Nova Scotia Archives Library Search: North America — History
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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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 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
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H35j
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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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 map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish settlements adjacent thereto / by Henry Popple ; C. Lempriere inv. & del. ;B. Baron, sculp. ; engraved by Willm. Henry Toms ; introductory notes by William P. Cumming and Helen Wallis. Lympne Castle, Kent : Harry Margary, 1972. 1 atlas ([3], 20 pages of plates) : maps ; 60 x 7
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S G1105 N6 1972 v. 1 - Map
Reprint. Original published: London : S. Harding, 1733. Part I of North America at the Time of the Revolution contains a reproduction of Henry Popple's 20 sheet map of the British Empire in America of 1733, with an Introduction by William pages Cumming and Helen Wallis--Publisher's note, leaf [8], part 3. Index map: leaf [3] Issued also in sheets. Sold by the proprietors S. Harding ... St. Martins Lane, and W.H. Toms ... in Union Court near Hatton Garden Holborn--leaf [3]
Cumming, William Patterson, 1900-
Margary, Harry
Wallis, Helen.
Cartography — North America — History
Maps, Early — Facsimiles
North America — Maps — To 1800.
Algonquians, Hurons, and Iroquois : Champlain explores America, 1603-1616 : being The voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604-1616) / narrated by himself ; translated by Annie Nettleton Bourne, together with The voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes ; edited with introduction and notes by Edward Gaylord Bourne. Dartmouth : Brook House Press, 2000. xxvi, 238 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC332 A3 2000 - Open Shelf
Originally published in 2 v., New York : A.S. Barnes, 1906. Reformated into one unabridged volume. Translation of: Les voyages de la Nouvelle France.
Bourne, Edward Gaylord, 1860-1908
Bourne, Annie Nettleton.
First Nations of North America — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration — French
New France — Discovery and exploration — French
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
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Ancient peoples and modern ghosts / by George Young ; with illustrations by Ian D. Young. Queensland : G. Young, 1980. 82 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.35 #7 - Vertical File
NL copy: Author's autography copy.
Ghosts — Nova Scotia
Oak Island treasure site (N.S.) — History
North America — Antiquities
Nova Scotia — Biography — Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.
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Anglo-Indian relations in North America to 1763 and an analysis of the royal proclamation of 7 October 1763 / by Jack Stagg. Ottawa : Research Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1981. [4], 418 pages : maps ; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S E91 S779 - Oversize
Appendix: 1793, October 7. A proclamation by the King.
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Corporate Policy. Research Branch.
First Nations of North America — Canada — Government relations — History
First Nations of North America — Canada — Land tenure — History
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Great Britain — Colonies — America.
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Apôtres ou agitateurs : la France missionnaire en Acadie / Micheline Dumont-Johnson. Trois-Rivières : Boréal Express, 1970. 150 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5059 D893 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — Missions
Acadia — Church history.
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Biography and history of the Indians of North America ... : also, a history of their wars .. / by Samuel G. Drake. 5th ed., with large additions and corrections, and numerous engravings. Boston : Antiquarian Institute, 1837. xii, 48, 120, 144, 96, 168 pages, [12] pages of plat
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 D78
Spine title: Indians of North America. First published under title: Indian biography. Added t.pages title: The book of the Indians of North America.
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Biography.
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Cabot to Cartier : sources for a historical ethnography of northeastern North America, 1497-1550 Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1961. xii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - GN560 N81 H68
Ethnology — North America
First Nations of North America
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — Historical geography — Maps
North America — History — Sources — Bibliography.
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Cargoes of despair and hope : Scottish emigration to North America, 1603-1803 / Ian Adams and Meredyth Somerville. Edinburgh : J. Donald Publishers, 1993. 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E49.2 S3 A33 1993
Scots — North America — History
Immigrants — North America — History
North America — Emigration and immigration — History
Scotland — Emigration and immigration — History.
