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80 pages. Cover art shows football star Fred Doty and his fiancee Beverly Brown. Features: The Greatest Danger is Europe - a searching analysis which shows the peril in Europe where fear is stronger than the will to fight - by Matthew Halton; Don't Call Me Baby Face - Part two of the story of Vancouver Boxer Jimmy McLarnin - article with photos, including a shot of Jimmy golfing with Fred Astaire, Joe Louis and Bob Hope; I Saw the Chinese Reds Take Over - Norman McLaren explains how the 'new order' came to the country town of Pehpei - with photos; Never a Dull Moment at the Larches - Elizabeth Armstrong relates tales from her Victoria, B.C. boarding house; A License to Murder? - driver's licenses are handed out like dog tags; Lena Horne - Glamour C.O.D. - article with photos including a large colour full-page shot; Giants of Golgotha - story by Fred Delano; How We Massacred the Passenger Pigeon - a Maclean's flashback - once these birds blotted out the sun in Eastern Canada, but the last one died in 1914; Recipe - Take One Steamboat - Tony Didier, the chef of the CPR's Algonquin Hotel at St. Andrews, New Brunswick, serves up a shore dinner - article with photo; Fantastic full-page Coke ad shows Coke Cooler, glass, and soda jerk above a thirsty city - very nice!; The People Only Death Will Touch - The Rev. Aurthur Payton and Lawrence Earl travelled to Nigeria to help Lepers -article and photo; Massey-Harris ad focuses on how their products help farmers step-up meat-making nutrients in the crops they grow; Li'l Abner Cream of Wheat ad; Dow Brewery ad honours Auguste Prenovost of Montreal who tacked a galloping horse to prevent disaster on a traffic-laden street; Barbara Ann Scott is featured in Prest-o-lite battery ad. Center pages loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
Features: Can George Nowlan and M.W. McCutcheon run Canada better?; The Richest Barnyard Philosopher in Show Business - Pere Gedeon a.k.a. Doris Lussier; Walter Soroka provides a Russian's-eye view of Russia - by a Canadian; The Private Life of Yousuf Karsh; The Diary of an operation - for the first time, a surgeon and a photographer together record the drama that builds up every time one human invades another with a scalpel; The Gold Prospecting Obsession of Albert Faille of Headless Valley; Notes from a summer on a Russian collective farm, by Walter Soroka. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Geoffrey Bocca and the Duchess of Windsor; Why Live in the Suburbs? - here are the facts on the great migration that has changed the face of Canada from Coast to Coast; Solution - Rob a Bank, fiction by Michael Sheldon; The Story Behind Walter Murdoch and the Entertainment War; How to Manhandle a Child's Allowance; Remember those Harvest Excursions? - a Maclean's flashback to the years when Canadians flooded to the prairies to help with harvest; The Thirty Years' War with the Commies - how the Mounted Police handle their most dangerous and difficult assignment - article with photos; Should it be called Wawa or Jamestown? - this question has lingered for seven years; The Hero Who Had no Friends, by Thomas B. Costain - part 12; Nice two-page illustrated ad for Allis-Chalmers Tractor Division; Chevrolet ad; Half-page two-colour ad for movie The Caine Mutiny; Full-page two-colour Chevrolet truck ad; Lovely bunny ad for Wabasso Cottons inside back cover; and more. Average wear. Front cover nearly detached, otherwise unmarked with average wear. Book
108 pages. Features: Two-page Chrysler black and white photo ad shows their vehicles being torture-tested; My Eighty Years on Wheels - by Col. R.S. McLaughlin, one of Canada's most famous and well-loved business leaders - part 1 of 3; Three Women, One Body - a case history of Eve White (aka Eve Black and Jane) - a case of multiple personality; Will Your Youngster Turn to Crime; Jean-Francois Pouliot - The Wordiest MP in Ottawa; My, uh, Dazzling Career as Miss Canada, by Marily Reddick - article with photos, including nice shot of Reddick with Marilyn Monroe; The Shipwrecked Moneybelt, fiction by Peter Freuchen; Clinic for Marriage Counselors - humour; The Private Army We're Giving the Army - Camp Gagetown, New Brunswick; Dr. Mahlon W. Locke of Williamsburg, Ontario and his million-dollar thumbs - a Maclean's flashback to the Locke clinic of the 1930s which treated fallen arches - article with photos; We'd Be Better Off on All Fours - if you've ever suffered from an aching back or a creaky knee read this!; The Haughtiest Suburb of Them All - Ottawa's Rockliffe; The White and the Gold - Part 13; The Toughest Beat in the World - The Mounties at work in the far north - conclusion of the Mounties series; Nice colour Pontiac ad; Nice Coke ad on back cover features smiling blonde with a tray of bottles. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
