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Curatorial reports offer preliminary results from research on NSM collections or research carried out under a Museum program. They are of value to researchers, students, artists, planners, nature tourism operators and others who may be interested in learning more about these specialized topics. Most reports are spiral bound, printed on quality paper stock, and measure 8-1/2" x 11".
Gaelic Nova Scotia: An Economic, Cultural, and Social Impact Study
CR # 97, 2002, 327pp, illus.
$20.00
The following four curatorial reports present historical and archaeological
research results from the project Remembering Black Loyalists, Black
Communities
Tracing the History of Tracadie Loyalists, 1776-1787.
NSM Curatorial Report No. 91, by Carmelita Robertson, features short biographies of people who arrived in 1783 in Port Mouton, Nova Scotia, as listed in the Book of Negroes, many of whom relocated to Guysborough after fire burned Port Mouton to the ground in 1784. It also includes information found in the Loyalist Muster Roll of Chedabucto Negroes, 1776 -1785, and in the Tracadie land grant (more commonly known as the Brownspriggs grant) which gave 3000 acres to seventy-four Black Loyalist families in 1787. 146 pages, 8 illustrations. $14.00
Archaeological Surveys in Two Black Communities, 1998:
Surveying the Tracadie Area and Testing Two Sites in Birchtown.
NSM Curatorial Report No. 92 Stephen Powell describes the project to locate and document settlement features associated with early Black Loyalist settlers in the 1787 Brownspriggs grant area of Antigonish and Guysborough Counties. Laird Niven describes the formal testing of a house cellar at AkDi-6 and the bisection of an enigmatic rock mound at Ak-Di-21 in Shelburne County.
57 pages, 20 illustrations.
$8.00
Was this the home of Stephen Blucke?: The excavation of AkDi-23, Birchtown, Shelburne County.
NSM Curatorial Report No. 93. Laird Niven describes the house feature and the exceptional artifacts recovered during the 1998 archaeological investigation at this late 18th-century site.
80 pages, 47 illustrations.
$10.00
The Shelburne/Birchtown Black Loyalists.
NSM Curatorial Report No. 94. Ruth Holmes Whitehead presents short biographies of all Black individuals emigrating to Shelburne County, Nova Scotia in 1783, after the American Revolution, excerpted from a copy of the Book of Negroes in the collection of the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management, Halifax, NS, with some additional information.
294 pages, 7 illustrations.
$18.00
Gardens of Shelburne, Nova Scotia 1785-1820
CR # 27, 1975, 45pp, illus.
$2.00
The Restoration of Wile Carding Mill
CR # 28, 1975, 45pp, illus.
$2.00
Catalogue of the Ornithological Collections
of the Nova Scotia Museum
CR #30, 1975, 50pp.
$2.00
Decapod Crustaceans in the Nova Scotia Museum Collection
CR # 32, 1976, 34pp, illus.
$2.00
Nova Scotia Fleas
CR # 36, 1979, 21pp, illus.
$2.00
The Fisherman’s Life Museum Landscape Development Proposals
CR # 39, 1979, 86pp, illus.
$2.00
Leech (Hirudinoidea) Records for the Province of Nova Scotia
CR # 41, 1979, 27pp, illus.
$2.00
The Mineralogy Collection: Operation Manual
and State of the Collection
CR # 42, 1979, 24pp.
$2.00
Polychaetous Annelids in the Nova Scotia Museum Collection
CR # 43, 1979, 52pp.
$2.00
Fisherman’s Life Museum Grounds Maintenance
and Development
CR # 47, 1983, 151pp, illus.
$2.00
Belleisle 1983: Excavations at a Pre-Expulsion Acadian Site
CR # 48, 1984, 97pp, illus.
$2.00
Synopsis and Distribution Tables of Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Nova Scotia
CR # 54, 1985, 30pp, illus.
$2.00
Planning for Ecological Reserves in Nova Scotia
CR # 56, 1986, 90pp, illus.
$2.00
The Simeon Perkins House, Liverpool, Nova Scotia
CR # 60, 1987, 330pp, illus.
$16.00
The Late Prehistory of Nova Scotia
as viewed from the Brown Site
CR # 61, 329pp, illus.
$16.00
Micmac, Maliseet, Beothuk Collections in Great Britain
CR # 62, 1988, 101pp, illus.
$10.00
Archaeology in Nova Scotia, 1985 and 1986
CR # 63, 1987, 301pp, illus.,
$14.00
The Myers Family of Jeddore
CR # 64, 1988, 26pp, illus.
$4.00
Belleisle Nova Scotia, 1680-1755: Acadian Material Life
and Economy
CR # 65, 1987, 321pp, illus.
$16.00
Micmac, Maliseet and Beothuk Collections
in Europe and the Pacific
CR # 66, 1989, 100pp, illus.
$10.00
Melanson: A Large Micmac Village in Kings County,
Nova Scotia
CR # 67, 1990, 260pp, illus.
$14.00
The Fauna of Sable Island
CR # 68, 1989, 93pp, illus.
$10.00
Archaeology in Nova Scotia, 1987 and 1988
CR # 69, 1991, 247pp, illus.
$4.00
Uniacke Estate Seminar, 1989
CR # 70, 1991, 167pp, illus.
$10.00
Cataloguing the Contents of the Mills
CR # 72(a), 1992, 77pp, illus.
$4.00
The Edward Ross Store in New Ross, Nova Scotia, c. 1835-1845
CR # 72(b), 1992, 68pp, illus.
$10.00
The Woven Weirs of Minas
CR # 73, 1993, 75pp, illus.
$10.00
Archaeological Investigations on the Uniacke Estate, Hants County, Nova Scotia, 1992
CR # 74, 1993, 112pp, illus.
$10.00
Nova Scotia: The Protohistoric Period 1500-1630—Four Micmac Sites
CR # 75, 1993, 180pp, illus.
$14.00
Construction and Reconstruction of a Mi’kmaq sixteenth century cedar-bark bag
CR # 76, 1993, 33pp, illus.
$6.00
Archaeology in Nova Scotia, 1989 and 1990
CR # 77, 1993, 239pp, illus.
$14.00
Mi’kmaq Textiles: Sewn Cattail Matting BkCp-1 site, Pictou, Nova Scotia
CR # 80, 1995, 51pp, illus.
$6.00
Archaeology in Nova Scotia, 1991
CR # 81, 1996, 180pp, illus.
$10.00
Mi’kmaq Textiles: Twining with Rush and other Fibres BkCp-1 Site, Pictou, N.S.
CR # 82, 1997, 139pp, illus.
$6.00
Thesaurus for Business Records
1997, 103pp, illus.
$15.00
Needle Arts in Nova Scotia Women’s Lives: 1752 - 1938
CR# 83, 1998, 84pp.
$8.00
Music in Nova Scotia: The Oral Tradition
CR# 84, 1998, 78pp.
$8.00
Music in Nova Scotia - The Written Tradition: 1752 - 1893
CR# 85, 1998, 118pp.
$10.00
Looking into Acadie: Three Illustrated Talks
(Available in French only)
CR# 87, 1999, 80pp, illus.
$18.00
Titles can be ordered by contacting the Nova Scotia Museum, toll-free, by fax, email or mail.
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