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192 pages. "This book has no literary pretentions. It is experience rather than literature; it bears witness to real events. Written by Francis Simard, it is also the story of Paul Rose, Jacques Rose and Bernard Lortie. It is an act of Solidarity." - from Prologue. Prior owner's details atop half-title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice clean copy. Book
Features: The Big Boom!; vintage ad for Ayers pure wool blankets, from Lachute Mills, Quebec; Old John Broadhurst Plans Larceny; Sportsmen can be wildlife managers; Photo of Edna Davis of Kettleby, Ontario being crowned "Outdoors Girl of Canada"; What You Need on Power Driven Pleasure Boats, by government regulation; Holiday for Fun in Quebec; Photo ad for a curious vessel called the Skeeter, manufactured by Cooke-Toledo Motors of Montreal; Two-page map and list of parks and fishing reserves in Quebec; Stop Moaning - Get Busy and Go!; Get Rid of Skunks; Maybe You Can Lease an Island!; Used Machine Gun Powder; Great vintage photo ad for Tapatco Marine Safety Products and Sleeping Bags; Winning Hunting Dog - "Tyson's Skyhill's Flash", owned by Richard Papa of Toronto; Photo of prize-winning dog "Craigend Rock", bred and owned by Jack Smyth of North Vancouver; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
2 vols. in-8, brochés, couvertures imprimées, XVII, 720 p. (les deux volumes en pagination continue). Edition originale et unique de cet ouvrage collectif publié par la "Commission Internationale d'Histoire des Mouvements Sociaux et des Structures Sociales" sous la direction d'Ernest Labrousse. Quelques articles sont rédigés en anglais. Nombreuses et importantes contributions: Jacques Droz, F. Bedarida, R. Portal, E. Hobsbawm, Jiri Koralka, etc., etc. Europe, Pays arabes, Afrique noire et Madagascar, Asie, Canada et Amérique latine. Bon exemplaire.
A clean, unmarked copy with a tight binding. 106 pages. Text in French and English. Pictorial cover. Many color plates. Marcel Fecteau was born in Quebec in 1927 and has been painting the Quebec landscape in a variety of mediums over the past 40 years. He is one of the six founding members of the Norditude du Parc des Grands Jardins de Charlevoix.
100 pages. Features: The Lachine Rapids and their mark on history; Indian trade silver in the McCord Museum collection; Lords of the Lakes - the North West Company 1784-1821; Wintering Dishes - recalling the famed Beaver Club dinners (with recipes!); Trade and Empire - Fishermen began fur trade in New France; The Challenge of Heritage Conservation (in English and French); Several articles in French; Domestic Interiors - Parks Canada's designated houses in Quebec; Exhibit of five centuries of old and rare maps; The Liliane Stewart Collection; Counterfeit Canadiana I; Paperweights. Light wear. Quality copy. Book
Pages 74-124. Illustrated in black and white. Features: David Milne 1882-1953; David Milne as I Knew Him; Canadian Art in Perspective; Enamels and Ceramics in Quebec; The Sadowskis - artists and craftsmen; The Design Centre - The First Year; Design on the Sleeve; New Directions in B.C. Pottery; William J. Wood 1877-1954; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
Pages 222 - 286. Printed on glossy stock. Illustrated in black and white. Contents include: My Friend, Angotiawak; Barbara Hepworth - Sculptor; A Sheaf of Summer Sketches; Annual Artistic Competition of the Province of Quebec; General View from a Lofty Eminence; The Growth of a Canadian Gallery; The Great Winnipeg Controversy; Recent Acquisitions by Canadian Museums and Galleries; Sculpture in a Summer Course; Coast to Coast in Art; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
227 pages. Extensive list of sources cited. Reproductions of black and white photos. Decorated endpapers. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. "Analyzes in parallel the whole evolution of Quebec and Black American culture and literature. Examines these two cultures and literatures in the light of an extended metaphor from Shakespeare's Tempest, with a view to formulating a new concept which could then be applied to the literatures of all emerging national or ethnic groups." - from back board. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear to maroon boards. A high quality copy. Book
Features: Recollet Falls Cover Photo; Ol' Three-Point; The Canadian Knife; Which Boat Will It Be?; Last of the Old Brigade; Summertime Photography Problems; The Plott Hound; The Most Popular Calibers of High Power Rifle Cartridges in Western Canada; Quebec Skeet Championships; and more. Bit of writing on front cover. Average wear and soiling. A worthy copy. Book
