The pictorial field-book of the revolution : or, Illustrations, by pen and pencil, of the history, biography, scenery, relics, and traditions of the war for Independence / by Benson J. Lossing ; with 11 hundred engravings on wood by Lossing and Barritt, chiefly from original sketches by the author. New York : Harper & Brothers, 1860. 2 v. : front., illus., portraits, maps, facsims. ; 27
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 L89
Volume 1 without imprint date; copyright date 1850.
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783.
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France and New England / by Allan Forbes and Paul F. Cadman. Boston : State Street Trust Co., 1925-1929. 3 v. : front., illustrations (incl. portraits, map) pl. ; 26 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 F74 F84
Volume I issued by the State Street Trust Company in Boston, in commemoration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill, and the one hundredth anniversary of the laying of the corner stone of Bunker Hill monument by Lafayette. Edited, designed and printed by direction of Walton Advertising & Printing Co., Boston, Mass.
Cadman, Paul F., joint author.
Walton Advertising and Printing Company (Boston)
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Participation, French.
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A history of the United States for schools / by John Fiske ; with topical analysis, suggestive questions, and directions for teachers, by Frank Alpine Hill. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. xxi, 573 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, maps (2
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 F54
Maps on lining papers. Topics and questions at end of each chapter. Includes index.
Hill, Frank Alpine, 1841-1901.
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The Life, trial and execution of Captain John Brown : known as Old Brown of Ossawatomie, compiled from official and authentic sources New York : R.M. De Witt, 1859. 108 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35.12 D51
Virginia. Circuit Court (Jefferson Co.)
Harpers Ferry (W.Va.) — John Brown Raid, 1859.
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The public records of the colony of Connecticut 1636-1776 Hartford : Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1850-1890. 15 v. : fold. map, facsims. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35.4 C76
Trumbull, James Hammond, 1821-1897
Hoadly, Charles Jeremy, 1828-1900.
Connecticut. General Assembly
Connecticut. Council
United Colonies of New England. Commissioners
Connecticut. Council of Safety.
Wills — Connecticut
Connecticut — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 — Sources
Connecticut — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Sources.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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Honoring 400 years, Kepmite'tmnej / edited by Jaime Youngmedicine Battiste. Sydney : J. Battiste, 2010. 149 pages: illustrations; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 H774 2010
Text in English, French, and Mi'kmaq. Includes bibliographical references.
Membertou, Henri, — Grand Chief, — d1611.
Mi'kmaq — Rites and ceremonies.
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The life of the Copper Eskimos / by D. Jenness. Ottawa : F.A. Acland, 1922. 277 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 E7 J43 L62
Southern party, 1913-16.
Cameron, John, 1873- Osteology of the western and central Eskimos.
Copper Eskimos — Antiquities
Copper Eskimos — History
Copper Eskimos — Folklore
Copper Eskimos — Social life and customs
Victoria Island (N.W.T.) — Antiquities.
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Osteology of the western and central Eskimos / by John Cameron ; including a special report upon the dention by S. G. Ritchie and J. Stanley Bagnall. Ottawa : F. A. Acland, Printer to the King, 1923. 79 pages, 11 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 E7
Southern party 1913-16.
Eskimos — Craniology
Eskimos — Anthropometry.
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More Glooscap stories : legends of the Wabanaki Indians / by Kay Hill ; illustrated by John Hamberger. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1970. 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 A13 H64 G561
Abnaki Indians — Legends
Giants — Juvenile fiction
Trickster — Juvenile fiction.
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Anglo-Indian relations in North America to 1763 and an analysis of the royal proclamation of 7 October 1763 / by Jack Stagg. Ottawa : Research Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1981. [4], 418 pages : maps ; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S E91 S779 - Oversize
Appendix: 1793, October 7. A proclamation by the King.
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Corporate Policy. Research Branch.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Government relations — History
First Nations of North America — Canada — Land tenure — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Great Britain — Colonies — America.
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An overview of demographic, social and economic conditions among Nova Scotia's registered Indian population / by Andrew J. Siggner and David Perley ; with the assistance of Debra A. Young. Ottawa : Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1982 xiii, 44 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 N46 S45
Issued by Indian and Northern Affairs, Corporate Policy, Research Branch. Issued also in French under title: Aperçu de la situation démographique, sociale et économique de la population indienne inscrite de la Nouvelle-Écosse.
Perley, David
Gerard, Gabriel, 1949-
Young, Debra A.
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Statistics
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Population
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Social conditions
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Our land : the Maritimes : the basis of the Indian claim in the Maritime provinces of Canada / co-editors, Gary P. Gould, Alan J. Semple. Fredericton, N.B. : Saint Annes Point Press, 1980. xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 M6 G696
Includes index.
Gould, Gary P., 1951-
Semple, Alan J., 1934-
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Government relations
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Land tenure
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Claims
First Nations of North America — Mar
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