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512 pages. The third of seven reports which cover the survey and demarcation of the international boundary between Alaska and Canada and between the United States and Canada from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, excepting that part of the boundary through the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River, which was surveyed and reported upon by the International Waterways Commission. Compiled in accordance with the provisions of Article III of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed at Washington, April 11, 1908. Printed on high quality coated paper. Includes four colour fold-out maps, all of which are in excellent condition. Dozens of fascinating black and white photographs. Detailed Table of Contents, List of Illustrations, and Indeces. Clean, bright and unmarked. Very light wear. Binding tight. Bright gilt lettering upon green spine. Lettering upon front board significantly faded. Top and bottom corners of the last 60 pages bear minor moisture-induced undulations. Very nice copy. Please note: Sketches of the triangulation and precise traverse were printed under separate cover which is not included. Book
60 pages. Features: Is the RCMP a Threat to Our Liberty?; Nice full-page colour ad for the '57 Chevy (Chevrolet); Where Canada Stands in the World Crisis - Lester Pearson speaks with Maclean's panel; Lester Pearson on the case of Herbert Norman; My Strange Encounter with The Diamond King - John Thoburn (Doc) Williamson, discoverer of an African diamond Mine - article with photo; There's Nothing Phonier Than a Grateful Author; Marvelous colour photo feature of Toronto's Spadina Avenue; The Magic World of Johnny Giordmaine, King of Canadian Magicians - article with photos; The Bequest (short story); General Motors centrefold ad boasts of how they spend $434 million per year supporting Canada's main streets; Great two-colour ad for movie "Night Passage" starring James Stewart and Audie Murphy; Coke ad on back cover showscouple at Lake Louise. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A nice vintage issue. Magazine
Topics: Shocking mess in civil defense; Canada-US Partnership problems; Lester Pearson - Peacemaking to Politicking; New Surgery repairs the heart - Dr. Wilfred Bigelow; Nice 2-page colour GM ad with five illustrations of Chevrolet through Cadillac; Canada's CF-100 - Boldest and Costliest Aviation Venture; How the Price Squeeze hit the Newspapers; U.K. Trade Mission - what it achieved; How to make money when stocks go down; Colour Chevrolet ad; Toronto Exchange in Losing Battle with Skulduggery; Let's not panic on Canadian Education; Playground of Danger in the Middle East; Small Investors invade Real Estate; Cover photo - Dr. E.J. Pratt; Cover photo of Conductor Walter Susskind; Our Shabby Airports - a growing shame; The Cigarette war comes to Canada; How we cover up our Racia Abuses; Confused Tax Laws cost you money; Cover photo of TV's Joyce Sullivan; Our 'forgotten force' in the middle-east - Snafu in UNEF; Closed-circuit TV catches on in Canada; Revival of Freedom on Latin America; Natural Gas Stocks - profit possibilities; Cover photo of George C. Metcalf; Election Pollsters; Can a machine prove you are drunk?; What free trade would mean to Canada; Cover photo of J.E. Coyne of the Bank of Canada; What do we need most in Canadian schools - money or brains?; A Long-Term Payoff in Labrador Power; Spoon-fed patriotism won't work in Canada; New market technique for skillful traders; Cover photo and story on Sir Robert Watson-Watt; Rescuing a world bent on Suicide; How many people are really out of work?; Our moonstruck U.S. Neighbors; Sales Promotion brings in hard cash; Cover photo and article on Rev. Dr. J.R. Mutchmor; The Recession; Dilemma of Diplomacy; Parlor politics and the video vote; New play in the copper market; Cover photos and article on CCF leader M.J. Coldwell; How Canada built and abandoned the world's first Jetliner - designed by James Floyd; Gold's new glitter brings out old glamor; Our religious revival - new faith or old fear?; Boating craze booms business; Cover photo and article of CPA's Grant McConachie; Business in British Columbia; Could we stop Russian missiles?; Global triple play - Ike to Dag to Mr. K; Vancouver's Deas Island Project - Submarine Highway Under the Fraser; Cover photo and story on Stratford's Charmion King; Trade Policy; Why the CF-105 had to be built *Great Avro Arrow Article with Photos*; The case against the Grand Jury; Mutual Funds; Cover photo and article on Labour Minister Mike Starr; Why the market rises while business slumps; Will resurgent Tories take over in B.C.?; How the DBS figures can make you money; Can leadership solve the world's ills; Cover photo and article on Federal Finance Minister Donald Fleming; Canadian-UK banks combine to develop South American trade; Terror in British Columbia - the Sons of Freedom in the Kootenays; NORAD