The American aborigines, their origin and antiquity Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1933. 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 J43
A collection of papers by ten authors, assembled and edited by Diamond Jenness; published for presentation at the fifth Pacific Science Congress, Canada, 1933.
Indians — Origin
First Nations of North America — Antiquities
Indians of South America — Antiquities
Man — Migrations.
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Handbook of Indians of Canada : published as an appendix to the Tenth report of the Geographic Board of Canada / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Ottawa : Geographic Board, 1913. x, 632 pages : 3 fold maps. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H66
Reprinted by permission of Mr. F.W. Hodge ... from Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, published as Bulletin 30, Bureau of American ethnology, and edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Reprinted under the direction of James White. Published also in French under title: Manuel des indiens du Canada. At head of title: Geographic Board. Canada. 1912.
First Nations of North America — Canada.
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The letters and journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808 / edited with an introd. by W. Kaye Lamb ; maps by C. C. J. Bond. Toronto : Macmillan, 1960. 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 F46
Lamb, W. Kaye (William Kaye), 1904-
Fraser River (B.C.)
British Columbia — Description and travel
Canada — Exploring expeditions
British Columbia — Description and travel — To 1871.
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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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A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534 with annotations, etc / by James Phinney Baxter. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1906. ix, 464 pages, [9] pages of plates (3 folded) : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 C24 B33
Limited edition of 300 copies on deckle-edge paper, and 35 copies on Japan paper.
America — Discovery and exploration — French.
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Henry Hudson, a brief statement of his aims and his achievements, to which is added a newly-discovered partial record, now first published, of the trial of the mutineers by whom he and others were abandoned to their death New York : Harper, 1909. 147 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 H86 J26
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The Cabot voyages and Bristol discovery under Henry VII / by James A. Williamson ; with cartography of the voyages by R. A. Skelton. Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1962. xvi, 332 pages, [11] pages of plates (some folded) :
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W67 1962
Includes index.
Skelton, R. A. (Raleigh Ashlin), 1906-1970.
America — Discovery and exploration — English
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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The voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII / by James A. Williamson. London : Argonaut Press, 1929. xiii, 290 pages, [13] pages of plates (1 folded) : m
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W67
Limited edition of 1050 numbered copies. Includes index.
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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The lost discovery ; uncovering the track of the Vikings in America / Illus. and maps by J. Warren Sheppard. [1st ed.] New York, Norton 1952. 346 pages illus., maps. 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 P75
Vikings
North America — Discovery and exploration
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Jones, Charles Hugh Le Pailleur
The Markland sagas : with a discussion of their relation to Nova Scotia / by C.H.L. Jones and Thomas H. Raddall ; illustrated by Thomas W. Hayhurst. Montreal : Gazette Printing Company Ltd., 1934. 117, 1 pages : illustrations (incl. maps) plates, portraits ; 19
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 J71
Maps on lining-papers. Bibliography: pages 117.
Hayhurst, Thomas W., illus
Raddall, Thomas H., 1903-1994.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse
Nova Scotia.
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Here was Vinland : the Great Lakes region of America / by James W. Curran. Sault Ste. Marie, ON. : Sault Daily Star, 1939. xiv, 359 pages, [19] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 2
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 C94
Half title: Here was Vinland : a 1000 year old mystery solvedition At head of title: America's strangest story. Includes index.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse
Great Lakes — Discovery and exploration.
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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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Tracking Doctor Lonecloud : showman to legend keeper / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; including the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud reconstructed and annotated by Ruth Holmes Whitehead from interview notes by Clara Dennis. Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions, 2002. 183 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W474 2002
Co-published by: Nova Scotia Museum.
Dennis, Clara, 1881-1954
Lonecloud, Jerry, 1854-1930.
Mi'kmaq — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Entertainers — Biography. — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Folklore.
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We were not the savages : a Micmac perspective on the collision of European and aboriginal civilizations / Daniel N. Paul ; research assistants, Donald M. Julien and Timothy J. Bernard ; illustrations, Vernon Gloade. Halifax : Nimbus, 1993. viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 P38 1993
Includes index.
Mi'kmaq — Government relations
Mi'kmaq — History
Mi'kmaq — First contact with Europeans
Indians, Treatment of — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Paqtatek / introduction by Murdena Marshall ; essays by Eleanor Johnson ; compiled by Stephanie Inglis, Loy Mannette, Stacey Sulewski ; drawings by Dozay ; photography by J. Peyton Chisholm. Halifax : Garamond Press, 1991. ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 P218
Inglis, Stephanie Heather, 1957-
Mannette, Joy
Sulewski, Stacey.
Mi'kmaq — Social conditions
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Social conditions.
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The Micmac grammar of Father Pacifique / translated and retranscribed by John Hewson and Bernard Francis. Winnipeg : Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics, 1990. xi, 280 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 P112
Francis, Bernard, 1948-
Hewson, John, 1930-
Mi'kmaq language — Grammar
First Nations of North America — Languages — Grammar.
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Les Micmacs et la mer / textes réunis sous la direction de Charles A. Martijn. Montréal : Recherches amérindiennes au Québec, 1986. vi, 343 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 M64
Includes index
Recherches amérindiennes au Québec (Association)
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — History
Navigation, Primitive — Atlantic Provinces — History.
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Mi'kmaq : economics and evolution / Ronald J. Nash. Faunal remains from the Delorey Island site (Bj Cj-9) of Nova Scotia / Frances L. Stewart. Halifax,Nova Scotia : Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1986. [xi], 178 pages: illustrations; maps, tables; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 M636
Nash, Ronald J
Stewart, Frances L.
Mi'kmaq — Commerce
Mi'kmaq — Artifacts
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The Mi'kmaw concordat / James (Sákéj) Youngblood Henderson. Halifax : Fernwood, 1997. 136 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 H46 1997
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Mi'kmaq & Maliseet cultural ancestral material: national collections from the Canadian Museum of Civilization / Stephen J. Augustine. Gatineau, Qu{nonjoin}bec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2005. 258 pages: illustrations (chiefly col.); 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 A923 2005
Includes index.
Mi'kmaq — Material culture — Catalogs
Malecite Indians — Material culture — Catalogs
First Nations of North America — Material culture — Atlantic Provinces — Catalogs
Indian art — Atlantic Provinces — Catalogs.
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An inventory of stemmed projectile points of Nova Scotia / by Stanley A. D'Entremont and Marilyn J. Moore. Halifax, Nova Scotia : Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary's University, 1977. 95 pages : illustrations, map. ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146 #3
Projectile points
Archaeology — Methodology
Excavations (Archaeology) — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Antiquities.
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Cognatic kinship organization among the Northeast Algonkians / by Jack A. Frisch. Halifax : St. Mary's University, Department of Anthropology, 1977. xiv, 61 pages : map ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146 #2
St. Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.). Dept. of Anthropology.
Algonquian Indians
First Nations of North America — Kinship.
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Three Atlantic bibliographies / compiled by Harold Franklin McGee, Jr., Stephen A. Davis, and Michael Taft. Halifax : Department of Anthropology, Saint Mary's University, 1975. 205 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146 #1
Davis, Stephen A., 1949-
Taft, Michael, 1947-
Saint Mary's University (Halifax, N.S.). Dept. of Anthropology.
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Bibliography
Folklore — Nova Scotia — Bibliography.
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Eastern Algonquian relationships to proto-Algonquian social organization / by James Wherry. Halifax : St. Mary's Univ., 1979. 111 pages : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146
Kinship
Algonquian Indians — Social life and customs
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