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[6], 229 pages. Black and white photographic plates, including frontis portrait of Officer Commanding Lieut.-Col. Earle P. Hall, C.D. Footnotes. An authoritative account of the regiment compiled from a wide variety of sources, including the Department of National Defence, The Department of Veterans Affairs, the Public Archives of Canada, and elsewhere. Prior owner's name and dates upon front free endpaper. Moderate wear to publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Binding intact. No dust jacket, presumably as issued. 24 x 16cm. A sound copy of this informative history. Dornbusch 277, Cooke [3] p252. Book
136 pages. Features: 1-page color ad for Nash cars; Great color 1-page ad for White Trucks ffeatures large illustration of one of their 'Super Power' engines; Rare 1-page color ad for Dr. Pepper soda entitled "Love that Lift at 10-2 & 4 O'Clock' features four photos, an illustration of their new Dallas headquarters, and Dr. Pepper calendar girl Gilfillan; 1-page color ad for General brand winter tires; Date with Death (fiction); Maurice Duplessis - Quebec's Little Strong Man - article with photos; Botts and the Jet-Propelled Tractor (fiction); The Big Ancestor Hunt - thousands of people are researching their family trees; The Foolish Age (fiction); Basketball's Big Wheel - photo-illustrated article about Ned Irish; What the Miners Say About John L. Lewis - article with photos; The Reformer and the Redhead (fiction); My Fifty Years in the White House - part 5 of Ira R.T. Smith's recollections; Trapped (fiction); Article and color photos of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry; Are We Winning the War Against TB (Tuberculosis); Nice 1-page color ad for Campbell's Soup; Photo-illustrated article about Manhattan's Belvedere Hotel; 1-page color-photo ad for Ford cars; 1-page Color-photo ad for Good Year Tires features photos of Mrs. Albert Cuneo of San Francisco, H.B. Bass of Munford TN, and Wallace S. Saxton of Bethany CT; Nice 2-page color ad for General Motors promotes their auto styling; 1-page color ad for Maxwell House coffee shows ski scene; 1-page 2-color ad for Chevrolet Heavy Duty Trucks shows truck loaded with huge logs; Half-page Vitalis ad features Maurice (Rocket) Richard of the Montreal Canadiens; 1-page Boeing ad features illustration of ten of their plane models in flight; 1-page recruiting ad for the U.S. Army and Air Force explains how they overcame weather; 1-page photo-illustrated ad for Magnavox TV-Phonographs; Caterpillar 1-page color photo ad shows bulldozer plowing through a mountain of tin cans in a dump; 2-page ad for Philco TVs and radios features photo of Rise Stevens; Nice color 2-page ad for Heinz Ketchup; Uncommon 1-page 2-color ad for Oliver Tractors; Nice 1-page color ad features the American-Standard Severn Boiler; Nice 1-page color ad for Burroughs features stylish receptionist; 1-page color ad for Life Savers Pep-o-mint candies features old-style telephone; 1-page ad for Underwood typewriters; Nice 1-page color ad for Ritz Crackers; 1-page color ad for the 'Jeep' Station Sedan; 1/2 page color ad for Vegamato; 1-page color ad for the Servel gas refrigerator features radio host Mary Margaret McBride; Two half-page ads for Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Company; 1-page color-photo ad for Gulfpride motor oil features Mr. J.N. Cooke, a prominent drug executive from Brattleboro VT; Artistic 1-page color ad for Pan Am features flowers of their destinations; Half-page Cream of Wheat ad features L'il Abner cartoon; 1-page color ad for American Airlines shows father returning to happy family; Full-page illustration of train rear platform; in Libbey-Owens-Ford ad; 1-page color ad for Delrich Margerine; Back cover ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes features lovely lady smoker. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
84 pages. Features: New Deputy-Commissioner, R.J. Ross; The King's Escort - with several archival black and white photos; VIP Section gets a home at Harrington Lake, Gatineau; Maintien(s) Le Droit - G.T. Hann/Grand Trunk Railway Regiment; The Martin's Field Murder - Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia; Open House - Frobisher Bay; Why I Joined the RCMP - Wive's Division; Police solve two hit-and-runs; A Book and Its Cover - C.W. Harvison intercepts a book intended for German POWs in Canada, and prevents an escape; Schefferville, Quebec; Electronics - an aid to criminals; "Mojo" - on the spot; Shades of Androcles; Chapel Windows Creator; Refurbishing the old St. Roch; Right Name Wrong Crime; The Brothers Jarvis; Grain Theft Solved; Stray Shot; Trapline Trouble; and more. Prior owner's name blacked out atop table of contents. Faint ink stamp to bottom of table of contents. Book
84 pages. Features: 1973 Quebec Winter Carnival; Colonel Mike Carroll retires; The Truth; Bennie or "Bob" Roach; Chicken Came Home to Roost; La "filiere francaise"; Pride of Beausejour; Great Chicken Robber; Providence?; Sergeant William Fury; and much more. Prior owner's details blacked out atop title page else clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Nice copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; burgundy cloth, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. Sold from an institution with its bookplate on front paste-down. SCARCE.
