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22 pages. Features: Trail Creek Tramway; Official diagram of MTC Observation Car No. 1; Sightseeing in four cities - Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec; Maritimer to Museum - Number 5, a 4-6-0 of the Maritime Coal, Railway and Power Company (with photo); An L.C.L. shipment - decorated cars; The Winter Timetables; Pine Point Railway; Notes and news. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Fires of Thunder - Quebec's Project of the Century Roars over the Lands and Lives of the Cree; Marine Dominoes - Scientists piece together the complex ecological puzzles of the once great kelp beds; Everest - The Expedition Chronicle of Canadians facing Mountaineering's Crowning Challenge; Canadian Mount Everest Expedition 1982 - The Team. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Where Waters Run Brown - Once the 'pearl of the Caribbean', Haiti hovers at the edge of ecological collapse... a cautionary tale; Audubon's Wake - retracing the route of John James Audubon along Quebec's rugged lower North Shore; The Hounds of Summer - Sans tracks, touts and hustlers, the sleek sport of greyhound racing is catching on in southern Saskatchewan; Bound for Glory - with leather and gold, virtuoso bookbinder Michael Wilcox turns tomes into tiaras; The Great Fire - Early European explorers brought more than fresh ideas to North America - how a simple virus (smallpox) depopulated two continents, destroyed their cultures and helped create, among other things, slavery, the fur trade and capitalism. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
15 pages. Features: The Wonders of the Champlain Trail; New Tourist Wonderland in Alberta, thanks to the completion of the last section of the Bow River-Nordegg Forestry Road; The Glamour of St. Andrews by-the-Sea; Roll back the years with a Roadmap; International Opera House of Rock Island, Quebec. Happy Motoring (on a budget) with the Little Woman. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: New poll finds Canadians are envied - happy; Too Many Tears - News about abused kids just keep getting worse - Patricia Johnson and her daughter Shanay; Letter from Beauce, Quebec; The Pearson Airport case may soon be resolved; Road to nowhere - Palestinians see home dimming for a real peace; Rise of Racism in Australia; Busang Mystery - Bre-X investors demand answers - geologist Mike de Guzman turns up dead; Misery on the markets - higher interest rates spell trouble for stocks and home buyers - Canadian dollar falling; Bre-X and the dark side of capitalism, by Peter C. Newman; The New Outlaws - Defiant smokers tell the government to butt out; Garfield Mahood makes no apologies for his aggressive tactics against Big Tobacco; Cigarette industry on defensive as pressure builds; Tiger Woods - ready to roar at the Masters in Augusta; Who should pay for ESL?; Breast cancer and the fat connection; Nova Scotia pays tribute to artist Maud Lewis; Lionizing athletes is a disservice to Blacks - so says Allan Fotheringham; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
72 pages. Features: Trudeau cover photo; When We Were Young - looking at the Truedeau phenomenon 30 years later; Jean Charest leaves the Progressive Conservatives to seek the Quebec Liberal leadership and go head-to-head with former federal colleague Lucien Bouchard; Nova Scotia election ends in dead heat; RCMP kills two on Tsuu T'ina reserve near Calgary; School shooting at Jonesboro, Arkansas by Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden; Yeltsin's cabinet cleanout; Photo of Bill Clinton with Nelson Mandela in the latter's prison cell; Has Oil Hit Bottom? - price per barrel is US$16.76; Deidre McMurdy on Dual-Class share structures and how they allow families and senior managers to enrich themselves; Allan Gregg on what the future holds for Canada; Atom Egoyan's Oscar Diary; Review of Michael Ignatieff's book The Warrior's Honour, with photo; Ontario education funding feud between teachers and boards. Somewhat above-average wear. Prior owner's name stroked out on address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
