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• Nouveaux voyages de Mr. le baron de Lahontan, dans l'Amerique septentrionale qui contient une relation des differens peuples qui y habitent, la nature de leur gouvernement, leur commerce, leur coûtume, leur religion, & leur manière de faire la guerre, l'intérêt des François & des Anglois dans le commerce qu'ils font avec ces nations, l'avantage que l'Angleterre peut retirer dans ce païs, étant en guerre avec la France : le tout enrichi de cartes & de figures. (Chez les freres l'Honoré ..., 1715), by Louis Armand de Lom d'Arce Lahontan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le voyageur françois, ou, La connoissance de l'ancien et du nouveau monde (Chez L. Cellot ..., 1795), by Joseph de Laporte, Louis Domairon, and Louis Abel de Bonafons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A clear and succinct account of North America, historical, geographical, &c. so far as it respects the arguments of the present time done from authentic records, and the best relations extant. (Printed by Richard James ..., 1755) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in North America, from modern writers with remarks and observations, exhibiting a connected view of the geography and present state of that quarter of the globe (Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1821), by William Bingley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada and the Canadians in 1846 (H. Colburn, 1846), by Richard Henry Bonnycastle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hochelaga, or, England in the New World (H. Colburn, 1846), by George Warburton and Eliot Warburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• British North America comprising Canada, British Central North America, British Columbia, Vancouver's Island, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. (Religious Tract Society, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Englishwoman in America (J. Murray, 1856), by Isabella L. Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tour in the United States, Cuba, and Canada a course of lectures delivered before the members of the Bolton Mechanics' Institution (A.W. Bennett, F. Pitman;, 1861), by Henry Ashworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traugott Bromme's Hand-und Reisebuch für Auswanderer nach den Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika Texas, Ober-und Unter-Canada, Neu-Braunschweig, Neu-Schottland, Santo Thomas in Guatemala und den Mosquitoküsten. (Buchner, 1848), by Traugott Bromme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traugott Bromme's Hand-und Reisebuch für Auswanderer und Reisende nach Nord-, Mittel-und Süd-Amerika (Buchner, 1853), by Traugott Bromme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Geschichte der Errichtung und des Handels der Englischen Colonien im mitternächtlichen Amerika (Bey Berger und Boedner, 1756), by Georges Marie Butel-Dumont (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief remarks on the waste lands of the crown in the Canadas with reference to emigration and colonization. (s.n.], 1848), by J. Bell Forsyth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Passages in the life of a soldier, or, Military service in the east and west (Hurst and Blackett, 1857), by James Edward Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hochelaga, or, England in the new world (G. Routledge, 1854), by George Warburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British American guide-book being a condensed gazetteer, directory and guide, to Canada, the western states, and principal cities on the seaboard : in four parts. (H. Bailliere;, 1859) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a sporting expedition in the far West of Canada 1847 (Printed for private circulation only, 1898), by Frederick Ulric Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traugott Bromme's Hand-und Reisebuch für Auswanderer und Reisende nach Nord-, Mittel-und Süd-Amerika (den gesammten Vereinigten Staaten, Texas, Canada, Brasilien, Mejiko u.s.w.). (Buchner;, 1866), by Traugott Bromme and Gustave Struve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, eine Darstellung der natürlichen, socialen und Verkehrs-Verhä ltnisse dieses Landes : mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Ansiedlung (Verlag der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, 1858) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two lectures on Canada ([s.n.], 1857), by Rollo Campbell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impressions and experiences of the West Indies and North America in 1849 (Lea & Blanchard, 1850), by Robert Baird (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tour through parts of the United States and Canada (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828), by Mr Beaufoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from Canada and the United States (s.n.], 1865), by George Tuthill Borrett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada and the Canadians (H. Colburn, 1849), by Richard Henry Bonnycastle (page images at HathiTrust)
• A concise account of North America containing a description of the several British colonies on that continent, including the islands of Newfoundland, Cape Breton, &c. as to their situation, extent, climate, soil, produce, rise, government, religion, present boundaries, and the number of inhabitants supposed to be in each : also of the interior, or westerly parts of the country, upon the rivers St. Laurence, the Mississipi, Christino, and the Great Lakes ... containing many useful and entertaining facts, never before treated of (Printed for the author, and sold by J. Millan, bookseller ..., 1765), by Robert Rogers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures on the Columbia River including the narrative of a residence of six years on the western side of the Rocky Mountains among various tribes of Indians hitherto unknown : together with a journey across the American continent (J. & J. Harper, 1832), by Ross Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in North America (Printed by and for Sampson Low ..., 1797), by Emmanuel Crespel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royalty