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Kingsford, William

The history of Canada / by William Kingsford.  Toronto : Rowsell & Hutchison, 1887-1898. 10 v.

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Canada — History.

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Jesuits

The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in North America (1610-1791) / with an introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites ; selected and edited by Edna Kenton.  New York : Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. liv, 527 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, ports,

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 J49

Bond, J. Wesley

Minnesota and its resources : to which are appended camp-fire sketches or notes of a trip from St. Paul to Pembina and Selkirk settlement on the Red River of the north / by J. Wesley Bond.  Chicago : Philadelphia : Keen & Lee ; C. Desilver, 1857. 412 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F37.33 B64 M66 - Open Shelf

Codman, John

Arnold's expedition to Quebec New York : Macmillan Company, 1901. ix, 340 pages : ill ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 Ar6 C64

Chapman, Henry S.

Canadian invasion, 1775-1776
Québec (Québec) — History.

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Anburey, Thomas

Travels through the interior parts of America / by Thomas Anburey ; with a foreword by William Harding Carter.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 2 v. : 1 folded map ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 An1 T69

Coleman, Emma Lewis

New England captives carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760, during the French and Indian wars / by Emma Lewis Coleman.  Portland, Me. : Southworth Press, 1925. 2 v. : fronts., illus. (map, facsim.) plates, port

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C67 N42

Raynal, Guillaume Thomas

A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America / from the French of Abbé Raynal.  Edinburgh : Printed by C. MacFarquhar, 1776. 2 v. ; 16 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21

Pages 48-103 of Volume 1 and pages 9-135 of Volume 2 related to the description and history of the colonies in Canada.

United States — Description and travel
United States — Economic conditions
United States — History — Colonial period, ca.1600-1775
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — Description and travel — To

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Travels in North America London : Printed for C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1831. 168 pages, [3] pages of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 T69

Purporting to narrate the experiences of one George Philips, to whom the work is sometimes attributed (Halkett & Laing VI 81, this account is a narrative of his travels from Ireland to the West Indies, and thence to the United States to cross the continent with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He returned east through Canada to Newfoundland, and then via Quebec and Lake Champlain to New York. Cf. TPL.

Philips, George.

West Indies — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848.

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Talbot, Edward Allen

Five years' residence in the Canadas : including a tour through part of the United States of America, in the year 1823 / by Edward Allen Talbot.  London : Longman etc., 1824. 2 v. : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 T14

Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.

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Monro, Alexander

History, geography, and statistics of British North America / by Alex. Monro.  Montreal : J. Lovell, 1864. iv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M75

Errata: pages [ii].

John Lovell (Firm)

Canada — History
Canada — Economic conditions — 1763-1867.

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Woollacott, Arthur P.

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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Lamothe, H. de

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

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 L16

Hodgson, Adam

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

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H66

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]

United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848
United States — Social life and customs — 1783-1865
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.

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Heriot, George

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]

First Nations of North America
Algonquian languages — Dictionaries — English
English language — Dictionaries — Algonquian
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.

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Heriot, George

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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Alexander, James Edward

L'Acadie, or, Seven years' explorations in British America / by Sir James E. Alexander.  London : H. Colburn, 1849. 2 v. : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 AL2

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

John Lovell (Firm)

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),

John Lovell (Firm)

Canada — Gazetteers.

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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.

John Lovell (Firm)

Railroads — Canada
Canada — Description and travel Gazetteers
Newfoundland — Description and travel Gazetteers.

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Rand, Silas Tertius

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.

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Rand, Silas Tertius

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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Macmillan, Cyrus

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

MacMillan, Cyrus

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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Jenness, Diamond

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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Hodge, Frederick Webb

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.

White, James, 1863-1928.

First Nations of North America — Canada.

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