Voyages de découverte au Canada, entre les années 1534 et 1542 : par Jacques Quartier sic, le sieur de Roberval, Jean Alphonse de Xanctoigne, etc. : suivis de la description de Quebec et de ses environs en 1608, et de divers extraits relativement au lie Québec : W. Cowan, 1843. 130 pages
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A part le récit des deux premiers voyages de Cartier, l'ouvrage est traduit de Hakluyt (Hakluyt's Collection of early voyages, travels and discoveries. London, 1810).
Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557
Roberval, Jean François de La Roque, sieur de, 1501?-1560?
Alfonce, Jean, 1484-1544.
Société littéraire et historique de Québec.
First Nations of North America — Canada
New France — Discovery and exploration
America — Discovery and exploration — French.
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The discovery of America by the Northmen in the tenth century : comprising translations of all the most important original narratives of this event / by Joshua Toulmin Smith. 2nd ed. London : William S. Orr & Co., 1842. xii, 348 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
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... together with a critical examination of their authenticity; to which is added, an examination of the comparative merits of the Northmen and Columbus.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse.
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Faucher de Saint-Maurice, Narcisse Henri Edouard
Le Canada et les Basques / trois écrits de M. Faucher de Saint-Maurice, M. Marmette et M. Le Vasseur ; avant-propos du comté de Premio-Real. Québec : A. Côté, 1879. 28 pages
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Marmette, Joseph, 1844-1895
Le Vasseur, N. (Nazaire), 1848-1927
Premio-Real, comte de, 1840-1888.
Basques — Canada
America — Discovery and exploration
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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The discovery of America by the Northmen, in the tenth century / with notices of the early settlements of the Irish in the western hemisphere / By North Ludlow Beamish. London, T. and W. Boone, 1841. 239 pages 22 cm.
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The design of the writer...is to put before the public in a cheap and compendious form, those parts of Professor Rafn's work [Antiquitates americanae] which he considered were likely to prove most interesting to British readers.--pref.
Rafn, Carl Christian, 1795-1864.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse
America — Discovery and exploration — Irish
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An account and history of the Oregon territory : together with a journal of an emigration party across the Western prairies of America and to the mouth of the Columbia Riber / George Wilkes. London : W. Lott, 1846. 169, viii pages ; 15 cm.
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Attributed to George Wilkes--National Union Catalogue pre-1956 Imprints.
Oregon — History — To 1859
Oregon — Description and travel.
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Select cases from the records of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland : with a table of the names of cases, and an appendix St. John's Nfld. : London : Henry Winton ; Baldwin & Cradock, 1829. viii, 604 pages ; 22 cm.
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Running title: Cases in the Supreme Court, Newfoundland. Spine title: Newfoundland select cases.
Law reports, digests, etc. — Newfoundland.
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Sailing directions for the island and banks of Newfoundland, with the coast of Labrador, from York Point to Sandwich Harbour, and from Chateaux Bay to Cape Whittle / compiled from the surveys of Captains Bayfield and Cook, and Lieut. Bullock, &c., by J.S. Hobbs. London : Printed for, and published by, C. Wilson, 1865. vii, 88 pages ; 22 cm.
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Tables. Includes publisher's advertising matter.
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The Prairie province : sketches of travel from Lake Ontario to Lake Winnipeg, and an account of the geographical position, climate, civil institutions, inhabitants, productions and resources of the Red River Valley ; with map of Manitoba and part of the N / by J.C. Hamilton. Canadian copyright ed. Toronto : Belford Bros., 1876. vii, 259 pages, [3] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 2
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Error in paging: pages 121-124 omitted.
Manitoba — Description andd travel
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Return to an address : copies of the petition addressed to the Governor in council praying for the dismissal of His Honor Luc Letellier, Lieutenant-governor of the Province of Quebec : and the answer made to the said petition by the said Lieutenant-govern / by Messieurs Chapleau, Church and Angers. Ottawa : Maclean, Roger, 1879. 122 pages
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F130 L56 - Akins
Angers, Auguste Réal, Sir, 1838-1919
Church, L. Ruggles
Letellier de St-Just, Luc, 1820-1881.
Quebec (Province) — Politics and governement — 1867-
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Practical information respecting New Brunswick : including details relative to its soil, climate, productions, and agriculture, published for the use of persons intending to settle upon the lands of the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company London : 1843. 46 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F125 P88 - Akins
At head of title: Her Majesty's province of New Brunswick, British North America.
New Brunswick — Description and travel
New Brunswick — Emigration and immigration.
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A description of Prince Edward Island, in the Gulf of St. Laurence, North America : with a map of the island, and a few cursory observations respecting the climate, natural productions, and advantages of its situation, in regard to agriculture and commerc / by a person many years resident there. London : Printed and sold by H. sic Ashby and Son ... and W. Winchester and Son ., 1803 or 1804. 22 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 20 cm.
