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Chatelaine Magazine - The Canadian Home Journal, September 1960
154 pages. Features: Incredible two-page colour ad for Green Giant canned vegetables, featuring the bottom half of the Green Giant himself; Many great full-page ads for products such as Avon cosmetics, Pond's lipstick, Wabasso bedding, Carnation Milk Powder, Pond's ad featuring Elsa Martinelli, Pacific canned milk, Crane plumbing fixtures, Arborite, GE appliances, Heinz tomato products; The Quiet Revolution of Chinese Women - article with photos; How Close are We to Test-Tube Babies? - article by Christina McCall Newman; The Queen's Other Family - Recently Elizabeth added her husband's name to her own, and thereby raised a question - just who are her in-laws? - a scattered family the world hears so little about? - article with photos; House-Warming - story by Jean Loggie; How the Kesners Came to Canada - Jo and Fred Davis are involved in bringing a refugee family to Canada; - photos and article; Have Gun Will Shoot, by Sheila MacKay Russell; Death Comes to the Island - novel by Florence Ford; A Chatelaine Guide for Women Who are Going back to Work; Dos and Don'ts of Dressing for the Job; Special 14-page Homes '60 section featuring decorating news, housing, furnishings, etc.; Ad for Minute Spanish Rice inside back cover. Nice colour photo Red Rose tea ad on back cover shows lady in white dress pouring tea. Somewhat above-average wear. Chips from backstrip. Binding intact. A worthy copy particularly worthwhile for its lengthy illustrated 1960 Home Fashion section. Book
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Diver Magazine: 9 Issues from 1988
Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Wreck of the Empress of Ireland; Bonaire, Thailand's Exotic Waters; West Coast - a Garde of Eden; Kelp Beds of Lobster Bay; Are we destroying the reefs?; British Columbia - diving in a fisherman's paradise; Superb diving at Les Escoumins; Barkley Sound; Egypt; Fortress Louisbourg Shipwrecks; Tobago; Inflatables; Bahamas; Killarney, Ontario; St. Lawrence Seaway; Filming 'The Last Frontier'; Bruce Peninsula; Canada's Arctic; A Prehistoric Fishing Technique in British Columbia; Palau; Pacific Electric Ray; Monterey; Queen of Wrecks in Kingston, Ontario; The Caymans; Canada's Little Urchin; The sandstone cargo of the Zephyr; Treasure of the 'Governor'; Maui's Trio; Kona - star of the big island. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
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Explorer's Journal, December 1985
Features: Puerto Rico's Natural Treasure; Rowing across the Pacific; The Cordage Revolution; Whale Rescue Expedition to Newfoundland; Adrian "Ace" Williams, 1899-1984; The Lost City of Nueva Cadiz; Western Samaria - Method and Discovery. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, June 1982
Features: Carl Hoffman - Archival Notes; Encounters with the Killer Whale - studies of Orcinus orca behavior in the wild; Mosquito Shore (Honduras) Settlement Expedition - haunted by 18th-century colonist; Sending Fungi into Deep Space - aids study of space effect on living cells; Anyemaqen Shan Trek - birds and snow leopard survey; Six Weeks Down Under; First People of the Pacific Northwest - Fraser Canyon's earliest settlers placed at 9.000 years B.P.; China's New Frontier - oil discovered in Karamay, northwest China; Excerts from the Explorer's Journal of January-April 1932. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, April 1995
102 pages. Features: Build a Momentum Circuit; Structures for Outdoor Railroads - Part 6; Kitbash an 0-6-0 Switcher; Modifying a Delton Boxcar for the Denver, South Park & Pacific; A Report on the 1995 National Gauge-One Steamup; Two Cincinnati Railways; The Columbine City & Dogpatch Railroad; Build a Work Train - Part 2; Slow Those Runaway Trains; Small Cars for Small Railroads - Part 1. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, August 2000
138 pages. Features: Create more realistic models; Nothing fancy; Modify your Bachmann sid-dump ore cars; The Bourg Le Reine Railroad; A tale of two cabooses; Building the Colorado & Pacific; Steam on the garden pike; Lowering Aristo-Craft's streamlined passenger cars; Garden railway design & construction. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, December 1997
138 pages. Features: Crewchester; Thunderer; Rewiring Aristo-Craft's Pacific; The Gopher Canyon Line; Build Your Own Resistance Solderer; A journey through an English country garden; Build a little caboose; hiding an ugly fence with gulapata. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Garden Railways Magazine, November-December 1992
