The ordeal of John Gyles : being an account of his odd adventures, strange deliverances etc. as a slave of the Maliseets Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart, 1966. ix, 155 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F52545.9 T76 OR2 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Captivities
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific oceans in the years 1789 and 1793 : with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country / by Alexander Mackenzie. London : printed for T. Cadell, W. Davies, Cobbet and Morgan and W. Creech by R. Noble, 1801. cxxxii, 412 pages, [4] pages of plates : fold. maps,
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5576 M19 V94 1902 - Open Shelf
Includes vocabularies of the Knisteneax, Algonquin, Chepewyan, Nagailer and Atnah Indian languages.
First Nations of North America — Northwest, Canadian
Fur trade — Northwest, Canadian
First Nations of North America — Canada — Languages — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Voyages from Montreal through the continent of North America to the frozen and Pacific oceans in 1789 and 1793 : with an account of the rise and state of the fur trade / by Alexander Mackenzie. New York : New Amsterdam Book Co., 1902. 2 v. : fronts. (incl. port., v. 1) fold. map. ; 18
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5576 M19 V94 1902 - Open Shelf
First edition, London, 1801. Includes vocabularies of the Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Chepewyan, Nagailer and Atnah Indian languages. Introduction signed: Robert Waite.
First Nations of North America — Northwest, Canadian
Fur trade — Northwest, Canadian
First Nations of North America — Canada — Languages — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America : from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through Hudson's Bay Company's territory and back again / by Paul Kane. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. xvii, 455 pages, [17] pages of plates : illustrations (some c
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First Nations of North America — Northwest, Canadian
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — 1822-1870.
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The wild north land : being the story of a winter journey, with dogs, across northern North America / by W.F. Butler. Montreal : Dawson, 1874. x, 358 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 folded
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5558 B987
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel
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Settlement and the forest frontiers in eastern Canada Toronto : Macmillan, 1936. xiv, 424 pages : illustrations (incl. maps) ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5555 C16 M19 #9
Mines and mineral resources — Canada
Forests and forestry — Canada
Canada — Industries.
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As she began : an illustrated introduction to Loyalist Ontario / by Bruce Wilson. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1981. 125 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5471 L69 W746 - Open Shelf
United Empire loyalists — History
Canada — History — 1763-1791.
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Trade and navigation on the Chambly Canal : a historical overview / P.-André Sévigny. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada. 1983. 88 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5448 C442 S497 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: Commerce et navigation sur le canal Chambly.
Parks Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch.
Canals — Canada — History
Chambly Canal (Quebec) — History.
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Le Canada-français : revue publié sous la direction d'un comité de professeurs de l'Université Laval Québec : 1888-1891. 4 v. 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5400 C16 - Open Shelf
Title from Volume t.p.
Canadians, French-speaking — History — Periodicals
Canadian periodicals (French)
Canada — History — Periodicals.
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Tall tales and true tales from down east : eerie experiences, heroic exploits, extraordinary personalities, ancient legends and folklore from New Brunswick and elsewhere in the Maritimes / Stuart Trueman. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1979. 171 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5255 T866 - Open Shelf
Folklore — New Brunswick — Miscellanea
Folklore — Maritime Provinces — Miscellanea
New Brunswick — Miscellanea
Maritime Provinces, Canada — Miscellanea
Maritime Provinces — Miscellanea.
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Leaves from Juliana Horatia Ewing's Canada Home / gathered and illustrated by Elizabeth S. Tucker. Boston, MA. : Roberts Brothers, 1896. 145 pages : illustrations, plates, portraits ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5254.9 E95 L439 - Open Shelf
"Mrs. Ewing's letters 1867-1869": pages 85-145.
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, 1841-1885.
