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Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Some of the troubles repairmen encounter - 6 pages with photos; Uses of the ringing macine - text and photo; Rope for many purposes made at Sapperton factory - 5 pages with great photos; Repairs made to San Juan Cable; Test calls made to eastern centers; Misues of toll circuits is costly Statement of Development - chart of # of telephones in service in towns throughout the province; Great full-page photo plus article on the "Aorangi" - largest motorship in the world, arriving in Vancouver; Increasing importance of Australasia; How much power is required to operate a phone? - 6 page article with photos; San Juan Cable pulled out of place; Central Information Office - 3 pages; New Douglas exchange relieves pressure on Seymour office; Accounting department story; The ladies take up ice hockey - 2 pages; Crude carbonic acid is wooden conduit's elixir of youth - with photo; Fred Meloche; Great cover photo of a trainload of coal leaving the Extension Mine on Vancouver Island; Revenue Accounting group photo plus office shots; 5-page mining industry feature with great photos; Change to Stub system successful; Traffic Fundamentals - 3 pages; fantastic Victoria Harbour photo including the new Princess Marguerite and the Princess Kathleen; 4 page article with photo - 'diplomats' at the adjustment counter; 5 page feature on the cement industry with photos and operating details of the Bamberton plant; Cable laid across Saanich Inlet - photos; 9 page Fraser River feature with many photos; Company's underground program largest in years - 4 pages with photos; Six page feature of Victoria's Crystal Garden - many great photos; Supplies Department - 3 pages with photos; How the phone was brought to far off lands; Qualifications and duties of a Chief Operator; wonderful interior photos of the new Princess Marguerite and Princess Kathleen; Mount Benson Forestry lookout served by telephone - 2 photos including view of Gulf of Georgia (Strait); CNRV photos and article; Toll dispatch system adopted; Six passenger steamers added to coastal fleets of B.C.; Company again using clay conduit; An Agent's responsibilities; New Collingwood exchange; Operation of building department explained; Company cafeteria system; Cuba talks to Vancouver; Bent Plugs system; Gymnasium class for company men; The Longest Cable in the World - New York to Chicago; George McCartney goes touring again; Photos by phone opens a vast field; Six-page features on Kerrisdale with many great photos plus additional sensational 2 page centerfold of great Kerrisdale homes; Common battery system installed in Trail; New toll testing equipment provided at Vancouver; New test used in cutting over working lines in cables; Advice on thrift; North Shore prospects enhanced by the New (Lion's Gate) Bridge - 9 page article with fantastic photos and illustrations; The Old Toll Desk recalls some telephone history - 5 pages; Phone stories from abroad; Excellent 11 page article on the Telephone Toll Trails of Vancouver Island - with many great photos; Electric drills and rats are enemies of cables; Safeguarding the career of the microwatt; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of backstrip which shows significant wear and is almost entirely loose. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle up Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of downton Nelson; Bird's-eye photo of Nelson from atop a mountain on north shore of west arm; Kootenay Feature 'The Romance of the 1890s - 8 pages of text and archival photos, including electric street cars in Nelson!; Table showing 'Exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Cover advert. for Northern Electric Vacuum Cleaner!; Review of growth show steady expansion - 3 pages; Telephoning across Atlantic by AT&T Wireless continued for hours; When the Victoria and Esquimalt Telephone Company issued its own (one call) nickels; B.C. Industrial Review - statistics; Bar graph of # of phones operated from 1906 through 1923; the company's operator school; Issuing of monthly phone bills a work of magnitude - 4 page article with photos; photos of the halibut industry before 'the fish were scarcer in quantities and their habitats more scattered'; William Farrell- an appreciation of the former company president; 7 page article on B.C.'s deep sea fishing industry - great photos - halibut, herring, flounder; multiple photos from the Kootenays of snakes which have climbed up phone