102 pages. Features: Mick Spilsbury's Garden Railway; California's garden railways; Richard E. Cooper's Garden Railroad; Roadbed for Cold Climates; The Story of a Journey; The Table Saw - Part 7; Jack Verducci's Crystal Springs Railroad & Lumber Co.; Acoma No. 5; A visit to the South Pacific Coast Railway; Second Generation Garden Railraoding - Part 5; The Clear Water Filtration System; Getting started in Garden Railroading. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Heritage, Spring 1998: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation
Features: Saving old town Lunenberg; Preserving a garden of Plaster Delights - Ottawa's Beattie House; The Future of the Past - Ken Osborne; B.C.'s Gulf of Georgia Cannery on Endangered List; Fredericton's Preservation area expands; Fisheries Fiasco - Steveston's Pacific Coast Cannery demolished. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Journal of the American Rhododendron Society, Vol. 56 Number 4 Fall 2002
60 pages. Features: A Treasury of Art and Artifact Revealed in J.G. Millais' Two Volumes - Rhododendrons and the Various Hybrids; Rhododendron Hardiness along the Northern Edge - The Ontario-Quebec Situation; Treasures of the Pacific Northwest - ARS 2003 Convention; Companion Plants - Trees for Fall Color; Rhododendron occidentale - An Example of variation within a Rhododendron species; Proven Performers - District 9; Windsor Great Park; Mapping Cold Hardiness Genes in Rhododendrons - An Assessment of Strategy; Trekking in Indonesia; Tips for Beginners - Fall and Winter Interest; Rhododendrons of the Year Awards, 2002; Rhododendron serotinum... Maybe Solving a Mystery - A New Species from the Wild?; Exhibit in the Philadelphia Flower Show; Society News. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
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LAIFS - Bulletin of the Los Angeles International Fern Society Volume 4, Number 8, August 1977
Features: Report on Fern Tour of the South Pacific; Fern Festival 1977; Helping others grow; and more Book
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Logger's Handbook - 1973 Edition: Volume XXXIII
11" x 8.5" x 0.75". "Contains articles prepared exclusively for the Loggers Handbook together with the official proceedings of the 63rd session of the Pacific Logging Congress and the condensed reports of its six regional conferences prepared by their respective secretaries." - from title page. Articles include: Archie W. Rafter; Moving Logs in British Columbia Waters; Renewing Productivity on Forest Brush Lands; Natural and Man-Caused Slash in Headwater Streams; Precision Logging - Management of the Future Forest; A History of Railroad Logging; Effects of Logging on Small Streams in the Thorne Bay Area of Southeast Alaska; The Tango; Forestry in Austria; Logging Engineering; Intensive Management of Coastal Douglas Fir; and more. Also includes many great contemporary logging equipment advertisements. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. Nice copy with illustrated boards and endpapers. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 10 May 1982 *The Battle for the Falklands*
68 pages. Features: Trouble in Puerto Rico; Profile of David Horrobin; Spreading voter revolt in Canada's west - WCC/Western Canada Concept; Saskatchewan's government out of step; The rise of the invisible man, Grant Devine; The painful legacy of Sinai; Alsands - the demise of a megaproject; Ian Sinclair steps down as head of Canada Pacific; Even with Gretzky's help, Canada places third in the World Ice Hockey Championships; The Battle for the Falklands; Washington sides with England - at what cost?; TV ads warn of buying imported cars; The assault of the PC threatens familiar habits of pencil-and-eraser executives; Allan Fotheringham on Paul Robinson - America's new Ambassador to Canada; Somewhat above-average external wear. Magazine
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Maclean's Magazine, August 21, 1965 *COVER PHOTO OF IAN (TYSON) AND SYLVIA*
Features: Our scramble to keep India's atom peaceful; Former Canadian diplomat, Arnold Smith, is newly elected first secretary-general of the Commonwealth - with photos; To Hell and Back - an anonymous writer's tale of alcoholism and drug addiction; The real meaning of dreams, by Ben Rose; Sweet Song of Success - Features story on Ian and Sylvia, with photos; Quebec's new Power Elite - Claude Morin, Arthur Tremblay, Guy Fregault, Louis-Phillips Pigeon, and Jean Deschamps; Sunday Driver - Commercial Artist and Canadian Racing Driver of the Year, Al Pease races his MGB; Is the Canada Council Squandering Your Money?; Talking with insects and animals (like dolphins) to learn how to talk to other worlds; Tai Chi - a new health kick, a thousand years old; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, June 15, 1936: Gold in Saskatchewan