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
324 pages. Index. References. Black and white photographic plates abound. Subtitled: A study of the buildings erected in New France from the earliest explorers to the middle of the nineteenth century. "A collector's item and a treasure house of information on early Canadian architecture, the book is copiously illustrated with two hundred pages of line drawings and photographs, many of them unique and of buildings now destroyed by fire or restoration." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's inscription inside front board and covered by front flap of dust jacket. No other markings. Chunk missing from top corner of back free endpaper. Only moderate wear to book. Dust jacket well worn with pieces missing but now protected in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Overall a quality 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
112 pages. Features: Cover photo of LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) in adoring crowd; Lovely color fashion ads; Bankers Trust features Ian Mackay; What Good Can Be Said of Political Conventions?; Barry Goldwater Seeks a New Coalition; The Day Paris Was Liberated - Twenty Years Ago - article with photos; Plea for 'Realism' in Southeast Asia after the Gulf of Tonkin incident; Analysis of the 'White Backlash' - New Haven's reaction to the demands of Negroes for full citizenship takes some unexpected forms; Moscow Debates Its Manners; Two Peoples Under One Flag - a restive Quebec fires up old Anglo-French rivalries and shakes Canadian unity; Portrait of Channel No. 1- 'Coco' Channel has created a half-century of chic - photo-illustrated article; The Race to build the first Mach 2-plus passenger planes; It's Easier to Adopt a Baby, but the number of babies available does not meet demand; Campus fashion photos; Speaking frankly on homosexuality - something which was taboo until recently; Photos of hair styles and jewels; Photos of a Ranch House designed by Aspen Architect Eleanor Brickham; Chesterfield cigarette ad features horse breeder Guy Stillman, fashion consultant Virginia Van Brunt and architect Larry Craig Dean; Eight photos of prominent TV shows; and more. Light wear. Faint library stamp on front cover. A high-quality vintage copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Funny cover illustration of ditzy blonde beating table of men at poker; Nice colour GWG (Great Western Garment) ad inside front cover for their Drillers Drill work clothes for men; One-page blue and black recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF); One-page colour ad for the 1949 'futuramic' Oldsmobile; One-page colour ad for Waterman's pens features the new Crusader Trioset; Are We Governed by Bureaucrats? - an examination of the brain trust alleged to run Canada from the back room; Seventeen Lotus Blossoms - early appearance of this Sax Rohmer story, illustrated by Oscar Cahen; Quebec City - photo-illustrated article; McCarthy's Last Affair - short story involving hockey; Television - The New Monster - 'a cultural bomb is being thrown into Canadian homes', by Morley Callaghan; Eyes in the Dark (short story); Canada's New Statesman - Louis St. Laurent; Champion spark plugs ad features illustration of man pouring sap from maple tree; Handsome colour centerfold Chevrolet ad features a 1949 Fleetline four-door sedan with Fisher Body; A Dime for God - photo-illustrated article about the good works of Frere (Brother) Sauvageau, the Quebec Brother who, by his beggin, has fed, clothed, and educated hundreds of boys, and cured souls by asking them to have faith; "Going Steady" and the Sex Problem; One-page colour-photo ad for Heinz canned soup, spaghetti and baked beans; Colour half-page Canada Dry ad; Canadian General Electric (CGE) ad for their radios, including the Models C122, C751 and C545; Quarter-page ad for the Thistle 'minipak' baby stroller and 'nibs' chariot; Rare one-page two-colour (red and black) Canadian Red Cross ad features illustration of plaintive woman (nurse?) at top; Fashion article on hats includes photos; Nice half-page colour Quick Quaker Oats ad features illustration of young boy dreaming of growing to be a basketball star; Housecleaning Can Be Fun (?); Half-page colour-photo ad for Sovereign Potters features Mornglo ware; Wabasso Cottons ad inside back cover features colour photo of two girls in bonnets feeding ducks; Nice back cover Coke ad features illustration of nervous young man visiting young girl's home; and more. Average wear. Four-inch opening to bottom of coverfold. Address hand-corrected on address label, otherwise unmarked. A nice copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
44 pages. Features: Nice cover illustration of Quebec winter dance party; Nice half-page colour-photo ad for Sovereign Potters features their Pagoda design; 3/4-page RCAF recruits radio, radar and electronics trainees; 1/4-page ad for Canadian Pacific's White Empress; Canada Must Arm for Peace - Hanson W. Baldwin suggests Canada's role in the prevention of WW III - major photo-illustrated article; Fighter's Wife (boxing short story); George Drew and Louis St. Laurent Step into the political arena - photo-illustrated article; A Family for Pam (short story); If you want to be a Barbara Ann Scott (figures skater) - the rules that have helped her win five international titles, with photo of her trainer, Sheldon W. Galbraith; Outline of Good Intentions (short story); Schoolhouse in the Snow (short story); J.Arthur Rank ad features photo of actor John Mills; Bermuda on a Budget - photo-illustrated travel article on how Irene Marx and Maida Skene did it; Photo of soloist Frosia Gregory in ad for Campana's Italian Balm; Photo-illustrated interior design article; Classy one-page colour Heinz ad features painting by R. York Wilson of tomatoes being harvested by hand into bushel baskets for transit to Leamington for processing; Party recipes; Nice half-page colour Quick Quaker Oats ad features little boy dreaming of being a hockey player; World Sayings; O'Keefe's colour ad on back cover features painting by Rex Wood of old seaman telling tales to young boys; and more. Several middle leaves loose but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage issue. 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
