Vital Statistics – Births, Deaths, Marriages

• Index to Nova Scotia Births, 1864-1877, 6 reels

• Pictou County Births, 1864-1877, 2 reels [includes partial listings for Lunenburg, Queens and Richmond counties]

• Index to Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877, 3 reels

• Pictou County Deaths, 1864-1877, 1 reel [includes partial listings for Kings and Lunenburg counties]

• Marriage Bonds, 1848-1865, no index, 2 reels

• Index to Pictou County Marriages, 1864-1917, 1 reel [also includes Queens, Richmond and Shelburne counties]

• Pictou County Marriages, 1864-1917, 2 reels [includes partial listings for Queens and Richmond counties]

Church Records

• The registers of Rev. Hugh MacKensie, 1832-1844 (Nova Scotia records of baptisms, 1832-1843 and marriages, 1832-1844; Tarbat records of baptisms, 1823-1826, 1848-1852 and marriages, 1823-1826, 1848-1859 Church of Scotland. Parish of Tarbat.) 1 reel

Wills and Probate – Pictou County
1811-1926, volumes 1-14, some of which have indexes included, 6 reels

• Reel 1: vv. 1-3, 1811-1855
• Reel 2: v. 4, 1855-1869
• Reel 3: vv. 5-6, 1869-1889
• Reel 4: vv. 7-8, 1889-1900
• Reel 5: vv. 9-11, 1900-1912
• Reel 6: vv. 12-14, 1912-1926

Census Records
The New Glasgow Library holds microfilm copies of various census records for the counties of Antigonish, Pictou and Guysborough. Also available, are some indexes to these and other censuses. 22 reels

• Antigonish County:
  • 1861: M-879
  • 1871: C-10562, C-10563
  • 1881: C-13176
  • 1891: T-6308, T-6309, T-6427 (institutions)
  • 1901: T-6447
  • 1911: T-20356
• Pictou County:
  • 1861: M-1170, M-1171
  • 1871: C-10559, C-10560, C-10561
  • 1881: C-13175, C-13176
  • 1891: T-6319, T-6320, T-6427 (institutions)
  • 1901: T-6454, T-6455
  • 1911: T-20362, T-20363
• Guysborough County:
  • 1901: T-6450
    
    

Newspapers

• Bee, 1 reel, May 1835-May 1838
• Clarion / Negro Citizen, 1 reel
• Several issues between 1946 and 1949
• Colonial Patriot, 2 reels
• Dec. 1827-March 1831; April 1831-May 1834
• Colonial Standard, 4 reels
• Jan. 1862-Feb. 1866; March 1866-March 1870; April 1870-May 1871
• Eastern Chronicle, 84 reels
  1843-1953 Please note that many of these years have incomplete records and that 1946 and 1947 are not represented at all.
• Enterprise, 2 reels
  Aug. 1888-Dec. 1891; 1897
• Evening News, 279 reels
  1946-1999 Please note that many issues are missing including those for 1955, Jan. to May 1956 and Oct. 1957 to Jan. 1976. In this later gap, the year 1969 is present.
• Free Lance, 23 reels
  1906-1971, with many gaps.
• Novascotian, 29 reels
  1824-1870
• Pictou Advocate, 50 reels
  Index 1895-1950, 3 reels
  1. Funerals (86), Interments (5), Memorial Services (6) Obituaries A to McCunn
  2. Obituaries McCunn to Stanfield
  3. Births McNabb to Zipp, Anniversaries Abbott to Worgan, Marriages Abb to Z
  Regular reels, 47 reels
  1918-1969, with many gaps.
  
  
  
  Other microfilms include:
  
  
• Family Handyman 1976-1995
• Home Mechanic 1985-1996
• Maclean’s 1983-1995