and NATO and their affects on our national interest; New Trend - Mutual Life Companies; Dollars and cents re: Air Conditioning; Jason Robards cover photo and article; Cover photo and artile on Davidson Dunton; Hoffa Muscles in - will labor racketeers strangle the Seaway?; Feeble defense policy cripples our armed forces; TV inquisitors give journalism new depth; Mining market madness; Cover photos and article on Dag Harrarskjold; The State of Alaska - partner or problem?; Sherman Adams Case - Pharisee's Prattfall; What Shakespeare did to Stratford; Who benefits from Gasoline wars?; Cover photo and article on Maurice Duplessis; Will foreign cars drive U.S. Makers to Model-T thinking?; How NORAD worked in Mid-East Crisis; Successful Pay-TV - a first for Canada?; TBill sale can fight inflation; Cover photo and article on CBC's Jack Duffy (who bears a resemblance to Mr. Obama); The Family Fortunes; TV in Russia; Arab Showdown; Buy a house and stay solvent; Cover photos and article on Claude Bissell; Does Ottawa connive in U.S. attempt to tax Canadians?; Why emotion rules in U.S. School Fight; Army faces atom war without atomic arms; A hundred-y Book
48 pages. Features: The Bumper Crop that's changing life in the dust bowl; How Rene Levesque May Soon Make Jean Lesage His Puppet; M.P. Ralph Cowan Hates the CBC; Lester Pearson Proposes a New Kind of Peace Force; Native Canadian Kahn-Tineta Horn - Portrait of a Beautiful Segregationist; K.C. Irving - The Last of a Breed of Kings (Part 2) - article with photo; Handsome Young Playboy Peter Lerch - article with photos; The Public Nightmare of Professor Roland Haumont - accused of the murder of his wife and children; Writing by W.O. Mitchell; The French Fact You Can't Explore in English Canada; Canadian Taxes are Not Too High. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy. Book
554 pages. Black and white photographic plates. "...He made known and real his vision of a mighty united land - bound only be the blue rim of ocean. He softened our asperities and dispelled much of the bigotry and ignorance which kept apart Catholic and Protestant, Irish and English and French. He instilled into the heart of the people a veneration for our government, our constitution, our land." - from Preface. Average wear. Unmarked. Exterior somewhat dulled and soiled. Back hinge starting. Binding intact. Quality copy of this important record. Book
"The aim of this Atlas is to bring the reader's attention to essential geographical facts, visible on large-scale Canadian maps. The author has tried to give some explanations for the various forms of relief and patterns of human settlements, roads and boundaries. A selected bibliography, which includes research papers, has been placed at the end of each chapter. The atlas is intended as a tool in the teaching of Canadian geography in universities and colleges, and to some extent - general geography on examples, selected from the eastern part of Canada." - from page 128. Includes 610 cartographical illustrations. Bilingual English/French. Sir George Williams University, Department of Geography - Publication No. 1. Oblong 11" x 17". Signed and inscribed upon title page by author to a fellow-Professor in 1974. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy Book
1927098611Toronto: The Champlain Society 1927. Limited edition. Hardcover. pp. xxiii 548. Large 8vo. Bound in red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge gilt. Fold-out maps complete as called-for. Ex Hudson's Bay Company Library: ink number and sticker to spine HBC bookplate to front pastedown and stamp to ffep. Scuffing spots and sunning to binding corners bumped gutter cracked at half-title page with mull exposed binding tender but overall sound; good. Limited edition. Number 56 of 550. Text in French and English. The Champlain Society hardcover
1931X11101xToronto: Humberside Highschool 1931. Paperback. Good. Students. Toronto Humberside 1931 Students School Student Yearbook. For The Year 1931. Soft Cover In Good Condition. No Signatures. Cresed And Has Small Tears.- Specializing in academic collectible and historically significant providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. Humberside Highschool paperback
34250Boston April 8 1863. No Binding. Fine. Small broadside 19.3x 12.3cm 7.5x 4.3/4" 39 lines on blue tinted paper fine condition Together With: $300.00 Reward rule On Monday night March 30th Thomas B. Hoare Clerk stole from his employer T.S. Shenston Recorder of Deeds Brantford Canada West from $5000 to$5500. Brantford Canada West. April 16th 1863. Small broadside19.3x 11.5cm 7.5x 4.5/8" 41 lines fine condition 2 items. cgc The broadsides give a physical description of the perpetrator as well as the nature of the crime and his last known whereabouts. Boston, April 8, 1863 unknown