Features: Seen at the shows; Rediscovering E. May Martin; Canadian Sports on Plates; 300 Years of Cap-Sante ,Quebec; The Macdonald Stewart Library; An Introduction to Japanese Art - Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; The Old Catholic Cemetery in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Massey (Agricultural Works) Memorabilia; The Careful Collector - Part III - Handling and Packing Art Objects. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Indian Trade Silver Gorgets; As others saw us - The European Vision in Nova Scotia 1749-1848; The Macdonald Stewart Art Centre; Embroideries of the Ursulines of Quebec; Turn of the century jewellery. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
71 pages. Features: Boiserie de Nantes - 18th century Rococo panelling in the Chateau Ramezay; Cape Spear - Parks Canada restores Newfoundland's oldest existing lighthouse; Rags to Riches - the newsboy in 19th century American art; Painted Carpets - 19th century trompe l'oeil in rural Quebec; Restoration and Renovation III - Mechanical Systems; Barn-Framer and Farmer - Traditional Patterns govern the orderly world of Mennonite barns and farms; Not to be taken lightly - the many intriguing shapes of antique poison bottles; When Furniture Becomes Folk Art - Neustadt cabinetmaker John P. Klempp (1857-1914); Medalta's Art Wares; Odds and Ends and Ingenuity. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Heritage Farms; Heritage 2000; Quebec Religious Heritage Foundation - a New Approach; Judgement expected on Prince County Courthouse, P.E.I.; The Railway Car that Built Canada - the car used by William Cornelius Van Horne; Conserving Heritage in Saskatoon; Edmonton's new Market Value Assessments; Miracles do Happen - the rectory of Sainte-Euphemie in Casselman, Eastern Ontario. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
Book shows light wear to covers only. Book has sharp corners, a little edge wear at spine, solid spine and binding, text/interior clean and free of marking of any kind. Paste-down illustration on black cloth cover. Cute endpaper with images of artist peeking from book edge, reversed in black on the back endpaper. Signed by Lemieux on half-title page with previous owner's inscription below. Lots of full page b&w prints a smattering in color. 135 pages, text in French. Prize-winning artist Jean Paul Lemieux was one of the foremost painters of twentieth century Quebec.
Pages 41-82 Illustrated in colour and black and white. Features: European Masters from Canadian Collections; East is West - thoughts on the meaning and unity of contemporary art; Abstracts at Home; Concours Artistique de la province de Quebec; A Heritage in Decay - the totem art of the Haidas; The Flight from Meaning in Painting; Community Arts for Vancouver; Recent Acquisitions; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
31 pages Features: Parian Statuettes - Brief history of Parian Statuettes of the 19th Century and the Canadian makers; Maisons du Quebec - Quebec architecture of the late 18th Century; The Burlington Glass Site Part - Burlington Glass Co. in Hamilton, Ontario (circa 1874 - 1910) and articles unearthed at the old site 1967; Scottish Silverware - History of Scottish silverware between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries; Unusual Exhibits in a Handmade Country - A look at a few of the 400 museums and art galleries in the Netherlands; Dried Bouquets for you Antiques - The art of drying flowers; Canadian Woodenware - A look at household woodenwares (Treen) used in the early days of Upper and Lower Canada; and Guide to Canadian Woods: Part I - Hardwoods. Small mailing label top left back cover. Clean and unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
Pages 211-256 plus xviii pages of nostalgic ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: "Down North" To Great Bear Lake - Voyaging by Air to Canada's New Northern Mining Centre; London's New Architecture; Castles of the New World - profusely illustrated article on Canada's grain elevators, from small to huge. Nice colour Quebec tourism ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding sound. Book
56 pages. Features: Passing of Scott Brayton and John Burgess; National Unity Debate; Guy Bertrand and Quebec's right to self-determination; Unity Debate - furor over fraud and illegal spending by both sides; The Quebec Gridlock; Photo of Brian Mulroney with psychic JoJo Savard; In British Columbia, Gordon Campbell's Liberals vs. Glen Clark and the NDP; Shaky Grip on Power in India; Liberia descends into brutal anarchy - article with very graphic photo; Robert Dole quits Senate to pursue U.S. Presidency; The Tragedy of Admiral Jeremy Michael (Mike) Boorda of the U.S. Navy; Eight climbers die on Mount Everest; Mark Blumes and battle for control of Mark's Work Wearhouse; CRTC Confronts U.S. Satellite TV Challenge; Eugene Lishak and SLM Software Inc. of Toronto provide cash machines for Russian banks - brief news item with photo; The airborne exploits of Father Goose, Bill Lishman; Marc Garneau in astronaut training; Photo of Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo in Uganda; Damon Stoudamire is rookie of the year; Philantropist Joan Chalmers; Auto Eroticism - David Cronenberg's sex-driven movie 'Crash' shakes up the Cannes festival; Ad for the Nissan Quest on back cover; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