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By John Cambridge. Cf. Dict. of Can. biogr., v. 6, pages 107-110. No bibliographic citations found. Reissue of: A description of the Island of St.John, in the Gulf of St. Laurence, North America ... - London : Printed and solde by R. Ashby ... and
Prince Edward Island — Description and travel — To 1873
Prince Edward Island — Emigration and immigration.
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To the electors of the county of Halifax / William Stevens Fielding. Halifax : 1884. 2 pages ; 21 cm.
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Dated August 4, 1884.
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1867-
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Ross's review of McLellan's pamphlet and great liberal policy of Colchester Halifax : Printed for the author, 1851. 16 pages ; 23 cm.
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Signed and dated: J.R., May 2nd, 1851. In double columns.
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1784-1867.
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Canada. Dept. of the Secretary of State
Correspondence relating to the Great Seal of the province of Nova Scotia, being affixed to documents requiring the same Ottawa : MacLean Roger & Co., 1877. 50 pages ; 9 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F100 R31 - Akins
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1867-1882.
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Nova Scotia. House of Assembly. Select Committee on Temperance
Report of the Committee on Temperance : presented at the recent session of the House of Assembly, and ordered for publication Halifax, N.S. : 1852. 12 pages ; 18 cm.
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Temperance
License system — Nova Scotia.
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Questions?--answering to facts for the people Halifax, N.S. : 1847. 1 leaf ; 5x7 cm.
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Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1815-1848
Halifax (N.S. : County)
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Speech delivered by the Hon. J.W. Johnston, in the House of Assembly, on the 19th March, 1850 : on introducing resolutions for defining the nature and foundation of the self-government of Nova Scotia in her local affairs, and in favor of an elective legis / reported for the British Colonist, by J.H. Crosskill. Halifax : 1850. 15 pages ; 24 cm.
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Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1784-1867.
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New provincial building : Hon. Provincial Secretary's speech, delivered in House of Assembly, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 1871 Halifax : 1871. 16 pages ; 22 cm.
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W. B. Vail was the Provincial Secretary.
Public buildings — Nova Scotia — Halifax.
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Speech delivered in the House of Assembly of Nova-Scotia, March 20, 1850 / by Joseph Howe ; reported by Otto Weeks, Junr., reporter to the Assembly. Halifax : 1850. 22 pages ; 20 cm.
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Speech of the Hon. Provincial Secretary on the Hon. J.W. Johnston's resolutions. Text in double columns.
Johnston, J. W. (James William), 1824-1900
Weeks, Otto.
Nova Scotia. House of Assembly.
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1763-1867.
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Extract from the royal instructions to His Excellency the Right Honorable George, Earl of Dalhousie, G.C.B., captain general and governor in chief, &c. &c. &c. : relating to the grants of the waste land of the Crown, with other papers on the same subject Quebec : P.E. Desbarats, 1823. 36 pages ; 20 cm.
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Imprint from Casey. References: Casey I 1140; Dionne III 143.
Dalhousie, George Ramsay, Earl of, 1770-1838
Desbarats, P. E.
Canada. Governor-in-Chief (1819-1828 : Dalhousie)
Land grants — Quebec (Province)
Crownlands — Nova Scotia.
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Report of the Committee of the House of Assembly upon the petitions presented in 1827, by several ministers and congregations of protestant dissenters, in Nova Scotia, relative to marriage licenses, and for certain corporate privileges Halifax : 1827. 29 pages ; 20 cm.
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Nova Scotia. House of Assembly.
Marriage licenses — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1815-1848.
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A Messieurs les electuers francais acadiens du comte d'Halifax, demeurants an Chezetcook Halifax : Beamish Murdoch, 1840. 1 leaf ; 7 x 5 cm.
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October 27, 1840.
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1815-1848.
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To the inhabitants of Londonderry / G.W. McLellan. Londonderry, N.S. : 1851. 22 pages ; 25 cm.
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Signed and dated: G.W. McLellan, Londonderry, March, 1851.
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1784-1867.
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The state of trade in the northern colonies considered : with an account of their produce, and a particular description of Nova Scotia London : Printed by G. Woodfall ..., 1748. viii, [9]-84 pages ; 20 cm.
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The state of the North-American trade, and settlements consideredition Preface signed; Otis Little.
Canada — Commerce
New England — Commerce
Nova Scotia — Description and travel
Great Britain — Colonies — Commerce
New France — Commerce.
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Address to the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council Halifax : Royal Gazette Extraordinary, 1853. 2 pages ; 26 cm.
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Halifax, 20th January 1853.
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1848-1867.
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