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64 pages. Features: Spruce for Tomorrow's Paper - Can the Pulp and Paper Industry of the Northeast Survive? - with good photos; The Oldest Cultivated Trees in the World - Cypress Arches of Chapultepec Park, or the Bosque de Chapultepec, on the outskirts of Mexico City - with photos; Redwood Burls - by Emanuel Fritz - article with photos; The Forest and the Great Stone Face, by Allen Hollis; The Barred Door - by W.N. Craigie; Uncle Sam's First Timber Sale - near the quaint village of Nemo, South Dakota - with nice photos; Canada and the Migratory Bird Treaty; Don's Christmas Adventure - a story by Erle Kauffman; Shapshots of European Forests - In a Fir Forest of France - article with photos by John D. Guthrie; A Plea for the Forests - by Hon. John Q. Tilson; Planting Woodland Gardens - by J. Farnworth Anderson; A Man and a Mountain - Lije Coalman and Mount Hood, by Ethel Romig Fuller; Wasting Fortunes fo Make Fortunes - Guy Elliott Mitchell explains how vast quantities of Natural Gas are wasted in the search for oil - great photos including an an amazing shot of a forest of derricks in California; A Tale of a Bunny the Woodchuck - by C.H. McDonald; Nice two-color ad for the Pacific Pumper manufactured by Pacific Marine Supply Company of Seattle; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
182 pages. Features: Honor Roll of visionary architects and interior designers; The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland update England's storied Alnwick Castle; A 1960s hillside home in Bel-Air is reconfigured - foot for 007; Splendor in Manhattan - a dramatic setting for antiques and art high above New York's Ritz-Carleton; An informal family retreat in the Hamptons; View home in San Francisco; Carving a modern home from old on an island near Sicily; New York penthouse by Mojo; Couple's new home in Washington by Robert S. Brown and Todd Davis; Special Motoring Section - automobiles are changing with the times, ahead of the curve at Renault, celebrating 40 years of the Porsche 911, Daryl Hannah's El Camino runs on biodiesel - an ethanol-thinned vegetable oil. Light wear. Unmarked. A nice copy. Magazine
Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: "All circuits are busy; I will call you" - the phrase of operators dealing with heavy traffic; Good-bye to the Seymour and Trinity manual offices - photos; Photo of the ladies of the Nelson small bore rifle club; adding switching equipment in Victoria; Gas masks, helmets, and more in Alma operating room - photo; Action photo of the First Vancouver Cadet Training Corps; Record load of telephone calls handled in B.C. in 1942 - article and photos; George Friend - Alma plant man - article and photos; Second birthday of the Van-Tel Credit Union; A few lines from the front lines - parts of letters from phone men on active service; John Jessop dies - photo and article; Back cover wartime announcement "Be Careful What You Say"; Photos of females filling in for males in the Vancouver Engineering department; Victory Bond ad.; Wire Shortage - here's why; "Behind the Lines!" - by George Matthew Adams; Wartime Problems of Telephone Business set forth in Annual Report; Great Cheque mystery solved by new payroll machine - 2 pages of photos and text; Popular traffic official dies - Robert A Henderson; Honour Roll, World War II; Honour Roll, World War I; Credit Union article; Letter by operator Elsie Forman; variety of photos emphasizing wartime parts shortages and recycling; Victory Bond ad.; E.E. (Slim) Sinden, wire chief at Chilliwack; Operator's form association; Roland Arthur Chute, former Kamloops Manager, retires; John Sowerby - survived fire and earthquake to become a phone man - article and photos; P.J. (Pete) McCormick retires; Illustrated letter from G.R. Peakes, Major-General, G.O.C.-in-C., Pacific Command, saluting the telephone industry; Many additional war photos/content; Using phones to report forest fires; Article on operator 'Quiz Kids' - information operators; honour roll of employees who have joined the war effort; Oliver Plant man Reuben Echlis retires; article from Reader's Digest arguing for wartime wage and price controls; James D. Baker passes away; William Henry Cooke retires; Update from Pipe-Major Edmund Esson in Sicily; Ex-operators rally to aid of telephone company, including newspaper ad.; Miss Leonie Michaud retires; Hockey star and telephone man Leslie Steel dies in Vancouver; many wonderful Victory Garden photos; war bond ad; Victory Loan depends on the Phone; Introducing Jack Veitch; Ads showing the wartime contributions of operators; in memory of Henry G. E. Goult; Victoria construction gang at work in photos; Photo of Victoria's operators at work; Farewell to Ernest F. Helliwell; Cranbrook operator, Minnie Egan, retires; Edward Dawson dies suddenly; Sergeant James Clark, R.C.A.F., reported a missing; Ernest S. Harris bids farewell; Cover photo of Pilot Officer Gordon Heselton, the first B.C. man to win a decoration in WWII (with story inside); photo of '25 club' war savings stamp booklet; 40 miles of phone bills - many photos; Record long distance load in 1943 but local calls show decline; John D. Johnston, general commercial manager; Full page instructions with the heading "Strict Conservation of Paper now a Necessity"; Jim Baigent and Arthur (Pop) Harness retire; "Lick Stamps to Lick Hitler" on back cover of one issue; Telephone Talk is shrunk to conserve paper; Net Revenue decrease in 1943; Full-page article o Book
