Did you know today, Nov. 6, is World Digital Preservation Day? This year's theme is 'Why preserve?'. In this video, Renée from the Halifax Municipal Archives team shares her thoughts on the importance of preserving digital information for the long term.
Learn more at: halifax.ca/archives
#WDPD2025

This Halloween check out our Helen Creighton: Folklife virtual exhibit and listen to ghost stories collected by Helen Creighton from around Nova Scotia.
Check out the "How to Use" section for the option to select recordings based on genre, language, or instrument!
archives.novascotia.ca/creighton/

Love this place.

The latest batch of Historical Vital Statistics is available! That means 25,700 records for your family research! This year’s accruals include 13,580 births (1924), 5,113 marriages (1949) and 7,007 deaths (1974).

All these records are ready for you here: archives.novascotia.ca/vital-statis...

Our web resource "Looking Back, Moving Forward: Documenting the Heritage of African Nova Scotians", contains digitized collections on the history of African Nova Scotians. This document gives an account for supplies for residents of Hammonds Plains. archives.novascotia.ca/african-heri...

Check out our virtual exhibit on film maker Margaret Perry (1905-1998)! This resource is a launching point to explore Perry’s films, to learn more about her life and career, and to visit a Nova Scotia that feels both familiar and long past.
archives.novascotia.ca/perry/

Bicycle Club in Nova Scotia, organized in connection with Wanderers' A. A. C. 🚴‍♂️

Link: archives.novascotia.ca/photocollect...

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 Check out our Lesbian History Project fonds which consists of records documenting the Lesbian History Project, including planning documents, minutes, recorded memories of participants and much more! 📂
ns-archives.accesstomemory.net/lesbian-hist...

Check out our "Women of Digby County" virtual database!

The virtual exhibit presented here was first developed as a traditional exhibit entitled 'Women: Their Lives in Rural Nova Scotia, 1950.' Which was launched in Digby in October 2011.

archives.novascotia.ca/digbywomen/

Patti Bannister, Provincial Archivist of Nova Scotia, has written the latest post for the CHA’s Teaching | Learning Blog! #cdnhist #archives #novascotia @nsarchives.bsky.social

Are you teaching & learning about NS history? Archives can help! Find new ways to interact with historical documents & challenge yourself to consider new perspectives. This first resource relates to records of Mi'kmaq communities, with more to come. 📜https://archives.novascotia.ca/teaching-learning/

William E. deGarthe (1907–1983): From Finland to Nova Scotia, deGarthe captured the soul of the Maritimes through his art.

You can access our database of his artwork here: archives.novascotia.ca/degarthe/

📄 The scanners are humming, the film is flowing.

The microfiche livestream is up—digitizing government docs in real time for Democracy’s Library.

Perfect second-screen vibes: Preservation in progress.

🕢 Live M-F, 7:30am–3:30pm PT (except U.S. holidays)
➡️ www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...

Do you enjoy our transcribe tool with vital statistics? Then check out our new tool Name Drop! We created this opportunity to crowd source information for images without much context!

Check it out here: archives.novascotia.ca/name-drop/