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MacMillan, Cyrus

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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Partridge, Emelyn Newcomb

Glooscap the great chief, and other stories : legends of the Micmacs New York : Sturgis & Walton, 1913. 293 pages : front. (port. group) plates. ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 M58 P25

Most of the stories are adapted from Rand's Legends of the Micmacs.

Glooscap (Legendary character)
Mi'kmaq — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Legends.

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Toye, William

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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Mechling, W. H.

Malecite tales / by W. H. Mechling.  Ottawa : Govt. Print. Bureau, 1914. vi, 133 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.49

Speck, Frank Gouldsmith

Myths and folk-lore of the Timiskaming Algonquin and Timagami Ojibwa / by F.G. Speck.  Ottawa : Government Printing Bureau, 1915. iii, 87 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.71

No. 147 Folded map in pocket. Issued with: Family hunting territories and social life of various Algonkian bands of the Ottawa Valley

Algonquian Indians — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Canada — Folklore
Ojibwa Indians — Folklore
Algonquian Indians
Ojibwa Indians.

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Some myths and tales of the Ojibwa of southeastern Ontario / collected by Paul Radin.  Ottawa, ON. : GSC, 1914. vi, 83 p ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QE185 A2 no.48

Leland, Charles Godfrey

The Algonquin legends of New England, or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes / by Charles G. Leland.  2nd ed. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1885, 1884. xv, 379 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 L53

Jenness, Diamond

The corn goddess : and other tales from Indian Canada / Diamond Jenness ; illustrated by Winnifred K. Bentley.  2nd ed. Ottawa : National Museum of Canada, 1960. 111 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - QH1 C13 1960

McGee, Harold Franklin

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

               

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