poles onto the wires!; photo of 25 year-old phone; Great full-page photo of the CIBC building at Hastings and Granville; 8 page article on the banks of vancouver with excellent photos; First interdepartmental football game; new power plant at Seymour office; A phone in B.C. for every 6 persons; Feature on Dams and the water-powers that turn the wheels of industry - photos of dams and various industries which use electricity, including the American Can factory and grain elevators; new power plant at Seymour office - illustrated; photos of productive farms and ideal homesites with super centerfold luxury Saanich home; Cover photo of U.S. President Harding in Stanley Park; Full-page photos of the U.S.S. Henderson entering the narrows and at dock with President Harding aboard; 13 page illustrated feature on the visit of President Harding - the first visit to Canada made by a President of the United States (President Harding died mere days later on August 2nd in San Francisco and this is reported as well); Photo of Crosland Bros. Farm in Duncan; 9 page illustrated feature on the seed growers of B.C.; photo of Duncan office under construction; Nice 8-page illustrated feature on Haney and area; photographing sound; Exploring Kootenay - Bill Skilling; 9 page illustrated feature on the Delta and Ladner district; Many miles of new long distance circuits; Improved inter-office trunk lines in Vancouver; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear overall with the exception of the backstrip which is missing small chips and loose at back edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge else unmarked. Binding intact. Spine leaning moderately. Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Nice photo montage of six female lower mainland agents; Commendation for Excellent service; Industrial Review - statistics for the province; Bar graph of phones in service between 1903 and 1921; When the telephone was a curiosity in the Capital City - nice seven page feature on the history of telephony in Victoria, beginning in 1877; Page of the 1880 Victoria and Esquimalt phone book; Facsimile of letter dated 1878 from the Bell Telephone office in Brantford, Ontario which says Mr. R.B. McMicking has accepted the agency of the company in British Columbia; City of Vancouver gets new phone number; Telephone development keeps pace with progress; Cover photo of the operating room of the Nanaimo exchange; Five-page illustrated article on Nanaimo, including 35 year-old photo of downtown with Bastion visible and an 1890 photo of a portion of the downtown and bowl area; Trouble shooting in Kootenay; The manufacture of porcelain; photo of operators at work in New Westminster; 6-page illustrated feature on New Westminster with mid-90s photo of the Colonial Hotel and area plus a photo of Columbia street before the fire of 1898; Composite cables will be important betterment; Fairmont operating room photo; Great photo montage of the old wooden bridge connecting Nanaimo's Fitzwilliam St. with downtown (the caption mentions E.P. LaBelle, whose name is stamped on the top edge of this book); 11 page feature on the history of telephony in Vancouver, with several photos from before 1900; pulling coils of duplex wire through the mountains by snow shoe(!); Nice photos of the following exchanges - Seymour, Fairmont, Highland, Bayview, Victoria, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Nanaimo, Chemainus, Cobble Hill, Cumberland, Belmont, Duncan, Courtenay, Port Alberni, Colquitz, Ladysmith, Keating, Aldergrove, Abbottsford, Collingwood, Fraser, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam, West Vancouver, Ladner, Kerrisdale, Eburne, Milner, Cloverdale, Steveston, Sidney, Hammond, Mission City, Kamloops, Agassiz, Trail, Rossland, Kaslo, Nelson, Grand Forks, Greenwood, New Denver, plus plant headquarters for the Mainland and Victoria; statement of development showing number of operating phones per community; Cover photo of the Foul Bay area of Victoria; More Switchboards for Seymour; Bayview Extension; Centralization of observation equipment; Demo. switchboard for school; Much outside construction; Seven duct miles of conduit laid in Seymour underground; Table showing exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Alexander Graham Bell dies; Oaks Point snap shots; new motor control switchboard; Wireless telophony in early nineties (article); Laying underground conduit in Shaughnessy; New aerial cable across Capilano River; Passing of William Farrell, Company President; Rejuvinating