519 résultats
120 pages. "Exposes how the national interest continues to be sacrificed to the demands of Quebec, and provides a startling look at just how close Canada has come to dissolution." - William Trench, author of Only You Can Save Canada. Gift greetings upon title page else unmarked. Light wear. Book
113 pages. Quebec's Ultimatum to 20 million Canadians - Change Confederation to meet our demands - or we leave. This book gives a Canadian answer. Unmarked. Negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
Reli?. 252 pages.
Reliure demi-toile. 251 pages. Rousseurs.
in-8°, 390 pp, reliure cuir de l'editeur, jaquette illustree, jaquete rhodoid, emboîtage cartonne illustre. Comme NEUF / As New [P-17] Livre sous boitier de l"editeur. Texte en francais, text in french
66 pages. Features: Llambas, Quebec Maple Syrop Farm; and more. Sound copy. Book
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
xxiv + 364pp.avec ills., br.orig., dédicacé par le co-auteur Caulier, 23cm.
In folio, broché, couverture rempliée illustrée en couleurs, 223 p., nombreuses photos dans le texte. Carnet de bord du journaliste Biegert et du dessinateur Wittenborn lors de leur voyage au nord du Québec. Très bon exemplaire.
Broch?. 393 pages.
252pp., reliure cart.avec dos en cuir (titre et faux-nerfs dorés au dos, coins peu abîmés), 23cm., qqs.rousseurs, intérieur en bel état
Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Bell Island, Newfoundland; Bahamas; Transpac Expedition; To House or not to House; Filming a Salmon's Struggle; Manola - half a shipwreck; Blissful Beqa Lagoon; St. Kitts; Shipwrecks of Bermuda; Batchawana - in Lake Superior; Octopus at Argonaut Warf; Arrow - Nova Scotia Shipwreck; Catalina; Emergency ascent Lines; Wilcox - Lake Erie Schooner; Adventure Diving in Newfoundland; Ice Diving and Asbestos; Joyland - the honeymoon wreck; Canadian Cayman Islands; Cozumel; A Tribute to Brooks Wetsuits; Reel Diving; Wrecked in Nova Scotia; Socorro; Ghost Fleet of the St. Clair River; Good Samaritan Laws; Sea Urchins of the Bay of Chaleur; Label Your Tanks; Quebec Overview; Barbados - shipwreck haven; Haida Gwai; Tobermory's shipwrecks; Hard water diving - Banff; Romancing the Providenciales; Island Namesake - Jane McLeod; Lumpfish; Thailand; State of the Oceans; The Coral Reef; Project Aware; Preserving the Marine Environment; They are Eating the Ocean; Race Rocks, B.C.; Record-Breaking Cave Dive; Dive in an Aquarium; Florida Reefs; Columbia Sinking; Great Lakes - Narrow Island's B.B. Buckhout; Mexico Cave Adventure; Nitrox to the Arctic; Photography 101. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
cxxiii, 380 pages. Index. Hand-numbered copy 29 of 520 printed. "Brings together some serviceable selections from the source material available for the study of the Seigniorial Tenure in Canada from its introduction by the French government to its abolition in 1854. Documents have been selected which illustrate the various chronological stages in the evolution of Canadian seigniorialism, - its rise, its paramountcy, and its decline. Here will be found despatches, memoirs, reports, royal edicts, colonial ordinances, title-deeds, jurists, statutes, and the unofficial chronicles of contemporary observers." - Editor's Preface. Former librarry copy with usual markings. Front hinge just starting. Somewhat above-average wear to red boards. A sound copy of this impressive scholarly reference. TPL 3459, Thibault 177, Amtmann 2728. 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
Où l'historien Jean-Claude ROBERT, spécialiste de Montréal, voulait "relater les péripéties [d'une] longue aspiration à l'indépendance nationale qui débute dès le lendemain de la conquête anglaise" (l'auteur): de la formation du Canada français (1760-1840) à 1973; cartes; bibliographie. Dans la collection dirigée par Denis Richet. Français
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
696 pages. "Argues that the cession of Canada to Great Britain had no significant influence on the colony's social, economic, or institutional structures - that, in fact, the 'trauma' of the conquest was a fabrication of the defensive psychology of later generations... Deflates a number of patent nationalist myths firmly embedded in the historical interpretation of the period." - from back cover. Above-average external wear. Former library copy with usual markings. Binding tight. A worthy working copy. Book
Les Herbes Rouges, Poésie, 1998, 134 pp., broché, bon état.
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
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
Very scarce report on Canada. 86 pp, including 2 large folding plates. With numerous tables giving exact details on demography, agriculture, and business. 4to. Bound in recent marbled boards. FINE AND BRIGHT, with no defects.
N°3, de juillet-septembre 1999, de cette revue trimestrielle fondée et dirigée par Jean Cuisenier: le musée ethnographique dans les anciennes colonies "s'inscrit désormais dans le registre de la construction d'une mémoire et d'une identité": dans les Dom-Tom comme dans nombre de jeunes Etats issus de la décolonisation, les musées sont "à la fois des points d'ancrage d'une affirmation identitaire et des instruments de légitimation politique contribuant à construire, à valider ou à réfuter les représentations mobilisées par différents groupes en quête d'une histoire et d'un territoire" (4è de couverture); articles sur l'Afrique tropicale, le Gabon, l'Indonésie, la Réunion, les Antilles, le Vénézuela, le Québec, la Louisiane, le Canada, la Nouvelle-Calédonie, la Hongrie; et divers. Français
Au sommaire, dossier "Les mots des institutions": "Pour une exploration des sémantiques institutionnelles" par Marc ABELES, "Global expert: la religion des mots" par Bernard KALAORA, "L'invention de la "culture de Lomé" - La sémantique du dialogue dans les institutions européennes" par Irène BELLIER, "Calculs et croyance - La mission civilisatrice d'une multinationale en Europe de l'Est" par Birgit MÜLLER, "Du "capitaine" au "chef coutumier" chez les Kali'na" par Gérard COLLOMB, "L'anthropologue, le citoyen et l'habitant - Le rapport au politique dans une ville du Nord" par Catherine NEVEU, "La définition des disciplines et leurs enjeux" par Pierre BOUVIER, "Le mot et son institution" par Régis DEBRAY, "Les mots pour l'élire - Professions de foi électorale à Bayonne" par Jean-Daniel CHAUSSIER, "Puissance des concepts et pouvoir des discours - Quelques débats révolutionnaires sur la souveraineté" par Sophie WAHNICH, "La "vanne" et la "pression" - Ethnographie d'un chantier dans la région de Marseille" par Christian GHASARIAN, "Les égouts de Montpellier: mots crus et mots propres" par Agnès JEANJEAN, "Hors la loi: les Tsiganes d'Europe face aux institutions" par Caterina PASQUALINO; suivi de "La "fabrication" de la mariée" par Cécile BOUCHET, "L'analyse morphologique de la culture: l'exemple des rituels matrimoniaux" (enquête québécoise) par Gérard BOUCHARD, "Le mauvais oeil en Grèce: le champ de l'émotion et de la parenté" par Micheline KOTTIS; et divers. Français
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
