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Perrault, Pierre (Translator: Webb, Diana Lesley)
The St. Lawrence
Approximately 200 pages. Text in English. Contains 140 sumptuous colour photos with descriptive text. Rust-coloured cloth front board adorned with colour illustration and brilliant gilt lettering. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Apparently this was a presentation copy as a small business card-sized tag laid in reads "Le Premier Ministre du Quebec." Very nice copy of this beautiful work. Book
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Flying Lady - The Periodical of the Rolls-Royce Owner's Club, Inc., January/February 1992
Cover photo of a RRCCW Pall Mall. Features: Je me Souviens - Recollections of the Quebec Vintage Tour, September 22-27, 1991 - six pages with many nice photos; From the Shadow's Corner - long term storage of a 1976 Silver Shadow, Fluid for convertible top and recharging accumulators, 1972 T Type Bentley with crankshaft oil leaks; 1965 Siver Cloud III with low oil pressure; Brooks-Ostruk Company - La Carrosserie - 3 pages with wonderful photos; Dipping systems on Lucas P100 Lamps; Nuts, Cheese & Worms - a confectionary of items needed to get your steering straight - 4 detailed pages with illustrations. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Bellavance, Marcel
A Village in Transition: Compton, Quebec, 1880-1920
86 pages including extensive endnotes. Many diagrams and black and white illustrations. Former library copy with usual markings. Average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
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CRHA (Canadian Railroad Historical Association) News Report, Number 128, December (Dec.) 1961
22 pages. Features: Trail Creek Tramway; Official diagram of MTC Observation Car No. 1; Sightseeing in four cities - Calgary, Vancouver, Montreal, Quebec; Maritimer to Museum - Number 5, a 4-6-0 of the Maritime Coal, Railway and Power Company (with photo); An L.C.L. shipment - decorated cars; The Winter Timetables; Pine Point Railway; Notes and news. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Rail, Number 292, May 1976: Wakefield Turntable
Features: Mixed Thoughts on a Mixed Train, with map of Dominion Atlantic Railway, Truro Sub.; A Turntable for Wakefield, Quebec (to accommodate Number 1057); Referred to the Committee - back when the distance between the rails was very important; Chart of the Gauges of some of Canada's early railways; Determination and Hard Work - the story of the Strathcona Museum in Strathclair, Manitoba; Waybills; Please note: a 2" wide band has been stripped from front cover, probably by tape removal. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Happy Motoring, Volume 19, Number 3 - an Imperial Oil/Esso Periodical
Features: British Columbia - a century of progress - with story and photos; Canada's cradle of celtic culture - St. Ann's, The Gaelic College in Nova Scotia; Rocky Mountain Motorcade - 100-car, 300-man motorcade pioneers 125-mile route from Rocky Mountain House to the Banff-Jasper highway - super photos!; Quebec City's 350th Birthday; Motoring at Fort Churchill; Echoes from an old coach road - highway 33 between Trenton and Kingston. Illustrated with black and white photos. Average wear. Bit of writing on back cover. A sound copy of this vintage issue. Book
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Happy Motoring - An Imperial Oil/Esso Publication: Volume 18, Number 4 - Eel Fishing in the Richelieu
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
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Happy Motoring - An Imperial Oil/Esso Publication: Volume 17, Number 1 - Senega-Root Diggers of Manitoba
Features: Pictures from five Canadian Zoos; Raising speckled trout at Balsam Creek, near North Bay, Ontario; The Senega-Root (Snake-root) Diggers of Manitoba; Alberta Handicrafts; The North Shore Highway from Baie Comeau to Quebec along the St. Lawrence River; Sandford Boat Hole - pine-sized picturesque harbour just north of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Happy Motoring - An Imperial Oil/Esso Publication: Volume 17, Number 5 - St. Thomas Cigar Store Indian
Features: New Brunswick Claybake - the Deichmanns of Sussex, New Brunswick; The last of the wooden heads - Cigar store Indian named Mazeppa in St. Thomas, Ontario and the large cedar wooden head carved by Pete Fuoci which was used at the opening of the Big Bend highway between Revelstoke and Golden, B.C. in 1940; Dude Ranches; The Scottish Highlanders come to Fergus, Ontario; Le Chien d'Or of Quebec City; The Stolen Church - St. Peter's Church on Lake Windermere used to be at Donald, B.C. and was supposed to be in Revelstoke but Rufus Kimpton and J.C. Pitts may have played a role in changing this! Bit of writing atop back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Heritage, Winter 2000: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation - Quebec Religious Heritage Foundation