used Plant material in machine shop; a peculiar case of hydrolysis; photo of Georgia street conduit trench; Second Annual Telephone Convention; 1885 B.C. Provincial Directory - article with 1885 photo of Vancouver Harbour; Autobiography of a switchboard plug; photo of burying conduit on Seymour in 1905; Appreciation shown by Port Alberni business men; Long Distance operators usually get their man; 7,000 mile motor trip of B.C. Telephone man; The telephone directory - my favourite book; Map showing routing of two cable between Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo inside the Nelson exchange; Satisfactory growth in past year; Four-page article with photos on prospects for the Kaslo area; 6-page article with photos on 'Modern treatment of the Insane' - the establishment of Colony Farm by the Provincial Government; Photo of enormous fallen tree near Westholme; Table ranking exchanges in order of per cent good toll calls; Statement of Development - la table listing number of phones operating per exchange as at 1 December 1913; Photo montage of three Vancouver Island telephone officials; Company has caught up with its construction work; 7-page feature on Victoria, 'The Pride of the Last West' with great photos; Photo of 'Vancouver's Newest Skyscraper' - a 15-story building under construction at the corner of Hastings and Richards; Telephone Service Excellent; 7-page article with excellent photos of the Britannia Mine; Telephone Cables Underground (in Vancouver); photo of company vehicle; Photo of Port Alberni Exchange; Large photo of the Seymour Exchange under construction (Steel frame erected); 5-page illustrated feature of Port Alberni - the magnetic city on the west coast; The giving of good telephone service; Some transmission problems of the B.C. Telephone Co.; Photo inside Port Alberni Exchange; First teleautograph west of Chicago - at the new Hotel Vancouver; 5-page feature of towns that silver put on map - New Denver, Silverton, Sandon, surrounding which is the Slocan District, in which is located the Standard Mine - photos; Recent developments in telephone transmission; April trouble record in Seymour office; Wonderful photo-montage of Vancouver's business district; First Telephone Switchboard in use in Vancouver, 1885; Before and after photos of Point Grey Road and Powell St.; View of Granville St. from the C.P.R. Depot; Photo of the almost completed Hudson's Bay store; Two great panoramic photos of the Vancouver Harbour, from the water and from the land; Photo of Hastings St. West, looking east; photo of the new Hotel Vancouver; Photo montage of some of Vancouver's fine homes; Photo of English Bay Bathing Beach; large photo of Second Beach, Stanley Park; Photo of the Interurban Depot B.C.E.R.Co.; View of Grand Forks looking west; Photo of the Granby smelter, largest in the British Empire; 5-page feature on Grand Forks; What are the duties of a Wire Chief?; Photos of the B.C. Tel. float as appeared in the Vancouver Pageant; Interior Telephone Extensions - exchanges of Kootenay, Boundary and Slocan to be connected; 1899 Vernon and Nelson Telephone Co. Ltd. phone directory; Operator School photo; Nice photo of the 6 chief operators of the Kootenay District; Where operators are trained - illustrated multi-page article; Personnel of Plant Organization; Marketing Telephone Poles - 2 page article with 2 photos; Operator's School Equipment; Cover photo of public telephone booths at the C.P.R. Depot, Vancouver; Nice photo of the Seymour general public office, Vancouver; Work of the Commercial Department - 6 pages with many photos of personnel; Printing a Telephone Directory; Getting out the Monthly Accounts - 2 photos; Telephony on the battlefield - use in the Russian-Japanese War; Photo in head office in Vancouver; Making the Telephone Valuable; photo portraits of executives William Farrell, George Halse, and o Book
