Ghosts, pirates and treasure trove : the phantoms that haunt New Brunswick Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1975. 155 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR500 T866
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The thing at the foot of the bed: and other scary tales / by Maria Leach. 1st ed. Cleveland : World Pub. Co., 1959. [8], 126 pages: illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR500 T443 L434
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Sally go round the sun : 300 songs, rhymes and games of Canadian children / collected and edited by Edith Fowke. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1969. 160 pages : col. illustrations ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR475 S169 F784
Includes music, principally for voice and piano, arranged by Keith MacMillan.
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Ring around the moon / compiled by Edith Fowke ; illustrated by Judith Gwyn Brown. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 160 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR475 R581 F784
Includes index.
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Games and songs of American children / collected and compared by William Wells Newell ; with a new introduction and index by Carl Withers. New York : Dover, 1963. xxvii, 289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR475 G192 N547
Includes index. Unabridged republication of the second (1903 edition ... first published ... 1883--T.pages verso.
Games with music
Children's songs — United States.
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The tape-recorded interview : a manual for field workers in folklore and oral history / Edward D. Ives. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1980. xiv, 130 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR45.5 I93
Folklore — Field work
Oral history
Magnetic recorders and recording
Folklore — Theory methods, etc.
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Away : maritimers in Massachusetts, Ontario, and Alberta :an oral history of leaving home / Gary Burrill. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. xv, 249 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR430 B971 A964 1992
Maritime Provinces — Emigration and immigration
Maritime Provinces — Emigration and immigration — Biography.
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Funk & Wagnalls standard dictionary of folklore, mythology, and legend / Maria Leach, editor ; Jerome Fried, associate editor. New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1972. xv, 1236 pages ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR35 F82 1972
Reissue of the 1949-1950 edition with minor corrections. Key to countries, regions, cultures, culture areas, peoples, tribes, and ethnic groups: pages [1197]-1236.
Folklore — Dictionaries
Mythology — Dictionaries
Manners and customs — Dictionaries
Rites and ceremonies — Dictionaries.
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Mélanges en l'honneur de Luc Lacourcière : folklore français d'Amérique / sous la direction de Jean-Claude Dupont. Montréal : Leméac, 1978. 485 pages : illustrations, music ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR15 M517 D938
French or English Includes index.
Dupont, Jean-Claude, 1934-
Lacourcière, Luc, 1910-1989.
Canadians, French-speaking — Folklore
Folklore, French — United States.
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Songs and sayings of an Ulster childhood / by Alice Kane ; edited by Edith Fowke. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1983. 254 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR148 B44 S698
Includes index.
Folk songs, English — Northern Ireland — Belfast
Children's poetry, English — Northern Ireland — Belfast
Storytellers — Canada — Biography
Belfast (Northern Ireland) — Social life and customs.
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British folk tales and legends: a sampler St. Albans Eng. Granada Publishing, 1977. 315 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR142 B862 B854
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Chansons acadiennes de Pubnico et Grand-{83}tang: tir{nonjoin}es de la collection Helen Creighton = Acadian songs from Pubnico and Grand-{83}tang: from the Helen Creighton Collection / sous la direction de/ edited by Ronald Labelle. Dartmouth : Helen Creighton Folklore Society, 2008. 96 pages: ports.; 23 cm. +1 compact disc (12 cm.)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.7 F73 C914 2008
Compact disc includes original versions of songs. Includes bibliographical references.
Folk songs, French — Maritime Provinces
Folk songs, French — Nova Scotia
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Folklore
French Canadians — Nova Scotia — Folklore.
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The chestnut pipe : folklore of Shelburne County / Marion Robertson ; foreword by Clary Croft. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 271 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 N935 R651 1991
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Shelburne (County)
Shelburne (N.S. : County) — Social life and customs.
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History with a twist : unusual stories from Mr. Nova Scotia Know-It-All / Bruce Nunn. Halifax : Nimbus, 1998. xiv, 161 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 N69
Tales — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History.
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Island of ghosts : folklore & strange tales of the supernatural from Cape Breton / text compiled by David Lloyd Samson with Reed Wooby ; photographs by Warren Gordon. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1992. 66 pages : illustrations ; 16 x 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113.5 I82 S193
Gordon, Warren, 1951-
Samson, David Lloyd
Wooby, Reed.
Tales — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Ghosts — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) — Pictorial works.
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Folktales of French Canada Toronto : NC Press, 1979. 144 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR113 F666 F784
French-Canadians — Folklore
Tales — Canada
Tales, French-Canadian
Canadians, French-speaking — Folklore.
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Folklore from the Schoharie hills, New York / by Emelyn Elizabeth Gardner. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press, 1937. xv pages, 1 ., 351 pages illus. (incl. map, music) fold.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR110 N4 G226 F666
Includes index.
Folklore — New York (State) — Schoharie County
Schoharie County (N.Y.) — Social life and customs.
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The Oral history review Fullerton, Calif. : Oral History Association. 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR1 O63
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Ethnologie regionale :Regional Folklore : les provinces Maritimes = / the Maritime Provinces. Folklore Studies Association of Canada, 1991. 156 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GR1 C212 13(2)
Contains a series of articles on folklore in the Maritimes.
Folklore — Maritime Provinces
Ethnology — Maritime Provinces
Acadians — Folklore
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Fossil men and their modern representatives : an attempt to illustrate the characters and condition of pre-historic men in Europe, by those of the American races 2nd ed. London : Hodder and Stoughton, 1883. viii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN741 D27
Prehistoric peoples
First Nations of North America.
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Multicultural Association of Nova Scotia
A survey of attitudes toward the need for a multicultural kit as a teaching aid; and The role of the Multicultural Association of Nova Scotia in the Nova Scotia communities : final report, presented at a Special Board meeting of the Multicultural Associ Halifax : Multicultural Association of Nova Scotia, 1978. 69 pages : 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN560 N935 S963
Multiculturalism — Study and teaching (Elementary) — Nova Scotia.
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Cabot to Cartier : sources for a historical ethnography of northeastern North America, 1497-1550 Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1961. xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN560 N81 H68
Ethnology — North America
First Nations of North America
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — Historical geography — Maps
North America — History — Sources — Bibliography.
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Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism : building the Canadian mosaic : report of the Standing Committee on Multiculturalism Ottawa : Queen's Printer for Canada, 1987. [11], 164, 175, [11] pages : illustrations, ports. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN560 C212 C212
Text in English and French with French text on inverted pages. Chairman: Gus Mitges. June 1987. Added t.pages title: Multiculturalisme.
Minorities — Government policy — Canada
Multiculturalism — Canada
Canada — Ethnic relations — Government policy
Canada — Race relations — Government policy.
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The golden bough : a study in magic and religion Abridged ed. New York : Macmillan, 1951. 1 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN470.2 G618 F848
Mythology
Religion, Primitive
Magic
Superstition.
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Papers from the fourth annual congress, 1977 / Editor : Richard J. Preston. Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1978. vii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN3 C212
Summaries in French
Ethnology — Canada — Congresses
Ethnology — Congresses
Grand Bruit (Nfld.) — Social life and customs
South Coast (Nfld.) — Social life and customs
Makkovik (Labrador) — Social life and customs
Postville (Labrador) &
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