Features: Heritage Farms; Heritage 2000; Quebec Religious Heritage Foundation - a New Approach; Judgement expected on Prince County Courthouse, P.E.I.; The Railway Car that Built Canada - the car used by William Cornelius Van Horne; Conserving Heritage in Saskatoon; Edmonton's new Market Value Assessments; Miracles do Happen - the rectory of Sainte-Euphemie in Casselman, Eastern Ontario. Bilingual English/French. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Heritage, May/June 1997: The Magazine of the Heritage Canada Foundation - Revitalization of Winnipeg's West Broadway
Features: The revitalization process of West Broadway in Winnipeg; Heritage designation rewards Clayburn Village in B.C.; Southworks - an industrial site is reborn on the Grand River in Cambridge, Ontario; Hammond House demolished in Hull, Quebec; The Don Jail; Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Dixon, Jack
The Chretien Legacy - A Canadian's View of the Administration of The Right Honourable Jean Chretien, Prime Minister of Canada, 1993-2003
178 pages. "... the author has not pulled any punches in his condemnation of Jean Chretien's record. But he reserves a special contempt for Chretien's cabinet and Liberal caucus, who could have stopped Chretien in his tracks at any time, but ttook the dishonourable path of clinging to their comfortable offices and fat pensions and vaporous celebrity." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked but for gift greetings on page iii. Negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, May 9, 1959 - A Searching New Look at the French Canadian
Features: Colour Parker Pen inside front cover; Is Diefenbaker outdrawing Duplessis?; The Astonishing Attitude of the English in Quebec, by Andre Laurendeau; The Unconquerable French Canadians - visiting Quebec on the 200th anniversary of the "conquest," an illustrious interpreter of the national scene, Bruce Hutchison, reports on the "furious ferment" that is "the most important fact in our country today"; "The Maurice Richards" - great article on Maurice "The Rocket" Richard and his wife and children, with several photos; the incomparable St. Lawrence; Writings by Marcel Dube and Roger Lemelin especially for this issue - The Plouffes visit Toronto, and Nathalie was my first Love; The Church - how much political power does it wield in Quebec?; What Quebec Laughs at; Eight artists paint their Quebec - John Lyman, Jean Dallaire, Jacques de Tonnancour, Leon Bellefleur, Robert W. Pilot, Ghitta Caiserman, Jean Paul Lemieux; Dozens of great ads, approximately half in colour, including a great full-page colour ad for Plymouth and its push-button transmission; Great colour Coke ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, April 22, 1961: What TV Does To Children
Features: Peter Stollery - Nomad in the Sahara, Part I; The French Revolution, Quebec 1961 - Jean Lesage et al are breaking up the two-century-old cartel of church and state; Bernard Glaum and the Native Sons of Canada; Samuel Laycock - busy at age 70; The Last Bohemia in Montreal - with photos; The unsinkable Charlotte Whitton; My First Negro, Peter Gzowski; What Television Does to Children - first scientific study; The Lady with a Mission - Ethel Grace has taken the gospel and medical care to the boat people of Hong Kong for 22 years; I worked for Adolph Eichmann - Valerie White, a Czech now living in Toronto, helped process thousands of Jews for Eichmann's Central Office - photos; A Doctor's Case for Private Medicine - Harold Challis, M.D.; Fantastic colour centerfold ad for the new International Travelall Station Wagon. Please note: something, most likely an ad, has been clipped from page 87/88. Middle two pages loose but present. Four inch openings to top edge of back cover and last two pages. Minor calculation on back cover else unmarked. Average wear. A decent copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, January 1967 - Anticipation Builds for Expo '67
Features: The Outstanding Canadians of 1966 - Chester Ronning, Harold Firby, Maurice Strong, Pierre Dupuy, Mr. Justice John Howard Sissons, Daniel Johnson, Walter Susskind; School is for Nancy, by June Callwood; Why our schools don't educate; Freson's Canada - colour photos; We are the Echo of Washington - by David Lewis; A Stranger in My Own Land - by Solange Chaput Rolland; Here's Looking at Us - Expo '67 approaches; Morden, Manitoba warms up for Canada's Centennial; How to sell a little country BIG!, by Alexander Ross; If you can't beat the horses, why is Mike Kolton so Rich?; Communication satellite could soon make possible live telecasts from the Vietnam war; Two-colour ad for a bizarre Bolens 'Diablo Rouge' snowmobile. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
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Happy Motoring: A Publication of Esso/Imperial Oil, Volume 17, Number 2, 1956: The Champlain Trail
15 pages. Features: The Wonders of the Champlain Trail; New Tourist Wonderland in Alberta, thanks to the completion of the last section of the Bow River-Nordegg Forestry Road; The Glamour of St. Andrews by-the-Sea; Roll back the years with a Roadmap; International Opera House of Rock Island, Quebec. Happy Motoring (on a budget) with the Little Woman. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Happy Motoring: A Publication of Esso/Imperial Oil, Volume 16, Number 1, 1955 - Stanley Park
