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62116Edmonton Alberta Canada: The Douglas Printing co. Ltd. 1954. Tall 8vo. 255 1 pp. Numerous photo plates plates 1 large folding map. Blue publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor bumping to a couple corners still VG copy. First edition of this informative and well-illustrated historyof Fort Edmonton and Edmonton including the Hudson’s Bay Co. The Northwesters and more. Detailed are the efforts of Samuel Hearne Alexander MacKenzie the formation and influence of Fort Saskatchewan Fort Edmonton Fort Vancouver John McLoughlin and more. The Douglas Printing co., Ltd., hardcover
188558338Port Hawkesbury Inverness Nova Scotia: n.p. ca. 1885. Four mounted albumen photos including three cabinet card sized photos w/ images sized 3.75 x 6.2 in. mounted on 4.25 x 6.5 in. brown boards gilt lettering stamped at lower fore-edges 1 small 3.25 x 3.25 in. photo on 5 x 5 in. gray studio mount card stock all w/ annotations on versos indicating locations and w/ manuscript greetings some soiling dustsoiling and minor spotting to the Cabinet photos the smaller image a tad over-exposed still all three with fairly good contrast and well-defined images. These scarce images depict the town and harbour of Port Hawkesbury situated along the Strait of Canso and the only really viable port along the strait which faced Point Tupper. Originally named Ship Harbour the town supplied men materials and repairs to the Gulf of St. Lawrence fishing fleet and two of these images show vessels either anchored or under sail. These cabinet photos appear to have been sent to “Angus†as “Pictures of ‘home dear home’†with manuscript notes indicating “Port Hawkesbury looking towards Pt. Tupper. . . from Pt. Tupper. . . across the harbour.†The final photo shows the small Langley family home built by John Langley 1849-1926 who had married Maria Ballieul Langley 1848-1925 in 1872. He was initially a barrel cooper and later ship’s carpenter boat builder and later a railway foreman. n.p., hardcover
192559066Vancouver B.C.: Board of Park Commissioners Park Board Offices 1925. 8vo. 70 pp. Colour frontisp. numerous photo plates 1 large folding colour map. Tan colour-illustrated softcovers Arts & Crafts cover art of swans swimming in park lake yapp fore-edge minor creasing & edgewear creasing to a few corners minor fold creases at fore-edge of folding map still a VG copy. First edition of this work illustrating and outlining many of the improvements and changes brought to Stanley Park during the first decade of Rawlings 1882-1937 as Park Superintendent. These changes included the construction of the Lost Lagoon Lake saltwater pipes were shut off turning it into a freshwater lake with many other changes. This work also details several other newly acquired parks during the Progressive Era as well as improvements initiated for beach access bathing facilities and upgrades for automobile tours. See: Christina Cameron Jim Barlow & Susan Mundick Stanley Park National Historic Site of Canada Commemorative Integrity Statement 2004. Board of Park Commissioners, Park Board Offices, paperback
193459558Boston: Meador Publishing Co. 1934. 8vo. 271 1 pp. Red-ribbed publisher’s cloth black lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. wraparound cover art of bucking bronco slight shelfwear toning still NF/NF copy. First American edition of this thrilling Western set in Saskatchewan against the backdrop of prairie fires stampedes wolves cattle-rustlers and gun-play. With parts in Western dialect the author recounts the homesteading days of Northwest Canada. See: Peel’s Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 5800. Meador Publishing Co., hardcover
189952956Victoria BC: Victoria Sealing Co. Dec. 27 1899. One albumen photo sized 3.75 x 4.75 in. mounted on thick board sized 4.25 x 5.25 in. sepia-tinted image minor scuffing edgewear very minor dustsoiling back still VG image. Scarce original albumen photograph of the sealing Schooner Penelope which began sealing voyages on the Pacific Coast in 1885 and continued till foundering off Clallam Bay WA in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in 1904. The image shows the Victoria Sealing Company schooner under full sail leaving Kyuquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island with buildings in the background. The sealing industry in British Columbia was under great pressure from the U.S. Government as it wished to protect its’ sealing monopolies in Alaska. See: Stephen Lunsford Agreement and Account of Crew for Schooner Penelope Univ. of British Columbia Library; Wright Lewis & Dryden’s Marine History of the Pacific Northwest pp. 210 450-51. Victoria Sealing Co., unknown
