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
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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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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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.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R15
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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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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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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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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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 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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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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How summer came to Canada / retold by William Toye ; pictures by Elizabeth Cleaver. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1969. 32 pages : col. illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 T75
This retelling was freely based in part on the version in Canadian wonder tales by Cyrus MacMillan.
Cleaver, Elizabeth, 1939-1985.
Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore
Seasons — Folklore.
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The conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian cultures 1504-1700 : a study in Canadian civilization / by Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey. Saint John, N.B. : Publications of the New Brunswick Museum, 1937. 206 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 B154
Errata slip mounted on fly-leaf.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Algonquian Indians
Canadians, French-speaking
Canada — Civilization.
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Canadian native art; arts and crafts of Canadian Indians and Eskimos. - Don Mills, ON. : Collier-Macmillan Canada, 1973. 180 pages: illus. (part col.); 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E98 A7 P318
First Nations of North America — Canada — Art
Eskimos — Art
Art — Canada.
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Indian treaties and surrenders, from 1680-1890 i.e. 1902 Toronto : Coles Pub. Co, 1971. 3 v. : maps. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E95 I39
Original t.pages of v. 3 reads: Canada. Indian treaties and surrenders from no. 281 to no. 483. Volume III. Ottawa, Printed by C. H. Parmelee, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1912.
First Nations of North America — Treaties
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories : including the negotiations on which they were based, and other information relating thereto / by the Hon. Alexander Morris . Toronto : Belfords, Clarke & Co., 1880. 375 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E92 M87
The treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba, the North-West Territories and Kee-Wa-Tin. Texts of the treaties and supplementary adhesion thereto pages 299-375. Publisher's adverts., 5 pages at end. Peel (2nd edition 544.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Government relations
First Nations of North America — Treaties
First Nations of North America — Canada, Northern
First Nations of North America — Canada, Western.
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Indian-Eskimo Association of Canada
Native rights in Canada Toronto : 1970. iv, 205 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E92 I39 N27
Macdonald, Dean Ronald St. John.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Legal status, laws, etc
First Nations of North America — Canada — Treaties.
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The unjust society : the tragedy of Canada's Indians Edmonton : Hurtig, 1969. 171 p ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E92 C26
Indians, Treatment of — Canada
First Nations of North America — Canada — Government relations.
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The administration of Indian affairs in Canada : report of an investigation made in 1914 under the direction of the Board of Indian Commissioners Washington, D.C. : 1915. 148 pages : illustrations, front., plates ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E92 A131
United States. Board of Indian Commissioners.
First Nations of North America — Canada
First Nations of North America — Government relations.
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Anglo-Indian relations in North America to 1763 and an analysis of the royal proclamation of 7 October 1763 / by Jack Stagg. Ottawa : Research Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1981. [4], 418 pages : maps ; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S E91 S779 - Oversize
Appendix: 1793, October 7. A proclamation by the King.
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Corporate Policy. Research Branch.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Government relations — History
First Nations of North America — Canada — Land tenure — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Great Britain — Colonies — America.
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Indians of Canada : cultural dynamics / by John A. Price. Scarborough, ON. : Prentice-Hall of Canada, 1979. x, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 C212 P945
Includes indexes.
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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