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Acadia

Here are entered works about the area of French territorial possessions on the Atlantic seaboard between New England and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence during the 17th and early part of the 18th centuries.

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• Acadia -- Bibliography
• Acadia -- Boundaries
• Acadia -- Description and travel
• Acadia -- Early works to 1800
• Acadia -- Fiction
• Acadia -- History
• Acadia -- Juvenile fiction
• Acadia -- Obras anteriores a 1800
• Acadia -- Poetry
• Missions -- Acadia
• Mollusks -- Acadia
• North America -- Acadia
• Prêtres des missions étrangères du Québec -- Acadia
• Richard, Edouard, 1844-1904 -- Acadia
• Shipwrecks -- Acadia

• Acadian Legends and Lyrics (London, New York: White & Allen, 1889), by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline, by Arthur G. Doughty (Gutenberg text)
• Cent trente-cinq ans après; ou, La renaissance acadienne. Suivi de notules historiques et anecdotiques, et d'un petit discours prononcé par l'auteur le 15 août 1890 à Annapolis, Nouvelle-Écosse (ancienne Acadie) (Impr. Gebhardt-Berthiaume, 1890), by L. U. Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the island of Cape Breton with some account of the discovery and settlement of Canada, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland (S. Low, son, and Marston, 1869), by Richard Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de l'Acadie françoise (Amérique Septentrionale) de 1598 à 1755 (L. Techener, 1873), by C. Moreau (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine; including the ancient settlement of Pentagöet (Burr & Robinson, 1875), by George Augustus Wheeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nova Francia, a description of Acadia, 1606 (G. Routledge, 1928), by Marc Lescarbot, Henry Percival Biggar, and Pierre Erondelle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• First things in Acadia : "the birthplace of a continent" (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, parts of Maine, Quebec, Newfoundland) (First Things Publishers, 1936), by John William Regan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Acadia: from its discovery to its surrender to England, by the Treaty of Paris. (Printed by J. & A. McMillan, 1879), by James Hannay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le père Lefebvre et l'Acadie (C. O. Beauchemin & fils, 1898), by Pascal Poirier (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of New France; [with an English translation, notes and appendices (Champlain Society, 1907), by Marc Lescarbot and W. L. Grant (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les Laurentiaden; retour au pays des a'feux ... (Les Claros de Saint-Viateur, 1925), by Moise Joseph Marsile (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New England's outpost. Acadia before the conquest of Canada (New York, 1927), by John Bartlet Brebner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la Nouvelle-France : contenant les navigations, dećouverts et habitations faites par les François ès indes occidentales et nouvelle France avec les muses de la Nouvelle France (Librairie Tross, 1866), by Marc Lescarbot, Edwin Tross, and Earl W. De La Vergne (page images at HathiTrust)
• New England's outpost. Acadia before the conquest of Canada (Columbia university press: London, P. S. King & son, ltd., 1927), by John Bartlet Brebner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Acadian exiles : a chronicle of the land of Evangeline (Glasgow, Brook, 1920), by Arthur G. Doughty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir William Alexander and American colonization. Including three royal charters; a tract on colonization; a patent of the county of Canada and of Long island; and the roll of the knights baronets of New Scotland (B. Franklin, 1967), by Edmund F. Slafter, Carlos Slafter, Council for New England, and Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acadian legends and Lyrics (White & Allen, 1889), by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage du sieur de Diéreville en Acadie (Imprimerie A. Côté, 1885), by Diéreville and L. U. Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les sulpiciens et les prêtres des Missions-étrangères en Acadie (1676-1762) (Pruneau & Kironac, 1897), by H. R. Casgrain, Séminaire de Québec, and Grand Séminaire de Montréal (page images at HathiTrust)
• A geographical view of the district of Maine, with particular reference to its internal resources, including the history of Acadia, Penobscot river and bay, with statistical tables, shewing the comparative progress of the population of Maine with each state in the union--a list of the towns, their incorporation, census, polls, valuation, counties, and distances from Boston. (Printed by Peter Edes, 1816), by Joseph Whipple (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acadie days: Sketches of New Scotland ([n.p., 1920), by W. H. T. Squires (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of Castine, Penobscot and Brooksville, Maine. (The Cornwall Press, 1923), by George Augustus Wheeler and Louise Wheeler Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The land of St. Castin (W. B. Clarke co., 1909), by Herbert Milton Sylvester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The rivals of Acadia, an old story of the New world. (Wells and Lilly, 1827), by H. V. Cheney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada français et Acadie (P. Roger, 1924), by Ernest Robert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sir William Alexander and American colonization : including three royal charters ; a tract on colonization ; a patent of the county of Canada and of Long Island ; and the roll of the knights baronets of New Scotland ; with annotations and a memoir by the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter. (The Prince society, 1873), by Carlos Slafter, Edmund F. Slafter, Great Britain, and Council for New England (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gentlemen adventurers in Acadia (s.n., 1869), by