On the military & commercial importance of completing the line of railway from Halifax to Quebec : to which is added, official correspondence, proceedings at deputations, copies of memorials to her Majesty's government, petitions to the imperial Parliamen London : W. Penny, 1862. vi, 146 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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Railroads — Canada
Railroads — Economic aspects — Canada
Canada — Defenses.
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Proceedings of the general committee of the North Shore Railroad Quebec : T. Cary, 1852. 18 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : folded map ; 22
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK HEN81 - Akins
Also published in French under title: Procédés du Comité général du Chemin de fer du nord.
North Shore Railway Company
Railroads — Finance — Quebec (Province)
Railroad engineering.
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Views relative to the construction of a railway from Halifax to Quebec, by the British government : as the most efficient and economical means of promoting the prosperity of the British North American colonies, and securing their continued connection with / by Henry H. Cogswell. Halifax : Printed at the British North American Office, 1852. 8 pages ; 26 cm.
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Written in September, 1851. Text in double columns.
British North American (Halifax, N.S.)
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Important statistical information with reference to the prospects and route of the Toronto, Simcoe and Lake Huron Railroad : gleaned and carefully compiled from the official census reports, and other authentic sources Toronto : 1851. 8 pages ; 22 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK HEIM7 - Akins
Respectfully addressed to the mayor, corporation and citizens of Toronto, and the several municipalities comprising the counties of York and Simcoe. Tables.
Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Railroad Union Company
Rowsell & Thompson.
Railroads — Ontario — Surveying
Ontario — Statistics.
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Employment and colonization for the million : based upon a proposed railway communication from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the territories of British North America, being a paper read before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, at Ip / by Alexander Doull. London : Canadian Land and Railway Association, 1851. 15 pages ; 23 cm.
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Railroads — Canada
Canada — Colonization.
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Canada railway act : an act for raising by way of loan, a sum not exceeding four millions of pounds currency, for making a mainline of railway throughout the length of this province
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Two items bound together, 3 sheets.
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Canadian Pacific Railway Company
An Act Respecting the Canadian Pacific Railway
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Extracts of a treatise on roads / by Sir Henry Parnell. Halifax : 1839. x, 60 pages ; 21 cm.
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Published by order of His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor, chiefly for the use of road commissioners in Nova Scotia.
Roads — Great Britain — Design and construction
Roads — Great Britain — History
Roads — Great Britain — Maintenance and repair.
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Reports and papers relating to a canal intended to connect the harbour of Halifax with the Basin of Mines i.e. Minas : remarks on its nature and importance, and a plan and section : also, the report of a survey for canals between St. Peter's Bay and the Halifax : 1826. 58 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
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Attributed to Charles R. Fairbanks--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints. Tables. Errata--pages 58.
Cunnabell, J. S. (Halifax, N.S.)
Canals — Nova Scotia
Shubenacadie Canal (N.S.)
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The Act of incorporation and bye-laws of the Inland Navigation Company Halifax, N.S. : 1854. 10 pages ; 24 cm.
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Bowes (J.) & Sons
Inland Navigation Company.
Inland navigation — Nova Scotia.
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Manual containing The Census Act, and the instructions to officers employed in the taking of the first census of Canada, (1871) / Department of Agriculture, (Census Branch). Ottawa : The Branch, 1871. 36, 2 pages ; 23 cm.
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Canada — Census, 1871 — Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company
Sketches in New Brunswick taken principally with the intention of showing the nature and description of the land ... during the years 1834 and 1835 / New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company. London : Ackerman & Co., 1836. [4] pages , 12 pages of plates : illustrations 38 cm.
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Stanley (N.B.) — Pictorial works.
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Acadia : a lost chapter in American history / by Philip H. Smith. Pawling, N.Y. : P.H. Smith, 1884. 381 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 22 cm.
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Published by the author.
Tales, Canadian (French)
Acadia
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — History — 1763-1867.
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Une colonie feódale en Amérique (L'Acadie, 1604-1710) / par M. Rameau. Paris : Didier, 1877. xxxiv, 367 pages ; 18 cm.
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Nova Scotia — History — 1603-1713.
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Lettre de M. l'abbe Maillard sur les missions de l'Acadie et particulierement sur les missions micmaques : a Madame de Drucourt [135] pages ; 21 cm.
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Pages numbered 291-426.
Indians — Missions
Nova Scotia — History — 1604-1713.
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Relation de ce qui s'est passé de plus remarquable dans la mission des Abnaquis à l'Acadie, l'année 1701 Manate, N.Y. : La presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea, 1858. 34 pages, 1 leaf
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Abnaki Indians
First Nations of North America — Missions.
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In memoriam : biographical sketches of Mrs. David Starr, her daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Starr, and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. D. Henry Starr Halifax : Conference Office, 1861. vi, 45 pages ; 19 cm.
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Nova Scotia — History
Nova Scotia — Biography.
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Last will and testament of Amos Seaman Minudie : 1862. 15 pages ; 21 cm.
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The neutral French, or, The exiles of Nova Scotia 2nd. ed. Providence, R.I. : The author, 1841. 2 v. in 1 : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - AK F92 W67 - Akins
Acadians — Nova Scotia — Fiction
Acadians — Expulsion, 1755 — Fiction.
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Railway and steamboat guide and tourists' hand-book for Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island Halifax : Harrington & O'Flaherty, 1874. 96 pages : map.
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Nova Scotia — Description and travel — Guidebooks
New Brunswick — Description and travel — Guidebooks
Prince Edward Island — Description and travel — Guidebooks
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Nova Scotia. Dept. of Industries and Immigration
Information for intending emigrants to the province of Nova Scotia (Dominion of Canada) / issued by the government of Nova Scotia. Halifax : Commissioner of Public Works and Mines, 1886. 63 pages : map ; 18 cm.
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Commissioner of Public Works and Mines (Halifax, N.S.)
Immigrants — Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1918
Nova Scotia — Description and travel — 1851-1900
Nova Scotia — Emigration and immigration.
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A handbook of the City of Halifax, Nova Scotia 1886 Halifax, N.S. : Nova Scotia Printing Co., 1886. 48 pages ; 15 cm.
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Halifax (N.S) — Description — Guide-books
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Halifax and Dominion real estate register Halifax : J. Naylor, 1878-18--.
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Includes advertising matter.
Real estate business — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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Halifax Hotel : a great sale of silver plate and household furniture Halifax : A.J. Ritchie, 18--. 7 pages ; 25 cm.
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Auctions — Nova Scotia — Halifax
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The name Acadia / by Principal Dawson. [5] pages ; 22 cm.
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Article taken from The Canadian antiquarian and numismatic journal pages 84-88.
Historical linguistics — Maritime Provinces
Acadia
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