Indian captivities Washington, D.C. : American Philosophical Society, 1950. [522]-548 pages ; 27 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 B23 In2
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, v. 94, no. 6 (Dec. 1950.
First Nations of North America — Captivities.
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The letters and journals of Simon Fraser, 1806-1808 / edited with an introd. by W. Kaye Lamb ; maps by C. C. J. Bond. Toronto : Macmillan, 1960. 292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 F46
Lamb, W. Kaye (William Kaye), 1904-
Fraser River (B.C.)
British Columbia — Description and travel
Canada — Exploring expeditions
British Columbia — Description and travel — To 1871.
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The search for the western sea : the story of the exploration of north-western America / by Lawrence J. Burpee. New and rev. ed. Toronto : Macmillan Company of Canada, 1935. 2 v. : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 B93
Northwest, Canadian — Description and travel
Northwest, Canadian — History
Northwest Passage.
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The explorers of North America, 1492-1806 / by John Bartlet Brebner. New York : Macmillan, 1933. xv, 502 pages, [4] folded pages : maps ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F14 B74
Explorers
America — Discovery and exploration
North America — History.
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The fatal river : the life and death of La Salle / by Frances Gaither. New York : H. Holt, 1931. 303 pages, [12] pages of plates : maps ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 G12
Map on lining-papers.
Explorers — Canada — Biography.
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History of Cavelier de La Salle, 1643-1687 : explorations in the valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents / Paul Chesnel ; translated from the French by Andrée Chesnel Meany. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932. vii, 232 pages : fold. maps. ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 L33 C42
Explorers — Canada — Biography
Mississippi River Valley — History — To 1803.
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A memoir of Jacques Cartier, sieur de Limoilou : his voyages to the St. Lawrence, a bibliography and a facsimile of the manuscript of 1534 with annotations, etc / by James Phinney Baxter. New York : Dodd, Mead, 1906. ix, 464 pages, [9] pages of plates (3 folded) : illustrations
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F10 C24 B33
Limited edition of 300 copies on deckle-edge paper, and 35 copies on Japan paper.
America — Discovery and exploration — French.
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English discovery of America to 1585 / by Franklin T. McCann. New York : King's Crown Press, 1952, 1951. xiv, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 M13
America in literature
Cosmography
America — Discovery and exploration — English.
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The Cabot voyages and Bristol discovery under Henry VII / by James A. Williamson ; with cartography of the voyages by R. A. Skelton. Cambridge : Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, 1962. xvi, 332 pages, [11] pages of plates (some folded) :
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W67 1962
Includes index.
Skelton, R. A. (Raleigh Ashlin), 1906-1970.
America — Discovery and exploration — English
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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The voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII / by James A. Williamson. London : Argonaut Press, 1929. xiii, 290 pages, [13] pages of plates (1 folded) : m
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W67
Limited edition of 1050 numbered copies. Includes index.
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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Cabot's discovery of North America by G.E. Weare London : J. MacQueen, 1897. x, 343 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 W37
Includes index.
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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John and Sebastian Cabot : the discovery of North America / by C. Raymond Beazley. London : T. Fisher Unwin, 1898. xx, 311 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F8 C11 B38
Discoveries in geography — American
America — Discovery and exploration.
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New England frontier; Puritans and Indians, 1620-1675 [1st ed.]. Boston : Little, Brown, 1965. xvii, 430 pages : illustrations, facsim., map, portraits ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F7 V364
First Nations of North America — New England
Indians, Treatment of — New England
New England — History — Colonial period.
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Magnalia Christi americana, or, The ecclesiastical history of New England, from its first planting in the year 1620, unto the year of Our Lord, 1698 : in seven books / by Cotton Mather. London : Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. 7 pt. in 1 v. : folded map ; 34 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F7 M427
Pagination irregular: paging of Book IV begins with pages 125.
New England — Church history
New England — Biographies
New England — History — Colonial period.
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Amerigo and the New World : the life and times of Amerigo Vespucci / translated from the Spanish by Harriet de Onís. [1st ed.] New York : Knopf, 1955. 323, ix pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F6 V63 Ar3
Explorers — America — Biography
Explorers — Spain — Biography
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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La découverte de Terre-Neuve Montréal : Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 1964. 129 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F6 B73 D35
Bibliographical references included in Notes (pages 83-123.
Explorers, Portuguese
Newfoundland — Discovery and exploration.
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North America New York : Harper, 1862. vii, 623 pages ; 20 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 T74
United States — Description and travel
United States — Politics and government — 1861-1865
Canada — Description and travel.
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Explorations of the North American coast previous to the voyage of Henry Hudson
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 N21
In The national magazine Volume 15, no. 1 (Nov. 1891, pages [1]-26.
America — Discovery and exploration.
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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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History of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus / by Washington Irving. A new edition revised and corrected / Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, for George W. Gorton, 1841. 2 v. : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F2 I8 H63 v.1
Appendix: containing illustrations and documents, v. 2, pages [207]-356.
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus : together with the voyages of his companions / by Washington Irving. New and rev. ed. London : John Murray, 1849. 3 v. ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F2 I8 H63
The works of Washington Irving. New edition, rev. Volume III-V
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish.
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Columbus and Cook : the story of their lives, voyages, and discoveries London : W. & R. Chambers, 1896-. 152 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F2 C72 C77
The story of Columbus and Cook.
Voyages around the world
America — Discovery and exploration — Spanish
Oceania — Discovery and exploration — English.
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The Norse discoveries and explorations in America / Edward Reman. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1949. xi, 201 pages : map ; 23 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 R28
Rev. and edited from the author's ms. by Arthur G. Grodeur.
America — Discovery and exploration — Norse.
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The lost discovery ; uncovering the track of the Vikings in America / Illus. and maps by J. Warren Sheppard. [1st ed.] New York, Norton 1952. 346 pages illus., maps. 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 P75
Vikings
North America — Discovery and exploration
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The New England quarterly : an historical review of New England life and letters Orono, Me. : University Press, 1927-. 24 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 N54 Q1
Subtitle varies slightly.
New England — History — Periodicals.
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