Cover Painting by Stuart. Features: Eveready Flashlight ad inside front cover; Editorial regarding the crisis of Canada's large quantity of unsold wheat; Waterman's Ink-Vue Pen ad; Roadhouse Blues, by Benge Atlee; Gold in Saskatchewan, by Leslie Roberts - Lake Athabaska's gold fields - article with photos; Place, by Tayler Sutton; Whale Coming Up! - Whaling in the North Pacific isn't what it used to be, but it still provides both peril and profit for the hardy - article with photos; Three cents an hour - women are working at that wage in Canada, under conditions that would be a disgrace to any civilized society; Hobby House, by Eleanor De Lamater; They Call Him Summertime Santa - J.D. O'Connell is Canada's most unique philanthropist; Arctic Doctor - Dr. James A. "Fred" Urquhart, of Aklavik, is Canada's most northerly doctor - his territory, an area of 900,000 square miles!; Canadians in England (Lord Beaverbrook, Gladstone Murray, Sir Campbell Stuart, Bonar Law, Lord Greenwood, Peter Donovan), by Beverley Baxter; Marriage Isn't a Place, by Margaret Lee Runbeck; Sahara Lighthouses - short article on the beacons which lead desert travellers; Siam falling under the domination of Japan - short article; Fire Bombs - an accurate prediction that in the next war they will be used by the thousand to destroy cities; Canadian Pacific ad featuring the Empress of Britain; Nice ad for Wrigley's Spearmint Gum; Those First Meals, by M. Frances Hucks at the Chatelaine Institute; Wonderfully artistic two-colour ad for Heinz Tomato Soup inside back cover; Red Indian/Marathon "Blue" colour ad on back cover for the McColl-Frontenac Oil Company. Average wear. Unmarked. Covers detached but present. Address label atop front cover which bears a six inch opening to its lower corner. A worthy copy of this lovely vintage issue. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, March 10, 1962 - Special Municipal Corruption Issue
Features: Article on how 1,300 BC doctors are 'cutting the cancer toll'; Corruption - a modern manual of Graft in Civic Office; Nice colour full-page ad for the Pontiac Parisienne Sports Sedan; The Hidden Kingdom of B.C.'s Holy Terrorists - The 3,000 Sons of Freedom may be losing their grip on 9.000 more peaceful Doukhobors; Lovely colour photos of seasonal wildflowers; What Thinking Machines are doing for us, and to us; Cuba's program to export revolution - William Eccles' notes after two months inside Castro's camp - many great photos; How Wade Hampton found his feet - on crutches - the disabled former ski champ now heads a company of 50 handicapped employees; There's more in whiskers than meets the eye. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, May 10, 1958 - British Columbia Centennial Issue
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
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Nature Canada Magazine, January/March 1981
Features: How Animals Survive the Long Cold Winter; In Victoria, B.C. Spring is just around the corner; Pacific Salmon - will be gone forever if we destroy it; Snowshoes and snowshoeing - everything you need to know. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Nature Canada Magazine, January/March 1983
Features: River of No Return - Short-term economic goals threaten to destroy the Slave River; Dipper - the songbird that's at home underwater; A Pacific Portrait Gallery - of lumpsuckers, warbonnets and wolf eels; Timberline - between two worlds; Lorne Scott - Naturalist on a tractor seat. Usual library markings. Moisture exposure. Average wear. Reading copy only. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, April 17, 1944 *COVER PHOTO OF H.R.H. PRINCESS ELIZABETH ALEXANDRA MARY*
Contents: Nash-Kelvinator military ad in color inside front cover; Ad for the Chrysler Sea Mule; Dewey triumph poses question - will Willkie bolt from party?; Hull's speech attempts to divorce politics from our foreign policy; Gun Play in Wichita - Bargel K. Stanley holds police off for an hour; Prelude to Torture - Jap Propaganda in Pictures - 3 pages reprinted from a mysterious undated English-language publication called 'Freedom' put out in Shanghai - "... these pictures show the great score the American people still have to score with the little men across the Pacific."; Navy Raids on Palau and Yap uncover secrets of Jap bases - old Sea Dogs are excited by size of U.S. attack force and nearness of Philippines; Photo of landing strip construction in China - 300,000 Chinese workers and 100,000 hand-made wheelbarrows have been conscripted to this end; British Rocket Battery - photo and article; Elizabeth, the future Queen of world's soundest monarchy; De Gaulle Triumph - finally becoming No. 1 Frenchman, he takes in reds - on his terms; Great photo of Curtiss Helldivers under construction at a new Fort William, Ontario plant which will produce for the U.S. Navy; SWPA starts setting policy on sale of surplus war goods; Andrew F. Howe, owner of 100 patents, finally settles with General Steel Castings for over $1 million; Trappist monks set up in Conyers, Georgia. Above-average wear. All pages stained to varying degrees, presumably by water - all text legible. A worthy reference copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, January 24, 1944 *JFK HOME FOR 30 DAYS OF LEAVE*