188755678Victoria New Westminster & Vancouver B.C.: The British Columbia Stationery & Printing Co. ca. 1887. 8vo. 5.75 x 7.6 in. 16 leaves unpaginated. sepia-tinted lithographed images bound leporello accordion style w/ 68 different images all w/ white & red borders. Embossed pebbled red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover blind embossed raised borders very minor shelfwear 1 leaf w/ lifting from facing litho 1 very minor closed tear still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully printed and illustrated souvenir book issued by the noted British Columbia printing firm which operated from 1885 to 1888 in Victoria and Vancouver BC. The views include the Victoria harbour the Fraser River Lighthouse birds-eye views of New Westminster Vancouver Coal Mining Co.’s Shaft No. 1 in Nanaimo the dockyards at Esquimalt Native American carvings totem poles and tribes people along with views of Sitka Alaska. Ferguson partnered with Pearson Robson & Hart in May 1886 to form the British Columbia Printing Co. who intended to establish themselves as the leading stationer printers in the province but due to the destruction of the company’s Vancouver branch by fire June 13 1886 and then on Sept. 1 1886 in Victoria but even though the company reconstituted and continued with their contract to print the West Shore Magazine locally as well as Canadian Pacific Railway literature the firm only survived until November 1888 when Ferguson returned to Winnipeg to open a book and stationery store. Worldcat locates 2 copies UBC WSU; See: Lana Okerlund British Columbia Stationery and Printing Company A Most Agreeable Place History of Booksellers and Stationers in British Columbia Oct. 3 2017; The West Shore Vol. 1 Vol. 13 1887 p. 496. The British Columbia Stationery & Printing Co., hardcover
187551587Montreal Toronto & London: George N. Tackabury Printed by the Burland-Desbarats Lithographic Co. 1875. Folio. 14.25 x 17.75 in. 251 1 pp. Colour lithograph illustrated title page showing the Parliament Building in Ottawa Canada from photograph by W. Notman 53 colour lithograph maps many double-page many tables. Publisher’s plum-coloured embossed cloth gilt decorative lettering on front cover marbled endpapers nicely rebacked in simulated black calf corners renewed some wear & rubbing to corners 1 leaf w/ repairs to creases minor tidemark to upper right corner not affecting maps still G copy. First edition of this fine atlas of Victorian-era Canada including maps of climatology possessions provinces prior to Alberta Saskatchewan & Newfoundland becoming provinces plat maps of counties Railways as well as maps of the United States and Europe. Of particular interest are the city maps of Quebec Ottawa London Hamilton Kingston Toronto and Montreal. This excellent reference work also provides a comprehensive list of railways in Canada steamships in use lists post offices railway stations cities and populations as well as business cards located by city and town. George N. Tackabury, [Printed by the Burland-Desbarats Lithographic Co.], hardcover
190533586Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau 1905. Thick 8vo. xviii 459 1 pp. Numerous photos maps illusts. Brown cloth gilt lettrng mnr bmpng & wear to crnrs hd & ft of spine VG copy w/ bkplate on frnt pstdn and from library of former Oregon State Geologist Paul Lawson. First edition of vol. I of this work on hunting exploration mountaineering and exploration in the Selkirk Range in British Columbia. In addition there is an extensive section on the Canadian Pacific Railway. Government Printing Bureau, hardcover
195859583Calgary ALB & Geraldton ONT Canada: Trans-Canada Corporation Fisher’s Studio Box 370 1958. Oblong 4to. 11.25 x 7.25 in. 78 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 69 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs 57 sized 5 x 7 in. & 12 sized 3.5 x 5 in. all tipped-in w/ silver corners first third of the album featuring white ink manuscript annotations in drafting hand occasional offsetting at upper fore-edges from old tape. Contemporary red boards post-binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ black silk braid small label for Fisher’s Studio Geraldton ONT on front pastedown slight scuffing shelfwear still VG bright exemplar. This exceptional souvenir construction album illustrates the efforts of the Majestic Construction Co. building the Trans-Canada pipeline originally conceived following World War II by the Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. subsidiary of Texas oil magnate Clint Murchison’s Canadian Dehli. Majestic Construction specialized in building pipelines as well as power generation and transmission projects across Canada the United States India Malaysia and the Middle East. This album opens with photos of the Trans-Canada inspection crew engineering department and Majestic personnel followed by photos of caterpillar excavators digging ditches building right-of-ways drilling through rock and