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Forms part of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and consists of contemporaneous copies of annual returns comprising the "blue books" - reports to the British government relating to the general state of the colony and its public service. Includes returns of local revenue, military expenditure, legislation, public officials, pensions, population, ecclesiastical statistics, education, currency and rates of exchange, weights and measures, imports and exports, agriculture, grants of land, and jails and prison population. Arranged chronologically by year; 1835, 1836, 1844, 1845 missing.

Forms part of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and consists of letter-books and letters and telegrams sent and received by the governors and lieutenant governors of N.S. Correspondents include the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Secretary of State of Canada and the Nova Scotia Provincial Secretary. Also includes correspondence of the 1958 committee on the bicentenary of representative government in Nova Scotia. Many of the letters are official dispatches with replies.

Forms part of Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and consists of proclamations (1771, 1801-1865), printed circulars (1856-1866), telegraph book (1866-1867), Government House official visitor and guest records (1873-1968), Government House household expense records (1951-1954), and books of condolence opened on the occasion of the death of the Princess of Wales (1997).