Features: Technological Momentum, Motor Buses, and the Persistence of Canada's Street Railways to 1940; Thomas Edison - the battle of the systems and the persistence of direct current; The Persistence of Draft Oxen in Western Agriculture; Technical Advance and Stagnation - the case of nail production in nineteenth-century Montreal; The Influence of Resource Quality on Technological Persistence - Charcoal Iron in Quebec; Time for a Change? - Technological Persistence in the British Watchmaking Industry; Change and Diversity within traditional Cooperage technology; Randolph Hersey and the Montreal Nail Industry, 1852-1903; Revolution Forgotten - The Peters' Combination Lock Co., Moncton, N.B.; and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: Transforming the Food Axis - Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis; Machines in Suburban Gardens - the 1936 T. Eaton Company Architectural Competition for House Designs; Tompkinsville, Cape Breton Island - Co-operativism and Vernacular Architecture; Slag Houses in a Steel City; British Army Officer Housing in Upper Canada, 1784-1841; Managing Household Pests the Old-Fashioned Way - Defenses against pest damages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also includes the following exhbit reviews: Love, Leisure and Laundry - Why Housework Just Won't Go Away; Finding a Space for Children and Their History; Power and Planning - Industrial Towns in Quebec, 1890-1950. Seven book reviews. and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Architecture of Old Quebec, or The HIstory of a Palimpsest; Material History as Cultural Tradition - A La Ronde, Exmouth, Devon, England; Construction d'un paysage identitaire - Grand-Pre et la collectivite acadienne; Construire une histoire basque au Quebec; "Our Nation's Attic?" - Making American National Identity at the Smithsonian Institution; "Hitler's Car" and the Canadian War Museum - problems of documentation and interpretation; The changing significance of the Warren B. Sheppard Site, Battle Creek, Michigan; David Lowenthal on Public History - an interview; 5 book reviews. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Appropriation and Disappropriation of Objects/L'appropriation et la desappropriation des objets; La ceinture flechee au carrefour des convoitises des communautes canadiennes-francaises, amerindiennes et metisses du Canada; Vitrines coloniales - ethnologie plastique de l'Algerie a l'exposition universelle de 1889 a Paris; L'identite culturelle armenienne entrevue dans un interieur domestique - les indices d'un patrimoine de diaspora; From Object of Poverty to National Treasure - the Ambiguous place of Catholic convents in Quebec and the Rhetoric of heritage; La modernite paradoxale inscrite dans la culture materielle d'une communaute de Roms hongrois; Reconsidering the Smallest of artifacts - on the origins of Philatelic Collecting; Des musees dans tous leurs etats - trois sites Web; three book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
56 pages. Features: War on Lake Ontario - a costly victory at Oswego, 1814; Rescue Mission - Canadian soldiers and airmen in an arctic ordeal; Quebec and Conscription - the death of Ernest Lapointe and a fateful change of policy; Mysterious deaths at Onion Lake - were two union men murdered?; Reflections from The Beaver 1936. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
56 pages. Features: The Iron Duke, Quebec and the defence of Canada; Fire! - Ottawa and Hull in Flames, April 1900; Mayflower compact and family compact - contrasting views of the political authority; North End - Winnipeg's immigrant community observed; Camels in the Cariboo - on the gold rush trail; Berlin 1936 - Canadian dancers at Hitler's Olympics. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
Articles: The Saladin Trial - A Last Hurrah for Admiralty Sessions; Hardly Heroes - Canadian Merchant Seamen and the International Convoy System, 1939-1945; The Origin and Growth of the Canadian Customs Preventive Service Fleet in tyhe Maritime Provinces and Eastern Quebec, 1892-1932; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
32 pages. Ffeatures: St. Lawrence Seaway; From Festive Rocket to Nuclear Rocket; Science Fair; Tennis Anyone; Competition Instructions; General Competition Instructions; Province of Quebec; Canada's Fur Trade. Includes several wonderful vintage colour ads intended for younger readers by such companies as: The Bank of Nova Scotia; Orange Crush; The Book of Knowledge; Gold Seal canned Salmon; General Motors of Canada; Face-elle tissues; Mil-Ko powdered milk; Shredded Wheat; Oxo products; Texaco; St. Lawrence Starch Company products; Toastmaster baked goods; Southam Newspapers; Rose Brand pickles (back cover). Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this interesting and unusual education publication for younger readers. Book
