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xiv, 335 pages. Index. Color photos. "Here at last the legendary Madame Benoit opens the door to the kitchen in her own home, at Noirmouton, her sheep farm near Sutton in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She tells of her own cultural heritage, in which food has played such a large part, enriched by her own studies and travel. A practical and valuable cook book with fascinating sections on Herbs and Spices, Beverages, Soups, Salads, Breads, Cereals (including her granola recipes), Egg and Cheese dishes, Fish, Meat, and Poultry, Vegetables, and much more." - dust jacket. Prior owner's details handwritten inside front board, otherwise book tight and unmarked with average wear. Above-average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this lovely and nostalgic Canadian cookbook. Book
Features: Nice two-colour Browning Rifles ad inside front cover; Leased Lakes Pay Off; Trout and the Beginning Angler; Hike to Hatheume; Quebec Province Fabulous in Choice of Outdoors Fare; Visit Quebec This Summer; Interestsing illustrated ad for the Swingfog mosquito and blackfly fogger; Pete McGillen on Fishing; Recoil or Kick; The Pest That Was the Pheasant; May and Dogs; Great ad for Chinook Sleeping Bags on back cover; and more. Average wear and soiling. A sound copy. Book
48 pages. Printed upon glossy stock. Abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. "Tells the story of the peoples of Canada, and points to a road for us to follow towards permanent unification of all our groups into one strong, resolute nation." - from Foreword. Eight pages are devoted to the subject of 'World Conspiracies" and the fact that "The Communist conspiracy has worked among many of our Canadian groups, the most important of which, in terms of numbers, are the Anglo-Saxons, the Ukrainians, the Russians, the Finns, the Magyars, the Jews, and the Poles." Also discusses Nazi infiltration in Quebec. Above-average but not excessive wear. Top inch of front cover missing. Unmarked. Still a sound copy of this fascinating, rare, and now politically incorrect, work. Show this to your young kids to illustrate how times have changed. Book
48 pages. Features: Rave Reviews for Ed Koch; Quebecois Flock to the beaches of the south coast of Maine; Fairy-Tale Wedding of Charles, the Prince of Wales, to Diana Spencer - nice photos; Abolhassan Bani-Sadr; VIA Rail drops 15 Runs; World Record Swim for Alex Baumann; Strikes at Algoma Steel and Stelco; Straight-speaking Laura Sabia; B.C. Hatchery Accident results in many blind fish; Saskatoon aims to become a prairie Tivoli Gardens; Shorts - Fashion; Stopping the Suicide Cycle; Rock Music - with picture of Michael Anthony of Van Halen and Loverboy. Unmarked. Above-average wear. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: The Right to Take Game; Wildlife Conservation through the century; 100 Years of Fish and Wildlife in Ontario; 100 Years of Hunting and Fishing in B.C.; Quebec - 100 Years of Hunting and Fishing; 100 Years on the Eastern Prairies; 100 Years of Hunting and Fishing in the Maritimes; Championship Fish Contest Entry Forms; and more. Bit of writing on front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
289 pages. Bibliography, glossary and index. Footnotes. Charts, maps and diagrams. Topics include: English Migration; Folk Architecture in Trinity Bay; Peopling of Central Bonavista Bay; Sealing and the spread of settlement in Northeastern Newfoundland; Initial permanent settlement in the Strait of Belle Isle; Ethnic diversity and settler location on the Eastern Lower North Shore of Quebec; Highlands Scots Migration to Southwestern Newfoundland; Settlers and Traders in Western Newfoundland. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Adventure Training for Army Cadets - Summer Challenge; Drop-out Kings - over 35,000 pounds of JP-1 aviation fuel delivered to the North Magnetic Pole; My First Jump - photographer becomes paratrooper; Fencing; La Citadelle - changing the guard in Quebec City; Last of the Few - Battle of Britain Pilot, Col. B.E. 'Bev' Christmas retures; Rockliffe Roll-out - the national aeronautical collection; CMR at Saint-Cyr - officer cadets visit France. Quality copy. Book
30 pages. Features: Parian Statuettes; Maisons du Quebec - The Maillou Place; Burlington Glass Site; Scottish Silverware - the Royal Scottish Museum; Unusual Exhibits in a Handmade Country - there are about 400 museums and art galleries in the Netherlands; Dried Bouquets for your Antiques; Canadian (Kitchen) Woodenware; Guide to Canadian Woods - Part 1 - Hardwoods. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: 18th Century Wedgwood - Beeson Collection, Birmingham, Alabama; Master Potters of Quebec; Victorian Jewelry; Museum of Leaterhcraft; Defining Regency; Daniel Fowler, R.C.A. 1810-1894 - Part 2 - The Artist in Canada; Bermuda's Tucker House; Rouen Museum - Early Ironwork; Bermuda Fan Collection; The Cardinal's Strainer Dish. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: The Old Mills of Quebec; Leith Hill Place; Bateman Tea Service; Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
