BOOK SOURCES
Preface
Don (Byrd) Awalt, The Mi’kmaq and Point Pleasant Park: The Mi’kmaq and Amtoukati
Michael MacDonald, “History of Halifax, a Mi’kmaw perspective,” Nova Scotia Advocate, July 12, 2017, https://nsadvocate.org/2017/07/12/history-of-halifax-a-mikmaw-perspective/.
Chapter 1: The Dead Centre of Halifax
Introduction
Adeena Fox, Public Engagement with Historical Burying Grounds in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Thesis submitted to Saint Mary’s University, https://library2.smu.ca/bitstream/handle/01/29386/Fox_Adeena_Honours_2020.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
Leo J. Deveau, The Abbé Pierre Maillard: Treaty-making in Halifax, 1759–1762.
https://hmhps.ca/pdf/Maillard-in-Halifax.pdf.
Phyllis R. Blakeley, “Bulkeley, Richard,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bulkeley_richard_4E.html.
Luc Lacourcière, “Aubert de Gaspé, Philippe-Joseph,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio/aubert_de_gaspe_philippe_joseph_10F.html.
Le Musée de la Mémoire Vivante via Google Translate
Cynthia Simpson, The treatment of Halifax's poor house dead during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a thesis submitted to Saint Mary's University, August 2011, https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/The-treatment-of-Halifaxs-poor-house-dead-during-the-nineteenth-and-twentieth-centuries.pdf.
Canada’s Historic Places, Grafton Street Methodist Church https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=7332.
Meghan Groff, Remember This? The 20,000 people buried near Pizza Corner, Halifax Today, June 3, 2019, https://www.halifaxtoday.ca/remember-this/remember-this-the-20000-people-buried-near-pizza-corner-1487305.
Brian Hayes, “Mass graves complicate former Halifax library's future,” Saltwire, December 29, 2019,https://www.saltwire.com/halifax/news/local/mass-graves-complicate-former-halifax-librarys-future-392623/.
G. S. French, “Black, William (1760–1834),” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/black_william_1760_1834_6E.html.
Halifax Methodist Cemetery, Davis MacIntyre & Associates Archaeological Consultants,
https://davismacintyre.com/halifax-methodist-cemetery.
S. Buggey, “Salter, Malachy,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/salter_malachy_4E.html.
Wilson, John. A Genuine Narrative of the Transactions in Nova Scotia since the Settlement, June 1749, till August the 5th, 1751. London: A. Henderson et al., 1751.
Deborah Trask, “Remember Me As You Pass By”: Material Evidence of the Planters
in the Graveyards of the Maritime Provinces, https://journals.lib.unb.ca/static_content/ACAD/acadpress/theyplantedwell/298-306Trask.pdf.
Genealogical Association of Nova Scotia, Gordon Douglas Pollock and Sharon Riel,
“St. Peter’s Cemetery,” https://novascotiaancestors.ca/cemeteryRecords.php?lv=C&cid=5&sortCol=lna.
Tomes in Progress, A Bibliography of New England Gravestone Carvers,
Allan F. Marble, 'Epidemics and Mortality in Nova Scotia, 1749-1799,' Nova Scotia Historical Review 8:2 (1988), 72-94
Jacques Henripin, “From Acceptance of Nature to Control: The Demography of the French Canadians Since the Seventeenth Century,” Perspectives on Canada’s Population: An Introduction to Concepts and Issues, eds. Frank Trovato and Carl F. Grindstaff (Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press, 1994), 25–26.
Micheline D. Johnson, “Maillard, Pierre,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/maillard_pierre_3E.html.
Daniel N. Paul. Chapter 9, “Burying of the Hatchet Ceremony of 1761 and the Royal Proclamation 1763” in We Were Not the Savages http://www.danielnpaul.com/chptr9.html.
———. Abbé Pierre Antoine Simon Maillard, Apostle to the Mi'kmaq.
http://www.danielnpaul.com/AbbePierreAntoineSimonMaillard-ApostleToTheMi%27kmaq.html.
