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Features: "The Eye of Allah" - a curious story by veteran mining engineer Cassiter Wright; The Masab Kunta Mystery - A weird story from India; Amateur Lumber jacks - A glimpse of life in an Ontario timber-camp where two ex-Servicemen earn money for another year of University; Seeking Pirate Treasure - a shrewed businessman invests in a scheme to locate hidden millions; A South Sea Hair-Cut - close-ups descriptive of manners and customs and prevailing conditions in various parts of the globe - Mangaia, Cook Islands, South Pacific; Gold Galore - New Guinea (near Bulolo Airport); Money in Shell - a trophy fishing trip to the Great Barrier Reef; The Inca's Emerald - alleged to be one of the crown jewels of Peru; The Sea Gypsies of Mergui off the coast of Burma; A lump of rust - seeking a silver deposit in northern Quebec; Canadian Curiosities - some interesting relics of the Gold Rush days of the Canadian Yukon; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Robert Stanfield's Conservaties - a response to Quebec is essential; Manitoba's Schreyer - a little to the right of the left; Fiat car ad; Our silent courtiers - scientists rely upon the hands that feed them; Color photo ad for the 1973 Chevrolet Impala (maroon); Changing mood without drugs; Canadian Club Whisky ad features color photos of rocket pack in use at Cheakamus Canyon in B.C.'s Tantalus Mountains; Pontiac one-page color-photo ad for the blue Parisienne Brougham 4-Door Hardtop; Argument against the Mackenzie Pipeline; Why the Canadian gourmet too often pays first class but eats fourth; The great Canadian lunch counter as a threatened species; A Childhood in Birch Hills, Saskatchewan; A Conversation with Simone De Beauvoir; A Human Alternative to the House - prison design ideas; Nice colour ad for Zenith SuperChromacolor TVs; Colour Chrysler ad features the New Yorker Brougham, Imperial and Newport; Great one-page Chevrolet colour-photo ad features the Senior Motorhome, Mini Motorhome, Junior Motorhome and 3+3 Crewcab with fifth wheel travel trailer; One-page ad for CBC Radio News; One-page ad for CTV's morning show Canada AM; Nice colour ad for the Oldsmobile Cutlass 'S'; Roloff Beny's reflections on a journey home; Murray McLauchlan - Street Singer; Bobby Hull -Being and Selling the World Hockey Association (WHA); and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
16 pages. Features: Article on Babe Zaharias; Two pages of wonderful photos of Babe Zaharias; Photo from Shuttle Meadow CC includes Duncan Dewar, Fred Wright, Holly Mandly and Ralph Rooks; Photo of Ed Rankin of the Ben Hogan Company; Photo of Joe Petrick; Photo of Bob Kay; Photo of Fred Waring and Chick Evans; Great back cover photo of a large group of senior ladies at the Seignory Club, Quebec includes Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
304 pages. Index. Colour and black and white photographic plates. Maps. Foldouts. Chapters include: Limestones; Sandstones; Granites and Gneisses; The So-Called Black Granites and Related Rocks; Marbles; Serpenties and Serpentine Marbles; Slates; Glacial Drift; Rarer Decorative Materials; plus appendices. Average wear and soiling externally. Binding intact. Tears to top of spine. Solid copy of this authoritative reference. Book
viii + pages 224-325. Contents: Reactions to the Hart Election; In the Legislature; Petitions; Hart is Questioned; The Debate of Feb. 20, 1808; More Petitions and the Governor; Elected Again; Political Motivation. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
141 pages. Index. Errata. "A narrative and documented chapter out of the annals of Canadian Jewry. Outlines the story documented in the papers described in "Canadian Jewish Archives", new series, no. 2." - from Foreword. Unmarked with moderate wear. Moisture staining to fore-edge. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
iv + 126 pages. Index. Sections include: On Sunday Observance Legislation; The Quebec Problem; Quebec Feels Under Attack; Lord's Day Alliance; Jews in a Christian Country?; The Community and the Select Committee; A Select Committee of the Commons; In the House of Commons; In Quebec. Unmarked with moderate wear. Moisture marks to fore-edge. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
