Abbreviations for Sources

Newspapers*

AR - Acadian Recorder (Halifax)
B - Bridgewater Bulletin
CG - Coast Guard (Shelburne & Clark's Harbour)
CH - Chronicle Herald (Halifax)
CW - The Christian Watchman (Boston)
DC - Digby Courier
DT - Daily Telegram (St. John)
HC - Halifax Chronicle
HH - Halifax Herald
HMS - Halifax Mail Star
MC - Morning Chronicle (Halifax?)
MH - Morning Herald (Halifax)
PW - Presbyterian Witness (Halifax)
SH - Sunday Herald (Boston)
VAN - Yarmouth Vanguard
YA - Yarmouth Advertiser
YDG - Yarmouth Daily Globe
YDN - Yarmouth Daily News
YDP - Yarmouth Daily Post
YH - Yarmouth Herald
YH & Tel - Yarmouth Herald & Telegram
YL - Yarmouth Light
YLH - Yarmouth Light Herald
YT - Yarmouth Times
YTel - Yarmouth Telegraph
YTrib - Yarmouth Tribune

Cemeteries

CFB Cem - Crosby Family Cemetery, Brenton
HS Cem - Hillside Cemetery, South Ohio, Yarmouth Co.
L of C Cem - Lady of Calvary Cemetery, Yarmouth
T Cem - St. Stephens Cemetery, Tusket
YM Cem - Yarmouth Mountain Cemetery

Monuments and Memorials

AM - Argyle Memorial
GM - Gloucester Memorial
LM - Lunenburg Memorial
SIM - Surette's Island Memorial

Books**

BG - Brown's Genealogies
RYS - Record of Yarmouth Shipping
AppRYS - Appendix to the Record of Yarmouth Shipping
YR - Yarmouth Reminiscences
A - Acadian Mariners and the Schooners of Gloucester, Mass by Rev Dennis M. Boudreau
F - Fishermen of the Atlantic - 1914 and 1919 editions pub. by Fishing Masters Association, Boston
LAV - Life's a Voyage - In memory of drowning victims from East Pubnico and Charlesville. Pub Pubnico Light Monument Society
LNPO - Les Noyades de Pubnico-Ouest
RM - Out of Gloucester - Down to the Sea in Ships (Supplied to the list by Robert Sheedy)
Boucher - Development of an Acadian Village
Brown - Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: A Sequel to Campbell's History
Boucher - Development of an Acadian Village
Campbell - History of the County of Yarmouth
Cann - The Cann Boats
Chebogue - The Records of the Church of Jebogue
Chittick - Your Affectionate Father, William Rogers
Crowell - Novascotiaman
d'Entremont - A Brief History of Pubnico
Hichens - Island Trek
High Hopes - Historical Trails
Newell - Descendents of Henry Burrell
Nichols - Quite A Curiosity: The Sea Letters of Grace F. Ladd
Pothier - History of Tusket, Nova Scotia
Ranten - Arcadia History
Simpson - If We are Spared to each Other
Spicer - The Age of Sail
Walla - In the Wake of the Windships
Wallace-WSIM - Ships and Iron Men
Wetmore - Book of Shipwrecks and Rescues

Notes

* For the most part these are the same initials as those used by the Yarmouth County Museum & Archives.
** Generally only the author's surname is used here.

Selected Bibliography

Bent, Capt. Stephen (Ed. by Mark A.Lovewell) The Autobiography of Captain Stephen Bent. South Street Seaport Museum, New York, 1976. (Manuscript Series No. 2)
Beveridge, Capt. Harry Dougwell Memoirs of a Blue-Nosed Sea Captain. The folk Press, Honolulu, 1886. (ISBN0-938603-00-0)
Boucher, Neil The Development of an Acadian Village: Surette's Island 1859-1970) Lescarbot Press, Yarmouth, 1980
Brown, George S. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: A Sequel to Campbell's History. Rand Avery Company, Boston, 1888.
Brown, George S. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: Genealogies (Transcribed from The Yarmouth Herald). Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. Baltimore, 1993. ISBN 0-8063-1372-2
Campbell, Rev. J.R. A History of the County of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia J. & A. McMillan, Saint John, N.B., 1876.
Cann, G.B. West Nova Ships and Their Men: The Cann Boats C. Branches, Sarnia, 2002. ISBN 0-9699279-1-6
Chebogue - No single author The Records of the Church of Jebogue in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 1766-1851 Stoneycroft Publishing, Yarmouth, 1992 (ISBN 0-96919137-7-5)
Chittick, Barbara Bennett Your Affectionate Father, William Rogers: Letters from William Rogers of Yarmouth to his son, Arthur, when Arthur was away at Boarding School, 1873-1874. Privately published, designed and printed by Paté Poste, Boston, 1986.
Crowell, Clement W. Novascotiaman Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, 1979
Davis, Ralph Harold The Davis Family of Connecticut New York, Brier Island and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 1690-1997: A History & Genealogy Halifax, 1982 (ISBN 0-7703-0198-3)
d'Entremont, Rev. Clarence Joseph A Brief History of Pubnico Privately Published, Pubnico, 1982
Hichens, Walter W. Island Trek: An Historical & Geographical tour of Seal Island, NS Lancelot Press Ltd., Hantsport, 1982 (ISBN 0-88999-169-3)
High Hopes Historical Trails through Port Maitland, Beaver River, Sandford, Short Beach and Darling's Lake Yarmouth, 1985 (ISBN 0-9691-1552-5)
Lawson, J. Murray (compiler) Record of the Shipping of Yarmouth, N.S. Yarmouth, NS, 1876.
Lawson, J. Murray (compiler) Appendix to the Record of the Shipping of Yarmouth, N.S. from 1876 to 1884. Yarmouth, NS, 1884.
Lawson, J. Murray (compiler) Yarmouth Past and Present (Yarmouth Reminiscences). Yarmouth, NS, 1902.
Newell, E.J. Descendents of Henry Burrell Spanks, Nevada, 1993
Nichols, Louise Quite A Curiosity: The Sea Letters of Grace F. Ladd. Nimbus Publishing Ltd., Halifax, N.S., 2003 (ISBN 1-55109-430-4)
Pothier, Don R. History of Tusket, Nova Scotia Don. R. Pothier, publisher, Tusket, 2005 (ISBN 0-9737976-0-6)
Ricker, Jackson Historical Sketches of Glenwood and the Argyles Truro, 1979 (reprint - originally published 1941)
Simpson, Raymond A.(compiler and editor) If We are Spared to each Other (Love and Faith Against the Sea) Lancelot Press, Hantsport, NS, 1995 (ISBN 0-88999-557-5)
Spicer, Stanley T. Masters of Sail McGraw-Hill Ryerson Limited, Toronto, 1968
Spicer, Stanley T. The Age of Sail Formac Publishing Co. Ltd., Halifax, 2001 (ISBN 0-88780-539-6)
Waite, Peter B. The Lives of Dalhousie University: 1925-1980, the old college transformed. McGill-Queen's University Press 1998 (V. 2). (ISBN 0-7735-1644-I)
Wallace, Frederick William In the Wake of the Windships Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. London, 1927.
Wallace, Frederick William Wooden Ships and Iron Men Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. London and Toronto, 1924. (and Charles E. Lauriat Co. Boston, 1937)
Wetmore, Alice Book of Shipwrecks and Rescues Yarmouth County Archives #1996:1.