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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

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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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

Gardner, Emelyn Elizabeth

Folklore from the Schoharie hills, New York / by Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner.  Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1937. xv pages, 1 ., 351 pages illus. (incl. map, music) fold.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR110 N4 G226 F666

Includes index.

Folklore — New York (State) — Schoharie County
Schoharie County (N.Y.) — Social life and customs.

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Dorson, Richard Mercer

American folklore Chicago University of Chicago Press, 1959. 328 pages 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR100 A512 D718

Folklore — United States
United States — Social life and customs.

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Studies in folklore / edited by W. Edson Richmond.  Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1957. 270 pages: port.; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR10 S933

Richmond, W. Edson (Winthrop Edson), 1916-

Folklore

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Folklife Center news Washington, D.C. : American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1978-. 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR1 F655

Ethnologie regionale :Regional Folklore : les provinces Maritimes = / the Maritime Provinces.  Folklore Studies Association of Canada, 1991. 156 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR1 C212 13(2)

Contains a series of articles on folklore in the Maritimes.

Folklore — Maritime Provinces
Ethnology — Maritime Provinces
Acadians — Folklore

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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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The American Folklore Society newsletter Baltimore, MD : The Society, 1982-1993. ill. ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR1 A512 N558

Creighton, Helen

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

McKay, Ian

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

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

Folklore — Nova Scotia

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The Island magazine Charlottetown : Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation. ill. ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5300 I82 - Open Shelf

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

Léger, Lauraine

Les sanctions populaires en Acadie, région du comté de Kent / Lauraine Léger.  Montréal : Leméac, 1978. 186 pages : map ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5060 L512 - Open Shelf

Dimock, Celia C.

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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Creighton, Helen

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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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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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

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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Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

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

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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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

Jenness, Diamond

The life of the Copper Eskimos / by D. Jenness.  Ottawa : F.A. Acland, 1922. 277 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 E7 J43 L62

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