164 pages. Features: Three Main Ocean Routes Urged; $27 Million Ago - last month the Canadian government took over air bases established by the U.S. in the Hudson Bay area; Captain W.R. "Wop" May Goes North Again; de Havilland Assembly; The Magic Merlin; Report from Ottawa; London Report; Trends in Washington; Australia's Score; Air Board Claims Denied; "Gas Inn"; The Elusive Auster; Dinghy Drill; Children Save Pennies for Planes; Mark XIV Bombsight; Maintaining the Wasp Engine; Easily Made Wing Jig; New Equipment; and more. Many pages of excellent WWII advertisements by a wealth of prominent companies. Front cover beginning to loosen. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
90 pages. Features/Articles: Airships - key to Canada's frontiers?; The Exciting First Dirigible Visit to Canada; - the R-100; Raising the Hamilton and Scourge - U.S. Warships sank during war of 1812; Huge warships were built on both sides of Lake Ontario during the War of 1812; Young Inuit learn, earn at archeological sites; Old Montreal its old self once again; Wild Orchids - exquisite, irresistible, vulnerable; Fish Habitat re-created in Coquihalla River diversion; The Spectacular dunes of Prince Edward County; New Downtown for the nation's capital - $500 million facelift in Rideau Street area; Folk art on tour - A show organized by the National Museum of Man - From the Heart, Folk Art in Canada; The Lodgepole runaway gas well - the most fearsome natural gas blowout in the history of the Alberta petroleum industry lasted 68 days and affected almost everyone in the province. Average wear. Clean and unmarked. Two-inch opening at bottom of cover fold. A sound copy. Book
Features: Transportation Heritage; Grosse Ile; The Rossdale Low-Pressure Power Plant Building; Hamilton's Bellevue Mansion brought down; The Rooms at Fort Townshend, Newfoundland - two views; Adaptive reuse of gas stations; Nine new national historic sites designated; The Suburbs as Heritage - food for thought; Profile of Heritage Developer Michael Tippin; and more. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Minor moisture exposure to upper corner, otherwise an excellent copy. Book
288 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos. Multiple authors examine aspects of the Vietnam war in 1965. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. A nice copy. Book
Features: L'Existence du Canada est Menacee, mais... cette constatation de la commission Laurendeau-Dunton est minimisee par les journaux anglophones; Huit Semains a l'ile de Paques, parle Dr. Armand Boudreault; Apres l'explosion de Ville La Salle - (a natural gas explosion?); Sur un air des Beatles ou de Charles Aznavour - les discotheques montrealaises; La Maison Leclerc a plu de 200 ans - nice photos; Des Heros Costaudes - Au debut du siecle, les idoles des foules s'appelaient - Louis Cyr, le geant Beaupre, Barre, Hector Decarie, Michaud, Victor DeLamarre, Jos. Montferrand... - with photos. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
100 pages. Features: nice color photo ad for the 1970 Olds Cutlass Supreme; The Rage of Women - Half our population underpaid, barred from major jobs and often mocked; Vietnamese boy Pham Van Quan is flown to Philadelphia for heart surgery; Wonderful color Campbell's soup ad; My Brother Lyndon Johnson - Part II by Sam Houston Johnson; Great color photo centerfold featuring the line of Polaroid cameras; Colour photo ad for General Electric flash cubes; Barbara Streisand - article with photos; A Killing Shame - U.S. gas and germ weapons violate treaties; Great colour photo ad for the 1970 Buick; Grambling College - where football stars are made - article with photos; The Look All America 1969 College Football selections; A Bill to Kill Foundations; The One Sensible Way to Diet, by Roland H. Berg; Who is the Man in the House? - Russell Baker writes about Richard Nixon; Princess Grace turns 40 - article with photos; Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Please note: pages 35-36 missing. They appear to have contained ads. Still a worthy copy. Magazine