88 pages. Features: Wrigley Spearment Gum ad inside front cover features young lady playing tennis; Dawes Black Horse Brewery Ad; What's Happened to former NHL goalie George Hainsworth?; The Canadian Police Muddle - Peter Smeaton's report on the easy loopholes available for criminals; Nice two-colour Chrevrolet ad; Frankie Laine - article with photos; No Strike at Labatts - interesting photos and article focus on labour relations at this major Canadian brewer; Boating the Big Ones - Nova Scotia's tuna grounds can't be beat for big-game fishing; The Way I Killed Him - part 1 (of 2) of story by Oscar Schisgall; End of Summer - story by Ernest Lehman; The Monkey's Paw, by W.W. Jacobs - Illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Survey - Should Murderers Hang? - includes world statistics and graphic illustrations; Paul Martin (Sr.) - Major article and photos of the father of Paul Martin Jr. who went on to become Prime Minister of Canada; Lizzie Took an Axe - story by J.V. McAree; Gus the Great - condensed story by Thomas W. Duncan; Movie news/photos; Results of New Liberty 1948 Golf Tournament; Al Sutin and his Sutton "Butt-on" Button; Music article by Benny Goodman; Sensual two-colour half-page illustrated ad for Nemo Foundations (Girdles); Photo and brief but informative biography of artist Oscar Cahen; Nice two-colour full-page ad for Heinz ketchup; Wonderful colour illustrated ad for B-A (British American) service products inside back cover; *Wonderful* colour ad for Neilson's Malted Milk candy bar on back cover. Average wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality copy of this excellent issue. Magazine
1200 pages. "The only who's who in Canada in which no one has paid for inclusion." - from front board. A biographical dictionary of notable living men and women. Prior owner's name inside front board else unmarked. Binding open at page 1199 else average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
Cover portrait of Commander Locker-Lampson, with British Armoured Cars in Russia. Features: How Canada Won New Glory in 1916-17 (conclusion); The Collapse of Russia, including Bolshevik photos. Centerfold features four sepia images of British actions in Russia. Cover detached but present. Pages loose but present. Rusty around staples. Average wear. Book
47 pages. Features: How the tiny St. Roch sailed into fame - with a crew of eight mounties she navigated the Northwest Passage - Skipper Henry Larsen; Mom's A Ballerina - Toronto-born Melissa-Hayden deftly runs home and career; Marsh where the shy swans rest - the peace of Lake Erie beckons to whistlers after their long trip; Camp of Despair in the Congo - UN Soldiers patrol the camp which houses 50,000 Balubas at Elisabethville - graphic photos; Susannah York - a star in the making; Swedes fight to stay neutral - their plan for survival calls for compulsory military training and enormous blast shelters; Beauty and the Beasts - English gals volunteer for amazing stunts with elephants; Major League Baseball in Canada - Walter O'Malley of the Los Angeles Dodgers tells us how to get it (colour photo of O'Malley shows him with Emil "Buzzie" Bavasi, father of Peter Bavasi who later became the first G.M. of the Toronto Blue Jays); Nipper by Doug Wright. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
28 pages. Features: Juliette is featured in an Burgess Battery ad; By God, There Aint' Many of us Left - The Orangemen of Ontario / Orange Association in Canada; Pro Golfer Doug Sanders - He'd Be Poor on $38,000 a Year; Who Needs Ottawa - BC Premier W.A.C. Bennett has plans to split Canada into five regions and describes himself as a co-operative federalist; Full-page ad for Sony radios; Automobile Skid Control School in Oakville, Ontario run by Henk de Vries; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Book
