Brewer, W.M., M.E.MareMagnum
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56 pages. Black and white photos, illustrations and maps. "Prince Rupert, the western terminus of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, is a distributing centre for the Skeena River and the Omineca Mining Divisions. It is the natural starting point ... because it is the seat of Government Agency for that section of British Columbia, as well as being the ocean terminus of the transcontinental railway. Starting at Prince Rupert examinations were made east as far as Lorne Creek, a distance 130 miles by railroad" - from page 5. Includes the mining operations, owners, type of resources and type of leases at Kitsumgallum Lake (near Terrace), Douglas Creek, Little Cedar River (Nass-Skeena Coal Claims), Lakelse Valley (Lakelse Hot Springs), Thornhill Mountain, Zymoetz (Copper) River, Legate Creek, St. Croix Creek, Lorne Creek and Graham Island on the Queen Charlotte Islands. Above-average wear. Assorted chips and openings, primarily to front cover. Usual library markings. Spine taped. A worthy reference copy. Book
xvii, 388 pages. Fold-out map at title page. Black and white illustrations. "An account of the Red River Expedition and other travels and adventures in western Canada." - subtitle. First published in 1872. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A lovely copy. Peel (2) 342. Book
81 Pages. Features: William Maclure; The Vincennes Bridge Over the Wabash River; The Importance of a Single Vote; The Old Sullivan Home in Madison; Childhood Memories of Vevay; Indiana's First Newspaper; An Autobiography - George S. Cottman; John Brown and Sons in Kansas Territory; and more. Prior owner's name atop first page otherwise clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
80 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated with dozens of reproductsions of archival black and white photos. Contents include: Reaction Ferries - Lytton, Big Bar, Marguerite, McLure, Little Fort, Usk; Cable Ferries - Arrow Park, Needles, Glade, Harrop; Certified Ferries - Arrow Lake, Francois Lake, Kootenay Lake, Albion, Barnston Island; Miscellaneous - Drydocks, Subsidized, Emergency Tugs, Notes on former services. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
82 pages. Index. Many archival black and white illustrations. "...The Provincial Government has issued ferry charters or installed ferries of its own at over 140 sites. At one time or another on the Fraser, the Province's longest river, no fewer than 35 ferry crossing locations have been established between Croydon near its headwaters and Ladner near its mouth." - from Introduction. Somewhat yellowed with age. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
134 pages. Fold-out map of the Thames watershed. Numerous black and white photos. Printed on glossy stock. Presents papers and proceedings of the Conference on River Valley Development in Southern Ontario held at London, Ontario, October 13th and 14th, 1944. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Bishop p.770. Book
144 pages. Many archival black and white photos reproduced. Printed on glossy stock. Gift greetings upon title page. Average wear. A sound copy of this informative and interesting local history. Hale & Barman 294. Book
209 pages. Many black and white illustrations. Average wear. Binding sound. Unmarked. Modest waviness to top and bottom edges of text due to past moisture exposure. Cigarette odour. Still a worthy copy. Book
Pages 317-448. Features: Water-Powered Mills of Flat Rock River - article with black and white photos; New Indiana Archival Documents; Jennings County in the Frontier Period; The Century-old Wright Home; Legend of Cedar Isle; Journal of John T. Williams, 1850; Indiana Genealogy; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. Book
30 pages. Features: You Can Never Tell; Way Down in Old Nova Scotia; Muskets for Moose; Cooking Canadian Game; Sophisticated Salmon of the Capilano River; Arctic Musk-Oxen; Canada's Olympic Shooting Hopes; Outlaws by Night; Game Management; Back cover Brading's Ale ad features Karsh photo of gent after fishing; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
36 pages. Features: B.C. hosts 'biggest' telephone convention; Article on new Dog Mountain Tramway with great photos; Photo of George Forsythe and Floyd Adams repairing damaged Squamish cable; two pages of photos of employees who work at night; Howe Sound Line Rebuilt - with great photos of Foreman Davie McKinnon and his men at work; Photos of unique features of phone company buildings; new intra-system teletype system is inaugurated; Squamish Exchange - with five nice photos; Norman Fisher rescues girls near Spanish Banks; Great centrefold photos show how radiotelephones are used at the Eburne Saw Mills Division of Canadian Forest Products Ltd. in Vancouver; Phone personalities in Merritt - Myrna Petrie and Frank Shepherd; Before and after demolition photos of the east side of the 700 block of Seymore St. in Vancouver, making room for the new William Farrell Building; Interesting article on company paycheques - and all the deductions from it; Bowen Island Cutover; Retirees; Photo of cable-laying under the Fraser River at the Marpole Bridge; Passing of Charlie McAndrew; company baseball photos; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