John George Bourinot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The old forts of Acadia (s.n., 1874), by John George Bourinot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Acadia from its first discovery to its surrender to England by the Treaty of Paris (s.n.], 1879), by James Hannay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acadia, or, A month with the Blue noses (Hurd and Houghton;, 1877), by Frederic S. Cozzens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Centennial prize essay on the history of the city and county of St. John (J. & A. McMillan, 1883), by D. R. Jack (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the French war, ending in the conquest of Canada with a preliminary account of the early attempts at colonization and struggles for the possession of the continent (Dodd, Mead & Co., 1882), by Rossiter Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acadia a lost chapter in American history (P.H. Smith, 1884), by Philip H. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on the French memorials concerning the limits of Acadia printed at the Royal Printing-House at Paris and distributed by the French ministers at all the foreign courts of Europe : with two maps exhibiting the limits, one according to the system of the French, as inserted in the said memorials; the other conformable to the English rights, as supported by the authority of the treaties, contiunal grants of the French kings, and express passages of the best authors : to which is added an answer to the summary discussion, &c. (Printed for T. Jefferys ..., 1756), by Mathieu François de Pidansat de Mairobert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature in Acadie (J. Bale, 1895), by H. Kirke Swann (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Fair representation of His Majesty's right to Nova Scotia or Acadie briefly stated from the memorials of the English commissaries : with an answer to the objections contained in the French memorials and in a treatise, entitled, Discussion sommaire sur les anciennes limites de l'Acadie. (Printed by Edward Owens ..., 1756) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Fair representation of His Majesty's right to Nova Scotia or Acadie briefly stated from the memorials of the English commissaries : with an answer to the objections contained in the French memorials and in a treatise, entitled, Discussion sommaire sur les anciennes limites de l'Acadie. (Re-printed by Richard James ..., 1756) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Memorials of the English and French commissaries concerning the limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia ([s.n.], 1755), by Commissioners for Adjusting the Boundaries for the British and French Possessions in America (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie (J. Barnes, 1865), by Beamish Murdoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie (J. Barnes, 1866), by Beamish Murdoch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes upon the south western boundary line of the British provinces of Lower Canada and New Brunswick and the United States of America (s.n.], 1830), by Andrew Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes upon the south western boundary line of the British provinces of Lower Canada and New Brunswick and the United States of America (Armour and Ramsay, 1839), by Andrew Stuart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un pèlerinage au pays d'Evangéline (L. Demers, 1887), by H. R. Casgrain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les Sulpiciens et les prêtres des Missions-Etrangères en Acadie, 1676-1762 (Pruneau & Kirouac, 1897), by H.-R. Casgrain (page images at HathiTrust)
• La renaissance de la nationalité française en Acadie (s.n., 1899), by Camille Derouet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire des réfugiés huguenots en Amérique (Société des livres religieux, 1886), by Charles W. Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missio canadensis epistola ex portu-regali in Acadia transmissa [a]d praepositvm generalem Societatis Iesv a R. Petro Biardo ejvsdem Societatis. (excvdebat Joel Munsellius ..., 1870), by Pierre Biard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eclaircissements sur la question acadienne (s.n., 1888), by H. R. Casgrain and Société royale du Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le père Lefebvre et l'Acadie (C.O. Beauchemin, 1898), by Pascal Poirier and Camille Lefebvre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation du voyage du Port Royal de l'Acadie ou de la Nouvelle France dans laquelle on voit un détail des divers mouvemens de la mer dans une traversée de long cours, la description du païs, les occupations des françois qui y sont établis, les manières des différentes nations sauvages, leurs superstitions & leurs chasses, avec une dissertation exacte sur le castor (Chez Pierre Humbert, 1710), by N. de Diéreville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un pèlerinage au pays d'Evangeline (s.n.], 1888), by H. R. Casgrain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Un pèlerinage au pays d'Evangéline (Librairie L. Cerf, 1890), by H.-R. Casgrain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires des commissaires du roi et de ceux de Sa Majesté britannique sur les possessions & les droits respectifs des deux couronnes en Amérique avec les actes publics & piéces justificatives. (De l'Imprimerie royale, 1755), by Commissaires sur les possessions et les droits de la Grande- Bretagne et de la France en Amérique (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires des commissaires du roi et de ceux de Sa Majesté britannique sur les possessions & les droits respectifs des deux couronnes en Amérique avec les actes publics & piéces justificatives. (De l'Imprimerie royale, 1757), by Commissaires sur les possessions et les droits de la Grande- Bretagne et de la France en Amérique (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discussion sommaire sur les anciennes limites de l'Acadie, et sur les stipulations du Traité d'Utrecht qui y sont relatives (Chez Samuel