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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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 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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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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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 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 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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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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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 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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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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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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