Contents: Caterpillar Diesel ad - They pushed back the sea at Port Moresby; drawing of a very primitive snowmobile as part of an electric power company ad; Photo of JFK - he returned to Los Angeles for a leave after 11 months of fighting in the Pacific; Greatest battle of air weighs U.S. Bombers vs. Nazi industry - but Germans still produce - meanwhile Eisenhower begins speeding D Day preparations; Mustang, aviation's ugly duckling, becomes a top long-range fighter; The outlook in the Battle of Russia - by Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone; Bid for Burma; Nazis seem to plan Ukraine stand despite red encirclement tactics; Why our Italian campaign is so tough; Enveloping Rabaul; Reds keep Curzon Line the issue in rejecting Polish conference - Pravda story of British offer of separate German peace injects new note in Allied relations; Lucky Strike cigarettes - attractive color ad; chart showing FDR's 12 budgets - reflect massive spending increases of WW II; Riddles of contract termination hold key to postwar prosperity; Nice military Oldsmobile/GM ad; Hereford T.Royal Rupert sells for record $38,000; A harbinger of things to come - photo of 5 Mexicans, wearing native hats and panchos (!), brought to New Haven to shovel snow due to manpower shortage; Photos and article on Bronko Nagurski; Kinsey Whiskey - nice color ad; Leadership in Merchant Shipping presents U.S. with big problem - is subsidy war inevitable or can world powers co-operate to ease trade competition. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
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Newsweek Magazine, May 28, 1945 *PRESIDENT TRUMAN - THE FIRST 40 DAYS*
Contents: color Parker pen ad inside front cover; interesting ad for the Curtiss Commando aircraft; Great International Harvester Truck/War Bonds ad; Pullman railcar ad with returning vets bearing swastika emblazoned souvenirs; Colour Cadillac ad; nice color ad for White Trucks - military theme; Does Truman lean left or right? - clues appear in the first 40 days; Are Japs Wanted? - article with interesting poster demanding fair play for America's Japanese; Congressional committee tours Concentration camps; Miami dogs killed after they kill Doretta Zinke; Blockade and bombs hit Japan as prelude to gathering storm - attrition is Allied policy while knockout forces transfer in strength to the Pacific; Great photo of the first Yank post V-E day ship bringing servicemen home; Great map indicating the 'Bomb Strategy Against Japan'; color Seiberling Tire ad; How to Starve out Japan - bomb the rice paddy dikes; Philippines - sobering losses; China - the Japs back up; Dramatic photo of the American Essex-class carrier Franklin (Big Ben) with its crew huddled on the flight deck after it was attacked by a single Japanese bomber with two 500lb bombs; Okinawa - sacrifice - 156 American marines and doughboys died there each day last week; photo of German prisoners with shovels in the massive American Henri Chappelle Cemetery in Belgium; Russia casts its shadow over Asia; Yugoslavs' willful grab at Trieste poses danger for Charter makers; Prince Faisal and other Arabs agree Palestine is an Arab state, despite a half-dozen vociferous Jewish organizations on the conference sidelines; Color Goodyear belt centerfold; Photo of Allied officers in front of Reichstag ruins; Pattern emerges for occupation - Allies command, Germans obey; "Life has no meaning" for Dr. Ley, once leader of the German labor front - article and photo; Nazi U-boat (with 'the Schnorkel') surrenders and is escorted to a Newfoundland port - photo; NBC airs dramatization of F.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom; Max Schmeling released; Rosenberg's den of Royal Theives holds key to looted art of Europe; interesting ad for a Sperry gunsight "The gunsight that 'things' faster than humans... or Japs!"; Great color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
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Old West Magazine: Fall, 1983
