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Raynal, Guillaume Thomas

A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America / from the French of Abbé Raynal.  Edinburgh : Printed by C. MacFarquhar, 1776. 2 v. ; 16 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21

Pages 48-103 of Volume 1 and pages 9-135 of Volume 2 related to the description and history of the colonies in Canada.

United States — Description and travel
United States — Economic conditions
United States — History — Colonial period, ca.1600-1775
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — Description and travel — To

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Anthropological papers Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1955. 415 pages, 48 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 Sm6b

At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Includes index.

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.

First Nations of North America
Ethnology — North America.

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Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents

Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C. : The Institution, -1965. 119 v. : illustrations maps ; 23-24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 Sm6

Volumes for 1847-1963/64 include the Institution's Report of the Secretary, also published separately. Vols. for 1849-1963/64 include General appendix to the Smithsonian report varies slightly. Description based on: 4th 1849. Showing the operations, expenditures, and condition of the Institution. ; subtitle varies. Some reports issued in various congressional series: Senate miscellaneous documents, House miscellaneous documents, House executive documents, and House documents. Published: Washington : U.S.G.P.O., <1880-1897>

United States National Museum. Report of the U.S. National Museum
Smithsonian Institution. Report of the Secretary.

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Scott, Geraldine Tidd

Hodgdon, Maine, 1832-1982, sesquicentennial album / by Geraldine Tidd Scott ; including photographs and stories by Harry Williams ; genealogical information on Hodgdon families, 1830-1900.  1st ed. North Windham, Me. (P.O. Box 1464, North Windham 04062) : Pioneer Heritage Publications, 1982. iv, 234 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 H688

Includes index.

Williams, Harry, 1890-1979.

Hodgdon (Me.) — Social life and customs
Hodgdon (Me.) — Genealogy.

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Allen, Charles Edwin

History of Dresden, Maine : formerly a part of the old town of Pownalborough : from its earliest settlement to the year 1900 / by Charles Edwin Allen.  Augusta, Me. : Kennebec Journal Print. Shop, 1931. 894 pages, [2] folded pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 D81 A15

Dresden, Me. — History.

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Talbot, Edward Allen

Five years' residence in the Canadas : including a tour through part of the United States of America, in the year 1823 / by Edward Allen Talbot.  London : Longman etc., 1824. 2 v. : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 T14

Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.

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Monro, Alexander

History, geography, and statistics of British North America / by Alex. Monro.  Montreal : J. Lovell, 1864. iv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M75

Errata: pages [ii].

John Lovell (Firm)

Canada — History
Canada — Economic conditions — 1763-1867.

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Heriot, George

Travels through the Canadas : containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes, with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners a / by George Heriot ; illustrated with a map and numerous engravings, from drawings made at the several places by the author.  London : Printed for R. Phillips, 1807. xii, 602, [2] pages, [29] pages of plates (7 folded)

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69

First chapter contains description of the Azores. Part second contains a minute description of the peculiarities of various nations of American aborigines, principally derived from other printed works.--Sabin. Vocabulary of the Algonquin tongue: pages 579-599; Indicative mood of the verb sakia, to love: pages 599-600; Numeration: pages 601-602. Errata: pages xii. Directions for placing the plates: pages [603] Publisher's advertisement: pages [604]

First Nations of North America
Algonquian languages — Dictionaries — English
English language — Dictionaries — Algonquian
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.

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Alexander, James Edward

L'Acadie, or, Seven years' explorations in British America / by Sir James E. Alexander.  London : H. Colburn, 1849. 2 v. : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

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Canada — Description and travel.

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Decosta, Rev. Benjamin Franklin 1831-1904

Relation of a voyage to Sagadahoc Cambridge University Press, 1880. 43 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F22 D35

withdrawn for mending; use F37.55 M38p Ser.1 Volume 18

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Gazetteer of British North America : containing the latest and most authentic descriptions of over six thousand cities, towns and villages in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Briti / edited by P.A. Crossby.  Montreal : J. Lovell, 1875. 2 v. in 1 ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F20 L94 1875

The second part has special t.-p.: The railway and steamboat routes in British North America ... by pagesA. Crossby. Montreal : J. Lovell, 1875.

Crossby, P. A. b. 1842, ed. (Peter Alfred),

John Lovell (Firm)

Canada — Gazetteers.

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Lovell's gazetteer of British North America : containing the latest and most authentic descriptions of over six thousand cities, towns, and villages in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manit / edited by P.A. Crossby.  Montreal : J. Lovell, 1874. 2 v. in 1 ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F20 L94 1874

Bound with: Crossby, pages A. The railway and steamboat routes in British North America ... Montreal, Lovell [n.d.]

Crossby, P. A. (Peter Alfred), b. 1842, ed.

