Narrative and critical history of America / edited by Justin Winsor. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1884-1889. 8 v. : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsims. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 W73
Most of the articles are followed by a critical essay on the sources of information, and notes in addition to the foot-notes.
Cartography — America
America — History
America — Bibliography
America — Maps, Early
America — Description and travel
America — Antiquities
United States — History
United States — History — Biblio
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A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies / by the Abbé Raynal ; newly translated from the French by J.O. Justamond. 2nd ed. London : A. Strahan, 1798. 6 v. : front. ( port.) 7 fold. maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21
Justamond, J. O. (John Obadiah), d. 1786.
Colonization — History
Commerce — History
East Indies
America — Discovery and exploration.
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A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America / from the French of Abbé Raynal. Edinburgh : Printed by C. MacFarquhar, 1776. 2 v. ; 16 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21
Pages 48-103 of Volume 1 and pages 9-135 of Volume 2 related to the description and history of the colonies in Canada.
United States — Description and travel
United States — Economic conditions
United States — History — Colonial period, ca.1600-1775
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — Description and travel — To
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Waldoborough 1773-1973 : 200 anniversary : a pictorial history 1st ed. Waldoboro, Me. : Waldoboro Bi-Centennial Committee, 1973. 96 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 W16
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Memorial of the centennial anniversary of the settlement of Machias Machias, Me. : Printed by C.O. Furbish, 1863. 179, [1] pages 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 M149
Machias genealogies: pages 151-179.
Machias (Me.) — History
Machias (Me.) — Genealogy.
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Coastal front : a history of Fort Sullivan Eastport Maine / David Zimmerman. Eastport, Me. : Border Historical Society, 1984. 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 F736 Z72
Fortification — History
Fort Sullivan (Eastport, Me.) — History
Eastport, Me. — History.
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History of Dresden, Maine : formerly a part of the old town of Pownalborough : from its earliest settlement to the year 1900 / by Charles Edwin Allen. Augusta, Me. : Kennebec Journal Print. Shop, 1931. 894 pages, [2] folded pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 D81 A15
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History, geography, and statistics of British North America / by Alex. Monro. Montreal : J. Lovell, 1864. iv, 324 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M75
Errata: pages [ii].
Canada — History
Canada — Economic conditions — 1763-1867.
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History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro Portland, Me., Bond Wheelwright Co., 1965. 2 v. illustrations 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F27 L7 S881
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A Book of Grey Owl : pages from the writings of Wa-sha-quon-asin / with an introduction by Hugh Eayrs. Toronto : Macmillan, 1938. xxi, 324 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 G86
Beavers
Natural history — Canada
Natural history Outdoor books
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel.
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Biography and history of the Indians of North America ... : also, a history of their wars .. / by Samuel G. Drake. 5th ed., with large additions and corrections, and numerous engravings. Boston : Antiquarian Institute, 1837. xii, 48, 120, 144, 96, 168 pages, [12] pages of plat
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 D78
Spine title: Indians of North America. First published under title: Indian biography. Added t.pages title: The book of the Indians of North America.
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Biography.
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The Indian races of North and South America, comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races : a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies; the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated ch / by Charles De Wolf Brownell. New York : The American Subscription House, 1857. 720 pages, [44] pages of plates : colour plates, ports
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B82 1857
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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The Indian races of North and South America, comprising an account of the principal aboriginal races : a description of their national customs, mythology, and religious ceremonies; the history of their most powerful tribes, and of their most celebrated ch / by Charles De Wolf Brownell. New York : The American Subscription Publishing House, 1859. 720 pages, [40] pages of plates : colour plates, ports
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B82
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.
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The search for the western sea : the story of the exploration of north-western America / by Lawrence J. Burpee. New and rev. ed. Toronto : Macmillan Company of Canada, 1935. 2 v. : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 B93
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel
Northwest, Canadian — History
Northwest Passage.
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The explorers of North America, 1492-1806 / by John Bartlet Brebner. New York : Macmillan, 1933. xv, 502 pages, [4] folded pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 B74
Explorers
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — History.
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History of Cavelier de La Salle, 1643-1687 : explorations in the valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents / Paul Chesnel ; translated from the French by Andrée Chesnel Meany. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. vii, 232 pages : fold. maps. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 C42
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Mississippi River Valley — History — To 1803.
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New England frontier; Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 [1st ed.]. Boston : Little, Brown, 1965. xvii, 430 pages : illustrations, facsim., map, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F7 V364
First Nations of North America — New England
Indians, Treatment of — New England
New England — History — Colonial period.
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Magnalia Christi americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New England, from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of Our Lord, 1698 : in seven books / by Cotton Mather. London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. 7 pt. in 1 v. : folded map ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F7 M427
Pagination irregular: paging of Book IV begins with pages 125.
New England — Church history
New England — Biographies
New England — History — Colonial period.
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Historical account of discoveries and travels in North America : including the United States, Canada, the shores of the Polar Sea, and the voyages in search of a north-west passage ; with observations on emigration / by Hugh Murray. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green ; 1829. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 M98
North America — History
America — Discovery and exploration.
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Changing New England [1st ed.] New York : The Century Co., 1929. x, 275 pages, 10 plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F4 W59
New England — History
New England — Social life and customs.
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The New England quarterly : an historical review of New England life and letters Orono, Me. : University Press, 1927-. 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 N54 Q1
Subtitle varies slightly.
New England — History — Periodicals.
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Out of the depths : the experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia / Isabelle Knockwood with Gillian Thomas. Lockeport : Roseway, 1992. 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M619 K72 1992
Mi'kmaq — Education — History — 20th century
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Shubenacadie — Education — History — 20 century
Mi'kmaq — Residential schools
First Nations of North America &
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Encounters with tall sails and tall tales : Mi'kmaq society, 1500-1760 / William C. Wicken. Montreal : McGill University, 1994. vi, 487 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W636
Written for the Dept. of History.
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia — History — To 1763.
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Micmac quillwork : Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration, 1600-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; with an appendix on quilled-bark conservation, by Deborah Jewett. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1982. 230 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W592
Indian craft
Mi'kmaq — Art — History
Mi'kmaq — Industries — History
Indian art — North America — History
First Nations of North America — Industries — History.
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The old man told us : excerpts from Micmac history, 1500-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; foreword by Peter Christmas. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 385 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W55 1991
Includes index.
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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