in the New World, or, The Prince of Wales in America (M. Doolady, 1860), by Kinahan Cornwallis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The youthful travels and adventures of George Samuel Cull, a deaf and dumb cripple, the son of a soldier in the Royal Artillery including a sketch of seventeen years' residence in the northern and southern parts of England, and five years' travelling through Canada and the United States (Printed for G.S. Cull, 1863), by George Samuel Cull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters of Brunswick and Hessian officers during the American revolution (J. Munsell's Sons, 1891), by William L. Stone and August Hund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Condition and prospects of Canada in 1854 as pourtrayed in the despatches of the Right Honorable the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, governor general of Canada to Her Majesty's principal secretary of state for the colonies. (S. Derbishire & G. Desbarats, 1855), by John Somerset Pakington Hampton, James Bruce Elgin, and Canada. Governor-General (1846-1854 : Elgin) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes upon Canada and the United States from 1832 to 1840 : much in a small space, or a great deal in a little book (s.n.], 1840), by Henry Cook Todd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our garrisons in the West, or, Sketches in British North America (Chapman and Hall, 1864), by Francis Duncan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 with remarks on the present state of the American navy (W.H. Ainsworth, 1827), by Fred. Fitzgerald De Roos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 with remarks on the present state of the American navy (W.H. Ainsworth, 1827), by Fred. Fitzgerald De Roos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eighty years' progress of British North America showing the wonderful development of its natural resources by the unbounded energy and enterprise of its inhabitants : giving, in a historical form, the vast improvements made in agriculture, commerce and trade, modes of travel and transportation, mining, and educational interests, etc., etc. : with a large amount of statistical information, from the best and latest authorities (L. Stebbins, 1863), by Henry Youle Hind (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Easy and concise introduction to modern geography containing an enlarged account of the British North American colonies, particularly Lower and Upper Canada : for the use of Canadian schools. (s.n.], 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Personal narrative of a tour through a part of the United States and Canada with notices of the history and institutions of Methodism in America (Lane & Scott, 1849), by James Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical notes made during a tour in Canada, and a portion of the United States, in MDCCCXXXI (W. Blackwood;, 1833), by Adam Fergusson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in the United States of America and Canada containing some account of their scientific institutions, and a few notices of the geology and mineralogy of those countries : to which is added an essay on the natural boundaries of empires (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1833), by I. Finch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada, its defences, condition, and resources a second and concluding volume of "My diary, north and south" (T.O.H.P. Burnham ;, 1865), by William Howard Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emigration letters from Sussex emigrants who sailed from Portsmouth, in April 1832, on board the ships, Lord Melville and Eveline, for Upper Canada : extracts from various writers on emigration to Canada, and from Canadian newspapers, with references to the letters : Capt. Hale's instructions to emigrants, and a gazetteer of the places named in the letters. (s.n.], 1833), by T. Sockett and Petworth Emigration Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in North America, in the years 1827 and 1828 (Cadell;, 1830), by Basil Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• A journal of voyages and travels in the interiour of North America between the 47th and 58th degrees of north latitude, extending from Montreal nearly to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of about 5,000 miles, including an account of the principal occurrences, during a residence of nineteen years, in different parts of the country : to which are added, a concise description of the face of the country, its inhabitants, their manners, customs, laws, religion, etc. and considerable specimens of the two languages, most extensively spoken; together with an account of the principal animals, to be found in the forests and prairies of this extensive region (Printed by Flagg and Gould, 1820), by Daniel Williams Harmon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forest scenes and incidents in the wilds of North America being a diary of a winter's route from Halifax to the Canadas, and during four months' residence in the woods on the borders of Lakes Huron and Simcoe (J. Murray, 1829), by George Head (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in Canada and the United States in 1816 and 1817 (Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode ... for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown ..., 1819), by Francis Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in Canada and the United States in 1816 and 1817 (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown ..., 1818), by Francis Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels and adventures in Canada and the Indian territories between the years 1760 and 1776 in two parts (Printed and published by I. Riley, 1809), by Alexander Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emigrant's guide, or, Canada as it is comprising details relating to the domestic policy, commerce and agriculture of the upper and lower provinces : comprising matter of general information and interest, especially intended for the use of settlers and emigrants (W. Gray, 1835), by George Henry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through the Canadas containing a