Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: America — History
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 general history of the British Empire in America : containing an historical, political, and commercial view of the English settlements ; including all the countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the Peace of Paris / by Mr. Wynne i.e. John Huddlestone Wynne. London : Printed for W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1770. 514 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F50 H31 - Akins
Fortia facta patrum ... Virg. Aen. I. 641.
America — Discovery and exploration
United States — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France).
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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.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H35j
First Nations of North America — Canada
Natural history — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel
Northwest Passage.
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A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple ; C. Lempriere inv. & del. ;B. Baron, sculp. ; engraved by Willm. Henry Toms ; introductory notes by William P. Cumming and Helen Wallis. Lympne Castle, Kent : Harry Margary, 1972. 1 atlas ([3], 20 pages of plates) : maps ; 60 x 7
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G1105 N6 1972 v. 1 - Map
Reprint. Original published: London : S. Harding, 1733. Part I of North America at the Time of the Revolution contains a reproduction of Henry Popple's 20 sheet map of the British Empire in America of 1733, with an Introduction by William pages Cumming and Helen Wallis--Publisher's note, leaf [8], part 3. Index map: leaf [3] Issued also in sheets. Sold by the proprietors S. Harding ... St. Martins Lane, and W.H. Toms ... in Union Court near Hatton Garden Holborn--leaf [3]
Cumming, William Patterson, 1900-
Margary, Harry
Wallis, Helen.
Cartography — North America — History
Maps, Early — Facsimiles
North America — Maps — To 1800.
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
Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah), d. 1786.
Colonization — History
Commerce — History
East Indies
America — Discovery and exploration.
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A song full of hope : 1770-1830 / compiled and edited by the curriculum specialists at Primary Source, Inc. ; foreword by James Oliver Horton. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 2004. xv, xxiv, 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. +
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E184.7 S698 2004
African Americans — History — Study and teaching
African Americans — History Sources.
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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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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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American balladry from British broadsides: a guide for students and collectors of traditional song / by G. Malcolm Lawis, Jr.. Philadelphia : American Folklore Society, 1957. xiii, 315 pages; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML3553 A512 L425
American ballads and songs — History and criticism
English ballads and songs — History and criticism
Broadsides — History and criticism.
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American diaries : an annotated bibliography of published American diaries and journals / Laura Arksey, Nancy Pries, and Marcia Reed. 1st ed. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1983-1987. 2 v. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z5305 U5 A74
Expansion and revision of a work by William Matthews: American diaries : an annotated bibliography of American diaries written prior to the year 1861.
Pries, Nancy
Reed, Marcia
Matthews, William, 1905- American diaries.
American diaries — Bibliography
United States — History, Local — Sources — Bibliography.
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American loyalist claims / abstracted from the Public Record Office, Audit Office series 13, bundles <1-35 & 37> by Peter Wilson Coldham ; editor, Sally Lou (Mick) Haigh. 1st ed. Washington, D.C. : National Genealogical Society, 1980-. 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E277 C688
Includes index.
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Audit Office.
American loyalists
United Empire loyalists
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Claims
Canada — Genealogy
United States — Genealogy.
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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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Ancient peoples and modern ghosts / by George Young ; with illustrations by Ian D. Young. Queensland : G. Young, 1980. 82 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.35 #7 - Vertical File
NL copy: Author's autography copy.
Ghosts — Nova Scotia
Oak Island treasure site (N.S.) — History
North America — Antiquities
Nova Scotia — Biography — Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
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Anglo-Indian relations in North America to 1763 and an analysis of the royal proclamation of 7 October 1763 / by Jack Stagg. Ottawa : Research Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1981. [4], 418 pages : maps ; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S E91 S779 - Oversize
Appendix: 1793, October 7. A proclamation by the King.
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Corporate Policy. Research Branch.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Government relations — History
First Nations of North America — Canada — Land tenure — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Great Britain — Colonies — America.
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Apôtres ou agitateurs : la France missionnaire en Acadie / Micheline Dumont-Johnson. Trois-Rivières : Boréal Express, 1970. 150 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5059 D893 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Missions
Acadia — Church history.
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Arthur Thurston's Tallahassee skipper : the biography of John Taylor Wood, Merrimac gunner, soldier-at-sea, guardian of the Confederate treasury, adopted Nova Scotian Yarmouth : Lescarbot, 1981. 434 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E467.1 W876 T544
Ship captains — Confederate States of America — Biography
United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Naval operations.
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Biography and history of the Indians of North America ... : also, a history of their wars .. / by Samuel G. Drake. 5th ed., with large additions and corrections, and numerous engravings. Boston : Antiquarian Institute, 1837. xii, 48, 120, 144, 96, 168 pages, [12] pages of plat
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 D78
Spine title: Indians of North America. First published under title: Indian biography. Added t.pages title: The book of the Indians of North America.
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Biography.
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Black liberation on Cumberland Island in 1815 / Mary R. Bullard. South Dartmouth, Mass. : M.R. Bullard, 1983. ix, 141 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E445 G3 B938
Imprint stamped on verso of t.pages Includes index.
Afro-Americans — Georgia — Cumberland Island — History — 19th century
Slavery — Georgia — Cumberland Island — History — 19th century
Freedmen — Georgia — Cumberland Island — History — 19th ce
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Black loyalists of Nova Scotia : tracing the history of Tracadie loyalists 1776-1787 / by Carmelita Robertson. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 2000. 146 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AM1 N935 C975 #91
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Tourism and Culture
Nova Scotia Museum.
Blacks — Nova Scotia — Tracadie
Blacks — Nova Scotia Biography
Afro-American loyalists — Nova Scotia — Tracadie
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Blacks
Tracadie (N.S.) — History.
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Britain redeemed and Canada preserved / by F.A. Wilson. London : Longman, Brown, etc., 1850. 498 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F70 W69 - Akins
Great Britain — Colonies — America
Canada — History — To 1867.
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Buckskin pimpernel : the exploits of Justus Sherwood, Loyalist spy / by Mary Beacock Fryer. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1981. 288 pages : maps, port. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E278 S53 F948
Includes index.
American loyalists — Vermont — Biography
United Empire loyalists — Biography
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Biography
Canada — History — 1763-1791 — Biography.
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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
Ethnology — North America
First Nations of North America
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — Historical geography — Maps
North America — History — Sources — Bibliography.
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Cargoes of despair and hope : Scottish emigration to North America, 1603-1803 / Ian Adams and Meredyth Somerville. Edinburgh : J. Donald Publishers, 1993. 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E49.2 S3 A33 1993
Scots — North America — History
Immigrants — North America — History
North America — Emigration and immigration — History
Scotland — Emigration and immigration — History.
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