Pages 101-150 plus XIV pages of nostalgic ads. Black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Solitudes of the Arctic - Great photos; A Visit to Satan - in his sanctuary at Sheikh Adi, the leading shrine of the Yazidis or Devil-worshippers, that strange mysterious folk set amid the turbulent Kurds of northwestern Mesopotamia; The Prairie Orchestra - interesting article on grasshoppers; Winnipeg - the Prairie Capital; The Handicraft Renaissance in Quebec. Nice two-color Canadian Pacific ad on back cover features image of female dancer in Bali. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
84 pages. Features: How Many Canadians Really Want Independence?; Turmoil in Quebec - the day the faces closed; Canada needs a 'National' National Hockey League; How Manitoba Turned 100 by Standing on its Head; The Outsider Moves In - Joe Borowski; Who is the Successful Canadian? - the Maclean's-Goldfarb Report; The Birth of a Movie - major article with photos of Genevieve Bujold and Paul Almond; ; The Battle for a Place Under Your Christmas Tree - an informative snapshot of Canada's toy industry; Food & Drink - Diets by Damned; Nice full-page colour photo ad for the Ski-Doo lineup of snowmobiles; Excellent uncommon full-page colour photo ad for CBC's The National with large photos of Lloyd Robertson and George Finstad; Sam the Record Man begins dealing in tapes - Should You?; Nice colour photo Christmas Coke ad on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
56 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration features WWII sailor dancing with attractive blonde; Drying Eggs - a new war industry - article with photo of egg drying room in Trenton plant of the Canadian Doughnut Co.; Are Farmers Indifferent? - article with photos of the homesteads of Orley Shaw near Forest, ON, and K.M. Betzner of R.R.2 Waterloo, ON; Farmers of the Lower Saint John - article with photos of the Fox and Dingee homesteads of Gagetown, N.B.; Treasure of a Derelict (fiction); Storm Tide (fiction); Fascinating half-page ad by the Department of Munitions and Supply says "Drastic New Regulations Are Now In Effect" restricting sales of new and used tires, tubes and retreading services; Half-page ad for Findlay Ranges of Carleton Place, ON shows military scene and housewife saying she can wait for her range in order to provide metal to the military; An Army Without Banners - article explains how women are producing food at home to supply the military, with photos of Beth Kellington and Mrs. Will Hewlett of the Stouffville district in York County; Photo-illustrated article on the 1942 Kemptville Conference of the Women's Institutes; Aunt Helen's Boys and Girls; Illustrated half-page ad by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario says WWII is "A War of Steel and Electricity"; Nice photo of horse-drawn hay wagon in action on the Cotton farm near Orillia; Photo of Wallace Knapp of Galt, Ontario on horse-drawn potato planter; Photo of young John McTaggart feeding lamb at the Don Head Farm in Richmond, Hill; Photos of prize animals owned by Featherstone Bros. of Oakville, Haas Bros. of Paris, Byron Rath of Mossley, J.R. Beattie of Aurora, R. Norman Hogg of Uxbridge, and Alfred Bagg of Edgeley; Poultry section includes photo of chicken 'apartment building' of Dr. D.F. McKinley of Unionville, ON; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label remnant on front cover. Five-inch diameter hole neatly cut from back cover, otherwise a sound vintage copy of this fascinating wartime issue. Book
64 pages. Features: Great colour ad for the International Harvester compact pickup truck inside front cover; Nostalgic colour photo ad for Samsonite luggage featuring a 1950s auto; Full-page ad for the Bolex, the world's most precise 8-mm camera; Nice Chrysler ad; Great full-page colour photo ad for Pepsi features young lady leaning on the car door of a young man; Is Africa the Graveyard of the UN?; The kidnapping of Winnipeg Lawyer Vaughan Baird - in his own words; Genius in Hiding - Artist David Milne - article with photos and colour reproductions of two of the artist's paintings; What peacetime conscription is doing to the U.S.; A new kind of camera photographs the horseback view of a jockey - article with photos; Foster families teach sanity to the mentally ill; McKenzie Porter on Travel Agents; Return to Berlin - Ken and Elizabeth Johnstone escaped one jump of the Gestapo - now they return for another look - article with photos; Two-page colour photo ad for Ford of Canadashows their 1961 Ford Falcon Four-Door Sedan; Quebec bobby-soxers' home-grown idol, crooner Michel Louvain - photos and article; Nice colour ad for the Chevy Corvair Monzas - two- and four-door; Great colour full-page ad for the 1961 Pontiac Parisienne convertible; Short article on Avian Aircraft, Ltd. - former Avro Aero workers are now designing the Avian 2 / 180, the latest prototype of their 'car-plane'; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