description of the pictoresque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes : with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of those provinces (Published by M. Carey ..., 1813), by George Heriot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through the Canadas containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes : with an account of the productions, commerce, and inhabitants of these provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners and customs of several of the Indian nations of North and South America (Printed for Richard Phillips ... by T. Gillet ..., 1807), by George Heriot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through the Canadas containing a description of the picturesque scenery on some of the rivers and lakes : with an account of the productions, commerce and inhabitants of those provinces : to which is subjoined a comparative view of the manners and customs of several of the Indian nations of North and South America (s.n., 1807), by George Heriot (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sketch of an overland route to British Columbia (s.n.], 1862), by Henry Youle Hind (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks during a journey through North America in the years 1819, 1820 and 1821, in a series of letters : with an appendix containing an account of several of the Indian tribes and the principal missionary stations, &c. : also a letter to M. Jean Baptiste Say on the comparative expense of free and slave labour (S. Whiting, 1823), by Adam Hodgson and Samuel Whiting (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present state of Nova Scotia with a brief account of Canada and the British islands on the coast of North America. (Printed for William Creech, Edinburgh and sold by T. Cadell, and G. Robinson & Co., London, 1787), by S. Hollingsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• America and the British colonies an abstract of all the most useful information relative to the United States of America and the British colonies of Canada, the Cape of Good Hope, New South Wales, and Van Diemen's Island : exhibiting at one view the comparative advantages and disadvantages each country offers for emigration : collected from the most valuable and recent publications to which are added a few notes and observations (Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker ..., 1820), by William Kingdom (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from Canada written during a residence there in the years 1806, 1807 and 1808; shewing the present state of Canada, its productions--trade--commercial importance and political relations : illustrative of the laws, the manners of the people and the peculiarities of the country and climate; exhibiting also the commercial importance of Nova-Scotia, New Brunswick & Cape-Breton; and their increasing ability, in conjunction with Canada, to furnish the necessary supplies of lumber and provisions to our West-India islands (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme ..., 1809), by Hugh Gray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on professions, literature, manners and emigration, in the United States and Canada made during a residence there in 1832 (J. & J. Harper, 1833), by Isaac Fidler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels through the United States of North America, the country of the Iroquois, and Upper Canada, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 with an authentic account of Lower Canada (Printed for R. Phillips ... : sold by T. Hurst and J. Wallis ... and by Carpenter and Co. ..., 1799), by François Alexandre La Rochefoucauld Liancourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Acadie, or, Seven years' explorations in British America (H. Colburn, 1849), by James Edward Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures of an angler in Canada, Nova Scotia and the United States (R. Bentley, 1848), by Charles Lanman (page images at HathiTrust)
• J. Long's, Westindischen Dollmetschers und Kaufmanns Reisen enthaltend: eine Beschreibung der Sitten und Gewohnheiten der Nordamerikanischen Wilden; der englischen Forts oder Schanzen längs dem St. Lorenzflusse, dem See Ontario u.s.w.; ferner ein umständliches Wö rterbuch der Chippewäischen und andrer Nordamerikanischen Sprachen (Bei Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, 1791), by John Long and E. A. W. von Zimmermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in North America in the years 1841-2 : with geological observations on the United States, Canada and Nova Scotia (Wiley & Halsted, 1856), by Charles Lyell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geography of Canada for the use of schools and families (H. Ramsey;, 1855), by T. A. Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• American notes for general circulation (Chapman and Hall, 1850), by Charles Dickens (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Upper and Lower Canada (J. Mortimer, 1836), by R. Montgomery Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes of a journey through Canada, the United States of America, and the West Indies (Fraser;, 1838), by James Logan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in North America, in the years 1841-2 with geological observations on the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia (Wiley and Putnam, 1845), by Charles Lyell (page images at HathiTrust)
