Nova Scotia is a province of Canada, located on its east coast. Thisbibliography compiles major written and published works concerning the province.

• Choyce, Lesley (1996).Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea, A Living History. Toronto: Penguin Books Canada.ISBN 978-1-9897-2515-3.
• Conrad, Margaret (2020).At the Ocean's Edge: A History of Nova Scotia to Confederation. Canada: University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-1-4875-2395-4.
• Leinberger, Eric; Wynn, Graeme; McNutt, Mitchell A. (1994). Buckner, Phillip A.; Reid, John G. (eds.).The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History. University of Toronto Press.ISBN 0-8020-6977-0.
• McCann, L. D.; Parenteau, Bill (1993). Forbes, E. R.; Muise, D. A. (eds.).The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation. University of Toronto Press.ISBN 0-8020-6817-0.
• Pryke, Kenneth G. (1979).Nova Scotia and Confederation, 1864-74. University of Toronto Press.ISBN 0-8020-5389-0.
• Whitelaw, William M. (1934).The Maritimes and Canada before Confederation. Oxford University Press.LCCN 34025363.

• Conrad, Margaret (1991).Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press.ISBN 978-0-9191-0733-5.
• Conrad, Margaret (1995).Intimate Relations: Family and Community in Planter Nova Scotia, 1759-1800. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press.ISBN 978-0-9191-0742-7.
• Conrad, Margaret; Moody, Barry (2001).Planter Links: Community and Culture in Colonial Nova Scotia. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press.ISBN 978-0-9191-0746-5.
• Creighton, Helen (1968).Bluenose Magic. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing.ISBN 978-1-7710-8260-0.
• Johnston, A. J. B. (1996).Life and Religion at Louisbourg, 1713-1758. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press.ISBN 0-7735-1525-9.
• March, William DesB (1986).Red Line: The Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star, 1875-1954. Halifax, N.S.: Chebucto Agencies.ISBN 978-0-9691-7951-1.
• McBurney, Margaret; Byers, Mary (1994).Atlantic Hearth: Early Homes and Families of Nova Scotia. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-8020-7762-2.
• McKay, Ian (1985).The Craft Transformed: An Essay on the Carpenters of Halifax, 1885-1985. Halifax, N.S.: Halifax Holdfast Press.ISBN 978-0-9692-1170-9.
• McKay, Ian (1994).The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia. McGill-Queens University Press.ISBN 978-0-7735-6468-8.
• Morton, Suzanne (1995).Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-8020-0474-1.

• Frost, James D. (2003).Merchant Princes: Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships, and Steel. Toronto: Lorimer.ISBN 978-1-5502-8803-2.
• Graham, John F. (1963).Fiscal Adjustment and Economic Development: A Case Study of Nova Scotia. University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-1-4875-9779-5.JSTOR 10.3138/j.ctt1v2xwbd.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Gwyn, Julian (1998).Excessive Expectations: Maritime Commerce and the Economic Development of Nova Scotia, 1740-1870. McGill-Queen's University Press.ISBN 978-0-7735-1548-2.
• Meek, Jim; Beaton, Eleanor (2010).Offshore Dream: A History of Nova Scotia's Oil and Gas Industry. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing.ISBN 978-1-5510-9787-9.

• Brown, Thomas J. (1922).Place-Names of the Province of Nova Scotia . Royal Print & Litho.ISBN 978-0-8881-2143-1.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Fergusson, C. Bruce (1967).Place-Names and Places of Nova Scotia. Public Archives of Nova Scotia.
• Hornsby, Stephen J. (1992).Nineteenth-Century Cape Breton: A Historical Geography. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.ISBN 978-0-7735-0889-7.

• Beck, J. Murray (1957).The Government of Nova Scotia. Canada: University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-1-4426-3343-8.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Beck, J. Murray (1985).Politics of Nova Scotia: Volume One: Nicholson-Fielding, 1710-1896. Tantallon, N.S.: Four East Publications.ISBN 978-0-9204-2729-3.
• Beck, J. Murray (1985).Politics of Nova Scotia: Volume Two, 1896-1988. Tantallon, N.S.: Four East Publications.ISBN 978-0-9204-2704-0.
• Bickerton, James P. (1990).Nova Scotia, Ottawa and the Politics of Regional Development. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-8020-6745-6.
• Cuthbertson, Brian (1994).Johnny Bluenose at the Polls: Epic Nova Scotian Election Battles, 1758-1848. Formac Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-8878-0294-2.
• Elliott, Shirley B. (1984).The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983: A Biographical Directory. Halifax, N.S.:Public Archives of Nova Scotia.ISBN 978-0-8887-1050-5.
• Girard, Philip; Phillips, Jim; Cahill, Barry (2004).The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004: From Imperial Bastion to Provincial Oracle. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-8020-8021-9.
• Mancke, Elizabeth (2005).The Fault Lines of Empire: Political Differentiation in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia, ca. 1760-1830. Routledge.ISBN 978-0-4159-5000-8.