Rev. John E. Burns, The Abbé Maillard and Halifax,
James Deetz and Edwin S. Dethlefsen, Death's Head, Cherub, Urn and Willow. Originally published in Natural History76(3) (1967), 29–37. http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/deathshead.html.
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society for the years 1788–1780, vol. II, https://archive.org/details/collectionsofnov02nova/page/n4/mode/1up.
Stephen Archibald. Noticed in Nova Scotia: Poor House Burying Ground & Grafton Park https://halifaxbloggers.ca/noticedinnovascotia/2020/01/poor-house-burying-ground-grafton-park/
Leo J. Deveau The Abbé Pierre Maillard: Treaty-making in Halifax, 1759–1762. https://hmhps.ca/pdf/Maillard-in-Halifax.pdf.
Copy of “Treaty of Peace and Friendship” between Jonathon Belcher and Francis Muis, 1761
https://archives.novascotia.ca/mikmaq/archives/?ID=627.
Logan K. Q. Robertson. Halifax Cholera: An Anthropological and Geographical Analysis of an Epidemic's Social Determinants of Health, thesis submitted to Saint Mary’s University, https://library2.smu.ca/bitstream/handle/01/29557/Robertson_Logan_Honours_2021.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
Nova Scotia Historical Society Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Volumes 7–10 https://books.google.ca/books?id=SvdGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA263&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false.
Dr. Thomas B. Akins, History of Halifax City, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uLDOTFnjabV-fwCvLpQ8cBZ5KsiHK36ayo6SHNx_SlQ/edit# .
CBC Nova Scotia, Halifax Church Expansion Could Affect Hidden Graves https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-church-expansion-could-affect-hidden-graves-1.1279214.
Deborah Trask, Life how short, Eternity how long: Gravestone Carving and Carvers in Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Museum, 1978.
John Samwell, William Stevens
Marsh, James H. “HMS Shannon versus USS Chesapeake, War of 1812,” Canadian Encyclopedia, October 30, 2014, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/hms-shannon-versus-uss-chesapeake-war-of-1812
Deborah Trask, Putting the War of 1812 to Rest, paper presented to the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, December 10, 2014.
Roy and Lesley Adkins, “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” https://www.historynet.com/dont-give-up-the-ship.htm
Trinity Church Wall Street, https://trinitywallstreet.org/stories-news/war-and-remembrance-trinity-churchyard
Tom Halsted, “The Real Shameful Story Behind Don’t Give Up The Ship”
Naval History of Great Britain
William James
published 1837
Vol VI
1813 SHANNON AND CHESAPEAKE 197
Via: http://www.histoire-de-fregates.com/hms-shannon/25-hmsshannon
Sarah Emsley, Anne of Green Gables in Kingsport/Halifax https://sarahemsley.com/2014/03/27/anne-of-green-gables-in-kingsporthalifax/
Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery, Chapter IV. April's Lady
https://www.lingq.com/en/learn-english-online/courses/51150/chapter-iv-aprils-lady-95021/
MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT ROSS
FactCheckNI
“Was British Army General Robert Ross The Last Man To Attack The US Capitol?”
Belfast Telegraph Ralph Hewitt “British Army Major General from Northern Ireland last man to attack US Capitol before Trump mob” https://web.archive.org/web/20210111093700/https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/british-army-major-general-from-northern-ireland-last-man-to-attack-us-capitol-before-trump-mob-39943187.html
Jon Tattrie, “Trump blames Canada for torching White House. Meet the 'reluctant arsonist'“ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/trump-blames-canada-for-torching-white-house-meet-the-reluctant-arsonist-1.4697058
Deborah Trask, Putting the War of 1812 to Rest, paper presented to the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, December 10, 2014.
