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Features: Auction Report; Seen at the Shows; John and Ebenezer Doan - Builders and Furniture Craftsmen; 'Arctic Scenery' on Staffordshire Pottery; The McKendry Quilt Collection; A View of Windsor, Nova Scotia; Logging Tools - worthy finds for collectors; Canadian Button Collectors. Nice copy. Magazine
9 issues from 1991 including the following months: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Topics featured include: Cayman Islands; Port Hardy, B.C. Dolphins; Wreck of the A.W. Perry - Nova Scotia; Kingston and Killarney Shipwrecks; The Elusive Wrymouth; Barkley Sound, God's Pocket, Campbell River; Caribbean ABCs; Blackfish Sound; Wreck of the Emperor; Tropical Fish - in the Maritimes?; Indonesia - Exotic Diving; Yap, Saba, Catalina Island; Sunshine Coast, B.C.; Wreck of the Cornwall; Gulf Stream - Bahamas and Florida; Gargantua Harbour Wreck- Lake Superior; East Coast Anemone; Kona, Palau, CoCo View; Sidney, B.C.; St. Lawrence; Moon Jelly; Six Gill Sharks; Diving naturalist - temperate vs. tropical; B.C's Race Rocks; Diving with the RCMP - Search and Rescue; The US Virgin Islands; Sinking the G.B Church - New Canadian Artificial Reef; The Sea Cucumber; Construction Diving; Emeral Bay - wreck dive in Alberta; Panama; Thunder Bay; The Solomon Islands - WWII remnants; Diamond Knot - West Coast Wreck; Indonesia; Beluga Encounter off Cape Breton; Nudibranchs. Moderate wear. Sound copies. Book
Includes the following issues from 1994: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Topics include: The Red Sea; Mexico Revisited; Dugong - Homely Mermaids; Slingsby Channel, B.C.; Flagship of the Muskokas; Thailand Daytrips and Liveaboards; New Caledonia; Lake Erie Shipwreck - Carlingford; Indonesian Princess - Island Hopping; Nova Scotia; Dive the Brae; Cayman Islands; Cetacean Encounter - Dolphins; Ten Best Dives in the West; Choose a Suit; Disable Divers; Swimming Scallops; U.S.S. Monitor Update; Coral in the Maldives; Beach Access in B.C.; Shipwreck - President Coolidge; Nova Scotia's 'Vienna'; Choosing a Mask; Shooting at Night; Spacious 'Lady Goodiver'; Lost Steamer 'Colonial'; Palau - 10 Great Sites; B.C.'s Magnificent Red Coral; Elusive Cuttlefish; Port Colbourne - Raleigh; Adams River Salmon Run; Grunt Sculpins; Is Liveaboard Diving For You?; How to Win Underwater Photo Contests; Snorkelling Gear for Summer Fun; Seymour Inlet Lodge; Sinking of the HMCS Saguenay; God's Pocket; Kona Coast, Hawaii; Fiji; Solomon Islands; Light Meters; Underwater Time-Keeping; Ghost Ship of the Muskokas; Duel at Swordfish - Victoria, B.C.; B.C. Garden of Sponge; Voyage Aboard Nai'a; Best of the Caribbean; Anemones - they're everywhere!; Diving is the Pits - in Minnesota; Whytecliff Park, B.C. - a favourite local dive; Telegraph Cove, B.C. - North Island Diving; Canada's Arctic; Sipidan and Sangalakki; Cape Cod. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
Includes the following 8 issues from 1993: February, March, April, May, June, August, November, December. Includes the following features: Hakai Passage; Giant Nudibranch; Roatan and Utila; Bay Islands 'Aggressor'; Wreck of the Bohemian; Cayman Brac; Joy of Snorkelling; St. Lawrence Belugas; Tahiti - the rangiroa Atoll; Hawaiian Humpbacks; Tobermory in the Summer; Grand Cayman Island; Nakwakto Rapids; Norway Wrecks; Deep Divers; Pacific Octopus; Barkley Sound's Ten Best; Artificial Reefs in Ontario; Belize Holiday; Cuba; Saba; Isleworth; Black Sea Visit; Sidney, B.C.; San Juan Islands; Photobiology; Battle of the 'Atlantic'; Costa Rica; Macrophotography - getting up close; Neah Bay, Washington; Discovery Passage, B.C.; Bonaire; Aruba and Curacao; 'Touch the Sea'; Cozumel; Pirate's Treasure in Cayman; Inflatables; Nudibranchs; New York Cops; Queen Charlotte Islands; Similan Islands, Thailand; Philippines - Balicasag; Hypothermia; Marine Parks; Halifax Harbour; Ceolacanth cycles; Jurassic Seas; Talking Underwater; Palau, Vanuatu, Best of the Great Barrier; Sambro Island, Nova Scotia; Palm Beach, Florida; Mystery Wreck in Georgian Bay; Sumbarines Ahoy!; Clayoquot Sound, Hotsprings Cove; 'Shoal Searcher'; Bahamas. Clean with moderate wear. Quality copies. Book
56 pages. Features: Why can't we get our money's worth from CBC television?; Are the Republican's stuck with Nixon?; Nice Colour Ads: '56 Dodge - PowerFlite push-button automatic transmission; The Unknown Country - Part IV, Nova Scotia; My Heart Belongs to Old McGill; The World's Biggest Pawnshop - McTamney's in Toronto. Average wear. Centre-fold loose but present. Page 34 loose but present. Moderate soiling to lower portion of front cover. A worthy vintage copy. Book
