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Barbara was born in Seattle but received her early education in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, and is a graduate of Acadia and Columbia universities. She is retired from the staff of the Nova Scotia Museum, where she was curator of exhibits and editor of The Occasional. Photography is one of her enduring pursuits, and her photographs have been published in several books and periodicals. She has written a weekly column and articles on aspects of Nova Scotian heritage for the Halifax Chronicle-Herald/Mail-Star, prepared Research Reports for the Nova Scotia Museum of Industry, and written book reviews for the Journal of Forest History. She is a graduate of the Toronto Publishing Workshop 1990.
Barbara was awarded a Canada Council Grant from the Explorations Program in 1973, was a Prize winner in the 1985 WFNS Atlantic Writing Competition, and was nominated for the Canadian Historical Association Certificate of Merit Award in Regional History in 1988. She and a friend are currently writing a history of local merchants.
- Gingerbread and House Finish of Every Description. Halifax, Nova Scotia Museum, 1990. ISBN 0-919680-33-X.
- Sawpower: Making Lumber in the Sawmills of Nova Scotia. Halifax, Nimbus Publishing and Nova Scotia Museum, 1986. ISBN 0-920852-53-X.
- Photographs by Barbara R. Robertson in Nova Scotia by Harry Bruce. Toronto, Hounslow Press, 1975. ISBN 0-88882-006-2.
