Magnalia Christi americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New England, from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of Our Lord, 1698 : in seven books / by Cotton Mather. London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. 7 pt. in 1 v. : folded map ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F7 M427
Pagination irregular: paging of Book IV begins with pages 125.
New England — Church history
New England — Biographies
New England — History — Colonial period.
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Amerigo and the New World : the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci / translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onís. [1st ed.] New York : Knopf, 1955. 323, ix pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F6 V63 Ar3
Explorers — America — Biography
Explorers — Spain — Biography
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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Historical account of discoveries and travels in North America : including the United States, Canada, the shores of the Polar Sea, and the voyages in search of a north-west passage ; with observations on emigration / by Hugh Murray. London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green ; 1829. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 M98
North America — History
America — Discovery and exploration.
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The Norse discoveries and explorations in America / Edward Reman. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1949. xi, 201 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 R28
Rev. and edited from the author's ms. by Arthur G. Grodeur.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse.
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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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The problem of Wineland / by Halldór Hermannsson. Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1936. 3, 84, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 H42
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse.
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The Norse discoverers of America : the Wineland sagas / translated & discussed by G.M. Gathorne-Hardy. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1921. 304 pages : geneal. table, maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 G22
Translations from: ñorfinns saga Karlsefnis, Eiríks áttr Rau, and Grlnlendinga áttr.
Gathorne-Hardy, G. M. (Geoffrey Malcolm), 1878- Grlnlendinga áttr. English.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse.
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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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Legends of my people, the great Ojibway / illustrated and told by Norval Morriseau ; edited by Selwyn Dewdney. Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1965. xxii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 O38 L411 M877
Ojibwa Indians — Legends
First Nations of North America — Legends.
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Out of the depths : the experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia / Isabelle Knockwood with Gillian Thomas. Lockeport : Roseway, 1992. 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M619 K72 1992
Mi'kmaq — Education — History — 20th century
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Shubenacadie — Education — History — 20 century
Mi'kmaq — Residential schools
First Nations of North America &
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Wlteskuk nikmaq aqq nitapk Truro : Native Council of Nova Scotia, Micmac Language Program, 1985. 125 pages : illustrations ; 29 x 22 cm. +
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W836
Text in Micmac and English. Sound cassettes transferred to Sound and Moving Image Dept.
Native Council of Nova Scotia. Micmac Language Program.
Mi'kmaq language — Study and teaching — Nova Scotia — English speakers.
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Encounters with tall sails and tall tales : Mi'kmaq society, 1500-1760 / William C. Wicken. Montreal : McGill University, 1994. vi, 487 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W636
Written for the Dept. of History.
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia — History — To 1763.
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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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Stories from the Six Worlds : Micmac legends / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; illustrated by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus, 1988. 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W551 1988
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Legends
Tales — Maritime Provinces.
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The old man told us : excerpts from Micmac history, 1500-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; foreword by Peter Christmas. Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 385 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W55 1991
Includes index.
Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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The Micmac : how their ancestors lived five hundred years ago / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Harold McGee ; illustrations by Kathy Kaulbach. Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1983. 60 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 x 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W54
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces.
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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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When the sun rises : the Micmac story / by Dorothy O. Wellwood. Prince Albert, Sask. : Northern Canada Evangelical Mission, 1985. x, 107 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W457
Northern Canada Evangelical Mission.
Mi'kmaq
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces
Missionaries — Maritime Provinces
Evangelistic work — Maritime Provinces.
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How summer came to Canada / retold by William Toye ; pictures by Elizabeth Cleaver. Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1969. 32 pages : col. illustrations ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 T75
This retelling was freely based in part on the version in Canadian wonder tales by Cyrus MacMillan.
Cleaver, Elizabeth, 1939-1985.
Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore
Seasons — Folklore.
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Camp of the owls : sporting sketches and tales of Indians / Moses Perley ; edited, introduced and illustrated by Peter Mitcham. Hantsport : Lancelot Press, 1990. 97 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 P452
First Nations of North America — New Brunswick
Mi'kmaq
Outdoor life — New Brunswick.
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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 ethnology collection of the Nova Scotia Museum / by Ruth Whitehead. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1974. 58 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 N935
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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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