• British America (W. Blackwood;, 1832), by John MacGregor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three years in Canada an account of the actual state of the country in 1826-7-8, comprehending its resources, productions, improvements and capabilities, and including sketches of the state of society, advice to emigrants, &c. (H. Colburn, 1829), by John MacTaggart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States and the other divisions of the American continent (E.H. Flint :, 1832), by Timothy Flint (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada and the Crimea, or, Sketches of a soldier's life from the journals and correspondence of the late Major Ranken, R.E. (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1862), by George Ranken and W. Bayne Ranken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada and the Crimea, or, Sketches of a soldier's life from the journals and correspondence of the late Major Ranken, R.E. (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863), by George Ranken and W. Bayne Ranken (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen in den Jahren 1795, 1796 und 1797 durch alle an der See belegenen Staaten der nordamerikanischen Republik (Bei Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann, 1799), by François Alexandre La Rochefoucauld Liancourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from North America written during the summer of 1853. (St. Augustine's College Press, 1855), by Allen Page Moor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adventures and recollections of Colonel Landmann, late of the Corps of Royal Engineers (Colburn, 1852), by George Landmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen in Canada und durch die Staaten von New-York und Pennsylvanien (J.G. Cotta, 1856), by J. G. Kohl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada physical, economic and social (Maclear, 1855), by Adam Lillie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pine forests and hacmatack clearings, or, Travel, life and adventure in the British North American provinces (R. Bentley, 1853), by Lieutenant-Colonel Sleigh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The settler's new home, or, The emigrant's location being a guide to emigrants in the selection of a settlement, and the preliminary details of the voyage (J. Kendrick, 1849), by Sidney Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures of Canadian life, or, The emigrant churchman (R. Bentley, 1850), by A. W. H. Rose and Henry Christmas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emigrant churchman in Canada (R. Bentley, 1849), by A. W. H. Rose and Henry Christmas (page images at HathiTrust)
• North America (Chapman & Hall, 1869), by Anthony Trollope (page images at HathiTrust)
• The emigrants' guide to the Canadas (s.n.], 1822), by William Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifteen years in Canada being a series of letters on its early history and settlement; its boundaries, divisions, population, and general routes; its agricultural progress and wealth compared with the United States; its religious and educational institutions; and its present political condition and relations, together with the advantages it affords as a desireable field of emigration (C. Ziegler, 1850), by William Haw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in Canada and the United States in 1816 and 1817 (Re-published from the London edition by Wells and Lilly, 1818), by Francis Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Stranger's guide through the United States and Canada (J. Sutherland;, 1838) (page images at HathiTrust)
• History, geography, and statistics of British North America (s.n.], 1864), by Alexander Monro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a voyage across the Atlantic with notes on Canada & the United States; and return to Great Briain, in 1844 (Printed for private circulation, 1845), by George Moore (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English cricketers' trip to Canada and the United States (F. Lillywhite, 1860), by Frederick Lillywhite (page images at HathiTrust)
• Canada and her resources an essay to which, upon a reference from the Paris Committee of Canada, was awarded by His Excellency Sir Edmund Walker Head, Bart., governor general of British North America, etc., etc., etc., the second prize (s.n.], 1855), by Alexander Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hudson's Bay and Pacific territories a lecture (J. Lovell, 1859), by Alexander Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nova Britannia, or, British North America, its extent and future a lecture (Mercantile Library Association, 1858), by Alexander Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the United States, Cuba and Canada (G.P. Putnam, 1856), by Amelia Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches on a tour through the northern and eastern states, the Canadas & Nova Scotia (J.H. Wartmann, 1849), by J. C. Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Travels in North America during the years 1834, 1835 & 1836, including a summer residence with the Pawnee tribe of Indians, in the remote prairies of the Missouri, and a visit to Cuba and the Azore Islands (R. Bentley, 1841), by Charles Augustus Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Men and manners in America (W. Blackwood;, 1834), by Thomas Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reisen in den Vereinigten Staaten, Canada und Mexico (F.A. Brockhaus, 1864), by J. W. von Müller (page images at HathiTrust)
• A tour through North America together with a comprehensive view of the Canadas and United States, as adapted for agricultural emigration (Oliver and Boyd;, 1835), by Patrick Shirreff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Five years' residence in the Canadas including a tour through part of the United States of America, in the year 1823 (Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1824), by Edward Allen Talbot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of Canada (R. Bentley, 1849), by George Warburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The conquest of Canada (R. Bentley, 1850), by George Warburton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The natural and civil history of the French dominions in North and South America giving a particular account of the climate, soil, minerals, animals, vegetables, manufactures, trade, commerce and languages, together with the religion, government, genius, character, manners and customs of the Indians and other inhabitants : illustrated by maps and plans of the principal places (Printed for Thomas Jefferys ..., 1760), by Thomas Jefferys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brest on the Quebec Labrador (J. Hope & Sons, 1905), by sieur Des Combes and Samuel Edward Dawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The conquest of Canada (Harper, 1855), by George Warburton (page images at HathiTrust)

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