First impressions of America London : 1867. 131 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5019 W232
Eleven letters written during a three months' tour in the fall of 1866. The author paid a brief visit to Montreal and Toronto and recommends the independence of Canada--TPL. Signed J.W. at end of text. Written by John Walter--Halkett & Laing (2nd edition, v. 2, pages 294. Printed for private circulation. References: Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd edition, W72; TPL 4547.
United States — Description and travel — 1865-1900
Ontario — Description and travel — 1851-1900
Quebec (Province) — Description and travel — 1851-1900.
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On the cars and off : Being the journal of a pilgrimage along the Queen's highway, from Halifax in Nova Scotia to Victoria in Vancouver's Island / By Douglas Sladen With nineteen collotype plates and eighty-seven illustrations in the text. With additional matter on Klondike by P.A. Hurd. London : Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1894-. xviii, 512 pages [19] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5019 S631
Canada — Description and travel — 19th century
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Seeing Canada and the South / by H. Percy Scott. Toronto : W. Briggs, 1911. 137 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5019 S526 - Open Shelf
Canada — Description and travel
United States — Description and travel
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel — 1871-1905.
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The emigrant and sportsman in Canada : some experiences of an old country settler ; with sketches of Canadian life, sporting adventures, and observations on the forests and fauna / by John J. Rowan. London, E. Stanford, 1876. viii, 440 pages : fold. map.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5019 R877 - Open Shelf
Hunting
Canada — Emigration and immigration
Canada — Description and travel.
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Portrait of a period: a collection of Notman photographs, 1856-1915 / edited by J. Russell Harper and Stanley Triggs, with an introduction by Edgar Andrew Collard. Montreal : McGill University Press, 1967. 1 v.: illustrations; 36 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S F5019 N91 - Oversize
Canada — Description and travel — Views.
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Canada / painted by T. Mower Martin ; described by Wilfred Campbell. 272 pages, [76] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5019 M383 - Open Shelf
Martin, Thomas Mower, 1838-1934.
Canada — Description and travel.
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The Canadian dominion / by Charles Marshall. London : Longmans, Green, 1871. viii, 331 pages, [6] pages of plates : illustrations, port. ;
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5019 M367 - Open Shelf
Canada — Description and travel.
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Ocean to ocean : Sandford Fleming's expedition through Canada in 1872 : being a diary kept during a journey from the Atlantic to the Pacific with the expedition of the engineer-in-chief of the Canadian Pacific and Intercolonial railways / by George M. Grant. Toronto : J. Campbell, 1873. 371 pages illustrations, maps.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - O/S F5019 G76 O15 1873 - Oversize
Tables.
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Canada — Description and travel — 1868-1900.
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Yankees in Canada : a collection of nineteenth-century travel narratives / edited with introduction, notes and bibliography by James Doyle. Downsview, ON. : ECW Press, 1980. 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5018 Y23 - Open Shelf
Americans — Canada
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867 — Sources
Canada — Description and travel — 1868-1900 — Sources
Canada — Foreign public opinion, American — History — 19th century
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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
Atlantic States — Description and travel
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.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5018 L984
Geology — North America
United States — Description and travel
Atlantic States — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel.
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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.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5018 L291
References: Sabin 38913; TPL 3672. Errata: v. 2, last page.
Fishing — North America
Outdoor life
Canada — Description and travel
United States — Description and travel.
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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
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5018 L291
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
Quebec (Province) — Description and travel
Saguenay River — Description and travel
New England — Description and travel.
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Hochelaga : England in the New World / edited by Eliot Warburton. 2nd ed. London : H. Colburn, 1846. 2 v.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5018 H685 - Open Shelf
Written by George Warburton--Halkett & Laing III 94.
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848.
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Hochelaga, or, England in the New World / edited by Eliot Warburton. 3rd ed., rev. London : H. Colburn, 1847. 2 v. : 1 illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5018 H685 - Open Shelf
Written by George Warburton--Halkett & Laing III 94. First ed.: London : H. Colburn, 1846. Cf. TPL 2814. Reference: TPL 2816.
