Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society

The Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society is a historical society in Halifax, Nova Scotia that was founded in 1878 and is the second oldest in Canada (The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec is the first.) The Society is a voluntary organization that operates without an office or paid staff. The Society first published the Nova Scotia Historical Quarterly and then the Nova Scotia Historical Review. Eventually the publication was named the Collections of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society and now it is known as the Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society.

Notable members

Thomas Beamish Akins (1809-1921), Nova Scotia's first Commissioner of Public Records.
John Forrest (1842-1920), President of Dalhousie University, who served as the Society's President from 1905 to 1906.^[1]
Archibald MacMechan (1862-1933), Professor at Dalhousie University.
Harry Piers (1870–1940), historian and curator at the Nova Scotia Museum.

Historical Plaques

Sir William Fenwick Williams, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia^[2]
Sir John Moore Plaque Halifax, Nova Scotia^[3]
Site of First Court House Plaque, Scotia Square, Halifax, Nova Scotia^[4]
St. Paul's Church (Halifax)
John Wentworth's Cannon, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
George Augustus Westphal's Birthplace, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Dartmouth Heritage Museum)
HMS Shannon Plaque, Province House (Nova Scotia)
Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres Monument, St. George's Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Treaty Day in Nova Scotia - Plaque of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society
Nova Scotia Historical Society - 23 Plaques Created, 1911
Nova Scotia Historical Society - 9 Plaques Created, 1914

Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society

Article Index
NS Historical Society 1879 Vol 1
NS Historical Society 1881 Vol 2
NS Historical Society 1882-83 Vol 3
NS Historical Society 1884 Vol 4
NS Historical Society 1886-87 Vol 5
NS Historical Society 1888, Vol 6
NS Historical Society 1889-91, Vol. 7
NS Historical Society 1892-94, Vol.8
NS Historical Society - Louisbourg 1894
NS Historical Society 1895
NS Historical Society 1896-98
NS Historical Society 1899-1900, Vol. 11
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, #12 (1905)
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, vol. 13, 1908
NS Historical Society 1910, Vol.14
Index 1878-1910
NS Historical Society 1911, Vol. 15
NS Historical Society 1912
NS Historical Society 1913
NS Historical Society 1914
NS Historical Society 1918, Vol.19
NS Historical Society 1921, Vol.20
NS Historical Society 1927, Vol.21
The memorial sundial at Annapolis Royal: paper read before the Nova Scotia Historical Society, at Halifax, N.S. December the sixth, 1918 (1918)

References

^ Marble, Allan Everett (1977). Nova Scotians at Home and Abroad: Biographical Sketches of Over Six Hundred Native Born Nova Scotians. Windsor, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press. p. 163. ISBN 0889990743. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
^ p. 11
^ p. 9
^ "Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society". Halifax.