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1978744a9966Victoria BC: British Columbia Provincial Museum 1978. Book. Good. Paperback. First Printing. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 84 pages. British Columbia Provincial Museum Heritage Record No. 5. Usual library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. British Columbia Provincial Museum Paperback
192323031Winnipeg: Women's Canadian Club 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 130 of 1000 copies subscribed for in advance. 8.5 x 6.25 in. 261 pp illustrated in blue pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Boards rubbed at extremities previous owner's information in ink on front free endpaper front hinge a bit wobbly. Binding otherwise sound text clean. Account of the lives pioneer women settlers of the Red River region of southern Manitoba. Women's Canadian Club hardcover
1924837a4623Winnipeg: Russell Lang & Co. Ltd. 1924. Book. Fair. Hardcover. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 261 pages. Black and white illustrations. Being an account written from the recollections of women surviving from the Red River era. - subtitle. A tribute to the women of an earlier day by The Canadian Women's Club. Colour frontispiece. Above-average wear. Hinges open. A worthy reading copy of this wonderful history. Russell, Lang & Co. Ltd. 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
1996744a9813Vancouver British Columbia Canada: Douglas & McIntyre Limited. Fair. 1996. First Edition. Paperback. 1550545221 . 244 pages. "In this timely revised edition Chief Joseph Gosnell Sr. and Ian MacKenzie pick up where Raunet left off describing the historic Agreement in Principle of February 1996 which promises Nisga'a self-government over a portion of their traditional territory and is destined to change the Canadian land claims negotiation process forever." - from back cover. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Moisture exposure to top edge - text unaffected. Reading copy only.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; INDIANS NORTH AMERICA CANADA SOCIAL Without Surrender Without Consent : A History of the Nisga'a Land Claims Settlement Chief Joseph Gosnell Sr. and Ian MacKenzie pick up where Raunet left off describing the historic Agreement in Principle of Februar . Douglas & McIntyre, Limited paperback
1979B10205bLondon: William Kimber 1979. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Clean With No Remarks Or Highlights. Illustrated With Black And White Photographs First Edition. 1979. In A Very Good Dust Jacket. 216 Pages With The Index. In A Very Good Dust Jacket. Price Clipped Dust Jacket.- Specializing in academic collectible and historically significant providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us. William Kimber hardcover
1980115a0084Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 126 pages. Author tells his story of ". upheaval civil disobedience jailing and months within the double barbed wire fence. It is a personal account of one of the blackest episodes in Canadian history - the forced evacuation during the second world war of 21000 Japanese from British Columbia." - from dust jacket. Two small spots of soiling to back board else book clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Very light wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in Brodart. Excellent copy of this somber story. University of Toronto Press Hardcover
1945515H3331Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1945. Book. Fair. Paperback. Revised Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 293 pages. A revised reprint of the 1937 first edition. "No one can fail to be interested by the vivid representation of life on a Canadian prairie farm. I should like to urge the British brides of this war WWII who are going to Canada to study this book with special care. They will find in its pages a story of sturdy courage and adaptability to new and difficult circumstances." - Foreword. Covers detached as one but present. Unmarked with above-average wear. A worthy vintage copy. Peel 3589 Whiteman 1092 Watters p.583. The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited Paperback
1915118a4725Toronto/London: The Canadian Field Comforts Commission/Hodder & Stoughton/The Musson Book Company 1915. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 119 pages. "Intended as a slight record of the 1st Canadian Contingent who endured the hard winter at Salisbury with such courage cheerfulness and patience and who fought so gallantly and determinedly at Ypres." - from introduction. Tissue-protected black and white frontisplate of H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught on horseback. Many other interresting black and white plates. Prior owner's initials and some ink scribbling upon front free endpaper. Above-average external wear. Binding somewhat tender. A worthy copy. The Canadian Field Comforts Commission/Hodder & Stoughton/The Musson Book Company Hardcover
1962717j1106Montreal Canada: The Eagle Publishing Co. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by author inside front board. "For the first hundred years in Canada only a minimal migration of adventurous Jews took place. This second century of Canadian Jewish history as we see it so clearly in this book was a history of wave after wave of immigration mostly from Europe but also more recently from Israel and North Africa. Dr. Kage properly analyzes for us the conflicts and the struggle to resolve them; the problems of adjustment and how they were met; the relationship to governmental agencies; and the functioning of our official community agencies." - Forward. vi vii-xiv 2 288 pages. Index. Footnotes. Bibliography. No dust jacket presumably as issued. Clean tight and unmarked with moderate wear to navy boards lettered in gilt. A sound signed copy of this informative history.; 0 pages; Signed by Author . The Eagle Publishing Co. hardcover
1986737a9574Vancouver British Columbia Canada: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd 1986. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 256 pages. Index. Selected bibliography. "In many ways this book is a native chronicle about being native for first person accounts enliven every facet of life in times past: the complex social structure based on kinship rank and the potlatch; ceremonials and religion; gathering food hunting and fishing; wood-working and basketry; trade travel and conflict; Prehistory and archaeological discoveries; the arrival of Whites and the fur trade followed by settlement and the consequences of change including the loss of their lands." - from dust jacket. Includes 200 photographs 40 of which are in colour. "A popular and up-to-date account of native life and traditions on the Northwest Coast." - from dust jacket. Partial lean to spine. Light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Douglas & McIntyre Ltd Hardcover
1982846G2548Canada: Windsor Publications Canada Ltd. 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 288 pages. Signed by author upon front free endpaper. Index. "The text is handsomely accompanied by several hundred historical illustrations many seldom published. A chapter with full-colour plates displays Winnipeg through paintings and contemporary photographs. Here is a lively and charmingly informative story of Winnipeg viewed in the long perspective of almost four centuries of time." - from dust jacket. Printed on glossy stock. Clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A superior copy. Windsor Publications (Canada) Ltd. Hardcover