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848.
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Friendly spies on the northern tour, 1815-1837 : the sketches of Henry Byam Martin = Aimables espions en Amérique du Nord, 1815-1837 : croquis d'Henry Byam Martin Ottawa : Public Archives, Canada, 1981. 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5018 F911 - Open Shelf
An exhibition presented by the Public Archives of Canada 2 April-30 June 1981.--Facing t.pages English and French.
Canada in art — Exhibitions
United States in art — Exhibitions
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867 — Exhibitions
United States — Description and travel — Exhibitions
Canada — Description and travel &
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The emigrant churchman in Canada / by a pioneer of the wilderness ; edited by Henry Christmas. London : R. Bentley, 1849. 2 v. : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5018 E53 - Open Shelf
Reference: TPL 3032. By A.W.H. Rose.
Canada — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel
United States — Description and travel
Canada — Emigration and immigration.
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A subaltern's furlough : descriptive of scenes in various parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, during the summer and autumn of 1832 / by E.T. Coke ; with illustrations. London : Saunders and Otley, 1833. 485 pages : illustrations, facsim., map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5018 C682 - Open Shelf
Northeastern States — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.
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Great stories from the Canadian frontier / edited by Gordon Stewart and Brian Antonson ; with contributions from 21 Canadian writers. Surrey, B.C. : Antonson Publishing, 1979. 166 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5017 G786 - Open Shelf
Antonson, Brian, 1948-
Stewart, Gordon.
Frontier and pioneer life — Canada — Collected works
Canada — History — 19th century — Collected works.
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Seventeenth-century ceramics from Nicolas Denys' Fort Saint Pierre, St. Peter's, Nova Scotia / Denise Hansen. Ottawa : Environment Canada, Canadian Parks Service, 1989. 13 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5016 R432 #271 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: Les poteries du XVIIe siècle découvertes au fort Saint-Pierre de Nicolas Denys à St.Peter's, Nouvelle-Écosse.
Excavations (Archaeology) — Nova Scotia — St. Peter's
Fort St. Pierre (N.S.) — Antiquities.
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Castle of Quebec Toronto, J. M. Dent, 1949. 186 pages illustrations 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5015.2 F7 M848 C353 - Open Shelf
Hotels — Québec (Province) — Québec
Québec (Quebec) — History
Québec (Québec) — Buildings, structures, etc.
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Archaeological investigations at Grand Pré National Historic Park, August 1982 / Anita Campbell. Ottawa : Parks Canada, 1983. 12 pages : illustrations, map ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5015 R432 #204 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: Recherches archéologiques au Parc historique national Grand-Pré, août 1982. Caption title.
Grand Pré National Historic Park (N.S.) — History
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Beads from Fort Beauséjour, New Brunswick / Karlis Karklins. Ottawa : Parks Canada, 1981. 13 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5015 R432 #161 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: Perles trouvées au Fort Beauséjour (Nouveau-Brunswick Caption title.
Beads
Beauséjour (Fort)
Fort Beauséjour National Historic Park (N.B.)
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Wallpaper identification marks and the names of manufacturers marketing wallpaper in Canada / F. Leung. Ottawa : Parks Canada, 1980. 21 pages ; 28 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5015 R432 #149 - Open Shelf
Issued also in French under title: Marques d'identification des papiers peints et noms des fabricants vendant des papiers peints au Canada. Caption title.
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Louisbourg and the Indians : a study in imperial race relations, 1713-1760 / Olive Patricia Dickason. Surgeons and surgery in Ile Royale / Linda M. Hoad. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 1975. 362 pages : illustrations, maps, plans.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - F5015 H673 #6 - Open Shelf
Includes French summaries.
Hoad, Linda M. Surgeons and surgery in Ile Royale.
Parks Canada. National Historic Parks and Sites Branch.
First Nations of North America — Nova Scotia — Government relations — To 1789
Surgeons — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Mi'kmaq.
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