96 pages. Features: British Columbia struggles to find its way to influence national debates - feature article with photos and contributions by Roy Henry Vickers, Jack Shadbolt, Jenny Kwan, Arthur Erickson and Tina VanderHeyden; Glen Clark and Gordon Campbell battle to lead B.C.; Raising the Canadian National Unity Stakes - Ottawa endorses the concept of Quebec partition; Battle Over Borders - Splitting Up Quebec; Ontario Hydro moves towards a sell-off of its assets; Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin; Race for the Republican Presidential Nomination - with photo of Steve Forbes; Ethnic Fighting in Burundi; Nokia cell phone ad; Canadian Airlines struggles against Air Canada; Mergers in Canada's Mutual Fund industry; The Loewen Group's near death in Mississippi; Many pages of ads by mutual fund companies; Paul Martin says No Flat Tax; Passing of Gene Kelly, Joseph Brodsky and Sally Gribble; David Parr of the Paramount Strip Club in New Westminster offers free dance lessons; Ontario Teachers and Students Fight Back Against Provincial Cuts to Education - article with photo of John Snobelen; Plan to relocate wolves from Fort St. John, BC to the U.S. draws ranchers' wrath; Photo-illustrated article on figure skater Josee Chouinard; Magic Johnson returns to play for the L.A. Lakers (color photo); Bolstering the CBC; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
136 pages. The publication billed itself as "the largest circulation quarterly journal of dissent in Canada and of the new radicals in North America - the journal for peace and freedom." - back cover. Features/Sections include: De Gaulle and the future of Quebec; Radicals and the Professions; Toronto Community Union Project; SDA Ann Arbor Convention; ICDP - From Tryinge to Stockholm; Book Reviews. Some markings to contents. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reading copy. Book
Features: History of License Plates - Part II; The 1902 Hansen Car; 1907 the Hansen-Whitman Car; The Auburn - Cord - Duesenberg Club Story; Your Roving Reporter; Canada's First Automobile Inventor Found - George Foote Moss in Sherbrooke, Quebec; 1909 Sterling restored; Our White Steamer Man in South Africa 50 Years ago - V.A. Root; Photos of White Steamers; 1908 Sharp Arrow Racer - photos; The Case of the Disappearing Pierce-Arrows - photos/article about their alternate uses on rail in Colorado; Nice color ad for Antique Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
324 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Author's signature upon front free endpaper. "Traces the development of the town of Pointe Claire from its beginnings as a stretch of lonely farms to its present as a major municipality. Covers three hundred years of Canadian history as it affected the people of the West Island community. Old maps, photos and the words of contemporary observers take the reader into a past where the pioneer farmers struggled to defeat Indians, the land, the climate and foreign invaders... This is the only complete history of the town." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings atop title page else book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Very light wear to dust jacket which has touches of yellowing to flaps, and is now preserved in a glossy new Brodart cover. A premium copy. Book
Features: The Poster in Canada; Canadian Souvenir Spoons; Robert Field - early Canadian Painter; Canadian Collector Indes 1966-1978; Victorian Flower Stands; Napoleon Bourassa - Quebec Painter. Sound copy. Book
Features: Ontario Doll Collector; Government House 1866-70; Bottles in Canada; Ontario Carved Gravestones; Silver Sauceboats; Richard Short's Views of Quebec; Early Photographs of an Ontario Community - Stockdale, Murray Township; Restoration of a Hooked Rug; Niagara Furniture Makers - II; and more. Nice clean copy. Book
Features: The revitalization process of West Broadway in Winnipeg; Heritage designation rewards Clayburn Village in B.C.; Southworks - an industrial site is reborn on the Grand River in Cambridge, Ontario; Hammond House demolished in Hull, Quebec; The Don Jail; Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book