The British Dominions in North America : a topographical and statistical description of the provinces of Lower and Upper Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the islands of Newfoundland, Prince Edward, and Cape Breton / by Josseph Bouchette. London : Longman, Rees, and Orme, 1832. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S F70 B66
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History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year (1840-1) / translated from L'histoire du Canada of F.-X. Garneau, Esq. and accompanied with illustrative notes, etc., etc. by Andrew Bell. Montreal : Printed and published by J. Lovell, 1860. 3 v. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F70 B41
Canada — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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Canada : an essay to which was awarded the first prize by the Paris Exhibition Committee of Canada / by J. Sheridan Hogan. Montreal : R. Dawson, 1855. 86 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F65 H67
Labor omnia vincit Tables.
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.
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Canada : 1849 to 1859 / by Alexander T. Galt. London : R. Hardwicke, 1860. 52 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F65 G13
Canada — History
Canada — Description and travel.
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The last forty years: Canada since the union of 1841 Toronto, G. Virtue, 1881. 2 v. colour fronts., pl., port. 26 x 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F65 D43
Canada — History — 1867-1914
Canada — History — 1867-1914
Canada — History — 1841-1867
Canada — History — 1841-1867.
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A narrative / by Sir Francis B. Head. 2nd ed. London : J. Murray, 1839. 488 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F60 H34
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The conquest of Canada / by the author of Hochelaga. 2nd ed. London : R. Bentley, 1850. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 W19
First Nations of North America
Canada — History — To 1763.
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Les forges Saint-Maurice / annotées publiées par Gérard Malchelosse. Montréal : G. Ducharme, 1920. 216, [1] pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 SU5 v.6
Iron industry and trade — Canada
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The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada / by Francis Parkman. 10th ed., rev. with additions. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1897. 2 v. : illustrations, portraits, fold. maps ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 P23 1897 pt.8
Volume 2 is the 9th edition, rev., with additions.
Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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France and England in North America Boston : Little, Brown 1897. front., maps, plates ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 P23 1897
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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France and England in North America : a series of historical narratives / by Francis Parkman. Boston : Little, Brown, 1865-1892. 8 pts. in 9 v. : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 22 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 P23
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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The history of Canada under French régime, 1535-1763 / by H.H. Miles. Montréal : Dawson Bros., 1872. 521 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 M64
With maps, plans, and illustrative notes.
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France).
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The history of Canada / by William Kingsford. Toronto : Rowsell & Hutchison, 1887-1898. 10 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 K55
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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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kenton, Edna, 1876-1954
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.
First Nations of North America — Missions
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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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
Limited edition of 575.
United States — Description and travel
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783
Canada — Description and travel.
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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
Maps on lining-papers.
First Nations of North America — Captivities
Frontier and pioneer life — New England
New Englanders — Canada
New England — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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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.
West Indies — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848.
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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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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].
Canada — History
Canada — Economic conditions — 1763-1867.
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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
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 L16
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
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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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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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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