Nova Scotia. Commissioner of Public Records
Catalogue, or List of Manuscript Documents, Arranged, Bound and Catalogued under the direction of the Commissioner of Public Records Halifax : Printed by D.H. Fowler & Co., 1877. 35 pages ; 22 cm.
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Title continues: Together with a List of Books of Entry consisting of Minutes of His Majesty's Council, Letters, Registers of Crown Grants of Land, Commissions, Order of Government, &c., &c. From the Year 1710 to Year 1867, Preserved in the Government Offices at Halifax, Nova Scotia. Also, A List of Boxes Which contain Papers Assorted in Bundles with memorandum of contents of each Box. Memo. — The Volumes deposited in the office of the Provincial Secretary and in the Office of the Commissioner of Public Records, in the room appropriated for that purpose in the Province Building.
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Minutes of His Majesty's Council at Annapolis Royal, 1736-1749 / edited by Charles Bruce Fergusson. Halifax : Public Archives of Nova Scotia, 1967. 113 pages ; 25 cm.
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Series: Nova Scotia Archives IV. Includes index.
Website: Acadian Heartland: The Records of British Government at Annapolis Royal, 1713-1749
Fergusson, Charles Bruce, 1911-1978
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A calendar of two letter-books and one commission-book in the possession of the government of Nova Scotia, 1713-1741 / edited by Archibald M. MacMechan. Halifax : Herald Printing House, 1900. 270 pages, 2 leaves of plates : plan ; 22 cm.
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Series: Nova Scotia Archives II. Includes index.
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MacMechan, Archibald, 1862-1933.
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Nova Scotia. Commissioner of Public Records
Selections from the public documents of the Province of Nova Scotia / edited by Thomas Beamish Akins, Commissioner of Public Records. Halifax : Charles Annand, 1869. ii, 755 pages, 1 folded plate, 2 folded facsimilies : 22 cm.
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Series: Nova Scotia Archives I.
Published under a resolution of the House of Assembly passed March 15, 1865 ; edited by Thomas B Akins, D.C.L. Commissioner of Public Records ; the translations from the French by Benjamin Curren.
Contains: Papers relating to the Acadian French. 1714-1755. Papers relating to the forcible removal of the Acadian French from Nova Scotia, 1755-1768. Papers relating to the French encroachments in Nova Scotia, 1749-1754, and the war in North America, 1754-1761. Papers relating to the first settlement of Halifax. 1749-1756. Papers relating to the first establishment of a representative assembly in Nova Scotia. 1755-1761.
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Akins, Thomas Beamish, 1809-1891
Curren, Benjamin
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The site of Fort La Tour / by W. F. Ganong. Montreal : Dawson Bros., 1892. p. 61-75 : map ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 L35 G15
From: Transactions Royal Society of Canada. Section II, 1891. Communicated by Dr. George Stewart, F.R.G.S., May 27, 1891. Title from caption.
Dawson Brothers (Montréal, Quebec)
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The administration of Sir John Harvey in Nova Scotia 1846-1852 / by Donald F. Maclean. Halifax : Dalhousie University, 1947. 226 pages ; 29 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 H25 M22
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1758-1867.
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The Acadian tragedy / by Francis Parkman. New York : Harper's, 1884. p. 877-886. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 H23
Reprint from Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Caption title. In double columns.
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History of Nova Scotia/ / by Thomas C. Haliburton ; pref. by C. Bruce Fergusson. Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1973. 2 v. : illustrations, maps (part fold.) ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 H13 1973
Reprint of edition published Halifax, J. Howe, 1829 under title: An historical and statistical account of Nova Scotia. Includes indexes.
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A Fair representation of His Majesty's right to Nova-Scotia or Acadie : briefly stated from the memorials of the English commissaries : with an answer to the objections contained in the French memorials, and in a treatise entitled Discussion sommaire sur London : Printed by E. Owen, 1756. 64 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 G28
Commissioners for Adjusting the Boundaries for the British and French Possessions in America. The memorials of the English and French commissaries concerning the limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia
Commissaires sur les possessions et les droits de la Grande-Bretagne et de la France en Amérique. Mémoires des Commissaires du Roi et de ceux de Sa Majesté britannique, sur les possessions & les droits respectifs des deux couronnes en Amérique : avec les actes publics & pièces justificatives.
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Laws of Nova Scotia relating to customs and excise duties and for the prevention of smuggling : as amended : rates of duties payable on goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into the province; with forms used for entering, warehousing, or exporting, as / arranged by Thomas R. DeWolf. Halifax : Printed by A. Grant, 1864. 204 pages ; 23 cm.
