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Features: What Canadians don't like about each other; Wives who live with fear - some men aren't happy unless they're risking their lves... but for their wives, it's a different story - Monique Ouellet, Sheila Roberts, Beverly Lancaster, Krysia Reid, Lana Dodds, Annie Vallis, Margaret Ion; My name is Rosemary Radcliffe - and I'm not making faces just for the fun of it; Bill Cole will jump off the highest building in Canada for $20,000; When you see the same movie 1,045 times - Projectionists Sam Bowes and Wally Brown will miss "2001- A Space Odyssey" when it moves on from Toronto's Glendale Cinerama; The Problems of Being Establishment - if you're one of Nova Scotia's Olands, you're 'expected' to make beer - The Oland Family; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A quality copy. Book
19 pages. References. "Investigates the effects of overpopulation in Canada, as produced by massive Third World immigration." - from page 2. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
188 pages including index and suggested reading list. Recounts the story of labour from the mid-19th century to the present day. A masterful overview that encoumpasses all regions of the country, the book paints a vivid portrait of labour's varied past, covering the birth of craft unionism before the turn of the century, the growth of industrial unionism prior to World War I, the setbacks of the interwar years, and the post-World War II breakthrough that gave unions a permanent, if still constrained, place in the nation's economy. Significant ink underlining and highlighting. Average wear overall and moderate yellowing to pages. Binding intact. Book
Excellent condition in every respect with no marking of any kind to the text/interior, sharp corners, with slight shelf wear only, no creasing to spine or covers.
Excellent condition in every respect with no marking of any kind to the text/interior, sharp corners, with slight shelf wear only, no creasing to spine or covers.
57 pages (English section). A bilingual back/to back publication. Very small tears at head and base of spine. Light wear overall. Illustrated with black and white photos. Green card covers. Covers the Chipewyan, Yellowknife, Slave, Dogribs, Hare, Nahani and Kutchin peoples. Book
256 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. "This cultural history describes how women triumphed over the tribulations of running a household in both turbulent and peaceful times... You may never look at your broom closet or stove in quite the same way again." - from back board. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Appears unread. Lovely copy. Book
102, [10 ads], pages. Contents: Nationalism and Self-Determination; The Duke of Wellington and the Peace Negotiations at Ghent in 1814; Privy Council Appeals in Early Canada; Side-Lights on the Attempted Union (of Upper and Lower Canada) of 1822; Confederate Agents in Canada During the American Civil War; Baron De Gaugreben's Memoir on the Defence of Upper Canada; Correspondence; Review of Books; List of recent publications relating to Canada. Unmarked with somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Book
Boards with moderate wear. Spine darkened and with light fraying to spine ends. Hinges and binding have some play - but holding strongly together. VG- map (with marginal wear) in rear pocket with minor fraying and one tear. ; A Baedeker look-alike, with black pictorial design and gilt lettering. This Appleton's Guidebook is very descriptive, but has less travel facts that we would find in a Baedeker. Numerous maps and illustrations. Including an appendix for sportsmen with detailed instructions about fishing, shooting, hunting. With their ad sections, illustrations and maps in rear pocket, the Appleton Guidebooks are similar to Murray's and Cook's and are equally rare. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; viii, 270, ads pages
287 pages including index. A straight-forward, comprehensive, reliable how-to and reference guide to the preparation and cooking of every species of fish and shellfish commercially available in Canada. Step-by-step colour photos show how to bone, fillet and skin fish; shuck oysters, clams, mussels and abalone; crack lobster and crab; clean shrimp, prawns and squid. Includes 170 recipes plus attractive water colours and descriptions of most Atlantic, Pacific and freshwater species on the market. Front free endpaper removed. Usual library markings. Only light to moderate wear. Book
150 pages. Former owner's name upon half title page. Provides an overview of the growing problem of poverty in Canada and a detailed analysis of the composition of poverty. Explains how various definitions of poverty are derived and argues that poverty can be properly described only as a relative condition. Book
95 pages. Index. Warmly signed by author upon Acknowledgements page. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Chapters include: A pageantry rooted in our history; Head of state and head of government; A Canadian choice; Royal responsibilities; A symbol of our community; plus List of Sovereigns, Governors and Lieutenant Governors of Canada. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound copy. Book
