Gazetteer of British North America : containing the latest and most authentic descriptions of over six thousand cities, towns and villages in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Briti / edited by P.A. Crossby. Montreal : J. Lovell, 1875. 2 v. in 1 ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F20 L94 1875
The second part has special t.-p.: The railway and steamboat routes in British North America ... by pagesA. Crossby. Montreal : J. Lovell, 1875.
Crossby, P. A. b. 1842, ed. (Peter Alfred),
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Lovell's gazetteer of British North America : containing the latest and most authentic descriptions of over six thousand cities, towns, and villages in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manit / edited by P.A. Crossby. Montreal : J. Lovell, 1874. 2 v. in 1 ; 19 cm.
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Bound with: Crossby, pages A. The railway and steamboat routes in British North America ... Montreal, Lovell [n.d.]
Crossby, P. A. (Peter Alfred), b. 1842, ed.
Railroads — Canada
Canada — Description and travel Gazetteers
Newfoundland — Description and travel Gazetteers.
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Journals of the military expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six nations of Indians in 1779 : with records of centennial celebrations : prepared pursuant to chapter 361, laws of the state of New York, of 1885 / by Frederick Cook. Auburn, N.Y. : Knapp, 1887. 1 pages l., xv, 579, (2) pages : front., port., fold. ma
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F18 C77
Compiled by George S. Conover.
Cook, Frederick, 1833-1905
Conover, George Stillwell, b. 1824
Sullivan, John, 1740-1795.
Sullivan's Indian campaign, 1779.
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The literary faculty of the native races of America / by John Reade. Montreal : Dawson Brothers, 1884. p. 17-30 ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R22
From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Volume II, Section II, 1884.
Dawson Brothers (Montréal, Quebec)
Royal Society of Canada.
First Nations of North America — Languages
Indians of South America — Languages
Indian literature.
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Rand's Micmac dictionary : from phonographic word-lists prepared by Rev. Silas T. Rand, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L / transcribed and alphabetically arranged, with a grammar and list of place-names by Jeremiah S. Clark. Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Patriot Pub. Co., 1902. xxxiii, 192 pages ; 20 cm.
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Clark's edition of the manuscript Dictionary left unfinished by Rand at the time of his death--Masinahikan. A companion volume to Rand's English-Micmac vocabulary. Published by direction of the Canadian government Also includes 'Micmac place-names in the Maritime provinces of Canada,' with its own title-page but continuous collation and pagination--Masinahikan.
Clark, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Simpson), 1872-1950.
Mi'kmaq language — Dictionaries — English
Mi'kmaq language — Grammar
Mi'kmaq — Names
Names, Geographical — Canada.
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A grammar of the Kwagiutl language by Alfred J. Hall Montreal : Dawson Brothers, 1889. 46 pages ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 K97 H55
From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Volume VI, section II, 1888, pages 59-105.
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The Algonquin legends of New England, or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes / by Charles G. Leland. 2nd ed. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1885, 1884. xv, 379 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 L53
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Folklore
Passamaquoddy Indians
Penobscot Indians
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Maliseet vocabulary / by Montague Chamberlain ; with an introduction by William F. Ganong. Cambridge Mass. : Harvard Cooperative Society, 1899. 94 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M46 C35
Ganong, William F. (William Francis), 1864-1941.
Malecite language — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
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Canadian wonder tales / by Cyrus Macmillan ; with illustrations in colour by George Sheringham and a foreword by Sir William Peterson. London : John Lane, 1918. xvi, 199 pages : colour front., colour plates ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 C16
Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore.
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Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1907-1910. 2 v. : illustrations, maps (1 fold) ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H66 2
On spine: 59th Congress. Ist session, December 4, 1905-1906. House Documents, Volume 61-62
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
First Nations of North America — Encyclopedias.
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Handbook of Indians of Canada : published as an appendix to the Tenth report of the Geographic Board of Canada / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Ottawa : Geographic Board, 1913. x, 632 pages : 3 fold maps. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H66
Reprinted by permission of Mr. F.W. Hodge ... from Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, published as Bulletin 30, Bureau of American ethnology, and edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Reprinted under the direction of James White. Published also in French under title: Manuel des indiens du Canada. At head of title: Geographic Board. Canada. 1912.
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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The Indian races of North and South America, comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races : a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies; the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated ch / by Charles De Wolf Brownell. New York : The American Subscription House, 1857. 720 pages, [44] pages of plates : colour plates, ports
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B82 1857
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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The Indian races of North and South America, comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races : a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies; the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated ch / by Charles De Wolf Brownell. New York : The American Subscription Publishing House, 1859. 720 pages, [40] pages of plates : colour plates, ports
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First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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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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History of Cavelier de La Salle, 1643-1687 : explorations in the valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents / Paul Chesnel ; translated from the French by Andrée Chesnel Meany. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. vii, 232 pages : fold. maps. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 C42
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Mississippi River Valley — History — To 1803.
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The Cabot voyages and Bristol discovery under Henry VII / by James A. Williamson ; with cartography of the voyages by R. A. Skelton. Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1962. xvi, 332 pages, [11] pages of plates (some folded) :
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W67 1962
Includes index.
Skelton, R. A. (Raleigh Ashlin), 1906-1970.
America — Discovery and exploration — English
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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Amerigo and the New World : the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci / translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onís. [1st ed.] New York : Knopf, 1955. 323, ix pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F6 V63 Ar3
Explorers — America — Biography
Explorers — Spain — Biography
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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Explorations of the North American coast previous to the voyage of Henry Hudson
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 N21
In The national magazine Volume 15, no. 1 (Nov. 1891, pages [1]-26.
America — Discovery and exploration.
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The lost discovery ; uncovering the track of the Vikings in America / Illus. and maps by J. Warren Sheppard. [1st ed.] New York, Norton 1952. 346 pages illus., maps. 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 P75
Vikings
North America — Discovery and exploration
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The Norse discoverers of America : the Wineland sagas / translated & discussed by G.M. Gathorne-Hardy. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1921. 304 pages : geneal. table, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 G22
Translations from: ñorfinns saga Karlsefnis, Eiríks áttr Rau, and Grlnlendinga áttr.
Gathorne-Hardy, G. M. (Geoffrey Malcolm), 1878- Grlnlendinga áttr. English.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse.
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Mi'kmaq past and present : a resource guide Halifax : Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1993-. 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 N935 1993
Nova Scotia. Dept. of Education.
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia.
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The old man told us : excerpts from Micmac history, 1500-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; foreword by Peter Christmas. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 385 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W55 1991
Includes index.
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Rebuilding the economic base of Indian communities: the Micmac in Nova Scotia / Fred Wien. Montréal : Institute for Research on Public Policy = Institut de recherches politiques, 1986. xxv, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W541 1986
Foreword and summary in English and French.
Institute for Research on Public Policy.
Mi'kmaq — Economic conditions
Mi'kmaq — Employment
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Employment.
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The Micmac : how their ancestors lived five hundred years ago / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Harold McGee ; illustrations by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1983. 60 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 x 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W54
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces.
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Socioeconomic characteristics of the Micmac in Nova Scotia / Fred Wien. Halifax : Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, 1983. xx, 167 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W53
Dalhousie University. Institute of Public Affairs.
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Social conditions
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
Indians of North Amer
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