The dawn of Canadian history : a chronicle of aboriginal Canada and the coming of the white man / by Stephen Leacock. Toronto : Glasgow, Brook & company, 1914. xii, 112 pages : illustrations (part. colour) portraits ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F84 C46 v.1
First Nations of North America — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration.
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The long journey to the country of the Hurons / by Father Gabriel Sagard ; edited with introduction and notes by George M. Wrong, and translated into English by H.H. George Langton. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1939. 1939. xlvii, 411, xii pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 Sa2
Number 87 of 550 copies. Presented by David and Kay Coutts from the collection of their father, George Coutts. Bibliographical description: pages xli-xliv. Canadian Collection.
Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby), 1862-1953
Wrong, George M. 1860-1948. (George McKinnon),
Huron Indians
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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Customs of the American Indians compared with the customs of primitive times / Jospeh François Lafitau ; edited and translated by William N. Fenton and Elizabeth L. Moore. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1974-1977. 2 v. : facisms. ; 25 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 L164
Translation of the orig. French edition, publ., Paris : Saugrain : Charles-Estienne Hochereau, 1724, under title: Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains comparées aux moeurs des premiers temps.
Moore, Elizabeth L
Fenton, William N. (William Nelson), 1908-
First Nations of North America — Canada — Social life and customs
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs
Indians of Central America — Social life and customs
Indians of South America — Social life and customs
Indians
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A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 / by Samuel Hearne. London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795. xliv, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H35j
First Nations of North America — Canada
Natural history — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel
Northwest Passage.
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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)
Canad
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The Kelsey papers / with an introduction by Arthur G. Doughty and Chester Martin. Ottawa : Public Archives of Canada : The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1929. lxxxiii, 128 pages : front. (facsim.), map (fold). ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16ps k
French. Introduction in English and French. Papers collected by Arthur Dobbs. Journals, letters, memoranda, etc. collected by Arthur Dobbs and presented to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland by Maj. A.F. Dobbs.--cf. introd.
Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765
Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1860-1936
Martin, Chester, 1882-1958.
Northern Ireland. Public Record Office
Public Archives of Canada.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel.
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The voyages of Jacques Cartier : published from the originals with translations, notes and appendices by H. P. Biggar Ottawa : F.A. Acland, 1924. 330 pages : maps (fold) ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16P no.11
Text in French and English.
Biggar, H. P. (Henry Percival), 1872-1938.
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone, 1805 / ed. with notes by L.J. Burpee. Ottawa : Government Print. Bureau, 1910. 82 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16p no.3
Burpee, Lawrence J., 1873-1946.
First Nations of North America — Northwestern States
Fur trade — Canada
Crow Indians
Northwestern States — Description and travel.
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30. The Indians and the heroic age of New France / Bruce G. Trigger. Ottawa : Canadian Historical Association, 1977. 24 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16a B64 #30
Issued also in French under title: Les Indiens et l'âge héroique de la Nouvelle-France.
First Nations of North America — Canada — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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The conquest of Canada / by the author of Hochelaga. 2nd ed. London : R. Bentley, 1850. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 W19
First Nations of North America
Canada — History — To 1763.
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The conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian war after the conquest of Canada / by Francis Parkman. 10th ed., rev. with additions. Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1897. 2 v. : illustrations, portraits, fold. maps ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 P23 1897 pt.8
Volume 2 is the 9th edition, rev., with additions.
Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in North America (1610-1791) / with an introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites ; selected and edited by Edna Kenton. New York : Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. liv, 527 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, ports,
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 J49
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kenton, Edna, 1876-1954
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.
First Nations of North America — Missions
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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New England captives carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760, during the French and Indian wars / by Emma Lewis Coleman. Portland, Me. : Southworth Press, 1925. 2 v. : fronts., illus. (map, facsim.) plates, port
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C67 N42
Maps on lining-papers.
First Nations of North America — Captivities
Frontier and pioneer life — New England
New Englanders — Canada
New England — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Mackenzie and his voyageurs : by canoe to the Arctic and the Pacific, 1789-93 / by Arthur P. Woollacott. London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1927. x, 237 pages : illustrations (map) plates. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M19 W88
In the preparation of this essay, Mackenzie's narrative, as contained in the original edition of his Voyages, 1801, was used as a basis.--pages v.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Travels through the Canadas : containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes, with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners a / by George Heriot ; illustrated with a map and numerous engravings, from drawings made at the several places by the author. London : Printed for R. Phillips, 1807. xii, 602, [2] pages, [29] pages of plates (7 folded)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
First chapter contains description of the Azores. Part second contains a minute description of the peculiarities of various nations of American aborigines, principally derived from other printed works.--Sabin. Vocabulary of the Algonquin tongue: pages 579-599; Indicative mood of the verb sakia, to love: pages 599-600; Numeration: pages 601-602. Errata: pages xii. Directions for placing the plates: pages [603] Publisher's advertisement: pages [604]
First Nations of North America
Algonquian languages — Dictionaries — English
English language — Dictionaries — Algonquian
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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Travels through the Canadas / by George Heriot. London- : 18--. 232 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
Missing title page.
First Nations of North America
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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Glooskap's country, and other Indian tales / illustrated by John A. Hall. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1955. 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 G51
First Nations of North America — Legends
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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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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The Indians of Canada / by Diamond Jenness. Ottawa : F.A. Acland, printer to the King, 1932. x, 446 pages : colour front., illustrations, colour plates. ; 26 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 J43i
Folded map in pocket.
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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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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A Book of Grey Owl : pages from the writings of Wa-sha-quon-asin / with an introduction by Hugh Eayrs. Toronto : Macmillan, 1938. xxi, 324 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 G86
Beavers
Natural history — Canada
Natural history Outdoor books
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel.
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How summer came to Canada / retold by William Toye ; pictures by Elizabeth Cleaver. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1969. 32 pages : col. illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 T75
This retelling was freely based in part on the version in Canadian wonder tales by Cyrus MacMillan.
Cleaver, Elizabeth, 1939-1985.
Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore
Seasons — Folklore.
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The conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian cultures 1504-1700 : a study in Canadian civilization / by Alfred Goldsworthy Bailey. Saint John, N.B. : Publications of the New Brunswick Museum, 1937. 206 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 B154
Errata slip mounted on fly-leaf.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Algonquian Indians
Canadians, French-speaking
Canada — Civilization.
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Canadian native art; arts and crafts of Canadian Indians and Eskimos. - Don Mills, ON. : Collier-Macmillan Canada, 1973. 180 pages: illus. (part col.); 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E98 A7 P318
First Nations of North America — Canada — Art
Eskimos — Art
Art — Canada.
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Indian treaties and surrenders, from 1680-1890 i.e. 1902 Toronto : Coles Pub. Co, 1971. 3 v. : maps. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E95 I39
Original t.pages of v. 3 reads: Canada. Indian treaties and surrenders from no. 281 to no. 483. Volume III. Ottawa, Printed by C. H. Parmelee, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, 1912.
First Nations of North America — Treaties
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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