David Zeisberger's History of the Northern American Indians / edited by Archer Butler Hulbert and William Nathaniel Schwarze. Columbus : Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1910. ii, 189 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 Ze3
On spine: History of the Northern American Indians. Appeared originally in the regular Quarterly publications of the Society for January and April, 1910.--Pref. Includes index.
Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933
Schwarze, William Nathaniel, 1875-1948.
Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.
First Nations of North America
First Nations of North America — New York (State)
First Nations of North America — Pennsylvania
First Nations of North America — Ohio.
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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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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.
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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
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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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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 search for the western sea : the story of the exploration of north-western America / by Lawrence J. Burpee. New and rev. ed. Toronto : Macmillan Company of Canada, 1935. 2 v. : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 B93
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel
Northwest, Canadian — History
Northwest Passage.
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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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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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English discovery of America to 1585 / by Franklin T. McCann. New York : King's Crown Press, 1952, 1951. xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 M13
America in literature
Cosmography
America — Discovery and exploration — English.
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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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The voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII / by James A. Williamson. London : Argonaut Press, 1929. xiii, 290 pages, [13] pages of plates (1 folded) : m
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W67
Limited edition of 1050 numbered copies. Includes index.
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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John and Sebastian Cabot : the discovery of North America / by C. Raymond Beazley. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. xx, 311 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 B38
Discoveries in geography — American
America — Discovery and exploration.
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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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The lost discovery ; uncovering the track of the Vikings in America / Illus. and maps by J. Warren Sheppard. [1st ed.] New York, Norton 1952. 346 pages illus., maps. 22 cm.
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Vikings
North America — Discovery and exploration
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Jones, Charles Hugh Le Pailleur
The Markland sagas : with a discussion of their relation to Nova Scotia / by C.H.L. Jones and Thomas H. Raddall ; illustrated by Thomas W. Hayhurst. Montreal : Gazette Printing Company Ltd., 1934. 117, 1 pages : illustrations (incl. maps) plates, portraits ; 19
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Maps on lining-papers. Bibliography: pages 117.
Hayhurst, Thomas W., illus
Raddall, Thomas H., 1903-1994.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse
Nova Scotia.
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The problem of Wineland / by Halldór Hermannsson. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1936. 3, 84, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 H42
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse.
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The Norse discoverers of America : the Wineland sagas / translated & discussed by G.M. Gathorne-Hardy. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1921. 304 pages : geneal. table, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 G22
Translations from: ñorfinns saga Karlsefnis, Eiríks áttr Rau, and Grlnlendinga áttr.
Gathorne-Hardy, G. M. (Geoffrey Malcolm), 1878- Grlnlendinga áttr. English.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse.
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Here was Vinland : the Great Lakes region of America / by James W. Curran. Sault Ste. Marie, ON. : Sault Daily Star, 1939. xiv, 359 pages, [19] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 2
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 C94
Half title: Here was Vinland : a 1000 year old mystery solvedition At head of title: America's strangest story. Includes index.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse
Great Lakes — Discovery and exploration.
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