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Louisbourg : key to a continent / Fairfax Downey. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1965. xii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 L88 D74 - Open Shelf
Louisbourg (N.S.) — History — Siege, 1745
Louisbourg (N.S.) — History — Siege, 1758
Canada — History — 1713-1763 (New France)
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Canada; an historical magazine Toronto, Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1973-1976. 3 v. illus. 26 cm. quarterly.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 L88 C21 - Open Shelf
Library has: Volume 1, no.4 (June 1974.
Canada — History — Periodicals
Louisbourg (N.S.) — History
Louisbourg (N.S.) — Restoration
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Staples, urban growth, and the heartland-hinterland paradigm : Halifax as an Imperial outpost, 1867-1914 Canada : 1977. 39 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 M122 - Open Shelf
Cities and towns — Canada — History
Halifax (N.S.) — History — 1867-1914.
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Halifax : a literary portrait / edited by John Bell ; with a foreword by Robert MacNeil. Lawrencetown Beach : Pottersfield Press, 1990. viii, 228 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 H173 H173 - Open Shelf
Halifax (N.S.) in literature
Canadian literature (English)
Canadian literature (English) — History and criticism
Halifax (N.S.) — Literary collections.
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Tamped clay and saltmarsh hay : artifacts of New Brunswick / by Robert Cunningham and John B. Price. Fredericton, N.B. : Brunswick Press, 1976. xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C973 - Open Shelf
Furniture, Early Canadian — New Brunswick
Implements, utensils, etc. — New Brunswick.
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Down north : the book of Cape Breton's magazaine / Ronald Caplan, editor. Toronto, ON. : Doubleday Canada, 1980. ix, 241 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 D748 - Open Shelf
Includes some text in Gaelic. Articles previously published in Cape Breton's magazine.
Canadians — Interviews
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Miscellanea.
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Report on other historical celebrations (Canada) / Stephen E. MacDonald. Nova Scotia : Cape Breton Bicentennial Commission, 1983. 1 v. (various pagings): illustrations; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 B583 M135 - Open Shelf
Cape Breton Bicentennial Commission
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B...was for butter and enemy craft / Evelyn M. Richardson. Halifax : Petheric Press, 1976. 112 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5229 R522 - Open Shelf
World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, Canadian.
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Nova Scotia and Confederation, 1864-74 / Kenneth G. Pryke. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1979. xi, 240 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5227 P973 - Open Shelf
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1763-1867
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867
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An encouragement to colonies Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968. 47 pages : map. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5226 A379 E56 1968 - Open Shelf
Original t.pages has imprint: London, Printed by William Stansby, 1624.
Colonies
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration — English.
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Land of my fathers : Shelburne County, Nova Scotia's early Welsh families / compiled and written by Heather Doane Atkinson and Eleanor Robertson Smith. Yarmouth : Stoneycroft, 1989-1993. 2 v. : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 W4 A875 - Open Shelf
A project of the Shelburne County Genealogical Society. Volume 2 compiled by Eleanor Robertson Smith. Includes indexes.
Shelburne County Genealogical Society (N.S.)
Welsh Canadians — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County) — Genealogy
Welsh Canadians — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County) — History
Shelburne (N.S. : County) — Genealogy
Shelburne (N.S. : County) — History.
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Metagama : a journey from Lewis to the New World / Jim Wilkie. Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 1987. 208 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 S3 W683 - Open Shelf
Includes some text in Gaelic.
Immigrants — Canada — History — 20th century
Immigrants — Canada — Biography
Scots — Canada — History — 20th century
Scots — Canada — Biography
Lewis with Harris Island (Scotland) — Emigration
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A state of mind : the Scots in Nova Scotia / R.A. MacLean. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1992. 99 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 S3 M163 - Open Shelf
Scots — Nova Scotia — History
Scottish Canadians — Nova Scotia — History.
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The Scots / Frank Emmerson. Tantallon : Four East Publications, 1987. 70 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 S3 E54 - Open Shelf
Scots — Maritime Provinces — History
Scottish Canadians — Maritime Provinces — History
Scottish Canadians — Maritime Provinces — Biography
Canada — Emigration and immigration.
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