Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: First Nations of North America — Canada — Social life and customs
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 Elimination of sex discrimination from the Indian Act Ottawa : Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1982. 21, 23 pages : 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.199 #9 - Vertical File
Text in English and French with French text on inverted pages. Title on added t.p.: Élimination de la discrimination selon le sexe dans la Loi sur les Indiens.
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Women — Legal status, laws, etc
First Nations of North America — Canada — Women
Sex discrimination against women — Canada.
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The forgotten people : Metis and non-status Indian land claims / edited with an introduction by Harry W. Daniels. Ottawa : Native Council of Canada, 1979. pages 35-59.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.37 #16 - Vertical File
Photocopy.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Land tenure
Metis — Claims
Metis — Land tenure
First Nations of North America — Canada — Claims.
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The four Indian kings / by John G. Garratt with assistance from Bruce Robertson = Les quatre rois indiens / par John G. Garratt avec la collaboration de Bruce Robertson. Ottawa : Public Archives Canada = Archives publiques Canada, 1985. xiv, 186 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z1209.2 C2 G3 1985
English and French in parallel columns.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Bibliography — Union lists
First Nations of North America — Canada — Portraits — Catalogs.
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The free people - Otipemisiwak, Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870-1930 / Diane Paulette Payment. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites, Parks Service, 1990. 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3545 P39 1990 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: Les gens libres - Otipemisiwak Batoche, Saskatchewan, 1870-1930.
Canadian Parks Service. National Historic Parks and Sites.
Métis — Saskatchewan — Batoche Region — History
Métis — Saskatchewan — Batoche Region — Social life and customs
Métis — Canada — Government relations
First Nations of North America — Saskatchewan — History
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The image of the Indian : the Canadian Indian as a subject and a concept in a sampling of the popular national magazines read in Canada, 1900-1970 / by Ronald Graham Haycock. Waterloo, ON. : Waterloo Lutheran University, 1971. vi, 98 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 C212 H413
1972 printing has collation: vii, 98 pages
First Nations of North America — Canada — Public opinion.
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The Indian : assimilation, integration or separation? / compiled by Richard P. Bowles. Scarborough, ON. : Prentice-Hall of Canada, 1972. vi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 C2 B78
First Nations of North America — Canada — Social conditions
Indians, Treatment of — Canada.
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The Indian in transition : the Indian today Ottawa : Queen's Printer, 1964. 25 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.236 #11 - Vertical File
Canada. Indian Affairs Branch.
Native peoples — Canada
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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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 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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The Indians, their manners and customs / by John McLean sic (Robin Rustler). Toronto : Coles Pub. Co., 1970. 351 pages : illus. ; 22 cm. --
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 C2 M215 1970
The Indians of Canada, their manners and customs. Fascim of: The Indians, their manners and customs. Toronto : Briggs, 1889.
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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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 life and death of Anna Mae Aquash / Johanna Brand. Toronto : J. Lorimer, 1978. 171 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, ports.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 C212 B817
First Nations of North America — Canada — Biography.
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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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The medicine-man, or, Indian and Eskimo notions of medicine : a paper read before the Bathurst and Rideau Medical Association, Ottawa, 20th January, 1886 / by Robert Bell. Montreal : 1886.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.11 #5 - Vertical File
Reprinted from the Canada Medical and surgical journal for March and April, 1886.
Traditional medicine — Canada
First Nations of North America — Canada
Inuit — Canada.
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The Native perspective Ottawa, National Association of Friendship Centres. ill. 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E77 N278
National Association of Friendship Centres.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Periodicals.
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The ordeal of John Gyles : being an account of his odd adventures, strange deliverances etc. as a slave of the Maliseets Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart, 1966. ix, 155 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F52545.9 T76 OR2 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Captivities
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories : including the negotiations on which they were based, and other information relating thereto / by the Hon. Alexander Morris . Toronto : Belfords, Clarke & Co., 1880. 375 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E92 M87
The treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba, the North-West Territories and Kee-Wa-Tin. Texts of the treaties and supplementary adhesion thereto pages 299-375. Publisher's adverts., 5 pages at end. Peel (2nd edition 544.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Government relations
First Nations of North America — Treaties
First Nations of North America — Canada, Northern
First Nations of North America — Canada, Western.
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The unjust society : the tragedy of Canada's Indians Edmonton : Hurtig, 1969. 171 p ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E92 C26
Indians, Treatment of — Canada
First Nations of North America — Canada — Government relations.
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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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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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Trade ornament usage among the native peoples of Canada : a source book / Karlis Karklins. Ottawa : National Historic Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada, 1992. 244 pages : illustrations (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 C2 K37 1992
Issued also in French under title: Les parures de traite chez les peuples autochtones du Canada.
Canadian Parks Service. National Historic Sites.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Costume and adornment
Inuit — Canada — Costume and adornment
First Nations of North America — Canada — Commerce — History
Inuit — Canada — Commerce — History
Indians o
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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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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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