• Beck, J. Murray (1984).Joseph Howe Volumes I & II : Conservative Reformer 1804-1848; The Briton Becomes Canadian 1848-1873. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press.ISBN 978-0-7735-6082-6.
• Chisholm, Joseph A. (1909).The Speeches and Public Letters of Joseph Howe. Halifax, N.S.: Chronicle Publishing Company.ISBN 978-1-3344-4603-0.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Leger, Dan (2022).Stephen McNeil: Principle & Politics. Halifax, NS:Nimbus Publishing.ISBN 978-1-7747-1126-2.
• Saul, John Ralston (2006).Joseph Howe & The Battle for Freedom of Speech. Kentville, NS:Gaspereau Press.ISBN 978-1-5544-7018-1.
• Saunders, Edward Manning (1909).Three Premiers of Nova Scotia: the Hon. J.W. Johnstone, the Hon. Joseph Howe, the Hon. Charles Tupper. Toronto: W. Briggs.OCLC 4821351.
• Steele, Graham (2021).Nova Scotia Politics 1945-2020 From Macdonald to MacNeil. Lawrencetown Beach, NS:Pottersfield Press.ISBN 978-1-9897-2545-0.
• Walsh, Paul (1986).Political Profiles: Premiers of Nova Scotia. Halifax, N.S.:Nimbus Publishing.ISBN 0-9208-5246-7.
• Whitman, Dave; Whitman, Paulette (2014).Premier Stephen McNeil: A Story of a Nova Scotian Family. Paradise, NS: Bailey Chase Books.ISBN 978-0-9919-3441-6.

• Bell, Winthrop P. (1961).The Foreign Protestants and the Settlement of Nova Scotia: The History of a Piece of Arrested British Colonial Policy in the Eighteenth Century. University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-9191-0728-1.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Brebner, John Bartlet (1927).New England's Outpost. Acadia before the Conquest of Canada. Columbia University Press.ISBN 978-0-2319-2128-2.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Brebner, John Bartlet (1937).The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia: A Marginal Colony During the Revolutionary Years. Columbia University Press.ISBN 978-0-8462-1488-5.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• Campbell, G. G. (1948).The History of Nova Scotia. Toronto: Ryerson Press.LCCN 49005389.
• Campey, Lucille H. (2007).After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852. Dundurn.ISBN 978-1-5500-2770-9.
• Campey, Lucille H. (2010).Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers: English Settlers in Atlantic Canada. Dundurn.ISBN 978-1-4597-0508-1.
• Earle, Michael (1989).Workers and the State in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia. Gorsebrook Research Institute of Atlantic Canada Studies.ISBN 978-0-9191-0721-2.
• Frank, David (1999).J. B. McLachlan: A Biography - the Story of a Legendary Labour Leader and the Cape Breton Coal Miners. James Lorimer and Company.ISBN 978-1-5502-8676-2.
• Fraser, Dawn (1992).Echoes from Labor's Wars: The Expanded Edition, Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s, Echoes of World War One, Autobiography and Other Writings. Wreck Cove, N.S.: Breton Books.ISBN 978-1-8954-1516-2.
• Hunt, M. Stuart (1920).Nova Scotia's part in the Great War. Halifax: Nova Scotia Veteran Pub. Co.ISBN 1845747747.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
• MacKinnon, Neil (1986).This Unfriendly Soil: The Loyalist Experience in Nova Scotia, 1783-1791. McGill-Queens University Press.ISBN 978-0-7735-0719-7.
• Marble, Allan E. (1993).Surgeons, Smallpox, and the Poor: A History of Medicine and Social Conditions in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799. McGill-Queens University Press.ISBN 978-0-7735-6385-8.
• McCreath, Peter M.; Leefe, John G. (1982).A History of Early Nova Scotia. Tantallon, N.S.: Four East Publications.ISBN 0-969-0041-9-2.
• Raddall, Thomas H. (1993).Halifax: Warden of the North. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing.LCCN 65013981.
• Waite, Peter B. (1994).The Lives of Dalhousie University. Vol. 1: 1818-1925, Lord Dalhousie's College. McGill-Queens University Press.ISBN 978-0-7735-1166-8.
• Walker, James W. St. G (1992).The Black Loyalists: The Search for a Promised Land in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone, 1783-1870. University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-8020-7402-7.

