The Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Nova Scotia, Anthony Henry, 1769

Front page of the first issue of the Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser. Dated January 3, 1769. Source: Nova Scotia Archives, Newspaper Collection: Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser, Volume 1, Number 1 (scan 200908270). Retrieved: March 9, 2022

Cover page of ‘A Sermon’, printed by Anthony Henry, the first religious work produced in Nova Scotia. Dated 1770. Source: Fauteux, Aegidius, The Introduction of Printing into Canada, 1929, p.46

1798 catechism printed by Anthony Henry. Source: James Hewey, private collection

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1769

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Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser

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Anthony Henry

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Nova Scotia

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English

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Nova Scotia Archives

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