blasting. Also included are photographs of back hoes digging the pipeline ditch road boring machines giant bending machines and pipe gangs welding and x-raying the finished pipes. Also depcited are spooling machines for laying cables cranes laying pipe into position as well as pouring and placing the concrete sleeves and more. The Sturgeon River Crossing construction is also shown in the album which runs through the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Reserve Land. Smaller photos show some of the labor crews which managed to complete the pipeline by Oct. 1958. Fisher’s Studio often produced commercial souvenir albums including a similar album depicting the construction of King’s Highway 11 for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and also issued souvenir Real Photo Postcards. We could find no similar albums in Worldcat or private holdings; See: Deborah Sawyer & Nathan Baker TC Energy formerly TransCanada Canadian Encyclopedia 2021. Trans-Canada Corporation], Fisher’s Studio, Box 370, hardcover
186656658Montreal: Eusebe Senecal Imprimeur-Editeur Rue St.-Vincent 1866. 8vo. xiii 1 245 1 pp. Printed softcovers covered in thick 19th-century ribbed paper chipping & wear to spine hinges partially split shaken ex-lib markings on endpapers still G reference copy from the library of Marylhurst College which was disbanded in 2018 and the original recipient of much of the Father Blanchet library at the end of the 19th century. First edition of this work filled with annual reports by the noted Catholic missionary sent along with Bishop Provencher to organize Oblate Missions traveling by Hudson’s Bay Company canoe helping haul his portages and finally reaching the Red River Colony in 1846. For the next decade he divided his time between the Lac Ile a la Crosse a Cree station in Athabasca and also the St. Raphael Mission over the divide with the Chipewyan tribe. He corresponded and directed the efforts of Father Pierre-Henri Grollier the concentration of the Metis establishing parishes at Pointe-de-Chenes and also supported increased education efforts. Blanchet De Smet and La Fleche are all woven into his letters detailing the Oblates’ missionary work. This would be followed up by his second effort in 1869 which detailed geographical demographic and political conditions in the territory prior to annexation by Canada. Eusebe Senecal, Imprimeur-Editeur, Rue St.-Vincent, paperback
183743482Np: Np 1837. Rare. 12mo 17x 13cm uncut 8p. an original document self wraps foxed Gagnon I 1085. T.P.L. 2054. Ducharme Catalogue No. 1 of the Victor Morin collection no. 895<br /> issued April 1950 calls it très rare and prices it at $7.00. - The pamphlet is a defense of Bishop Lartigue's pastoral letter of October 24 1837 denouncing the actions of the Patriote leaders. Np unknown
19102090New York: Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship LIne 1910. EPHEMERA TRAVEL TOURIST ADVERTISING BROCHURE. The Matthews-Northrup Co. Complete-Art Printing Works Buffalo N.Y.<br /> <br /> Map: Routes of Canada Atlantic & Plant Steamship Line Between New England and Maritime Provinces Buffalo N.Y.: The Matthews-Northrup Co. No date '<br /> Map: Map of the Plant System of Railway Steamer and Steamship Lines and Connections Buffalo N.Y.: The Matthews-Northrup Co. No date<br /> Map: Routes of Canada Atlantic & Plant Steamship Line in the Maritime Provinces Buffalo N.Y.: The Matthews-Northrup Co. No date<br /> <br /> 8vo 8 ½" x 6"; 30pp; printed glazed paper wrapper photographic illustration vignette on front map on rear showing routes; 2 staple binding; map on verso front wrapper 6 full page illustrations and one center fold; light soiling to wrapper 1 ½" separation of fold at foot of spine wrapper partially detached at the staples; very good. Not recorded. An interesting turn of the 20th century brochure advertising excursions and "vacation outings in the maritime provinces" by the Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship Line. Full-page photographic illustrations of the steamer "S.S. Halifax" and "S.S. Olivette" include descriptions of their services. Illustrations of scenery at the port destinations include a bird's eye view of Halifax N.S. In addition there are descriptions of the winter resorts in Tampa Port Tampa and Winter Park Florida with a map on the inside of the rear wrapper detailing the "Plant System" of railway and steamship routes.<br /> <br /> Estimation of publishing date based on clothing represented in the photographic illustrations in the brochure. Canada Atlantic and Plant Steamship LIne unknown
sala43Ottawa: 1920. Includes Home Work Section of Canadian original art and a price list of war etchings drypoints and lithographs by British and Canadian artists. 16mo. pp. 25 6. 8 double-sided plates. pictorial wrs [Ottawa: 1920] unknown
