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Hollingsworth, S.

The present state of Nova Scotia : with a brief account of Canada, and the British islands on the coast of North America The second edition, corrected and enlarged, illustrated with a map. Edinburgh : Printed for William Creech and sold by T. Cadell, and G. Robinson & Co., London, 1787. xii, 221, [1 pages, [1 folded leaf of plates : map

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3814 - Open Shelf

Attributed to S. Hollingsworth – TPL, Gagnon. Errata: pages 221. References: Gagnon 2802; Sabin 32544; TPL 592.

Nova Scotia — Description and travel — 1785-1850
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Nova Scotia — Description and travel — 1785-1850
Nova Scotia — Economic conditions — To 1867
Canada — Descrip

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Buckingham, James Silk

Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other British provinces in North America : with a plan of national colonization / by James S. Buckingham.  London : Fisher, 1843. 540 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

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Includes index. References: Sabin 8895; TPL 2351.

Canada
Canada — Emigration and immigration
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.

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Morris, Alexander

Canada and her resources : an essay to which, upon a reference from the Paris Committee of Canada, was awarded by His Excellency Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart., governor general of British North America, etc., etc., etc., the second prize / by Alexander Morris.  Montreal : E. Dawson, 1855. 119 pages

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At head of title: Prize essay. 'Virtute et labor. Dum spiro, spero.' Tables.

Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Canada — Commerce.

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Monro, Alexander

Statistics of British North America : including a description of its gold fields / by Alexander Monro.  Halifax : E.M. MacDonald, 1862. 225 pages

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Tables.

Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.

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Yankees in Canada : a collection of nineteenth-century travel narratives / edited with introduction, notes and bibliography by James Doyle.  Downsview, ON. : ECW Press, 1980. 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Warburton, George

Hochelaga : England in the New World / edited by Eliot Warburton.  2nd ed. London : H. Colburn, 1846. 2 v.

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Written by George Warburton--Halkett & Laing III 94.

Warburton, Eliot, 1810-1852.

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

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Warburton, George

Hochelaga, or, England in the New World / edited by Eliot Warburton.  3rd ed., rev. London : H. Colburn, 1847. 2 v. : 1 illustrations ; 21 cm.

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Written by George Warburton--Halkett & Laing III 94. First ed.: London : H. Colburn, 1846. Cf. TPL 2814. Reference: TPL 2816.

Warburton, Eliot, 1810-1852.

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

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Martin, Henry Byam

Friendly spies on the northern tour, 1815-1837 : the sketches of Henry Byam Martin = Aimables espions en Amérique du Nord, 1815-1837 : croquis d'Henry Byam Martin Ottawa : Public Archives, Canada, 1981. 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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An exhibition presented by the Public Archives of Canada 2 April-30 June 1981.--Facing t.pages English and French.

Public Archives of Canada.

Canada in art — Exhibitions
United States in art — Exhibitions
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867 — Exhibitions
United States — Description and travel — Exhibitions
Canada — Description and travel &

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Coke, E. T.

A subaltern's furlough : descriptive of scenes in various parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, during the summer and autumn of 1832 / by E.T. Coke ; with illustrations.  London : Saunders and Otley, 1833. 485 pages : illustrations, facsim., map ; 23 cm.

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Owen, William

Narrative of American voyages and travels of Captain William Owen, R.N., and settlement of the Island of Campobello in the Bay of Fundy, 1766-1771 / edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits.  New York : New York Public Library, 1931. 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations, facsims., maps (1 f

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Bound from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February-October 1931.

Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867-1952.

New York Public Library.

Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — To 1783.

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Hall, Francis

Travels in Canada and the United States in 1816 and 1817 / by Lieut. Francis Hall.  London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, 1818. 543 pages : maps.

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Lillie, Adam

Canada : physical, economic and social / by A. Lillie.  Toronto : Maclear, 1855. 294 pages : maps.

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'Canada is constantly outgrowing the descriptions which are being given of her'--pages 159. Tables.

Geology — Canada
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.

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Hogan, J. Sheridan

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

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Labor omnia vincit Tables.

Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.

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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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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

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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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