Pages 245-292. Individual photos of fourteen of "Our Missionaries 1930"; Antonio and the Doctor - Dr. Strangway at Chissamba Hospital in Africa; The Maritime Home for Girls, Truro, Nova Scotia - article with photo; Little Chiyoko San and a Christian kindergarten in her home in Shizuoka, Japan; Travel letter from Effie A. Jamieson; The President's Journal - with photo looking over Foochow and photo of sampans; on the Upper Yangtsze; The Gyproc House - The Nurses' Home at Gypsumville, Manitoba; and much more, plus several nostalgic ads for The Bank of Toronto, The Hwaiking Shops, The T.Eaton Co., Sterling Trusts Corporation, and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this diminutive yet highly informative issue. Reading it will provide an excellent snapshot of the wonderful worldwide works of the Woman's Missionary Society in 1930. Book
108 pages. Features: Two-page ad for Electrohome televisions, of Kitchener, Ontario; The Operational Code of Pierre Elliott Trudeau; One-page colour-photo ad for the (green) Chrysler Newport Royal; Have I Ever Lied To You Before? - The Table Talk of Jerry Goodis; Two-page Volkswagen Beetle ad shows Beetle confronted by a 'gang' of North American cars; Colour Royal Bank ad features photo of 'Mary'; One-page colour-photo ad for Molson Canadian (in stubby bottle) beside fancy drink; Arrow shirt ad features colour photo of Toronto disc jockey "Jungle" Jay Nelson (of 1050 CHUM) and John McLeod; Keeping Toronto Hateful - Eight pages explain why any sensitive Canadian continues to live in such a rotten place(!); Toronto - Middle-Class capital of the world; Who's Who in the Toronto Power Game; Feature article on hockey player Derek Sanderson; Colour photos and interview with Derek's lady, Judy Martin; 20 Things You'd Better Know About the New Taxes, by Izzie Asper; The Sound of Mario Bernardi; Backing the Better Mousetrap - article on inventors taking their ideas to market, including Harold Humphreys who invented the Polypump, and Peter Davis; A Feast of Provinces - article on Canada by Al Purdy; Colour-photo ad for the Series 30 Chevy Van (RV) includes photo of A.R. Williams of Terence Bay, Halifax County, Nova Scotia; Canadian Club ad features colour photos of the Mudmen of New Guinea; One-page colour ad for the Chevrolet Vega; Classy one-page colour-photo ad for the 1972 Buick Centurion (green two-door); Article on television includes small photo of comedian Flip Wilson; Fiat black and white photo ad inside back cover features photo of Mr. Ferrari and the Fiat 128 he drives. Average wear. Unmarked. Minor bit of moisture exposure at bottom of coverfold. A sound vintage copy. Book
56 pages. Features: How the French pay ship Le Chameau gave up its fortune to divers Alex Storm, Dave MacEachern and Harvey MacLeod off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia - great colour photos with article; Harold Wilson - My, how he's changed!; Michael Langham - this quiet man has been the Stratford Festival's undisputed monarch for 11 years; They learn to live with drinking parents; What's Next - a Canadian Tennis Star? - Bob Puddicombe, Bob Bardsley, Barry Shakespeare, Bob Moffat, Vic Rollins, Don McCormick; Divorce, Mexican Style - our reporter zips through the charade of a Juarez divorce to prove a point - but hundreds of Canadians do it in earnest; "You're a Damn Lying Scoundrel" - the last fatal duel to be fought in Canada between John Wilson and Robert Lyon; Vintage colour ad for Honda automobiles - convertible and G.T. Fastback Coupe; Canadiana with Gerald Stevens; Back cover ad by Carling introduces their 9 brewmasters. