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ria9781433157370_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Desegregation of the New York City Schools: A Story of The Silk Stocking Sisters was written to finally shed light on efforts made by an urban public school to meet the challenges of equal education opportunity in the North. hardcover
A9781433157370Hardback. New. Desegregation of the New York City Schools: A Story of The Silk Stocking Sisters was written to finally shed light on efforts made by an urban public school to meet the challenges of equal education opportunity in the North. hardcover
1931623G1655Victoria B.C.: The Colonist Printing and Publishing Company 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 146 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Edward and Lort 2373. Chapters are devoted to: Sister Mary of the Conception; Sister Mary Lumena; Sister Mary Bonsecours; Sister Mary Clement; Mother Mary Anne of Jesus. Includes a brief report of the work of the Sisters of St. Ann in education and hospitals on Vancouver Island in the twentieth century. Bright gilt lettering upon chocolate brown backstrip. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Curious performations to upper portion of back free endpaper are near spine so relatively unobtrusive. Slight lean to spine. A sound copy of this informative reference. The Colonist Printing and Publishing Company Hardcover
1998CAN1563Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771085621 . 306 pp. Photos. Index. Spine corners bumped. Jacket has edgewear. Signed by the author. Inscribed 'For wolves and wilderness' and signed by both authors. Describes one of the longest running wolf studies in North America a study of the wolves of Algonquin Park in Ontario. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by All Authors . McClelland & Stewart hardcover
1962529H1921Youngstown Alberta: The Youngstown Women's Institute 1962. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 76 pages. Grainy black and white reproductions of archival photos. Map of district. Presents biographical details of numerous settlers of this rural Alberta region. Above-average wear and soiling. Lower corner of entire book was exposed to moisture resulting in considerable staining and foxing. Fortunately all text remains legible. Prior owner's details blacked out atop first blank page otherwise unmarked. Binding intact. Not pretty but a worthy copy of this valuable genealogical reference. Krotki 1143. The Youngstown Women's Institute Paperback
1927628a2155Kitchener Ontario: The Waterloo Historical Society 1927. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The Eleventh annual report from 1923 includes: Annual Meeting President's Address - Early Settlements in Upper Canada - W.H. Breithaupt; Aboriginal Agriculture in Southwest Ontario - William Herriot; War Memorials of Waterloo County - Miss L.M. Bruce; Brubacher Family History - Benjamin Brubacher; Eby Family - A.A. Eby; Biography of Miss L.M. Bruce; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier; Illustrations of the Ayr Monument Trinity Church Tablet Galt and Miss L.M. Bruce. Twelfth Annual Report from 1924 includes: Early Days in Ayr - Miss E.D. Watson; The Trees of Waterloo County - William Herriot; Jacob Y. Shantz and Russian Mennonites - H.M. Bowman; Reminiscences of Freeport - M.G. Sherk; Biography of Thomas Carscadden; Biography of David Forsyth; Illustrations of Jacob Y. Shantz Shantz homestead Shantz barns Freeport Academy Group photo of Freeport Academy teachers and students with names circa 1869 Thomas Carscadden David Forsyth. Thirteenth Annual Report from 1925 contains: History of the Galt Collegiate Institute 1881-1914; Reminiscences of Early Waterloo; Galt Sixty Years Ago; The Exiles of 1838; Biography of Sir Adam Beck; Biography of Dr. John Beattie Crozier Supplemental. Includes illustrations of Galt Collegiate Institute Thomas Carscadden The Old Galt Hish School Sheriff A.S. Allan and Sir Adam Beck. Fourteenth Annual Report from 1926 includes: The Galt Collegiate Institute 1914-1926; The Waterloo County Pioneers Memorial Tower; The Public Schools of Galt; Also includes a biography of Dr. Augustus Stephen Vogt. Illustrations include: Pioneers' Memorial Tower; Galt Collegiate Institute 1924; Dr. Augustus Vogt; Officers Pioneers' Memorial Association. Additional articles: Blazing the Trail in New Dumfries; The Pennsylvania-German in History; Significance of the Memorial Tower. Fifteenth Annual Report from 1927 covers: The Trail of the Aborigines through Waterloo County; History of the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate and Vocational School; Early Days of Elmira; Hespeler Public Schools; Hespeler Public Library; The Reserve of the Six Nations Indians on the Grand River and the Mennonite Purchase; Origin of the Place and Stream Names of Waterloo County; Museum Report etc.; Current History; plus biographies of Hugh McCulloch and John Mickleborough. Illustrations include: Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate & Vocational School; Map of Waterloo County-Places and Streams; Old Waterloo Mill. Unmarked with average wear. Binding sound. Gilt lettering upon green spine. Prior owner's small bookplate inside front board. A sound copy. The Waterloo Historical Society Hardcover
0919316018.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1949155G4879Vancouver: Vancouver British Columbia 1949. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 536 pages. Fold-out campus map at back. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Minimal light pencil markings to contents. A worthy vintage copy of this wonderful snapshot of UBC in the early post-WWII years. Vancouver, British Columbia Paperback