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
107 pages. Footnotes. Black and white photographic plates. Text in English and French. Features: Painting in Quebec in the Thirties; Building for Transportation in the Nineteenth Century; Surrealist Traits in the Heads of Alfred Pellan; Architectural Image for the Dominion; and more. Somewhat above-average external wear with short openings to ends of backstrip. Binding intact. Unmarked. A sound reference copy. Book
Pages 60-108. Features: Bold red and black ad for C.I.L's Dominion Ammunition inside front cover; Wonderful full-page photo of a fashionable young couple in contemporary swimwear at the Radium Hot Springs drinking fountain; The Story of the Canadian Forestry Association; Photo of crowd at the Fairy Lake ski jump near Hull, Quebec; Winter Tenting has its compensations; Trees produce successive crops; Grey Owl's beloved beavers are killed; The Dogs of the Trails - sleigh dogs delight in hard work when well treated; Leaks in our Game Supply - Part 2 by Hamilton M. Laing; ; Doctor Forest - Wholesale Druggist - good medicine found in the forest - some of which is worth more than its weight in gold; This Game Warden has a Man's Job - Sergeant Rose enforces Canadian law over 190,000 square miles; Birds of the Bread Line - they bring drama and romance to the window sill; Stalking a Lynx - by Bonnycastle Dale, Jr.; The Tree Acrobat (the Squirrel) - part 2, by A. Brooker Klugh; Tree Shelter Belt in Manitoba; Tree Tips from Nature; The Relation of Wood and Bark - function of cambium in their origin and growth - trees as historians; When Winter Comes in the Woods; The Pioneer Fishermen of the North, by Mary Loretto Weekes; Forestry in Sweden - many valuable suggestions in forestry may be obtained; Fantastic photo ad inside front cover by Mussens Limited shows their Fordson tractor modified for winter logging; Wonderful colour ad on back cover for Victoria's Empress Hotel 'climate tempered by the Japan current'. Average wear and soiling. Binding intact. Minor nibbling to top of front cover - image unaffected. A sound vintage 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
Mm 225x230 Brossura cucita, catalogo della mostra di antichità dal Museo egizio del Cairo presso Palais de la civilisation Montreal 1 giugno-29 settemmbre 1985. Tavole a colori e illustrazioni b/n nel testo. Segni d'uso.
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
Paperback. 233 pages. Sections include: The Origins of New France, 1534-1663; The Royal Regine; Intercolonial Rivalry, 1682-1713; The French Empire at its Height, 1713-1754; The Fall of New France, 1754-1760; The Beginnings of British Rule, 1763-1810. Prior owner's name upon front flyleaf. Writing atop back cover. Light wear. Clean. Nice working copy. Book
276 pages including index. The conflict between Quebec nationalism and Canadian values and the story of the appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Committee against the violation of freedom of expression. Author is the Canadian who pioneered the appeal of Quebec's sign law to the United Nations. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Nice copy. Book
134 pages. Black and white illustrations. "Into his notebooks he (Harold Geggie) poured his heartbreaks, his frustrations, his accomplishments and his compassion for the people. His stories speak for themselves." - the Editors. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A tight, sound 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
168 pages. Provides the first comprehensive and objective look at this critical issue, considering all important aspects including fiscal flows, trade relations, migration, division of the public debt, and monetary arrangements. Light pencil underlining and marginalia throughout. Light wear. Book
412 pages. Undated reprint, circa 1971. 8.25" x 6.5". "A valuable sourcebook of basic information on the design and workmanship of French Canadian furniture from the seventeenth to the first half of the nineteenth century. Armoires, buffets, chairs, commodes, beds and other common items are described and illustrated in detail, and the scope of the book extends to spinning-wheels, chandeliers, mantelpieces, stoves, fabrics, doors, locks and latches. Included also are suggestions for restoring the original colour to traditional furniture, and for identifying genuine French Canadian period pieces. There are approximately 600 black-and-white photographs." - dust jacket. Includes: List of Master-Woodworkers, Woodworkers and Carvers. List of English and Scottish Woodworkers and Cabinet-Makers. List of Master-Locksmiths and Locksmiths. List of Collectors. Bibliography. Abbreviations List. Lexicon of French-Canadian Terms. Glossary. Index. Minor lean to spine. Unmarked with moderate wear to dark green publisher's cloth. Binding intact. Average wear to dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy of this valuable reference. Whiteman, Stewart & Funnell 1643. Book
178 pages. "... the author has not pulled any punches in his condemnation of Jean Chretien's record. But he reserves a special contempt for Chretien's cabinet and Liberal caucus, who could have stopped Chretien in his tracks at any time, but ttook the dishonourable path of clinging to their comfortable offices and fat pensions and vaporous celebrity." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked but for gift greetings on page iii. Negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