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Cover illustration by Franklin Arbuckle. Full-page Allis-Chalmers ad features a large TS-300 motor scraper working on a Toronto bypass; Champlain - The Man Who Came to Stay - Part One of The White and the Gold, by Thomas B. Costain; Can McCarthy Happen Hear? - This searching study of the U.S. investigating committees and their Canadian equivalents - including the prelude to the Ottawa spy case of 1945 - reveals that Canadians have no cast-iron guarantees against judgement without fair trial - with photos; Brian Boru, by Sean O'Faolain - illustrated by James Hill; The Pulse of French Canada - Montreal's La Presse newspaper; The Happiest Couple in Show Business - dance team Alan and Blanche Lund; The Waiting Lines of Spandau - What's it like to be the wife of a war criminal? - This first-hand report takes you into the homes and hearts of the women - once the elite of Hitler's Germany - whose fight for their husbands' freedom has reached kings, presidents and even the Archbishop of Canterbury - with photos; A Coal Town Fights for its Life - Bloody strikes and stark depression failed to conquer the proud miners of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, but now cheaper coal from the U.S., oil, gas and hydro power present new challenges; Edmonton's Log Cabin Ritz - Bob Kashower hated hotels so much that when he turned an old air-force hut into the Airlines Hotel he insisted the guest by king; Nice colour ad for the 1954 Ford Monarch, with a 161-HP overhead valve V-8 engine; Mrs. Delores Dalzell is featured in a Jergens Lotion ad; Nice colour Chrysler ad features the 1954 Windsor De Luxe; Great two-colour full-page recruiting ad for the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN); Colour Trans-Canada Airlines ad features their new Super Constellation service to Europe; Colour ad for the 1954 Dodge; Nice colour ad for "The Newest Oldsmobile in 57 Years"; Full-page ad for the 1954 Ford Consul and 1954 Ford Zephyr; Colour photo ad for the 1954 Meteor Rideau inside back cover; Coke ad on back cover features Eddie Fisher bowling. Above-average wear and external soiling. Middle two pages loose but present. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
Unpaginated. 3/8" thick. 1959 High school yearbook from Oxford, Nova Scotia. An excellent keepsake loaded with black and white illustrations. Covers damaged and marked. Contents in decent condition. Book
36 pages. Features: Power Tools and the Basic Home Workshop; Veneering for Beginners - A Backgammon Board; Cutting the Classic Dovetail; Grindstones and Clipper Ships; Lower Cove, Nova Scotia - 150 Years Later - grinding wheels were fashioned from rock here; The Ryobi Woodcarver. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A lovely copy of the first issue of this excellent but short-lived Canadian woodworking publication. Magazine
Features: The World Wildcat (bobcat) Hunt - Canadian guide Ron Hoare and American hunter Norm Wheeler at Truro, Nova Scotia; Professional patients - they can fake symptoms well enough to fool most doctors so they can enjoy all that tender, loving (and free) hospital care; Al Stewart of West Hill is a jack of all trades, and master of just about all of them - he, Bill Fields, Izzy Flader, Nick Kioussis, Aron Frydman, Alan (and Percy) Lepke are some of the very best and absolutely most reasonable repairmen anywhere; Tie One On - fashion segment featuring decorative tie-ons for bare legs named 'Gammies"; Do Canadian workers need American salaries? - a question being considered by North America's giant international unions - carpenter Harry Peck of Portland, Oregon is compared with carpenter Floyd Holly of Vancouver, BC; Nice colour full-page ad for Kentucky Fried Chicken; Prosperity is Killing the Game of Marbles - Why should a kid work for his water babies when he can buy all he wants?; Doug Wright's Family; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
36 pages. Features: Cover photo in cab of the new Twin Beechcraft; Pratt & Whitney ad inside front cover; Great half-page photo of a De Havilland Dragon above the clouds; Aerial History in the Making - passage of the Act to incorporate the Trans-Canada Air Lines; Great full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes features photo of screen star Anna Lee; News and Views of the Month; Early Experiments in British Columbia - an account of experimental efforts in flying conducted at Vancouver shortly after the achievements attained by McCurdy, Baldwin, and their associates at Baddeck, Nova Scotia - with photo of the first aircraft to fly in western Canada, involving William and Winston Templeton, William McMullen and Earl Godfrey; Great full-page Chevrolet ad at Niagara Falls; Douglas announces plans for new super-transport DC-4; S.A.