Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Canada — Description and travel.
Sleigh, Burrows Willcocks Arthur
Pine forests and hacmatack clearings : travel, life, and adventure in the British North American provinces / by Burrows Willcocks Arthur Sleigh. 2nd ed. London : Richard Bentley, 1853. xvi, 408 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3980 - Open Shelf
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867
British Columbia — Description and travel — To 1871.
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Portrait of a period: a collection of Notman photographs, 1856-1915 / edited by J. Russell Harper and Stanley Triggs, with an introduction by Edgar Andrew Collard. Montreal : McGill University Press, 1967. 1 v.: illustrations; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S F5019 N91 - Oversize
Canada — Description and travel — Views.
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Remember yesterday; a century of photographs Toronto : Canadian centennial library, 1965. 126 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5000 C212 C397 - Open Shelf
Canada — History — 1867 — — Pictorial works
Canada — Social life and customs
Canada — Description and travel — Views
Canada — Civilization
Canada — History — 1867-
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Report on surveys and preliminary operations on the Canadian Pacific railway up to January 1877 Ottawa : MacLean, Rogers, 1877. xvi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HEC16e 1877
Canada. Dept. of Public Works.
Canadian Pacific Railway
Railroads — Canada — Surveying
Canada — Description and travel.
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Scenic rail guide to central & Atlantic Canada, with connecting road routes / by Bill Coo. Toronto : Greey de Pencier, 1983. 160 pages : colour illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5180.5 C769 - Open Shelf
Includes index.
Railroad travel — Canada, Eastern
Railroad travel — Manitoba
Railroad travel — Canada, Eastern
Canada, Eastern — Description and travel — Guidebooks
Manitoba — Description and travel — 1981-
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Seeing Canada and the South / by H. Percy Scott. Toronto : W. Briggs, 1911. 137 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5019 S526 - Open Shelf
Canada — Description and travel
United States — Description and travel
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — 1871-1905.
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Sketches of Upper Canada : to which are added, practical details for the information of emigrants of every class ; and some recollections of the United States of America / by John Howison. 3rd ed. Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd, 1825. 353 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F60 H84 - Akins
Canada — Description and travel.
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Skipper Gabe--: the life story of Captain Gabriel David Pentz, 1886-1980, adventurous mariner of LaHave, Nova Scotia, in his own words / G.D. Pentz; transcribed by Greta Pentz Himmelman. Yarmouth : Stoneycroft Publishing, 1999. xii, 141 pages: illustrations, facsims., geneal. tables, map, ports.; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G540 P419 1999
Includes index.
Pentz, Gabriel David, — 1886-1980.
Seafaring life
Sailors — Canada — Biography
"Canada, Northern — Description and travel
LaHave (N.S.) — Biography."
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Statistics of British North America : including a description of its gold fields / by Alexander Monro. Halifax : E.M. MacDonald, 1862. 225 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTH62 C16 M76
Tables.
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.
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The Business visitor Halifax : Atlantic Progress Publishing, 1999-. ill. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HF3229 A8 B8
An essential guide to travel in Canada's Atlantic Provinces. Title from cover.
Business travel — Canada — Periodicals
Atlantic Provinces — Description and travel.
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The Canadian dominion / by Charles Marshall. London : Longmans, Green, 1871. viii, 331 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, port. ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5019 M367 - Open Shelf
Canada — Description and travel.
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The Canadian West / by D. J. Dickie. Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1925-. 319 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTH62 C16 D56 bk.7
Canada, Western — History — Juvenile literature
Canada, Western — Description and travel.
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The colour of Canada / with text by Hugh MacLennan. [3rd rev. ed.]. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1982. 128 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, colour port. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5021 M163 - Open Shelf
Canada — Description and travel — 1981- — Views
Canada — Description and travel.
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The emigrant and sportsman in Canada : some experiences of an old country settler ; with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna / by John J. Rowan. London, E. Stanford, 1876. viii, 440 pages : fold. map.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5019 R877 - Open Shelf
Hunting
Canada — Emigration and immigration
Canada — Description and travel.
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The emigrant and traveller's guide to and through Canada, by way of the river St. Lawrence, as well as by way of the United States of America : with some friendly advice on embarkation / by John Murray. London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1835. 63 pages
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Canada — Description and travel.
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The emigrant churchman in Canada / by a pioneer of the wilderness ; edited by Henry Christmas. London : R. Bentley, 1849. 2 v. : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5018 E53 - Open Shelf
Reference: TPL 3032. By A.W.H. Rose.
Canada — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel
United States — Description and travel
Canada — Emigration and immigration.
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The Kelsey papers / with an introduction by Arthur G. Doughty and Chester Martin. Ottawa : Public Archives of Canada : The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1929. lxxxiii, 128 pages : front. (facsim.), map (fold). ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16ps k
French. Introduction in English and French. Papers collected by Arthur Dobbs. Journals, letters, memoranda, etc. collected by Arthur Dobbs and presented to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland by Maj. A.F. Dobbs.--cf. introd.
Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765
Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1860-1936
Martin, Chester, 1882-1958.
Northern Ireland. Public Record Office
Public Archives of Canada.
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 narrative of a mission to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Somers Islands, with a tour to Lake Ontario : to which is added, The Mission, an original poem, with copious notes, also a brief account of missionary societies, and much interesting inform / by Joshua Marsden, late missionary to Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Bermudas. Plymouth-Dock : Printed and sold by J. Johns, 1816. xiv, 289 pages : port. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK B8 M35 - Akins
Missions — Canada — History
Nova Scotia — Description and travel — 1785-1850
New Brunswick — Description and travel — 1785-1850
Bermuda Islands — Description and travel
New York (State) — Description and trav
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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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The road across Canada Toronto, Macmillan of Canada, 1965. 199p. illus. map on end-papers
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5021 M129 - Open Shelf
Canada — Description and travel — 1951-1980.
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The St. Lawrence survey journals of Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield, 1829-1853 / edited with an introduction by Ruth McKenzie. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1984-1986. 2 v. : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 B357
Limited edition of 1350 copies (1300 numbered.
Surveyors, Marine — Canada — Biography
Saint Lawrence River — Description and travel
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of — Description and travel.
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The state of trade in the northern colonies considered : with an account of their produce, and a particular description of Nova Scotia London : Printed by G. Woodfall ..., 1748. viii, [9]-84 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F100 L72 - Akins
The state of the North-American trade, and settlements consideredition Preface signed; Otis Little.
Canada — Commerce
New England — Commerce
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Great Britain — Colonies — Commerce
New France — Commerce.
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Thomas Davies in early Canada / edited with an introduction by R.H. Hubbard ; production by Gail Low. Ottawa : Oberon Press, 1972. 60, [4] pages : illustrations (part col.) ; 22 x 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ND249 D4 A2 1972
Hubbard, R. H. (Robert Hamilton), 1916-1989.
Watercolor painting — Canada
Canada — Description and travel — 1951-1980
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Three years' residence in Canada from 1837 to 1839 : with notes of a winter voyage to New York and journey thence to the British possessions to which is added, a review of the condition of the Canadian people / T.R. Preston. London : R. Bentley, 1840. 2 v. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F60 P92 - Akins
Canada — Description and travel
Canada — Politics and government.
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