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Faucher de Saint-Maurice, Narcisse Henri Edouard

Le Canada et les Basques / trois écrits de M. Faucher de Saint-Maurice, M. Marmette et M. Le Vasseur ; avant-propos du comté de Premio-Real.  Québec : A. Côté, 1879. 28 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F1 F27 - Akins

Beamish, North Ludlow

The discovery of America by the Northmen, in the tenth century / with notices of the early settlements of the Irish in the western hemisphere / By North Ludlow Beamish.  London, T. and W. Boone, 1841. 239 pages 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F1 B36 - Akins

The design of the writer...is to put before the public in a cheap and compendious form, those parts of Professor Rafn's work [Antiquitates americanae] which he considered were likely to prove most interesting to British readers.--pref.

Rafn, Carl Christian, 1795-1864.

America — Discovery and exploration — Norse
America — Discovery and exploration — Irish

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Bradley, Michael

Holy Grail across the Atlantic : the secret history of Canadian discovery and exploration / Michael Bradley with Deanna Theilmann-Bean ; foreword by John Robert Colombo.  Willowdale, ON. : Hounslow Press, 1990, 1988. 391 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PN56 G67 B811

Hoffman, Bernard Gilbert

Cabot to Cartier : sources for a historical ethnography of northeastern North America, 1497-1550 Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1961. xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN560 N81 H68

Champlain, Samuel de

Algonquians, Hurons, and Iroquois : Champlain explores America, 1603-1616 : being The voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604-1616) / narrated by himself ; translated by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with The voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes ; edited with introduction and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne.  Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 2000. xxvi, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC332 A3 2000 - Open Shelf

Originally published in 2 v., New York : A.S. Barnes, 1906. Reformated into one unabridged volume. Translation of: Les voyages de la Nouvelle France.

Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908
Bourne, Annie Nettleton.

First Nations of North America — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration — French
New France — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)

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Stirling, William Alexander

An encouragement to colonies Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968. 47 pages : map. ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5226 A379 E56 1968 - Open Shelf

Original t.pages has imprint: London, Printed by William Stansby, 1624.

Colonies
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration — English.

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Jaenen, Cornelius J.

Friend and foe : aspects of French-Amerindian cultural contact in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Cornelius J. Jaenen.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5064 J22 - Open Shelf

Winner of the Sainte-Marie prize in History, 1973, Historical Sites Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Includes index.

First Nations of North America
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)

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Armstrong, Joe C. W.

Champlain / Joe C.W. Armstrong.  Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1987. xviii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5061.1 C5 A75 - Open Shelf

Hannon, Leslie F.

The discoverers; an illustrated history Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1971. 256 pages illus. (part colour) 31 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S F5058 H246 - Oversize

Biddle, Richard

A memoir of Sebastian Cabot : with a review of the history of maritime discovery : illustrated by documents from the rolls, now first published 2nd ed. London : Sherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1832. 333 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5058 C1 M533 - Open Shelf

Includes some text in Latin.

America — Discovery and exploration.

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Silvy, Antoine

Letters from North America / by Father Antoine Silvy, S.J. ; translated from French by Ivy Alice Dickson.  Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1980. 228 pages, 2 pages of plates (folded) : illustrations, maps.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5057 S586 - Open Shelf

Kirke, Henry

The first English conquest of Canada : with some account of the earliest settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland / by Henry Kirke, M.A., B.C.L. .  London : Bemrose & sons, 1871. xi, 227 pages : illustrations, fold. map ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 K63

Entremont, H. Leander d'

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 Henri 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. First Copy: F95 D43 Second Copy: F95 D43 C.2

Acadians
Nova Scotia — History
Acadia
America — Discovery and exploration
Nova Scotia — Description and travel — Guide-books.

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Leacock, Stephen

The dawn of Canadian history : a chronicle of aboriginal Canada and the coming of the white man / by Stephen Leacock.  Toronto : Glasgow, Brook & company, 1914. xii, 112 pages : illustrations (part. colour) portraits ; 18 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F84 C46 v.1

First Nations of North America — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration.

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Sagard, Gabriel

The long journey to the country of the Hurons / by Father Gabriel Sagard ; edited with introduction and notes by George M. Wrong, and translated into English by H.H. George Langton.  Toronto : Champlain Society, 1939. 1939. xlvii, 411, xii pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 Sa2

Number 87 of 550 copies. Presented by David and Kay Coutts from the collection of their father, George Coutts. Bibliographical description: pages xli-xliv. Canadian Collection.

Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953
Wrong, George M. 1860-1948. (George McKinnon),

Huron Indians
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.

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Champlain, Samuel de

The works of Samuel de Champlain Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1971. 6 v. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm + portfolio.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 B592

Text in English and French. Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.pages Biggar--v. 1, pages [v].

Biggar, H. P. (Henry Percival), 1872-1938.

Explorers — France — Biography
Explorers — Canada — Biography
First Nations of North America — Canada — History
America — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
Canad

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Cartier, Jacques

The voyages of Jacques Cartier : published from the originals with translations, notes and appendices by H. P. Biggar Ottawa : F.A. Acland, 1924. 330 pages : maps (fold) ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16P no.11

Text in French and English.

Biggar, H. P. (Henry Percival), 1872-1938.

First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.

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Lescarbot, Marc

Nova Francia : a description of Acadia, 1606 / Marc Lescarbot ; tr. by P. Erondelle ; with an introd. by H. P. Biggar.  London : Routledge, 1928. xxxi, 346 pages : facsim., maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 L56

Includes reproduction of original t. pages of the translation.

Biggar, Henry Percival, 1872-1938.

First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia
New France — Discovery and exploration
Acadia.

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Jesuits

The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in North America (1610-1791) / with an introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites ; selected and edited by Edna Kenton.  New York : Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. liv, 527 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, ports,

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 J49

Raynal, Guillaume Thomas

A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies / by the Abbé Raynal ; newly translated from the French by J.O. Justamond.  2nd ed. London : A. Strahan, 1798. 6 v. : front. ( port.) 7 fold. maps ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21

Brebner, John Bartlet

The explorers of North America, 1492-1806 / by John Bartlet Brebner.  New York : Macmillan, 1933. xv, 502 pages, [4] folded pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 B74

Explorers
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — History.

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Baxter, James Phinney

A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534 with annotations, etc / by James Phinney Baxter.  New York : Dodd, Mead, 1906. ix, 464 pages, [9] pages of plates (3 folded) : illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 C24 B33

Limited edition of 300 copies on deckle-edge paper, and 35 copies on Japan paper.

America — Discovery and exploration — French.

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McCann, Franklin T.

English discovery of America to 1585 / by Franklin T. McCann.  New York : King's Crown Press, 1952, 1951. xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 M13

Williamson, James Alexander

The Cabot voyages and Bristol discovery under Henry VII / by James A. Williamson ; with cartography of the voyages by R. A. Skelton.  Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1962. xvi, 332 pages, [11] pages of plates (some folded) :

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W67 1962

Williamson, James A.

The voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII / by James A. Williamson.  London : Argonaut Press, 1929. xiii, 290 pages, [13] pages of plates (1 folded) : m

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W67

Limited edition of 1050 numbered copies. Includes index.

America — Discovery and exploration — British.

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