1982533g0194Canada: Railfare 1982. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 192 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of over 300 archival black and white photos. "Traces this history of electric transportation in Winnipeg from the predecessor horsecar system to the final run of the streetcar in 1955 and the trolley coach in 1970. Will be invaluable to the urban historian and the electric railway enthusiast. Shows how Winnipeg and its transportation system developed together each influencing the other." - from dust jacket. Includes maps and images of tickets and transfers plus an all-time roster of cars and trolley coaches. The author has spent twenty years researching this subject. Moderate overall wear. Clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound copy of this excellent reference. Railfare Hardcover
1982218H3201Canada: Winkler Homecoming Committee 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. x 270 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. "A pictorial history of the growth and development of Winkler Manitoba and the activity and ingenuity of her people." - Foreword. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A handsome copy. Hackett 2 952. Winkler Homecoming Committee Hardcover
199872309319Madeira Park BC Canada: Harbour Publishing Company Limited 1998. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 391 pages including index and many black and white photographs. Part aviation history and part adventure tale this book is an engaging affectionate carefully researched history of Canadian Airlines International a company which in the best wingwalker tradition has performed in a series of heart-stopping life-and-death dramas for more than seventy years. Usual library markings. Moderate lean to spine. Harbour Publishing Company, Limited Hardcover
1995421H1223Canada: Self Published 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vii 107 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. Documents the history of No. 10 Service Flying Training School and No. 7 Bombing and Gunnery School which were hubs of Allied training activity near Dauphin Manitoba during the second world war. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with lightest wear. A quality copy of this important record. Self Published Hardcover
1993726H4582Canada: Turner-Warwick Publications Inc. 1993. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xii 388 pages. Glossary. Black and white maps and reproductions of photos. Includes lists of pilots and staff. Troops returning to Saskatchewan after WWII had learned of aviation. They turned this knowledge to good by using it to launch Saskatchewan's Air Ambulance Service. Clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A high-quality copy. Turner-Warwick Publications Inc. Hardcover
1994biblio317<p>At its peak Canada's British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was graduating over 1000 aircrew a month from over 100 training schools across Canada. This is the compelling record of the huge mobilization of personnel and resources required to get the plan off the ground and make it work day by day. Above all it is the story of the young men who entered the scheme as clerks and farmers students and salesmen and graduated as pilots navigators air gunners air bombers and flight engineers.</p> McClelland & Stewart paperback
1992761H4263La Ronge Saskatchewan: Pahkisimon Nuye ah Library System 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 146 pages. Index. Generously illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Printed upon glossy stock. "Recounts early adventures and traces the many ways in which the airplane has helped develop northern Saskatchewan since 1924. Tells of the brave pilots entrepreneurs aircraft engineers and others in the aviation industry who have played a vital role in opening the province's north." - dust jacket. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper otherwise book clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Light wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A lovely copy. Pahkisimon Nuye ah Library System Hardcover
1993546H1482Canada: W.S.A. 1993. Book. Illus. by Duncan Michael. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 131 pages. Handsomely illustrated in colour. Prior owner's bookplate upon front free endpaper otherwise clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. An excellent copy. W.S.A. Hardcover
1993654j0928Fairfield Washington: Ye Galleon Press. Very Good. 1993. First Edition. Paperback. 0877705151 . "This is the story of Sandon British Columbia from boom town to ghost town. It is the story of my life here - of the prospectors creatures and characters who have been my friends and companions." - Introduction. "Pelle Petersen 1916-1988 spent over 30 years in Sandon being the only person there. Many of the buildings there were kept standing because he shovelled the show off them." - page 1. 412 pages. Index. Black and white reproductions of archival photos and documents. 21" x 16" map of district land holdings in pocket at back. Suggested reading list. Tight and unmarked with light wear. Bump to lower back corner otherwise a quality copy of this fascinating history. Please note: this is a paperback copy despite what may appear elsewhere in this listing.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; History Silver Mines and Mining British Columbia Sandon Slocan Payne Discovery Carpenter-Seaton . Ye Galleon Press paperback
196883104159Toronto ON Canada: University of Toronto Press 1968. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 772 pages. Contains 37 papers based on the latest research and findings in the subject by authors from fifteen countries. Covers such topics as climatic factors boundary layer characteristics wind tunnel modelling full-scale measurements on buildings the performance and response of particular structures including towers and bridges and code criteria for design against wind. Book clean bright and unmarked. Average wear to dust jacket which bears several short tears. Excellent copy overall. University of Toronto Press Hardcover
1937322G3399Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited 1937. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 152 pages. Index. Black and white photographic plates. Subject was a prime mover in the early development of Ontario. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Fading/sunning to light green cloth-covered boards. A sound copy. The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited Hardcover
19731125557639Summerside P.E.I: H.B. Schurman 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 2 volumes in dust jackets 1394 pages 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations portraits booklet of maps and geneal. tables xxii p. in pocket at end of v. 2.William Schurman was born about 1743 in New Rochelle New York married Jane Bonnet in 1768 and Elizabeth Hyatt in 1778; immigrated to Prince Edward Island about 1783 and died at Bedeque 15 September 1819. Includes Clark Haslam Huestis Maxfield Wright and allied families. H.B. Schurman Hardcover