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McCharles, Aeneas

Bemocked of destiny : the actual struggles and experiences of a Canadian pioneer, and the recollections of a lifetime / by Aeneas McCharles.  Author's ed. Toronto : W. Briggs, 1908. 244 pages : port. (incl. front.) ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 M149 - Open Shelf

Frontier and pioneer life — Canada — Personal narratives.

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Canadian frontier Vancouver, Garnet Pub. Co., 1972-1979. ill., maps. ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5000 C21 - Open Shelf

Russell, Loris S.

Everyday life in colonial Canada/ / Loris Russell.  Toronto : Copp Clark Pub. Co., 1973. 206 pages: illustrations; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5011 C719 R964 - Open Shelf

Duncanson, John V.

Falmouth : a New England township in Nova Scotia, 1760-1965 / by John V. Duncanson ; illustrated by Charles Payzant.  Windsor, ON. : 1965. 474 pages : illustrations (1 fold.) maps, portraits

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5248 F19 D91 - Open Shelf

Includes genealogies.

Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia
Acadians
Falmouth (N.S.)
Falmouth (N.S.) — Genealogy.

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Great stories from the Canadian frontier / edited by Gordon Stewart and Brian Antonson ; with contributions from 21 Canadian writers.  Surrey, B.C. : Antonson Publishing, 1979. 166 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5017 G786 - Open Shelf

Neering, Rosemary

In the pioneer home Toronto : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1978. 48 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5035 N381 - Open Shelf

Garrod, Stan.

Frontier and pioneer life — Canada
Handicraft — Canada.

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Deveau, J, Alphonse

Joseph Dugas, 1735-1823 : premier colon de Clare = first settler of Clare / J.-Alphonse Deveau.  Salmon River : J.-A. Deveau, 1993-. 76 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.378 #8 - Vertical File

Letters from Nova Scotia / William Scarth Moorsom ; edited by Marjory Whitelaw.  Ottawa : Oberon Press, 1986. 152 pages ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5206 L651 - Open Shelf

Haight, Canniff

Life in Canada fifty years ago : personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian / by Canniff Haight.  Toronto : Hunter, Rose, 1885. xi, 303 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ;

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5035 H149 - Open Shelf

Country life in Canada fifty years ago.

Frontier and pioneer life — Ontario
Ontario — Social life and customs.

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Neering, Rosemary

Life of the loyalists / Rosemary Neering, Stan Garrod.  Toronto : Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1975. 64 pages : colour illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5069.1 N381 - Open Shelf

Walsh, Patrick F.

Louisbourg ; Growing up in Louisbourg : two plays / Patrick Walsh.  1st ed. Toronto : Playwrights Canada, 1985, 1984. 99 pages : 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.295 #32 - Vertical File

Erlendsson, Guðbrandur

Markland : remembrance of the years 1875-1881 / Guðbrandur Erlendsson.  Upper Musquodoboit : Icelandic Memorial Society of Nova Scotia, 2000. 90 pages : port. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC2350 I3 E74 2000 - Open Shelf

Williams, E. S.

More tales of the yesteryears, book two : the writings of Mrs. E.S. Williams, West Jeddore, 1888-1977 Head Jeddors : G.E. Forsythe, 1980. 108 pages, [5] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 port. ; 28

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 J44 W722 v.2 - Open Shelf

Compiled by Grace E. Forsythe.

Forsythe, G. E. (Grace Edith), 1919-

Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia
Jeddore (N.S.) — History

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Coleman, Emma Lewis

New England captives carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760, during the French and Indian wars / by Emma Lewis Coleman.  Portland, Me. : Southworth Press, 1925. 2 v. : fronts., illus. (map, facsim.) plates, port

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C67 N42

Moodie, Susanna

Roughing it in the bush, or, Life in Canada / by Susanna Moodie.  A new and rev. ed., with an introductory chapter, in which Canada of the present is contrasted with Canada of forty years ago. Toronto : MacLear & Co., 1871. 538 pages : illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F82 M77 R75

Half title: Canada, roughing it in the bush. 'The poor exiles of wealthy and over-populous nations ...' Includes publisher's list.

Frontier and pioneer life — Ontario
Ontario — Description and travel — 1764-1850.

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Robertson, Heather

Salt of the earth / Heather Robertson. --.  Toronto : J. Lorimer, 1974. 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1060.9 R63

Eccles, W. J.

The Canadian frontier, 1534-1760 / W.J. Eccles.  Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1974. xv, 234 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5057 E17 - Open Shelf

Grenier, John

The far reaches of empire : war in Nova Scotia, 1710-1760 / John Grenier.  Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,2008. xvi, 270 pages :ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1038 G827 2008

Bell, Winthrop Pickard

The foreign Protestants and the settlement of Nova Scotia : the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century / Winthrop Pickard Bell.  Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1961. xiv, 673 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 B41

Burrows, Mildred Pulsifer

The history of Wittenburg, Colchester County, Nova Scotia / by Mildred Pulsifer Burrows.  Rev. 1978. Truro : Colchester Historical Museum, 1978. 80 pages ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5249 W829 B972 - Open Shelf

Hubbard, Dexter

The journal of Elizabeth Smith / by Dexter Hubbard.  Windsor : Lancelot Press, 1975. 68 pages : illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5204.9 S646 - Open Shelf

Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia — Fiction

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Pringle, Will

The Maritime pioneers / by Will Pringle.  Nova Scotia : 197--. 51 [i.e. 102] pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5180 P957 - Open Shelf

N.S. 9093. Compilation of more than fifty illustrations, accompanied by manuscript ... designed for students of social studies at the grades four and five levels.

Frontier and pioneer life — Maritime Provinces — Juvenile literature
Maritime Provinces — History — Juvenile literature.

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Berton, Pierre

The promised land : settling the West 1896-1914 / by Pierre Berton.  Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1984. viii, 388 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC3209 I4 B47 1984 - Open Shelf

Strickland, Samuel

Twenty-seven years in Canada West : the experience of an early settler / by Major Strickland ; edited by Agnes Strickland.  London : R. Bentley, 1853. 2 v. in 1 ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F60 STR8 - Akins

Hendriks, Robert W.

William Bleasdell Cameron : a life of writing and adventure / Robert W. Hendriks.  Athabasca, AB. : Athabasca University,2008. xxi, 233 pages :ill. ; 23 cm. +1 DVD-ROM (ill., ports. ; 12 cm.)

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - PN4913 C182 H498 2008

Includes a finding aid of the Robert and Shirley Hendriks collection of William Bleasdell Cameron held in the Thomas A. Edge Archives and Special Collections, Athabasca University. Includes bibliographical references.

Cameron, William Bleasdell, — 1862-1951.

Frontier and pioneer life — Northwest, Canadian
Journalists — Northwest, Canadian — Biography
Northwest, Canadian — History — 1870-1905.

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