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Gibson, James

A Boston merchant of 1745 : or, Incidents in the life of James Gibson, a gentleman volunteer at the expedition to Louisburg ; with a journal of that siege, never before published in this country / by one of his descendants.  Boston : Redding, 1847. 102 pages : 13 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.258 #33 - Vertical File

Smith, William

A caveat against emigration to America with the state of the island of Cape Breton from the year 1784 to the present year and suggestions for the benefit of the British settlements in North America London: E. Lloyd, 1803.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3979 - Open Shelf

On same reel as Letters to Lord XXX on a caveat against emigration to America

North America — Description and travel — 1784-1803
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History — 1785-1850

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Brown, Richard

A history of the island of Cape Breton / by Richard Brown.  Belleville, ON. : Mika Pub. Co., 1979. xiv, 473 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, maps (1

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 B879 1979 - Open Shelf

Brown, Richard

A history of the island of Cape Breton with some account of the discovery and settlement of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland / by Richard Brown.  London : S. Low, son, and Marston, 1869. xiv, 464 pages, [9] pages of plates (1 folded) : ill

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F108 B81

Des Barres, Joseph F. W.

A statement / submitted by Lieutenant Colonel Desbarres.  London: 1800.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3755 - Open Shelf

Concerns Desbarres experience as an engineer surveying the coasts and harbours of North America, and as Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton.

Cape Breton Island N.S. — Politics and government — 1758-1867
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History — 1763-1867

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Cameron, Ella Hunt

A study of imperial policy in Cape Breton (1784-1795) 1953. map ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5227 C182 - Open Shelf

Imperialism
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History

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Campey, Lucille H.

After the Hector : the Scottish pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852 / Lucille H. Campey.  Toronto : Natural Heritage Books, 2004. xviii, 376 p. : ill., maps, portraits ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2350 S3 C35 2004 - Open Shelf

Razzolini, E. M.

All our fathers : the north Italian colony in industrial Cape Breton / Esperanza Maria Razzolini.  Halifax : International Education Centre, Saint Mary's University, 1983. ix, 55 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5221 I61 #8 - Open Shelf

Hornsby, Stephen J.

An historical geography of Cape Breton Island in the nineteenth century / by Stephen John Hornsby.  Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1988. 411 frames : maps.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche H813 - Open Shelf

Jackson, Elva Ethel

Cape Breton and the Jackson kith and kin / by Elva E. Jackson.  Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1971. 264 pages : maps. ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C23 J13 - Open Shelf

Autographed by author.

Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Biography
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History.

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Gesner, Claribel

Cape Breton anthology Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1971. 44 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C23 G39 - Open Shelf

Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History.

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Cape Breton at 200 : historical essays in honour of the Island's bicentennial, 1785-1985 / Kenneth Donovan, editor.  Sydney : University of Cape Breton Press, 1985. ix, 261 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 C2374 - Open Shelf

Donovan, Kenneth Joseph, 1950-

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Cape Breton historical essays / edited by Don Macgillivray and Brian Tennyson.  Sydney : College of Cape Breton Press, 1980. 156 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 C237 - Open Shelf

Gow, John M.

Cape Breton illustrated : historic, picturesque and descriptive / by John M. Gow ; illustrated by James A. Stubbert.  Toronto : W. Briggs, 1893. 423 pages, [31] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 19 x

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F108 G74

Lotz, Jim

Cape Breton Island / by Jim and Pat Lotz.  Vancouver, B.C. : David & Charles, 1974. 208 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C23 L88 - Open Shelf

Kavanaugh, Raymond M.

Cape Breton Island : a select view / by Raymond M. Kavanaugh and W. Martin Schwartz in association with the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Park.  New Waterford : Breton Education Centre in co-operation with the Cape Breton Development Corporation, Industrial Development Division, 1988. 66 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C237 K411 - Open Shelf

MacDonald, Herb

Cape Breton railways: an illustrated history / Herb MacDonald.  Sydney : Cape Breton University Press, 2012. 264 pages: illustrations; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - HE2809 N935 M135 2012

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Railroads — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — History — Pictorial works
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History — Pictorial works.

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Vernon, C. W.

Cape Breton, Canada, at the beginning of the twentieth century : a treatise of natural resources and development / by C. W. Vernon.  Toronto : Nation Pub. Co., 1903. 337 pages : illustrations, fold colour map. ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F108 V59

Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History.

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Tennyson, B. D.

Cape Bretoniana : an annotated bibliography / compiled by Brian Douglas Tennyson.  Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005. xiv, 789 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z1392 C27 T312 2005

Published in association with the Beaton Institute, University College of Cape Breton. Includes indexes.

Beaton Institute of Cape Breton Studies.

Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — History Bibliography
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) Bibliography.

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MacDonald, Donald

Cape North and vicinity : pioneer families, history and chronicles, including Pleasant Bay, Bay St. Lawrence, Aspy Bay, White Point, New Haven and Neil's Harbour / by D. MacDonald.  Port Hastings : 1933. 160, xiv pages : illustrations ; 22 x 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 C1 M14

Prenties, S. W.

Castaway on Cape Breton : Ensign Prenties' narrative, 1780 / edited with an historical setting and notes by G.G. Campbell ; to which is added Samuel Burrows' narrative of shipwreck on the Cheticamp coast, 1823 / with notes on Acadians who cared for the survivors by Charles D. Roach.  Wreck Cove Nova Scotia : Breton Books, 1991. xix, 119 pages, [2] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G530 C346

Wicken, William Craig

Encounters with tall sails and tall tales : Mi'kmaq society, 1500-1760 / William C. Wicken.  Montreal : McGill University, 1994. vi, 487 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W636

Written for the Dept. of History.

Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia — History — To 1763.

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Stone, Arthur J.

Enlarging St. Peter's Canal, 1875-1881 / A. J. Stone.  2013. 1 v. : illustrations; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.546 #8 - Vertical File

Includes bibliographical references.

Canals—History
St. Peter's Canal (N.S.)—History
Cape Breton Island (N.S.)—History.

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Essays in Cape Breton history / edited by B.D. Tennyson.  Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1973. 67 pages : map ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 C23 T31 - Open Shelf

Includes bibliographical references.

Tennyson, B. D.

Cape Breton Island — History — Addresses, essays, lectures.

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Guide book to Cape Breton royal province of Nova Scotia or New Scotland, Dominion of Canada : with an original map, and a plan of Louisburg Halifax : G.E. Morton, 1883. 32 frames : plan.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 06932 - Open Shelf    Internet Archive

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