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Zimmerman, David

Coastal front : a history of Fort Sullivan Eastport Maine / David Zimmerman.  Eastport, Me. : Border Historical Society, 1984. 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F29 F736 Z72

Travels in North America London : Printed for C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1831. 168 pages, [3] pages of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 T69

Purporting to narrate the experiences of one George Philips, to whom the work is sometimes attributed (Halkett & Laing VI 81, this account is a narrative of his travels from Ireland to the West Indies, and thence to the United States to cross the continent with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. He returned east through Canada to Newfoundland, and then via Quebec and Lake Champlain to New York. Cf. TPL.

Philips, George.

West Indies — Description and travel
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848.

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Talbot, Edward Allen

Five years' residence in the Canadas : including a tour through part of the United States of America, in the year 1823 / by Edward Allen Talbot.  London : Longman etc., 1824. 2 v. : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 T14

Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.

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M'Robert, Patrick

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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Woollacott, Arthur P.

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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Lamothe, H. de

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

Hodgson, Adam

Letters from North America, written during a tour in the United States and Canada / by Adam Hodgson.  London : Printed for Hurst, Robinson, & Co. and A. Constable & Co., Edinburgh, 1824. 2 v. (xv, 405; iv, 459 pages) : illustrations, folded map, pla

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 H66

Errata slip tipped in to both vols. Error in paging: pages 331 misnumbered 831. Some copies of v. 2 also have a Postscript (pages [461]-473 dated Washington, 10th March, 1824. After many copies of the preceding work were sent off, I received an American newspaper, which contained the following documents ... I have thought it desirable to insert them in those copies which were still within my reach--pages [463]

United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848
United States — Social life and customs — 1783-1865
Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867.

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Heriot, George

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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Heriot, George

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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Bouchette, Joseph

A topographical description of the province of Lower Canada : with remarks upon Upper Canada, and on the relative connexion of both provinces with the United States of America / by Joseph Bouchette.  London : Printed for the author, and published by W. Faden, 1815. xv, 640, lxxxvi, [2] pages, [18] pages of plates (5

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 B66

Issued also in French under title: Description topographique de la province du Bas Canada. Includes some text in French. Extrait des titres de concessions de terres octroyées en fiefs dans la province du Bas-Canada: pages [i]-lii (4th group Errata: pages [2] (last group Library's copy has no t.p.

Land grants — Quebec (Province)
Quebec (Province) — Description and travel — 1764-1850
Ontario — Description and travel — 1764-1850.

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Alexander, James Edward

L'Acadie, or, Seven years' explorations in British America / by Sir James E. Alexander.  London : H. Colburn, 1849. 2 v. : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F28 AL2

Canada — Description and travel.

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Lovell's gazetteer of British North America : containing the latest and most authentic descriptions of over six thousand cities, towns, and villages in the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Manit / edited by P.A. Crossby.  Montreal : J. Lovell, 1874. 2 v. in 1 ; 19 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F20 L94 1874

Bound with: Crossby, pages A. The railway and steamboat routes in British North America ... Montreal, Lovell [n.d.]

Crossby, P. A. (Peter Alfred), b. 1842, ed.

John Lovell (Firm)

Railroads — Canada
Canada — Description and travel Gazetteers
Newfoundland — Description and travel Gazetteers.

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New York (State). Secretary of State

Journals of the military expedition of Major General John Sullivan against the Six nations of Indians in 1779 : with records of centennial celebrations : prepared pursuant to chapter 361, laws of the state of New York, of 1885 / by Frederick Cook.  Auburn, N.Y. : Knapp, 1887. 1 pages l., xv, 579, (2) pages : front., port., fold. ma

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F18 C77

Compiled by George S. Conover.

Cook, Frederick, 1833-1905
Conover, George Stillwell, b. 1824
Sullivan, John, 1740-1795.

Sullivan's Indian campaign, 1779.

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Rand, Silas Tertius

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.

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Rand, Silas Tertius

Rand's Micmac dictionary : from phonographic word-lists prepared by Rev. Silas T. Rand, D.D., LL.D., D.C.L / transcribed and alphabetically arranged, with a grammar and list of place-names by Jeremiah S. Clark.  Charlottetown, P.E.I. : Patriot Pub. Co., 1902. xxxiii, 192 pages ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 R15

Clark's edition of the manuscript Dictionary left unfinished by Rand at the time of his death--Masinahikan. A companion volume to Rand's English-Micmac vocabulary. Published by direction of the Canadian government Also includes 'Micmac place-names in the Maritime provinces of Canada,' with its own title-page but continuous collation and pagination--Masinahikan.

Clark, Jeremiah S. (Jeremiah Simpson), 1872-1950.

Mi'kmaq language — Dictionaries — English
Mi'kmaq language — Grammar
Mi'kmaq — Names
Names, Geographical — Canada.

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Pilling, James Constantine

Bibliography of the Algonquin languages / by James Constantine Pilling.  Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1891. x, 614 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F17 AL3 P64

Algonquian languages — Bibliography.

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Ewers, John C.

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

Partridge, Emelyn Newcomb

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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Leland, Charles Godfrey

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.

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Zeisberger, David

David Zeisberger's History of the Northern American Indians / edited by Archer Butler Hulbert and William Nathaniel Schwarze.  Columbus : Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, 1910. ii, 189 pages ; 24 cm.

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On spine: History of the Northern American Indians. Appeared originally in the regular Quarterly publications of the Society for January and April, 1910.--Pref. Includes index.

Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933
Schwarze, William Nathaniel, 1875-1948.

Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.

First Nations of North America
First Nations of North America — New York (State)
First Nations of North America — Pennsylvania
First Nations of North America — Ohio.

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Hunter, John D.

Memoirs of a captivity among the Indians of North America, from the author's earliest recollection to his assumption of the habits of civilized life London : Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode, 1823-. 468 pages ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H92

Issued with: Manners and customs of several Indian tribes : located west of the Mississippi.

First Nations of North America — Captivities
First Nations of North America — Social life and customs.

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Hodge, Frederick Webb

Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge.  Washington, D.C. : Govt. Print. Off., 1907-1910. 2 v. : illustrations, maps (1 fold) ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H66 2

On spine: 59th Congress. Ist session, December 4, 1905-1906. House Documents, Volume 61-62

Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology.

First Nations of North America — Encyclopedias.

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Grey Owl

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

Drake, Samuel G.

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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Barbeau, Marius

Indian captivities / Marius Barbeau.  Philadelphia : American Philosophical Society, 1950. p. [522]-548 ; 27 cm.

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First Nations of North America — Captivities.

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