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Cahill, Barry

The odyssey of Frances Fish : a first Canadian woman lawyer / Barry Cahill.  Halifax : Chadwick Press, 2023. 117 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - K19 F531 C13 2023

The subject of this book is the New Brunswicker who was the first woman called to the bar of Nova Scotia. Frances Lilian Fish (1888-1975) was part of an evolution occuring in Canada between 1890 and 1940, a gradual transition from an all-male to a mixed legal profession to which New Brunwsick contributed significantly... Includes bibliographic references.

Fish, Frances Lilian
Lawyers — Nova Scotia
Women — Nova Scotia — History

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The Louisbourg monument Sydney, N.S. : S.P. Challoner, 1895. 20 frames : illustrations, maps, plan, ports

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 08485 - Open Shelf    Internet Archive

Hind, Henry Youle

Historical gleanings / by Henry Youle Hind.  Windsor : 1896. 33 frames.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche CIHM 07001 - Open Shelf    Internet Archive

Blanchete, Jean-François

Faience and related tin-glazed wares from the French frigate Machault 1760 / by Jean-François Blanchete.  Ottawa : Environment Canada, Parks, 1977. illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche C212 275 - Open Shelf

Ross, Lester A.

Underwater archaeologist vade mecum to the companies, duties, tools and related supplies of 18th-century British and French naval vessels / by Lester A. Ross.  Ottawa : Parks Canada, 1980. illustrations ; 11 x 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfiche C212 222 - Open Shelf

Great Britain. Commissioners For Adjusting the Boundaries For the British and French Possessions In America

The memorials of the English and French commissaries concerning the limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia London : 1755. 2 v. : fold. map ; 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3788 - Open Shelf

Gourmont, Rémy de

Les Français au Canada et en Acadie / Remy de Gourmont.  Paris : Firmin-Didot, 1888. 224 pages : illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3783 - Open Shelf

Canada — History — To 1763 New France
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784.

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Douglass, William

A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North America / by William Douglass.  Boston : Printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle, 1749-1753 i.e. 1758. 2 v. ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3762 - Open Shelf

Volume 2 has imprint: Boston, New England : printed and sold by D. Fowle, 1753. Appended to vol. 2 are pages 417-440, with caption: In to render his work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London, 1757 i.e. the 6th edition 1758 being included.

United States — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — History — To 1763 New France
America — Discovery and exploration.

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Neering, Rosemary

Life in New France / Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod ; illustrator, J. Merle Smith.  Toronto : Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1976. 64 pages : illustrations some copies, maps some copies, ports.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.530 #10 - Vertical File

Burpee, Lawrence J.

The discovery of Canada / by Lawrence J. Burpee.  Sackville, N. B. : The Argosy, 1927. 87-152 pages 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.519 #25 - Vertical File

The Argosy, vol. 5, no. 3 Nov., 1927. Explorations from the time of Leif Ericson to 1854.

Canada — History
New France — Discovery and exploration
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — Exploring expeditions.

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Hind, Henry Youle

Historical gleanings, no. I-III / Henry Youle Hind.  Windsor : 1896-. 64 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.361 #5 - Vertical File

Library has nos. II-III. Nos. I-III on CIHM #07001.

Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)

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Deveau, J, Alphonse

L'abbé Le Loutre et les Acadiens / J. Alphonse Deveau.  Agincourt, Canada : Société canadienne du livre, 1983. 75 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.291 #1 - Vertical File

Boucher, Pierre

Canada in the seventeenth century / from the French of Pierre Boucher by Edward Louis Montizambert.  Montreal : Printed by G.E. Desbarats, 1883, 1881. 84 pages, 1 leaf of plates : port.; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.257a #5 - Vertical File

True and genuine description of New France, commonly called Canada, and of the manners and customs and productions of that country. Translation of: Histoire véritable et naturelle des moeurs et productions du pays de la Nouvelle-

Montizambert, Edward Lewis, 1811-1882.

Geo. E. Desbarats & Co.

Canada — Description and travel — To 1763
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)

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Gélinas, Cyrille

The role of Fort Chambly in the development of New France, 1665-1760 / Cyrille Gélinas.  Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Site Branch, Parks Canada, 1983. 76 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.249 #15 - Vertical File

Translation of: Le rôle du fort de Chambly dans le développement de la Nouvelle France de 1665 à 1760. Spine title: Fort Chambly, 1665-1760.