28 pages. Features: 300 Reasons why people like to live in Canada; Nice colour photo ad for the 1975 Canadian Open Golf Tournament - with photos of Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer; Feature on the movie Rollerball - article and colour photos; Massive colour centerfold for Export A cigarettes; Prairie Gatsbys - Historic Mansions of the West - with a photo of the Edmonton home of W.J. Magrath, two photos of the interior of the home of J.H. Ashdown in Winnipeg, and a photo of the Coste home in Calgary; Nice full-page colour ad for movie The Wind and the Lion which starred Sean Connery and Candice Bergen; Doug Wright's Family; Nice double-page colour fashion photo of Paris couture; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
32 pages. Features: Front cover photos of the Gerard LeBlond and Jack Wallace families; A Tale of Two Families - the Wallace and LeBlond families move with Canada to study the other official language; Toronto's Linda Thorson - The Canadian Avenger - article with photo (which includes Patrick MacNee; Nice full-page colour photo ad for Pontiac cars; AMICUS - Friends to the Friendless - the Toronto Bail Project; Nice colour centerfold ad for Honda motorcycles has a clipping from it upper right side which affects the Canadian Olympic Hockey story on the next page; Several nice photos of Canada's Olympic hockey team playing the Soviet Union; Wall-to-Wall Walruses on a small oogli in the Arctic Ocean - article and great colour photos; Nice Helena Rubinstein ad inside back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
138 pages. "Documents the astonishing extent to which Mennonites in Canada served the country of their adoption in the military during those trying years." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy. Book
50 pages. Features: The U.S. and Us - Part 1 of 4; Colour full-page ad for the 1964 Pontiac Parisienne Sprt Coupe; Why One Hustling American Chose Canada - an interview with Ted Emmert of Hawker Siddeley; Report from the Frontiers of Friendship - Clen and Helen Wooldridge, Ray Dunn, Tom Schatzky, Cathy Thompson, Ozzie Schmidt and Anne Jones are members of Canada's "Peace Corps", CUSO; Can the Trains Come Back? - CN is trying to turn its passenger service into the cushiest way to travel since sedan chairs - article with photos; David Lewis Stein describes how he made $14 in the great penny stock book by working at it full time - with great photo of a Toronto broker's office; Country music is sweeping the cities; Nice colour photo Coke ad on back cover shows young couple at picnic table; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Features: Great colour-photo ad for the 1962 Dodge Valiant (red) inside front cover; International Harvester mining equipment ad features photos at the McDame Mountain asbestos mine in the Cassiar range, near the B.C.-Yukon border; Colour 1962 Chrysler ad; Work Addiction - the habit that rules men who rule the rat race; The Undeserving Poor - a group portrait of the small and anonymous minority of Canada's poor who eat up the lion's share of welfare money; Why I Stole the Luxury Liner "Santa Maria"; A New Look at the Great Lakes - article with colour photos; A Fall of Birds (fiction); The Rise of the Tree-Savers - heavy duty equipment is used to transplant mature trees in Ontario which would otherwise be destroyed by development; The Nightmare Life of a Hemophiliac; My Secret Rendezvous with a Red Attache - Toronto student Harry Malcolmson and his meeting with Serguei Divilkovsky; The West Indians - Our Loneliest Immigrants - permanent strangers in a white land; The Fifth Comeback of Jacques Normand, Quebec's First Funnyman; Canadian Club colour photo ad features surfing photos of Mark Lyons; Log of Seagoing Scientists aboard the "Porte Dauphine"; The Prime Minister's New Vision - a national power grid; Operation Fleshcreeper - Red answer to NATO arms; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad features young square dancers. