Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: Frontier and pioneer life
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
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada — Periodicals
Canada — History.
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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
Includes index.
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada
Canada — Social life and customs — To 1763
Canada — Moeurs et coutumes — Jusqu'à 1763.
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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
Antonson, Brian, 1948-
Stewart, Gordon.
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada — Collected works
Canada — History — 19th century — Collected works.
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In the pioneer home Toronto : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1978. 48 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5035 N381 - Open Shelf
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada
Handicraft — Canada.
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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
Text in French and English.
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia
Pioneers — Nova Scotia — Biography
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Biography
Church Point (Digby, N.S.) — History.
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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
Excerpts from writings of William Scarth Moorsom and others.
Moorsom, W. S. (William Scarth), 1804-1863
Whitelaw, Marjory.
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia
Pioneers — Nova Scotia — Correspondence
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Halifax (N.S.) — Description.
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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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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
Frontier and pioneer life
American loyalists
United States — History — War of 1812.
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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
Walsh, Patrick F., 1937- Growing up in Louisbourg.
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia — Louisbourg — Drama
Louisbourg (N.S.) — History — Drama.
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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
Translation of: Markland - endurminningar frà arunum 1875-81.
Icelandic Memorial Society of Nova Scotia.
Icelandic Canadians — Nova Scotia — Caribou Mines Region — History — 19th century
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia — Caribou Mines region.
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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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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
Maps on lining-papers.
First Nations of North America — Captivities
Frontier and pioneer life — New England
New Englanders — Canada
New England — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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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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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
Frontier and pioneer life — Prairie Provinces
Prairie Provinces — History — Sources.
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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
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
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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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-259 and index.
New Englanders — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
British Americans — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia
Imperialism — History — 18th century
Nova Scotia — History, Military — 18th century!Nova Scotia — Hist
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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
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia
Germans — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Emigration and immigration
Lunenburg (N.S. : County) — History
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784.
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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
Frontier and pioneer life — Nova Scotia — Wittenburg
Wittenburg, N.S. — History
Wittenburg, N.S. — Biography.
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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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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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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
Includes index.
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada, Western
Canada, Western — History
Canada, Western — Emigration and immigration — History
Canada, Western — Foreign population — History
Canada, Western — Social conditions
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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
Frontier and pioneer life — Ontario
Ontario — Description and travel.
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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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