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
Michael Kennedy
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
Mary MacKay Harvey
CR # 27, 1975, 45pp, illus.
$2.00
The Restoration of Wile Carding Mill
Judy Boss
CR # 28, 1975, 45pp, illus.
$2.00
Catalogue of the Ornithological Collections of the Nova Scotia Museum
Fred Scott and Barry Wright
CR #30, 1975, 50pp.
$2.00
Decapod Crustaceans in the Nova Scotia Museum Collection
Don Aldous
CR # 32, 1976, 34pp, illus.
$2.00
Nova Scotia Fleas
Barry Wright
CR # 36, 1979, 21pp, illus.
$2.00
The Fisherman’s Life Museum Landscape Development Proposals
Anita C. Jackson
CR # 39, 1979, 86pp, illus.
$2.00
Leech (Hirudinoidea) Records for the Province of Nova Scotia
Jan M. LeBlanc and R. Paul McClung
CR # 41, 1979, 27pp, illus.
$2.00
The Mineralogy Collection: Operation Manual and State of the Collection
Robert Ogilvie
CR # 42, 1979, 24pp.
$2.00
Polychaetous Annelids in the Nova Scotia Museum Collection
Patricia Pocklington
CR # 43, 1979, 52pp.
$2.00
Fisherman’s Life Museum Grounds Maintenance and Development
Anita C. Jackson
CR # 47, 1983, 151pp, illus.
$2.00
Belleisle 1983: Excavations at a Pre-Expulsion Acadian Site
David J. Christianson
CR # 48, 1984, 97pp, illus.
$2.00
Synopsis and Distribution Tables of Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Nova Scotia
Derek S. Davis
CR # 54, 1985, 30pp, illus.
$2.00
Planning for Ecological Reserves in Nova Scotia
Geoffrey E. Katz
CR # 56, 1986, 90pp, illus.
$2.00
The Simeon Perkins House, Liverpool, Nova Scotia
Allen Penney
CR # 60, 1987, 330pp, illus.
$16.00
The Late Prehistory of Nova Scotia as viewed from the Brown Site
Helen Louise Sheldon
CR # 61, 329pp, illus.
$16.00
Micmac, Maliseet, Beothuk Collections in Great Britain
R. H. Whitehead
CR # 62, 1988, 101pp, illus.
$10.00
Archaeology in Nova Scotia, 1985 and 1986
Edited by Stephen A. Davis, Charles Lindsay, Robert Ogilvie and Brian Preston
CR # 63, 1987, 301pp, illus.,
$14.00
The Myers Family of Jeddore
Deborah Trask
CR # 64, 1988, 26pp, illus.
$4.00
Belleisle Nova Scotia, 1680-1755: Acadian Material Life and Economy
Marc Charles Lavoie
CR # 65, 1987, 321pp, illus.
$16.00
Micmac, Maliseet and Beothuk Collections in Europe and the Pacific
Ruth Holmes Whitehead
CR # 66, 1989, 100pp, illus.
$10.00
Melanson: A Large Micmac Village in Kings County, Nova Scotia
Ronald J. Nash and Frances L. Stewart
CR # 67, 1990, 260pp, illus.
$14.00
The Fauna of Sable Island
Barry Wright
CR # 68, 1989, 93pp, illus.
$10.00
Archaeology in Nova Scotia, 1987 and 1988
Edited by Stephen A. Davis, Charles Lindsay, Robert Ogilvie and Brian Preston
CR # 69, 1991, 247pp, illus.
$4.00
Uniacke Estate Seminar, 1989
edited by Sheila Stevenson
CR # 70, 1991, 167pp, illus.
$10.00
Cataloguing the Contents of the Mills
Calum N. Ewing and Paul S. Collins
CR # 72(a), 1992, 77pp, illus.
$4.00
The Edward Ross Store in New Ross, Nova Scotia, c. 1835-1845
Miles Russell
CR # 72(b), 1992, 68pp, illus.
$10.00
The Woven Weirs of Minas
Joleen Gordon
CR # 73, 1993, 75pp, illus.
$10.00
Archaeological Investigations on the Uniacke Estate, Hants County, Nova Scotia, 1992
Laird Niven
CR # 74, 1993, 112pp, illus.
$10.00
Nova Scotia: The Protohistoric Period 1500-1630—Four Micmac Sites
Ruth Holmes Whitehead
CR # 75, 1993, 180pp, illus.
$14.00
Construction and Reconstruction of a Mi’kmaq sixteenth century cedar-bark bag
Joleen Gordon
CR # 76, 1993, 33pp, illus.
$6.00
Archaeology in Nova Scotia, 1989 and 1990
edited by Stephen A. Davis and Brian Preston
CR # 77, 1993, 239pp, illus.
$14.00
Mi’kmaq Textiles: Sewn Cattail Matting BkCp-1 site, Pictou, Nova Scotia
Joleen Gordon
CR # 80, 1995, 51pp, illus.
$6.00
Archaeology in Nova Scotia, 1991
edited by Stephen Powell
CR # 81, 1996, 180pp, illus.
$10.00
Mi’kmaq Textiles: Twining with Rush and other Fibres BkCp-1 Site, Pictou, N.S.
Joleen Gordon
CR # 82, 1997, 139pp, illus.
$6.00
Thesaurus for Business Records
Paul S. Collins and Peter Morris
1997, 103pp, illus.
$15.00
Needle Arts in Nova Scotia Women’s Lives: 1752 - 1938
Jo-Ann Citrigno
CR# 83, 1998, 84pp.
$8.00
Music in Nova Scotia: The Oral Tradition
Matthew D. McGuire
CR# 84, 1998, 78pp.
$8.00
Music in Nova Scotia - The Written Tradition: 1752 - 1893
Paul Martell
CR# 85, 1998, 118pp.
$10.00
Looking into Acadie: Three Illustrated Talks
(Available in French only)
Brenda Dunn, Sally Ross, Birgitta Wallace
CR# 87, 1999, 80pp, illus.
$18.00