xx, 347 pages. Index, footnotes, appendices, list of abbreviations, and select bibliography. Black and white maps and reproductions of photos. "Analyzes the impact of the British military model on the Canadian corps in terms of doctrine, training, command and staff appointments, equipment, and organization. Presents a critical analysis of Canadian operations in Normandy, giving special attention to the Canadian Army's inability to close the 'Falaise Gap' in a timely manner." - dust jacket. Former library copy with usual markings, heavy wear, major spine slant, and open binding at last page. Not pretty but a worthy reading copy of this informative study. Book
8vo., First Edition, with coloured frontispiece, coloured plates, numerous maps (the majority folding and many coloured in outline) and coloured endpaper maps; handsomely bound in full red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and tooled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
528 pages. "Contains black and white photographic portraits of some of Canada's chief businessmen, statesmen, farmers, men of the learned professions and others; also an authentic sketch of their lives." - from title page. Nice gilt lettering and decorations upon yellow front board and spine. Binding intact. Prior owner's name atop front free endpaper. Above-average wear. Moisture-induced waviness to pages along fore-edge. Still a worthy copy of this excellent reference. Book
212 pages including index. "These are the same kind of authentic stories I tell on the radio every day. Since launching 'The Canadian Achievers' in 1985 I have never run short of exciting true stories about the achievements of living Canadians - and never will. because Canada is a country of achievers." - the author. Read this book and discover how you too can become a Canadian Achiever. Unmarked. Light wear. Crease to front cover. Book
20 pages. Features: The Day the H-Bombs Fell on Spain - the frightening inside story of history's biggest and most fateful bomb-hunt; Canada Will Break with the Crown by 1980 and Become a Republic; Inside the New Russia - article with photos; Educational TV - Does it Work?; Uncommone one-page colour-photo Canada Dry ad features photo of Canada Dry Table Water on gold-trimmed red pillow specially prepared "in honour of Royal and State Visitors to Canada" since 1939; Doug Wright's Family cartoon. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Magazine
Ottawa, Acting King' s Printer, 1933, 8vo tutta tela pp. XXXIII-1146 con 2 cartine f.t.
68 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding sound. Book
Chipping and small tears to DJ; The wildest, lovliest and least-traveled region in Alberta was the author's home and the location of his ranch, the Buffalo Head; 8vo; 273 pages
Entertaining episodes reported about Canadian personalities, political or peculiar, famous or infamous."A browser's holiday, as well as a unique back-door look at Canadian society's most vulnerable point: its sense of humour" [This is the text of the 1988 edition as distributed in paper wraps in 1990] edition.188p. bibliography.index. Book
Octavo red cloth; xv, 136 pages tables 24 cm Bookplate of Jackson Library of Business. || University of Toronto political economy series; no. 10; Fisheries -- British Columbia. Salmon fisheries
240 pages including index. "...Captures the true legend of this great Canadian sporting event - both on and off the ice - and what it means to curlers." - John Kawaja, 1983, 1990 Brier Champion. Black and white photographic plates. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Near new copy. Book
20 pages. "A sign of the loss of freedom," once said the eminent bishop, Fulton J. Sheen, "Is the new compassion which extends pity not for the raped but for the rapist." Many today would agree with him. among those concurring is Criminal Court Judge Les Bewley who, with a quarter century of experience on the bench, confirms in the following pages that continuing erosion of security and liberty for law-abiding citizens everywhere. - from Introduction by Lawrence J. Stikeman, B.A., M.A. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Book
[1], iv-xvii, [1], 3-655 pages. Bibliography. Index. "Authorized by the Canadian General Council as the Handbook of the Boy Scouts Association in Canada, and published for the Canadian General Council." - title page. Colour-illustrated pastedowns on boards are substantially faded. Very heavy overall wear and soiling. Back board present but detached. Prior owner's name and date (1919) upon title page. Many black and white illustrations in text, including an intriguing Thanks Badge on page 83 which consists of ' a Swastika with a fleur-de-lis superimposed.' Despite its many shortcomings, a worthy and uncommon reference copy of this vintage first Canadian edition. Spadoni & Donnelly 465. Book
