The Jesuits in North America in the seventeenth century / by Francis Parkman. Boston : Little, Brown, 1897. lxxxix, 463 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 P23 1897 pt.2
First edition: 1867.
Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893. France and England in North America.
Jesuits — North America
New France.
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Nova Francia : a description of Acadia, 1606 / Marc Lescarbot ; tr. by P. Erondelle ; with an introd. by H. P. Biggar. London : Routledge, 1928. xxxi, 346 pages : facsim., maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 L56
Includes reproduction of original t. pages of the translation.
Biggar, Henry Percival, 1872-1938.
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia
New France — Discovery and exploration
Acadia.
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The Jesuit relations and allied documents : travels and explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in North America (1610-1791) / with an introduction by Reuben Gold Thwaites ; selected and edited by Edna Kenton. New York : Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. liv, 527 pages, [10] pages of plates : illustrations, ports,
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F40 J49
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Kenton, Edna, 1876-1954
Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913.
First Nations of North America — Missions
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration.
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Memoir, historical and political, on the northwest coast of North America, and the adjacent territories : illustrated by a map and a geographical view of those countries / by Robert Greenhow, translator and librarian to the Department of State. Washington, D.C. : Blair and Rives, 1840. 228 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F37.48 G82 - Open Shelf
Bound with: Travels in the great western prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky mountains, and in the Oregon territory.
Northwest Coast of North America — History.
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Minnesota and its resources : to which are appended camp-fire sketches or notes of a trip from St. Paul to Pembina and Selkirk settlement on the Red River of the north / by J. Wesley Bond. Chicago : Philadelphia : Keen & Lee ; C. Desilver, 1857. 412 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F37.33 B64 M66 - Open Shelf
Belcourt, George Antoine, 1803-1874.
Railroads — Minnesota
First Nations of North America — Minnesota
Minnesota — Description and travel — To 1858
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — 1822-1870.
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Sebastian Ralé : a Maine tragedy of the eighteenth century / by John Francis Sprague. Boston, Mass. : Heintzemann Press, 1906. 162 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 20 c
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F37.2 R13 Sp7 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Maine.
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Colonel David Fanning's Narrative of his exploits and adventures as a loyalist of North Carolina in the American Revolution, supplying important omissions in the copy published in the United States Toronto : Reprinted from the Canadian Magazine, 1908. 55 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 F21 Sa9
Savary, A. W. (Alfred William), 1831-1920.
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Personal narratives — British
North Carolina — History — Revolution.
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The loyalists in North Carolina during the Revolution / by Robert O. DeMond. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1940. viii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 D39
Thesis PH.D.-Duke university, 1938. Without thesis note.
American loyalists — North Carolina
North Carolina — History — Revolution.
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The North Carolina historical review Raleigh : North Carolina Historical Commission, 1924-. ill., portraits, facsims. ; 23-26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35.10 N82
North Carolina. Division of Archives and History
North Carolina Historical Commission
North Carolina. Office of Archives and History
North Carolina. State Dept. of Archives and History.
North Carolina — History — Periodicals.
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The history of the United States of North America, from the plantation of the British colonies till their assumption of national independence / by James Grahame. Philadelphia : Lee & Blanchard, 1845. 2 v. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 G76
United States — History
North America — History.
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New England captives carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760, during the French and Indian wars / by Emma Lewis Coleman. Portland, Me. : Southworth Press, 1925. 2 v. : fronts., illus. (map, facsim.) plates, port
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F35 C67 N42
Maps on lining-papers.
First Nations of North America — Captivities
Frontier and pioneer life — New England
New Englanders — Canada
New England — History — Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Anthropological papers Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1955. 415 pages, 48 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 Sm6b
At head of title: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. Includes index.
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
First Nations of North America
Ethnology — North America.
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Tour through part of the north provinces of America : being a series of letters wrote on the spot, in the years 1774, & 1775 / by Patrick M'Robert. Philadelphia : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1935. x, 47 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M24
Reprint. Originally published: Edinburgh : Printed for the author, 1776. Offprint from the Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography, April, 1935--T.pages verso. Includes index.
North America — Description and travel
Nova Scotia — Description and travel.
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Mackenzie and his voyageurs : by canoe to the Arctic and the Pacific, 1789-93 / by Arthur P. Woollacott. London ; Toronto : J.M. Dent, 1927. x, 237 pages : illustrations (map) plates. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 M19 W88
In the preparation of this essay, Mackenzie's narrative, as contained in the original edition of his Voyages, 1801, was used as a basis.--pages v.
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Cinq mois chez les Français d'Amerique : voyage au Canada et à la rivière Rouge du Nord / par H. de Lamothe. 2nd ed. Paris : Hachette et cie, 1880. 2 pages l., iv, 373 pages : front., plates, portraits, 4 ma
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 L16
Canada — Description and travel — 1867-1950
Red River of the North
Canada — Description and travel — 1868-1900.
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Travels through the Canadas : containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes, with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners a / by George Heriot ; illustrated with a map and numerous engravings, from drawings made at the several places by the author. London : Printed for R. Phillips, 1807. xii, 602, [2] pages, [29] pages of plates (7 folded)
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
First chapter contains description of the Azores. Part second contains a minute description of the peculiarities of various nations of American aborigines, principally derived from other printed works.--Sabin. Vocabulary of the Algonquin tongue: pages 579-599; Indicative mood of the verb sakia, to love: pages 599-600; Numeration: pages 601-602. Errata: pages xii. Directions for placing the plates: pages [603] Publisher's advertisement: pages [604]
First Nations of North America
Algonquian languages — Dictionaries — English
English language — Dictionaries — Algonquian
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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Travels through the Canadas / by George Heriot. London- : 18--. 232 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H42 T69
Missing title page.
First Nations of North America
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
Azores.
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A pocket gazetteer : or Traveller's guide through North America and the West Indies : containing a description of all the states, territories, counties, cities, towns, villages, seas, bays, harbors, islands, capes, railroads, canals, &c., connected with N / by Bishop Davenport. Trenton, N.J. : Plaskitt & Co, 1833. 468 pages : front (fold. map) illus., fold. pl. ; 15
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 D27
Library's copy has torn t.p.
United States — Gazetteers
North America — Gazetteers
West Indies — 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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Micmac place-names in the Maritime Provinces and the Gaspé peninsula recorded between 1852 and 1890 / by S. T. Rand ; collected, arranged and indexed by Wm. P. Anderson. Canada : (Ottawa : Printed at the Surveyor General's Office), 1919. 116 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R15 M58
At head of title: Geographic Board of Canada.
Anderson, William Patrick, 1851-
Names, Geographical — Canada
Names, Indian — North America
Mi'kmaq language — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Maritime Provinces
Gaspé Peninsula (Québec)
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Handbook of American Indian languages / by Franz Boas. Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off, 1911-. 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 B63
Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.
First Nations of North America — Languages.
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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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Glooscap the great chief, and other stories : legends of the Micmacs New York : Sturgis & Walton, 1913. 293 pages : front. (port. group) plates. ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 M58 P25
Most of the stories are adapted from Rand's Legends of the Micmacs.
Glooscap (Legendary character)
Mi'kmaq — Folklore
First Nations of North America — Legends.
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The Algonquin legends of New England, or, Myths and folk lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes / by Charles G. Leland. 2nd ed. Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1885, 1884. xv, 379 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F16 L53
Mi'kmaq — Legends
First Nations of North America — Folklore
Passamaquoddy Indians
Penobscot Indians
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