Anthony S. Pitch, The Burning of Washington, https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-burning-of-washington
John R. Grodzinski, “Robert Ross,” in Canadian Encyclopedia, March 4, 2015, Historica Canada. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/robert-ross
Gillian Brockell, “The ugly reason ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ didn’t become our national anthem for a century”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/10/18/star-spangled-banner-racist-national-anthem/
Cat Lineberry, “The Story Behind the Star Spangled Banner” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-story-behind-the-star-spangled-banner-149220970/
Royal Museums Greenwich “A rum deal: The origins of Nelson’s blood” https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/curatorial/rum-deal-origins-nelsons-blood
John McCavvitt, “Ross and The Star Spangled Banner,” http://themanwhocapturedwashington.com/ross-and-the-star-spangled-banner/
JAMES BOSSOM
SOURCES:
Dianne Marshall, “Royal pardon saved killer from the noose,” Halifax Chronicle Herald, March 8, 2009.
Dianne Marshall, True Stories From Nova Scotia’s Past (Halifax: Formac Publishing, 2012)
“From the Halifax Pearl. Dreadful Occurrence” The Royal Gazette, Bermuda
https://bnl.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/BermudaNP02/id/19527/
Nova Scotia Museum, “Old Burying Ground” https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Luwc_79TDqQJ:https://ojs.library.dal.ca/NSM/article/download/5844/5187+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=safari
Marjorie Simmins “Every headstone tells a story in Halifax’s historic cemeteries” Halifax Magazine October 2009 https://www.marjoriesimmins.ca/marjories-articles/in-remembrance/
WILLIAM TREVASKISS AKA WILLIAM JOHNSTON, CHARLES GUSTAVUS ANDERSON, GEORGE JONES, JOHN HAZELTON
Trial of Jones, Hazelton, Anderson and Trevaskiss, alias Johnson, for piracy and murder on board barque Saladin, with the written confessions of the prisoners, produced in evidence on the said trial, to which is added, particulars of their execution on the 30th of July. Also, the trial of Carr and Galloway, for the murder of Captain Fielding and his son on board the Saladin.
Compiled from the Halifax papers. Printed and sold by James Bowes, Halifax, N.S., 1844. 48 pp. Reprinted by W. H. McCurdy, Petheric Press, Halifax, N.S., 1967. 65 pp.
Dan Conlin, Pirates: A Fact Sheet Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/collections/pirates
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, The Guano Trade, https://americanhistory.si.edu/norie-atlas/guano-trade
Douglas E. Howell, The Saladin Trial: A Last Hurrah for Admiralty Sessions The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du nord,V,No.4 (October 1995), 1–18, https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol05/tnm_5_4_1-18.pdf.
Chapter 2: The Little Dutch Church
Introduction
Canada’s Historic Places, “Little Dutch Church,” https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=6482
Paul B. Williams, “Raising the Dead: The Use of Osteo-Archaeology to Establish Identity at the Little Dutch Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia”
https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/17948/22017
“A Brief History (Compiled From Original Records) of The Little Dutch Church (St George’s) 1754” Morton & Co. Publishers 1899 via:
Acadian Recorder “The Old “Chicken-Cock” Church: Renewed interest drawn to it by the remains found beneath it this week.” Via Nathaniel Smith “The Old North End”
https://oldnorthend.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/the-old-chicken-cock-church/
Nathanial Smith, “The Old North End: Get To Know Your Neighbours”
Baden, Germany, Lutheran Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1502-1985
Via Ancestry.com
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild “Pearl”
https://immigrantships.net/1700/pearlch520822.html
PolliJost Turner The Morash Family from Kleinheubach, Germany
http://pollisplace.com/history/morasch.htm
LEONARD LOCKMAN AKA LEON OTTO LOCHMAN
International Heraldry, “Hatchments,” https://www.internationalheraldry.com/hatchments.htm
Phyllis R. Blakeley, “Lockman, Leonard,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lockman_leonard_3E.html.
