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Sable Island Bibliography - #8 - History

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#8. History

Admiral Digby Library & Historical Society. 2005. An Artist’s View of Sable Island - Watercolour Sketches by Dr. J.B. Gilpin, 1854. Published by the Admiral Digby Library & Historical Society, Digby, Nova Scotia. Note

Armstrong, B. 2010. Sable Island. Second Edition: Formac Publishing Company Limited, Halifax NS B3H 1J4. 192 pages (softcover). (First edition published in hardcover in 1981 by Doubleday Canada Limited, and reprinted in softcover in 1987 by Formac.)   Extract    Review (1st edition) James 2006,    Review (2nd edition) Clancy 2011

Bertin, J. 2006. Sable Island: Tales of Tragedy and Survival from the Graveyard of the Atlantic. True Canadian Amazing Stories. Altitude Publishing Canada Ltd. 144 pages.  Note.

 Campbell, L.G. 1962. History of Sable Island Before Confederation. M.A. Thesis, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Campbell, L. 1974. Sable Island, Fatal and Fertile Crescent. Lancelot Press, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 104 pages.  Extract

Campbell, L. 1975. Shipwrecks and the Colonization of Sable Island. Canada: A Historical Magazine, Vol.2 (March 1975)

Campbell, L. 1976. Sir John Wentworth and the Sable Island Humane Establishment. Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly 6: 292-309.

 Campbell, L. 1991. A Unique Sable Island Stranding. The Atlantic Advocate, May 1991: 30-32.

Campbell, L. 1994. Sable Island Shipwrecks - Disaster and Survival at the North Atlantic Graveyard. Nimbus Publishing Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 200 pages.  Extract  Review

Carnochan, J. 1986. Shipwrecked on Sable Island 1879. Edited by John L. Field. Niagara Historical Society, Pamphlet No.44. 26 pages. Note

Christie, B.J. 1995. The Horses of Sable Island. Pottersfield Press, Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia. 111 pages.

Farquhar, J.A. 1947. Extracts from the Journal of the late Captain Farquhar: His stay on Sable Island. Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society 27: 100-124.

Farquhar, J.A. 1980. Farquhar's Luck. Petheric Press Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

  Fergusson, C.B. 1969. The Status of Sable Island. Journal of Education, May-June 1969: 17-18.
 

Gilpin, J.B. 1858. Sable Island: Its Past History, Present Appearance, Natural History. Halifax: Wesleyan Conference Steam Press.

Grosvenor, M.B. 1965. Safe Landing on Sable Island, Isle of 500 Shipwrecks. National Geographic 128: 398-431.

Hodgson, H.A. 1997. A Saga of Sable Island, 1800-1830: the Story of Edward Hodgson, a Governor of Sable Island. Tyro Publishing, 194 Carlbert Street, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario P6A 5E1. 211 pages.  Note

 

Marsters, Roger. 2002. Sable Island’s Royal Wreck. Pages 54-59 in Shipwreck Treasures, Disaster and Discovery on Canada’s East Coast. Formac Publishing Company Limited.  Note

Mior, A. 2008. The Difficulties, Utilization, Limitations and Potential of a Database Format Based on Primary and Secondary Historical Sources, A Case Study of Shipwrecks and Stranding Events at Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada. M.MA. (Masters of Maritime Archaeology) Thesis, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. Summary

 

Mitcham, A. 1989. Island Keepers, Dangerous Islands and Determined Men — Two brothers and their lives on Scatarie and Sable Islands. Lancelot Press, Hantsport, Nova Scotia. 183 pages. Note & Extract

Patterson, Rev. George, D.D. 1894. Sable Island: Its History and Phenomena. Royal Society of Canada. 1st ser. 12.

Patterson, Rev. George, D.D. 1897. Supplementary Notes on Sable Island. Royal Society of Canada. 2nd ser. 3.

Raddall, T.H.  1976.  In My Time - A Memoir.   McClelland and Stewart Limited, 25 Hollinger Road, Toronto M4B 3G2.  365 pages.  Extract

Sable Island Journals 1801-1804 - James Rainstorpe Morris, Superintendent. 2001. Transcribed by Rosalee Stilwell. Sable Island Preservation Trust, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2001. 166 pages.

Stilwell, R.  2001  Ethos of Voice in the Journal of James Rainstorpe Morris from the Sable Island Humane Station, 1801-1802. Edwin Mellen Press.

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