Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: America — Description and travel
A Book of Grey Owl : pages from the writings of Wa-sha-quon-asin / with an introduction by Hugh Eayrs. Toronto : Macmillan, 1938. xxi, 324 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 G86
Beavers
Natural history — Canada
Natural history Outdoor books
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel.
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A caveat against emigration to America with the state of the island of Cape Breton from the year 1784 to the present year and suggestions for the benefit of the British settlements in North America London: E. Lloyd, 1803.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3979 - Open Shelf
On same reel as Letters to Lord XXX on a caveat against emigration to America
North America — Description and travel — 1784-1803
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History — 1785-1850
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A journal of a mission to the Indians of British provinces, of New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and the Mohawks on the Ouse or Grand River, Upper Canada / by John West. London : L.B. Seeley, 1827. viii, [209-326 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3587 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Canada — Missions
North America — Description and travel.
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A journal of a mission to the Indians of the British provinces, of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and the Mohawks, on the Ouse, or Grand River, Upper Canada / by John West. London : L.B. Seeley and Son, 1827. viii, [209-326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3583 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Missions
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A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772 / by Samuel Hearne. New edition with introduction, notes, and illus. by J.B. Tyrrell. Toronto : The Champlain Society, 1911. xv, 437 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 fold ma
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H35j
Tyrrell, Joseph Burr, 1858-1957.
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821
First Nations of North America — Northwest, Canadian
Natural history — Northwest, Canadian
Northwest Passage.
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A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 / by Samuel Hearne. London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795. xliv, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.
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First Nations of North America — Canada
Natural history — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel
Northwest Passage.
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A second visit to North America / by Charles Lyell. 3rd ed. London : John Murray, 1855. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 L98 SE2
Geology — North America
United States — Description and travel
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel.
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A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North America / by William Douglass. Boston : Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle, 1749-1753 i.e. 1758. 2 v. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3762 - Open Shelf
Volume 2 has imprint: Boston, New England : printed and sold by D. Fowle, 1753. Appended to vol. 2 are pages 417-440, with caption: In to render his work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London, 1757 i.e. the 6th edition 1758 being included.
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — History — To 1763 New France
America — Discovery and exploration.
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Adventures in the wilds of the United States and British American provinces / by Charles Lanman ; illustrated by the author and Oscar Bessau ; with an appendix by Campbell Hardy. Philadelphia : J.W. Moore, 1856. 2 v. : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5018 L291
References: Sabin 38913; TPL 3672. Errata: v. 2, last page.
Fishing — North America
Outdoor life
Canada — Description and travel
United States — Description and travel.
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Adventures of an angler in Canada, Nova Scotia and the United States / by Charles Lanman. London : R. Bentley, 1848. xii, 322 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, port. ; 21
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5018 L291
Another edition (Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1848 published under title: A tour to the River Saguenay, in Lower Canada. References: Gagnon I 1956; Sabin 38915; TPL 2854.
Gilstrap, William, (bookplate)
Fishing — North America
Quebec (Province) — Description and travel
Saguenay River — Description and travel
New England — Description and travel.
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Forest scenes and incidents in the wilds of North America : being a diary of a winter's route from Halifax to the Canadas, and during four months' residence in the woods on the borders of Lakes Huron and Simcoe / by George Head. London : John Murray, 1829. 362 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F128.2 AT1 Dec. 1965
North America — Description and travel.
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Journal de Larocque de la rivière Assiniboine jusqu'à la rivière Aux Roches Jaune, 1805 / éd. avec des notes par L.J. Burpee. Ottawa : Impr. de l'état, 1911. 87 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16p no.3a
Also published with English title: Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone, 1805. Publié avec l'autorisation du ministre de l'agriculture sous la direction de l'archiviste. L'original publié dans la collection: Publications des archives canadiennes ; no 3. Tables. Quelques remarques sur les sauvages Rocky mountain avec lesquels j'ai passé l'été de 1805.: pages 59-78.
Burpee, Lawrence J., 1873-1946.
First Nations of North America — Great Plains
Crow Indians
Great Plains — Description and travel.
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Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone, 1805 / ed. with notes by L.J. Burpee. Ottawa : Government Print. Bureau, 1910. 82 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16p no.3
Burpee, Lawrence J., 1873-1946.