66 pages. Features: Cover photo of lady curler; Carling Black Label ad inside front cover claims it is Canada's best-selling (international) beer and shows ship exporting it to the world; Stephen Lewis - boy socialist of the NDP who's giving the old-line parties lessons in winning elections - article with caricature; How Computers May Catch Bad Drivers Before They Smash Up; Since When Did the Truth Become More Dangerous Than Danger Itself? (Editorial); Will Wawa's gun-totin' Christians fight for peace in Tanganyika? - Leigh Coop and Canadian Lay Missioners; Vintage one-page colour ad for the 1965 Ford Mustang Convertible (blue) entitled "Economy Car of GT Racer?"; One-page colour ad for the 1965 Ford Falcon Futura Convertible (light blue); Kodak camera colour ad; Glorious one-page colour-photo ad for the 1965 Ford Lincoln Continental shows lady with grey car picking up her mail at end of her private road; Nice one-page colour-photo ad for Sheaffer pens; Today's Religion - article with photos of Rabbi Abraham L. Feinberg, Father Frank Stone and Dr. Ernest Marshall Howse; The Guns of Christmas - a story of two thousand Canadian soldiers and the most gory and gaudy Christmas week of their lives as they fought, hand-to-hand, it Ortona, Italy during WWII; Two Solitudes Revisited; Would Canada Be Better Off Without Quebec?; Walter Homburger - the modest merchant of music - article with nice one-page photo; Push a Button, Housework's Done!; Curling article with input from Lyall Dagg; Report from Utopia - Alan Phillips sizes up havens to escape to; One-page ad by the "Ontario Government Trade Crusade" encourages readers to buy Canadian-made toys; Publisher Gray Campbell of Sidney, B.C. - article with photo; Toronto entertainer Randy Martin's latest gimmick - a two-man standup comedy team in living black and white; "We're Wasting Our Money Trying to 'Help' Canada's Delinquent Teenagers"; Back cover colour-photo Coke ad features basket of beagle puppies; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
219 pages. Text in French. Printed upon glossy stock. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and diagrams plus several colour illustrations. A 1938 reprint of the 1933 first edition bound in handsome maroon cloth attractively decorated in gilt upon front. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper. Bookseller's stamp atop title page, otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and sound. Author was a legendary champion of the revival and improvement of Quebec handicrafts and domestic arts. A lovely copy of this highly-informative vintage illustrated guide to home weaving. Book
12 pages. Illustration of the "Empress of Scotland" on front cover. A very detailed fare guide which describes various classes of sailings from Montreal and Quebec to Southampton, Cherbourg, Hamburg, Liverpool, Belfast-Glasgow, and Antwerp. Average external wear and fading soiling. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage item. Book
64 pages. Contains dozens of glorious archival black and white photographs, maps, and facsimiles of local time-cards and fare lists. "All M&SC operations came to an end in 1956... This book has been published to record some of the events in the line's 47-year history, and to preserve details of the system's operations for the future." - page 4. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight and square. Nice copy. Book
96 pages. Bilingual French/English text. Wondrous colour illustrations throughout. "Bernard creates the beautiful, the wholesome, the fantastic and this is a conscious choice. It is in this way that he has decided to deliver his message to the world... Look carefully! Each of his compositions include an intense light represented by the sun or a star or anything luminous which symbolizes for the artist faith, hope, rebirth...." Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy. Book
