Early Canadiana Online

     Excellent resource with over 3000 publications online. There's a ton of material on Canada; some with Acadian content are:
• Une colonie féodale en Amérique (l'Acadie, 1604-1710), by Edme Rameau
• Voyage du sieur de Diéreville en Acadie, by N. Diereville
• Lettre de M. l'abbé Le Guerne, missionaire de l'Acadie, by Francois LeGuerne
• Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, by Samuel de Champlain
• True stories of New England captives carried to Canada during the old French & Indian wars, by C. Alice Baker
• The neutral French, or, The exiles of Nova Scotia, by Mrs. Williams
• Through Evangeline's country, by Jeannette A. Grant
• Over the border: Acadia, the home of "Evangeline", by Chase, Eliza B. (also here)
• The rivals of Acadia : an old story of the New World, by Harriet V. Cheney
• By the marshes of Minas, by Charles G.D. Roberts
• History of King William's War, and the consequent negotiations between the French and Indians, in America
• Banishment and removal of the Acadians, by Madame Morel de la Durantaye
•The exile of the Acadians : the people of Longfellow's "Evangeline.", by Madame Morel de La Durantaye.
• Heros of Canada : based upon "Stories of New France", by Miss Machar and T.G. Marquis; edited by T.G. Marquis.
• Epistola ex Portu-regali in Acadia, by Pierre Biard
• Histoire naturelle des peuples, des animaux, des arbres & plantes de l'Amerique septentrionale & de ses divers climats: avec une description exacte de la pêche des moluës, tant sur le Grand-Banc qu'à la coste, et de tout ce qui s'y pratique de plus particulier, &c., by Nicolas Denys.
• Description geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique septentrionale avec l'histoire naturelle du païs, by Nicolas Denys
• Histoire de la Nouvelle France, by Marc Lescarbot
• Histoire et description générale de la Nouvelle France: avec le journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique septentrionnale, by Pierre Francois Xavier Charlevoix
• Journal of a voyage to North-America: undertaken by order of the French King : containing the geographical description and natural history of that country, particularly Canada, together with an account of the customs, characters, religion, manners and traditions of the original inhabitants, in a series of letters to the Duchess of Lesdiguieres, by Pierre Francois Xavier Charlevoix
• Letters to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres: giving an account of a voyage to Canada, and travels through that vast country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico : undertaken by order of the present King of France, by Pierre Francois Xavier Charlevoix
• Un pèlerinage au pays d'Evangéline by H.-R. Casgrain
• Mémoires sur le Canada depuis 1749 jusqu'à 1760: en trois parties, with maps & images. Louis-Léonard Aumasson Courville
• Collection de manuscrits contenant lettres, mémoires, et autres documents historiques relatifs à la Nouvelle-France: recueillis aux Archives de la province de Québec ou copiés à l'étranger ; mis en ordre et édités sous les auspices de la Législature de Québec, by Faucher de Saint-Maurice
• A List of Micmac Names of Places, Rivers, Etc., in Nova Scotia by Elizabeth Frame
• A General Description of Nova Scotia: Illustrated By a New and Correct Map (1823) by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Walter Bromley
• Through Evangeline's Country by Jeannette A. Grant
     • L'Acadie, or Seven Years' Explorations in British America (Alexander)
     • Letter of Abbe LeGuerne, Missionary to Acadia
     • Prince Edward Island (Macleod)
• Memorials of the English and French Commmissaries Concerning the Limits of Nova Scotia or Acadia

Making of America - Michigan, Cornell

   • The Acadian exiles, or French neutrals, in Pennsylvania. To which is appended A relation of their misfortunes (John Baptiste Galerm)
   • Proofs considered of the early settlement of Acadie by the Dutch (De Peyster & Watts)
   • Historical Collections of Louisiana and Florida (B.F. French), 1869
   • The Memories of Fifty Years (William Henry Sparks), 1872
   • Louisiana as it is (Daniel Dennett), 1876
   • History of Louisiana (Charles Gayerre), 1852

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Acadia/Nova Scotia
   • Narrative and Critical History of America (Winsor, 1887)
   • Capt. Francis Champernowne,the Dutch Conquest of Acadie,and Other Historical Papers, ed. by Albert H. Hoyt (Boston,1889)
   • The Notary of Grand Pre (McLeod)
   • The English and French in North America, V. 5 - The Wars on the Seaboard
   • The Acadians in Georgia, from Georgia’s Landmarks, Memorials, and Legends
   • The History of South Carolina Under the Royal Government
   • The Acadian Fugitives, The New Brunswick Magazine, p. 34
   • Une Seconde Acadie (Casgrain, 1894)
   • The Acadians before their dispersion (Casgrain)
   • Historical Sketches of Andover, MA (Bailey)
   • The Acadians in Virginia (The Virginia magazine of history and biography)
   • The History of South Carolina Under the Royal Governmen (McCrady)
   • Report on the Canadian Archives, 1902
   • Report on the Canadian Archives, 1905
   • Report on the Canadian Archives, 1901
   • Report on the Canadian Archives, 1900
   • Report on the Canadian Archives, 1899
   • Report on the Canadian Archives, 1898
   • List of additional editions of the Report on the Canadian Archives
   • Report on the Canadian Archives, 1906
   • Evangeline and the Real Acadians (Atlantic Monthly, 1907)
   • A History of the Two Indies (Raynal, 1770)
   • The Journal of Captain William Pote, Jr. (Pote, Hurst, Morris, 1896)

Louisiana
   • A History of Louisiana (Fortier) - Vol. 1   Vol. 2  Vol. 3   Vol. 4
   • History of Louisiana (Gayarre) - Vol. 1   Vol. 2   Vol. 3
   • Historical Collections of Louisiana (French) - Vol. 1   Vol. 2
   • The Acadians of Louisiana and Their Dialect (Fortier)
   • The Creoles of Louisiana (Cable)
   • Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana (Cable)
   • A geographical description of the state of Louisiana (Darby)
   • The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German Descent (Deiler)
   • Working the Field (Henry, LeMenestrel)

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