Cover art painting by William Winter from a sketch made in the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto. Contents: Editorial - Is the RCMP recruiting university students to spy on each other?; Battle Creek Health Centre - the world's leading scientific weight-control clinic; The Kellogg Brothers' angry road to fame - Will and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg of the breakfast cereal fortune; The Anatomy of Success, by Sidney Katz; We're finally outlawing 'goofballs' - amphetamines and barbituates; Ypres - The price of Canada's first glory in battle, by Ralph Allen - includes photo of a gas attack in 1915; The Forest Path to the Spring, by Malcolm Lowry who took a shanty on the B.C. Coast for a honeymoon and never really left - This is the story of that shadowed idyll; British Politics; Abduction on the night train to Lisbon - Bruce Hutchison reports what happened to him; Great colour photo ad for Pepsi. Moisture stain to the top of the Malcolm Lowry article - text unaffected. Tears to back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Features: Exchanging prisoners in East Germany for West German money; Dian Cohen implores the Prime Minister to 'lead us or leave us' - two million Canadians are unemployed; Coverage of Trudeau's Asian junket; Cat and mouse - the RCMP and Soviet spies in Ottawa; Dollard Menard takes on the Generals; Cover Story - Donald MacDonald's royal commission on the economy; The 1930s nightmare revisited, by Anthony Sampson; Reagan fights for control; Leonard Rosenberg - Trust quagmire deepens; US-Canada lumber showdown looms; Checking in at Lloyd's of London; Big Oil extends its reach - Suny's gas stations secret connection with Imperial Oil; David Leighton leaves Calgary's Olympic planning team - replaced by Frank King; Ski industry in downhill slide; Russian satellite roulette - Canada threatened by Soviet satellite Cosmos 1402; Stress in the Recession - Behavior; Legal aid squeeze; Side effects of Depo-Provera; This year's version of the flu - the A Bangkok strain; Two-page colour photo ad for CP Air's Royal Canadian (First) Class. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Loaded with British Columbia content! Nice Full-page colour ad for Bulova watches; A Native's Return to B.C., by Pierre Berton; Nice colour photo ad for the 1958 Ford cars; Feature article on Victoria's Government Street, with colour photos; Many B.C.-themed cartoons; The Salty Princesses of the Pacific Coast - B.C.'s Princess Boats - article with colour photos; The Douglas Fir - the vanishing giant that built a province; The Rise and Fall of Social Credit - the west's wonder party now seems headed for destruction; What B.C. means to nine of its best artists - many colour illustrations commissioned by Maclean's - works by Jack Shadbolt, Joe Plaskett, Bruno Bobak, Lawren Harris, Gordon Smith, Molly Bobak, B.C. Binning, E.J. Hughes, John Korner; The Truth about the Sasquatch - fiction by Vernon Hockley; Nice colour full-page ad for B/A gas stations; Glamourous colour ad for B-58 Buick; Labatt's '50' ale colour ad; Nice colour ad for the Sheraton - Mt. Royal Hotel; Great full-page black and white photo ad for Canada Mink; Faded Coke ad on back cover shows a mountain scene and people in cowboy hats. Covers detached but present else average wear. Unmarked. Lerner & Williamson 1996. Magazine
Features: Interpreting Environmental History Through Material Culture; Omar Ramsden and the CNE; "Providential Openings" - the Women Weavers of nineteenth-century Queens County, New Brunswick. Research Reports: George Cove's Solar Energy Device; Researching Alberta's Gas Technology - a case study - The Turner Valley Gas Plant; La pierre de taille des Charentes et les colonies francaises; Exhibit Review - the Bank of Montreal Museum; Conference Review - Material Culture Worlds - a report on 3 conferences; plus 7 book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. 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
Features: The Marmots of Spotted Nellie Ridge; Building a Gas Pipeline Through the Arctic - what will be the environmental impact?; Jim Lumbers; A Great Lakes Tragedy - the effect of chemicals on bird reproduction; Butterflies and Moths in Winter; Nature Canadiana II - The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club in the 1880s. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Arctic Offshore Drilling - A Calculated Policy of Grave Risk (Editorial); Watching Great Horned Owl Nests in the Alberta Foothills; J. Fenwick Lansdowne; Machias Seal Island; The Hazardous Search for Oil and Gas in Arctic Waters; Digges Island - Fortress home of the Akpa. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: A wilderness canoe trip in September - pickerel, portages, loons and longjohns by Judy Lord; Autumnfest - the magic and mystery of the season; Fuel (Oil and Gas) in the Arctic - the moral and ethical issues; Blackbird Roosting behaviour - fascinating and infuriating; Frank de Matteis - pockets of nature in watercolour. Clear tape along spine. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Decision-Aid System for Survivability of Damaged Conventional Military Submarines; Blue-Green Dye Lasers for Underwater Illumination; Unsteady Airwakes; U.S. High-Speed Destroyers, 1919-1942 - Hull Form Parameters; Gas Turbine Propulsion Plant Control; Monitoring the Navy's Strategic Reserve of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS). Light wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
