The Stone Canoe : Two Lost Mi'Kmaq Texts / translated by Elizabeth Paul. Kentville : Gaspereau Press, Printers & Publishers, 2007. 183 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 S86 2007
This work showcases two forgotten stories from Silas T. Rand, Baptist missionary who wanted to translate bibles into the Mi'Kmaq language and learned how to do so by recording the oral traditions of the Mi'Kmaq people, published in 'Legends of the Micmacs'. Peter Sanger uncovered two manuscripts in the Rand holdings of Acadia University, including the story of Little Thunder (dictated to Rand by Susan Barss in 1847) and a manuscript of stories told by someone we only know as old man Stevens. Rand's original book and these manuscripts are some of the earliest examples of indigenous Canadian literature recorded in the original language.
essays, notes, and supporting material by Peter Sanger
illustrations by Alan Syliboy
Rand, Silas Tertius, — 1810-1889
Barss, Susan
Micmac — Folklore
Micmac language — Texts
Micmac mythology — Manuscripts
Oral tradition — Nova Scotia
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Group identity in social gatherings traditions and community on the Iona Peninsula, Cape Breton / by Martha Jane MacDonald. Ottawa : National Library of Canada, 1987. 230 frames : maps ; 11 x 15 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche M1357 - Open Shelf
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Iona
Iona N.S. — Social life and customs
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History and folklore of Shelburne County 1962. 4 pages, 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.166 #10 - Vertical File
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
Names, Geographical — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
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The great Amherst mystery repr. ed. Amherst : Cumberland Pub. Ltd., 1979. 89 pages; 21.5 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.37 #13 - Vertical File
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Amherst
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Brìgh an Òrain = A story in every song : the songs and tales of Lauchie MacLellan / translated and edited by John Shaw ; airs transcribed by Lisa Ornstein from field recordings ; foreword by Alistair MacLeod. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xxvii, 432 pages : illustrations, maps, music, ports. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - ML420 M165 B85 2000
Songs: pages [95]-299.
Ornstein, Lisa, 1955-
Shaw, John William.
Folk songs, Gaelic — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Celts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island Folklore.
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Chansons acadiennes de Pubnico et Grand-{83}tang: tir{nonjoin}es de la collection Helen Creighton = Acadian songs from Pubnico and Grand-{83}tang: from the Helen Creighton Collection / sous la direction de/ edited by Ronald Labelle. Dartmouth : Helen Creighton Folklore Society, 2008. 96 pages: ports.; 23 cm. +1 compact disc (12 cm.)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.7 F73 C914 2008
Compact disc includes original versions of songs. Includes bibliographical references.
Folk songs, French — Maritime Provinces
Folk songs, French — Nova Scotia
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Folklore
French Canadians — Nova Scotia — Folklore.
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The chestnut pipe : folklore of Shelburne County / Marion Robertson ; foreword by Clary Croft. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 271 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 N935 R651 1991
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
Shelburne (N.S. : County) — Social life and customs.
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Island of ghosts : folklore & strange tales of the supernatural from Cape Breton / text compiled by David Lloyd Samson with Reed Wooby ; photographs by Warren Gordon. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1992. 66 pages : illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 I82 S193
Gordon, Warren, 1951-
Samson, David Lloyd
Wooby, Reed.
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Ghosts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Pictorial works.
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The seven-headed beast and other Acadian tales from Cape Breton Island / collected by Anseime Chiasson ; translated by Rosie Aucoin Grace. 1st ed. Wreck Cove : Breton Books, 1996. 190 pages (large print) : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 C43 C4413 1996
Translation of: Contes de Chéticamp.
Acadians — Folklore
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island.
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Tales until dawn : the world of a Cape Breton Gaelic story-teller / Joe Neil MacNeil ; translated and edited by John Shaw. Kingston ON. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1987. xxxvii, 267 pages : 2 maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 C36 M26
Also published in a bilingual (Gaelic-English edition
Celts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton (County) — Folklore
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton (County)
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton (County)
Storytellers — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton (County)
Cape Breton
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Canadian folklore and folk tales : collected as one of the functions of the Nova Scotia Summer School, Halifax, Nova Scotia, summer of 1971 / compiled by Hector H. Lee, Ruth Kearney Carlson. Halifax : 1972. 2 v. ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 C212
Carlson, Ruth Kearney
Lee, Hector, 1908-
Folklore — Nova Scotia
Tales — Nova Scotia
Legends — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs.
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Folklore of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia Ottawa : E. Cloutier, King's Printer, 1950. 163 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN2 C21 A2 #117
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Lunenburg (County)
Germans — Folklore
Dancing — Nova Scotia — Lunenburg (County)
Germans — Nova Scotia — Lunenburg (County) — Folklore
Lunenburg (N.S. : County) — Social life and
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The quest of the folk : antimodernism and cultural selection in twentieth-century Nova Scotia / Ian McKay. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994. xvii, 371 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2319 M35 1994 - Open Shelf
Tourism — Social aspects — Nova Scotia
Folklorists — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Folklore — Social aspects
Nova Scotia — Social life and customs.
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No Story for a Sunday School / by Ol' Fogey. Nova Scotia : Ol' Fogey 164 pages (coil bound) : illustrations, map ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2318 F6449 - Open Shelf
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Children of the Sheiling / by Celia C. Dimock. Sydney : Lynk, 194--. 98 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F108 D59 C43
Folklore — Nova Scotia
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Social life and customs.
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Bluenose ghosts Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1957. preface xiii, 280 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 C86 B62
Contains:
Forerunners
Leave 'em Lay
Ghosts Guard Buried Treasure
Foresight and Hindsight
Devils and Angels
Phantom Ships and Sea Mysteries
Ghosts Helpful, Harmful, and Headless
So Many Wandering Women
There and Not There
Ghosts as Animals and Lights
Haunted Houses and Poltergeists
Ghosts — Nova Scotia
Folklore — Nova Scotia
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Tracking Doctor Lonecloud : showman to legend keeper / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; including the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud reconstructed and annotated by Ruth Holmes Whitehead from interview notes by Clara Dennis. Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions, 2002. 183 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W474 2002
Co-published by: Nova Scotia Museum.
Dennis, Clara, 1881-1954
Lonecloud, Jerry, 1854-1930.
Mi'kmaq — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Entertainers — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Folklore.
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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
Davis, Stephen A., 1949-
Taft, Michael, 1947-
Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.). Dept. of Anthropology.
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Bibliography
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Bibliography.
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