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Changing economic roles for Micmac men and women : an ethnohistorical analysis / Ellice B. Gonzalez. Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1981. x, 157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 G642 1981
Includes abstract in French. At head of title: National Museum of Man. A Diamond Jenness Memorial Volume.
Canadian Ethnology Service
National Museum of Man (Canada)
National Museums of Canada.
Mi'kmaq — Economic conditions
Mi'kmaq — Social conditions
Sex role — Nova Scotia — History
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Economic conditions
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia —
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Diary of David Zeisberger, a Moravian missionary among the Indians of Ohio / translated from the original German manuscript and edited by Eugene F. Bliss. Cincinnati, Ohio : R. Clarke, 1885. 2 v. ; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E78 O3 Ze3
Bliss, Eugene F. (Eugene Frederick), 1836-1918.
Moravian Indians
First Nations of North America — Missions
Fairfield (Ont.) — History.
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Early man in Nova Scotia / by Patricia Hayward. Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1973. 36 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.256 #35 - Vertical File
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — History
Man, Prehistoric — Nova Scotia.
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Empire of the North Atlantic : the maritime struggle for North America 2nd ed. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1958. xvii, 338 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E45 G73 E55
Issued under the auspices of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
Canadian Institute of International Affairs.
North America — History
Great Britain — History, Naval
Canada — History.
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Friend and foe : aspects of French-Amerindian cultural contact in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Cornelius J. Jaenen. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5064 J22 - Open Shelf
Winner of the Sainte-Marie prize in History, 1973, Historical Sites Branch, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. Includes index.
First Nations of North America
America — Discovery and exploration
Canada — History — To 1663 (New France)
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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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Indian reserves in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada / Richard H. Bartlett. Saskatoon : University of Saskatchewan Native Law Centre, 1986. 92 pages : 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.318 #14 - Vertical File
University of Saskatchewan. Native Law Centre.
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Reservations — History
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Land transfers — History
First Nations of North America — Atlantic Provinces — Land tenure —
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Indians of Quebec and the Maritime Provinces Ottawa : Dept. of Citizenship and Immigration, Indian Affairs Branch, 196-. 55 pages : 26 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - V/F V.121 #18 - Vertical File
First Nations of North America — Quebec (Province) — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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Le chauffage domestique dans le haut et le Bas-Canada (1759-1867). Le chauffage domestique chez les amerindiens de l'est du Canada / par Marcel Moussette. Ottawa : Parcs nationaux et lieux historiques, Ministère des affaires indiennes et du Nord canadien, 1973. 2 v. (237, 82 pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5015 C21 #124 - Open Shelf
Parcs Canada. Direction des parcs et des lieux historiques nationaux.
Heating — History
First Nations of North America — Dwellings — Heating and ventilation — History
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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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Letters from North America / by Father Antoine Silvy, S.J. ; translated from French by Ivy Alice Dickson. Belleville, ON. : Mika Publishing, 1980. 228 pages, 2 pages of plates (folded) : illustrations, maps.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5057 S586 - Open Shelf
First Nations of North America — History
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs
New France — Discovery and exploration
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Maps and charts of North America and the West Indies, 1750-1789 : a guide to the collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by John R. Sellers and Patricia Molen Van Ee. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1981. vi, 495 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - Z6027 N68 U54
Sellers, John R
Van Ee, Patricia Molen.
West Indies — Maps — Bibliography — Catalogs
North America — Maps — Bibliography — Catalogs
United States — History — Revolution, 1775-1783
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Maritime indian treaties in historical perspective / by W.E. Daugherty. 2nd ed. Ottawa : Treaties and Historical Research Centre, 1983. 98 pages : maps ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5191 I3 D238 1983 - Open Shelf
On cover: Research Branch, Corporate Policy.
Canada. Indian and Northern Affairs Canada. Corporate Policy. Research Branch
Treaties and Historical Research Centre (Canada)
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — Treaties
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.
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