The Man from Malagash : George Patton Mackenzie's Work in the Yukon and Arctic / by Kathy Drew-Smith. Waterloo, ON : Blue River Press, 2022. 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC4022.1 M33 D74 2022 - Open Shelf
Born in Malagash, Nova Scotia, MacKenzie moved to Yukon during the Gold Rush. This biography of George Patton MacKenzie chronicles his time in Dawson City as prospector, teacher, and Gold Commissioner.
MacKenzie, George Patton, — 1873-1954
Yukon — Officials and employees — Biography
Canada, Northern — Discovery and exploration — History — 20th century
Yukon — History — 20th century
Arctic regions — Discovery and exploration — History — 20th century
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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.
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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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The discovery of Canada / by Lawrence J. Burpee. Sackville, N. B. : The Argosy, 1927. 87-152 pages 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.519 #25 - Vertical File
The Argosy, vol. 5, no. 3 Nov., 1927. Explorations from the time of Leif Ericson to 1854.
Canada — History
New France — Discovery and exploration
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — Exploring expeditions.
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Discoverers and explorers in Canada / drawings by Charles W. Jefferys ; text by Malcolm G. Parks. Toronto : Imperial Oil Ltd., 1955-58. 2 v. : illustrations.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.382 #4-#5 - Vertical File
Prepared for teachers of Canadian history.--t.p.
Canada — Discovery and exploration
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When France came to Canada : a page from Jacques Cartier's journal Montreal : Rolland paper co., 19--. 1 fold. sheet. : copies illus.; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.217 #9 - Vertical File
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
New France — Discovery and exploration
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Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique septentrionale : avec l'histoire naturelle du Païs / par Monsieur Denys, gouverneur lieutenant general pour le Roy. Paris : Chez C. Barbin, 1672. 2 v. in 1 : illustrations ; 16 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F90 D42 - Akins
Contents: Histoire naturelle des peuples, des animaux, des arbres & plantes de l'Amerique septentrionale, & de ses divers climats ...
Cod-fisheries — Canada
Acadia — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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A general history of the British Empire in America : containing an historical, political, and commercial view of the English settlements ; including all the countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the Peace of Paris / by Mr. Wynne i.e. John Huddlestone Wynne. London : Printed for W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1770. 514 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F50 H31 - Akins
Fortia facta patrum ... Virg. Aen. I. 641.
America — Discovery and exploration
United States — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France).
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Voyages de découverte au Canada, entre les années 1534 et 1542 : par Jacques Quartier sic, le sieur de Roberval, Jean Alphonse de Xanctoigne, etc. : suivis de la description de Quebec et de ses environs en 1608, et de divers extraits relativement au lie Québec : W. Cowan, 1843. 130 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F10 C24 - Akins
A part le récit des deux premiers voyages de Cartier, l'ouvrage est traduit de Hakluyt (Hakluyt's Collection of early voyages, travels and discoveries. London, 1810).
Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557
Roberval, Jean François de La Roque, sieur de, 1501?-1560?
Alfonce, Jean, 1484-1544.
Société littéraire et historique de Québec.
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration
America — Discovery and exploration — French.
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Faucher de Saint-Maurice, Narcisse Henri Edouard
Le Canada et les Basques / trois écrits de M. Faucher de Saint-Maurice, M. Marmette et M. Le Vasseur ; avant-propos du comté de Premio-Real. Québec : A. Côté, 1879. 28 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F1 F27 - Akins
Marmette, Joseph, 1844-1895
Le Vasseur, N. (Nazaire), 1848-1927
Premio-Real, comte de, 1840-1888.
Basques — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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Pullen, William J.S., 1813-1887
The Pullen Expedition in search of Sir John Franklin : the original diaries, logs, letters of Commander W.J.S. Pullen / selected and introduced by H.F. Pullen. Toronto : Arctic History Press, 1979. 230 pages, [8] leaves of plates (4 fold.) : ill., fold. maps ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3961 P84 1979 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Library has copy number 272.