Features: Bloodiest Miles on the Union Pacific - The Indians Nearly Stopped Construction of the Railroadi; Barney Riggs - Man of Violence - he was sent to prison for killing one man and turned loose for killing two!; Butch Cassidy Didn't Do It - The Winnemucca Bank Robbery; Black Widow of Kansas - Nellie Benthusen-Bailey-Reece; Frontier Heartbreak - the story of Darius Athorp and his wife, Harriet - separated forever; Muscatel and a Mule; Mustangs (wild horses) on the Gila River; Last of the Lednhi; Terror in the Night - Bald Knobbers; Sourdough from the Old West - with recipes; Masterton's Militia - a short career for Bat's Brother; Jim White - Boss Hunter; The Christmas Kiss. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
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Old West Magazine: Summer 1980
Features: Back there in the time of the French - a tale of lost treasure, hope, love, international doublecross, and finally death - Emperor Maxmillian; Indian Raid on the Union Pacific - the work crew was grading a longer road than they knew; Freighting in to Deadwood, Black Hills; I Knew Quanah Parker; Curly Bill Brocius - Arizona Outlaw; Nellie Cashman - 'Angel of the Mining Camps'; Ball of Fire - Nebraska homesteaders had an unwritten law that no man dared break - prairie fires; A Mountain Man 'Writes a Book' - Jim Beckworth; Rekindling Camp Fires - The Exploits of Ben Arnold (Connor) - Conclusion; and more. Average wear. Few markings on pages 54-55. Sound copy. Magazine
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Pathfinder Magazine - A Weekly News Review of World Affairs, March 27, 1937 - The Coal Industry
24 pages. Contents: Coal - an ailing industry hopes for a cure; Photo of William C. Bullitt, Ambassador to France; Photos of Attorney General Homer S. Cummings and his assistant Robert H. Jackson; Mine disaster at Logan, WV; LaGuardia offends Nazis, with photo of William E. Dodd, Ambassador to Germany; Marie, Dowager Queen of Rumania - article with photo; Prospects of the Treaty of Locarno; Duce and Allah; French Arms; Photo of Japanese Premier Senjuro Hayashi and story about his new official residence, honeycombed with underground passages, secret exits and disappearing floors; "Undeclared War" in Spain; Heloise Martin causes excitement at Drake - with photo of her; Additional madness at Oklahoma, Columbia and Pittsburgh involving university students; Photo of Gracie Fields; Anti-Religious feelings softening in Soviet Russia?; Editorial on name-callinng between LaGuardia and the Nazi press of Germany; Modernized Railroads - with photo of a new Southern Pacific Streamliner; Justice James Clark McReynolds - article with photo; The Movie World - with photo of Dorothy Lamour Rose; Vintage ads; and more. Average wear. Yellowed with age. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
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Prairie Breezes, March 1960 - Published monthly in Saskatoon in the interest of employees of the T. Eaton Co., Western Ltd., Saskatchewan Locations
20 pages. Features: New company directors - John Wallace Eaton, David Kinnear; Mr. Earl Chestnut retires; Mr. Len Dell promoted; Saskatoon rink wins Ladies' Provincial Curling title - Joyce McKee, Syl Fedoruk, Donna Patton, Muriel Coben; Osler rink of Regina wins Eaton Trophy - D. Brault, Cam Osler, Lynn Wilkinson, Bob Waller, Don Anderson; Standings of Ladies' and Men's Curling Club February Standings, with 4 photos; Hazel Smith and husband Gordon report on their Pacific cruise - with photos; Parting gifts for Mrs. Josephine Shepperd and Vi Collins (with photos); News from Prince Albert; Moose Jaw News; Great photos of employees playing outdoor hockey at Optimist Park; Mr. William C. Bores Retires - write-up with nice group photo. Additional employee news. Moderate wear. Handwritten greetings on front cover. A sound copy. Book
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Punch Weekly Magazine, 3 October 1984
82 pages. Features: 2-page Van Heusen ad inside front cover; nice Pernod ad; Freaky Fables; Glenfiddich 'halo' ad; 2-page Cathay Pacific ad; Cross pen ad - auction scene; 2-page ad for Pure New Wool; 2-page ad for the Renault 11 Turbo; The Famous Grouse whisky ad; Alfa Romeo ad for the Alfa 33; 2-page Mercedes-Benz ad featuring the 190s; Faconnable ad; John Player Special - Blackjack ad; WH Smith 2-page ad; Bold 2-page ad for Jamaica tourism; Rothmans ad inside back cover; Back cover ad warns of the dangers of smoking - features venus flytrap; and much more. Average wear. Covers loosening but still attached. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Magazine
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Railroad Magazine: August 1958, Vol. 69, No. 5
82 pages. Features: The Sunset Limited; F&CC Line; The Atlantic Story; Southern Pacific Locomotive Roster; Transit Topics (including photo of Japanese Monorail); and more. Average wear. Small date stamp upon front cover else unmarked. Book
