The pictorial field-book of the revolution : or, Illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war for Independence / by Benson J. Lossing ; with 11 hundred engravings on wood by Lossing and Barritt, chiefly from original sketches by the author. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1860. 2 v. : front., illus., portraits, maps, facsims. ; 27
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 L89
Volume 1 without imprint date; copyright date 1850.
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783.
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The peace negotiations of 1782 and 1783 : an address delivered before the New York Historical Society on its seventy-ninth anniversary, Tuesday, November 27, 1883 / by John Jay. New York : Printed for the Society, 1884. 239 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 J33
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Loyalism in New York during the American revolution New York : Columbia University Press, 1901. 281 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 F64
American loyalists
New York (State) — History — Revolution.
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A history of the United States for schools / by John Fiske ; with topical analysis, suggestive questions, and directions for teachers, by Frank Alpine Hill. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. xxi, 573 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, maps (2
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 F54
Maps on lining papers. Topics and questions at end of each chapter. Includes index.
Hill, Frank Alpine, 1841-1901.
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The King's Royal Regiment of New York / by E.A. Cruikshank. Ontario- : 1931-. 131 pages, [1] leaf of plates : map ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 C88
Reprinted from: Ontario Historical Society's Papers and Records, v. 27, 1931.
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Minutes of the Executive Council of the province of New York Albany, N.Y. : State of New York, 1910-. front. (port.) facsims. (incl. fold. map) ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35.6 N42 Ex3
Library has: vols. 1-2.
Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867- ed.
Archives — New York
New York (State) — History — Colonial period — Sources.
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Virginia (Colony). Lieutenant-Governor (1751-1758 : Dinwiddie)
The official records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751-1758 / now first printed from the manuscript in the collections of the Virginia Historical Society, with an introduction and notes by R.A. Brock. Richmond, Va. : The Society, 1883-1884. 2 v. : illustrations ; 25 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35.3 D61
Brock, R. A. (Robert Alonzo), 1839-1941.
Virginia — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 — Sources
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763 — Sources.
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The Devil in Massachusetts : a modern inquiry into the Salem witch trials New York : Dolphin Books, 1961, 1949. 310 pages ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35.1 Sa3 St2
Witchcraft — Massachusetts — Salem.
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Our colonial homes / by Samuel Adams Drake. Boston : Lee and Shepard, 1894. 211 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 D78
Architecture, Domestic
Historic buildings — Massachusetts
New England — Historic houses, etc.
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Sleigh, Burrrows Willcocks Arthur
Pine forests and hacmatack clearings... London : R. Bentley, 1853. 408 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 SL2
2nd edition
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Tour through part of the north provinces of America : being a series of letters wrote on the spot, in the years 1774, & 1775 / by Patrick M'Robert. Philadelphia : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1935. x, 47 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M24
Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh : Printed for the author, 1776. Offprint from the Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, April, 1935--T.pages verso. Includes index.
North America — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — Description and travel.
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Decosta, Rev. Benjamin Franklin 1831-1904
Relation of a voyage to Sagadahoc Cambridge University Press, 1880. 43 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F22 D35
withdrawn for mending; use F37.55 M38p Ser.1 Volume 18
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New York (State). Secretary of State
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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Micmac place-names in the Maritime Provinces and the Gaspé peninsula recorded between 1852 and 1890 / by S. T. Rand ; collected, arranged and indexed by Wm. P. Anderson. Canada : (Ottawa : Printed at the Surveyor General's Office), 1919. 116 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R15 M58
At head of title: Geographic Board of Canada.
Anderson, William Patrick, 1851-
Names, Geographical — Canada
Names, Indian — North America
Mi'kmaq language — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Maritime Provinces
Gaspé Peninsula (Québec)
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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.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R15
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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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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Biography and history of the Indians of North America ... : also, a history of their wars .. / by Samuel G. Drake. 5th ed., with large additions and corrections, and numerous engravings. Boston : Antiquarian Institute, 1837. xii, 48, 120, 144, 96, 168 pages, [12] pages of plat
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 D78
Spine title: Indians of North America. First published under title: Indian biography. Added t.pages title: The book of the Indians of North America.
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Biography.
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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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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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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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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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Micmac quillwork : Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration, 1600-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; with an appendix on quilled-bark conservation, by Deborah Jewett. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1982. 230 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W592
Indian craft
Mi'kmaq — Art — History
Mi'kmaq — Industries — History
Indian art — North America — History
First Nations of North America — Industries — History.
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Stories from the Six Worlds : Micmac legends / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; illustrated by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus, 1988. 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W551 1988
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Legends
Tales — Maritime Provinces.
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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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