(Al) Cheesman - article with photo; Photo of Capt. M. (Tim) Armstrong and W.J. (Jack) Sanderson together; Monospar ad; List of R.C.A.F. Transfers; Photos from Toronto's first Air Force ball; Old Country (Britain) Gossip - with photo of a Nazi Junkers Ju-86 and three Vickers "Victoria" troop carriers flying by a pyramid in Egypt; Great full-page photo ad for the De Havilland Hornet Moth; Photo of Mr. G.N. Irwin of Whitby, ON at the controls of his Cabin Waco with A. Derumaux, his radio operator; Mackenzie Air Service ad shows map from Edmonton to Cameron Bay; Sensational 4-page centrefold ad for Beechcraft products with photos of the Model E 17 B and the Model 18; Irvin Air Chute (Parachute) ad; Aero Research by Bristol - article with two photos; Great full-page photo ad for Imperial Airways shows customers standing on the Promenade Deck; Indoor Stick Model Practice; M.A.L.C. News; Nice half-page photo ad for the Rearwin Sporster; The Students' Forum; Cub Aircraft Ltd. ad; Condensed Club News; Full page ad with photos for the Canadian Marconi Company; Northern Electric Aircraft Radio ad; Bristol Engine ad inside back cover; Imperial Oil ad for Stanavo products on back cover features photo of an interesting craft in flight in the far north; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
84 pages. Features: Great cover illustration of Victoria Harbour by Franklin Arbuckle; Parker pen ad inside front cover with photo of Sir Ernest MacMillan; Housing outlook grows darker; Why Wives are Going Out to Work - close-up look at this social and economic revolution - with photos of Mrs. Audrey and Mr. Lorne Hunt and family of Toronto; The White Pagan (fiction by Ward Holm Tanzer); Ontario's Quetico Park; Everybody's Playing the Stock Market Again - the busiest flurry since 1929; Why Uncle Sam has blocked the St. Lawrence Seaway; We Found the Last Wild West (part 3 of this tale by Richmond P. Hobson Jr.); Milk Run to Korea - Pierre Berton flies with the RCAF to Korea on one of its many flights to deliver supplies and bring the wounded home; The Toughest Man Afloat - 57-year-old Fred White, bosun of the Canuk Line freighter Triberg; The Small-town movie house at Hantsport, Nova Scotia; They Say You Taste Like Pork - the last ten years have been easily the worst in the recent history of cannibalism; Nice colour one-page ad for the Hillman Minx (blue convertible); Austin car ad; Nice colour Buick ad features red two-door Riveira Custom; Very nice one-page colour Chevrolet ad features the Bel Air; Half-page two-colour tourism ad for Ontario; Penicillin for Sweet Molly - by James Thurber; 1951 Ford car colour ad; 3/4-page Canadian Pacific ad features their Alaska, Banff and Lake Louise destinations; Dow Brewery Award features James Philpott of Toronto who suffered burns rescuing youngster from Scarborough home; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover with illustration of taxi driver relaxing; and more. Chunk from upper corner of front cover, otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
116 pages. Features: Editorial - "Why Should Illiterates Crowd the Colleges?"; The Hanging of Ruth Ellis; Nice full-page colour-photo ad for Weston's bread and biscuits; Strange Forces Behind The Richard Hockey Riot - article with dramatic photos; The Magic Life, prize-winning short story by Ann Maude Henry - illustrated by Oscar Cahen; What One Song Can Do - Priscilla Wright and Warwick Webster combine for success with "Man in a Raincoat"; What its Like to Kiss a Tiger, by Alfred Court - the greatest animal trainer of all time - article with photos; How a "Progressive" Teacher Works - how Edmonton teacher Jean Dey handles her Grade One class; The Most Exotic Meal I Ever Ate - with the Pasha of Marrakesh, by John Gunther; The Maddest Three Days in Fishing - the 3-day International Tuna Tournament at Wedgeport, Nova Scotia - article with colour photos; So You Think You Can Drive? - article with photos; How John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown became the first men to fly nonstop across the Atlantic - a Maclean's flashback to 1919 - article with photos; Take Me Home Again Irene, by Fred Sloman; Anybody Eats Here Free - Toronto's Scott Mission - article with photos; Nice colour-photo Coke ad on back cover shows young man and two young ladies standing at their table. Moderate wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. A quality copy of this historic issue. Book
