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 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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English discovery of America to 1585 / by Franklin T. McCann. New York : King's Crown Press, 1952, 1951. xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 M13
America in literature
Cosmography
America — Discovery and exploration — English.
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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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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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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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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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Tracking Doctor Lonecloud : showman to legend keeper / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; including the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud reconstructed and annotated by Ruth Holmes Whitehead from interview notes by Clara Dennis. Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions, 2002. 183 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W474 2002
Co-published by: Nova Scotia Museum.
Dennis, Clara, 1881-1954
Lonecloud, Jerry, 1854-1930.
Mi'kmaq — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Entertainers — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Folklore.
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Mi'kmaq : economics and evolution / Ronald J. Nash. Faunal remains from the Delorey Island site (Bj Cj-9) of Nova Scotia / Frances L. Stewart. Halifax,Nova Scotia : Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1986. [xi], 178 pages: illustrations; maps, tables; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 M636
Nash, Ronald J
Stewart, Frances L.
Mi'kmaq — Commerce
Mi'kmaq — Artifacts
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Micmac hymnal / produced by Micmac Association of Cultural Studies. Sydney : Micmac Association of Cultural Studies, 199-. 55 pages : ports. ; 23 cm. +
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 M18
The sound cassettes were transferred to the Sound and Moving Image Dept.
Micmac Association of Cultural Studies.
Hymns, Mi'kmaq
Mi'kmaq language — Texts.
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To be a pilgrim : a biography of Silas Tertius Rand, 1810-1889, nineteenth century Protestant missionary to the Micmac / by Dorothy May Lovesey. Hantsport : Published by Lancelot Press for Acadia Divinity College and the Baptist Historical Committee of the United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces, 1992. xx, 282 pages : port. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 L68 1992
Includes index.
Acadia Divinity College
United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces. Baptist Historical Committee.
Mi'kmaq — Missions
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Missions
Missionaries — Nova Scotia — Biography
Baptists — Nova Scotia — Clergy — Biography.
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Changing economic roles for Micmac men and women : an ethnohistorical analysis / Ellice B. Gonzalez. Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1981. x, 157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 G642 1981
Includes abstract in French. At head of title: National Museum of Man. A Diamond Jenness Memorial Volume.
Canadian Ethnology Service
National Museum of Man (Canada)
National Museums of Canada.
Mi'kmaq — Economic conditions
Mi'kmaq — Social conditions
Sex role — Nova Scotia — History
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia —
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Micmac lexicon / Albert D. DeBlois, Alphonse Metallic. Ottawa : National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, 1984. xvii, 392 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 D287
Includes abstract in French. Includes some text in Micmac.
Canadian Ethnology Service
National Museum of Man (Canada)
Mi'kmaq language — Dictionaries — English.
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Micmac texts / Albert D. DeBlois. Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1990. viii, 94 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 D286
Text in English and Micmac with an abstract in French.
Canadian Ethnology Service
Canadian Museum of Civilization.
Mi'kmaq language — Texts
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island — Legends
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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Proceedings of the 1980 conference on the future of archaelolgy in the Maritime Provinces / edited by Daniel M. Shimabuku. Halifax : Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary's University, 1980. x, 192 pages : illustrations, maps. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146 #8
Includes bibliographies.
Shimabuku, Daniel M. (Daniel Mitsuo)
Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.). Dept. of Anthropology.
Maritime Provinces — Antiquities — Congresses.
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Cognatic kinship organization among the Northeast Algonkians / by Jack A. Frisch. Halifax : St. Mary's University, Department of Anthropology, 1977. xiv, 61 pages : map ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146 #2
St. Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.). Dept. of Anthropology.
Algonquian Indians
First Nations of North America — Kinship.
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St. Paul's Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada : description and interpretation of gravestone designs and epitaphs / Daniel M. Shimabuku, Gary F. Hall. Halifax : Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary's University, 1981. x, 153 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm. -
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146 #10
Sepulchral monuments — Nova Scotia — Halifax
Saint Paul's Cemetery (Halifax, N.S.)
Halifax (N.S.) — Sepulchral monuments.
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Three Atlantic bibliographies / compiled by Harold Franklin McGee, Jr., Stephen A. Davis, and Michael Taft. Halifax : Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary's University, 1975. 205 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146 #1
Davis, Stephen A., 1949-
Taft, Michael, 1947-
Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.). Dept. of Anthropology.
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Bibliography
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Bibliography.
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An ethnography of the Huron Indians, 1615-1649 / by Elisabeth Tooker. Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1964. iv, 183 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 H9 T62
At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
Wyandot Indians
First Nations of North America — Ethnology.
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Honoring 400 years, Kepmite'tmnej / edited by Jaime Youngmedicine Battiste. Sydney : J. Battiste, 2010. 149 pages: illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 H774 2010
Text in English, French, and Mi'kmaq. Includes bibliographical references.
Membertou, Henri, — Grand Chief, — d1611.
Mi'kmaq — Rites and ceremonies.
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