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80 pages. Reproductions of many photos, mementos, stories and anecdotes collected over the first twenty-five years of operation of this airline, founded in Lethbridge in 1966. Includes four-page list of employees. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Bit of peeling from decorated front free endpaper where attachment was removed. A quality copy of this enjoyable and informative review of the history and people behind this successful airline. Book
Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 182 pages, loaded with large b&w photos. Sections include: First Axes in the tmber; Logger's rest (woodchopper's champ); And timber became a crop; Fire in the timber; The power and the glory; each with subsections.
Ex-library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and the text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows light wear, no tears, taped to boards. Chapters include Indians and the forest, Coming of the white man, Pioneer export mills, Coming of the Easterners, American invasion 1900 -- 1914, Rise of the newspring ind. Forest Co.s come of age, WWI, The workers, Trading patterns betweent eh war, Technical advances, Cellulose Forestry and after the War, Pulp mill explosion and the Multinationals. Industry to 1974, etc.
Ex-library book with usual stamps, stickers, etc. Binding is solid and text is clean. Pen & ink illustrations, nice copy. 243 pages. Many illustrations and photos in color and b&w. Plus, it's very pretty.
243 pages. In July 1983, the author and his family defected from communist Czechoslovakia to Canada via Austria. This is their story. Average wear. Usual library markings. Binding sound. Book
Carta geografica della costa orientale degli Stati Uniti e del Canada, dalla Terra del Labrador alla Florida. Inserita nell'opera "La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo alessandrino, già tradotta di greco in italiano da M. Giero. Ruscelli: & hora in questa nuoua editione da M. Gio. Malombra ricorretta, & purgata d'infiniti errori: ... Con l'Espositioni del Ruscelli, ... Con una copiosa tauola de' nomi antichi, dichiarati co' nomi moderni: dal Malombra riueduta, & ampliata. Et con un Discorso di M. Gioseppe Moleto, .. "
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 167 pages. Many color photos.
français In-4 non paginé de 27 pp.; album cartonné de l'éditeur. Collection Des enfants et des animaux. Photos en couleur.
73 pages. Author's fourth collection of poetry. Based upon some of the themes expressed by Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra: conformism, otherworldliness, solitude, the creative affirmation of life, earth, will. Succeeds in creating a work of art that is both individualistic and profoundly lyrical. Prior owner's name blacked out upon title page, just above author's inscription and signature. Book
248 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Black and white photographic plates. "...Depicts a navy at mid-century determined to assert its distinct Canadian identity. Here is an account of a war viewed from the vantage point of the lower deck; of one whose own experience and those of his shipmates are testimony to the fact that those who served with the RCN in Korea acquitted themselves admirably and in a manner that has long deserved the recognition and respect of all Canadians." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Attractive dust jacket now in archival-grade Brodart cover. Excellent copy. Gift quality. Book
342 pages including index and many black and white photographs. "The years between 1822 and 1967 saw Canadian history in the making, not only in large cities and populated areas, but also in small rural communities such as Douro in Peterborough County. Herein are chronicled facts of historical importance in the area. There are also glimpses into the lives of many who served the township well during the generations. Some of these were very colourful folk indeed. Several of Canada's best known writers were domiciled here. Pioneer days in Upper Canada are recalled from old records, diaries and family lore.... Those who get to know Douro in these pages will appreciate how proud its natives are of their township and why many visitors return here year after year. Here is law observance and a history of good interfaith and interracial relations which could be a model for all Canada" - from dust jacket. Small gift greetings atop page III else sparkling clean and unmarked. Faintest wear overall. Dust jacket now preserved in Brodart cover. A beautiful copy. Book
494 pages. Apparently rebound in black half-leather and blue/gold marbled boards and endpapers. Index. "In 1899 a treaty with the Indians of the great Mackenzie basin followed the report of a Senate select Committee, chaired by Sir John Schultz; but, owing to the absence of roads and markets, and other essentials of civilized life, not to speak of the vast unsettled areas of prairie to the south, the incoming, until now that the railways are projected, of any great body of immigrants was very wisely discouraged, and this in the interest of the settler himself. The following narrative, therefore, has lain in the author's diary since the year of the expedition it records." - Preface. Numerous black and white photographic plates including tissue-protected frontis. Attractive colour fold-out map dated 1900 depicts the areas encompassed by Treaty No. 8 and the Indian tribes therein. Top edge gilt. Contents clean and unmarked. Tight and square with moderate external wear. Wallace p.54, Lande 1332, Peel [3] 2463. Book
