Mackenzie and his voyageurs : by canoe to the Arctic and the Pacific, 1789-93 / by Arthur P. Woollacott. London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1927. x, 237 pages : illustrations (map) plates. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M19 W88
In the preparation of this essay, Mackenzie's narrative, as contained in the original edition of his Voyages, 1801, was used as a basis.--pages v.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Cinq mois chez les Français d'Amerique : voyage au Canada et à la rivière Rouge du Nord / par H. de Lamothe. 2nd ed. Paris : Hachette et cie, 1880. 2 pages l., iv, 373 pages : front., plates, portraits, 4 ma
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Canada — Description and travel — 1867-1950
Red River of the North
Canada — Description and travel — 1868-1900.
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Letters from North America, written during a tour in the United States and Canada / by Adam Hodgson. London : Printed for Hurst, Robinson, & Co. and A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, 1824. 2 v. (xv, 405; iv, 459 pages) : illustrations, folded map, pla
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Errata slip tipped in to both vols. Error in paging: pages 331 misnumbered 831. Some copies of v. 2 also have a Postscript (pages [461]-473 dated Washington, 10th March, 1824. After many copies of the preceding work were sent off, I received an American newspaper, which contained the following documents ... I have thought it desirable to insert them in those copies which were still within my reach--pages [463]
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United States — Social life and customs — 1783-1865
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.
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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]
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Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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Travels through the Canadas / by George Heriot. London- : 18--. 232 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
Missing title page.
First Nations of North America
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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A pocket gazetteer : or Traveller's guide through North America and the West Indies : containing a description of all the states, territories, counties, cities, towns, villages, seas, bays, harbors, islands, capes, railroads, canals, &c., connected with N / by Bishop Davenport. Trenton, N.J. : Plaskitt & Co, 1833. 468 pages : front (fold. map) illus., fold. pl. ; 15
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 D27
Library's copy has torn t.p.
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North America — Gazetteers
West Indies — Gazetteers.
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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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Lovell's Canadian dominion directory for 1871 Montreal : J. Lovell, 1871. 2562 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F20 L94c
Canada — Directories
Nova Scotia — Directories.
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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),
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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.
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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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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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.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R15 M58
At head of title: Geographic Board of Canada.
Anderson, William Patrick, 1851-
Names, Geographical — Canada
Names, Indian — North America
Mi'kmaq language — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Maritime Provinces
Gaspé Peninsula (Québec)
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A first reading book in the Micmac language : comprising the Micmac numerals, and the names of the different kinds of beasts, birds, fishes, trees, etc. of the Maritime provinces of Canada, also some of the Indian names of places, and many familiar word Halifax : Nova Scotia Printing Co., 1875. 126 pages ; 17 cm.
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English and Micmac.
Mi'kmaq language — Readers
Mi'kmaq language — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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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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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
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
First Nations of North America — Languages.
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The Indian tribes of North America / by John R. Swanton. Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1952. vi, 726 pages : 4 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 Sw2
First Nations of North America.
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The horse in Blackfoot Indian culture : with comparative material from other Western tribes / by John C. Ewers. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1955. xv, 374 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 Si2 EW3
Siksika Indians — Horses
Horses — Great Plains
First Nations of North America — Great Plains — Horses.
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Glooscap the great chief, and other stories : legends of the Micmacs New York : Sturgis & Walton, 1913. 293 pages : front. (port. group) plates. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 M58 P25
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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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.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 L53
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Folklore
Passamaquoddy Indians
Penobscot Indians
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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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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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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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