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Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Ruth Holmes Whitehead has worked since 1972 for the Nova Scotia Museum, since 2003 as a Curator Emerita and Research Associate. She has authored or co-authored twenty books, including Stories from the Six Worlds, The Old Man Told Us, Black Loyalists, and Ancestral Images. In 1995, she was awarded a Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, by St. Francis Xavier University. In 2014, Dr. Whitehead was inducted into the Order of Nova Scotia. She lives in Halifax.

Books by Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Nova Scotia and the Great Influenza Pandemic, 1918-1920

A Remembrance of the Dead and an Archive for the Living

by (author) Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Old Man Told Us (new edition)

by (author) Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images

The Mi'kmaq in Art and Photography

by (author) Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Black Loyalists

Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities

by (author) Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Stories From the Six Worlds (2nd edition)

Mi'kmaw Legends

by (author) Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Six Mi'kmaq Stories

by (author) Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Stories From the Six Worlds

by (author) Ruth Holmes Whitehead

The Life of Boston King

by (author) Carmelita A.M. Robertson & Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Old Man Told Us

by (author) Ruth Holmes Whitehead

Six Micmac Stories

by (author) Harold McGee & Ruth Holmes Whitehead

The Mi'kmaq

How Their Ancestors Lived 500 Years Ago

illustrated by Kathy Kaulbach
by (author) Harold McGee & Ruth Holmes Whitehead