19251125558865Saint John NB : The United Hotel Company of America 1925. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. embossed and engraved cover with string tie at spine with 8 pp. laid-in with menu invitation and list of American hotels owned by the company. back cover shows some soil else a very good copy .An important ephemeral item of Saint Johns' history. "the Beatty" hosted many famous vistors and on May 20 1932 the Admiral Beatty Hotel's dining room was visited by Amelia Earhart who went there for breakfast.She stayed at the hotel the previous night after flying to Millidgeville N.B. that day. At the dining room she met a Saint John Telegraph-Journal reporter who gave her a copy of the newspaper published that day which featured her. Earhart then flew to Ireland taking the newspaper with her making the copy according to the Telegraph-Journal "the first North American newspaper to arrive in Europe on its day of publication". The United Hotel Company of America Paperback
1989341h6078British Columbia: The Trophy Wildlife Records Club of British Columbia. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1989. Third Edition. Hardcover. "The official records book for native big game trophies taken in British Columbia. Containing more than 3000 entries in 18 categories the book lists over 1000 entries which have been received since the 1983 Edition. Includes several topical articles by provincial wildlife biologists and a wide variety of stories describing many of the hunts which produced outstanding tropies - all in the words of the successful hunters. Featured are a majority of the trophies which won first or second place at the Sixth Awards Banquet in 1986. This is a book for all who are interested in the native big game of British Columbia." - dust jacket. 295 pages. Black and white photos. Includes entries up to March 1st 1988. Book clean bright tight and unmarked. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A handsome copy.; 8vo . The Trophy Wildlife Records Club of British Columbia hardcover
1974717a2032Canada: The T. Eaton Co. Limited 1974. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 886 pages. Contemporary features include Levi's jeans bomber jackets men's platform shoes. My my how styles changed in little more than 30 years! Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Would make a great gift for someone born in 1974. The T. Eaton Co. Limited Paperback
1978613j0394Fort St. James British Columbia: The Stuart Lake Figure Scating Club. Good. 1978. First Edition. Plastic Comb Binding. 52 pages. Includes nostalgic ads for local businesses. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy of this nice Fort St. James keepsake.; 8vo . The Stuart Lake Figure Scating Club unknown
1999837c7133Sherwood Park Alberta: The Strathcona County Retired Teachers' Association 1999. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 361 pages. Dozens of black and white photos. "A tribute to the Boards the parents and the students the teachers and the administrators whose contributions kept Strathcona well to the forefront." - from Editor's Note. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper otherwise clean bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Spine leaning. A quality copy of this nostalgic and informative work. The Strathcona County Retired Teachers' Association Hardcover
0282853200.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19588014Montreal PQ Canada: The Social Register of Canada Limited 1958. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue boards with gilt lettering. FIRST EDITION. Three volume edition set. Lists of people and their addresses in Canada. Also lists Canadians abroad. The time span covers 1958 1959 and 1960. First edition has 653 pages plus an index the second edition has 683 pages plus an index and the third edition has 937 pages plus an index. <br/><br/> The Social Register of Canada Limited hardcover
1985627a4694British Coliumbia: The Sicamous - Eagle Valley Centennial Book Committee 1985. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 387 pages. Circa 1985. Many excellent archival black and white photos. Clean bright and unmarked with light wear. An attractive copy. The Sicamous - Eagle Valley Centennial Book Committee Hardcover
1928229208Ottawa: F. A. Acland Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1928. Hardcover. Very Good. 7 x 10. 338 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. A pocket with 9 maps attached to the back endpaper. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in green cloth with fading gilt titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Lightly faded on the spine. SCARCE. VG <br/> <br/> F. A. Acland, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty hardcover
195042102562Toronto: Baptist Johnston Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty 1950. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 933 pages. The Commission was appointed in 1945 to "inquire into and report upon the provincial education system and without derogating from the generality thereof including courses of study text books examinations financing and the general system and scheme of elementary and secondary schools involving public schools separate schools schools for the training of teachers and all other schools under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education as well as the selection and training of teachers inspectors and other officials of such schools and the system of provincial and local school administration." - from page vi. Includes the following sections: The Educational Scene; Aims of Education; Proposed Reorganization of Elementary and Secondary Education; The Pupil's Growth and Progress; Programmes for the Schools of the Reorganized Educational System; Social Spiritual and other Aspects of Education; Centralization and Decentralization in Administration; Development and Present Status of Local School Administration; Local School Administration Under Other Jurisdictions; Local Education Authorities in the proposed Reorganization; Other Aspects of the Local Administration of Education; The Supervisor of Education; The Central Education Authority; Exceptional Children; History of