A caveat against emigration to America with the state of the island of Cape Breton from the year 1784 to the present year and suggestions for the benefit of the British settlements in North America London: E. Lloyd, 1803.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3979 - Open Shelf
On same reel as Letters to Lord XXX on a caveat against emigration to America
North America — Description and travel — 1784-1803
Cape Breton Island N.S. — History — 1785-1850
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A journal of a mission to the Indians of British provinces, of New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and the Mohawks on the Ouse or Grand River, Upper Canada / by John West. London : L.B. Seeley, 1827. viii, [209-326 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3587 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Canada — Missions
North America — Description and travel.
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A journal of a mission to the Indians of the British provinces, of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and the Mohawks, on the Ouse, or Grand River, Upper Canada / by John West. London : L.B. Seeley and Son, 1827. viii, [209-326 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - Microfilm 3583 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Missions
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Voyages from Montreal, on the river St. Laurence, through the continent of North America, to the frozen and Pacific oceans in the years 1789 and 1793 : with a preliminary account of the rise, progress, and present state of the fur trade of that country / by Alexander Mackenzie. London : printed for T. Cadell, W. Davies, Cobbet and Morgan and W. Creech by R. Noble, 1801. cxxxii, 412 pages, [4] pages of plates : fold. maps,
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5576 M19 V94 1902 - Open Shelf
Includes vocabularies of the Knisteneax, Algonquin, Chepewyan, Nagailer and Atnah Indian languages.
First Nations of North America — Northwest, Canadian
Fur trade — Northwest, Canadian
First Nations of North America — Canada — Languages — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Voyages from Montreal through the continent of North America to the frozen and Pacific oceans in 1789 and 1793 : with an account of the rise and state of the fur trade / by Alexander Mackenzie. New York : New Amsterdam Book Co., 1902. 2 v. : fronts. (incl. port., v. 1) fold. map. ; 18
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First edition, London, 1801. Includes vocabularies of the Knisteneaux, Algonquin, Chepewyan, Nagailer and Atnah Indian languages. Introduction signed: Robert Waite.
First Nations of North America — Northwest, Canadian
Fur trade — Northwest, Canadian
First Nations of North America — Canada — Languages — Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821.
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Wanderings of an artist among the Indians of North America : from Canada to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through Hudson's Bay Company's territory and back again / by Paul Kane. London : Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1859. xvii, 455 pages, [17] pages of plates : illustrations (some c
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First Nations of North America — Northwest, Canadian
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — 1822-1870.
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Travels in North America, Canada, and Nova Scotia : with geological observations on the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia / by Charles Lyell. 2nd ed. London : John Murray, 1855. 272 pages, 2 v., [7] folded pages of plates : maps ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5018 L984
Geology — North America
United States — Description and travel
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Canada — Description and travel.
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Travels in North America : with geological observations on the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia / by Charles Lyell. London : John Murray, 1845. 2 v., [7] folded pages of plates : maps ; 20 cm.
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Geology — North America
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Adventures in the wilds of the United States and British American provinces / by Charles Lanman ; illustrated by the author and Oscar Bessau ; with an appendix by Campbell Hardy. Philadelphia : J.W. Moore, 1856. 2 v. : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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References: Sabin 38913; TPL 3672. Errata: v. 2, last page.
Fishing — North America
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Adventures of an angler in Canada, Nova Scotia and the United States / by Charles Lanman. London : R. Bentley, 1848. xii, 322 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations, port. ; 21
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Another edition (Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1848 published under title: A tour to the River Saguenay, in Lower Canada. References: Gagnon I 1956; Sabin 38915; TPL 2854.
Gilstrap, William, (bookplate)
Fishing — North America
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Saguenay River — Description and travel
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Forest scenes and incidents in the wilds of North America : being a diary of a winter's route from Halifax to the Canadas, and during four months' residence in the woods on the borders of Lakes Huron and Simcoe / by George Head. London : John Murray, 1829. 362 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F128.2 AT1 Dec. 1965
North America — Description and travel.
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A second visit to North America / by Charles Lyell. 3rd ed. London : John Murray, 1855. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 L98 SE2
Geology — North America
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A journey from Prince of Wales's Fort, in Hudson's Bay, to the northern ocean : undertaken by order of the Hudson's Bay Company for the discovery of copper mines, a north west passage, &c. in the years 1769, 1770, 1771 & 1772 / by Samuel Hearne. London : Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1795. xliv, 458 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H35j
First Nations of North America — Canada
Natural history — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel
Northwest Passage.
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A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean, in the years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772 / by Samuel Hearne. New edition with introduction, notes, and illus. by J.B. Tyrrell. Toronto : The Champlain Society, 1911. xv, 437 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, 1 fold ma
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Tyrrell, Joseph Burr, 1858-1957.
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — To 1821
First Nations of North America — Northwest, Canadian
Natural history — Northwest, Canadian
Northwest Passage.
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The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) / by Nicolas Denys ; translated and edited, with a memoir of the author, collateral documents, and a reprint of the original, by William F. Ganong. Toronto : Champlain Society, 1908. xvi, 625 pages, [17] pages of plates (2 folded) : il
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 D43
Limited edition of 520 copies (500 numberedition Includex index.
Ganong, William F. (William Francis), 1864-1941
Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867-1952.
Natural history — Nova Scotia
Fisheries — Nova Scotia
Cod-fisheries
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia
Acadia
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Saint Lawrence, Gulf of
Nova Scotia — History — To 1784.
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The Kelsey papers / with an introduction by Arthur G. Doughty and Chester Martin. Ottawa : Public Archives of Canada : The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 1929. lxxxiii, 128 pages : front. (facsim.), map (fold). ;
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French. Introduction in English and French. Papers collected by Arthur Dobbs. Journals, letters, memoranda, etc. collected by Arthur Dobbs and presented to the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland by Maj. A.F. Dobbs.--cf. introd.
Dobbs, Arthur, 1689-1765
Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1860-1936
Martin, Chester, 1882-1958.
Northern Ireland. Public Record Office
Public Archives of Canada.
First Nations of North America — Canada
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Journal de Larocque de la rivière Assiniboine jusqu'à la rivière Aux Roches Jaune, 1805 / éd. avec des notes par L.J. Burpee. Ottawa : Impr. de l'état, 1911. 87 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16p no.3a
Also published with English title: Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone, 1805. Publié avec l'autorisation du ministre de l'agriculture sous la direction de l'archiviste. L'original publié dans la collection: Publications des archives canadiennes ; no 3. Tables. Quelques remarques sur les sauvages Rocky mountain avec lesquels j'ai passé l'été de 1805.: pages 59-78.
Burpee, Lawrence J., 1873-1946.
First Nations of North America — Great Plains
Crow Indians
Great Plains — Description and travel.
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Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone, 1805 / ed. with notes by L.J. Burpee. Ottawa : Government Print. Bureau, 1910. 82 pages ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C16p no.3
Burpee, Lawrence J., 1873-1946.
First Nations of North America — Northwestern States
Fur trade — Canada
Crow Indians
Northwestern States — Description and travel.
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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
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Minnesota — Description and travel — To 1858
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — 1822-1870.
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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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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 Book of Grey Owl : pages from the writings of Wa-sha-quon-asin / with an introduction by Hugh Eayrs. Toronto : Macmillan, 1938. xxi, 324 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 G86
Beavers
Natural history — Canada
Natural history Outdoor books
First Nations of North America — Canada
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel.
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