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: North Vancouver feature - 5 pages with photos; Activity in Plant Department - construction of many apartments in Victoria and Vancouver causing new conditions; Abbottsford exchange burned; Year's Business Shows Fine Increase; Monthly traffic record; New island route; Photo of the company's Victoria hockey team; New Westminster switchboard in action; Organisation Chart of the Traffic Department; Table showing 'Exchanges in order of per cent good toll calls'; Statement of Development - showing the number of operating phones in each exchange in the province; 7-page Feature on the Bayview area with several large photos of prominent home; Early spring construction; Traffic department conference; Full-page photo of the Western Fuel Company (Coal) Number One Mine at Nanaimo; New Central Building on Seymour; 5-page feature on Nanaimo with photos of salteries, the herring fishery, Mayor Shaw, the Nanaimo Exchange, and a great shot overlooking downtown Nanaimo and its harbour; Timing Conversations with a Calculagraph; Large photo of the Eburne sawmills; Fire damage at New Westminster Exchange; 4-page feature on Eburne with photos; Company bowling team - Victoria Commercial League Champions; Photo montage of operator's telephone sets; Great full-page photo of a commercial corner building in Duncan, Cowichan Merchants, Ltd.; 5-page feature on Duncan with several photos including one of the highly successful Duncan Creamery; photo of yachting on Cowichan Bay; Many gangs busy in the field; Weighing service; photos of telephone men at work in the field; photo of Comox and the wharf; 6-page feature article on Comox, including excellent photo of 'Flying Machine' logging in progress; Many extensions to outside plant; How telephone cable is made, 3 pages with photos; Full page photo of the Tug Dola with her tow the Princess Louise, at anchor off Port Grey; Super photo of Dozens of notable men aboard cable ship; Steveston Feature article with 3 pages and photos; 11-page major feature article on the consummation of the cable project connecting Vancouver to Nanaimo - great photos including erection of the highest telephone poles in the province at Brechin Mine, near Nanaimo, several nautical shots, cross-section of the Gulf cable, and more; Saanich Inlet cable installation; photo of the visit of H.M.S. New Zealand showing Hon. J.D. Hazen, minister of marine, Commander Halsey, Sir Richard McBride and Hon. H.E. Young, provincial secretary; Five-page feature on Nelson and area with photos; New Zealand's gift to the Imperial Navy - 2 page illustrated feature on the visit of the H.M.S. New Zealand to Vancouver, including shot of two of the monster eight 12" guns; Full-page displaing the 6 chief (lady) operators in Vancouver; 5-page feature on the Saanich Peninsula with photos of subjects including the Brentwood Bay power house, Mr. Luke Pither's model poultry ranch, the Holland Bulb Farm and more; Growth demands more outside plant; Photo of company baseball team; Illustrations of railway telephone device; Photos of the 3 chief operators of Victoria; The Growing of Hops at Agassiz - several pages and photos; Phones for Forest Protection; Manufacturing Protector Micas - raw material obtained from India; Photo of the City of Rossland; 4-page illustrated feature Book
Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Photo of new office in Victoria; Advances in rates; Increased Rates in Manitoba; Telephoning across the Atlantic; Exchanges ranked in order of per cent good toll calls, November 1911; Statement of development - number of phones operating in each exchange as of 1 December 1911; Cover photo of Grand Forks Switchboard; Photo montage of underground work at Victoria; Birth of the Telephone - 3 page article; Mr. F.J. MacGougan; Photo of types of protected terminals; Vancouver Switchboard photos from 1908 and 1898; Great 2-page photo of the huge 'A' switchboard at Seymour; Load Curve Graph of Seymour Office; Cut-over of Victoria Plant - new epoch in phone history of B.C.'s capital; Vancouver Island Toll Rates; Special Victoria Issue - photo montage of city and district officials; Photo of New B.C. Office; Table showing # of phones in Victoria since 1880; Photos of underground work in Victoria; May 1880 list of Victoria subscribers; 1890 list of subscribers; cable-laying scenes from last September; Nanaimo and Sidny facilities; New Gulf Cable Ordered by William Farrell in England; Miss Mina Kerr; Record work at Highland; New Plant Department Building; How a Directory is Produced; Jolly moonlight excursion to Nanaimo aboard the steamer Princess Patricia; Great photo of 5 new auto wagons of the construction department in front of the Seymour Office (horses having been recently displaced); Some Victoria cable troubles; Photo montage of the Royal visitors, the Duke of Connaught, the Duchess of Connaught, and Princess Patricia; Training school for operators; interior and exterior views of the Royal trolley coach; 3-page Kamloops feature with photos; Functionalization of Plant - reorganization of the department; laying North Vancouver Cable; Photos of large buildings under construction in the Fairmont exchange - the Lee Building, the hospital buildintgs, Steel plant in G.N.R. yards; Fairmont feature - 4 pages with photos; Instructions for Operators; North Vancouver Cable Ready; Importance of Transmission; and more. Half-leather binding. Hinges tender but intact. Backstrip very rough. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge. Mr. LaBelle's signature upon front free endpaper and his initials are penned to top edge. He is mentioned on page 8 of the July issue as being the new Plant Engineer. Binding intact. Please note: small article clipped from page 18 of the December issue. Book