sala42Ottawa: 1919. 16mo. pp. 6ads 48. wrs. short tears & creases to covers small chip to lower inner front cover front cover & staining to front cover & ad leaves [Ottawa: 1919] unknown
sala44Ottawa: 1919. 12mo. pp. 8ads 45 3. pictorial wrs. light wear to covers & short tear to edge of front cover [Ottawa: 1919] unknown
188060949Montreal Canada: Imprime par J.B. Laplante 245 rue St. Jacques 1880. Two vols. 68 16; 15 1 pp. Blue-tinted printed softcovers for both vols. black lettering on front covers minor age toning slight chipping very minor creasing still both VG copies w/ presentation slip of Major. L.A. Huguet-Latour of the Prince of Wales Regiment of Rifles Montreal Canada noted bibliophile and manuscript collector ink inscription on 2nd piece at upper fore-edge. First editions of these uncommon original catalogue and the official list of contributing schools colleges and educational institutions to the 1880 Canada Dominion Exhibition held in Montreal for 10 days and also featured displays of industrial machinery farm products flowers along with horse racing lacrosse tournament and Highland games. The Dominion Exhibition was held annually in Canada from 1879-1913 and every year the location changed to assorted Provinces typically to coincide with local Fairs. It ceased at the outset of World War I. These catalogues detail all of the Catholic and Protestant schools convents monasteries colleges and universities appeared in Montreal often with samples of their student’s achievements in arithmetic geography literature history & art. Worldcat locates 7 copies of 1st Canada Archives U of Montreal Bibliotheque Nat. Strasbourg NYPL Cambridge Queens Univ. U of ONT IT; 4 copies of 2nd York U Lib. Leiden U of Torino Archives Nationales Quebec. Imprime par J.B. Laplante, 245 rue St. Jacques, paperback
180145989London: Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1801. First edition. Removed. A very good copy with some wear at the bottom edge. 3 pp 489-491. 4to. Caption title./ "27th June 1801."/ At head of title: Anno quadragesimo primo. Georgii III. Regis. Cap. LXXVII. "Salted salmon or salted dry cod fish may be imported from Newfoundland or the coast of Labrador by British subjects." Importation cost listed. Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, Printers to the King's Most Excellent Majesty unknown
1880811Montreal P.Q.: Canada Railway News Co 1880. Boards. Good. 16mo square 5 7/8" x 5"; accordion fold 24pp; gilt-stamped red pebbled paper over board elaborate gilt border surrounding title including two griffins and an urn blind stamped rear board; black cloth spine; 12 glazed accordion folded panels printed grey chromolithograph illustrations one side only; bumping to corners scuffing to boards cloth on spine separated at front board head and tail but binding holding tight light soiling and creasing to pages light foxing to rear pastedown and verso last page a few folds with small separations at head or tail; good. Half-page width triptych of the town of St. John from Fort Howe illustrations including important buildings churches private residences bridges harbor view parks and street scenes around St. John. Canada Railway News Co unknown
19340103625Ottawa: House of Commons of Canada 1934. Hardcover. pp. 517-1009 8. 8vo. Homemade blue cloth binding hand-lettered in black ink. Contents age-toned binding delicate but holding. House of Commons of Canada hardcover
1947List3322Trail British Columbia: Hall Printing Co 1947. Broadside measuring approximately 19 x 19 inches. Folded with some wrinkling and very small tears at margins; excellent. The Doukhobors are a Spiritual Christian group that originated in the Russian Empire around the late eighteenth century. Persecuted for their pacifism and rejection of the Orthodox Church the Doukhobors were first removed to present-day Ukraine then the Transcaucasus with some of their leadership exiled to Siberia. In the late nineteenth century they were allowed to emigrate and with the help of both Quakers and the Christian anarchist Tolstoyans—whose beliefs largely accorded with the Doukhobors’—many ended up in western and central Canada.<br /> <br /> In Canada the dissident group Sons of Freedom or Freedomites Svobodniki formed out of the Doukhobors; their opposition to assimilation and government interference was more extreme than their parent group and they were known for eschewing cooked food the use of animal labor and clothing.1 The Freedomites became increasingly violent in their protests of the modern world particularly making use of arson and bombings leading the vehemently pacifist Doukhobors—who were often their victims—to disavow the group.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a broadside produced by the Doukhobors in British Columbia appealing to the Canadian government for help in apprehending and controlling the radicals ending the Doukhobor’s “dreadful existence under constant fear.