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withdrawn for mending; use F37.55 M38p Ser.1 Volume 18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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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Gitwangak village life : a museum collection / Joanne MacDonald. 89 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 G5
Parks Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch.
Kitksan Indians — Antiquities
First Nations of North America — British Columbia
First Nations of North America — British Columbia — Antiquities
Gitwangak (B.C.) — Social life and customs.
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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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