76 pages. Features: Profile of Kenneth Donald McLeish - Antique Dealer; Seen at the Shows; Toronto's Reva Gerstein and her collection of delicate porcelain bird feeders; At the Auctions; Eva Zeisel - a half century in the ceramic industry; The Ceramics Market - Price trends in English Porcelain; Venice Preserved - four centuries of fortunate decisions; Coloured and Painted Bohemian Glass in the ROM's permanent collection; Queen Anne Revival - a 19th century, essentially British architectural style became comfortably Canadian; Newfoundland Craftsmen - 1 - Walter Bugden, his life and work; Rouen's Aristocratic Faience - French Faience replaced 18th century silver tablewares; Autograph Albums; News and Views; Kenojuak - Inuit Artist. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
50 pages. Features/Articles: Cover photo of Joan Fontaine, who starred with Bing Crosby in "The Emperor Waltz", filmed in Jasper; Unity of Purpose - delegates from all parts of the C.N.R. system in Canada and the U.S. met in Montreal on June 11th; Jasper goes Hollywood - filming of The Emperor Waltz - with photos; T.C.A. links Canada with Chicago - soon service to Cleveland will begin; A Century of Progress - The Great Western Railway from Hamilton to London; Vancouver's Diamond Jubilee; Waterway for Salmon - Hell's Gate fishways on the C.N.R. and C.P.R. sides of Fraser River Canyon; He Knows his Race Tracks - Jim Quinn, operator, Canadian National Telegraphs, Toronto; Meet Mr. Saskatchewan - E.G. Wickerson; System News; Dozens of photos of new names on pension roll; Departmental Doings; Photo of one of the largest single-unit freight shipments ever handled by rail - a 100-ton crude oil fractioning tower for McColl Frontenac Oil Company at Montreal; Lots of company news; Young Railroaders' Club; Coke ad on back cover; and more. Address label on back cover. Unmarked. Three inch opening to top edge of front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
50 pages. Features/Articles: Cover photo of view from Jasper Park Lodge; The New Prince George starts service this month; Jasper Park Lodge - a Quarter of a Century, with many photos; Canadian National Cameos - the meaning of train signals; Longmoor - a memorial window for the Canadian railway troops, who did their overseas training on the Longmoor Military Railway, was unveiled April 25 at the Garrison Church at Longmoor, Hants; Posters display our services - great pictorial display; The Reminiscing Run - a gabfest ensues when engineers get together; T.C.A. enters Bermuda - new direct air service inaugurated from Montreal and Toronto - with photos; G.T.W. (Grand Trunk Western Railway holds annual meeting; List and photos of staff working in Moncton's New Atlantic Building; System News; Chickens Without Wings - Dominica specializes in eating Crapaud (Frogs) which the natives refer to as "Mountain chicken"; Young Railroaders' Club; and more. Address label on back cover. Small piece missing from back cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
50 pages. Features and Articles: Donald Gordon Succeeds R.C. Vaughan - becomes Chairman and President Jan. 1 when Mr. Vaughan retires after 51 years of railway service; Governor-General's first visit to Newfoundland - seven black and white photos; Photos of the Lakehead, Churchill and Vancouver grain terminals; Emerson College Thesbians use C.N.S.S. flagship in preparing for "The Parlor Story"; Canada Builds to Endure - on inspection trip, President finds west busy and confident; Ticket Agents See What They Sell - Annual Sales Meeting in Seattle; This Switchman has to Think Fast - Cliff McCamon works for the C.N.R. in Saskatoon; Photo of the "Train of Tomorrow"; Moncton's Diamond Jubilee; System News - staff changes; and more. Five-inch opening at top end of cover fold, otherwise unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
