Stuff About Dead People: or, History

April 20, 2006 5:29 PM

The Public Archives of Nova Scotia has some cool online exhibits. The original list of dead bodies recovered from the Titanic sinking caught my eye, they also have original log book pages from privateers, lighthouses, slavery and abolition, boats, boats, and more boats. [via]
posted by marxchivist (11 comments total)

Hey, there's a person on that list with my name!
posted by thirteenkiller at 4:12 PM on April 20, 2006

A thirteenkiller went down on the titanic?
posted by parki at 4:18 PM on April 20, 2006

Great site, thanks.
posted by Rumple at 4:19 PM on April 20, 2006

Good stuff - thanks for the link. I like this picture from the good ol' days.
posted by Staggering Jack at 4:23 PM on April 20, 2006

wow, that pic is really cool
posted by evening at 6:28 PM on April 20, 2006

Thank you for this post Marxchivist. I had never heard the story of the Acadians.
posted by tellurian at 7:02 PM on April 20, 2006

Cooool.

I went to an Acadian school in N.S., Tellurian. There are still quite a few Acadian communities going strong!
posted by stray at 8:15 PM on April 20, 2006

Thanks Marxchivist. That's a pretty comprehensive and exemplary site/collection.

"A view of Halifax from the topmasthead". Must have been a very very tall mast.
posted by peacay at 4:43 AM on April 21, 2006

My direct ancestors were Swiss farmers who came over to Nova Scotia in 1753 in an effort by the British government to dilute the Acadian population in Nova Scotia. They settled the town of Lunenberg that year. There, they became shipbuilders and seafareres until my grandfather emigrated to the United States last century.

In 2003, I went to the 250th anniversary of the Lunenberg settlement. I'm such a fan of Nova Scotia's history.

Thanks for this.
posted by quite unimportant at 5:23 AM on April 21, 2006

Very nice site and post. Thanks.
posted by OmieWise at 1:15 PM on April 21, 2006

If you are interested in the bodies recovered from the Titanic, take a look at this list. That's actual body descriptions - what they looked like, what they were wearing, what items were found on them. Some have names but a great many went unidentified.
posted by etoile at 9:23 AM on April 26, 2006