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Railway & Marine News, A Semi-Monthly Publication Devoted to Pacific Coast Transportation Interests, April 15, 1911, Vol. IX, No. 7 - Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet
Features: First Annual Report of American Express Companies; John F. Stevens Retires From Hill Lines; B.F. Bush Succeeds George Gould as president of the Missouri Pacific Railway (with photo of Mr. Bush); Causes for Trade Depression; Development of Alaska Fisheries; Hearing Regarding Pacific Coast Rate Cases; Larger Terminal Yards Planned for Tacoma; The Railroads and the Panama Canal; Sixty-Seven Steamships in Canadian Pacific's Great Fleet - article with nice illustration; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Three Sailors of the British Steamer Benedick convicted of mutiny by Edinburgh court; Captain David Baird to take charge of the Victoria and Vancouver Stevedore Co.'s Vancouver Branch - with photo of Mr. Baird; Suspension of Capt. Alfred Croskey Reduced; Tacoma News; Captain Fred Warner to command the famous steamer Corwin (brief article with photo); Nice illustrated one-page ad for The Shasta Limited, "The Finest Train in the West", which connects Seattle to San Francisco; Nice one-page illustrated ad for the Vulcan Iron Works of Seattle features an aerial view of their plant; Willamette Iron & Steel Works ad features nice photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke and pumping water in the air; Canadian-Pacific Railway Steamships ad features schedule for their connections between Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver; 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
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Railway Quarterly, Fall 1982, Volume 6, Number 3
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
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Scientific American, May 1981 - The Sunflower Crop
188 pages. Features: The fuel economy of light vehicles; split genes; the sources of celestial x-ray bursts; the crest of the east pacific rise; countercurrent systems in animals; highly excited atoms; the sunflower crop; Chinese building standards in the 12th century; and more. Nostalgic colour photo ads. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Sea Breezes - The Magazine of Ships and the Sea: October 1979
Features: Last of the Moss Liners; P.S.N.C. Liner "Reina del Pacifico" of 1931; Flags and Funnels - a motley crew; Ferry Scene - Harwich Circuit; Tractor Tugs for Cory; The Mersey Sound; Capt. Enrique Pedro Montemayor and the "Libertad"; Model Steamer Club of Glasgow; Greek Passenger Shipping in 1978-79 - Part II; Voyage to Alaska. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.25. No. 4 - July/August 1979
Features: Deepwater Archaeology; Northern Europe's Lighthouses on Stamps; Ranching in Salmon in Southern Seas - I - Australia and New Zealand; Ranching Salmon in Southern Seas - II - Chile; Sailors Learn Early; How big is a Whale; Red Water at Lysekil; Young Farmers go to sea; Folk Remedies for Tropical Fish Poisoning in the Pacific. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.27. No. 2 - March/April 1981
Features: New Hope for Sponge Fishery?; Dark-water Octopus; Coastal Retreat; the Penalty of the Hunt; Three Passages to the Pacific; The Continent that wasn't there; Oceans Miami '82; Coral Reefs - A postal tribute. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.27. No. 6 - November/December 1981
Features: Fresnel - genius of Illumination; African, Asian and Australasian Lighthouses on Stamps; the Coast Guard's Search-and-rescue Pigeons; Saltwater Fuel; Crustacean Symbiosis; The North Pacific Salmon Shark; Time Capsules in the Sea. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.29. No. 3 - May/June 1983
Features: Carmel Bay - Marine oasis in the cold Pacific; Leatherjackets - savory stingers; nations unite to fight pollution; Protecting the Caribbean; Oama summer; Cocos Island - Verdant treasure; Miniature marine foulers; Man-made Island - solution to economic and environmental woes. Sound copy. Book
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Sea Frontiers - Vol.34. No. 3 - May/June 1988
Features: Salad from the sea - cultivating kombu in Hokkaido; The influence of the sea upon our language; Caught in conflict - managers trapped in fisheries dilemma; The Pacific Walrus; RRS Discovery and the Discover investigations; beautiful broccoli of the sea; a portfolio of winners - 1988 international marine photo contest; Save the beaches. Nice copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Fall 1993