Features: Virgin Forest... in Big City! - Vancouver's Stanley Park; Santa's Village near Bracebridge in Muskoka, Ontario; The Fish come Big in Nova Scotia - swordfish and bluefin tuna; The Kingsmere "Ruins" in the rolling hills of Kingsmere, Quebec; Family Week a la Jasper; From the Mailbag of Eddie Torr. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Happy Motoring: A Publication of Esso/Imperial Oil, Volume 14, Number 3, 1953: Bay of Fundy
Features: The Land of Believe it or Not - great photos from the Bay of Fundy; Lac Le Jeune - Angler's Dream; Island of Orleans, below Quebec City on the St. Lawrence; Those Pesky Post cards; The Nature Programme in Algonquin Park; Dinosaur Valley - the banks of the Red Deer River in central Alberta (Drumheller); The International Peace Garden - astride the International border between Dunseith, North Dakota, and Boissevain, Manitoba; From the Mailbag of Eddit Torr. Drawing of contemporary gas pumps on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Happy Motoring: A Publication of Esso/Imperial Oil, Volume 11, Number 4, 1950: Yukon's Highway To The Sea
Features: Who says pioneering is a thing of the past? - Imperial Oil agent L.M. Fortin and his truck supply road contractors near Beattyville and Senneterre in Northwestern Quebec; Yukon's Highway to the Sea - taking the Haines Cutoff to the sea from the Alaska Highway; The Devil's Hills - Manitoba's desert, about 100 miles west of Winnipeg and 40 miles east of Brandon; Rollin' Along, Singin' A Song - Songs sung across Canada; Logging in the Gatineau - great photos - trucks on the frozen river; Muskoka Pioneers, by Anne Smyth; On to Peggy's Cove (continued from last issue); The Carillon across Canada. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Geggie, H.J. G., M.D.
The Extra Mile: Medicine in Rural Quebec 1885-1965
134 pages. Black and white illustrations. "Into his notebooks he (Harold Geggie) poured his heartbreaks, his frustrations, his accomplishments and his compassion for the people. His stories speak for themselves." - the Editors. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A tight, sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine - October 1970: Cathy Wismer - Pioneering Femail Footbal Reporter
Articles: How to Tell Hawks from Doves among Canada's 38,500 policemen - and why you're safer if you can - views of various chiefs of police; Where has all our best land gone? - the surrender of our best land to the Americans could be the ultimate sellout; The crusade to make Canada's national capital a tale of two cities; How to keep up with Fashion's shifting erogenous zone - with great colour photos, including cover shot; The Revealing Canadian Compulsion for Profanity - a Martin Goldfarb report; Photojournalist Cathy Wismer reports on CFL Football, thus violating one of North America's last inviolate preserves For Men Only - with many Argo photos; I'm Married, happy, and went through hell for a legal abortion, by Roberta Squire; The U.S. Senator from Canada - Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska; The new fad of treasure hunting with metal detectors; Many lost cities in Brazil; Paul Almond's 'Act of the Heart'; William Robson, undenighable novelist; Colour ad for the full line of Ski-Doo products; Flying from Edmonton to Vancouver to watch the new Vancouver Canucks. Scorpion Snowmobile Ad. Great colour ad for the 1971 Mercury Cougar; Nice colour ad for the 1971 Ford Mustang. Fantastic full-page colour ad for Sno-Jet featuring Al Unser, Bobby Unser and Mario Andretti. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Avril 1969
Articles: Radio et TV privees au Quebec - 9 groupes, une meme famille; Sous la Toile D'araignee - des Cables de TV; La Revolution des Chandelles - M. Laurier Baillargeon; Many nautical advertisements; Nice colour Coke ad on back cover. All text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, September 8, 1962 - Recalling the Bolshevik Revolution
Features: Painless Diets; Jean Templeton stars in The Weighting Game; A Bolshevik Giant recalls the Revolution, by Ilya Ehrenburg; Westmount - a portrait of the capital of English Quebec, by Peter Gzowski; The Anglo-Sazon Jews, by Mordecai Richler; The Working Atom is Here - Jane Becker reports on Canada's nuclear industry; An Ingenue from the Rockies goes to Drama School - Susan Ringwood of Williams Lake, B.C.; An Eerie Postscript to the Bombing of Berlin, by Louis Greenburg. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Juin 1964 *Annexion Aux USA?*
Features: 4 millions de Canadiens Voudraient etre Americains - 9 millions sont prets a l'union economique; Incroyable mais vrai - le conseil legislatif; La Saint-Jean, Hier et Demain; Tout le Monde a sa Maison de Campagne; Ingenieurs, oui... mais Aussi Salaries - mille des 12,000 membres de la Colrporation des ingenieurs professionnels du Quebec se sont syndiques depuis un an; Le Rasoir D'Alberto. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Septembre 1964 - L'ecole Doit-elle Enseigner La Religion a Tous?