British condensed edition. Fine in pictorial boards. 6363. eng
xv, 364 pp. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Black and white illustrations. "Offers a colourful and thoroughly researched account of Canada's silent service, from its unexpected inauguration in British Columbia on the first day of the Great War to its uncertain future today. Celebrates the individuals who dedicated and in some instances gave their lives to Canada's submarine service." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Moderate lean to spine. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Cooke [3] p.69 Book
240 pages including index. Through colourful anecdotes, documented reports and personal remembrances, Ian Mahood tells of the birth and eventual death of forest management in British Columbia. Gift greetings and discard stamp upon front endpaper else book clean and unmarked with light wear. Moderate wear to dust jacket. Solid copy. Book
Grace Irwin has had a career varied and independent enough to satisfy any feminist: as classicist, teacher, novelist, lecturer, play-director, amateur actress, pastor, and ordained minister; also home-maker, cook, baker, and party-giver. Here, however, her aim is to pay tribute to others, as she writes with disarming admiration and warmth in prise of three men whose lives and personalities contributed largely to her own: two John Irwins--one her farther, the other her brother, well known for his achievements in forestry and publishing--and Herbert Harold Kent, architect and pastor. She relates the intertwining of their lives and hers in highly readable, often pungent, prose. Herself completely and joyfully feminine, she nonetheless resents the current downgrading of the Male Fact--a theme that runs through this lively, celebratory memoir.243p.plstesHoffman, William and Headley, Lake Book
201 pages of profoundly fascinating and delightful illustrated history. Author's father (b. 1870) left Yorkshire, England with his young family for Canada in 1909 and arrived in Fife Lake, Saskatchewan where they spent their first winter in a straw house. Author was born in a sod house in 1910 and moved with his family to Montana when he was 6 years old. At age 14 the family moved to Victoria, B.C. and from there to Nanoose Bay, further up Vancouver Island. Most pages contain brief text, accompanied by the author's simple sketches of the way things were. He has stressed the most practical elements of daily life and survival. A priceless compilation of the challenges and genius of the pioneer. Examples include: how to hunt prairie antelope by wearing a white sheet; avoiding flying ants by erecting a pole to your wagon and hanging a coat at its top; uprooting stumps by tying them to nearby trees to be felled; cutting wood by rigging a buzzsaw to the back wheel of a Model "T" Ford truck; and many, many more. Mentions Vancouver Island landmarks such as the Arlington Hotel, Lantzville Hotel, Quarterway Hotel, and more. This book lends itself wonderfully to teaching youngsters the ways of the not-so-distant past. You will have great difficulty in putting it down. Book
408 pages including glossary, sources and index. Black and white illustrations. "A book about a time when a young boy could start in the mine as the lowest of workers and could become, through a lot of hard work and a little luck, a boss or even a millionaire." - from Preface. Author's signature upon title page. Usual library markings. Only light wear. A quality copy. Book
319p., illus. Hardcover Good condition
217 pages including extensive list of sources and index. Black and white illustrations. Author's signature upon title page. "Drawing upon a rich mix of letters, memoirs, interviews and her own consummate storytelling skills, author Lynne Bowen has crafted a fascinating tale of the colourful characters who settled in one of the world's most naturally abundant regions." - from dust jacket. One square inch discolouration upon back free endpaper else clean, bright and unmarked with very light evidence of handling. Excellent copy. Gift quality. Book
176 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. List of Some Canadian Merchant ships sunk by enemy action during World War II. List of some Newfoundland Sailing Vessels Sunk by U-Boats in World War I and II. "Author served 24 years as a master of various C.N. vessels including the William Carson and the Ambrose Shea. In 1985 he was appointed Assistant Marine Superintendant and then served as Marine Superintendant until his retirement in 1990." - from back cover. Book
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 120 pages. 8 1/4"w x 10 3/4"h. Many b&w photos and illustrations.
Book is in excellent condition with grey cloth boards, black print at spine. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket is tattered with edge and corner wear, multiple small tears. 192 pages with 1 - 8 b&w photos on every page.
401 pages. Map endpapers. Many black and white illustrations within text. "From dinosaurs to dynamos, here at last is the true story of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam!" - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked. Some lean to spine. Obituary of William Clark Mearns affixed inside back board. Very light wear overall. Nice copy. Book
Book is in excellent condition with the slightest of shelf wear only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Full page and dual page color photos, map endpapers, 175 pages.
