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Canadian Heritage

A Crown of Maples : Constitutional Monarchy in Canada / Canadian Heritage.  Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Heritage, 2012. xxi, 65 pages ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - JL15 C76 2012

An overview of the history, traditions and contemporary links that Canada shares with the monarchy. Issued also in French under title: La couronne canadienne, la monarchie constitutionnelle au Canada. Electronic version also available. Includes bibliographical references.

Canada. Canadian Heritage.

Elizabeth — II, — Queen of Great Britain
Constitutional history — Canada
Monarchy
Federal government — Canada
Canada — Politics and government

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Meredith, William

A letter to the Earl of Chatham i.e. William Pitt, on the Quebec bill / by William Meredith.  London : Printed for T. Cadell, 1774. 36 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F50 L56 - Akins

Attributed to William Meredith--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Authorship has also been attributed to Thomas Lyttelton, second Baron Lyttelton.

Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778.

Quebec Act, 1774
Great Britain — Colonies — Administration — America
Canada — Politics and government — 1763-1791.

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Haliburton, R. G.

A review of British diplomacy and its fruits : the dream of the United Empire Loyalists of 1776 / by Robt. Grant Haliburton.  London : S. Low, Marston, Low and Searle, 1872. 31 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F76 H13

From the St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review. Includes articles from The Times and The Daily Telegraph. 'This England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror ...'

United Empire loyalists
Great Britain — Colonies
Canada — Politics and government — 1867-1896
Great Britain — Foreign relations
Canada — Commerce.

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J. B.

An account of the present state of Nova-Scotia in two letters to a noble lord : one from a gentleman in the Navy lately arrived from thence, the other from a gentleman who long resided there London : Research Publications, 1985.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 9696X - Open Shelf

First letter signed: J.B. Second letter signed: W.M. Made publick by his Lordship's Desire. Reproduction of: London : [s.n., 1756.

W. M.

Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1713-1763
Great Britain — Colonies — America — Administration
Fort Beausejour N.B.

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Cobbett, William

Cobbett's America : a selection from the writings of William Cobbett / edited with an introduction by J.E. Morpurgo.  London : Folio Society, 1985. xxxi, 246 pages, [11] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E302 C65 C65

Fothergill, John

Considerations relative to the North American colonies London : Printed by Henry Kent . , 1765. 48 pages ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK DA3 IN8 - Akins

Attributed to John Fothergill--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.

Great Britain — Colonies — America — Administration
United States — Politics and government — To 1775.

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Essays in colonial history presented to Charles McLean Andrews / by his students.  New Haven : Yale University Press, 1931. xvi, 345 pages : port. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 Es7 An2

Gourlay, Robert

General introduction to Statistical account of Upper Canada : compiled with a view to a good system of emigration, in connexion with a reform of the poor laws / by Robert Gourlay.  London : Simpkin & Marshall, 1822. 504 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F60 G74 - Akins

Trevelyan, George Otto

George the Third and Charles Fox, the concluding part of The American revolution / by Sir George Otto Trevelyan.  London : Longmans, Green and Co., 1912-14. 2 v. ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 T71g

Concludes both The early history of Charles James Fox and The American revolution. cf. Pref. Library has: Volume 1.

Great Britain — History — George III, 1760-1820
Great Britain — Politics and government — 1760-1820
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783.

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Burke, Edmund

Observations on a late state of the nation / Edmund Burke.  The fifth edition. London : Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782. 155 pages ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK DAB91 - Akins

Galt, A. T.

Speech of the Hon. A.T. Galt, at the Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, September 25, 1862 London : British North American Association, 1862. 16 pages ; 18 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F70 B77 - Akins

Burke, Edmund

Speech on conciliation with America / edited with notes and an introduction by Albert S. Cook.  New York : Longmans, Green, 1896. lxix, 164 pages ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E216 B91 Sp3

McGee, Thomas D'Arcy

Speeches and addresses chiefly on the subject of British-American union / by Thomas D'Arcy McGee.  London : Chapman and Hall, 1865. viii, 308 pages ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F75 M17 - Akins

Maseres, Francis

The Canadian freeholder : in two dialogues between an Englishman and a Frenchman, settled in Canada : shewing the sentiments of the bulk of the freeholders of Canada concerning the late Quebeck-Act ... as a ground for a reconciliation with the United Colo / by Francis Maseres.  London : Sold by B. White, 1776-1779. 8 v.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F50 M37 - Akins

Attributed to Francis Maseres--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Half title: The Canadian freeholder: dialogue I --pages [1].

United States — Politics and government — 1775-1783
Massachusetts — Politics and government — 1775-1783
Great Britain — Colonies — Administration.

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Roebuck, John Arthur

The colonies of England : a plan for the government of some portion of our colonial possessions / by John Arthur Roebuck.  London : J.W. Parker, 1849. 248 pages

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F76 R62 - Akins

A land there lies Now void ... Tables. Includes publisher's list.

Great Britain — Colonies — Administration
Canada — Politics and government.

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Neal, Daniel

The history of the Puritans : or Protestant nonconformists, from the Reformation in 1517, to the revolution in 1688, comprising an account of their principles, their attempts for a farther reformation in the church, their sufferings, and the lives and cha / by Daniel Neal.  London : R. Hett, 1732. 4 v. : illustrations, ports. ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK B11 N31 - Akins

Townsend, George Alfred

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

The North Briton London : Printed for W. Bingley, 1762-1771.

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At the end of no. ccxviii it is stated, The next number of the North Briton, being no. ccxix. will be printed in Bingley's journal, or universal gazette ; in which paper it will be continued weekly. Vol. 1 accompanied by: An appendix to the first forty six numbers of the North Briton. Containing, a full and distinct account of the persecution carried on against John Wilkes, esqu., with a faithful collection of that gentleman's tracts and papers, from the year 1762, to the year 1769. London, W. Bingley, 1769. vi, cxii p., 32 cm.

Wilkes, John, 1727-1797.

Great Britain — History — Periodicals
Great Britain — Politics and government — 1760-1789.

Buckner, Phillip A.

The transition to responsible government : British policy in British North America, 1815-1850 / Phillip A. Buckner.  Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985. viii, 358 pages ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - JL51 B83 1985

               

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