Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: America — History
The discovery of Canada / by Lawrence J. Burpee. Sackville, N. B. : The Argosy, 1927. 87-152 pages 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.519 #25 - Vertical File
The Argosy, vol. 5, no. 3 Nov., 1927. Explorations from the time of Leif Ericson to 1854.
Canada — History
New France — Discovery and exploration
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — Exploring expeditions.
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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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The far reaches of empire : war in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760 / John Grenier. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,2008. xvi, 270 pages :ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1038 G827 2008
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259 and index.
New Englanders — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
British Americans — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia
Imperialism — History — 18th century
Nova Scotia — History, Military — 18th century!Nova Scotia — Hist
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The federal Indian day schools of the Maritimes / W.D. Hamilton. Fredericton, N.B. : Micmac-Maliseet Institute, 1986. 151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E97.5 H222
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Education — History
Mi'kmaq — Education — History
Malecite Indians — Education — History
Schools — Maritimes Provinces — History.
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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
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration
Newfoundland — History
Nova Scotia — History.
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The free people - Otipemisiwak, Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870-1930 / Diane Paulette Payment. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites, Parks Service, 1990. 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3545 P39 1990 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: Les gens libres - Otipemisiwak Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870-1930.
Canadian Parks Service. National Historic Parks and Sites.
Métis — Saskatchewan — Batoche Region — History
Métis — Saskatchewan — Batoche Region — Social life and customs
Métis — Canada — Government relations
First Nations of North America — Saskatchewan — History
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Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, 1559-1625
The general history of the vast continent and islands of America, commonly call'd the West-Indies, from the first discovery thereof: with the best accounts the people could give of their antiquities. Collected from the original London : Printed for J. Batley, 1725-26. 6 v. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F5 H59 - Akins
Latin America — History — To 1600
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish
America — Early accounts to 1600.
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The Haley genealogies and the Mayflower connection / / Jno. Geo. Bourinot. Ottawa : 1888. 8 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 05947 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Signed: Jno. Geo. Bourinot.
Canada — Constitutional history
British North America — Constitutional history
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The historical ethnography of the Micmac of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Bernard Gilbert Hoffman. Berkley, Calif. : The Author, 1955. vi, 839 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm H713 - Open Shelf
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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The history of the United States of North America, from the plantation of the British colonies till their assumption of national independence / by James Grahame. Philadelphia : Lee & Blanchard, 1845. 2 v. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 G76
United States — History
North America — History.
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The Indian races of North and South America, comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races : a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies; the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated ch / by Charles De Wolf Brownell. New York : The American Subscription Publishing House, 1859. 720 pages, [40] pages of plates : colour plates, ports
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B82
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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The Indian races of North and South America, comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races : a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies; the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated ch / by Charles De Wolf Brownell. New York : The American Subscription House, 1857. 720 pages, [44] pages of plates : colour plates, ports
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B82 1857
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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30. The Indians and the heroic age of New France / Bruce G. Trigger. Ottawa : Canadian Historical Association, 1977. 24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16a B64 #30
Issued also in French under title: Les Indiens et l'âge héroique de la Nouvelle-France.
First Nations of North America — Canada — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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The journal of Alexander Chesney : a South Carolina loyalist in the revolution and after / edited by E. Alfred Jones ; with an introduction by Wilbur H. Siebert. Columbus : Ohio State University, 1921. xvi, 166 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C41
Jones, E. Alfred (Edward Alfred), 1872-1943, ed
Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961.
American loyalists
South Carolina — History — Revolution, 1775-1783.
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The King's friends : the composition and motives of the American loyalist claimants Providence, R.I. : Brown University Press, 1965. 411 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277 B81 K58
American loyalists
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Claims.
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The Loyal Americans : the military role of the Loyalist provincial corps and their settlement in British North America, 1775-1784 : a travelling exhibition of the Canadian War Museum in collaboration with the New Brunswick Museum / Robert S. Allen, general editor ; Bernard Pothier, coordinator of the exhibition ; Victor Suthren, exhibition designer. Ottawa : National Museum of Man/National Museums of Canada, 1983. x, 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5069.1 L923 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: Les Loyalistes. Includes index.
Canadian War Museum
National Museum of Man (Canada)
National Museums of Canada
New Brunswick Museum.
United Empire loyalists — History
American loyalists
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Regimental histories
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Participation, Canadian
Canada —
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Public Archives of Nova Scotia
The Loyalist guide : Nova Scotian loyalists and their documents / compiled by Jean Peterson ; assisted by Lynn Murphy and Heather MacDonald. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1983. 272 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 L69 P485 - Open Shelf
MacDonald, Heather
Murphy, Lynn
Peterson, Jean.
American loyalists — Nova Scotia — History — Sources — Bibliography — Catalogs
United Empire loyalists — History — Sources — Bibliography — Catalogs
Nova Scotia — History — 1775-1783 — Source
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The loyalists in North Carolina during the Revolution / by Robert O. DeMond. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1940. viii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 D39
Thesis PH.D.-Duke university, 1938. Without thesis note.
American loyalists — North Carolina
North Carolina — History — Revolution.
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The loyalists of America and their times : from 1620 to 1816 / by Egerton Ryerson. 2nd ed. Toronto : W. Briggs, 1880. 2 v. : port. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277 R84 1880
Opinions of the press: 9 pages at end of v. 2.
American loyalists
United States — Politics and government — To 1775
Massachusetts — Politics and government — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
United States — Politics and government — 1775-1783
Canada — History &
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The loyalists of Massachusetts and the other side of the American Revolution / James H. Stark. Boston : J.H. Stark, 1910. 509 pages, [46] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 M38 St2
Pelham's map of Boston in pocket of back cover.
American loyalists — Massachusetts
Massachusetts — History — Revolution, 1775-1783
Massachusetts — Politics and government — Revolution, 1775-1783.
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The Micmac / Stephen A. Davis. 1st ed. Tantallon : Four East, 1991. 74 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 D38 1991
Mi'kmaq — Biography
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Biography
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The Mi'kmaw concordat / James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson. Halifax : Fernwood, 1997. 136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 H46 1997
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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The native peoples of Atlantic Canada : a history of ethnic interaction / Harold Franklin McGee, Jr.. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1974. xi, 211 pages ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 M34 M14
Cover title : The native peoples of Atlantic Canada : a reader in regional ethnic relations.
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces
Ethnology — Atlantic Provinces
Native peoples — Atlantic Provinces — History
Atlantic Provinces — History.
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The Negro in the American Revolution Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va., by University of North Carolina Press, 1961. xiii, 231 pages : front. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E269 N3 Qu2 N31
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Afro-Americans.
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The new Loyalist index / by Paul J. Bunnell. Bowie, Md. : Heritage Books, 1989. xii, ca. 500 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z6293 B942
United Empire loyalists — Registers
American loyalists — Registers
United Empire loyalists — Sources — Indexes
American loyalists — Sources — Indexes
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Re
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