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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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A Canadian school geography / by George A. Cornish. Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1925. xiv, 466 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTG29 C6
Authorized for use in the schools of Nova Scotia--cover. Includes index.
Geography — Study and teaching
Canada — Description and travel — 1901-1950.
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A Canadian school geography / by George A. Cornish. Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1923. xiv, 450 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTG29 C6 1923
Authorized for use in the schools of the provinces of Saskatchewan and Quebec--cover. Includes index.
Geography — Study and Teaching
Canada — Description and travel — 1901-1950.
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A geographical view of the British possessions in North America comprehending Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New Britain, Lower and Upper Canada, with all the country to the Frozen Sea on the north, and Pacific Ocean on the west : with an appendix containing / by M. Smith, author of the View of Upper Canada. Baltimore : Printed by P. Mauro, for the author, 1814. 154 frames.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 40703 - Open Shelf Internet Archive
Previous editions have title: A geographical view of the province of Upper Canada and promiscuous remarks on the government
Canada — Description and travel
Canada — History — War of 1812
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A journal of a mission to the Indians of British provinces, of New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and the Mohawks on the Ouse or Grand River, Upper Canada / by John West. London : L.B. Seeley, 1827. viii, [209-326 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3587 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Canada — Missions
North America — Description and travel.
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A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 / by Samuel Hearne. London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795. xliv, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H35j
First Nations of North America — Canada
Natural history — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel
Northwest Passage.
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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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A second visit to North America / by Charles Lyell. 3rd ed. London : John Murray, 1855. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 L98 SE2
Geology — North America
United States — Description and travel
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel.
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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.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5018 C682 - Open Shelf
Northeastern States — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.
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A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North America / by William Douglass. Boston : Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle, 1749-1753 i.e. 1758. 2 v. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3762 - Open Shelf
Volume 2 has imprint: Boston, New England : printed and sold by D. Fowle, 1753. Appended to vol. 2 are pages 417-440, with caption: In to render his work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London, 1757 i.e. the 6th edition 1758 being included.
United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — History — To 1763 New France
America — Discovery and exploration.
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Address delivered by the Hon. Joseph Howe, Secretary of State for the provinces : before the Young Men's Christian Association, Ottawa, February 27, 1872 Ottawa : I.B. Taylor, 1872. 23 pages.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.264 # 32 - Vertical File
Youth — Canada
Ottawa (Ont.) — Description and travel
Canada — Civilization.
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Adventures in the wilds of the United States and British American provinces / by Charles Lanman ; illustrated by the author and Oscar Bessau ; with an appendix by Campbell Hardy. Philadelphia : J.W. Moore, 1856. 2 v. : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5018 L291
References: Sabin 38913; TPL 3672. Errata: v. 2, last page.
Fishing — North America
Outdoor life
Canada — Description and travel
United States — Description and travel.
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An appetite for life : the education of a young diarist, 1924-1927 / by Charles Ritchie. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1977. x, 173 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC561 R58 A3 1977 - Open Shelf
Diplomats — Canada — Biography
Newfoundland — Description and travel — 1801-1850
Black Duck (Nfld.) — Description.
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Anglo-America San Francisco : Fearon, 1962. 552 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTG29 G852
United States — Description and travel — 1940-
Canada — Description and travel — 1951-1980.
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Anglo-America; a regional geography of the United States and Canada San Francisco, Fearon Publishers, 1962. xxxi, 552 pages illus., maps, diagrs., tables 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTG29 G852
United States — Description and travel — 1940-
Canada — Description and travel — 1951-1980.
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Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire
Annotated time table : the tour through Canada of the ninth Congress of the Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire, September-October nineteen-twenty : Canadian National-Grand Trunk Railways, Canadian Pacific Railway, Temiskaming & Northern Ontario Ra 1920. 1 pagesl., [5]-80 pages : plates, fold. map, 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F82 C35 AN7
Canada — Description and travel
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Atlantic diver guide / David N. Barron. 1st ed. St. John's, Nfld. : Atlantic Diver, 1988. 4 v. : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G525 B277
Includes indexes.
Scuba diving — Canada — Atlantic Coast — Guide-books
Shipwrecks — Canada — Atlantic Coast — Guide-books
Atlantic Coast (Canada) — Description and travel — Guide-books.
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Beautiful Canada, or, Scenes from our homeland Toronto : W.A. Hart, 1897. 804 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S F82 B38
Illustratedition Issued in parts.
Canada — Description and travel.
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Canada / painted by T. Mower Martin ; described by Wilfred Campbell. 272 pages, [76] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5019 M383 - Open Shelf
Martin, Thomas Mower, 1838-1934.
Canada — Description and travel.
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Canada / by P.R. Heaton. London : Rockliff, 1957. vii, 335 pages : illustrations, maps, music, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTG29 H442
Books first issued separately.
Canada — Description and travel — 1951-1980.
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Canada New York : F. Watts, 1967. 81 pages : illus., map, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - LTH62 L754
Canada — Description and travel.
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Canada ..., an official handbook of present conditions and recent progress Ottawa : Dominion Bureau of Statistics, 1931-1969. 38 v. : illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ; 23 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F81 C212
Issued for 1967 has title: Canada, one hundred, 1867-1967. Issue for 1935 sponsored by Guardian Trust Company. Issues for 1932-1970 have title: Canada ..., the official handbook of present conditions and recent progress.
Canada. Canada Year Book, Handbook and Library Division
Canada. Canada Year Book Section
Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Information Services Division
Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Year Book Division
Guardian Trust.
Canada — Economic conditions — Periodicals
Canada — Social conditions — Periodicals
Canada — Description and travel — Periodicals
Canada — Economic conditions — Periodicals
Canada — Periodicals.
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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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Canada : a lecture delivered at the Rusell Institute, London, Dec. 19th, 1870 / by Capt. F. Duncan. London : W. Mitchell and Co., 1871. 42 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F80 D91 - Akins
Canada — History
Canada — Description and travel.
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Canada : a view of the importance of the British American colonies ... addressed to the Rt. Hon. George Rose / by David Anderson. London : J.M. Richardson, 1814. 355 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F70 An1 - Akins
Canada — History
Canada — Description and travel.
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