42467Newark U.C. Probably by Louis Roy. 1794. 4to. 27cm 1 sheet 4 printed pages 20x 15cm captain title uncut fine condition. Not in Tremaine or TPL. A separately printed copy of this act and not abstracted from the Collected Statutes of 1795. This copy is separately paginated and differs in size from the later collected version. As the third session of the First Parliament ended on July 4th 1794 and Tiffany who succeeded Roy did not receive his commission until November 1794. This act introduces for the first time in Upper Canada legislation and regulations to govern the licensing of Public Houses for the Sale of Spirituous Liquors to the public. Almost certainly printed by Louis Roy the first printer of Upper Canada this is the first Liquor Licensing Act of Upper Canada. "In 1792 Lt.-Gov. John Graves Simcoe proclaimed West Niagara the capital of Upper Canada and renamed it Newark since it provided a place for the Loyalists. The name also recalled Newark upon Tent in Norttinghamshire England. The first five sessions of Upper Canada's Legislature were held here the last being on 3 June 1796 after which York now Toronto was the site of subsequent sessions. Simcoe named Newark Township in 1792 but the residents preferred Niagara and had that name reinstated by law in 1798". Rayburn. Place Names of Ontario p241. [Newark, U.C., Probably by Louis Roy. 1794] unknown
103700Ottawa: Queen's Printer 1886. Disbound 51pp. Very good plus. Removed from bound volume. Spine taped. Sessional Papers No. 43H & 43I. Peel3 1588. Queen's Printer Hardcover
200298New York: H. Bailliere 1859. Cloth Very good. Variously paginated illus. "In 4 Parts. Part 1: Upper and Lower Canada; 2: Scenes and Scenery; 3: the United States; 4: Things as They Are in 1859. Illustrated with upwards of 120 Engravings." Scattered advertising throughout. Remarkably well preserved. Front hinge repaired. TPL 3881. For a somewhat similar publication see Sabin 53421. Stated First Edition. H. Bailliere Hardcover
37443np. ca.1936. Panorama Portrait Photograph 22xx 88cm including the frame 8.5"x 34.5" in the original frame Hogarth type molding photograph is slightly wavy else a fine clear image. Every face is recognizable. Circa 400 Canadian Car dealers in 1936. The photographer was Sid Lloyd Keville Ontario. No such place name in Rayburn. np. ca.[1936] unknown
1927106254nd c1927. Hardcover. very good. 19;11;9;178;ii57pp. Quarto in original black cloth with printed paper labels on spine and front cover. Minor chip to spine label boards slightly bowed. very good Not in Peel. Includes Appellant's case; Respondent'scase Dominion of Canada; Respondent's case Province of Manitoba; and Record including Appellants' Additional Appendix of Statutes 1927 hardcover
22848London. Printed by C. and W. Reynell. 1836. Soft cover. 8vo 22.5cm 20p. self wraps very good to fine rare. Qc.bx T.P.L. 1980. Sabin 10540. A petition concerning an elective legislative the judiciary land grants internal affairs etc. It was passed by the British Parliament-"Ayes 55; Noes 7.-Majority 48. London. Printed by C. and W. Reynell. [1836] unknown
186912635London: Sampson Low Son & Marston 1869. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Very good withwear to extremities moderate soiling to covers and "Arcade Library 1869 " on ffep. colour frontis. and minor foxing. A solid copy. Sampson Low, Son & Marston Hardcover
37216n.p. n.d. 1803. 1p. 4to. 26.5cm broadside. printed page is 21x 15cm caption-title uncut matted fine condition. cgc.bx Fleming 22. Lande S2254. This act amends 36 George 3. chapter 12 regarding the regulation of liquor licenses and introduces a fine of 20 pounds for violation of the laws and changes the procedure for applications for licenses from annually to quarterly. NOTE: On 19 March 1803 two hundred copies of each of six acts were ordered printed. Four have been located Fleming numbers 21 22 23 24 and can on the basis of physical evidence be matched to this documentation and recorded as 1803 imprints rather than 1794 1796 and 1797. n.p. n.d. [1803] unknown
34266York. 1809. folio. 32x 20cm 1p. Laid paper fine rare. N12 Fleming 53. York. 1809 unknown
39439Carleton County. 1824. Printed Vellum Document 36x 45cm. 14"x 17" with hand-written entries hand-written lower marginal annotations original folded in thirds brown ink entries are light but legible document slightly dust worn generally very good condition. Initialled by Sir Peregrine Maitland and signed by John Beverly Robinson Attorney General. Goulbourn Township was part of the Richmond Military Settlement established in 1818 to settle disbanded soldiers of the 100th 99th and 37th Regiments of Foot following the close of the War of 1812. As a private of the 99th James West was entitled to 100 acres along with basic tools and supplies. The land appears to be near the village of Ashton. "McRorie and West.settled not far from the present Village Ashton but left for some other part of the country some time later having sold out their claims". Belden's Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Carleton. 1879. Carleton County. 1824 unknown