N. E. TOKE, THE HATCHMENTS IN THE CHURCHES OF CANTERBURY
ArchaeologiaCantiana —Vol. 501938 https://www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/Research/Pub/ArchCant/Vol.050%20-%201938/050-07.pdf
THOMAS H. RADDALL
The streets of Canada: BARRINGTON
Maclean’s Magazine June 7 1958 https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1958/6/7/the-streets-of-canada-barrington
BERNARD MICHAEL HOUSEAL, The Lutheran Church Review, Volume 4, 1885
https://books.google.ca/books?id=lUpQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA149#v=onepage&q=houseal&f=false
CBC News, Canadians still getting taller, but not as fast as others, https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/height-growth-canada-1.3695398
Science Daily, Men From Early Middle Ages Were Nearly As Tall As Modern People
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040902090552.htm
Branz Meyer, Memoir and Genealogy of the Maryland and Pennsylvanian Family of Mayer which Originated in the Free Imperial City of Ulm, Würtemberg: 1495-1878 W.K. Boyle & Son, 1878, Via https://books.google.ca/books?id=uehFAQAAMAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s
ANTHONY HENRY, American Antiquarian Society, The Halifax Gazette or Weekly Advertiser https://americanantiquarian.org/earlyamericannewsmedia/items/show/101
Mass Moments: January 19, 1749, Isaiah Thomas Born, https://www.massmoments.org/moment-details/isaiah-thomas-born.html
J. L. Bell, Boston 1775: Isaiah Thomas’s Travels and Togs
http://boston1775.blogspot.com/search/label/Anthony%20Henry
Nova Scotia Archives, Nova Scotia Historical Newspapers: The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, https://archives.novascotia.ca/newspapers/archives/?ID=16
Isaiah Thomas, The History of Printing in America: With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. To which is Prefixed a Concise View of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World. In Two Volumes, Volume 1 From the Press of Isaiah Thomas 1874 https://books.google.ca/books/about/The_History_of_Printing_in_America.html?id=oH0yAAAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
THE HOLLAND FAMILY
Gertrude Tratt, “HOLLAND, ANTHONY HENRY,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 6, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/holland_anthony_henry_6E.html.
HESSIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE ATTACK ON
FORT WASHINGTON, 1776 AND THE OCCUPATION OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY, 1777, https://loyolanotredamelib.org/php/report05/articles/pdfs/Report43Jones81-90.pdf
The Backroads Historian, The Headless Hessian: The Battle Of White Plains and The Origin of America’s Favourite Ghost Story https://backroadhistorian.com/the-headless-hessian-the-battle-of-white-plains-the-origin-of-americas-favorite-ghost-story/
RESTELLA JANE RATSEY
Adrian Tinniswood, Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the British Royal Household Basic Books 2018 “A Brief History (Compiled From Original Records) of The Little Dutch Church (St George’s)1754”Morton & Co. Publishers 1899 via: https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/handle/1974/9352/briefhistoryofli00pitt.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Jan Toms, “Isle of Wight Book Of Days,” The History Press 2014 Clare Jerold, “The Married Life of Queen Victoria” E. Nash 1913 Hampshire Advertiser — Saturday 12 August 1843
Via newspapers.com
Mariusz MISZTAL, “The Intimate Picture of Queen Victoria and her Household, 1840–1843. Extracts from the Diary of Dr Robert Ferguson, the Queen’s Accoucheur” https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mariusz-Misztal/publication/340127125_The_Intimate_Picture_of_Queen_Victoria_and_her_Household_1840-43_Extracts_from_the_Diary_of_Dr_Robert_Ferguson_the_Queen%27s_Accoucheur/links/5e79fc50a6fdcceef9732e9c/The-Intimate-Picture-of-Queen-Victoria-and-her-Household-1840-43-Extracts-from-the-Diary-of-Dr-Robert-Ferguson-the-Queens-Accoucheur.pdf
Chapter 3: Fort Massey Cemetery
Introduction
The London Gazette October 21, 1831 pg 2159, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/18863/page/2159
Madeline Fowler From Empire to Colony: The Halifax Cholera Outbreaks of 1834 and 1866 Acadiensis Volume 47, Number 2 (2018)
Fort Massey Cemetery Halifax Military History Preservation Society https://hmhps.ca/sites/fort-massey-cemetery
Lyle Dick A Social and Cultural Landscape History of Fort Massey Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia and the Veterans Cemetery, Esquimalt, British Columbia Veteran Affairs Canada 2001
Thomas H. Raddall, Halifax: Warden of The North (Halifax: Nimbus Publishing, 2010), orig. pub. ____
Judith Fingard, “Twining, John Thomas,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/twining_john_thomas_8E.html.
