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11 pages. Bilingual English/French text. Circa 1960. Large black and white photos. An early school of sculpture on Canadian soil. Former library copy with usual markings. Bound in protective card covers. Somewhat above-average wear. Book
Signed and generically inscribed by author inside front cover. 532 pages. Black and white illustrations in text. Signed letter by author to prior owner laid-in. Part of the author's "narrative history of Lower Canada's struggle in the 1830's to achieve responsible government... Faithful to the course of events as any historian." - Eric Kierans. Light wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Canada, 1634. Quando gli indiani credevano che le foreste parlassero e gli spiriti vivessero di notte.
188 pages. Includes the following papers: A Brief History of Lower Fort Garry; The Big House, Lower Fort Garry; Industrial and Agricultural Activities at Lower Fort Garry; The Sixth Regiment of Foot at Lower Fort Garry; The Second Battalion, Quebec Rifles, at Lower Fort Garry. Includes a variety of black and white illustrations and maps. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Book
309 pages. Index. Text in French. "ou comment reconnaitre, cultiver, utiliser les herbes et plantes du Quebec dont le ginseng et le riz sauvage." - from front cover. Average wear. Gift greetings upon first leaf. Binding intact. Good working copy. Book
64 pages. Numerous pages of heartwarming black and white photos of sentimental Canadian scenes to accompany the songs, plus images of popular personalities and acts which appeared on the popular Don Messer's Jubilee television program on the CBC. Songs include: The Blue Laurentians; The Don Messer Jubilee; Eight Sails in the Breeze; Good Old New Brunswick; In a Little Shack Up the Pontiac; In the Land of Blue Tartan; The Log Driver's Song; Moonrise Over Ottawa; My Canada; My Red Headed Girl From Quebec; Nova Scotia Moon; Old New Brunswick Moon; Ook-Pik - Pride of the Eskimo; Prince Edward Island is Heaven to Me; We'll Rant and We'll Roar; When it's Apple Blossom Time in the Valley; The Avon Breakdown; Banks of Newfoundland; The Centennial Waltz; The Champion Hornpipe; David's Jig; Elliott's Favorite Reel; Expo '67 Two-Step; Happy Acres Two-Step; John A. Cameron's Jig; Lou Sullivan's Breakdown; The Paper Maker's Breakdown; Pictou Island Reel; The Slim Pine Reel. Unmarked. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this wonderful Centennial memento. You can't get much more Canadian than this! Book
124 pages. Numerous nice photographic plates. "Intended to teach young Inuit how fast it has all happened, how very far we have already come, so they will better understand and appreciate their grandparents and parents, and how far we have all come so quickly." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
X [ads], 363-464 pages. Profusely illustrated with wonderful black and white photos. Features: Colour reproductions of paintings by F.H. Brigden and Charles W. Simpson; Northern Rivers; Unto the Hills; Green Gold - Canada's wealth of forests, including many photos of 1930s logging techniques/technology; Colonization in Quebec - article with many photos; Roof of the World - a photo-illustrated journey to the fascinating Indian city of Simla, by B.G. Radley; Where B.C. Ends - Stewart B.C. and the Portland Canal - article with many great photos; New Books; Glorious nostalgic Canadian ads. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this nice vintage issue. Book
103 pages. Former owner's information upon half-title page. English Canada's reply to the so-called 'French Fact." Imagine the English Canadians finally having their say about Quebec! There's a chuckle on every page - more than one on many occasions - to help make some of the uglier facts more palatable. A perffect blend of humour and history, of laughter and of shock. Perhaps the first real attempt by English Canadians to say a strong 'phooey' to all the French unrest in Quebec. Accomplished with sophistication and wit... agree with it or not... you'll be entertained greatly and probably slightly educated at the same time. Book
This is a paperback copy. x, 210 pages. Footnotes. Bibliography. Numerous black and white photographic plates. "25,000 German officers and other ranks were sent to prisoner-of-war camps across Canada to live out the duration of WWII behind barbed wire. Their fascinating story makes for exciting and provocative reading." - from back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this little-known history. Book
56 pages. Features: Cover photo of a Trans Canada Air Lines Electra at the formal opening of the new runways at Stevenson Airport, Winnipeg, October 11, 1937; Directory of Canadian Airports - write-ups with interesting photos - 1937 was a huge year for airport construction in Canada; Nice Christmas-themed full-page ad for Gold Flake cigarettes; Airport Planning and Construction; Nice full-page illustrated ad for Canadian Wright Limited showing the new Grumman FF1 Fighter; Nice full-page photo ad for the Canadian Marconi Company; Nice full-page photo ad for Colas Roads Limited shows a Transport Lockheed 12A on a Colas runway at St. Hubert Airport; Nice full-page photo ad for the Dibblee Construction Company which has been working on the St. Hubert Airport; Fantastic three-colour centerfold ad for Aeronca K's low-priced side-by-side Aeroplanes; Full-page ad for the De Havilland Dragon Rapide - of which Canadian Airways, Ltd. has just added a 3rd unit to their Quebec Airways fleet; Radio Range Beacons to Guide Trans-Canada Fliers - interesting article and photos; Colas for Surfacing (runways); Nice full-page ad for the 1938 Pontiac; When is a Door Not a Door? - hangar doors at Regina and Toronto; Cub Aircraft ad; International Air Show; The Miami Air Manoeuvres; News and Views of the Month; Old Country Gossip; Nice full-page ad for Dunlop aeroplane tires, wheels and brakes; Two-colour ad for Imperial Oil's new Intava products on back cover; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
