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MacMillan, Cyrus

Canadian wonder tales / by Cyrus Macmillan ; with illustrations in colour by George Sheringham and a foreword by Sir William Peterson.  London : John Lane, 1918. xvi, 199 pages : colour front., colour plates ; 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 M22 C16

Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore.

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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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Hodge, Frederick Webb

Handbook of Indians of Canada : published as an appendix to the Tenth report of the Geographic Board of Canada / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge.  Ottawa : Geographic Board, 1913. x, 632 pages : 3 fold maps. ; 25 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F15 H66

Reprinted by permission of Mr. F.W. Hodge ... from Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico, published as Bulletin 30, Bureau of American ethnology, and edited by Frederick Webb Hodge. Reprinted under the direction of James White. Published also in French under title: Manuel des indiens du Canada. At head of title: Geographic Board. Canada. 1912.

White, James, 1863-1928.

First Nations of North America — Canada.

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Fraser, Simon

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

Williamson, James Alexander

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

Williamson, James A.

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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Reman, Edward

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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Pohl, Frederick Julius

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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Jones, Charles Hugh Le Pailleur

The Markland sagas : with a discussion of their relation to Nova Scotia / by C.H.L. Jones and Thomas H. Raddall ; illustrated by Thomas W. Hayhurst.  Montreal : Gazette Printing Company Ltd., 1934. 117, 1 pages : illustrations (incl. maps) plates, portraits ; 19

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 J71

Maps on lining-papers. Bibliography: pages 117.

Hayhurst, Thomas W., illus
Raddall, Thomas H., 1903-1994.

America — Discovery and exploration — Norse
Nova Scotia.

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Curran, James W.

Here was Vinland : the Great Lakes region of America / by James W. Curran.  Sault Ste. Marie, ON. : Sault Daily Star, 1939. xiv, 359 pages, [19] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 2

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - F1 C94

Half title: Here was Vinland : a 1000 year old mystery solvedition At head of title: America's strangest story. Includes index.

Sault daily star.

America — Discovery and exploration — Norse
Great Lakes — Discovery and exploration.

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Morrisseau, Norval

Legends of my people, the great Ojibway / illustrated and told by Norval Morriseau ; edited by Selwyn Dewdney.  Toronto : Ryerson Press, 1965. xxii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 O38 L411 M877

Ojibwa Indians — Legends
First Nations of North America — Legends.

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Knockwood, Isabelle

Out of the depths : the experiences of Mi'kmaw children at the Indian Residential School at Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia / Isabelle Knockwood with Gillian Thomas.  Lockeport : Roseway, 1992. 159 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M619 K72 1992

Wicken, William Craig

Encounters with tall sails and tall tales : Mi'kmaq society, 1500-1760 / William C. Wicken.  Montreal : McGill University, 1994. vi, 487 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W636

Written for the Dept. of History.

Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia — Cape Breton Island
Nova Scotia — History — To 1763.

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Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

Micmac quillwork : Micmac Indian techniques of porcupine quill decoration, 1600-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; with an appendix on quilled-bark conservation, by Deborah Jewett.  Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1982. 230 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W592

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

Stories from the Six Worlds : Micmac legends / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; illustrated by Kathy Kaulbach.  Halifax : Nimbus, 1988. 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W551 1988

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

The old man told us : excerpts from Micmac history, 1500-1950 / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; foreword by Peter Christmas.  Halifax : Nimbus, 1991. 385 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W55 1991

Includes index.

Mi'kmaq — History
First Nations of North America — Maritime Provinces — History.

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Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

The Micmac : how their ancestors lived five hundred years ago / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead and Harold McGee ; illustrations by Kathy Kaulbach.  Halifax : Nimbus Publishing, 1983. 60 pages : illustrations, map ; 18 x 21 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W54

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

Tracking Doctor Lonecloud : showman to legend keeper / by Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; including the memoir of Jerry Lonecloud reconstructed and annotated by Ruth Holmes Whitehead from interview notes by Clara Dennis.  Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions, 2002. 183 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 22 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W474 2002

Wellwood, Dorothy O.

When the sun rises : the Micmac story / by Dorothy O. Wellwood.  Prince Albert, Sask. : Northern Canada Evangelical Mission, 1985. x, 107 pages : illustrations, ports. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 W457

Toye, William

How summer came to Canada / retold by William Toye ; pictures by Elizabeth Cleaver.  Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1969. 32 pages : col. illustrations ; 27 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 T75

This retelling was freely based in part on the version in Canadian wonder tales by Cyrus MacMillan.

Cleaver, Elizabeth, 1939-1985.

Folklore — Canada
First Nations of North America — Folklore
Seasons — Folklore.

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Paqtatek / introduction by Murdena Marshall ; essays by Eleanor Johnson ; compiled by Stephanie Inglis, Loy Mannette, Stacey Sulewski ; drawings by Dozay ; photography by J. Peyton Chisholm.  Halifax : Garamond Press, 1991. ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 P218

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

The Micmac ethnology collection of the Nova Scotia Museum / by Ruth Whitehead.  Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1974. 58 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 N935

Nova Scotia Museum.

Mi'kmaq — Nova Scotia.

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Nova Scotia Museum

Mi'kmaq : economics and evolution / Ronald J. Nash. Faunal remains from the Delorey Island site (Bj Cj-9) of Nova Scotia / Frances L. Stewart.  Halifax,Nova Scotia : Nova Scotia Department of Education, 1986. [xi], 178 pages: illustrations; maps, tables; 28 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 M636

Nash, Ronald J
Stewart, Frances L.

Mi'kmaq — Commerce
Mi'kmaq — Artifacts

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Whitehead, Ruth Holmes

Elitekey : Micmac material culture from 1600 A.D. to the present / Ruth Holmes Whitehead ; photos. by Ron Merrick.  Halifax : Nova Scotia Museum, 1980. 84 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm.

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M6 E43

Merrick, Ronald E.

Mi'kmaq — Material culture
Mi'kmaq — Art.

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Wherry, James

Eastern Algonquian relationships to proto-Algonquian social organization / by James Wherry.  Halifax : St. Mary's Univ., 1979. 111 pages : illustrations

Nova Scotia Archives Library - use request slip - E99 M342 S146

Kinship
Algonquian Indians — Social life and customs

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