Franklin, John, — Sir, — 1786-1847
Pullen, William J.S., — 1813-1887
Explorers — Arctic regions — Biography
Arctic coast (Canada) — Discovery and exploration
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Algonquians, Hurons, and Iroquois : Champlain explores America, 1603-1616 : being The voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604-1616) / narrated by himself ; translated by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with The voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes ; edited with introduction and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 2000. xxvi, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC332 A3 2000 - Open Shelf
Originally published in 2 v., New York : A.S. Barnes, 1906. Reformated into one unabridged volume. Translation of: Les voyages de la Nouvelle France.
Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908
Bourne, Annie Nettleton.
First Nations of North America — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration — French
New France — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
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An encouragement to colonies Amsterdam : Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1968. 47 pages : map. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5226 A379 E56 1968 - Open Shelf
Original t.pages has imprint: London, Printed by William Stansby, 1624.
Colonies
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration — English.
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Friend and foe : aspects of French-Amerindian cultural contact in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Cornelius J. Jaenen. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5064 J22 - Open Shelf
Winner of the Sainte-Marie prize in History, 1973, Historical Sites Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Includes index.
First Nations of North America
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
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Louis Hébert, premier colon canadien, et sa famille Paris : Desclée De Brouwer, 1913. 152 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5061.1 H44 C85 L88 - Open Shelf
New France — Discovery and exploration
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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Champlain / Joe C.W. Armstrong. Toronto : Macmillan of Canada, 1987. xviii, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5061.1 C5 A75 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Maps on lining papers.
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Explorers — France — Biography
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration — French.
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Nicolas Denys, sa vie et son oeuvre / par Clarence-Joseph d'Entremont. Yarmouth, Nouvelle-Ecosse : Impr. Lescarbot, 1982. 623 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060.9 D414 D417 - Open Shelf
Includes index. Includes a reprint of the text of: Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique septentrionale / Nicolas Denys. Paris : L. Billaine, 1672.
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Explorers — France — Biography
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Acadia — Discovery and exploration — French.
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The discoverers; an illustrated history Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1971. 256 pages illus. (part colour) 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S F5058 H246 - Oversize
Canada — Exploring expeditions
America — Discovery and exploration
America
Canada — Explorations.
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The first English conquest of Canada : with some account of the earliest settlements in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland / by Henry Kirke, M.A., B.C.L. . London : Bemrose & sons, 1871. xi, 227 pages : illustrations, fold. map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 K63
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
America — Discovery and exploration
Newfoundland — History
Nova Scotia — History.
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The dawn of Canadian history : a chronicle of aboriginal Canada and the coming of the white man / by Stephen Leacock. Toronto : Glasgow, Brook & company, 1914. xii, 112 pages : illustrations (part. colour) portraits ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F84 C46 v.1
First Nations of North America — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration.
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The long journey to the country of the Hurons / by Father Gabriel Sagard ; edited with introduction and notes by George M. Wrong, and translated into English by H.H. George Langton. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1939. 1939. xlvii, 411, xii pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 Sa2
Number 87 of 550 copies. Presented by David and Kay Coutts from the collection of their father, George Coutts. Bibliographical description: pages xli-xliv. Canadian Collection.
Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953
Wrong, George M. 1860-1948. (George McKinnon),
Huron Indians
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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Sir John Franklin's journals and correspondence : the second Arctic land expedition, 1825-1827 / edited with an introduction by Richard C. Davis. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1998. lxxxi, 421, xxii pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations,
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 F831 no.61
Includes index.
Arctic regions — Discovery and exploration
Canada, Northern — Discovery and exploration
Northwest Passage.
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The works of Samuel de Champlain Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1971. 6 v. : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm + portfolio.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 B592
Text in English and French. Reprinted, translated and annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H.pages Biggar--v. 1, pages [v].
Biggar, H. P. (Henry Percival), 1872-1938.
Explorers — France — Biography
Explorers — Canada — Biography
First Nations of North America — Canada — History
America — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
Canad
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The voyages of Jacques Cartier : published from the originals with translations, notes and appendices by H. P. Biggar Ottawa : F.A. Acland, 1924. 330 pages : maps (fold) ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16P no.11
Text in French and English.
Biggar, H. P. (Henry Percival), 1872-1938.
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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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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The European discovery of America : the northern voyages A.D. 500-1600 New York : Oxford University Press, 1971. xviii, 712 pages : illustrations, coats of arms, facsims., map
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E101 M86
Voyages and travels
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — Discovery and exploration
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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