10 pages. Features: CN's new visual redesign programme for passenger trains; Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Preservation Company Limited; New CN colours in use; Montreal Street Railway No. 274; Early Locomotives on Vancouver Island, by I.E. Barr; Two Nova Scotia Colliery Lines to Close; Observations. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
19 pages. Features: Cover photo - CNR class U-2-e 4-8-4 No. 6153 at work; 125 years of steam excursion; 75 Years of Transcontinental Service; Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) - A Sensible Road; Vicinal Museum for Belgium; Montreal Park & Island Railway Steel Car - diagram and specifications; Notes and news. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
22 pages. Features: Trail Creek Tramway; Official diagram of MTC Observation Car No. 1; Sightseeing in four cities - Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec; Maritimer to Museum - Number 5, a 4-6-0 of the Maritime Coal, Railway and Power Company (with photo); An L.C.L. shipment - decorated cars; The Winter Timetables; Pine Point Railway; Notes and news. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
22 pages. Features: Chapter news; The Newfoundland Tapestry; Northern Images '85 Seminar; Bobbin Lace in Czechoslovakia, by Dagmar Rais; The Leonida Leatherdale Award; Hardanger Fan; What a Difference a Mat Makes!; Baby Mocassins; Basket Containers; and more. Clean with light wear. Magazine
18 pages. Features: Chapter news from across the country; Seminar '86 Report - Diary of a Seminar 'Novice'; Seminar - "Teachers" Input; The Leonida Leatherdale Award; The Joy of Innocence - Part II - The Learning Circle; and more. Clean with light wear. Magazine
22 pages. Features: Yukon Guild of Needlearts - Provincial and Territorial Floral Quilt; Chapter news from across the country; The Heritage Quilt - by Joy Godfrey of Peterborough; History of Quilting - by Eleanor Podl; Caring for Antique (and new) Quilts; Jewel Glazing - by Margaret Stephenson Coole; and more. Clean with light wear. Magazine
20 pages. Features: Lots of Chapter news from across the country; The Volunteer Artist-in-Residence Programme - The Centre for the Arts - Niagara South Board of Education; Early Childhood Art Education - with Fabric and Thread; The Joy of Innocence - Part I - A Young Man's Fancy; and more. Clean with light wear. Magazine
80 pages. Wonderful colour and black and white photography. Features: Colour ad for King Gambler inside front cover; Great large colour photos of Tien Niu, Nora Miao, Betty, Lu Yung, Evelyn Krant, Huang Hsing-Hsiu, Chen Mui-Min, Debora, Alan Tang, Ai Ti, Shaw Yin-Yin, Wany Yu (with chimpanze), Shih Szu, and Shirley Yu; Foldout colour photos of He or She; Large nice black and white photos of Alexander Fu Sheng, Li Ching, Betty, Shih Szu, Lin Chen-Chi, Eva Lin, Ai Ti, and Ching Miao; White Jade Tiger; Living By One's Wits; Moods of Love; The Mysterious Killer; Lady Exterminator; The Escort Girls; Colour ad for Mr. Funny Bone inside back cover; Back cover photo ad for Rado watches; and much more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: The World Crisis in Germany "How the Entente shares responsibility for the Young Republic's fate"; Girl-Scrubbing in Galicia: The Doughboys' Newest Job; Editorial "Stand by the Flag; In God We Trust"; Pictorial Digest of the World's News; In Search of Pep or Pulchritude; Twists to Truth that are Dangerous "The Fundamental Falsities of Labor's Bill of Rights Drawn up by Representatives of 119 Unions; Motor Department: Truck Luxuries that Pay Dividends; Taking the World to every town "The story of a great achievement in distributing motion pictures of high standards and splendid influence to all parts of the country"; Odd Facts in the World of Science; Jasper's Hints to Money-Makers and Summing up Last Year's Sports. Pages numbered 55 - 86. Average wear. Small mailing label front top left. Binding sound. A worthy copy. Magazine
28 pages. Features: War's Aftermath in the Orient (article with photos); Pictorial feature of rice farming in the Philippines; Photo of hurdles race at Antwerp featuring Earl Thompson of Canada - "The Greatest Hurdler of All Time"; Photos and news story of Poland's Paderewski; 'False Alarms' - a story; Photos from Japan - when her largest export was silk!; *Interesting and prophetic article by Darwin P. Kingsley entitled 'Watch your steps, American and Japan!' - Beyond the Pacific a vicious yellow press is yelping at us and the militarists are in control - over here Washington is sleeping peacefully - trouble may come; Mayor Henry Kiel of St. Louis; Woman President of a baseball league, Mr.s Lilly Nicholas; Whaling photos; Photos of a traffic cop running a speed trap... by peaking around a corner and holding a stop watch!; a centrifugal gun. Interesting advertisements by Clark Axles, Selden Motor Trucks, Kelly-Springfield, Columbia Grafonola, U.S. Pneumatic Truck Tires. Book