First Nations of North America — Northwestern States
Fur trade — Canada
Crow Indians
Northwestern States — Description and travel.
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Mackenzie and his voyageurs : by canoe to the Arctic and the Pacific, 1789-93 / by Arthur P. Woollacott. London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1927. x, 237 pages : illustrations (map) plates. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M19 W88
In the preparation of this essay, Mackenzie's narrative, as contained in the original edition of his Voyages, 1801, was used as a basis.--pages v.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Minnesota and its resources : to which are appended camp-fire sketches or notes of a trip from St. Paul to Pembina and Selkirk settlement on the Red River of the north / by J. Wesley Bond. Chicago : Philadelphia : Keen & Lee ; C. Desilver, 1857. 412 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F37.33 B64 M66 - Open Shelf
Belcourt, George Antoine, 1803-1874.
Railroads — Minnesota
First Nations of North America — Minnesota
Minnesota — Description and travel — To 1858
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — 1822-1870.
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My diary north and south / by William Howard Russell. Boston : T.O.H.P. Burnham ; 1863. xxii, 602 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E167 R96
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Personal narratives
Confederate States of America — Description and travel
United States — Description and travel.
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Narrative and critical history of America / edited by Justin Winsor. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1884-1889. 8 v. : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsims. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 W73
Most of the articles are followed by a critical essay on the sources of information, and notes in addition to the foot-notes.
Cartography — America
America — History
America — Bibliography
America — Maps, Early
America — Description and travel
America — Antiquities
United States — History
United States — History — Biblio
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Our vanishing landscape / by Eric Sloane. New York : Ballantine Books, 1974, 1955. 107 pages : illustrations; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.431 #53 - Vertical File
Architecture, American
Architecture, Colonial — United States
Architecture, Industrial — United States
United States — Description and travel
United States — Social life and customs.
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The baronnie de Pombcoup and the Acadians : a history of the ancient Department of Cape Sable, now know as Yarmouth and Shelburne counties, Nova Scotia / by H. Leander d'Entremont. Tourist ed. Yarmouth : Herald-Telegram Press, 1931. 192 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 D43
Containing a complete tourist guide to the south shore of Nova Scotia from Yarmouth to Halifax. Includes index.
Acadians
Nova Scotia — History
Acadia
America — Discovery and exploration
Nova Scotia — Description and travel — Guide-books.
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The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) / by Nicolas Denys ; translated and edited, with a memoir of the author, collateral documents, and a reprint of the original, by William F. Ganong. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1908. xvi, 625 pages, [17] pages of plates (2 folded) : il
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 D43
Limited edition of 520 copies (500 numberedition Includex index.
Ganong, William F. (William Francis), 1864-1941
Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867-1952.
Natural history — Nova Scotia
Fisheries — Nova Scotia
Cod-fisheries
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia
Acadia
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784.
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The Kelsey papers / with an introduction by Arthur G. Doughty and Chester Martin. Ottawa : Public Archives of Canada : The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1929. lxxxiii, 128 pages : front. (facsim.), map (fold). ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16ps k
French. Introduction in English and French. Papers collected by Arthur Dobbs. Journals, letters, memoranda, etc. collected by Arthur Dobbs and presented to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland by Maj. A.F. Dobbs.--cf. introd.
Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765
Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1860-1936
Martin, Chester, 1882-1958.
Northern Ireland. Public Record Office
Public Archives of Canada.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel.
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Tour through part of the north provinces of America : being a series of letters wrote on the spot, in the years 1774, & 1775 / by Patrick M'Robert. Philadelphia : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1935. x, 47 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M24
Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh : Printed for the author, 1776. Offprint from the Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, April, 1935--T.pages verso. Includes index.
North America — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — Description and travel.
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Travels in North America : with geological observations on the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia / by Charles Lyell. London : John Murray, 1845. 2 v., [7] folded pages of plates : maps ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5018 L984
Geology — North America
United States — Description and travel
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel.
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Travels in North America, Canada, and Nova Scotia : with geological observations on the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia / by Charles Lyell. 2nd ed. London : John Murray, 1855. 272 pages, 2 v., [7] folded pages of plates : maps ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5018 L984
Geology — North America
United States — Description and travel
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel.
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Travels through the Canadas / by George Heriot. London- : 18--. 232 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
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First Nations of North America
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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