The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nations : made by sea or over land to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 years : divided into three several parts acc / by Richard Hakluyt . London : Imprinted at London by George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, printer to the Queen's Most Excellent Majestie, 1589. 3 v.
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Text in English and Latin. Includes index.
Voyages and travels
America — Discovery and exploration — British.
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Descriptive catalogue of those maps, charts and surveys relating to America, which are mentioned in Vol. III of Hakluyt's great work / by J.G. Kohl. Washington, (D.C.) : Henry Polkinhorn, 1857.
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America — Discovery and exploration.
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Hakluyt's collection of the early voyages, travels, and discoveries of the English nation / Richard Hakluyt. A new edition, with additions. London : Printed for R.H. Evans, ... J. Mackinlay, etc., 1809-12. 5 v.
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Some text in Latin with English translation. Added t.p.: The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques, and discoveries of the English nation ... / by Richard Hakluyt. This edition is an accurate reprint of the 1598-1600 folio edited by R.H. E
Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1778-1857
Hakluyt, Richard, 1552?-1616. Principal navigations, voyages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation.
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Divers voyages touching the discovery of America and the islands adjacent / collected and published by Richard Hakluyt ; edited, with notes and an introduction, by John Winter Jones. London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1850. 171 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
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Original issued in series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references.
Jones, John Winter, 1805-1881.
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Northwest Passage.
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The discoveries of the English in America 16--. 212 pages ; 14 cm.
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America — Discovery and exploration.
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A memoir of Sebastian Cabot : with a review of the history of maritime discovery London : Hurst, Chance, 1831. 333 pages ; 23 cm.
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Illustrated by documents from the rolls, now first publishedition Attributed to Richard Biddle--National Union Catalog pre-1956 imprints.
Explorers — America
America — Discovery and exploration — Italian.
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The colonies of England : a plan for the government of some portion of our colonial possessions / by John Arthur Roebuck. London : J.W. Parker, 1849. 248 pages
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A land there lies Now void ... Tables. Includes publisher's list.
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The colonial question : being essays, on imperial federalism / by the author of Ginx's baby. i.e. Edward Jenkins. Author's ed. Montreal : Dawson Bros., 1871. 99 pages
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Imperial federation
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Colonial policy, with hints upon the formation of military settlements : to which are added observations on the boundary question now pending between this country and the United States / by W.B. Cooke. 2nd ed. London : James Cochrane and Co., 1835. 49 pages
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Great Britain — Colonies — America.
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The colonial system : statistics of the trade, industry and resources of Canada, and other plantations in British America / by Henry Bliss. 2nd ed. London : J. Richardson, 1833. 170 pages
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Trade regulation — Great Britain — Colonies
Great Britain — Colonies — Commerce.
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Speeches delivered by Hon. Martin I. Wilkins, (attorney general) in the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia, session 1868, on resolutions relative to repeal of the British North America Act, 1867 / by Martin I. Wilkins. Halifax : Morning Chronicle, 1868. 22 pages
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Nova Scotia — History — 1867-1896 — Sources.
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Union manifesto 1864-.
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A petition favouring the inclusion of Nova Scotia in the proposed union of the provinces, with a list of supporters attachedition Caption title.
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867
Nova Scotia — Politics and government — 1784-1867.
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Brief suggestions in regard to the formation of local governments for Upper and Lower Canada : in connection with a federal union of the British North American provinces / by Alpheus Todd. Ottawa : G.E. Desbarats, 1866. 15 pages ; 22 cm.
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Printed by order. Includes bibliographical references.
Local government — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867.
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On the intention of the imperial government to unite the provinces of British North America : and a review of some events which took place during the session of the provincial Parliament in 1854 in Quebec / by Henry Taylor. Toronto : 1858. 117 pages
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Representative government and representation — Canada
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867.
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General union of all the British provinces of North America London : Printed by W. Clowes, 1824. 43, 20, 16 pages ; 22 cm.
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Consists of 3 pamphlets. Each pamphlet mentioned in the Contents is paged separately and has its own t.pages but with no mention of its author. Title-page of pamphlets no. 2 and 3 have date 1824. Inscribed below Contents is the office held in Canada by the a
Sewell, Jonathan, 1766-1839. Plan for a general legislative union of the British provinces in North America
Stuart, J. (James), 1780-1853. Remarks on a plan entituled, "A plan for a general legislative union of the British provinces in North America.".!
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Canada — Politics and government — 1791-1837.
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Resolutions relative to the proposed union of the British North American provinces Quebec : Hunter, Rose & Co., 1865. 13 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867
Canada — History — 1841-1867.
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Repeal : to the honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom in parliament assembled. Of B.N.A. Act The humble petition of the representatives of the province of Nova Scotia 18--. 48 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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The confederation of the British North American provinces ; their past history and future ... with a map and suggestions in reference to the true and only practicable route from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean / by Thomas Rawlings. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1865. 244 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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The proposed B.N.A. confederation : a reply to Mr. Penny's reasons why it should not be imposed upon the colonies by imperial legislation / by George Henry Macaulay. Montreal : Daily News, 1867. 13 pages
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Penny, Edward Goff, 1820-1881. The proposed British North American confederation.
Canada — History — Confederation, 1867
Canada — Politics and government — 1841-1867.
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Papers relative to the Union of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada, 1871 1871. 29 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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The northern kingdom / by a colonist. Montreal : Dawson Bros., 18--. 18 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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The mental outfit of the new Dominion Montreal : 1867. 7 pages
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From the Montreal Gazette, Nov. 5th, 1867.
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Miscellaneous papers connected with the agitation at Halifax for the repeal of the British North America Act, 1867-68 Dominion Documents, 1868.
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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Message relative to the terms of union with the Province of British Columbia Ottawa : Maclean, Roger & Co., 1875. 66 pages ; 25 cm.
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Remarks upon the proposed federation of the provinces / by a Nova Scotian. Halifax : J. Bowes, 1864. 16 pages
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Canada — History — Confederation, 1867.
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