History of Canada : from the time of its discovery till the union year (1840-1) / translated from L'histoire du Canada of F.-X. Garneau, Esq. and accompanied with illustrative notes, etc., etc. by Andrew Bell. Montreal : Printed and published by J. Lovell, 1860. 3 v. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F70 B41
Canada — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century / by Francis Parkman. Boston : Little, Brown, 1897. lxxxix, 463 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 P23 1897 pt.2
First edition: 1867.
Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893. France and England in North America.
Jesuits — North America
New France.
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France and England in North America Boston : Little, Brown 1897. front., maps, plates ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 P23 1897
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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France and England in North America : a series of historical narratives / by Francis Parkman. Boston : Little, Brown, 1865-1892. 8 pts. in 9 v. : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits ; 22 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 P23
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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The history of Canada under French régime, 1535-1763 / by H.H. Miles. Montréal : Dawson Bros., 1872. 521 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 M64
With maps, plans, and illustrative notes.
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France).
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Nova Francia : a description of Acadia, 1606 / Marc Lescarbot ; tr. by P. Erondelle ; with an introd. by H. P. Biggar. London : Routledge, 1928. xxxi, 346 pages : facsim., maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 L56
Includes reproduction of original t. pages of the translation.
Biggar, Henry Percival, 1872-1938.
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia
New France — Discovery and exploration
Acadia.
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The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in North America (1610-1791) / with an introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites ; selected and edited by Edna Kenton. New York : Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. liv, 527 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, ports,
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 J49
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kenton, Edna, 1876-1954
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.
First Nations of North America — Missions
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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Collection de manuscrits contenant lettres, mémoires, et autres documents historiques relatifs à la Nouvelle-France : recueillis aux Archives de la province de Québec ou copiés à l'étranger ; mis en ordre et édités sous les auspices de la Législature de Q Québec : A. Cote, 1883. 4 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 C68
Faux-titre: Collection de documents relatifs à l'histoire de la Nouvelle-France. Volume I. Introduction signée: J. Blanchet. Documents datent de 1492 à 1712.
Blanchet, J. (Jean), 1843-1908.
New France — Discovery and exploration — French.
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The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire .. / told by eye witnesses, including graphic and reliable accounts of all great earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the world's history, and scientific explanations of their causes. Philadelphia, Chicago etc. The J. C. Winston co. 1906. xvi, 17-446 pages incl. front., illus., pl. plates, p
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F37.5 M83 SA5 - Open Shelf
With nearly 100 illustrations made especially for this work, showing the havoc caused by fire, earthquake, and volcanic convulsions.
San Francisco (Calif.) — Earthquake and fire, 1906.
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A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America / from the French of Abbé Raynal. Edinburgh : Printed by C. MacFarquhar, 1776. 2 v. ; 16 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21
Pages 48-103 of Volume 1 and pages 9-135 of Volume 2 related to the description and history of the colonies in Canada.
United States — Description and travel
United States — Economic conditions
United States — History — Colonial period, ca.1600-1775
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — Description and travel — To
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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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The New world compared with the Old : a description of the American government, institutions, and enterprises, and of those of our great rivals at the present time, particularly England and France Hartford, Conn. : S.M. Betts & Company, 1870. 653 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E301 T748
United States — Politics and government
Great Britain — Politics and government
France — Politics and government.
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Société historique franco-américaine
Les quarante ans de la Société historique franco-américaine, 1899-1939 Boston, Mass. : Socété historique franco-américaine, 1940. 878 pages illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E184 F8 S67
French — United States
Canadians, French-speaking
United States — Relations — France
France — Relations — United States.
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The European discovery of America : the northern voyages A.D. 500-1600 New York : Oxford University Press, 1971. xviii, 712 pages : illustrations, coats of arms, facsims., map
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E101 M86
Voyages and travels
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — Discovery and exploration
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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Anatomy of a naval disaster : the 1746 French naval expedition to North America / James Pritchard. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995. xvi, 322 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, port. ; 24
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - DC52 P74 1995
France — History, Naval — 18th century
France — History — Louis XV, 1715-1774
Canada — History — 1713-1763 (New France)
United States — History — King George's War, 1744-1748 — Naval operations, French.
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The war diary of Clare Gass 1915-1918 / edited and introduced by Susan Mann. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000. xlvii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - D630 G38 A3 2000
World War, 1914-1918 — Medical care — France
World War, 1914-1918 — Medical care — Canada.
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Armorial général et nobiliaire français / Hubert Lamant. Eaubonne : Lamant, 1975. 173 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS589 L214 - Open Shelf
Continues: Armorial français, ou, Répertoire alphabétique / H. Willems ... [et al.], beginning with the family name Curet. Tome 1 fascicule 2.
Willems, H. (Hubert). Armorial français.
Nobility — France — Genealogy
Heraldry — France
France — Genealogy.
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Grier of San Francisco : builder in the West and his family, 1878-1988 / William M. Grier, Jr.. Denver : Grier, 1989. xxv, 320 pages [6] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS90 G848 - Open Shelf
Includes indexes.
Construction industry — West (U.S.) — Biography
Construction industry — West (U.S.) — History
Businessmen — California — San Francisco — Biography
San Francisco (Calif.) — History.
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Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu'à nos jours / par Cyprien Tanguay. Montréal : E. Sénécal, 1871-1890. 7 v. : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - CS T14 - Open Shelf
Volume 1 has imprint: Province de Québec, E. Senécal. Includes also genealogical records of the first French inhabitants of Louisiana and the settlements between Louisiana and Canada. Cf. Pref., v. 2. The second series includes many entries of later date than 1763, belonging to a projected third series, intended to cover the period since the English conquest.
French-Canadians — Genealogy — Dictionaries
Québec (Province) — Genealogy — Dictionaries
New France — Genealogy — Dictionaries
Louisiana — Genealogy — Dictionaries.
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Guide to documents relating to French and British North America in the archives of the Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide in Rome, 1622-1799 / Luca Codignola. Ottawa : National Archives of Canada, 1991. xiii, 250 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - BX1421.2 C62 1991
Issued also in French under title: Guide des documents relatifs à l'Amérique du Nord française et anglaise dans les archives de la Sacrée Congrégation de la Propagande à Rome, 1622-1799. Includes index.
Catholic Church. Congregatio pro Gentium Evangelizatione seu de Propaganda Fide
National Archives of Canada.
Canada — Church history — Sources — Bibliography — Catalogs
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France) — Bibliography — Catalogs
Canada — History — 1763-1791 — Sources — Bibliography — Cata
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