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The geography and history of Nova Scotia : with a general outline of geography, and a sketch of the British possessions in North America / by J.B. Calkin. New and rev. ed. Halifax : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1864. 110 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : colour map ; 16
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 C12 G29 1864
In portfolio, with map pasted inside back cover; map title: Mackinlay's map of the province of Nova Scotia, including the Island of Cape Breton / compiled from actual & recent surveys, 1865 ; published by A. & W. Mackinlay. On portfolio: Mackinlay's map and history of Nova Scotia. - New edition - 1865. Map missing.
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The foreign Protestants and the settlement of Nova Scotia : the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century / Winthrop Pickard Bell. Fredericton, N.B. : Acadiensis Press, 1990. xviii, 673 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 B41 1990
Co-published by Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University.
Mount Allison University. Centre for Canadian Studies.
Germans — Nova Scotia — History — 18th century
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Commissioners for Adjusting the Boundaries for the British and French Possessions in America
The memorials of the English and French commissaries concerning the limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia London : 1755. 2 v. : map ; 27 cm. (4to)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F96 G79
Volume 2 has title: The memorials of the English & French commissaries concerning St. Lucia. Half title, v. l: Mémoires des commissaires anglais & français au sujet des limites de la Nouvelle Écosse ou l'Acadie, &c. = The Memorials of the English and French commissaries concerning the limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia, &c.; v. 2: Mémoires des commissaires anglais & français sur l'isle de St. Lucie = Memorials of the English and French commissaries cocerning St. Lucia. References: Sabin 47741-47742; TPL 236 v. 1 only
Nova Scotia — Boundaries
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France — Foreign relations — Great Britain.
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The history of Acadia : from its first discovery to its surrender to England by the Treaty of Paris / by James Hannay. St. John, N.B. : Printed by J. & A. McMillan, 1879. vii, 440 pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F95 H19
Acadia
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784.
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Argyll, John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th earl of, 1845-1914
Yesterday & to-day in Canada London : George Allen & sons, 1910. 429 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F94 Ar3
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Captain John Hatfield. A genealogy of the descendants of Captain John Hatfield loyalist Rutland, Vt. : New York genealogical and biographical society, 1943. 103 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93.2 H28 H28
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The life and times of the late Rev. Harris Harding, Yarmouth, N.S. : the Patriarch of Western Nova Scotia / compiled by the Rev. John Davis ; with an introduction by J. W. Nutting ; followed by an appendix, and a selection of letters. Charlottetown P.E.I. : The Compiler, 1866. 271 pages : illustrations, port. ; 18 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 N21 D29
Half title : The life and times of Harris Harding.
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The speeches and public letters of the Hon. Joseph Howe / edited by William Annand. Boston : Halifax : J.P. Jewett ; A. & W. Mackinlay ; 1858. 2 v. ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F93 H83
A. & W. MacKinlay (Firm)
Dawson (B.) & Sons.
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1763-1867.
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Webster, John Clarence, 1863-1950
The Life of Thomas Pichon, "The Spy of Beausejour" An Account of His Career in Europe and America / by John Clarence Webster ; with many original documents translated by Alice Webster. Sackville, NB : The Tribune Press, 1937. xiii, 161 pages, 8 leaves of plates : facsimiles., folded plans, illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.
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Special publication of the Public Archives of Nova Scotia. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Public Archives of Nova Scotia
Pichon, Thomas, 1700-1781
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784
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Nature and human nature / by the author of Sam Slick, the clockmaker, &c. &c. London : Hurst and Blackett, 1855. 2 v. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 H13n
Reference: TPL 3553.
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Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865
The bubbles of Canada / by the author of 'Sam Slick, The Clockmaker, etc.,etc.'. Philadelphia : Lea & Blanchard, 1839. 262 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 H13b
Canada — Politics and government — 1837-1838.
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The attaché, or, Sam Slick in England / by the author of The clockmaker, or, Sayings and doings of Sam Slick. Paris : Baudry's European Library, 1845. 325 pages; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 H13 1845
Second and last series.
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Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865
The attaché, or, Sam Slick in England / by the author of The clockmaker, or, The sayings and doings of Sam Slick, &c. Halifax : J.H. Crosskill, 1845. 79 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 H13
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Twilight of faith Toronto : Hunter, Rose & co., 1872. 128 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 F84 T92
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Descriptive sketches of Nova Scotia, in prose and verse / by a Nova Scotian. Halifax : A. & W. Mackinlay, 1864. iii, 242, iii pages ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F92 F84 D45
Dedicated by permission to Lady MacDonnell. Errata insertedition Attributed to Elizabeth Frame. Cf. TPL 43117.
Nova Scotia — Description and travel.
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