s. For more details, Click Here.
To Order: Contact Robert Tuck or send $25.95 to Maplewood Books, 90 Maplewood Crescent, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, C1A 2X6.
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Volume 1 compiled by Wilfred Eisnor and Donald Eisnor Published by Knickle's Studio & Gallery, Lunenburg, Nove Scotia ISBN none Publication date third edition 2001 Price: $19.95
Description: This 52 page book is all black and white photogrpahs of Lunenburg from 1880 to 1921 with the launching of the schooner Bluenose
To Order: I purchased my copy from the Fisheries Museum in Lunenburg.
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A History of West Northfield and Area compiled by the West Northfield & Area Heritage Committee
Published by the West Northfield & Area Heritage Committee
Description: The first 115 pages of the book are dedicated to the history of the West Northfield area; the remaining 158 pages is all genealogy of the some 7000 individuals covered. There is a 10 page supplement.
Some of the many family names are Bruhm, Crouse, Darr, Dauphinee, Feener, Hirtle, Jodrey, Kelly, Langille, Lowe, MacKay, Meisner, Oickle, Ramey, Rhodenizer, Sarty, Silver, Veinot/te, Wentzell and Zinck. Available from Lana Veinotte - E-mail - lanav@eastlink.ca
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A comprehensive genealogy of the descendants of Johann Peter Zwicker
ISBN none
Available from David Paul Zwicker: e-mail zwickerdp@eastlink.ca or
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Chapters in the History of Petite Riviere, Nova Scotia by Malcolm G. Parks
Published by Community Books, Lockeport Nova Scotia
Description: This 242 page book traces various aspects of Petite Riviere's history from its beginnings as a European settlement in 1636 up to and into the twentieth century.
To Order: Contact Malcolm Parks, Petite Riviere, Nova Scotia
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My Eighty Years in the Nova Scotia Village of Blandford by Lee Zinck Published by the Blandford & Area Historical Society ISBN none Publication date Second Edition 2000 Price: $15.00
Description: This is one man's story of life between 1910 and 1986. The 136 pages cover all aspects of Lee's life and thus of his community. A very engaging narrative.
To Order: Contact the Blandford & Area Historical Society, P.O. Box 25, Blandford, Nova Scotia B0J 1C0.
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An Island and its Boats by Wayne M. O'Leary Published by McGill-Queen's University Press ISBN: 0-7735-1206-3 Publication date 1994 Price: $17.95 about five years ago
Description: EXCELLENT overview of the Tancook boat builders and evolution of
their unique "little Bluenoses". References to specific builders, plans and
scematics for many boats built on Tancook. Covers period from 1905-1960,
with number of photos.
Includes list of registered and unregistered schooners; 181 pages plus 109
pages of line drawings, appendices, notes, bibliography, and index. Some surnames in index- Baker, Chapelle, Cross, Heisler, Langille, Levy, Mason, Slauenwhite,
Stevens, Wilson, and Young
To Order: Try The Book Room, Halifax (bookstore).
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by Peter Barss Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Publication date 1978
by Peter Barss and Joleen Gordon Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Publication date 1980
by Helen Creighton Published by National Museum of Canada, 1950 Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976
by Helen Creighton Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Publication date 1957, 1976
by Helen Creighton Published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Publication date 1968
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