Features: Rabaul in the Fall - Search for the Reef Coral - Lithactinia novahibernia; Seven Passes - from Gilgit to Katmandu; A non-event of History - Laperouse in the Pacific; Searching Marmara for Ancient Shipwrecks; Searching for Medicines in the Vanishing Amazon; In the Hoofprints of Ghengis Khan. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Explorer's Journal, Summer 1993
Features: Albanian Alpine and Black Drini River Expedition - The Wild Mountain Region of Albania; Mt. Doonerak - the Spirit of the Eskimo; Notes from the North Pacific Rim; Har Karkom Expedition 1992 - a preliminary report; Of Picket Knives, Compasses, and Things; The Mysterious Round Towers of Ireland - Low Energy Radio in Nature; 1992 Excavations at Idalion on Cyprus. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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The Illustrated Canadian Forest and Outdoors Magazine, September 1931
48 Pages. Features: Dominion ammunition ad inside front cover; Full-page Sun Life Assurance ad; List of open seasons for game, 1931-1932; Sky Trails Above the Rockies - Hal Roach followed route of pioneer fur traders (along with Kenneth Allen - guide, Clair B. Brunson, and Harvey Crate - guide; The Perils of Woods Travel - by Grey Owl; Above the Timber Line - unusual animal, bird and tree life; Mowitch to the Minute - a true story of the hunt - why the big ones always get away, by Hamilton M. Laing; ; The Practice of Tree Surgery - article with great photos; The Plant as Artist and Architect; From Dwelling Place to Home - Herman Larsen, a prairie farmer and tree lover, shows how trees make home prosperous and beautiful; New Forests that Follow Fires; Forest Fires in 1930; Logging on the Pacific Coast - How B.C. Giant Timbers are Harvested - article with photos, by James Kay; Fenders Best Quality Spruce - a new use for spruce left following pulpwood operations; Little Puzzlements in Conservation, by Ozark Ripley; Half-page ad for the Waterous Twin Engine Feed for portable and small sawmills; Davey Tree Surgeons ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy. Please note: missing pages 19-22. Book
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The Japan Christian Quarterly - Spring 1968
Pages 73-143. Features: Christians and Christian Nations; Japanese Churches and World War II; War and I; Policies for Peace in the Pacific; Vietnam- Dilemma for Missionaries; Reflections on the Students at Sasebo; Bainton Sketches Japan - an 8-page special feature of verse and pictures by Roland H. Bainton; Missionary Service in "Secular" Schools; Towards a Christian University in Japan; English and Indigenization; and more. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: April 1995
Articles: The Names of Nova Scotian Fishing Boats; British Squadrons in North American Waters, 1783-1793; The Sale of the Century - British North American Sailing Ships, the Liverpool Market and Vessel Prices in 1854; Canada's 1994 International Fisheries Actions; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: July 1995
Articles: The North Pacific Campaign in Perspective; The Origins of British Whaling - Pre-1750 English and Scottish Involvement in the Northern Whale Fishery; We Have Missed Another Great Opportunity - G.G. McGeer, Alaska, and the Politics of Failed Advocacy; plus numerous book reviews. Three book reviews circled in Table of Contents else clean with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: October 1997
Articles: The Impact of German Technology on the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic, 19442-1943; The Seamen's Union, the National Maritime Board and Firemen - Labour management in the British Mercantile Marine; The Defence of Alaska Must Remain a Primary Concern of the United States - Canada and the North Pacific, May-June 1942; Management of the Port of Saint Thomas, Danish West Indies, during the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries; Government and Port Administration in Japan in the aftermath of the Port and Harbour Law of 1950; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Northern Mariner - The Journal of the Canadian Nautical Research Society: January 1998
Articles: The Ports of Halifax and Saint John and the American Civil War; The Floating Factory - Dominant Designs and Technological Development of Twentieth-Century Whaling Factory Ships; A Lonely Ambassador - HMCS Uganda and the War in the Pacific; Sailor as Entrepreneurs in a Great Lakes Maritime Village; plus book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Nice copy. Book
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The Sphere - The Empire's Illustrated Weekly: 31 March 1945