Thourneisan, 1755), by Mathieu-François Pidansat de Mairobert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Month with the Blue noses (Derby & Jackson, 1859), by Frederic S. Cozzens (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Acadians of Louisiana and their dialect (s.n., 1891), by Alcée Fortier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen nach Peru, Acadien und Egypten worin die Merkwü rdigkeiten der Natur und Kunst in diesen Ländern, nebst den Sitten und Gewohnheiten der Einwohner beschrieben werden (Abram Vandenhoeks seel. Wittwe, 1751), by Pierre Bouguer, Tourtechot Granger, and N. de Diéreville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Souvenir of Wolfville and Grand Pre with local directory and historical notes ([s.n.], 1897), by David Otto Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Acadian exiles a chronicle of the land of Evangeline (Glasgow, Brook, 1916), by Arthur G. Doughty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le père Lefebvre et l'Acadie (C.O. Beauchemin, 1898), by Pascal Poirier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires des commissaires de Sa Majesté Très-Chretienne et de ceux de Sa Majesté brittannique [sic] sur les possessions & les droits respectifs des deux couronnes en Amerique : avec les actes publics & pièces justificatives. (Chez J. Schreuder & Pierre Mortier le jeune, 1755), by Commissaires sur les possessions et les droits de la Grande- Bretagne et de la France en Amérique (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holiday tours through Evangeline's land (Dominion Atlantic Railway, 1896), by Dominion Atlantic Railway (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pro Domo réponse à la Review of Historical Publications Relating to Canada, de Toronto (s.n., 1917), by Henri d' Arles (page images at HathiTrust)
• La tragédie acadienne (Bibliothèque de l'Action française, 1919), by Henri d' Arles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) (The Champlain Society, 1908), by Nicolas Denys, Victor Hugo Paltsits, and William Francis Ganong (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tercentenary of DeMont's settlement at St. Croix Island, June 25, 1904. (Maine Historical Society, 1905), by Maine Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prize essay, St. John, N.B., 1783-1883 (J. & A. McMillan, 1883), by David Russell Jack (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wars on the seaboard: the struggle in Acadia and Cape Breton. (Boston New York, 1884), by Charles Card Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• La tragédie d'un peuple : histoire du peuple acadien de ses origines à nos jours; avec 88 illustrations, dont 22 cartes. (H. Goulet, 1924), by Émile Lauvrier̀e (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Acadian exiles; a chronicle of the land of Evangeline (Glasgow, Brook & company, 1916), by Arthur G. Doughty (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Acadian exiles : a chronicle of the land of Evangeline (Glasgow, Brook, & Co., 1921), by Arthur G. Doughty (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expedition of Captain Samuel Argall, afterwards governor of Virginia, knight, &c. to the French settlements in Acadia and to Manhattan island, A.D. 1613. (1841), by George Folsom (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Acadia : from its first discovery to its surrender to England by the treaty of Paris (Printed by J. & A. McMillan, 1879), by James Hannay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorials of the English and French commissaries concerning St. Lucia ([publisher not identified], 1755), by Great Britain. Commissioners for Adjusting the Boundaries for the British and French Possessions in America and France. Commissaires sur les possessions et les droits de la Grande-Bretagne et de la France en Amérique (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoires des commissaires de Sa Majesté très-chretienne et de ceux de Sa Majesté britannique (Chez J. Schreuder & Pierre Mortier le jeune, 1755), by Great Britain. Commissioners for Adjusting the Boundaries for the British and French Possessions in America and France. Commissaires sur les possessions et les droits de la Grande-Bretagne et de la France en Amérique (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation du voyage du Port Royal de l'Acadie (Chez Jean-Baptiste Besongne, ruë Ecuyere, au Soleil Royal, 1708), by Diéreville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation du voyage du Port Royal de l'Acadie (Chez P. Humbert, 1710), by Diéreville (page images at HathiTrust)
• Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Ameriqve Septentrionale. Avec l'Histoire naturelle du païs (Chez Claude Barbin, au Palais, sur le Perron de la Sainte Chapelle, 1672), by Nicolas Denys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conduite des François par rapport à la Nouvelle Ecosse : depuis le premier établissement de cette colonie jusqu'à nos jours : ouvrage où l'on expose la foiblesse des argumens dont ils se servent pour éluder la force du Traité d'Utrecht & pour justifier leurs procédés illégitimes, dans une lettre à un membre du Parlement (Vaillant, 1755), by Thomas Jefferys and Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• The spell of Acadia; A description of the land once known as l'Acadie, now the three Maritime Provinces of Canada: Nova Scotia, including Cape Breton Island; New Brunswick; Prince Edward Island and also the Magdalen Islands. (L.C. Page, 1930), by Frank Oliver Call (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire de la Nouvelle-France: (Version 1617) (in French), by Marc Lescarbot (Gutenberg ebook)
• Conversion des Sauvages qui ont esté baptizés en la Nouvelle France, cette année 1610: Avec un bref recit du voyage du Sieur de Poutrincourt (in French), by Marc Lescarbot (Gutenberg ebook)
• Histoire de la Nouvelle France: Relation derniere de ce qui s'est passé au voyage du sieur de Poutrincourt en la Nouvelle France depuis 10 mois ença (in French), by Marc Lescarbot (Gutenberg ebook)

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