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Biddle, Richard

A memoir of Sebastian Cabot : with a review of the history of maritime discovery London : Hurst, Chance, 1831. 333 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F8 C11 - Akins

Illustrated by documents from the rolls, now first publishedition Attributed to Richard Biddle--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.

Explorers — America
America — Discovery and exploration — Italian.

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Stairs, William G.

African exploits : the diaries of William Stairs, 1887-1892 / edited by Roy MacLaren.  Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998. 423 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DT363.2 S73 A3 1998

Arciniegas, Germán

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

Armstrong, Joe C. W.

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

Morton, W. L.

Henry Youle Hind, 1823-1908 / W.L. Morton.  Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1980. ix, 161 pages : port. ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE22 H662 M891

Includes index.

Geologists — Canada — Biography
Explorers — Canada — Biography.

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Chesnel, Paul

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

Brazão, Eduardo

La découverte de Terre-Neuve Montréal : Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1964. 129 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F6 B73 D35

Bibliographical references included in Notes (pages 83-123.

Explorers, Portuguese
Newfoundland — Discovery and exploration.

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Entremont, Clarence-Joseph d'

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.

Denys, Nicolas, 1598-1688. Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique septentrionale. 1982.

Explorers — Canada — Biography
Explorers — France — Biography
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Acadia — Discovery and exploration — French.

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Deloffre, Frédéric

Robert Challe : un destin une oeuvre / textes et documents inedits presentes par Frederic Deloffre.  Saint-Germain, Paris : SEDES, 1992. 256 pages ; 18 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - G370 C437 D361

Explorers — New France

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Garrod, Stan

Samuel de Champlain / Stan Garrod.  Don Mills, ON. : Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1981. 62, [2] pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5061.1 C5 G243 - Open Shelf

Includes index. On spine: C 75.

Explorers — France — Biography
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)

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Brebner, John Bartlet

The explorers of North America, 1492-1806 / by John Bartlet Brebner.  New York : Macmillan, 1933. xv, 502 pages, [4] folded pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 B74

Explorers
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — History.

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Gaither, Frances

The fatal river : the life and death of La Salle / by Frances Gaither.  New York : H. Holt, 1931. 303 pages, [12] pages of plates : maps ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 G12

Map on lining-papers.

Explorers — Canada — Biography.

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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

Champlain, Samuel de

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)
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Stairs, William G.

Victorian explorer : the African diaries of Captain William G. Stairs, 1887-1892 / edited by Janina M. Konczacki.  Halifax : Nimbus, 1994. xv, 319 pages : illustrations, maps.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DT363.2 S73 A3 1994

               

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