NS Business Directories

Documents available at NS Archives, The Ancestor Hunt, and Library and Archives Canada.
McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory for 1907-1908 is searchable at NS Archives
Other directories are available only on microfilm.

Year from	Content pages¹	Directory²	Words in OCR³
to	Appendix Before City section End ads Historical Sketch Middle	Chinese Directory Halifax Hutchinson's Nova Scotia Lovell's Nova Scotia McAlpine's Halifax City McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory Teare's directory of Pictou and New Glasgow

Stats:

Year	Page Count
1865	873
1867	873
1869	1297
1870	541
1871	515
1872	512
1873	572
1874	509
1875	588
1876	576
1877	542
1878	550
1879	512
1880	731
1881	518
1882	531
1883	524
1884	562
1885	556
1887	528
1888	540
1889	518
1890	520
1891	536
1892	588
1893	594
1894	623
1895	658
1896	681
1897	2271
1898	728
1899	717
1900	683
1901	686
1902	636
1903	662
1904	656
1905	715
1906	650
1908	708
1909	739
1910	758
1911	779
1912	800
1913	858
1914	864
1915	600
1916	612
1917	648
1918	634
1919	651
1920	688
1921	755
1922	720
1923	600
1924	583
1925	571
1926	544
1927	576
1952	25
total	39785

Directory Mininum Year	Min	Max
Hutchinson's Nova Scotia	1865	1867
McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory	1869	1897
McAlpine's Halifax City	1870	1927
Lovell's Nova Scotia	1871	1871
Teare's directory of Pictou and New Glasgow	1880	1880
Chinese Directory Halifax	1952	1952
total	1865	1952

Directory Maximum Year	Min	Max
Hutchinson's Nova Scotia	1865	1867
Lovell's Nova Scotia	1871	1871
Teare's directory of Pictou and New Glasgow	1880	1880
McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory	1869	1897
McAlpine's Halifax City	1870	1927
Chinese Directory Halifax	1952	1952
total	1865	1952

File (links to original)	Page Count
Chinese Directory Halifax 1952.pdf	25
Hutchinson's Nova Scotia 1864-1865.pdf	873
Hutchinson's Nova Scotia 1866-1867.pdf	873
Lovell's Nova Scotia 1871-1871.pdf	515
McAlpine's Halifax City 1869-1870.pdf	541
McAlpine's Halifax City 1871-1872.pdf	512
McAlpine's Halifax City 1872-1873.pdf	572
McAlpine's Halifax City 1873-1874.pdf	509
McAlpine's Halifax City 1874-1875.pdf	588
McAlpine's Halifax City 1875-1876.pdf	576
McAlpine's Halifax City 1876-1877.pdf	542
McAlpine's Halifax City 1877-1878.pdf	550
McAlpine's Halifax City 1878-1879.pdf	512
McAlpine's Halifax City 1879-1880.pdf	520
McAlpine's Halifax City 1880-1881.pdf	518
McAlpine's Halifax City 1881-1882.pdf	531
McAlpine's Halifax City 1882-1883.pdf	524
McAlpine's Halifax City 1883-1884.pdf	562
McAlpine's Halifax City 1884-1885.pdf	556
McAlpine's Halifax City 1886-1887.pdf	528
McAlpine's Halifax City 1887-1888.pdf	540
McAlpine's Halifax City 1888-1889.pdf	518
McAlpine's Halifax City 1889-1890.pdf	520
McAlpine's Halifax City 1890-1891.pdf	536
McAlpine's Halifax City 1891-1892.pdf	588
McAlpine's Halifax City 1892-1893.pdf	594
McAlpine's Halifax City 1893-1894.pdf	623
McAlpine's Halifax City 1894-1895.pdf	658
McAlpine's Halifax City 1895-1896.pdf	681
McAlpine's Halifax City 1896-1897.pdf	737
McAlpine's Halifax City 1897-1898.pdf	728
McAlpine's Halifax City 1898-1899.pdf	717
McAlpine's Halifax City 1899-1900.pdf	683
McAlpine's Halifax City 1900-1901.pdf	686
McAlpine's Halifax City 1901-1902.pdf	636
McAlpine's Halifax City 1902-1903.pdf	662
McAlpine's Halifax City 1903-1904.pdf	656
McAlpine's Halifax City 1904-1905.pdf	715
McAlpine's Halifax City 1905-1906.pdf	650
McAlpine's Halifax City 1907-1908.pdf	708
McAlpine's Halifax City 1909-1909.pdf	739
McAlpine's Halifax City 1909-1910.pdf	758
McAlpine's Halifax City 1910-1911.pdf	779
McAlpine's Halifax City 1911-1912.pdf	800
McAlpine's Halifax City 1912-1913.pdf	858
McAlpine's Halifax City 1913-1914.pdf	864
McAlpine's Halifax City 1914-1915.pdf	600
McAlpine's Halifax City 1915-1916.pdf	612
McAlpine's Halifax City 1916-1917.pdf	648
McAlpine's Halifax City 1917-1918.pdf	634
McAlpine's Halifax City 1918-1919.pdf	651
McAlpine's Halifax City 1919-1920.pdf	688
McAlpine's Halifax City 1920-1921.pdf	755
McAlpine's Halifax City 1921-1922.pdf	720
McAlpine's Halifax City 1922-1923.pdf	600
McAlpine's Halifax City 1923-1924.pdf	583
McAlpine's Halifax City 1924-1925.pdf	571
McAlpine's Halifax City 1925-1926.pdf	544
McAlpine's Halifax City 1926-1927.pdf	576
McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory 1868-1869.pdf	1297
McAlpine's Nova Scotia Directory 1890-1897.pdf	1534
Teare's directory of Pictou and New Glasgow 1879-1880.pdf	211
total	39785

Notes:

Items under "Stats" are clickable for results display of that item.

Displayed year is taken from the second year in the filename.

¹Content pages are a rough organization of pages.
Selecting none is the same as selecting all.
"before..." usually contains ads and the advertising list/business directory before the first "city directory".
"end..." contains ads and sometimes an advertising list.

²Directory selects one or more.
Selecting none is the same as selecting all.

³Words in OCR searches for the given words in the content of each page.
This is lexeme matching, so "wedding" also matches "weddings"
Exact words can be filtered in the results pages.
To exclude a word from the match, prefix it with an exclamation mark (!).

Text extracted from the PDFs may contain errors and has not been reviewed manually.

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