• Corbin, Carol; Krause, Eric; O'Shea, William (1995).Aspects of Louisbourg: Essays on the History of an Eighteenth-Century French Community in North America. Sydney, N.S.: University College of Cape Breton Press.ISBN 978-0-9203-3676-2.
• Deveau, J. Alphonse; Ross, Sally (1992).The Acadians of Nova Scotia: Past and Present. Halifax, NS:Nimbus Publishing.ISBN 978-1-5510-9012-2.
• Faragher, John Mack (2005).A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland. W.W Norton & Company.ISBN 978-0-393-05135-3.
• Griffiths, N. E. S. (2005).From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People, 1604-1755. McGill-Queen's University Press.ISBN 978-0-7735-2699-0.
• Johnston, A. J. B. (2007).Endgame 1758. The Promise, the Glory and the Despair of Louisbourg's Final Decade. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.ISBN 978-1-897009-20-8. (Canada),ISBN 978-0-8032-6009-2 (USA)
• Johnston, A. J. B. (2001).Control & Order: The Evolution of French Colonial Louisbourg, 1713-1758. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press.ISBN 0-87013-570-8.
• Lanctôt, Léopold (1988).L'Acadie des Origines, 1603-1771. Montreal, QC: Fleuve.LCCN 89177485.
• LeBlanc, Ronnie-Gilles (2005).Du Grand Dérangement à la Déportation: Nouvelles Perspectives Historiques. Moncton, N.B.: Université de Moncton.ISBN 978-1-8972-1402-2.
• Moody, Barry (1981).The Acadians. Toronto, ON: Grolier Limited.ISBN 978-0-7172-1810-3.
• Reid, John G.; Basque, Maurice; Mancke, Elizabeth; Moody, Barry; Plank, Geoffrey; Wicken, William (2004).Reid, John G.; Basque, Maurice; Mancke, Elizabeth; et al. (eds.).The "Conquest" of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, and Aboriginal Constructions. University of Toronto Press.doi:10.3138/9781442680883.ISBN 978-0-8020-8538-2.JSTOR 10.3138/9781442680883.

• Johnson, Ralph S. (1986).Forests of Nova Scotia: A History. Tantallon, N.S.: Four East Publications.ISBN 0920427081.
• Robertson, Barbara R. (1986).Sawpower: Making Lumber in the Sawmills of Nova Scotia. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus Publishing.ISBN 978-0-9208-5253-8.
• Sandberg, L. Anders; Clancy, Peter (2000).Against the Grain: Foresters and Politics in Nova Scotia. Vancouver, B.C.: University of British Columbia Press.ISBN 978-0-7748-0765-4.
• Sandberg, L. Anders (1992).Trouble in the Woods: Forest Policy and Social Conflict in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Fredericton, N.B.: Acadiensis Press.ISBN 978-0-9191-0737-3.

• McKay, Ian; Bates, Robin (2010).In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia. McGill-Queens University Press.ISBN 978-0-7735-3703-3.

• Calnek, W. A. (1897).History of the County of Annapolis: including old Port Royal and Acadia. Phillimore & Co.
• Crowell, Edwin.A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia. Yarmouth, N.S.ISBN 978-1-3451-3876-4.
• Cuthbertson, Brian (1996).Lunenburg: An Illustrated History. Halifax, NS:Formac Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-8878-0358-1.
• Donovan, Kenneth (1985).Cape Breton at 200: Historical Essays in Honour of the Island's Bicentennial, 1785-1985. Sydney, N.S.: University College of Cape Breton Press.ISBN 0-9203-3634-5.
• Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton (1910).The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia. Salem, Mass.: The Salem Press Company.LCCN 10025852.
• Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton (1912).The Settling of Colchester County, Nova Scotia. Ottawa:Royal Society of Canada.LCCN 13012509.
• Fingard, Judith; Guildford, Janet; Sutherland, David (1999).Halifax: The First 250 Years. Formac Publishing Company.ISBN 978-0-8878-0490-8.
• Johnston, A. J. B. (2004).Storied Shores: St. Peter's, Isle Madame and Chapel Island in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Sydney: University College of Cape Breton Press.ISBN 978-1-897009-00-0.
• Loomer, L. S. (1996).Windsor, Nova Scotia: A Journey in History. West Hants Historical Society.ISBN 978-0-9680-6410-8.
• Milner, W. C.The Basin of Minas and its Early Settlers.
• Parker, Marian C. (1995).Voices of the Past, Hilden, 1895-1995: A History of Hilden. Brookfield, N.S: Hilden Centennial Association.ISBN 1-5505-6338-6.
• Robertson, Allen B. (1996).Tide & Timber: Hantsport, Nova Scotia, 1795-1995. Lancelot Press.ISBN 978-0-8899-9638-0.
• Wilson, Isaiah W. (1900).A Geography and History of the County of Digby, Nova Scotia. Halifax, N.S.: Holloway Bros., Printers.

• Elder, William (1871). "The Aborigines of Nova Scotia".The North American Review.112 (230): 3.JSTOR 25109587.
• Paul, Daniel N. (1993).We Were Not the Savages: A Micmac Perspective on the Collision of European and Aboriginal Civilizations. Halifax, NS:Nimbus Publishing.ISBN 978-1-5510-9056-6.OCLC 28850226.
• Poliandri, Simone (2011).First Nations, Identity, and Reserve Life: The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia.University of Nebraska Press.ISBN 978-0-8032-3771-1.
• Rand, Silas Tertius (1894).Webster, Helen L. (ed.).Legends of the Micmacs.Longmans, Green and Co.
• Sable, Trudy; Francis, Bernard; Lewis, Roger J. (2012).The Language of this Land, Mi'kma'ki. Sydney, NS:Cape Breton University Press.ISBN 978-1-8970-0949-9.OCLC 773473837.

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