John Lovell (Firm)

Railroads — Canada
Canada — Description and travel Gazetteers
Newfoundland — Description and travel Gazetteers.

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New York (State). Secretary of State

Journals of the military expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six nations of Indians in 1779 : with records of centennial celebrations : prepared pursuant to chapter 361, laws of the state of New York, of 1885 / by Frederick Cook.  Auburn, N.Y. : Knapp, 1887. 1 pages l., xv, 579, (2) pages : front., port., fold. ma

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F18 C77

Compiled by George S. Conover.

Cook, Frederick, 1833-1905
Conover, George Stillwell, b. 1824
Sullivan, John, 1740-1795.

Sullivan's Indian campaign, 1779.

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Reade, John

The literary faculty of the native races of America / by John Reade.  Montreal : Dawson Brothers, 1884. p. 17-30 ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R22

From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Volume II, Section II, 1884.

Dawson Brothers (Montréal, Quebec)
Royal Society of Canada.

First Nations of North America — Languages
Indians of South America — Languages
Indian literature.

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Rand, Silas Tertius

Micmac place-names in the Maritime Provinces and the Gaspé peninsula recorded between 1852 and 1890 / by S. T. Rand ; collected, arranged and indexed by Wm. P. Anderson.  Canada : (Ottawa : Printed at the Surveyor General's Office), 1919. 116 pages ; 22 cm.

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Pela kesagunoodumumkawa tan tula uksakumamenoo westowoolkw'Sasoogoole Clistawit ootenink : Megumoweesimk / translated by S.T. Rand.  Chebooktook : Megumagea' Ledakun-Weekugemkawa Moweome, 1871. 126 pages ; 17 cm.

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Bound with: A first reading book in the Micmac language / Silas T. Rand, 1875.

Rand, Silas Tertius, 1810-1889.

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Rand, Silas Tertius

Dictionary of the language of the Micmac Indians, who reside in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton and Newfoundland / by Silas Tertius Rand.  Halifax : Nova Scotia Printing Co., 1888. viii, 286 pages ; 26 cm.

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Rand, Silas Tertius

Rand's Micmac dictionary : from phonographic word-lists prepared by Rev. Silas T. Rand, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L / transcribed and alphabetically arranged, with a grammar and list of place-names by Jeremiah S. Clark.  Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Patriot Pub. Co., 1902. xxxiii, 192 pages ; 20 cm.

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Clark's edition of the manuscript Dictionary left unfinished by Rand at the time of his death--Masinahikan. A companion volume to Rand's English-Micmac vocabulary. Published by direction of the Canadian government Also includes 'Micmac place-names in the Maritime provinces of Canada,' with its own title-page but continuous collation and pagination--Masinahikan.

Clark, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Simpson), 1872-1950.

Mi'kmaq language — Dictionaries — English
Mi'kmaq language — Grammar
Mi'kmaq — Names
Names, Geographical — Canada.

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Pela kesagunoodumumkawa tan tula uksakumamenoo westowoolkw'Sasoogoole Clistawit ootenink : Megumoweesimk / translated by S.T. Rand.  Chebooktook : Megumagea' Ledakun-Weekugemkawa Moweome, 1871. 126 pages ; 17 cm.

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Rand, Silas Tertius, 1810-1889.

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Boas, Franz

Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas.  Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off, 1911-. 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 B63

Pilling, James Constantine

Bibliography of the Algonquin languages / by James Constantine Pilling.  Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1891. x, 614 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 AL3 P64

Algonquian languages — Bibliography.

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O'Bryan, Aileen

The Dîné : origin myths of the Navaho Indians Washington, D.C. : U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1956. vii, 187 pages : illustrations, diagrs. ; 24 cm.

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Partridge, Emelyn Newcomb

Glooscap the great chief, and other stories : legends of the Micmacs New York : Sturgis & Walton, 1913. 293 pages : front. (port. group) plates. ; 20 cm.

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Most of the stories are adapted from Rand's Legends of the Micmacs.

Glooscap (Legendary character)
Mi'kmaq — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Legends.

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Leland, Charles Godfrey

The Algonquin legends of New England, or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes / by Charles G. Leland.  2nd ed. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1885, 1884. xv, 379 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

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Marquette, Jacques

Facsimile of Père Marquette's Illinois Prayer Book : its history / by J.L. Hubert Neilson.  Quebec : Quebec Lit. and Hist. Society, 1908. 12 pages : facsims., port. ; 16 x 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 I16 A15

History of the prayer book is in English; text of the prayer book is in Illinois, with some headings in French and Latin. The prayer book was prepared by Father Claude Allouez at the request of Father Marquette--pages 8. Published ... in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Quebec, July 1608. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies.

Allouez, Claude, 1622-1689
Neilson, J. L. Hubert (John Louis Hubert), 1845-1925.

Illinois language — Texts.

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