THOMAS THATCHER:
Gordon Douglas Pollock, An Uneasy Peace: Civilians and Soldiers of the Halifax Garrison
https://hmhps.ca/pdf/An-Uneasy-Peace-Civilians-and-Soldiers-of-the-Halifax-Garrison.pdf
Acadian Recorder Week of October 28, 1843 Susan Buggey, Building Halifax 1841-1871 http://ftp.stmarys.ca/webfiles/buggey-buildinghalifax-1980.pdf
GENERAL SIR WILLIAM O’GRADY HALY:
Richard A. Preston, “Haly, Sir William O’Grady,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/haly_william_o_grady_10E.html.
Alexander Tweedy, A System of Practical Medicine Comprised in a Series of Original Dissertations, vol. 3, Lea & Blanchard, 1842.
The Annual Register: Or a View of the History, Politics and Literature, for the Year 1857, vol. 24, Dodsley, 1858.
PRIVATE JAMES THEOPHILUS JOHNSON:
THE DAY HALIFAX FROZE Jamaica Gleaner May 19, 2017
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/art-leisure/20170521/day-halifax-froze#slideshow-4
Information about the Third Jamaica Contingent, WWI from the Daily Gleaner Rootsweb https://sites.rootsweb.com/~jamwgw/3contin.htm
Casualty Details, James Theophilus Johnson Commonwealth War Graves Commission https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2755152/J%20T%20JOHNSON/#&gid=1&pid=2
Suelan Toye, The Halifax Incident, Ryerson Today, February 20, 2018, https://www.ryerson.ca/news-events/news/2018/02/the-halifax-incident/
The Mayo Clinic, Gangrene https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gangrene/symptoms-causes/syc-20352567
The Mayo Clinic Frostbite https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/frostbite/symptoms-causes/syc-20372656
LEADING WREN CORA ARBEAU:
CFB ESQUIMAULT NAVAL MILITARY MUSEUM
https://navalandmilitarymuseum.org/archives/articles/wrens-lost-in-service/
Library And Archives Canada Personnel Records of the First World War — CEF 211138a https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=11536
Emilie Anne Plows Serving Their Country: The Story of the Wrens 1942-1946 http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vo9/no2/10-plows-eng.asp
David Campbell A Forgotten Victory: Courcelette, 15 September 1916 Canadian Military History Volume 16 Issue 2
SERGEANT GLENN HERBERT ISRALSON: Shearwater Aviation Museum “Shearwater History” http://www.shearwateraviationmuseum.ns.ca/history/rcaf.htm
Canadian Virtual War Museum “Sargent Glenn Herbert Isralson” https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2953514
Canadian Aviation and Space Museum “Curtiss Kittyhawk I” https://ingeniumcanada.org/aviation/artifact/curtiss-kittyhawk-i
Marc Milner U-boats And The Spy Who Came Ashore: Navy, Part 48 Legion Magazine
https://legionmagazine.com/en/2011/12/u-boats-and-the-spy-who-came-ashore/
PETTY OFFICER GORDON LESLIE SPRIGGS:
Uboat.net, HMS L 26, https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/7748.html
Marion Girard, A Strange and Formidable Weapon: British Responses to World War I Poison Gas (University of Nebraska Press).