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Cover illustration by Duncan Macpherson shows Montreal at night; The pitfalls of the Ten Commandments, by Brock Chisholm; Are Heredity Titles on the way out in Britain?; Bright colour one-page Del Monte Catsup ad; Five pages of rare and colorful art for children from the children's book collection of Edgar Osborne; Olive Diefenbaker - her not-so-private life; Toronto's David Caplan - The Jazz-happy Tailor; The Bonnie Babes of the Bank of Lower Canada; We Found Our New World in the Arctic - Peter and Helga Bading spent an isolated year in side the Arctic Circle - article with photos; How Scrooge might spend Christmas 1957; Nice centrefold Maclean's subscription ad features Jasper the bear; Great 2/3-page colour ad for Thistle toys, including bikes and pedal cars; Fantastic one-page Philishave ad features Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion of the Montreal Canadiens; Canada Dry Sparkling Water ad features photos of bartenders Stuart Holllander, George Clark, Geoffrey Dutson, Paul Chevrier, and Harry Arger; How Edgar Osborne collected his priceless treasures of children's books; Photos of the Tremblay family which has six surviving sets of twins!; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside back cover features construction of the first Trans-Newfoundland Highway; Back cover Coke ad features illustration of Santa eating snacks left for him on fireplace mantel; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Features: Morale - and the Mails; Are We Running Out of Oil? - by a V.P. of Standard Oil; Air Service for Every Canadian Community? - interesting article with photos from Watson Lake and Whitehorse; The Bazooka is Born - workroom to warfront in thirty days - photo illustrated article provides the behind-the-scenes account of the workers who got the Bazooka to the front - and on time; Russia's Children - caring for 15 million orphans; Science attacks loneliness. Fiction: Wind in the Valley; Without Motive; Professor Pyro - part 5; Condensed Book - Der Fuehrer (part 1). Ads: Amazing Kinsmen Fund ad inside front cover raises funds for milk for British children - with photo; Nice vintage one-page ad for Trans-Canada Air Lines (T.C.A.); Calvert Distillers ad promotes partnership between Canada, the US and Britain; Ipana tooth paste; Canada Dry ginger ale; Skintite Swim Suits (with photo); Kreml Hair Tonic; John Labbatt Limited - comic-style ad #43 supports price ceilings to curb inflation; Band-Aid; Heinz Baby Foods; Alka-Seltzer; Cutex nail colours; McBrine Baggage; Brier Pipes; Don Juan Lipstick; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover depicts scene in soda shop with wartime flier describing an adventure to young boy and ladies. Average wear. Unmarked. Center page loose but present. A worthy copy of this vintage wartime issue. Book
64 pages. Features: CBC The National colour-photo ad features Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad; We Can Keeep Vancouver Livable; Shirley Chan of Strathcona beat back bulldozers and scared City Hall; Gastown developer Larry Killam brought swingers into the slum; SPEC's Robin Harger confronts 'the extinction of the human race'; Mike Harcourt and the law squad; Intermedia's Barry Cramer and media technology; Albert Turnbull, Arthur Erickson, Dr. George Gray, William Graham, and Dr. Walter Harswick draw guidelines to keep Vancouver livable; Nice two-page colour-photo ad for the Lockheed 1011 Tristar; From Bruce Cockburn to Youth - A Very Private Message; How Jasper Park is moving into the 1970s; The Real Poor in Canada and why we don't know who they are; Contest to design trophy for the air race of the century; How Kings County, NS found the cure for despair; How to spot the danger point in drinking; Bilingualism and Biculturalism; Crossword partly completed in light pencil; Great color photo ad for CBC Sports includes group of athletes including Mel Profit of the Argos and boxer Clyde Grey; and more. Average wear. Damage to fore-edge of back cover. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
104 pages. "Compiled to honour the men and women who served on 417 Squadron in peace and war from 1941 to 1983." - from Foreword. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival photos, most in black and white, some in colour. Prior owner's signature inside front board. Twelve additional signatures on last page - presumably of people related to the Squadron. Otherwise, book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A quality copy of this important history. Book
100 pages. An excellent gift for a Canadian accountant or tax lawyer born in the early 1960s. They will marvel at how much simpler the Canadian income tax scene used to be! Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Book
