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36 pages. Features: Armorial Bearings - Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; Heraldry in the Netherlands; An Heraldic Monstrosity - the many 'quartered' arms of Capt. T.L. Jones-Parry; The Annual Meeting; A Recent Grant of Arms; Book Plate Collecting; Heraldic Book Plate; Une Quebecoise Duchesse de Bassano; Ottawa Honours Foot Guards; 'Cromwell' Good on Heraldry; Un Cardinal Italien Cure au Canada; Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk (including one-page photo of him); A Very Special Grant; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
24 pages. Features: Canada at Work - These are the Workers - colour photos and brief writeups of the following workers; Beverly Frederickson of Winnipeg, Abner Napoleon of Montreal, Ed Weiterman of Edmonton, Shyanne Smith of Saint John, Wallace Wisen of Halifax, Elizabeth Wardle of Whitehorse, Eldon G. Owens of Moose Jaw, Frank McNeill of Alberton, PEI, Monika Wicha of Toronto, Peter Howard of Vancouver, Peter Cardinal of the NWT, and Theophilus Noel of Labrador. The Long, Lonely Road - article and photos of the life of long-distance truckers Bud Ferris and Marcel Clement; Labour Minister Bryce Mackasey - he's brought a new look to labor-management relations - article with photos; Tips for children's parties you will always remember; According to Doyle; Sportsman cigarette ad on back cover. Printed by newspapers across Canada as a weekend supplement. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
171 pages. Signed and inscribed by author and illustrator upon front free endpaper. "This book is not a history piece. The tidbits of historical fact sprinkled herein are incidental to our real purpose. For we are not trying merely to inform you, we want to take it a step further. We hope rather to move you, to help you sense and feel the pulse, the beat and the drama of those times. The images and words are offered as a celebration of the excitement and romance of an era and a people whose resourcefulness and courage are worthy of great tribute." - from Introduction. Dozens of superb colour photos and several wonderful colour reproductions of wartime posters. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Price-clipped dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Book
[1-2], 3-31 pages. Attractively illustrated in colour throughout. This WWII-era Canadian cookbook promoted the use of St. Lawrence Starch Co. Ltd's corn syrup as a wartime substitute for sugar, which was rationed at the time. Clean, tight and unmarked with light wear. A tidy vintage copy. 16.5 x 12cm. Driver O1054.1. Book
62 pages. Features: Collectors and Dealers - Antours; Collecting Ironstone; Christmas in Canada; Fraktur Artist Jospeh Bauman, 1815-1890; Letters from Beatrix Potter; English Silversmiths in the Family Business; Blanket Chests from Prince Edward Island; The Potters of Paris, Ontario; Watches for the Collector. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Meeting the Challenge of Adaptive Re-use - in the city of Kitchener, Ontario - 410 King St. W., the Kaufman footwear complex; Downsizing and Privatizing in the Good Ol' 90s; Charles B. Ross and his Sash and Door Factory in Blackville; The Victorian Factory Phenomenon - Tales of the Cotton and Candy in New Brunswick - the Ganong Chocolate factory in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Modest moisture exposure near one corner else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A worthy copy. Book
Features: The Carnegie Libraries of Canada; Funerary Heritage at Risk; The Legacy of Alexander Strathie - the architecture of the Strathie Family of Bonavista, Newfoundland; Closing the Seagram Museum - an era ends in redevelopment controversy in Waterloo, Ontario; Historic Preservation in Fort Simpson, NWT; Myrtleville's 160th Anniversary. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
Features: Parodies of the Past - Vancouver is awash with fake heritage homes; New Buildings - Old Values - Vancouver's Recent Landmarks; Opportunity Lost - Vancouver's Canron Steel Plant falls to the wreckers; The economics of conserving built heritage; In Memoriam - Gabrielle Leger; Help for Heritage Tourism; Peterborough Armoury 'structurally unsafe' for Regiment; The Macdonell-Williamson House in Pointe-Fortune, on the Ontario-Quebec border; Heritage buildings on the block in Saint John, NB - Centracare Complex and Centenary Queen Square United Church; Brampton's sense of its own history questioned. (Please note: front cover incorrectly states this is the Spring 1998 issue) Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
Features: Green Bay Match Race - Victory for Canada; A New Star Sailor Shines - Dennis Conner; MORC - a look at the smaller deep water sailboat; Victory Chimes - last and largest of the original Atlantic Coast Three Masters; Sailing in Kansas?; Aboard QUEEN MAB; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
Stories: Sturgeon Fishing in Canada; Dynamite Joe; Round the World on Four Shillings; A Cowboy in Trouble; Zaman's Paradise; How We Saved the Indian Empire; The Sign; The flag-pole; Blind Peter; The Lamb-Eater Bore; The Viaduct; Muldoon's Gold Mine. Above-average but not excessive wear. Covers present but detached from textblock. Book