25 pages. Presents information in tabular format. Topics include: Quebec Peat Bogs; Ontario Peat Bogs; Miscellaneous Samples including coal, briquettes from organic city refuse, anthracite, oil shale and natural gas. Clean and unmarked with average wear. Sound copy. Book
192 pages. Index. "Featuring delicious modern interpretations of classic recipes and traditional dishes from Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario, the prairies, the mountains and the Pacific coast, this collection is truly a celebration of great Canadian cuisine... Delectable food photography by John Sherlock, striking images of the beloved hotels and a selection of nostalgic illustrations make this book a treasure both to look at and to cook from." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Book
221 pages. Index. "Volume 2 of a lively and personal history of a father and son who left separate and lasting marks on the development of Canada." - from dust jacket. Book clean, unmarked and virtually as new. Minimal wear and touch of sunning to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
Louis Cyr was the strongest boy in his small village... the strongest youth in Quebec... the champion weight lifter in New England. Louis Cyr, a Quebec-born French Canadian, in his prime was famous the world over for feats of incredible strength. Eventually he was crowned the strongest man in the world... measured the strongest in all recorded history. "By the end of the last century, the 'strong men' had produced their own superchampions, whose fame spread far beyond their own countries. Most famous of all was the Canadian Louis Cyr, who was born in 1863. He was almost as wide as he was tall! For 15 years, Louis Cyr outclassed all his opponents. He wooed his large following not only with his Herculean strength but also with the showmanship with which he presented his incredible feats." - From the Olympic Sports Official Album, Montreal, 1976. Includes six fascinating black and white photographic reproductions, one of which shows Cyr strapped between two horses which he held to a standstill at the behest of the Marquess of Queensberry. Unmarked. Contents clean and in good condition. Original price sticker upon half-title page. Binding intact. One inch narrow strip of black tape runs down bottom of spine which also bears a reading crease. 1.5" opening to base of front cover at spine. 2" crease to lower corner of front cover, else average wear overall. Illustrated covers. Solid copy. Book
256 pages. Index. Bibliography. Profusely illustrated with colour photography. "...Displays the distinctive beauties of ancient and modern lighthouses. Harbour lights, beacons, massive boxes... there's an infinite variety of materials and designs, a striking integration of structure and landscape. Here are the outstanding lighthouses of the Atlantic coast, including the Cape Race lighthouse in Newfoundland, the light af Fother Point, Quebec, the tower at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and the iron structure at Fowey Rocks, Florida.... Informative and enjoyable text compliments the illustrations, outling the history and architectural significance of the lighthouses... Early architectural plans, old photographs, and drawings add to the book's beauty and fascination." - from dust jacket. Price-clipped dust jacket shows excessive wear but is now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. Book
Features: Hunters' Tales; A Report to Canadians on Wolves in Quebec - amazing photos; An Old Lady's Stories; Fisherman's Quiz; 1967 Fishing Contest Winners; The Winners' Pictures; Canadian Champion Fish; A New Dog; A Permanent Expo; Canadian Sportsmen's Corner; On Directness of Statement in the Bush; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
ria9781138117167_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Dr. Paris opens discussion about the over-diagnosis of bipolar disorder and the negative impact of this development on clinical care. Combining research findings and personal experiences Dr. Paris documents the damage of over-diagnosi paperback
2005RO80214211Musée National des beaux arts du Québec. 2005. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 383 pages. textes sur 2 colonnes. Nombreuses photographies et quelques gravures en couleurs et en noir et blanc dans et hors texte. Couverture contre pliée.. . . . Classification Dewey : 708-Galeries, musées, collections d'art
0265949645.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1174013338.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1174007575.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
