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Penlington, Norman

Canada and imperialism, 1896-1899 Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1965. xiv, 288 pages ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - FC553 I4 P46 1965 - Open Shelf

Walter, John

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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Scott, H. Percy

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

Lyell, Charles

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

Lyell, Charles

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

Lanman, Charles

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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Warburton, George

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.

Warburton, Eliot, 1810-1852.

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

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Warburton, George

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.

Warburton, Eliot, 1810-1852.

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

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Martin, Henry Byam

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.

Public Archives of Canada.

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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Rose, A. W. H.

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

Lyell, Charles

A second visit to the United States of North America / by Sir Charles Lyell.  2nd ed. London : J. Murray, 1850. 2 v. : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 L98 Se2

Originally published: London : J. Murray, 1849. The visit was made in 1845-1846. Includes some material on Canada.

Geology — United States
United States — Description and travel — 1783-1848
Halifax (N.S.) — Communications.

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Lyell, Charles

A second visit to North America / by Charles Lyell.  3rd ed. London : John Murray, 1855. 2 v.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F106 L98 SE2

Owen, William

Narrative of American voyages and travels of Captain William Owen, R.N., and settlement of the Island of Campobello in the Bay of Fundy, 1766-1771 / edited by Victor Hugo Paltsits.  New York : New York Public Library, 1931. 1 v. (various pagings) : illustrations, facsims., maps (1 f

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F100 OW2

Bound from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of February-October 1931.

Paltsits, Victor Hugo, 1867-1952.

New York Public Library.

Canada — Description and travel — 1764-1867
United States — Description and travel — To 1783.

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Hall, Francis

Travels in Canada and the United States in 1816 and 1817 / by Lieut. Francis Hall.  London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, 1818. 543 pages : maps.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F82 H14

Harris, Joseph S.

Letters from the 49th parallel, 1857-1873 : selected correspondence of Joseph Harris and Samuel Anderson / edited with an introduction by C. Ian Jackson and with a technical appendix by Louis M. Sebert.  Toronto : Champlain Society, 2000. cviii, 477, xx pages, [5] pages of plates (some fold

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F80 C35 H37

Anburey, Thomas

Travels through the interior parts of America / by Thomas Anburey ; with a foreword by William Harding Carter.  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 2 v. : 1 folded map ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F36 An1 T69

Winsor, Justin

Narrative and critical history of America / edited by Justin Winsor.  Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1884-1889. 8 v. : illustrations, portraits, maps, facsims. ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 W73

Most of the articles are followed by a critical essay on the sources of information, and notes in addition to the foot-notes.

Cartography — America
America — History
America — Bibliography
America — Maps, Early
America — Description and travel
America — Antiquities
United States — History
United States — History — Biblio

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Raynal, Guillaume Thomas

A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America / from the French of Abbé Raynal.  Edinburgh : Printed by C. MacFarquhar, 1776. 2 v. ; 16 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F30 R21

Pages 48-103 of Volume 1 and pages 9-135 of Volume 2 related to the description and history of the colonies in Canada.

United States — Description and travel
United States — Economic conditions
United States — History — Colonial period, ca.1600-1775
Canada — History — To 1763 (New France)
Canada — Description and travel — To

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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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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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Trollope, Anthony

North America New York : Harper, 1862. vii, 623 pages ; 20 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F5 T74

Walker, Georgiana Gholson

Private journal, 1862-1865 : with selections from the post-war years, 1865-1876 Tuscaloosa, Ala. : Confederate Pub. Co., 1963. 148 pages : port. ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E605 W17

Grimes, Absalom Carlisle

Absalom Grimes, Confederate mail runner New Haven : Yale University Press, 1926. xii, 216 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E605 G86

Horner, Dave

The blockade-runners : true tales of running the Yankee blockade of the Confederate coast / drawing by Jack Woodson.  New York : Dodd, Mead, 1968. xiv, 241 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E600 H81

United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Blockades.

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Thurston, Arthur

Arthur Thurston's Tallahassee skipper : the biography of John Taylor Wood, Merrimac gunner, soldier-at-sea, guardian of the Confederate treasury, adopted Nova Scotian Yarmouth : Lescarbot, 1981. 434 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E467.1 W876 T544

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