This is a list of Scottish book sites where either
I've discovered them while browsing or have been told about them by
visitors to the site. In this case these books have been scanned in
so you actually load a picture of each page to read it.
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A tour through some of the islands of Orkney and Shetland ...
Patrick Neill
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The Center for Retrospective Digitization, Göttingen State and
University Library
This is the center where the above book came from and has many other
English texts of Scottish history. Thanks to Wolfgang Schlick for
letting me know about this resource.
- Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build
an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for
researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that
exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of
San Francisco, the Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa
Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to
include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes
texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.
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Early
Canadiana Online
Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is a digital library providing access to
over 1,279,000 pages of Canada's printed heritage. It features works
published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early
20th Century.
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Travels in the interior inhabited parts of North America in the years
1791 and 1792
This is a book by Patrick Campbell about his
travels in North America in the years 1791 and 1792. He was most
interested in visiting Scots who had settled in this area to find out
how they were doing and so his account is reckoned very accurate as to
the economic situation at this point in history.
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The Battle of Moores Creek
On the morning of February 27, 1776, Patriot militia at Moores Creek
Bridge defeated a Loyalist army marching to rendezvous with a British
force on the North Carolina coast. This early Patriot victory during the
American Revolution helped delay a full-scale British invasion of the
southern colonies for several years.
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Questia
This is a site that carries online books and by clicking the link you'll
get a list of Scottish History books that they carry.
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David Thompson's narrative of his explorations in Western America,
1784-1812
Thompson, David, 1770-1857 ; edited by Tyrrell, Joseph Burr, 1858-1957
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Lord Selkirk's diary, 1803-1804
A journal of his travels in British North America and the Northeastern
United States.
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The Canadian journal of Lady Aberdeen, 1893-1898
Aberdeen and Temair, Ishbel Gordon, Marchioness of, 1857-1939. Saywell,
John, 1929.
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The journal of Alexander Henry the Younger, 1799-1814, Vol. I
Henry, Alexander, 1739-1824. Gough, Barry M., 1938.
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The journal of Alexander Henry the Younger, 1799-1814, Vol. II
Henry, Alexander, 1739-1824. Gough, Barry M., 1938.
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The Pioneer
Exploration of Scotch Boy John Tod
The life and times of John Tod, a
pioneer fur trader and one of British Columbia's founding citizens.
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Here you will find volumes 53 (1843) through
to 94 (1863).
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Alexander Begg's Red River journal
And other papers relative to the Red River resistance of 1869-1870
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Colin Robertson's correspondence book, September 1817 to 1822
Containing accounts of his exploration of
Western parts of Canada and the United States and includes interesting
information on the Hudson Bay Company and its amalgamation with the
North-West Company.
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An historical journal of the campaigns in North America for the years
1757, 1758, 1759 and 1760, Vol. I
By Knox, John, d.
1778. Covering the battle for Quebec.
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An historical journal of the campaigns in North America for the years
1757, 1758, 1759 and 1760, Vol. II
By Knox, John, d.
1778
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An historical journal of the campaigns in North America for the years
1757, 1758, 1759 and 1760, Vol. III - Appendix
By Knox, John, d.
1778
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Customs of the American Indians compared with customs of primitive
times, Vol I.
Lafitau, Joseph
François, 1681-1746.
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Customs of the American Indians compared with customs of primitive
times, Vol. II.
Lafitau, Joseph
François, 1681-1746. Fenton, William Nelson, 1908
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Notes of a twenty-five year's service in the Hudson's Bay territories
McLean, John,
1799-1890
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Part of dispatch from George Simpson Esqr, Governor of Ruperts Land to
the Governor & committee of the Hudson's Bay Company, London, March 1,
1829 : continued and completed March 24 and June 5, 1829
Simpson, George, Sir,
1786
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The diary of Simeon Perkins, 1766-1780
Perkins, Simeon,
1735-1812 giving account of the history of Nova Scotia.
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The diary of Simeon Perkins, 1780-1789
Perkins, Simeon,
1735-1812 giving account of the history of Nova Scotia.
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The diary of Simeon Perkins, 1790-1796
Perkins, Simeon,
1735-1812 giving account of the history of Nova Scotia.
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The Hargrave correspondence, 1821-1843
Hargrave, James,
1798-1865
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The journal of Major John Norton, 1816
Norton, John
including his accounts of travelling through Cherokee country.
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The letters of John McLoughlin, from Fort Vancouver to the Governor and
Committee ; first series, 1825-38
McLoughlin, John,
1784-1857. The story of the Hufson Bay's activities on the Pacific
Coast.
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The letters of John McLoughlin, from Fort Vancouver to the Governor and
Committee ; second series, 1839-44
McLoughlin, John,
1784-1857
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The letters of John McLoughlin, from Fort Vancouver to the Governor and
Committee ; third series, 1844-46
McLoughlin, John,
1784-1857
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The letters of Letitia Hargrave
MacLeod, Margaret
Arnett, 1877-1966. Letters sent to her family in Scotland.
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The logs of the conquest of Canada
Wood, William,
1864-1947 includes accounts of the seven years war and in particular the
battles for Louisberg and Quebec.
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The town of York, 1793-1815: a collection of documents of early Toronto
Firth, Edith G., 1927
The account of how Toronto came into being.
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The town of York, 1815-1834: a further collection of documents of early
Toronto
Firth, Edith G., 1927
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The Valley of the Trent
Guillet, Edwin
Clarence, 1898. Explores the settlements on Lake Ontario covering the
Trent area.
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Chamber's Book of Days
A Miscellany of Popular
Antiquities in connection with the Calendar.
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The Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae, Volume I,
The succession of Scottish ministers in the Church of Scotland from the
Reformation, by the Rev. Hew Scott, D.D.
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Chamber's Book of Days
A miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar,
including anecdotes, biography & history, curiosities of literature and
oddities of human life and character and all searchable on the site.
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The Historie of Scotland
By Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580
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British Agent
by R. H. Bruce Lockhart. 1933. This is a first person account of times
in Malaysia and Russia and an insiders account of WW! and the Lenin era.
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Chronicles
of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia
Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta
County 1745-1800 by Lyman Chalkley.
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Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
In 1832 they emigrated with their Scottish husbands to Canada, settling
in the backwoods of what is now Ontario, near present-day Lakefield.
They recorded and interpreted their experiences as pioneers in books.
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Cassell's
Old and New Edinburgh
by James Grant, was printed as a periodical in the 1880s and is now seen
as a set of three or six volumes, and describes its history, its people,
and its places by using anecdotal historical text with endless
illustrations.
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The Canadian settler's guide
By Catherine Parr Traill
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University of Guelph
This is a collection of books that have been scanned in from the rare
book department at the McLaughlin Library at the University of Guelph
under the Open-Access Text Archive project.
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Recollections of Marshal MacDonald
French Marshal Etienne Macdonald was born in 1765 into an exiled
Scottish family living in pre-revolutionary France.
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The MacKy
Family in New Zealand
An account of the MacKy or MacKay family with information on the name in
history.
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Some sketches of the early highland pioneers of the County of
Middlesex
By Hugh
McColl
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Eastwood
Notes on the Ecclesiastical Antiquities of the Parish by the Rev.
George Campbell, Minister of the Parish (1902) (pdf)
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