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180 pages including index. Describes how the CPR developed and promoted Canadian tourism in its quest for a profitable passenger line. Along the way it established not only an extensive network of rail, ship, and hotel services, but also the groundwork for Canada's national identity. Wonderfully and bountifully illustrated, primarily in black and white plus gorgeous colour reproductions of nostalgic promotional literature. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Giftable condition. Excellent copy. Book
Un volume (19 cm) di 447 pagine. Timbro al titolo. In lingua inglese. Tela editoriale con titolo dorato al piatto (un numero aggiunto al dorso). Ottime condizioni.
238p., illus. Hardcover Very good condition good
This is the first book of poetry by Ted Plantos, Self issued in a printing of 200 copies with drawings by Aiko Suzuki and signed .Unpaginated. In addition to his own work he was active in encouraging other writers - as organizer of the Toronto Public Library's reading series, founder of the Cross Canada Writers' Magazine and co-founder of the Canadian Poetry Association.The Ontario Poetry Association established The Ted Plantos Memorial Award in his honour. Book
xxiv, 559, [65] pages. Eight fold-out maps. Black and white photographic plates. "Almost sixty years have passed since the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada was authorized as a regiment in the Canadian Militia. This volume covers the story of the regiment from the time it returned home in 1919 up to the present day." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A superb copy. Edwards & Lort 3060. Hale 2487. Cuddy & Scott page 77, Cooke (2nd Edn) page 185. Book
Former library book with the usual stamps, stickers, etc. showing little use with lightly bumped corners, text/interior clean of marking of any kind. 80 pages, with many large b&w photos. 80 pages. 8 1/2"w x 11"h.
421 pages including index and many black and white photographic plates from the Bank's archives. Written to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Scotiabank. Examines the history of the Bank as part of the larger history of Nova Scotia, the Maritimes, Canada, and, ultimately, the world financial community. An important contribution to banking, corporate, and Canadian history. Wonderful unmarked copy very closely approaching As New condition. Book
406 pages. Extensive footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Explains how and why Canada was able to play in the big leagues of military technology, particularly in the development of radar, RDX explosives, proximity fuses, chemical and biological warfare, and the atomic bomb with the outbreak of WWII." - dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Sticker remnant on back panel of dust jacket which otherwise shows light wear and is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
116 pages. Fiction: The Second Mrs. Thorpe; The Mysterious Mr. Todd; The Lady Called Brazil; Tornado!; Ambush at Blanco Canyon (part 2 of 4); The Girl From the Mimosa Club (parf 4 of 7); The conclusiong of Doom Cliff. Articles: What Happened to the Magic of Childhood? - They are missing the aimless days we used to know; Alan Ladd - Hollywood's Unlikely Hero - with several photos including Sophia Loren and Marilyn Monroe; The Secrets of Jamestown - extraordinary treasures unearthed during restoration for 350th birthday; How the Israelis Blitzed Nasser's Army - article with photos of Dayan and his men, and other scenes; We Made the "Impossible" Tour - Conclusion - The Land of Fire - three agonizing miles of travel in southern Argentina; The Face of America - Great color photo inside caboose; Incredible New Frontier - Kitimat, British Columbia. Ads: Nostalgic two-page Inco ad explains their developments in the Mystery-Moak Lakes area of northern Manitoba (perhaps the site of modern-day Thompson?); Nice color one-page ad for Heinz Campside beans; Nice two-page photo ad for General Motors highlights Keene, New Hampshire, home of Kingsbury Machine Tool Corporation - with photos of Mayor J. Alfred Dennis, H.T. Kingsbury, Chester L. Kingsbury, Gunnar Swahnberg, Ed Kingsbury, Earl Riley, Jim Riley, and Blair Howe; Nice two-page ad for Westinghouse TVs; Whitman's Chocolates; Campbell's Soup; Fantastic two-page Cadillac ad displays a red Sedan de Ville four-door hartdop; Tareyton; Pontiac; De Soto cars - nice color photo; American Airlines - two-pages in color; 1957 Mercury cars with great color image of a red Colony Park station wagon with new power-lift back window; Cushman Eagle mini-bike; Detroit Diesel - quarry scene in color; Frigidaire clothes washers; Canada tourism; GMC Trucks - the 860 Diesel; Chief Engineer Roebling, the man behind the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, is honored in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Great vintage National Cash Register (NCR) ad inside back cover - their new register calculates change!. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
134 pages. Contributors include: Isaac F. Marcosson, Vincent sheean, Nunnally Johnson, Alfredo Codona, Gilbert Patten, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Colonel Givens, John H. Doeg. Lovely vintage advertisements from: Whitman's Chocolates, Campbell's Soup, De Soto, Cadillac V-8, GM Radio, Oldsmobile, Ford Auto, Hudson and Essex, Reo-Royale, Willys Cars, Log Cabin Syrop, Auburn Auto, Sparton Radio, Nash Auto, Packard, Franklin Auto, Canada Dry. Articles include: Dime-Novel Days, Gymnasts (The Flying Codonas), Nevada Stories, Tennis as a Career, The Secretary to President Coolidge. Large tear to cover-fold and front cover else average wear. Nice solid copy. Book
xii, 215 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Maps, graphs, tables, and many black and white illustrations. "The story of the rise, spread, and fall of the Orange Order of Canada. Explains how this immigrant, ethnic ideology, widely-known for its Protestant Irishness, opposition to Roman Catholics, and loyalty to the British royal family, managed to become so dominant, especially in Ontario, New Brunswick and Newfoundland." - dust jacket. Former library copy with usual markings. Dust jacket preserved in new archival-grade Brodart. A sound reference copy. Book
Pages 308-412. Features: Frontispiece photo of Horace Brown; Salmon marking in Norway - the lessons of 1935; In Praise of Horsehair and How to Use it; ; Scotland's Salmon Season - a good year for grilse, but poor for autumn fish; A Book of Two Peoples - Norwegian trout fishing in the 1880's; In the Outer Isles - Trout Fishing in the Sandy and Peaty Lochs of Uist; ; How to Select and Preserve Sandeels - some suggestions for the salmon fisher; Freshwater Fisheries in North America - some notes of a tour in parts of Canada and teh U.S.A.; Biological Notes; Reviews of new books; The Jolly Angler (continued). Average wear. Few institutional library markings. A sound vintage copy. Book
Neat unmarked copy.481p. Book
VG/G .dj is a touch tarnished with some missing notches and cuts to edges. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. attractive clean copy. First Edition. 8vo.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 223 pages. Many b&w illustrations. Small tear at top of spine.