36 pages. Features: Christmas greetings from President Farrell inside front cover; Feedback on Kitimat service; Two pages of great photos of installation of cable between the Pattullo Bridge and Chilliwack features work above the Vedder Canal - Pete Meehan's gang are featured; Photos of plant men boosting sales of extension phones - Norman Bowman of Cedar is tops; First counterless office in North Vancouver; Photos of Ladner's conversion to new automatic phone system; Photos of workers in the Terrace district; Retirees; Great centerfold illustrations of radiotelephones in use on sea-going craft; Dawson Creek Cut photos; Photo of Miss Sharon Buck, Vanderhoof operator and Stampede Queen; Photo of Earl Cleland and Jim Wilson working above the Nechako River; East Kootenay personalities; In Memoriam - William D. Denholm, Percy Allen; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
Features: A Man Called Shep; The Kiowa Raiders of Rainy Mountain - great photos; Bill Hickok's Friends; There's still Gold in Oregon; The Mystery of Pranty Wash - Gila County, Arizona; Charley Smith (1856-1882) Still Wears his Six-Gun - a ranger and the outlaw who killed him; Bloodshed in Kansas - Hugoton and Woodsdale were at war ninety years ago; Amanda Alberta, aka 'Cowboy Joe'; A Matter of Survival - 150 feet and four days of hell; The Wild West that Flickered - not all the action in a movie house was on the silver screen!; Trail Tragedy - and to Caleb Magill it was a private affair; 95-year-old fishin' hole - the Gunnison River and the Hillside Resort. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. Binding intact. Pages yellowed with age. A sound copy. Book
368 pages. Index. Chronology. Black and white photographic plates. "That an 'authorized' history of the development and growth of theoretical and applied nuclear science in Canada can be made into an enthralling story for the layman is a tribute to the great literary ability of the author." - from dust jacket. Dust jacket poor but now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Light wear to unmarked book. Binding intact. A sound working copy. Book
104 pages. Features: Nice two-page AT&T ad features photos of young Meg Rawls; Bombs over Hanoi and Tough Talk from LBJ; 'Black Power' and the politics of frustration; Medicare and our sick hospitals; The Three R's = $Billions; Nice one-page ad for the Volkswagen (VW) bug; Hard to imagine two-page Caterpillar ad features photo of Ohio's 'hot river', the Mahoning, which was literally heated by heavy industrial effluent; RFK - Democratic kingpin in New York; Rebirth of the 5th Marines; Guests of the Viet Cong (POWs) - Walter W. Eckes and James Dodson; Photo ad for the MGB/BT car; Kwame Kkrumah of Ghana; Boom times in Tahiti; Argentina - the last coup?; Photo of Hugh Hefner in London with many bunnies; Stanley Upson of the Stan-Up Diner in Milling, PA is featured in a Hammermill Bond ad; Runner Jim Ryun; Chicago police were arresting 150 homosexuals per month; Publisher Harry N. Abrams and his 'hamburger art'; Nice CBS Radio Network ad features photo of airborne Phil Rizzuto in baseball game; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
36 pages. Features: The 1910 Tornado at Rosthern, Saskatchewan; The Log of the Privateer Dart, of Saint John, N.B. (part 1); The Haunted Tribe; Massacre at Big Qualicum - discovered by Adam Grant Horne; The Mysterious "Red Paint" Indians of Newfoundland. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Pages 947-994. Features: The Diesel Automobile; Plating river beds with stainless steel; Ocean gloder the "Genial"; Auto Safety device warns of railway crossings; Photo of little Jean Darlington whose father communicates with her from afar by shortwave radio; Telephoning a Picture; Sleep Meter; Mechanical novelties; Vacuum lifts Planeless Aircraft - invented by John H. Davis; "House of Glass" Shell gas station; European Novelties; Finding the Source of "Cosmic Rays"; New Mechanical Ideas; Power from Ocean Waves; Exploring the Upper Air by Spectroscope; Metal Melts Like Wax; Newest Devices for the General Use; New Patents of Interest; Robot directs street traffic; Dry ice test of jewels; Where did the Moon Come From?; Mechanics of Magic; Making White Iodine; Practical Hints and Home Kinks; and more. Above-average wear. Binding intact. PLEASE NOTE: Most ads clipped and removed from pages 985-994. We believe no text was lost but please inquire if you are interested in any specific content so we can check. A worthy reading copy Magazine
6 pages. This song featured in the William Fox movie Romance of Rio Grande. Nicely illustrated cover. Sheet music for voice and piano with ukulele chords. Above-average wear. Coverfold taped. Writing on front and back covers. A worthy vintage copy. Book
