The beginnings of New England : or, The Puritan theocracy in its relations to civil and religious liberty / by John Fiske. Boston : Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1898. 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 F54 1898
Puritans
New England — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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The journal of Alexander Chesney : a South Carolina loyalist in the revolution and after / edited by E. Alfred Jones ; with an introduction by Wilbur H. Siebert. Columbus : Ohio State University, 1921. xvi, 166 pages ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C41
Jones, E. Alfred (Edward Alfred), 1872-1943, ed
Siebert, Wilbur Henry, 1866-1961.
American loyalists
South Carolina — History — Revolution, 1775-1783.
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The quit-rent system in the American colonies / Beverley W. Bond, jr. with a introduction by Charles M. Andrews. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1919. 492 pages ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 B64
Rent
Land tenure — United States — History.
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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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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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A topographical description of the province of Lower Canada : with remarks upon Upper Canada, and on the relative connexion of both provinces with the United States of America / by Joseph Bouchette. London : Printed for the author, and published by W. Faden, 1815. xv, 640, lxxxvi, [2] pages, [18] pages of plates (5
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 B66
Issued also in French under title: Description topographique de la province du Bas Canada. Includes some text in French. Extrait des titres de concessions de terres octroyées en fiefs dans la province du Bas-Canada: pages [i]-lii (4th group Errata: pages [2] (last group Library's copy has no t.p.
Land grants — Quebec (Province)
Quebec (Province) — Description and travel — 1764-1850
Ontario — Description and travel — 1764-1850.
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L'Acadie, or, Seven years' explorations in British America / by Sir James E. Alexander. London : H. Colburn, 1849. 2 v. : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 AL2
Canada — Description and travel.
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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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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
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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),
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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