viii, 272 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations, maps and reproductions of archival photos. "An interesting history is one of the greatest resources a nation may possess. It inspires the soul of patriotism. No country is richer in this source of inspiration than Canada, and of its story no part is more romantic than that of the Prairie Provinces." - Preface. The eighteen chapters include: The First Inhabitants; The First White Men on the Prairie; Life on the Banks of the Red River; How the Riel Rebellion Produced the Province of Manitoba; and more. Publisher's stamp atop front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding sound. A quality vintage copy of this engaging and informative vintage work. Peel [2] 3169, Artibise 16. Book
40 pages. Undated, possibly circa 1960. Oblong 8.5" x 11". Presents 18 colour-photo-like illustrations of scenes including: The Three Sisters; Mount Rundle and Vermillion Lake; Town of Banff; Banff Springs Hotel; Bow Valley; Cascade of Time; Mount Assiniboine; Mount Eisenhower; Bow Lake; Lake Louise; Mount Lefroy and Victoria Glacier; Lake in the Clouds; Chateau Lake Louise; Moraine Lake and Valley of the Ten Peaks; Takakkaw Falls, Yoho Valley; The Great Divide; Spiral Tunnels at Kicking Horse Pass; Emerald Lake and Mount President. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage item intended for tourists of a prior generation. 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.
Suggested political and economic agenda for Canada by a Greek Canadian writer A Greek Canadian author "Philippe Gigantes served as an officer in World War II with the Royal Navy, worked as a correspondent and as a secret agent, and was captured and tortured by Communists in North Korea. He served for fifteen years in the Senate of Canada, was Assistant to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Director General in Canadian Public Service, Greek Minister of Culture in Washington DC, a professor of history and host and writer of a TV public affairs programme. (Also wrote under the name "Philip Deane") 202p.index Book
Ex-library copy with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. 487 pages. Bright red cloth boards.
305 pages. Footnotes, bibliography and index. Black and white photographic plates. "On August 16, 1933 a huge swastika flag was unfurled at a Christie Pits softball game. The result was a four-hour race riot which sent many to hospital. Provides a fascinating look at life in the Toronto of fifty years ago, and an engrossing perspective on how ordinary Canadians reacted to the coming of Nazism in Germany." - from dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Moderate age-toning to pages. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Book
61 pages. " Whereas in her earlier book of poems (A SILENT GREEN SKY) the author was full of delight for the natural world , the West Coast surroundings of sea, sand, forest, now she uses these as artifacts in the background. Her concern is with the lostness of human beings in a technicolour world which fails to mask the grinning skull." Dorothy Livesay Book
50 pages. Circa mid-1980s. "This is a book of images - fleeting moments in a construction project captured on film. "North East Coal" conjures up many different images: to those who negotiated sales agreements in Canada and Japan there is one set; to those who spent years styding and planning the development, other memories come to the fore; to those who worked on the construction projects across northern British Columbia there are other pictures; and to those who live in Tumbler Ridge and work in jobs created by the development yet still another set of images surfaces. We hope that the pages of this book will trigger all these memories." - from foreward. Wonderfully illustrated with colour photography. Negligible wear to clean, bright and unmarked book. Three closed tears to attractive dust jacket which bears light wear. Very nice copy. Book
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 96 pages.
96 pages. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Editor's signature and inscription atop front blank flyleaf which is loose but present. Originally published in 1973. "A sourcebook of materials and suggestions for their use by high school students in learning something of the experiences of Scandinavian immigrants in Canada, and of the cultural heritage of which Scandinavian and other Canadians are the heirs." - from preliminary page. Chapters include: Evidence of early Vikings in North America - the Viking sagas; Early Scandinavian immigrants in Canada and the U.S.A.; Gimli, Manitoba - a case study of a successful struggle for survival; Where have all the Danes gone? - the pros and cons of assimilation; Three attempts at Scandinavian colonization on the West Coast; How did we survive?; The Scandinavian touch in Canada; Scandinavia today. Sticker removal marks to upper corner of front cover. Unmarked with average wear. Binding tender. An uncommon and excellent resource. Book