34 pages. Features: Plan for Summer; Asilomar Square Dance Institute; Stampede in San Luis County - with photo of Chuck Hammond at the mike; The California Whirl; New Square Dance Records; Two-page article with photos of "Hat Hoedown" at Portland, Oregon - The Castle Eighters Club; Mocking Bird Waltz; Guest Caller - Mel Day; Round-up in Los Angeles - photos; Dave Clavner - Square of the Month; Red River Gal; Large beautiful photo ad for Kathy's Cottons inside back cover features Joan Vohs, M.G.M. starlet; Other nice vintage ads. Subscription coupon neatly removed from page 20. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
170 pages. Features: Marc Rosen and Arlene Dahl's Hudson River Classic; George Washington's Mount Vernon home restored; Ingenious addition to New York's Whitney Museum; Restoration of a merchant's house in old Kyoto; Eccentric charm in Newport; 17th century Spanish still lifes; Buzz Yudell and Tina Beebe transform a tiny L.A. home; Peter Preller creates a perfect fit for fashion designer Jil Sander; Two barns converted by Carlos Brillembourg with Jonathan Lanman; Improvisation on an upstate New York home; D.C.'s Jade Garden; Great impressionist collections in the Palm Springs home of Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Annenberg; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
182 pages. Footnotes. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "Revisits the Battle of the River Plate to reach some intriguing conclusions. Here is one of the most familiar tales in the annals of Naval warfare, brought to life with contemporary photos and original track charts. It is an enigma that will long continue to fascinate students and historians alike." - from dust jacket. Minimal markings to contents. Moderate wear. Dust jacket now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart. A sound copy. Book
200 pages. Index. Many reproductions of black and white photos. "Deals with tugs, scows and barges and the tug and barge companies in the Fraser River and along the coast, trailer barge traffic, the aggregates and cement industries and their fleets, dredging and marine construction, the oil tankers and distribution, and explosives and chemical transportation. It looks at old and new industries and their transportation solutions." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Book
An official reprint of pages 165-173 of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, Third Series, Volume XXII, Section II, 1928. In 1927, searchers cleared and documented a site near Peace River. "...what has been found on the ground fits so closely Mackenzie's Fort Fork in location and description that this is probably the site." Includes an additional five pages of black and white photographic plates. Unmarked. Average wear. Book
79 pages including index and photos. Black and white photos and illustrations. Geological maps (back pocket). Table of contents include stratigraphy of Bullhead Succession (Monteith, Beattie Peaks, Monach, Brenot, and Crassier Group formations), description of localities and sections (French Petroleum Co, Grant Knob, Peace River Canyon, Rainbow Rocks) and economic geology (coal, oil and gas). Somewhat above-average wear. Spine taped. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
40 pages. Circa 1940s. 81 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Great ad for part 1 of Hitler's Mein Kampf inside back cover - with proceeds to the British Red Cross; Barrage balloons over Thames Estuary; With the French Army on the Western Front; H.M. the King inspects naval commands - Lieut. H.E.M. Glenny, R.N., is decorated by the King for courage in dealing with enemy mines; French Naval Chief's visit to Great Britain - Admiral Francois Darlan; Nazi airmen bomb defencless trawlers - three crewmembers of the Etruria were killed; Canada's contribution to Britain's Might - article with many great photos; Full-page photo portrait of General Sir Edmund Ironside; British forces in the front line; Battle of the River Plate on 13th December - photos of the Exeter, Achilles and Ajax plus photos of their captains; three photos of damage to the Graf Spee plus a great photo of the Graf Spee at sea; Great centerfold illustrations explain the naval battle tactics of the fight with the Admiral Graf Spee, two awesome full-page photos of the scuttling of the Graf Spee; The British Navy's sea exploits - broadcast speech by Winston Churchill; Photos of the H.M. Submarine Ursula, her Captain Bethell and crew, plus the German cruiser Koeln which they sunk, photo of H.M. submarine Salmon; Neville Chamberlain visits British forces in France; Activity on the German front; R.A.F. successes in raid over Heligoland Bight; Photos of the German liner Columbus before and after being set afire by her crew on December 19th; A commentary on the war this week; Russian troops captured by the Finns; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
