The Indians of Canada / by Diamond Jenness. Ottawa : F.A. Acland, printer to the King, 1932. x, 446 pages : colour front., illustrations, colour plates. ; 26 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 J43i
Folded map in pocket.
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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The American aborigines, their origin and antiquity Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1933. 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 J43
A collection of papers by ten authors, assembled and edited by Diamond Jenness; published for presentation at the fifth Pacific Science Congress, Canada, 1933.
Indians — Origin
First Nations of North America — Antiquities
Indians of South America — Antiquities
Man — Migrations.
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Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from the author's earliest recollection to his assumption of the habits of civilized life London : Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, 1823-. 468 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H92
Issued with: Manners and customs of several Indian tribes : located west of the Mississippi.
First Nations of North America — Captivities
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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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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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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Biography and history of the Indians of North America ... : also, a history of their wars .. / by Samuel G. Drake. 5th ed., with large additions and corrections, and numerous engravings. Boston : Antiquarian Institute, 1837. xii, 48, 120, 144, 96, 168 pages, [12] pages of plat
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 D78
Spine title: Indians of North America. First published under title: Indian biography. Added t.pages title: The book of the Indians of North America.
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Biography.
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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
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B82
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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Indian captivities / Marius Barbeau. Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1950. p. [522]-548 ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B23 In2
First Nations of North America — Captivities.
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Indian captivities Washington, D.C. : American Philosophical Society, 1950. [522]-548 pages ; 27 cm.
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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 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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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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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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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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Cabot's discovery of North America by G.E. Weare London : J. MacQueen, 1897. x, 343 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21
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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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New England frontier; Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 [1st ed.]. Boston : Little, Brown, 1965. xvii, 430 pages : illustrations, facsim., map, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F7 V364
First Nations of North America — New England
Indians, Treatment of — New England
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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North America New York : Harper, 1862. vii, 623 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 T74
United States — Description and travel
United States — Politics and government — 1861-1865
Canada — Description and travel.
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