Parks Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch.

Fortification — Quebec (Province) — Chambly
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Fort Chambly (Chambly, Quebec)
National Historic Park Fort Chambly (Quebec)
Canada — History, Military — To 1900.

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Cellard, André

Punishment, imprisonment and reform in Canada, from New France to the present / Andre Cellard ; translated by Eileen Reardon.  Ottawa : CHA, 2000. 27 pages : 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.223 #35 - Vertical File

Prisons — Canada
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)

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Cartier, Jacques

When France came to Canada : a page from Jacques Cartier's journal Montreal : Rolland paper co., 19--. 1 fold. sheet. : copies illus.; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.217 #9 - Vertical File

Young, George

Who killed Surcouf? / by George Young.  1st ed. Queensland : G. Young, 1986. 103 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.77 #15 - Vertical File

Burke-Gaffney, M. W.

Mary in the accounts of what happened in New France, 1634-1641 / by M.W. Burke-Gaffney.  Halifax : Saint Mary's University Printing Services, 1979. 36 pages : illustrations.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.10 #18 - Vertical File

This essay won 1st place in the Canadian Marian History Contest of the National Marian Congress of Cap de la Madeleine in 1954.

Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)

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Smith, Philip H.

Acadia : a lost chapter in American history / by Philip H. Smith.  Pawling, N.Y. : P.H. Smith, 1884. 381 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F95 SM6 - Akins

Published by the author.

Tales, Canadian (French)
Acadia
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — History — 1763-1867.

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Denys, Nicolas

Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique septentrionale : avec l'histoire naturelle du Païs / par Monsieur Denys, gouverneur lieutenant general pour le Roy.  Paris : Chez C. Barbin, 1672. 2 v. in 1 : illustrations ; 16 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F90 D42 - Akins

Contents: Histoire naturelle des peuples, des animaux, des arbres & plantes de l'Amerique septentrionale, & de ses divers climats ...

Cod-fisheries — Canada
Acadia — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)

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Garneau, F.-X.

Histoire du Canada depuis sa découverte jusqu'à nos jours / par F.X. Garneau ; précédée d'une étude sur la vie et les luvres de l'auteur par m. Chauveau.  4. éd. Montréal : Beauchemin & Valois, 1882-1883. 4 v. : port. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F70 G18 - Akins

Monk, Sir James

State of the present form of government of the province of Quebec : with a large appendix, containing extracts from the minutes of an investigation into the past administration of justice in that province : instituted by order of Lord Dorchester, in 1787  London : Printed for J. Debrett, 1789. 176 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F50 R32 - Akins

Bound with: A review of the government and grievances of the province of Quebec. Attributed to James Monk--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.

Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — Politics and government — 1763-1791.

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Monk, Sir James

A review of the government and grievances of the province of Quebec, since the conquest of it by British arms : to which is added, an appendix, containing extracts from authentic papers London : Logographic Press, 1788. 111 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F50 R32 - Akins

Bound with: State of the present form of government of the province of Quebec. Attributed to James Monk--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.

Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — Politics and government — 1763-1791.

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Wynne, John Huddlestone

A general history of the British Empire in America : containing an historical, political, and commercial view of the English settlements ; including all the countries in North-America, and the West-Indies, ceded by the Peace of Paris / by Mr. Wynne i.e. John Huddlestone Wynne.  London : Printed for W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1770. 514 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F50 H31 - Akins

Fortia facta patrum ... Virg. Aen. I. 641.

America — Discovery and exploration
United States — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France).

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Stobo, Robert

Memoirs of Major Robert Stobo of the Virginia Regiment / by Robert Stobo.  First edition, London, 1800. The present reprint, edited by N.B. Craig, includes documentary material not found in the original. Pittsburgh : J.S. Davidson, 1854. 92 pages : plan ; 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F45 ST6 - Akins

Arma virumque. Attributed to Robert Stobo--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Introd. signed: N.B.C. [i.e. Neville B. Craig].

Craig, Neville B., 1787-1863.

Canada — History — 1713-1763 (New France) — Biography
United States — History — French and Indian War, 1755-1763 — Personal narratives.

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