CBC NEWS Ocean mystery solved near Nova Scotia
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ocean-mystery-solved-near-nova-scotia-1.237481
USS FLIER PROJECT 100 Years Ago Today: USS E-2 explodes in drydock https://www.ussflierproject.com/tags/battery-explosion/
Daniel Ganninger, The Toilet That Sank A Submarine https://medium.com/knowledge-stew/the-toilet-that-sank-a-submarine-21626e256d0f
The Sydney Morning Herald 21 December 1933 DISMISSED, Submarine Commander, Grounding of L26 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/94887950
Mary F. Romig, FATAL SUBMARINE ACCIDENTS, A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1900-1965 https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2008/P3481.pdf
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER JOHN GEORGE SMITH:
The streets of Canada: BARRINGTON Macleans Magazine JUNE 7 1958 https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1958/6/7/the-streets-of-canada-barrington
Report On The Halifax Disorders May 7th-8th, 1945 Hon . Mr . Justice R . L. Kellock Royal Commissioner, Pursuant to Order in Council P.C . 3422' ,~ of May 10, 1945
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/pco-bcp/commissions-ef/kellock1945-eng/kellock1945-eng.pdf
Stephen Kimber, Sailors, Slackers & Blind Pigs: Halifax At War (Anchor Canada, 2003)
The Canadian Encyclopedia Victory in Europe Day https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ve-day-feature
Bob Gordon Halifax VE Day Riots Part 1: Pent-Up Frustrations Turned VE-Day Celebrations Into Tragedy Esprit de Corps, November 4, 2016 http://espritdecorps.ca/halifax-riots/halifax-riots-part-1-pent-up-frustration-turned-ve-day-celebrations-into-a-tragedy
Chapter 4: Holy Cross
Introduction
Canada’s Historic Places South Park Victorian Streetscape
https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=4008
David B. Flemming, “WALSH, WILLIAM,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 8, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/walsh_william_8E.html.
Nova Scotia Archives Petition, Philip Letson, Halifax, tanner. Complains that placing Holy Cross cemetery next to his business has discommoded his customers and family (map of property submitted). Reference: Nova Scotia House of Assembly Nova Scotia Archives RG 5 Series GP volume 1 number 92 https://archives.novascotia.ca/assembly/archives/?ID=3684&Page=200819331
Saint Mary’s University Holy Cross — Building a Cemetery https://www.smu.ca/history/holy-cross/building-a-cemetery.html
CBC NEWS Volunteers Resurrect Irish Cemetery in Halifax https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/volunteers-resurrect-irish-cemetery-in-halifax-1.989107
J. Murray Beck, “Howe, Joseph,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/howe_joseph_10E.html.
Deborah Trask Life how short, Eternity how long: Gravestone Carving and Carvers in Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Museum, 1978
Saint Mary’s University, Holy Cross Cemetery: Women Religious, https://www.smu.ca/history/holy-cross/women-religious.html
Saint Mary’s University, Holy Cross Cemetery: First Nations
https://www.smu.ca/history/holy-cross/first-nations.html
Saint Mary’s University, Holy Cross Cemetery: Black Nova Scotians in Holy Cross
https://www.smu.ca/history/holy-cross/blacks.html
Bart Anderson, “Yesterday’s 4 heroes may have TWO MEDALS OF HONOR!” http://www.canadianmedalofhonor.com/sunday-evenings-blogs/archives/01-2013
Fr. William Saunders The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Education Resource Center https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/the-feast-of-our-lady-of-sorrows.html
Stephen Archibald, Noticed in Nova Scotia — Shell Shock: Conchs in the Garden Halifax Bloggers https://halifaxbloggers.ca/noticedinnovascotia/2016/07/shell-shock-conchs-in-the-garden/
Hall of Valor Project https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/349 Charles Robinson
EDWARD J KENNEY & PATRICK DAVID POWER Jr. Engines of Our Ingenuity The Last Masts By John H Lienhard https://uh.edu/engines/epi1338.htm Accessed June 10, 2021
David B. Flemming, “POWER, PATRICK,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 11, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed June 13, 2021, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/power_patrick_11E.html.