the French Language in teh Publicly Supported Schools of Ontario; Recommendations on the Teaching and Use of the French Language; Origin and Development of Separate Schools in Ontario; Roman Catholic Separate Schools in the Reorganized Educational System; Protestant and Coloured Separate Schools in the Reorganized Educational System; The Teaching Staff of the Publicly Supported Schools of Ontario; Recommendations with Respect to the Professional Preparation of Teachers; Conditions of Service of Teaching Personnel; Community Programmes of Adult Education and Recreation; School Site Plant and Equipment; Other Educative Agencies; The Development of Methods of Financing Education in Ontario; Our Proposed Method of Financing the Educational Programme; Divergence of Opinion Within the Commission; Conclusion; Minority Report and Memoranda; Appendices. Navy boards. Well-preserved with very light wear and soiling externally. Contents clean bright and unmarked. Binding sound. A superior copy of this landmark work. Baptist Johnston (Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty) Hardcover
A9780309100687Paperback / softback. New. The LOSLR Study uses models to compile and integrate data gathered from a series of commissioned studies of wetlands species at risk recreational boating fisheries coastal erosion and flooding commercial navigation hydropower industrial municipal and domestic water intakes public information and education and hydrologic modeling. paperback
1989627a2837Canada: The Regina Beach Historical Society. Very Good. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0919781802 . 462 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Illustrated endpapers. Prior owner's name neatly atop front free endpaper else clean bright and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Right to the Point: A History of Regina Beach Saskatchewan . The Regina Beach Historical Society hardcover
1968118c7143Calgary AB Canada: Regimental Depot The Queen's Own Rifles. Fair. 1968. First Edition. Paperback. 199 pages. Many pages of contemporary Calgary advertisements. Black and white photographic plates. The 1967 chronicle of The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada. Usual library markings. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Home Station Regiment Currie Barracks Calgary Alberta Power Horn The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada Cyprus . Regimental Depot, The Queen's Own Rifles paperback
1944846G3051Ottawa: The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada 1944. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Original Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Speakers' Handbook for use in the run-up to the Canadian federal election of 1945. Printing date not stated but was most likely 1944 possibly 1945. Unpaginated. Two inches thick. Provides the full spectrum of PC policies and points with which to attack the Liberal and C.C.F. parties. Contents divided into the following sections: Table of Contents; Leadership - with considerable biographical information on PC leader John Bracken; War Policy and Veterans; Agriculture; Labour; Reconstruction and Natural Resources; Transportation; International Problems; Liberal Policy; C.C.F. Policy. The sections on Liberal and C.C.F. policies extensively document the perceived weaknesses of these parties and were no-doubt intended to serve as the arsenal of attack ads and talking points to be used against these parties. Unmarked. Average wear and soiling. Due to wartime restrictions these handbooks were string-bound. Provides a comprehensive snapshot of the Canadian federal political scene prior to the election of 1945 as seen from the PC perspective. A unique and highly-informative WWII-era Canadian federal political memento. The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Paperback
0365665843.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1990155G0800British Columbia: F.F.G R.M. 1990. Book. Very Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 56 pages. Includes lists of additional sources and postmasters. ".Relates to the establishment of postal service and the anchoring of a name to a community. The postmarks reproduced here can be considered to be the official seal of the communities" - from introduction. Discusses the following postal service communities: Aleza Lake Chief Lake Cranberry Lake Croydon Station Dewey Dome Creek Dunster Giscome Giscome Portage Henningville Hutton Mills Longworth Loos Lucerne Station McBride Newlands Station Nichol Penny Prince George Raush Valley Tete Jaune and Willow River. Publisher's ink stamp inside front cover otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Undated but printed in recent years - we estimate in 1990. A nice copy. F.F.G R.M. Paperback
1986713G1234British Columbia Canada: Publisher. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0889257248 . 344 pages including index and footnotes. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. "Covers the time span from when the earliest white settlers arrived in the Cowichan Valley to 1920 when conditions changed very rapidly. Includes the area extending from Maple Bay to Lake Cowichan and from Cowichan Bay and Cowichan Station north to Westholme. Puts the stories of these women in the context of their times therefore the reader will find that the Valley's history has been divided into naturally occurring sections showing where development took place. The first part of each section sketches the history of that period and is followed by the life stories of various women who settle in the valley at that time." - Preface. An excellent genealogical reference. Clean bright and unmarked with very light wear. A nice copy. Hale & Barman 353.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Pioneer Researchers: Compilers Memories Never Loss - Stories of the Pioneer Women of the Cowichan Valley and a Brief History of the Valley 1850-1920 Westholme Bay Station Maple . Publisher hardcover