68 pages. Patriotic cover painting by Eilleen Wedd. Contents: Nice full-page ad for Moffats Electric Ranges; One-Way Ticket, by Jefferson Cralle; Mr. Sise, by R.T.L.; Fakes and Fakers, by James Young; Girl + Man + Boat, by Dale Collins; Circumstantial Evidence, by G.R. Malloch; Australia Sees it Coming - The Japanese Menace; How to Make Money Grow - Key #4, by Herbert N. Casson; Hidy Has a Memory, by Joseph Dwyer; An Inside History of Canada, Part V, by R.K. Hall; Dusky Diamond Limited, by Hugh Grant Rowell (with photos); The Bay of the Big Killing, by Bertrand W. Sinclair; Shots and Angles, by Candida (movie news); Westinghouse Refrigerator Ad; Should the N.W.T. (Northwest Territories) Shut the Door? - Canadian government issues no more permits for trading or trapping to people going to the N.W.T.; Dodge Truck Ad; Fantastic two-page black and white ad for the new Plymouth Six; Lovely Ceylon Tea Bureau colour ad prominently features the painting "Moraine Lake, Valley of the Ten Peaks", by Richard Jack, R.C.A.; Ad for the Cine-Kodak movie camera; Great full-page two-colour ad for the T-14, T-16, T-18, T-23, T-33, T-43, T-51 and T-61 General Motors Trucks; Nice ad for the new Studebakers of 1934; Article on Cheese Dishes; Colour ad for Swift's Premium Bacon inside back cover; Chipso laundry soap colour photo ad on back cover. Address label atop front cover. Assorted chips and tears. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
60 pages. Features: Fox News Coming to Canada?; Calm before the storm for the federal Liberal Party; The Fourth Major Storm was the worst yet; Canadian mall kings have Megamall plan for Las Vegas; Politicians are failing special-needs children; Canadian paralympians head for the podium; How an attack on a black American footballer made a CFL legend - Johnny Bright; Wayson Choy and Richard Wright lead the fiction list; New tales by Alice Munro; Janina Fialkowska is back onstage. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski of Houston and his expensive, unproven cancer cure; Who Said Canada was Dull?, by Charles Gordon; The economy - facing up to visions of 1930; Make-work jobs for the military; Yukon native land claims settlement; Huge Quebec power outage; Lech Walesa's joyless ride in Poland; Sentry Armoured Courier of New York is robbed; Earthquake in North Yeman; Risk of world economic breakdown; German politics; Peter C. Newman on high-tech pioneers in the west - Corvec Data Systems and Paul Daniell; Trent Frayne on money issues in sports; Cover Story - The Comic Triumph of SCTV with colour photos; Kerosene heaters - are they safe?; A defeat for the Garrison Diversioin project; New faces for kids with Down's Syndrome; Economy causes long, slow, squeeze in newsrooms and news coverage; The death of Aramaic; Canada's largest-ever foreign exhibit of Canadian culture, in Germany; Last Minute Vaction business. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: A study on the influence of ship roll characteristics on the risk of cargo shifting; A study of hydrodynamic characteristics of boundary layer with algae; Noncontact measurement of marine biofouling broughness; Nonlinear and stochastic aspects of parametric rolling modeling; Large passenger ship safety - time-to-flood simulations; Prediction methods of roll damping of ships and their application fo determine optimum stabilization devices. Unopened copy in original plastic sleeve. Magazine
Features: An investigation of head-sea parametric rolling and its influence on container lashing systems; Effect of longitudinal bulkheads on damage stability of model RO/RO ferries; Innovative structural designs of tankers against ship collissions and grounding - a recent state-of-the-art review; Options for nonindigenous species and their economic impact on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway - a survey; Optimium structural design of high-speed surface effect ships built of composite materials; Considerations in the design of primary treatment for ballast systems; Spreadsheet modeling to determine optimum ship main dimensions and power requirements at basic design stage. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
