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57379St. John & Halifax Steam Lith. Co. 1873. A lithographed image on a single sheet matted. Image size is about 7.5 x 11 inches; matte size is 10.25 x 14.25 inches. Wear to lower edge small corner torn from lower right not affecting image or text old stain to the right edge reaching into the image generally very good otherwise. Sometimes seen colored this copy is not though there does seem to be some residual blue to the sky. Text at the lower edge indicates "From a Photo. by N.D. Hammett. D. Buchannan Arch't." <br/><br/> St. John & Halifax Steam Lith. Co., [1873]. unknown
439 pages. "This conference presented the first review of the state of knowledge of the Canadian coastline." - from Foreward. Tight and square. Unmarked with moderate external wear. Sound copy. Book
ria9781108723046_inpPaperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Aimed primarily at graduate level students and researchers this textbook presents a model of semantics that forms a central component of human language: it explains how people create sentences based on pre-constructed and formally repr paperback
Features: Recent work by A.J. Casson; The Brothers Martin 1813-1914; The 375th Anniversary of the Acadians in Nova Scotia; St. Mary's Church, Church Point, Nova Scotia; Acadian Furniture; Auctions. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Seen at the shows; Rediscovering E. May Martin; Canadian Sports on Plates; 300 Years of Cap-Sante ,Quebec; The Macdonald Stewart Library; An Introduction to Japanese Art - Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; The Old Catholic Cemetery in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; Massey (Agricultural Works) Memorabilia; The Careful Collector - Part III - Handling and Packing Art Objects. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Hooked Rugs; The Unknown Furniture Master of Waterloo County; The Constancy of Glass; Christian L. Hoover - Markham Township fraktur artist; Remembering University College; The New Hamburg Pottery - Waterloo County, Ontario; Early Academic Laurels in Canada; Canadian Glass Collecting; The Shand House, Windsor, Nova Scotia, 1890; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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
90 pages. Features/Articles: Champlain and shellfish - the French Connection; Alexander Graham Bell and Baddeck, Nova Scotia; The Arctic Realm - Beauty and Bounty in a 'hostile' land; Canada's Noorduyn Norseman - a tribute to a great bush plane - a fixture in the North for 50 years; Coyotes - no varmint after all; A New View of Canada - Geoff Goodship and his huge map of Canada - 5m x 1m; Seafood's new wave - plump blue mussels and exotic oysters hottest items on East Coast shellfish farms; Faces from the past - photographic treasures from B.C.'s provincial museum and archives; A patch of tallgrass very much worth saving - the St. James - Assiniboia Living Prairie Museum; Jimmy McQuat's log 'castle'; Whatever happened to Breadalbane's wheel?; Pronouncing names as the locals do; The Luck of a Grandparent's Farm - recollections of Arthur Stilwell. Moderate wear. Unmarked. *Please note: Coyote photo clipped from page 38 affecting text of coyote article on page 37. Please do not buy this magazine if you are interested in the coyote article. Book
64 pages. Features: 6c. Pearson (Sc. 591) Error; Nova Scotia - a Problem Cover; Stamps of the Spanish Antilles - a listing of errors in general catalogues; Identifying paper varieties - Criticisms and a proposal; The Admirals - Part 6, conclusion; Soaking stamps; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. 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
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
Features: Eel fishing in the Richelieu at the twin towns of St. Jean and Iberville; Writing on Stone - Milk River, Southern Alberta; East Coast Totem Pole - John L. Bradford of Hunt's Point, Nova Scotia; Lillooet's Ice Cave - a freak of nature discovered near Lillooet, B.C. by Martin Chernault; Protecting Our Heritage - the work of Ducks Unlimited; The "Tent" that's Permanent - the Shakespearean Festival Theatre at Stratford, Ontario. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. 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
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
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
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
Features: Through Clouded Eyes - Gas Masks and the Canadian Corps in the First World War; The Making of Public History - a comparative study of Skansen Open Air Museum, Sweden, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, Nova Scotia; La question de l'interculturalite en archeologie - l'exemple d'une region du Subarctique oriental; Making a House a Home - company housing in Cape Breton Island; Newfoundland outport furniture - identifying the Irish Regional Links. Exhibit Reviews: Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Painted Furniture of French Canada, 1700-1840; Clothing in Two Acts; Musee des Arts decoratifs de Montreal, Le plaisir de l'objet - nouveau regard sur les arts decoratifs du XXe siecle. Media Reviews: CBC and BBC - Dawn of the Eye; Our Secret Century - Archival Films from the Darker Side of the American Dream. Fifteen book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
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
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
Articles: Women Ashore - The Contribution of WAVES to US Naval Science and Technology in World War II; Privateer Entrepot - Commercial Militarization in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, 1793-1805; Mahan's 'Life of Nelson'; Croissance Portuaire et Urbanisation - Les Cas D'Anvers (XIXe Siecle); plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
187048104Photograph showing a dirt road with birch trees on one side and wooden guard rails on the other side No photographer identified unknown
a8738756 separate photographs 3x5 inches each. No photographer given. All views identified on back of image all dated 1939. Near Fine. Views include: Peggy's Cove Lighthouse Citadel in Halifax Fishing boats in Peggy's cove Lunenberg Cape Blomidon Evangeline Church at Grand Pre Grand Pre Village Smith's Cove near Digby etc. . unknown
0266769241.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
33144Halifax. Printed at the Royal Gazette Office. 1832. Hardcover. folio 31cm pp.137-319; 6023pp. appendix in the original half sheepand marbled boards blind panel rules and borders on the boards uppercover label removed otherwise a fine copy. atl TPL 672. The Journalswere issued from 1794 to 1860. This volume contains the submissions of100 petitions and 98 bills. Included are proclamations and messages fromthe Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia Sir Peregrine Maitland. TheseJournals and Proceedings give great insight into the governing ofcolonial Nova Scotia. Halifax. Printed at the Royal Gazette Office. [1832] hardcover