39074York Upper Canada. 1816. 37x 47cm on hand made watermark paper in manuscript contemporary folds with attached Upper Canada paper seal in blind docketed light corner tape stains on the verso center fold tear expertly repaired in fine condition manuscript documents from this era are rare. Lieut. Governor Francis Gore was serving his second term in Upper Canada 1818-1817. Thomas D. Campbell was the son of Sir William Campbell of the Court of King's Bench. Besides Registrar at the Brockville Court house he was a prominent businessman in Brockville and involved in the establishment of the first bank the Brockville Savings Bank in the city. The document is unusual in that it is totally in manuscript written by secretary Edward MacMahon Usually such commissions were in printed form with hand-written entries. The docket reads "Commission of T.D. Campbell Register York, Upper Canada. 1816 unknown
187713560Victoria: T. N. Hibben & Co. Publishers 1877. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Printing of the First Edition. Rebound using the original boards and spine label. Probably Ex libris as there is a number stamped on the preface page. T. N. Hibben & Co., Publishers Hardcover
2012121381Toronto ON Canada: The Bookmakers of Toronto 2012. staple-bound pamphlets rebound into spiral-bound volumes. Good to Very Good. Set of 29 rebound volumes volumes 5 to 33 plus single issues: Vol 4 No 3; Vol 4 No 4; Vol 34 No 1 to 4; Vol 35 No 1 to 4; Vol 36 No 1 and 2; Index. Dating from 1981 to 2014. Good to Very Good condition. Minor wear. Spiral or comb bindings on rebound pamphlet volumes. Pages clean. Pictures available upon request. from collection of Leigh Dods Craig on commission. The Bookmakers of Toronto unknown
31700Toronto Lovell & Gibson 1860-1865. 8vo 56637 & 488284pp.in 2 volumes with 37 & 84 plates of line drawn illustrationsrespectively in the original diamond grain blind decorated dark browncloth volume one expertly restored a near fine sound set sc Animportant and scarce compilation listing all of the patents granted inCanada from the beginning of patent registration in 1824 through to1855. The 121 woodcut plates illustrate many of these early and unusualinventions. In all there are 489 separate patents described dozens ofwhich relate to agriculture milling railway improvements steamboatconstruction and improvements bridge building and a host of otherpractical areas such as brewing and distilling telegraphy heatingshowers "air conditioning" commercial fishing etc. Toronto, Lovell & Gibson, 1860-1865 unknown
1881WRCAM30264AMontreal: John Lovell & Son 1881. 219pp. plus large folding color map. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear to wrappers three-inch closed tear in map. Contemporary stamp of the U.S. Geological Survey Library on titlepage. Internally clean. Very good. Issued by the Nelsen Valley Railway Transportation Company this pamphlet and map advertise a new route to the middle of North America. The route marked by a heavy red line takes potential passengers through Hudson's Strait to Churchill Harbor Canada then south by train to the United States border in northern Minnesota. PEEL 448. John Lovell & Son unknown books
elala4976Ottawa: 1903-04. Comprising: 1 3 Edward VII. Chap. 54. An Act to authorize aid to the Quebec Bridge and Railway Company.Assented to 24th October 1903. pp. 8. 2 3 Edward VII. Chap. 71. An Act respecting the Construction of a National Transcontinental Railway. Assented to 24th October 1903. pp. 23. 3 3 Edward VII. Chap. 121. An Act respecting the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada. Assented to 25th June 1903. pp. 13. 4 4 Edward VII. Chap. 24. An Act to amend the National Transcontinental Railway Act. Assented to 18th July 1904. pp. 8. 5 4 Edward VII. Chap. 80. An Act respecting the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company. Assented to 18th July 1904. pp. 2. 6 Chap. 58. The Railway Act 1903. 3 Edward VII. Chap. 58. An Act to amend and consolidate the law respecting Railways. Assented to 24th October 1903. pp. 1 p.l. iii 119. 7 4 Edward VII. Chap. 31. An Act to amend the Railway Act 1903. Assented to 10th August 1904. pp. 2. 8 4 Edward VII. Chap. 32. An Act to amend the Railway Act 1903. Assented to 10th August 1904. pp. 3. In 1903 the government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier committed itself to the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway connecting western Canada with Canadian Atlantic ports Winnipeg to Moncton and opening up northern Ontario and Quebec to development. The Board of Railway Commissioners the precursor of the Canadian Transportation Agency was established to oversee the project. Laurier believed that healthy competition would force the Canadian Pacific Railway to lower freight rates. Construction led to significant cost overruns and eventually led to the Liberal downfall in 1911. 8 Acts bound together details below. 8vo. contemporary leather wrs. damage to lower spine [Ottawa: 1903-04] hardcover