DISCOVER BLUENOSER

Vincent Coleman, a railway dispatcher, saved countless lives on December 6, 1917 with his final message warning of impending disaster

65 Bluenosers were sentenced to death between 1867 and the abolishment of the death penalty in Canada in 1976

The first documented North American UFO sighting was in New Minas, Nova Scotia 171 years before Shag Harbour - October 12, 1796

Sophia L. McLachlan of Lunenburg, died of a broken heart, at age 14 years and 6 months, accused of a crime she did not commit.

Nova Scotia archives provides a searchable database of your Bluenoser ancestors. You can help transcribe birth, death and marriage records!

Everyone knows the story of the Titanic but not everyone knows of Nova Scotia's connections to the ill-fated White Star Liner ship....

On Sunday, April 12, 1936 three men enter the Moose River Mine in Halifax. On their way out of the mine, it collapses.

On Monday, April 11, 1842, Jane Meagher was in bed with her newborn son, George. Her husband, John, was in bed sick with the measles....

Not much information was given for the Robert JACKSON who was among the 26 children killed at the Halifax Protestant Orphange during the...

Born exactly 2 years and 4 days after his older brother, Clifton, little Aubrey Fish experienced several losses in his 7 years before he...

I am starting this post off with the most pertinent research questions we need to find out about the ABRAHAM children who were killed at...

The story of young May, Melvin and Victor Covey begins with the marriage of their parents, Robie Johnson (or Johnston) COVEY and Hilda...

This week I began researching to learn more about the people who were lost in the Halifax Explosion. I am going to blog about my journey...

If we didn't know exactly what contact tracing was before March 2020, we all do now thanks to COVID. Contact tracing is a powerful tool...

At one point during my elementary school days in the early 1980s, a survivor of the Halifax Explosion sat down on my school's stage and...

On November 18th four Titanic passangers were born - 2 men and 2 women, 2 first class and 2 third class, 2 survived and 2 did not. Here...

Two Titanic crew members - one who survived and sadly one who did not - were both born on November 17. Frank Long was born November 17th...