64 pages. Features: Charming cover illustration of cute little car cutting in front of 'Mammoth Transport' by William Winter; Colour-photo Marboleum ad inside front cover features wild 1940s interior design; One-page 1949 Chevrolet ad features a green Styleline De Luxe 2-door sedan; One-page two-colour (yellow and black) Canadian Army recruiting ad shows soldier playing baseball; Photo of Jean Simmons in J. Arthur Rank ad; Is radio doing its job in Canada?; Half-page ad for colourful Monarch-knit socks; Nice one-page colour ad for the 1948 Meteor car; We Have a Thousand Days - Civilian radar expert warns Canadians that it is later than we think, and that our defence thinking is out of date - 'we cannot afford to waste 90 centes out of each defense dollar for tradition'; Alderman at the Back Door (short story); Halifax, Nova Scotia - photo-illustrated article by Hugh MacLennan; A Sensitive Man (short story); Lorne Greene - fast man with a voice - wonderful photo-illustrated article; All that Glitters (short story); Nice colour one-page ad for the 1949 Mercury (blue); Morley Callaghan discusses 'Love at forty'; Lovely one-page colour Pontiac ad features a maroon Fleetleader sport coupe, blue Fleetleader De Luxe 4-Door Sedan, cream Chieftain De Luxe 4-Door Sedan and gold Streamliner De Luxe Sedan Coupe; Quarter-page La-Z-boy ad; Mr. (Morley) Callaghan Comes to Town - photo-illustrated article on 'To Tell the Truth', the first Canadian play to hit the Royal Alexander Theatre in Toronto for 42 years; I'd Hate to be a Wife (humorous article); Nice colour one-page ad for the 1949 Ford Custom car; Nice colour-photo one-page ad for Singer Sewing Centers; Half-page two-colour ad for Canadian General Electric home appliances; Attractive 3/4-page colour ad for a new Yardley perfume called Lotus; Classy one-page colour ad for Snyder's Furniture of Waterloo, Ontario; Fashion article with photos; Classy cheesecake-style two-colour ad for Nemo 'Sensation' Girdles features lady on floor playing with cat; How to keep the kiddies busy; Seagram's one-page colour ad features nice illustration of British Columbia hand-loggers falling a huge fir; Easter recipes; Nice one-page colour ad for Swift's Premium Easter hams; Inside back cover is a nice colour ad for the 1949 (red) Ford Monarch; Carling's ad on back cover explains tree roots and their importance; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A nice copy of this wonderful vintage issue. Book
Pages 178-264 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: The Mysterious Heart of Asia (part I) - Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes gives an account of his adventures during a war-time expedition, with photos; The Murder Ship - the Russian schooner Johannis and one of the most tragic narratives in the annals of the sea; The Lifted Veil (part I) - POWs in Turkey concoct a 'spook' and create an amazing deception for their captors; The Largest Camera in the World - constructed by George Lawrence of Chicago - fantastic photo-illustrated article; 'Twixt Earth and Sky - the story of a German's vengeance and the terrible ordeal that resulted for a timber-getter in the New Zealand kauri forests; The Great Zeebrugge Raid - And After (part II) - a Royal Marine captured on the Mole describes the full story of the historic landing (in part I) and curious adventures during subsequent captivity; The Bullet-Hole Cross - Guatemalan estate manager Mr. Dellplain incurs the wrath of an Indian who swears to have his life; The Mystery of the Missing Nun (part II) - Sister Janina disappeared from a peaceful little village in Michigan; Timber-Cruising in California - Terence H. Lambert describes interesting experiences among the big trees of California; Pirate Gold - The Buried Treasure of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; After Big Game in East Africa - advice on the fitting out of expeditions, cost, and the game available; Photo of amazing bamboo scaffold structure over the great Ch'ien Men Gate, Peking as it was being rebuilt; A Two-Days' Battle with a Baboon - it escaped aboard a ship!; A Night With a Madman in India; The Sheriff's Bad Day - this story hinges on a very odd connection with this publication; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A quality copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Contents include: Number, area, value, tenure and size of occupied farms, live stock and machinery. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 11.25" x 9" x 3". 3.7 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrips. Usual library markings. Average wear. Bindings sound. Quality copies. Book