Helen Harper Steeves S.S City of Boston https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/62404/dalrev_vol19_iss2_pp185_188.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Accessed June 10, 2021
Murderpedia Alexander Keith Jr. https://murderpedia.org/male.K/k/keith-alexander.htm
Accessed June 10, 2021
Randi Mann The unsolved mystery of the SS City of Boston's disappearance
The Weather Network
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/ca/news/article/this-day-in-weather-history-january-30-1870-the-disappearance-of-boston Accessed June 10, 2021
Saint Mary’s University Holy Cross: S.S. City of Boston: “Lost at Sea” https://www.smu.ca/history/holy-cross/ss-city-of-boston.html Accessed June 10, 2021
SIR JOHN SPARROW DAVID THOMPSON
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FIRE CHIEF EDWARD P CONDON
FIRE CAPTAIN WILLIAM THOMAS BRODERICK
HOSEMAN FRANK LEAHY
Janice Landry When The Bell Calls: The Last Alarm Halifax Magazine https://halifaxmag.com/cover/the-last-alarm/Accessed July 11, 2021
Katy Parsons This firefighter was metres from the Mont-Blanc when it exploded. He survived CBC Nova Scotia https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/this-firefighter-was-metres-from-the-mont-blanc-when-it-exploded-he-survived-1.4424454
Meghan Groff, Astonishing He Even Survived: The Story of Firefighter Billy Wells in the Halifax Explosion Halifax Today https://www.halifaxtoday.ca/local-news/astonishing-he-even-survived-the-story-of-firefighter-billy-wells-in-the-halifax-explosion-1148623
Owen McCarron A Tribute to the Halifax Fire Department on the 85th Anniversary of the Halifax Explosion https://www.halifax.ca/sites/default/files/documents/about-the-city/archives/AboutTheCity_MunicipalArchives_SearchToolsExplosionResources_PDF10.pdf
CTV Atlantic Firefighters gather to remember fallen colleagues on Halifax Explosion’s 100th anniversary https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/firefighters-gather-to-remember-fallen-colleagues-on-halifax-explosion-s-100th-anniversary-1.3710556 Accessed July 11, 2021
Maritime Museum of the Atlantic Explosion in The Narrows: The 1917 Halifax Harbour Explosion https://maritimemuseum.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/halifax-explosion
CTV Atlantic, How the Halifax Explosion Led to the Creation of the CNIB https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/how-the-halifax-explosion-led-to-the-creation-of-the-cnib-1.3665538
Ken Cuthbertson When Halifax Burned Reader’s Digest https://www.pressreader.com/canada/readers-digest-canada/20171201/281530816273723
JOHN EDWARD POWER
Richard MacLeod, “Disease was scourge of Newmarket in days of wells, outhouses”
Newmarket Today https://www.newmarkettoday.ca/remember-this/disease-was-scourge-of-newmarket-in-days-of-wells-outhouses-1462693 Accessed May 15 2021
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Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost Wired Magazine https://www.wired.com/story/why-humans-totally-freak-out-when-they-get-lost/
Edward H. Cornell, Kenneth Hill The Problem of Lost Children Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/children-and-their-environments/problem-of-lost-children/9BF6823E752E42E3003ADE6E5DCA6891
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William Arthur Parks Report on the building and ornamental stones of Canada, vol. I-V
1912 VIA: https://archive.org/details/reportonbuilding02park/page/140/mode/2up?q=yeadon¶
Tom Mason, The Dingle Saltscapes Magazine https://www.saltscapes.com/roots-folks/1074-the-dingle.html
Chapter 5: Camp Hill Cemetery
Introduction
THE RURAL CEMETERY MOVEMENT IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA by Kim McGuire A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Honors in Anthropology, Saint Mary's University March 1990
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION
https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/find-cemeteries-memorials/cemetery-details/2079730/halifax-(camp-hill)-cemetery/
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH HISTORICAL BURYING GROUNDS IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA By Adeena Fox A Thesis Submitted to Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Bachelor of Arts
HENRY BUSCH
Canada’s Historic Places: Henry Busch House https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=4162 Accessed February 13, 2021
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AMBROSE WORTHINGTON
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http://www.ssatlantic.com/ssatlantic/history/
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JONATHAN MCCULLY
Alex Cooke, “Father of Confederation’s mansion in Halifax carefully restored, for sale”
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“THE C-S”