76 pages. Features: Hugh Cudlipp - the new comet of Fleet St.; Funky colour ad for Buick; I served on a murder jury; How to get your boss's job; The University of Saskatchewan - The precocious alma mater of the prairies; How I got mixed up in the Cuban revolution; Eat fat and grow slim - Dr. Ray N. Lawson's approach is having success; Stoker Mahoney and Pill No. 2-183 - an uncensored naval story from WWII involving seasickness; A challenging new concept of French Canada - Philippe Garigue closely examines St. Justin, Quebec - article with great photos; Great 'wishbone' colour ad for the 1959 Dodge; Massive Black Label beer centerfold ad!; Julian Janvrin and his family are featured in a full-page ad by the Bank of Montreal; Nice Chevrolet Impala sport coupe photo ad; Colour photo ad for O'Keefe beer inside back cover features Irish setter licking lady's face; Nice Valentine theme Coke ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
68 pages. Features: Fantastic two-colour full-page photo ad for International Trac-Tractor roadbuilding equipment; Wakeville Awake! - Part 1 of a serial by Leslie McFarlane; Parker Pen ad; The Stars Hang High (fiction); Lord Tweedsmuir's Vision of a New World; Mackenzie King, R.J. Manion, J.S. Woodsworth and John Blackmore comment on the nation's war effort; Five Wee Wimmen - another Donald Mackellen story (fiction); Canada's Fighting Forces - Part 6 - Pay and Records - article with photos; Bats in the Belfry - Dr. Harold B. Hitchcock studies bats - photo sequence; Feud on High Plateau (fiction); Gordon Dunstan's Quiz #12; Hudson Six ad; Frigidaire Fridge ad; War on the Parasite - the new institute of Parasitology at Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec; Rare article and photos of hockey on Cape Breton - the Glace Bay Miners, North Sydney Vics and Sydney Millionaires - with photos of McGibbon,k Squarebriggs, Larabie, Clifton, Craig and Bill Hannon, Van Daele, Langille and Bill Gill - very rare!; GMC Truck (van) ad; Plymouth ad; Dodge car ad; Dodge truck ad; Sensational colour photo centerfold ad for Studebaker cars; Interesting drawn ad for Kleenex attempts to convince readers to adopt the Kleenex habit (it seems to have worked); Photo ad for Tangee make-up "Will He Kiss You Tonight?"; Cartoon strip-style ad for Hinds hand cream featuring beauty advisor "Honey"; Nice Fargo truck ad features photo of a Charlottetown, P.E.I. unit with snowplow mounted on front; Skis for Planes - the Elliott brothers' workshop in Sioux Lookoutk, Ontario - article with photo; *Fantastic* two-page election ad for "Fighting Bob" Manion takes aim at Mackenzie King; Ford V-8 ad inside back cover; Nice colour ad for canned lobster on back cover. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A wonderful vintage issue. Book
160 pages. Many illustrations, some in colour. Prized for the story on pages 110-112 which introduces a young Wayne Gretzky (aged 9 in the year of publication), complete with reproductions of four early black and white photos of "The Great One" in action. Relates how the author first met Gretzky and looks to the future. Many other interesting articles. Moderate wear. Binding tight. Prior owner's name inside front board otherwise clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
94 pages. Footnotes. Index. "Suggests there is a solution to Canada's political, economic and cultural problems that will lead to a better, freer, more workable country than the one we know now, without the need for any province to seek independence, or status as a "distinct society", or ano other condition that accords special privileges to some, but not to others." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
186 pages. "...Shows how the radicals from the French Canadian minority that is anchored in Quebec first invaded, then dominated, the Federal Government in Ottawa." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Bit of soiling to title page. Quality copy. 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
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
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
Septentrion 2017. In-8 broché de 241 pages. Très bon état
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
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
96 pages. Flexible boards covered by suede leather. Includes eleven shortened stories from "Stories of New France". The other six - "The Discovery of America," "The Story of Breboeuf," "The Story of Michillimackinac," "The Last Siege of Quebec," "The Story of Brock," and "The Story of Tecumseh" - were specially written for these pages. - from Preface. Title in gilt upon front board. Upper two inches of backstrip missing with openings two inches below. Leather detached from front board. Back fixed endpaper detached from back board. Front board loose but present. Frontis secured by tape. Prior owner's details, dated 1909, atop title page. Book
complet en 4 tomes: 424 + 512 + 417 + 422pp. + frontispices et planches hors-texte, 26cm., tirage limité à 2600 exemplaires, ceci est un des 2470 exemplaires sur vergé d'alfa antique crème, brochures originales, bon état, poids: 3.5kg., R104446
Ravenna, Angelo Londo, 1978, in-8, br., pp. (9). Estratto con invio autografo dell'autrice.