Features: L'Enseignement de la Religion dans les ecoles du Quebec; Guy Favreau - Rouge a Ottawa; Jeux Gynmiques 1964; L'Afrique Francophone a L'improviste; Un Reve - Habitat 1967; Zubin Mehta - Dompteur D'Orchestre; Si L'Habit ne fait pas le moine, le drapeau ne fait pas le pays, par Guy Lamarche. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Octobre 1964 *LES HOMMES DERRIERE LE POUVOIR*
Features: Fantastic 3-panel fold-out colour 1965 Ford ad.inside front cover; Nice two-page colour ad for La Buick Special 65; A Quebec une noubelle genereation de hauts fonctionnaires elabore la "revolution tranquille" - Les Technocrates; Les Mandarins D'Ottawa - N'entre pas qui veut dans le club select de hauts fonctionnaires qui dirigent les destinees du Canada; Les Rifles Contre Les Alouettes - la bataille qui vient de s'engager oppose le football americain au football canadien; Un Village Dechire - Chapais; "Ici, tu plies ou tu creves!" - Mousseau; Les Automatistes - L'epoque Heroique; Il y a 50 ans, le 22e... 1914-1918; Le Racisme au jour le jour (in the American South); La Saskatchewan au temps du socialisme; Colour ads for the 1965 Chevy II, 1965 Chevelle, la Corvair 1965 and the 1965 Chevrolet. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Novembre 1964 *ASSURANCE-AUOT - LES QUEBECOIS PAIENT PLUS CHER*
Features: Cover photo of Gerard Pelletier; Nice colour ad for the Ford Mustang inside front cover; Luxurious 2-page colour ad for the 1965 Pontiac; 2-page ad for Pilkington Glass Limited and its products; L'Assurance-auto coute plus cher au Quebec; Gerard Pelletier - des ennemis a la douzaine; "Les Canadiens Francais, Comme nous, Etaient Pauvres...", par Mordecai Richler; La Suede N'est pas la Suede...; J'Apprends le Hockey - Gilles Douville - 10 ans; La Montee de Barry Goldwater; 1864 - la conference de Quebec fut aussi une fete mondaine; nice colour photo 1965 Ford Mercury ad; Faut-il tuer le mythe Rene Levesque?; Super 12 (half)-page full-colour advertising supplement for Nouvelles Rambler 1965 car models; C'est difficile pour un ecrivain de Cesser de Fumer, par Quentin Reynolds; Beautiful colour photo ad for the 1965 Lincoln Continental (with suicide doors); hus-ski ad; Lettre ouverte aux Nationalistes Canadiens-Francais, par Peter Gzowski; Colour ad for the 1965 GM Beaumont inside back cover. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Novembre 1965 *LEVESQUE CONTRE LA NORANDA*
Features: Nice 2-page colour photo ad for the 1966 Oldsmobile cars; Levesque Contra La Noranda; Le Quebec Dans une Maison de Verre - a L'Expo 67; Ces Mathematiques qui nous gouvernent - L'Universite de Montreal est a la pointe du progres dans ce secteur vital - Prof. Jean A. Baudot; La Derniere Pendaison - ca s'est passe a Toronto dans la nuit du 10 au 11 decembre 1962 - Ronald Turpin/Arthur Lucas; Un Paradis Blanc - La Siberie - with colour photos; Pourquoi des unions internationales?; Les 60 jours du theatre d'ete; Nice colour 1966 Chevelle ad; Arthur Buies - L'enfant terrible; La Chasse au faisan - nice colour hunting photos; Colur ad for the OMC Snow Cruiser; Le curling a l'abri du froid; Le style sport pour 66 - fonctionnel!; Skibourg; Nice 2-page colour ad for teh 1966 Pontiac Parisienne Sport Coupe; Un Expo a vendre, par James Bamber; Le 8 Novembre - que pensent les Canadiens?. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Septembre 1965 *JEAN MARCHAND - COVER PHOTO*
Features: L'ecole de demain - L'enfant "Maitre Chez Lui" (school architecture); Jean Marchand - est-il Perdu pour les ouvriers?; Nos Ambassadeurs? Des Prix de Vertu!; Favori ou "Long Shot"?, par Gerald Godin; Tartuffe a Quebec? Jamais! - fait l'eveque... et il offre cent pistoles au gouverneur Frontenac pour empecher que la piece de Moliere ne soit montee! Nous sommes en 1964; Pourquoi Mars?, par James Bamber. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Juin 1965 *LA VOIRIE AU QUEBEC - IL FAUDRA 25 ANS ET DES MILLIARDS...*
