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Barbeau, Marius

Canadian folklore . New York, The French Folklore Society, 1946. 16 pages front., illus. 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.330 #4 - Vertical File

French-Canadians — Folklore
Folklore — Canada.

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Canadian folklore = Folklore canadien Nepean, ON. : Folklore Studies Association of Canada, 1979-. 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR1 C212

Each issue has a distinctive title. Journal of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada Title from cover.

Folklore Studies Association of Canada.

Folklore — Canada — Periodicals
Folklore — Periodicals
Manners and customs — Periodicals
Canada — Social life and customs — Periodicals.

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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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Explorations in Canadian folklore / compiled by Edith Fowke, Carole H. Carpenter.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1985. 400 pages ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 E96 1985

Lambert, Richard S.

Exploring the supernatural : the weird in Canadian Folklore / R.S. Lambert.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1955. 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR500 Ex96 L222

Folklore — Canada
Supernatural.

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Fowke, Edith

Folktales of French Canada Toronto : NC Press, 1979. 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 F666 F784

Underwood, Jay

Ghost tracks : surprising stories of the supernatural on rails / Jay Underwood.  Montreal : Railfare DC Books, 2009. 128 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BF1472 C212 U56 2009

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ghost stories, Canadian (English)
Railroads — Canada — Folklore.

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Croft, Clary

Helen Creighton : Canada's first lady of folklore / Clary Croft.  Halifax : Nimbus, 1999. iv, 297 pages : illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR55 C74 C76 1999

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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Lacourcière, Luc

Le conte populaire Francais en Amerique du Nord / Luc Lacourciere.  Quebec : Les Archives des Folklore, Université Laval, 1959. 12 pages; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.331 #29 - Vertical File

Communication presente de 21 aout au Congrès international des Investigateurs des Contes populaires.

Tales — Canada
Folklore — Canada.

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Carpenter, Carole Henderson

Many voices : a study of folklore activities in Canada and their role in Canadian culture / Carole Henderson Carpenter.  Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1979. x, 484 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 C295

Spine title: A study of folklore activities in Canada. Summary in French. A Diamond Jenness memorial volume. Includes index. At head of title: National Museum of Man.

Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies
National Museum of Man (Canada)
National Museums of Canada.

Folklore — Canada
Canada — Social life and customs.

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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

Trueman, Stuart

Tall tales and true tales from down east : eerie experiences, heroic exploits, extraordinary personalities, ancient legends and folklore from New Brunswick and elsewhere in the Maritimes / Stuart Trueman.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1979. 171 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5255 T866 - Open Shelf

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

               

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