xxii, 122 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Black and white maps and reproductions of photos. Tables. Graphs. Text in English. "This volume is primarily for the Chibougamau Crees. The elders have agreed to tell their story, so that the youth will have something to look back on, and so that the group's existence will finally be recognized. This volume is also for the other Amerindian groups in the region, for when the specific history of the Chibougamau Crees is documented, something is invariably added to the cultural heritage of those bands as well." - Preface. School stamp and bit of writing upon title page, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Approximately 100 glossy black and white pages gloriously illustrated with black and white photography and supporting text in English and French. This special issue presents the work of thirty-two photographers. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average wear. Book
28 pages. Lovely colour-illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers. "This book was written to give some of the answers and tell some of the stories about the St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers and the little French Canadian towns and villages that the ship named The Saguenay) passes as she sails." - from page two. Illustrations throughout in a Richard Scarry-like fashion. Unmarked. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this thoroughly enjoyable and educational early Canadian children's title. Book
168 pages. Features: Katarina Witt article with great colour photos; Debi Thomas article with photo; Elizabeth Manley article with photo; Feature article on Brian Orser with great colour photos; Brian Boitano; Tracy Wilson and Robert McCall; Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov; Gorgeous two-page Coke ad features Canadian and Japanese boys; Skier Laurie Graham; Gaetan Boucher featured in Wood Gundy ad; Skier Rob Boyd; Dick Pound; Bonnie Blair; Gaetan Boucher; The Performance-Enhancing Drug Busters - article which foreshadowed the Ben Johnson disaster; Gaetan Boucher and Helen Kelesi are featured in their own individual full-page ads for fur fashionsk appearing in luxurious full-length coats; Nice ad for the 1988 Buick Regal; Quebec Skier Pierre Harvey; Gunde Svan; Preview of Team Canada's Olympic hockey team with photos of Dave King, Andy Moog, Zarley Zalapski and Randy Gregg; A look at the Soviet hockey team with photo of coach Tikhonov and several other colour photos including Makarov and Larionov; Several pages of Nortel ads (RIP); and much, much more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A sound and complete copy of this fantastic double-sized Calgary Olympic feature issue. Book
112 pages. Features: Jim Coutts; George Woodcock; James Brady checks in on Sunset Blvd.; Chance Wedgewood purchase in Quebec; Hepplewhite; Charlotte Vale Allen steps aboard a legend; Floyd S. Chalmers; Resaurateur John Maxwell; Filmmaker John Sebert and his Port Perry homestead; 20th-century glamour in the home of producer Robert Schulz; Feminine obsession with shoes; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding sound. A quality copy of this wonderful issue. Book
164 pages. Text in French. First published in 1947, this copy is a 1953 reprint of the 1950 revised edition. Printed upon glossy stock. Many colour and black and white photos. Above-average wear. Prior owner's details in pencil atop title page. Coupons removed. A worthy vintage copy of this pleasing French-Canadian cookbook. DRIVER Q306.2. Book
20 pages. Features: Surrender By Ballot - How Canada and Quebec purchase the birthright of the native people of northern Quebec; Canadia's hope in the women's Pentathalon, Diane Jones; Dottie - Dorothy Wyatt, the madcap mayor of St. John's; Doug Wright's Family; Auto Lemon Fighter Phil Edmonston; and more. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality vintage copy. Book
138 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos. Text in French and English. Includes photo portraits and write-ups of trainees. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound copy. BONUS: Includes two original oversize black and white group photos, presumably of the young men appearing in this yearbook. Book
155 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos. Text in French and English. Includes photo portraits and write-ups of trainees. Unmarked. Binding intact. Average external wear. A sound copy. Book
