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
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4119
Decosta, Rev. Benjamin Franklin 1831-1904
Relation of a voyage to Sagadahoc Cambridge University Press, 1880. 43 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F22 D35
withdrawn for mending; use F37.55 M38p Ser.1 Volume 18
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4118
Gazetteer of British North America : containing the latest and most authentic descriptions of over six thousand cities, towns and villages in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manitoba, Briti / edited by P.A. Crossby. Montreal : J. Lovell, 1875. 2 v. in 1 ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F20 L94 1875
The second part has special t.-p.: The railway and steamboat routes in British North America ... by pagesA. Crossby. Montreal : J. Lovell, 1875.
Crossby, P. A. b. 1842, ed. (Peter Alfred),
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4115
Lovell's gazetteer of British North America : containing the latest and most authentic descriptions of over six thousand cities, towns, and villages in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manit / edited by P.A. Crossby. Montreal : J. Lovell, 1874. 2 v. in 1 ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F20 L94 1874
Bound with: Crossby, pages A. The railway and steamboat routes in British North America ... Montreal, Lovell [n.d.]
Crossby, P. A. (Peter Alfred), b. 1842, ed.
Railroads — Canada
Canada — Description and travel Gazetteers
Newfoundland — Description and travel Gazetteers.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4114
New York (State). Secretary of State
Journals of the military expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six nations of Indians in 1779 : with records of centennial celebrations : prepared pursuant to chapter 361, laws of the state of New York, of 1885 / by Frederick Cook. Auburn, N.Y. : Knapp, 1887. 1 pages l., xv, 579, (2) pages : front., port., fold. ma
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F18 C77
Compiled by George S. Conover.
Cook, Frederick, 1833-1905
Conover, George Stillwell, b. 1824
Sullivan, John, 1740-1795.
Sullivan's Indian campaign, 1779.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4113
The literary faculty of the native races of America / by John Reade. Montreal : Dawson Brothers, 1884. p. 17-30 ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R22
From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Volume II, Section II, 1884.
Dawson Brothers (Montréal, Quebec)
Royal Society of Canada.
First Nations of North America — Languages
Indians of South America — Languages
Indian literature.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4112
Rand's Micmac dictionary : from phonographic word-lists prepared by Rev. Silas T. Rand, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L / transcribed and alphabetically arranged, with a grammar and list of place-names by Jeremiah S. Clark. Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Patriot Pub. Co., 1902. xxxiii, 192 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R15
Clark's edition of the manuscript Dictionary left unfinished by Rand at the time of his death--Masinahikan. A companion volume to Rand's English-Micmac vocabulary. Published by direction of the Canadian government Also includes 'Micmac place-names in the Maritime provinces of Canada,' with its own title-page but continuous collation and pagination--Masinahikan.
Clark, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Simpson), 1872-1950.
Mi'kmaq language — Dictionaries — English
Mi'kmaq language — Grammar
Mi'kmaq — Names
Names, Geographical — Canada.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4107
Bibliography of the Algonquin languages / by James Constantine Pilling. Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1891. x, 614 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 AL3 P64
Algonquian languages — Bibliography.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4099
The Indian tribes of North America / by John R. Swanton. Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1952. vi, 726 pages : 4 folded maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 Sw2
First Nations of North America.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4098
The horse in Blackfoot Indian culture : with comparative material from other Western tribes / by John C. Ewers. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1955. xv, 374 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 Si2 EW3
Siksika Indians — Horses
Horses — Great Plains
First Nations of North America — Great Plains — Horses.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4097
Facsimile of Père Marquette's Illinois Prayer Book : its history / by J.L. Hubert Neilson. Quebec : Quebec Lit. and Hist. Society, 1908. 12 pages : facsims., port. ; 16 x 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 I16 A15
History of the prayer book is in English; text of the prayer book is in Illinois, with some headings in French and Latin. The prayer book was prepared by Father Claude Allouez at the request of Father Marquette--pages 8. Published ... in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of Quebec, July 1608. Limited edition of 300 numbered copies.
Allouez, Claude, 1622-1689
Neilson, J. L. Hubert (John Louis Hubert), 1845-1925.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4092
Glooskap's country, and other Indian tales / illustrated by John A. Hall. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1955. 273 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 G51
First Nations of North America — Legends
First Nations of North America — Canada.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4087
The Indians of Canada / by Diamond Jenness. Ottawa : F.A. Acland, printer to the King, 1932. x, 446 pages : colour front., illustrations, colour plates. ; 26 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 J43i
Folded map in pocket.
First Nations of North America — Canada.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4085
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4081
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4073
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4072
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4071
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4068
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
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4066
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4064
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4063
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
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4046
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4044
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4039
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.
search Internet Archive
please note : not all titles are available on the Internet Archive4032
Nova Scotia Archives — https://archives.novascotia.ca/library/catalogue/
Crown copyright © 2025, Province of Nova Scotia.