GRACE DARLING PINHEIRO
Of Trees and Ink, CHARLES PINHEIRO AND THE CARIBBEAN DIASPORA https://vimeo.com/channels/oftreesandink
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The No. 2 Construction Battallion The Canadian Encyclopedia, NO. 2 CONSTRUCTION BATTALION, by Lindsay Ruck https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/no-2-construction-battalion
JOHN RICHARD LAMBERT
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JAMES DOWNEY
“THE BOXING DOWNEYS” http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/news-publications/national-news-details-no-menu.page?doc=forging-the-boxing-downeys/i6miwqcq
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HENRY (HARRY) TURNER
Nova Scotia Deaths 1890-1955, “HENRY TURNER” Accessed via familysearch.org February 9, 2021 Library and Archives Canada Personnel Records of the First World War
HENRY WILLIAM BUNDY
Library and Archives Canada
Personnel Records of the First World War
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BLACK BUFFALO by James Bates, with Mathias Joost, Terry Higgins and Dave O’Malley
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TEN DIE IN HALIFAX DEPARTMENT STORE FLASH FIRE https://www.fireengineering.com/leadership/ten-die-in-halifax-department-store-flash-fire/#gref
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REVEREND WILLIAM ANDREW WHITE https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/william-a-white
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Global News, https://globalnews.ca/news/3269204/nova-scotias-segregated-history-comes-alive-in-halifax-cemetery/
DANIEL PERRY SAMPSON
Library and Archives Canada, Personnel Records of the First World War
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David Steeves, “Maniacal Murderer or Death Dealing Car? The Case of Daniel Perry Sampson, 1933-1935” Published in “The African Canadian Legal Odyssey: Historical Essays”
By Barrington Walker Osgoode Society for CanadianLegal History
University of Toronto Press
Bruce Frisko, “Halifax’s final execution: Questions linger about the last man to hang”
CTV Atlantic https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/halifax-s-final-execution-questions-linger-about-the-last-man-to-hang-1.3688205
CTV Atlantic” Brings a bit of closure’: Last man executed in Halifax to receive proper burial”
Lorna Poplak, “BLACK HISTORY AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: TWO CASE STUDIES (PART 2)” https://www.lornapoplak.com/black-history-and-capital-punishment-two-case-studies-part-2/
JOSEPH HOWE
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Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics, “Joseph Howe”
Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics, “Catherine Howe”
JOHN YOUNG
GEORGE RENNY YOUNG
WILLIAM YOUNG
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SIR BRENTON HALLIBURTON
JOHN C. HALLIBURTON
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Canada’s Historic Places, “Halliburton House,” https://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=3621
ENOS COLLINS
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Dalhousie University, “Report of the Findings of the Scholarly Panelto Examine Lord Dalhousie’s History on Slavery and Race” https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/dept/ldp/2019-06-28%20-%20Lord%20Dal%20Top%20Findings.pdf
Shirley Tillotson, “How (and how much) King’s College benefited from slavery in the West Indies, 1789 to 1854” https://ukings.ca/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/TillotsonKingsAndSlaveryIndirectConnectionsMay6.pdf
CONSTANT UPHAM
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Halifax Municipal Archives Database, “Halifax Explosion Memorial Bell Tower Time Capsule” https://www.halifax.ca/about-halifax/municipal-archives/exhibits/halifax-explosion-memorial-bell-tower-time-capsule
VIOLA DESMOND
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Halifax Chronicle “Halifax Woman to Take Action Against New Glasgow Theatre Man”
November 30, 1946 Via Nova Scotia Archives https://archives.novascotia.ca/desmond/archives/?ID=21
John Taylor Wood
Jon Tattrie, “Tallahassee's days may be ending as Halifax re-examines its Confederate links”
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Dean Jobb “Dean Jobb: The tale of the Tallahassee”
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Bob Gordon, “The Swindling Sociopath, Alexander ‘Sandy’ Keith”
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WILLIAM ALEXANDER HENRY
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HILDA MARY SLAYTER LACON
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ROBERT STANFIELD SOURCES
Macleans Magazine, March 1, 1968 “Robert Lorne Stanfield”
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