The discovery of North America by John Cabot : a first chapter in the history of North America / by Frederic Kidder. Boston : 1878. 15 pages
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Read before the Maine Historical Society, at Bath, February 17, 1874. Reprinted from the New England historical and genealogical register for October, 1878, by David Clapp & Son. -- Verso t.pages Printed for private circulation.
America — Discovery and exploration.
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The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nations : made by sea or over land to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 years : divided into three several parts acc / by Richard Hakluyt . London : Imprinted at London by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majestie, 1589. 3 v.
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Text in English and Latin. Includes index.
Voyages and travels
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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Descriptive catalogue of those maps, charts and surveys relating to America, which are mentioned in Vol. III of Hakluyt's great work / by J.G. Kohl. Washington, (D.C.) : Henry Polkinhorn, 1857.
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America — Discovery and exploration.
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Hakluyt's collection of the early voyages, travels, and discoveries of the English nation / Richard Hakluyt. A new edition, with additions. London : Printed for R.H. Evans, ... J. Mackinlay, etc., 1809-12. 5 v.
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Some text in Latin with English translation. Added t.p.: The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques, and discoveries of the English nation ... / by Richard Hakluyt. This edition is an accurate reprint of the 1598-1600 folio edited by R.H. E
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1778-1857
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616. Principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation.
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Russia — Discovery and exploration
Scandinavia — Discovery and exploration.
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Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent / collected and published by Richard Hakluyt ; edited, with notes and an introduction, by John Winter Jones. London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1850. 171 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
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Original issued in series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references.
Jones, John Winter, 1805-1881.
Voyages and travels
America — Discovery and exploration
Northwest Passage.
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The discoveries of the English in America 16--. 212 pages ; 14 cm.
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America — Discovery and exploration.
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A memoir of Sebastian Cabot : with a review of the history of maritime discovery London : Hurst, Chance, 1831. 333 pages ; 23 cm.
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Illustrated by documents from the rolls, now first publishedition Attributed to Richard Biddle--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.
Explorers — America
America — Discovery and exploration — Italian.
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The colonies of England : a plan for the government of some portion of our colonial possessions / by John Arthur Roebuck. London : J.W. Parker, 1849. 248 pages
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A land there lies Now void ... Tables. Includes publisher's list.
Great Britain — Colonies — Administration
Canada — Politics and government.
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Colonial policy, with hints upon the formation of military settlements : to which are added observations on the boundary question now pending between this country and the United States / by W.B. Cooke. 2nd ed. London : James Cochrane and Co., 1835. 49 pages
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Great Britain — Colonies — America.
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Union manifesto 1864-.
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A petition favouring the inclusion of Nova Scotia in the proposed union of the provinces, with a list of supporters attachedition Caption title.
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1784-1867.
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Brief suggestions in regard to the formation of local governments for Upper and Lower Canada : in connection with a federal union of the British North American provinces / by Alpheus Todd. Ottawa : G.E. Desbarats, 1866. 15 pages ; 22 cm.
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Printed by order. Includes bibliographical references.
Local government — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867.
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On the intention of the imperial government to unite the provinces of British North America : and a review of some events which took place during the session of the provincial Parliament in 1854 in Quebec / by Henry Taylor. Toronto : 1858. 117 pages
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Representative government and representation — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867.
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General union of all the British provinces of North America London : Printed by W. Clowes, 1824. 43, 20, 16 pages ; 22 cm.
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Consists of 3 pamphlets. Each pamphlet mentioned in the Contents is paged separately and has its own t.pages but with no mention of its author. Title-page of pamphlets no. 2 and 3 have date 1824. Inscribed below Contents is the office held in Canada by the a
Sewell, Jonathan, 1766-1839. Plan for a general legislative union of the British provinces in North America
Stuart, J. (James), 1780-1853. Remarks on a plan entituled, "A plan for a general legislative union of the British provinces in North America.".!
Representative government and representation — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — 1791-1837.
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Resolutions relative to the proposed union of the British North American provinces Quebec : Hunter, Rose & Co., 1865. 13 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867
Canada — History — 1841-1867.
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Repeal : to the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom in parliament assembled. Of B.N.A. Act The humble petition of the representatives of the province of Nova Scotia 18--. 48 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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The confederation of the British North American provinces ; their past history and future ... with a map and suggestions in reference to the true and only practicable route from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean / by Thomas Rawlings. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1865. 244 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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The proposed B.N.A. confederation : a reply to Mr. Penny's reasons why it should not be imposed upon the colonies by imperial legislation / by George Henry Macaulay. Montreal : Daily News, 1867. 13 pages
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Penny, Edward Goff, 1820-1881. The proposed British North American confederation.
Canada — History — Confederation, 1867
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867.
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Papers relative to the Union of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada, 1871 1871. 29 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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The northern kingdom / by a colonist. Montreal : Dawson Bros., 18--. 18 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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The mental outfit of the new Dominion Montreal : 1867. 7 pages
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From the Montreal Gazette, Nov. 5th, 1867.
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Miscellaneous papers connected with the agitation at Halifax for the repeal of the British North America Act, 1867-68 Dominion Documents, 1868.
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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Remarks upon the proposed federation of the provinces / by a Nova Scotian. Halifax : J. Bowes, 1864. 16 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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An examination of the proposed union of the North American provinces / by Judge Marshall. Halifax : MacNab & Shaffer, 1865. 71 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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Speeches and addresses chiefly on the subject of British-American union / by Thomas D'Arcy McGee. London : Chapman and Hall, 1865. viii, 308 pages ; 21 cm.
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Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867
Great Britain — Colonies — America.
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Letters upon the interpretation of the federal Constitution known as the British North America Act, (1867) / by Mr. Justice T.J.J. Loranger. Quebec : Morning Chronicle, 1884. 63 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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