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Bibliography
The following titles provide useful background information on the history of Antigonish as well as cemeteries and tombstones in Nova Scotia.
Titles relating to the History of Antigonish
Antigonish Board of Trade, Antigonish Town and Country (1916)
J.M. Cameron, American Pioneers in Antigonish (1982)
H. M. MacDonald, Down Memory Lane (1972)
H.M. MacDonald, Memorable Years in the history of Antigonish (1964)
J.W. MacDonald, History of Antigonish County (1975)
R.A. MacLean, ed., History of Antigonish 2 vols (1976)
R. A. MacLean, The Casket, 1852-1992: From Gutenberg to Internet: the story of a small-town weekly (1996)
R.A. MacLean and D. MacFarlane, eds., Drummer on Foot (1999)
D.J. Rankin, A History of the County of Antigonish, Nova Scotia (1929)
Patrick Walsh, The History of Antigonish (1989)
D.G. Whidden, The History of The Town of Antigonish (1934).
See also the following web sites:
Titles relating to the History of Cemeteries in Nova Scotia
Davison, J. D., What Mean these Stones?, Heritage Advisory
Committee, Wolfville, 1991
Handbook for Recording Inscriptions in Cemeteries,
Newfoundland and Labrador Genealogical Society Inc., 1991
King, C., Trask, D., et al., Nova Scotia Museum Graveyard Guide and
Data Dictionary, Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1990
Kinsman, G., Trask, D., et. al. Manual for Graveyard Conservation,
Colchester Historical Museum, Truro, N.S.
Macdonald, Clyde F. Artisans in Stone of Pictou County, Pictou County Historical Society, 2000
McNabb, D.A. and Trask, D., "Carved in Stone: Material Evidence in the
Graveyards of Kings County, Nova Scotia" Material History Bulletin
23 (Spring, 1986) 35-42
Perry, H., These Stones shall be for a Memorial, Yarmouth, Sentinel
Printing Ltd., 1983
The Restoration of The Old Burying Ground & Welsford-Parker
Monument, Halifax, Hova Scotia, n.d.
Trask, D., "'Hier Ruhet in Gott', Germanic Gravestones in Nova Scotia" in Making
Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia 1759-1800
Acadiensis Press, Fredericton, 1991
----------, Life How Short, Eternity How Long, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Museum, 1978
----------, "'Remember Me as You Pass By", Material Evidence of the Planters
in the Graveyards of the Maritimes", They Planted Well, Fredericton,
Acadiensis Press, 1988
----------, "The South Shore Carver", The Occasional (Nova Scotia
Museum), vol 9, #2, 1985, 14-17
----------, "White Bronze", The Occasional, vol 8, #3, 1984, 32-41
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