Stories: How We Saved Norway's Gold; The Flying Dutchman; Loosewallah; Blue Water Andy; The Pir's Tomb; A Greenhorn in Canada; Breaking Point; The Bood-Feud at Zur; Ants; Neilson's New Man; Huberta the Hippo; A Papuan Vendetta. Above-average wear. Book
760 pages. Index. References. Black and white photographic plates. Fold-out maps. This volume covers the period from the end of WWI until 1967. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Book
44 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Bulldog Kelly - Cold-Blooded Murderer; Victoria Mariner's Search for Gold - Capt. C.H. McLeod; Daredevil in a Petticoat - Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor was the first person to plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell the tale; Some Facts About Gold (part 2); A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey - when colonists arrived in the promised land there was no one to meet them and none of the food, lodging or transportation they had been promised; The Night of the Meteors; West with the Harvesters - an army of 1,500 adventurers headed west to harvest the wheat and perhaps grow up with the country; Ghost Town Log (part 1) - British Columbia offers hundreds of ghost towns, mining camps and historic sites; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
267 pages including references and black and white illustrations. Chapters include: The Heritage; The Royal Navy and its Medical Services in Canada; R.C.N. Beginnings; World War I (1914-1918); Hiatus - Between Wars; A Growing Naval Medical Service; Teh Working Milieu Ashore; War at Sea; Experiences, Commendations and Deaths; As Told By Eyewitnesses; After War Horizons; The Post War - A Time of Change. Liquid paper has been applied to front endpaper else contents unmarked. Adhesives have been mostly removed from spine and front board. Library stamp is upon top edge of text. Light wear to blue boards with gilt lettering. Contents tight and square. Remains a nice copy. Book
137 pages. "Chronicles some amazine exploits of Search and Rescue in eastern Canada." - from Foreword. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of archival black and white photos. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. An excellent copy. Book
387 pages. Index. Printed on glossy stock. Lovely colour illustrations throughout. Text in French. "...est le premier volume d'une serie, publiee par les Archives publiques, intitulee Les documents de notre histoire. Cette serie s'adresse au grand public ainsi qu'aux etudiants. Ell montre des documents souvent inedits et peu connus que les chercheurs consultent pour ecrire l'histoire du Canada." - from back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Binding tight. A quality copy of this wonderful work. Book
206 pages. Topics: The Stendall Site (C3-Wa-1) in the rural municipalilty of Wallace, Manitoba; A Salvage Survey of the Upper Highwood and Elbow River Basins and the Adjacent Upper Kananaskis Basin, Alberta; Preliminary Investigation in the St. Mary and Belly River Regions, 1973; Preliminary Description and Interpretation of the S.S. Burmis Site (DjPn-62) 1974; Chipman River Survey and Excavation, Black Lake; The Bakken-Wright Site - a multi-component bison kill in southwestern Saskatchewan. Somewhat above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
Brand new book in excellent condition in every respect. Signed on the title page by both authors.
Book shows the slightest indication of edge wear and is otherwise in excellent condition with no other flaws. Text/interior is free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows very light edge and corner wear also, no tears, no chipping. 455 pages with a huge number of full page color prints. Impressvie volume. "For 44 years Morant crisscrossed the country on passenger trains, enroute to and from assignments to all the subsidiaries of Canadian Pacific. He chronicled the times, writing for the company magazine as well as photographing developments on the railway. These photos are the subject of this book. Here then is a book of photographs of the Canadian Pacific Railway over the years, from 1929 to 1981, the span of Morant's career as a photographer. Our hope is that it will be the finest book ever produced on the CPR." In business for 21 years, we provide excellent and responsive customer service and ship in padded packing material.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 304 pages with many full-page photos, biographies, overhead photos, etc.
First edition. From a total large-paper edition of 114 numbered copies, this is ONE OF 100 PRINTED ON FINE WOVE PAPER AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, original wraps. UNCUT, FINE AND BRIGHT, with no defects.
1st edition. Original pictoral wrappers, 8vo, 78 pages. 23 cm. In Yiddish. Title translates as, Verses: A textbook for the Yiddish School. Nice period cover illustration of girl jumping rope as birds fly above; Stamp form the Peretz School in Winnipeg on endpaper and from and rear cover. SUBJECT (S) : Yiddish poetry. Children's literature, Yiddish. OCLC lists 6 copies worldwide. 1923 stamped on upper margin of front cover, Light wear, Good Condition. (YID-28-1)
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. Previous owner's name inside. 1212 pages. Sixth Edition. Bright purple cover.
Paris, C. Reinwald Libraire-Éditeur, 1884. 4to.mayor; XVIII-412 pp. con un estado plegado Encuadernación moderna en media tela.