72 pages. Nice cover illustration of the H.M.S. Repulse by Eric Aldwinckle. Articles: Civilization in Danger - Liddell Hart explains how France and Britain have been forced into a defensive position; This Way, Please - wonderfully nostalgic photo-illustrated article on the Motion-Picture Theatre Usher; Oil is Where You Take It - article on the 112,000 miles of pipeline in North America; Co-ops Sell Fish and Homes - informative article on the history of the North Island Trollers' Co-operative Association (Queen Charlotte Islands) and the the Tompkinsville co-operative housing project at Reserve Mines on Cape Breton Island; To Be Blind Like This - James McDonald of Alberta explains how blindness since age 6 has not kept him from a full and happy life; Streamlined Groceries - great vintage article on food merchandising circa 1939 and how it eases the burden on housekeepers. Fiction: Graven Image of a Boy; South Sea Saga; So Nicely Put; Deep Waters (serial). Great one-page photo ad for International industrial crawlers and tractors. Excellent two-colour (orange) one-page photo ad for Chevrolet trucks. Lovely one-page colour ad for the 1939 Dodge car (orange). Colour Studebaker centrefold ad. 1939 Dodge truck ad. Bromo-Seltzer ad includes photo of Bridge expert Ely Culbertson. Photo of 97-year-old twins Hettie Brenton and Rhoda Dartt, born in Brookfield, Nova Scotia. Vintage one-page ad for Chrysler vans and pickup trucks. Willys Overland photo ad. Nostalgic colour-photo ad for Canadian Pacific's Banff and Lake Louise tourism features poolside ladies in bathing caps. Nice colour back cover 1939 Plymouth ad features a red Custom four-door Streamline Sedan. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality copy of this excellent vintage issue from the ominous months preceeding WWII. Book
80 pages. Beautiful cover illustration of Canada Geese by A.J. Casson. Features: Colour photo ad for Eversharp pens and pencils inside front cover; Beautiful Toronto model Betty Syme featured with her son 3-year old son Paddy in a multi-photo ad for Ipana toothpaste; The Last Delegate, fiction by Margaret Lewerth; Stuttering Can Be Cured, by George W. Kisker; Big Larry of U.B.C. - Norman Archibald MacRae MacKenzie is President, by Clyde Gilmour; Hut Scene, fiction by Ralph Allen; Stries Without Strife, by Clarence H. Curtis; They Won't Go Home - Homeless, hopeless, buffeted by propaganda, a quarter million world war II Displaced Persons (DP's) rot in exile rather than face the real or fancied terrors of home, by Blair Fraser; Fall of the Sparrow, fiction by Robert Fontaine; Full-page Karsh colour photo of Field Marshall Viscount Alexander of Tunis, 17th Governor-General of Canada; Ballerina Tamara Toumanova - article with six photos; The Gift - fiction by Louis Kaye; Are The Russians Mad?, by Eddy Gilmore; Happy Island - Tancook Island, Nova Scotia, with photos; Nice full-page colour ad for Bulova; Colour photo ad for Caterpillar Diesel; Fantastic colour full-page ad for the Oldsmobile Series 66 Club Sedan with Hydra-Matic Drive; Colour Northern Electric ad displays their range of radios, waching machines, refrigerators and electric ranges; Beautiful full-page colour Pontiac ad features a 4-door model; 2-page black and white Buick ad; Full-page colour ad by Erven Lucas Bols, a Dutch Distiller, thanks Canada for liberating their country from the Nazis; Full-page ad for Fleet Aircraft featuring the Canuck; Interesting ad by Blue Top Brewing Company of Kitchener, Ontario presents details of 'The Expanding Home'; Colour ad by O'Keefe's Brewing Company on back cover features Southern Ontario - Canada's Industrial Province; plus many more wonderful ads and short articles. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Address label atop front cover. A superior copy of this magnificent vintage issue. Book
Neatly signed, without inscription, by Carrie M. Best atop title page. vi, 258 pages. Colour photo portrait of Ms. Best. Many black and white reproductions of photos in text. News clipping of Ms. Best's obituary laid-in. "A woman of outstanding worth, a tenacious crusader for good and noble causes, a gracious lady who has devoted her life and her generous gifts to the betterment of the human condition. She has given hope and dignity to her own race and is an example and inspiration to all people in both word and work. Poet, journalist, informed commentator, incisive critic, Mrs. Carrie Best in the golden glow of a luminous life, continues to exert articulate leadership and thus engages our abiding admiration." - back cover. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this important Canadian autobiography. Book