30 pages. Features: The Old Mills of Quebec; Leith Hill Place; Bateman Tea Service; The Milk Glass Hen; A Home With Antiques - the Montreal home of Mrs. James Grier; Adventures in Collecting - old silver; First Sotheby Auction of new season brings record prices; The Art of Stencilling. Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Canada at World's Fairs; Markham Mennonites and Their Furniture; Medals and Medallions of R. Tait McKenzie; The Earl Moores' Canadiana Village at Rawdon, Quebec; David Johnston Kennedy - a Painter of Guelph; Orders of a Quebec China Merchant - revealed in rare papers; Flower Preserving; The Alexander Graham Bell Homestead, Brantford, Ontario; and more. Modest wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: June Bramall - Art Restorer; Auction Review - 1977; Niagara Furniture Makers - III; The Hamilton Pottery; Quebec Folk Art - A Continuing Wonder; Shawahanelezhih Returns to Alberta; The Bell Organ Company; Silver Creamers; 'Death of Wolfe' on English Sugar Bowl; The Shannon and the Chesapeake. Sound copy. Book
42 pages. "An educational periodical published weekly for the dissemination of technical information, with a commentary and review of the news and conditions of the Textile Industry in Canada." - from masthead. Contains many finely illustrated advertisements which clearly present the contemporary state of the art. Features: Customs Commissioner's Report; News of the Industry; The Stockinette Tariff; The Edinburgh Textile Exhibition; Some Typical Hosiery Trade Problems - calculations every knitter should know; Glossary of knit underwear terms; Silk doubling and spinning machine; Cotton Mill Efficiency; The Dyeing of Acetate Silk; British Wool Letter; British Rayon News; The Markets; British Wool and Top Quotations; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present, but for top third of back cover. Book
Features: First Down Quebec's Whale River; Landsat - an aid to Exploration; Mysteries of the Pena Colorada; The Karo Batak of Sumatra Revisited; Aztec Warfare, Sacrifice and Cannibalism; Youth Activity Essay Contest; Sir Edmund P. Hillary - Honorary President. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Eel fishing in the Richelieu at the twin towns of St. Jean and Iberville; Writing on Stone - Milk River, Southern Alberta; East Coast Totem Pole - John L. Bradford of Hunt's Point, Nova Scotia; Lillooet's Ice Cave - a freak of nature discovered near Lillooet, B.C. by Martin Chernault; Protecting Our Heritage - the work of Ducks Unlimited; The "Tent" that's Permanent - the Shakespearean Festival Theatre at Stratford, Ontario. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Pictures from five Canadian Zoos; Raising speckled trout at Balsam Creek, near North Bay, Ontario; The Senega-Root (Snake-root) Diggers of Manitoba; Alberta Handicrafts; The North Shore Highway from Baie Comeau to Quebec along the St. Lawrence River; Sandford Boat Hole - pine-sized picturesque harbour just north of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Virgin Forest... in Big City! - Vancouver's Stanley Park; Santa's Village near Bracebridge in Muskoka, Ontario; The Fish come Big in Nova Scotia - swordfish and bluefin tuna; The Kingsmere "Ruins" in the rolling hills of Kingsmere, Quebec; Family Week a la Jasper; From the Mailbag of Eddie Torr. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Land of Believe it or Not - great photos from the Bay of Fundy; Lac Le Jeune - Angler's Dream; Island of Orleans, below Quebec City on the St. Lawrence; Those Pesky Post cards; The Nature Programme in Algonquin Park; Dinosaur Valley - the banks of the Red Deer River in central Alberta (Drumheller); The International Peace Garden - astride the International border between Dunseith, North Dakota, and Boissevain, Manitoba; From the Mailbag of Eddit Torr. Drawing of contemporary gas pumps on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Who says pioneering is a thing of the past? - Imperial Oil agent L.M. Fortin and his truck supply road contractors near Beattyville and Senneterre in Northwestern Quebec; Yukon's Highway to the Sea - taking the Haines Cutoff to the sea from the Alaska Highway; The Devil's Hills - Manitoba's desert, about 100 miles west of Winnipeg and 40 miles east of Brandon; Rollin' Along, Singin' A Song - Songs sung across Canada; Logging in the Gatineau - great photos - trucks on the frozen river; Muskoka Pioneers, by Anne Smyth; On to Peggy's Cove (continued from last issue); The Carillon across Canada. