Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: First Nations of North America — History
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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A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772 / by Samuel Hearne. New edition with introduction, notes, and illus. by J.B. Tyrrell. Toronto : The Champlain Society, 1911. xv, 437 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 fold ma
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H35j
Tyrrell, Joseph Burr, 1858-1957.
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821
First Nations of North America — Northwest, Canadian
Natural history — Northwest, Canadian
Northwest Passage.
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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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Algonquians, Hurons, and Iroquois : Champlain explores America, 1603-1616 : being The voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604-1616) / narrated by himself ; translated by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with The voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes ; edited with introduction and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 2000. xxvi, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC332 A3 2000 - Open Shelf
Originally published in 2 v., New York : A.S. Barnes, 1906. Reformated into one unabridged volume. Translation of: Les voyages de la Nouvelle France.
Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908
Bourne, Annie Nettleton.
First Nations of North America — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration — French
New France — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
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Anglo-Indian relations in North America to 1763 and an analysis of the royal proclamation of 7 October 1763 / by Jack Stagg. Ottawa : Research Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1981. [4], 418 pages : maps ; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S E91 S779 - Oversize
Appendix: 1793, October 7. A proclamation by the King.
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Corporate Policy. Research Branch.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Government relations — History
First Nations of North America — Canada — Land tenure — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Great Britain — Colonies — America.
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Apôtres ou agitateurs : la France missionnaire en Acadie / Micheline Dumont-Johnson. Trois-Rivières : Boréal Express, 1970. 150 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5059 D893 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Missions
Acadia — Church history.
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Biography and history of the Indians of North America ... : also, a history of their wars .. / by Samuel G. Drake. 5th ed., with large additions and corrections, and numerous engravings. Boston : Antiquarian Institute, 1837. xii, 48, 120, 144, 96, 168 pages, [12] pages of plat
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 D78
Spine title: Indians of North America. First published under title: Indian biography. Added t.pages title: The book of the Indians of North America.
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Biography.
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Cabot to Cartier : sources for a historical ethnography of northeastern North America, 1497-1550 Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1961. xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN560 N81 H68
Ethnology — North America
First Nations of North America
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — Historical geography — Maps
North America — History — Sources — Bibliography.
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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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Diary of David Zeisberger, a Moravian missionary among the Indians of Ohio / translated from the original German manuscript and edited by Eugene F. Bliss. Cincinnati, Ohio : R. Clarke, 1885. 2 v. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 O3 Ze3
Bliss, Eugene F. (Eugene Frederick), 1836-1918.
Moravian Indians
First Nations of North America — Missions
Fairfield (Ont.) — History.
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Early man in Nova Scotia / by Patricia Hayward. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1973. 36 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.256 #35 - Vertical File
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — History
Man, Prehistoric — Nova Scotia.
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Friend and foe : aspects of French-Amerindian cultural contact in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Cornelius J. Jaenen. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5064 J22 - Open Shelf
Winner of the Sainte-Marie prize in History, 1973, Historical Sites Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Includes index.
First Nations of North America
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
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Indian reserves in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada / Richard H. Bartlett. Saskatoon : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1986. 92 pages : 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.318 #14 - Vertical File
University of Saskatchewan. Native Law Centre.
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Reservations — History
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Land transfers — History
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Land tenure —
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Indians of Quebec and the Maritime Provinces Ottawa : Dept. of Citizenship and Immigration, Indian Affairs Branch, 196-. 55 pages : 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.121 #18 - Vertical File
First Nations of North America — Quebec (Province) — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Le chauffage domestique dans le haut et le Bas-Canada (1759-1867). Le chauffage domestique chez les amerindiens de l'est du Canada / par Marcel Moussette. Ottawa : Parcs nationaux et lieux historiques, Ministère des affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien, 1973. 2 v. (237, 82 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5015 C21 #124 - Open Shelf
Parcs Canada. Direction des parcs et des lieux historiques nationaux.
Heating — History
First Nations of North America — Dwellings — Heating and ventilation — History
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Les Micmacs et la mer / textes réunis sous la direction de Charles A. Martijn. Montréal : Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, 1986. vi, 343 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 M64
Includes index
Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (Association)
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — History
Navigation, Primitive — Atlantic Provinces — History.
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Letters from North America / by Father Antoine Silvy, S.J. ; translated from French by Ivy Alice Dickson. Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1980. 228 pages, 2 pages of plates (folded) : illustrations, maps.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5057 S586 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs
New France — Discovery and exploration
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Maritime indian treaties in historical perspective / by W.E. Daugherty. 2nd ed. Ottawa : Treaties and Historical Research Centre, 1983. 98 pages : maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5191 I3 D238 1983 - Open Shelf
On cover: Research Branch, Corporate Policy.
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Corporate Policy. Research Branch
Treaties and Historical Research Centre (Canada)
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Treaties
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Maritime Indian treaties in historical perspective / by W.E. Daugherty for Research Branch, Corporate Policy, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Ottawa : The Branch, 1981. 90 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5191 I3 D238 - Open Shelf
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Corporate Policy. Research Branch.
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Treaties — History
Mi'kmaq — Treaties — History
Malecite Indians — Treaties — History
Abnaki Indians — Treaties — History
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Micmac quillwork : Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration, 1600-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; with an appendix on quilled-bark conservation, by Deborah Jewett. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1982. 230 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W592
Indian craft
Mi'kmaq — Art — History
Mi'kmaq — Industries — History
Indian art — North America — History
First Nations of North America — Industries — History.
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Micmacs and colonists : Indian-White relations in the Maritime Provinces, 1713-1867 / L. F. S. Upton. Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1979. xvi, 243 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, map, por
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 U71
Includes index.
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Government relations.
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Moon of wintertime : missionaries and the Indians of Canada in encounter since 1534 / John Webster Grant. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1984. viii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 C2 G72 1984
First Nations of North America — Canada — Missions — History
First Nations of North America — Canada — Religion and mythology
Christianity — Canada — Missions — History
Missions — Canada — History.
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Native peoples and cultures of Canada : an anthropological overview / Alan D. McMillan. Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 1988. xii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 C2 M24
First Nations of North America — Canada
Métis — History
Inuit — History.
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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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New England frontier; Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 [1st ed.]. Boston : Little, Brown, 1965. xvii, 430 pages : illustrations, facsim., map, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F7 V364
First Nations of North America — New England
Indians, Treatment of — New England
New England — History — Colonial period.
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