Gentlemen and Jesuits : quests for glory and adventure in the early days of New France / Elizabeth Jones. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1986. xiii, 293 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5061.1 J58 J66 - Open Shelf
Acadia — History
Nova Scotia — History — To 1764
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Canada in the seventeenth century, from the French Montreal : George E. Desbarats & co., 1883. 85 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5061 B75
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Acadians in exile / by Donald J. Hebert ; cover design by Jan Lewis. Cecilia, La. : Hebert Publications, 1980. xxxiv, 757 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.52 H446 - Open Shelf
Acadians — Genealogy
Acadians — History.
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Corrections & additions to Arsenault's Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens / by Janet B. Jehn. Covington, Ky. : J.B. Jehn, 1988. 138 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.9 A781 J47 - Open Shelf
Text in English only. Includes index.
Acadians — Genealogy
Cajuns — Genealogy
Acadia — Genealogy
Acadia — History
Louisiana — History.
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Louisbourg : the phoenix fortress / photographs, Chris Reardon ; text, A.J.B. Johnston. Halifax : Nimbus, 1990. [83] pages : colour illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.5 R288 - Open Shelf
Fortification — Nova Scotia — Louisbourg
Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park (N.S.) — Pictorial works.
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Louisbourg in 1745 : the anonymous Lettre d'un habitant de Louisbourg (Cape Breton), containing a narrative by an eye-witness of the siege in 1745 / edited with an English translation by George M. Wrong. Toronto : W. Briggs, 1897. 74 pages ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.5 L888 - Open Shelf
Louisbourg (N.S.) — History — Siege, 1745.
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The summer of 1744 : a portrait of life in 18th century Louisbourg / A.J.B. Johnston. Rev. ed. Ottawa : National Historic Sites, Parks Service, 1991. 109 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.5 J72 1991 - Open Shelf
Service canadien des parcs. Lieux historiques nationaux.
Louisbourg (N.S.) — History
Louisbourg (N.S.) — Social life and customs
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The summer of 1744 : a portrait of life in 18th-century Louisbourg / A.J.B. Johnston. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, 1983. 119 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.5 J72 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: L'été de 1744.
Parks Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch.
Louisbourg (N.S.) — History
Louisbourg (N.S.) — Social life and customs.
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Louisbourg : an 18th-century town / A.J.B. Johnston. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 143 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.5 J66 - Open Shelf
For use in grade 5.
Louisbourg (N.S.) — History — Juvenile literature.
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The cod fishery of Isle Royale, 1713-58 / B.A. Balcom. 88 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.5 B36 - Open Shelf
Parks Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch.
Cod-fisheries — New France — Isle Royale — History
Isle Royale (New France) — History.
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The story of a ruined chapel / S.G. Archibald. Canada- : 1894. 22 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.5 Ar2 - Open Shelf
Photocopy.
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La Vie acadienne en Nouvelle-Écosse / recherchiste, Eddie Comeau ; collaboration, Maurice Belliveau ; dessins, Germaine Comeau. Pointe-de-L'Église : Centre provincial de ressources pedagogiques, Université Sainte-Anne, 1984. 2 v. : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060 V656 - Open Shelf
Centre provincial de ressources pédagogiques (N.-É.)
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The country of Acadia / Melvin Gallant ; translated by Elliot Shek. Toronto : Simon & Pierre, 1986. 175 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060 G3413 1986 - Open Shelf
Editor, Marian M. Wilson.
Acadians
Acadians — Pictorial works
Maritime Provinces — Description and travel — 1951-1980 — Views
Acadia.
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New France and New England / by John Fiske. Includes index. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1902. xxiii, 378 pages, [11] pages of plates : illustrations, maps
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060 F541 - Open Shelf
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
New England — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Two beginnings : a brief Acadian history / by J. Alphonse Deveau. Yarmouth : Lescarbot Press = Editions Lescarbot, 1980. 76 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060 D489 - Open Shelf
This work is a translated summary of a two-part volume entitled Notre héritage acadien to be published in August 1980.--T.pages verso.
Deveau, J. Alphonse, 1917- Notre héritage acadien.
Acadians — Social life and customs
Acadians — History
Acadia — History.
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Diary of a Frenchman : François Lambert Bourneuf's adventures from France to Acadia, 1787-1871 / edited and translated by J. Alphonse Deveau. Halifax : Nimbus, 1990. xi, 114 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060 B775 - Open Shelf
Acadians — Diaries
Nova Scotia — History — 19th century.
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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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Dreams of empire : Canada before 1700 / by André Vachon in collaboration with Victorin Chabot and André Desrosiers. Ottawa : Public Archives of Canada, 1982. xi, 387 pages : ill (some colour), portraits ; 29 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5057 V119 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: Rêves d'empire. Includes index.
Chabot, Victorin
Desrosiers, André.
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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
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs
New France — Discovery and exploration
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Notes pour senvir a l'histoire, a la bibliographie et la cartographie de la Nouvelle-France et des pays adjacents 1545-1700 / Par l'auteur de la Bibliotheca Americana Detuftiffima. Paris : Librairie Tross, 1872. 367 pages; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5057 H317 - Open Shelf
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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Biggar, Henry Percival, 1872-1938
Early trading companies of New France. A contribution to the history of commerce and discovery in North America Toronto : Univ. of Toronto Library, 1901. 308 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5057 B59 - Open Shelf
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Neatby, Hilda Marion Ada, 1904-
Quebec: the revolutionary age, 1760-1791 Toronto : McClelland and Stewart. 300 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5055 M84 C16 v.6 - Open Shelf
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Nish, Margaret Elizabeth (Abbot) 1942-
Racism or responsible government: the French Canadian dilemma of the 1840's Toronto : Copp Clark Pub. Co. 184 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5055 I86 no.4 - Open Shelf
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Costain, Thomas Bertram, 1885-
Canadian history series Toronto : Doubleday Canada. v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5055 C16HC82 - Open Shelf
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Bourinot, Sir John George, 1837-1902
Canada. New and rev. ed London : T. Fisher Unwin. 492 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5055 B77 C21 1922 - Open Shelf
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