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: Piece by Paul H. Robinson, US Ambassador to Canada; The Hard Politics of Bill Bennett's hard sell in B.C.; Resurrection of Robert Bourassa; Eric Akland dies in Aylmer, Quebec; Niagrary River pollution protesters; Cover Story - Lebanon - Flames and the future after Israelli invasion; Q&A with David Kimche, of the Israelli Foreign Ministry; Jews murdered in Paris - reaction to Lebanon invasion; British pound in decline - black mark for monetarism; Alexander Haig's calculated climb; South Africa - death in dark places; Canada's regional airlines fight for the skys - Nordair and Quebecair; End of economic miracle - AEG-Telefunken AG; BC's BCRIC; Steel and forestry industries hit very hard by economy; Jack Donohue and his unknown Canadian basketball team; Labor - unemployment and new despereation; Deely Bobbers; Drive-in theatres; United Church dares to tread; The Guardian Angels - citizen's call to arms; New Wave music toughs it out - photo of David Byrne/Talking Heads; Entertainment reviews. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: Drought in Africa (short article); B.C.'s Bill Bennet swings his axe - spending down and taxes up; Newfoundland politics - Brian Peckford; Worst of times for the NDP; U.S. shelves a fish treaty; Manitoba bilingualism battle; Robert Bourassa seeks Quebec Liberal leadership; Two-page ad for the new Audi 5000S; Blunt talk between Helmut Kohl and Yuri Andropov; George Schultz - futile side trip to the middle east; Fallout from the Robert Falls affair; Guatemala and Rios Montt; No Expo 1989 for Mitterand; Herman Kahn Obituary; Social update on Vickie Moss and Wayne Gretzky with nice photo; Dave Steib does well in baseball all-star game; Bill Vander Zalm to work for Vancouver Sun, after suing it while in office; The recovery takes shape; The Lessons of Japan Inc., by Peter C. Newman; Washington wakes up to Acid Rain; Results of Universiade 1983 in Edmonton; Wynton Marsallis; Reunion of The Band; Poor Toronto - forced to watch as Vancouver opens domed stadium - B.C. Place. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Contents: The Politics of Pot; The federal government's six and five program stays alive; Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Canada; The NDP's quiet revolution; Quebecair for Quebecois; The Way We Are - latest national census results; The rise of a bilingual Canadian elite; Tales of five vibrant cities in transition - Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax; Walter Mondale vs. John Glenn; Pope John Paul's challenge of hope for Poland; Yasser Arafat's movement is faced with disintegration; Striking back at Pinochet in Chile; Takeover battle for Canadian Tire; Peter Newman writes about how the next Japanese export to Canada will be money; Carling Bassett's brush with tennis glory; Battle over the Health Act; The Garrison Diversion Scheme; Thomas Barton's device eats PCBs; Nice ad for Apple personal computers; Rev. Kaye McKibbon founds organization to support ministers in conflict with the church; Allan Fotheringham's humorous take on the federal Liberals sniffing the wind for a successor to Trudeau. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: The RCMP's handling of a drug case is marred by mishap and tragedy - Eugene and Michele Uyeyama murdered; Special report on Canada's federal opposition - The Reform Party/Preston Manning/Keith Martin/Gilles Duceppe; Alexa McDonough - the NDP's new leader needs a seat, a profile and more MPs; Jean Charest attempts to revive federal Tories; John Savage - Time to Bow Out; Burr, Saskatchewan - striptease fever; War on biker gangs in Saint-Nicholas, Quebec; John Major's Last Stand, with photo of scumbag Tony Blair holding Sun Paper bearing Rupert Murdoch's endorsement of him; Contentious developments in the EU; Vultures close in on the Eaton's Empire; SaskTel - Canada's last public phone firm may vanish; Upsetting Chretien's electoral applecart, by Peter C. Newman; The Blue Jays and the Expos - a tale of two budgets, with photo of Roger Clemens in Jays Uniform; Elvis Stojko Reigns Again; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
56 paages. Features: The father of the Hardy Boys - Leslie McFarlane; Medals for the volunteers - after the rebellion there was glory for all; Protecting Toronto's working girls; Joseph Banks - a naturalist in Newfoundland; A Quebec doctor and his bishop clash over evolution; Helping hands in the west - successful farms were good for the railway business. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book