112 pages. Contents: Climate change, national security, and naval ship design; A hybrid approach to optimizing worload, manpower, and ship sizing; Navy shipboard CFC-114 elimination program; The influence of the weight of power systems on the performance of fast, long-range sealift ships with a small waterplane area; A ship for the expeditionary warfare sea base; Hydrodynamic characteristics of special type ships; High velocity air filtration system for marine LM2500 gas turbines. Clean, bright and unmarked with negliglbe wear. An excellent copy. Book
Features: Exclusive - I flew the Pterodactyl flex-wing; Silk-screen your own cards; Build a portable 5-minute car wash; 1962 Ford Fairlane with an all-new V8; Crowd Engineering; Football's fabulous foremen - keep your eye on the quarterback - with photos; The gas turbine goes to sea; Guns for the blue and grey; Salmon Fish farming in Washington State - Dr. Lauren Donaldson; and more. Average wear. Sound unmarked copy. Book
Features: *First 1959 Cars*; Are you wasting money on premium gas?; Accident at Windscale - World's first atomic alarm; A Reversing Hot-and-Cold Machine - heats or cools at the flick of a switch; Atomic Engines to Power Rockets and Missiles - Nevada tests for sensational flying reactors; No-hands system to land Airliners; GM bets on Flaring Fins; Buick; Cadillac; Oldsmobile; Rambler boosts mpg; How automatic shotguns work; and more. Average wear. Book
Features: Tacoma's Union Station Thrown Open to the Public - two-page article including grainy photo of the new station; Oregon-Washington Station To Formally Open May 20 - new passenger station in Seattle (article with photo inside the main waiting room); Professional biography of self-made man Carl R. Gray, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle (includes photo of Mr. Gray); First Marine Producer Gas Installation on Pacific Coast - on the Barkentine Archer; Ongoing construction by Johnson Brothers & Blanchard, Georgetown of deep-sea motor cruiser designed by Seattle naval architect L.E. Geary for O.O. Denny of Seattle - article with diagram of outboard profile of the vessel; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Speediest Steam Yacht is Launched - brief article and photo of the Sovereign; News of Tacoma; One page ad for the new steel trains "The Olympian" and the "Columbia" which represent "The New Steel Trail to the East Through the Golden West, commencing service 29 May, 1911; Nice illustrated one-page ad for "The Finest Train in the West, The Shasta Limited" which speedily connected Seattle with San Francisco; Excellent half-page photo ad for Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke while she pumps two heavy streams of water from her hoses; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
98 pages. Marion, Ohio - The Haunted City; Western Pacific's F-7 Revival; Cookin' with Gas - Union Pacific's Gas Turbines were an interesting experiment; Early Rock - 1st Generation diesel locos of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Diesel hydraulics - tried and failed; The Diesel comes to California's Cajon Area; The Maybrook, NY Yards - a spooky place; The story of steam 1920-1950 and why it came to an end; Amtrak's new Superliners; Oregon Live Steam; Old Stations gain new lives. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
74 pages. Features: Tune it On - Royal Foust can tune 5 extra mpg - part 1 of a series; Norm Grobowsky's 1923 Hennway; Closed cabin close-up photos - Ford, Chrysler, GM, Strange Stuff; Wescott's Auto Restyling; Chevy's Fourever - Chevy Cast Iron Four; Cam Grant of Burnaby B.C. makes a Model A the hard way; Care and Maintenance of Your Puzzle - set up a filing system during teardown; Phase 4 of "Chop it to it" - Jake finishes off the window frame and molding area; Chevy Up - Part 3 - tearing down a $100 Chevy engine; Part 3 of the "Pruf" is in his project - Aluminum fabrication for Tom Prufer by Ron Covell of Covell Race Cars; Pete Heacock's 1938 Bantam; Parts Meet in Hershey, PA; Very Special Buick - Report 5 - Gas Tank; Vintage Tin - photos; and more. Moderate wear. Chips from top corners of a a few pages. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: New trouble in the tide pools; Northern elephant seals return; Sunburst after nightfall; Will the Caribbean hawksbill turtle survive?; Unwanted oil and gas production; Li'l Red; Shark hunting on the Arkansas ocean deep; Follow up - Source of the Bermuda freak waves. Sound copy. Book
