Indian biography : a minute and graphic story of early Indian life in the United States : Indian manners, customs and wars, a valuable compendium to American history / by B. B. Thatcher. Akron, Ohio : Superior Printing Co., 1910. 187 pages ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 T32
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs
First Nations of North America — Wars.
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Origin myth of Acoma and other records / by Matthew W. Stirling. Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1942. viii, 123 pages, 17 plates (1 colour) on 9 pages : ill
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 St5
At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Acoma Indians — Religion and mythology
Acoma (N.M.)
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Maliseet vocabulary / by Montague Chamberlain ; with an introduction by William F. Ganong. Cambridge Mass. : Harvard Cooperative Society, 1899. 94 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M46 C35
Ganong, William F. (William Francis), 1864-1941.
Malecite language — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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Glooskap's country, and other Indian tales / illustrated by John A. Hall. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1955. 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 G51
First Nations of North America — Legends
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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Canadian wonder tales / by Cyrus Macmillan ; with illustrations in colour by George Sheringham and a foreword by Sir William Peterson. London : John Lane, 1918. xvi, 199 pages : colour front., colour plates ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 C16
Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore.
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Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1907-1910. 2 v. : illustrations, maps (1 fold) ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H66 2
On spine: 59th Congress. Ist session, December 4, 1905-1906. House Documents, Volume 61-62
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
First Nations of North America — Encyclopedias.
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Handbook of Indians of Canada : published as an appendix to the Tenth report of the Geographic Board of Canada / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Ottawa : Geographic Board, 1913. x, 632 pages : 3 fold maps. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H66
Reprinted by permission of Mr. F.W. Hodge ... from Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, published as Bulletin 30, Bureau of American ethnology, and edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Reprinted under the direction of James White. Published also in French under title: Manuel des indiens du Canada. At head of title: Geographic Board. Canada. 1912.
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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The true story of Hiawatha and history of the Six Nation Indians / by A. Leon Hatzan. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1925. 298 pages, [9] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H28
Iroquois Indians
Hiawatha, Iroquois Indian.
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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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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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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
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First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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Indian captivities Washington, D.C. : American Philosophical Society, 1950. [522]-548 pages ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B23 In2
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, v. 94, no. 6 (Dec. 1950.
First Nations of North America — Captivities.
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The letters and journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808 / edited with an introd. by W. Kaye Lamb ; maps by C. C. J. Bond. Toronto : Macmillan, 1960. 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 F46
Lamb, W. Kaye (William Kaye), 1904-
Fraser River (B.C.)
British Columbia — Description and travel
Canada — Exploring expeditions
British Columbia — Description and travel — To 1871.
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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 fatal river : the life and death of La Salle / by Frances Gaither. New York : H. Holt, 1931. 303 pages, [12] pages of plates : maps ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 G12
Map on lining-papers.
Explorers — Canada — Biography.
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History of Cavelier de La Salle, 1643-1687 : explorations in the valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents / Paul Chesnel ; translated from the French by Andrée Chesnel Meany. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. vii, 232 pages : fold. maps. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 C42
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Mississippi River Valley — History — To 1803.
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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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Henry Hudson, a brief statement of his aims and his achievements, to which is added a newly-discovered partial record, now first published, of the trial of the mutineers by whom he and others were abandoned to their death New York : Harper, 1909. 147 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
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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
Includes index.
Skelton, R. A. (Raleigh Ashlin), 1906-1970.
America — Discovery and exploration — English
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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Magnalia Christi americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New England, from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of Our Lord, 1698 : in seven books / by Cotton Mather. London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. 7 pt. in 1 v. : folded map ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F7 M427
Pagination irregular: paging of Book IV begins with pages 125.
New England — Church history
New England — Biographies
New England — History — Colonial period.
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Amerigo and the New World : the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci / translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onís. [1st ed.] New York : Knopf, 1955. 323, ix pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F6 V63 Ar3
Explorers — America — Biography
Explorers — Spain — Biography
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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Historical account of discoveries and travels in North America : including the United States, Canada, the shores of the Polar Sea, and the voyages in search of a north-west passage ; with observations on emigration / by Hugh Murray. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green ; 1829. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 M98
North America — History
America — Discovery and exploration.
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Life and voyages of Christopher Columbus / by Washington Irving. New York : Crowell & Co., 18--. 730 pages : front. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F2 I8 L62
Appendix: pages 609.
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History of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus / by Washington Irving. A new edition revised and corrected / Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, for George W. Gorton, 1841. 2 v. : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F2 I8 H63 v.1
Appendix: containing illustrations and documents, v. 2, pages [207]-356.
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus : together with the voyages of his companions / by Washington Irving. New and rev. ed. London : John Murray, 1849. 3 v. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F2 I8 H63
The works of Washington Irving. New edition, rev. Volume III-V
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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