†The broadside reproduces the correspondence between the Union of Doukhobors of Canada and various provincial and federal officials and especially emphasizes that contrary to popular belief the Doukhobors had been open and cooperative with law enforcement. Despite the “suspicion on the part of our people as to whether necessary measures were ever taken by the proper authorities†the group tried “to cooperate to the best of our ability.†They ask:<br /> <br /> “We regarded Canada as foremost in racial and religious tolerance. Why is ‘a civil war between Doukhobors’ allowed to go on and people forced to engage in violence in contradiction to the principle of faith they endeavor to upholdâ€<br /> <br /> We find one copy of this broadside in OCLC.<br /> <br /> 1 Maurice Gerschon Hindus “Doukhobors and Dissenters†in A Traveler in Two Worlds Doubleday 1971 290–303. Hall Printing Co unknown
193326806Canada: Canadian National Railway System 1933. Paperback. Very good overall. A tourist brochure advertising trips up the Inner Passage from Vancouver to Skagway Alaska. Extensively illustrated with a double page map centerfold. With a stamp on the last page where this was distributed by the Canadian Nat. Railways in Sydney Australia. Includes a separate sheet "Canadian National Steamships Alaska Service -1933" which shows schedules for Vancouver Prince Rupert and Skagway. The fare from Vancouver/Seattle and Victoria to Skagway round trip $90.<br /> <br /> 4to 24pp color illustrated front cover with black titles color map at centerfold staplebound. Slt. dusty cover. Canadian National Railway System paperback
192726808Canada: Canadian National Railways 1927. Pamphlet. Very good condition. Double sided map of the railroad routes of the Canadian National Pacific Coast Services and the Canadian National Steamship Company Ltd. The map covers the area from Dawson Alaska to Portland Oregon. The verso is a pictorial map of the Triangle Tour of British Columbia Jasper National Park and Mount Robson Park with text about Jasper. <br /> <br /> Color map 17 x 30" folding 4 x 9 1/4" blue card wraps with green titles. Sml closed tear at one fold. Canadian National Railways unknown
195726815Toronto: Rolph Clark Stone Ltd. 1957. Maps. Very good condition. large fold out color illustrated map of North America and Canada containing the railway Steamship& Airline routs with hotels marked. The verso has color illustrations and descriptions of the ammenities and types of coaches. 31 x 40" one small closed tear. Rolph Clark Stone Ltd. unknown
1912262681912. Good overall. Time table of the CPR corrected June 8th 1912 with a map of the Transcontinental route. <br /> <br /> Timetables and detailed commentary on sights along the route with times of arrival and departures. Routes described include: the transcontinental route the Crows nest pass route the Kootenay and Soo-Spokane route the transcontinental lake route the Muskoka route and the Short Line. Further information provided on CPR Royal Mail and Steamship lines railway lands and telegraph lines. Includes a full page advertisement entitled "If You Want a Farm" for land available in "sunny southern Alberta" p96.<br /> <br /> 8vo 101 pp. Memoranda 3 pp. Stiff paper wrappers printed in blue and green with Art Deco style decorative borders staple bound. Some light creasing of wrappers back wrapper cracks repaired with archival tape. unknown
187724454Hamilton Ontario: Times Printing Co 1877. Railroad collectible. Good condition. Large imposing broadside printed in a variety of type fonts for the historic Canadian railway the first to be chartered in the province of Canada West today Ontario in 1834. From Monday 14th May 1877 Until Further Notice.<br /> <br /> Includes the Toronto Line and US stops New York Boston Albany Buffalo Suspension Bridge over Niagara Falls Detroit and Chicago.<br /> <br /> Schedules printed for the Loop Line; Toronto Line; Wellington Grey & Bruce Division; W. G. & B. South Extension; London Huron & Bruce Division; London and Port Stanley Division; and Sarnia Division. <br /> <br /> The Superintendent is Chas. Stiff; F. Broughton General Manager. Frederick Broughton severely cut costs at the railroad as a result of the 1873 financial crash; he was feared and hated within the company but managed to turn the Great Western into one of the best run railways of North America. <br /> <br /> At its peak the Great Western system covered 852 miles with its main operating base in Hamilton. The GWR's role as a bridge line between the New York Central and Michigan Central Railroads was highly profitable.<br /> <br /> Large printed sheet 17 1/2 x 25 1/2". Top edge chipped period folds flattened some period pencil calculations at left margin. OCLC: 1007494327 records a copy at Library & Archives Canada. Times Printing Co unknown