Photos include: The capture of the capital of Saar; Naval pictures from the Pacific Ocean; New pictures from the battle-line in Germany; Fighting in Mandalay; photos from the Russians; Coblenz (Koblenz) and Remagen; Massive captured German rail-mounted guns; The German citizen and the war; Iwo Jima conquest completed; The R.A.F. attack in Burma, Yugoslavia and Norway; Photos of the great 10-ton bombs of the R.A.F.; British scenes in field and shipyard; and more. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated - 21 April 1917: No. 140
Feature Photos: An American Submarine Chaser; Hustling the Hun on the Hindenburg Line; Why Peaceful America Declared for War (one page article); America joins the champions of freedom; Horse, Foot and Artillery of the U.S. Army; The War Against Piracy; Typical Western Fighting Ships; Devastation - one page article by Max Pemberton; British Soldiers making friends in villages they free from Prussian Terror; Ousting the Turk from the Holy Land - article; With Red Crescent through Arabia and Syria; The Middlesex Regiment - article. Above-average wear. Staples disintegrating. Book
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The War Illustrated Magazine, 6 February 1915 - Beatty - The Hero of the North Sea
Contents: The War By Land - article by F.A. McKenzie; With the Flag in France and Flanders - three photos; Four Photos of British Horse and Foot Moving to the Firing Line; With the Devoted workers of the R.A.M.C. - four photos; Boer and Briton unite against the Teuton - two photos; B.E. Africa contests Germany's place in the sun - three photos; King Albert's New Army in the Making - six photos; The Decisive Cruiser Action in the North Sea; The Blucher Before & After Meeting the Lion - Three photos; Centerfold illustration of the naval victory in the North Sea - Triumph of British Gunnery and Seamanship; Photos of Ships and Guns that made the Germans fly; The War by Sea - article by Commander Carlyon Bellairs; Five photos of Warlike Preparations in Peaceful Holland; Five photos of Belin in Wartime; Barget9wn-on-Seine - photos of war victims housed in barges; Religious duties amid the din of war - photos of troops from three nations and their religious observances; Photos of five elusive snipers; Photos of three war scenes in the Forest of Argonne; Photos of Domesticities near the Battle Line; Photos of Old Boys who will soon fight with New Armies; Names and photos of Britain's heroes and lost men. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. All pages present. A sound copy. Book
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The War Illustrated, 15 September 1917
Features: Why did Von Kluck Swerve? - article by Lovat Fraser; Canadians care for their equine wounded; Heroic moments in the shell-stricken West; Vignettes from the Allies' advancing lines; Forward withe the French Troops in Flanders; Masks and faces between Aisne and Oise; Keeping their Pecker up - Queer yarns the Germans believe; Photos in sunny by-paths of war's clouded highway; Western Science in an Eastern Environment - British construction in Palestine; Bridging the Yser and well away beyond Ypres; A Pit in a Beetroot field - some grim experiences of a stretcher-bearer (article by Hamilton Fyfe); Turkish activity in Syria's ancient capital; Dames of the New Order of the British Empire; Alsace celebrates the day of her deliverance; Nets to enmesh the werewolves of the sea (6 photos); Germany preparing for the War after the War; Who's who in the Great War; Peaceful contrasts with the waste of war; The Northhamptons - one-page regimental article with photo. Staples disintegrated. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
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The War Illustrated, No. 187, 16 March 1918
Cover illustration of H.M. Field Pigeon Post. Illustration of a runner. "How Japan May Rescue Russia" by Lovat Fraser. Photos of Allenby's Anzacs reaching Jericho and the Jordan. Photos of Maple Leaf Heroes Who Hold the Line at Lens. Photos of Men of the Navy Active Mid Arctic Snow & Ice. Photos of Getting Ready for the Roaring of the Guns, including photo of a great dump/shell park along the French Western Front. Photos of Great Naval Ordnance that Awaits the Onset. "The Assembly Trench" by 'Sapper'. Photos along the Allied Line; Peaceful pursuits over classic battlefields. Illustration of Canadian narrow-gauge armoured engine supplying ammunition to the front. "F.O.O. in a Daylight Raid" - 20 minutes in an enemy trench. Wounded borne in barges by quiet waterways. Women's war work. Illustration of German observer post concealed behind an image of Christ on the cross. Safeguarding the Soldier - how Australia has taken thought for the future. Photos of Americans in France. Mascots and Pets share their masters' peril - photos. And more. Average wear. Staples disintegrated. Sound copy. Book
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