69 pages. Provides a fascinating chronological list of concisely described documents in the CJC archives, beginning begin with several documents concerning Jewish immigration into Canada during the fateful year of 1914. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
176 pages. Index. Includes the following sections: (Louis) Gurofsky Correspondence; In the "Globe"; The Fateful Year 1900; The Correspondence Continues; Arbitrating in Montreal Dispute? Gurofsky is described as "the concerned Jew of the Toronto ghetto". Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Signatures of Author and V.C. recipient George Pearkes upon title page. 388 pages including notes, index and black and white photographic plates. George R. Pearkes was decorated with the Victoria Cross in World War I, led Canada's Pacific Command in WWII, and served as Defence Minister in the Diefenbaker administration. He was deeply involved in the highly charged and hotly debated decisions of the cold war era, including Bomarc, the Avro Arrow, NATO, NORAD, and provisions for civil defense, and his views on them will be significant to those interested in Canadian political and military history. Moderate to average wear. Partial lean to spine. Usual library markings. Solid copy. Book
52 pages. Features: Hitler's One Fear (Editorial); Why Hate the Man Who Gets Ahead?; The Norse are Going Back! - The Vikings of the Air prepare in Canada to drive the invading Nazis from their homeland abroad - with photos; Which Teams Will Win This Year's Pennants? - with photo of Eddie Joost; In Confidence - To Playwrights. Short Stories: Lady in Mink; Sally McCarthy and the Paths of Glory; The Good Neighbor. Serials: The Unobstructed Universe (Part I) - a 1941 document about life beyond the grave; ; Germany's Secret Plans for Invading England - (Part 4 of 4); Footloose! (part 3); In Action with the R.A.F. - Part IV - the thrilling fighting in England's sky. Ads: Plymouth Custom 4-Door Touring Sedan; Kellogg's All-Bran; Sal Hepatica; Auto-Lite; Kotex; Listerine - featuring illustration of black porter singing "I Got Them Whisk-Broom Blues"; Pard dog and cat food; Sani-Flush; Maxwell-House Coffee; Heinz Beans; Alka Seltzer; Barbara Stanwyck is featured in a Lux Toilet Soap ad; Band-Aid; Nabisco Shredded Wheat; Nice color back cover ad for Mercury underwear for men. Color cover photo of "Pliofilm Girl". Inside of both covers feature a photo promotion of Calgary, with photos of Mayor Andrew Davison, J.B. Cross, R.A. Brown, Frank R. Freeze, J.W. Caldwell, Robert Wilkinson, John Burns, Fred E. OSborne and Norman Priestley. Above-average wear. Contents moderately age-toned. Crossword partially completed in light pencil. Cover holding by one staple. A worthy copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
36 pages. Features: Aerial cover photo of Prince George; Should Canada and the United States Become One Country; Canada and the United States Should Become One Country; Old Jede Deals; We Never Think; Prince Rupert is our Port; British Columbia 1851-1914 - Finance and Early Vancouver Island Events (15th Instalment); Cariboo - Plywood Plant Gets Under Way - article with photos; Prince George - Hub of the North - major article with many photos; Dozens of nostalgic local ads; Photo ad for Finning on back cover advertises Caterpillar Diesel electric sets for use beyond the reach of power lines. Faint date stamp atop front cover otherwise unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Christmas at Fort Pitt; Hobby for Booklovers - the Canadiana book collection of D'Alton C. Coleman; The House That Mac Built - the log buildings erected by the North West Company in the north and west originated in French Canada - interesting photo-illustrated article on early building styles; Redcoats at Fort Garry - nearly a century ago, 300 foot soldiers, with artillery and engineers, came from England to Red River, brought by the HBC to stand on guard for Canada; The Cowichan Sweater - photo-illustrated article; Mining in the North; Sled Journey - photo study; Peter Rindisbacher - Red River Artist; Chief Factor Dr. John McLoughlin's Letters, 1844-46; Arctic fur show - photos of Eskimo ladies wearing fur fashions; Atmospheric Defence - how HBC 'brass-pounders' heled guard our northern approaches during WWII - fascinating photo-illustrated article; Veteran of Two Wars - the good ship 'Nascopie'; Vintage back cover two-colour (orange and black) ad for the HBC's Imperial Mixture of tinned pipe tobacco. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