Features: Couteuse, mais indispensable - la grande voirie - Quebec a mis au point un programme d'un quart de siecle - l'avenir industriel - autant que l'Expo - exige un reseau routier coherent; Quel sort faisons-nous aux vieux? - une enquete sur la vie faite aux vieillards de Montreal, et les politiques que Quebec elabore pour ameliorer leur sort; La Jean-Baptiste De Montreal est Dechiree - des rebelles fondent une nouvelle societe nationale, que veut etre democratique, non confessionnelle, et autre chose qu'une compagnie de gestion...; Les Canadiens que ont choisi L'Europe; La Mode est aux peintres Folkloriques; Mon Ami Raymond Levesque - with photos; Mon Chalet D'ete. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Le Magazine Maclean, Fevrier 1965 *LES GRANDS BOULEVERSEMENTS DANS LES HOPITAUX DU QUEBEC*
Features: Monique Miller cover photo; Photo of Pierre Laporte on page 1; Nice colour photo ad for the 1965 GM Beaumont; Que se passe-t-il dans les hopitaux?; Septieme Nord - un teleroman de Guy Dufresne penetre dans l'intimite d l'hopital; Les Medicins de Famille se syndiquent; Des Avocats "Pas Comme Les Autres", par Adele Lauzon; Le Vol 831 - le 29 novembre 1963, 118 personnes trouvent la mort dans l'ecrasement d'un DC-8, a Sainte-Therese de Blainville - Qu'est-il advenu des familles des victimes?; Pierre Saint-Jean, Halterophile - il etait a Tokyo, en octobre 1964 - depuis son jeune age, il s'entraine en vue de l'obtention d'une medaille olympique; Nos Cuisiniers a L'ecole - objectif - accueillir convenablement les visiteurs de l'Expo dans TOUS les restaurants. Text in French. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, 3 September, 1966 - Daniel Johnson Cover Photo
Features: Where will Daniel Johnson lead Quebec? - article with photos; A Little Girl in a Big Big Town - girls like Barbara Fulton come to Toronto by the thousands for a career, a pad and a man - many photos with article; Sam Olan wanted to put on a good show (Opera) - so look where it got him - photos with article; Where's the Walking Woman Waling? - for the past five years Canadian artist Michael Snow has only painted walking women; Calgary Yanks - oil brought 30,000 Americans to Calgary; The Secret Life of Eddie Shack, Gourmet! - article and photo; One Man, One Wreck, One Cause - BC businessman Robert Malkin took action against lax drinking and driving laws after his son, Kit was killed, by Barry Broadfoot; Great vintage colour photo ad for Honda automobiles, the convertible and the G.T. Fastback Coupe; Postcript to death in the Arctic - L.A. Learmonth replies to Farley Mowat's indictment re: Aiyoot and Shooyook, two Eskimos charged with murder; When the Ghost Walked at Barrett's Landing, by Helen Wilson; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Bob Trimbee argues for athletic scholarships to keep our whiz kids north of the line; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Explorer's Journal, September 1984 - First Down Quebec's Whale River
Features: First Down Quebec's Whale River; Landsat - an aid to Exploration; Mysteries of the Pena Colorada; The Karo Batak of Sumatra Revisited; Aztec Warfare, Sacrifice and Cannibalism; Youth Activity Essay Contest; Sir Edmund P. Hillary - Honorary President. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Ahluwalia, Raj
We Interrupt This Program : The News Broadcasts That Kept Us Tuned In - Complete with Two Audio CDs
172 pages. Index. Documents in text, photo and sound, forty-two events in history that unite Canadians. Examples include: Canada enters the war on Germany; Man Walks on the Moon; Parti Quebecois wins the Quebec Election; Montreal Massacre; Air India Bombing. "Two CDs include broadcasts from these important and moving events in the history of our country and of the world." - from dust jacket. Book clean, bright and unmarked with virtually zero wear. Dust jacket in similar condition with the exception of a closed one-inch opening to top edge of back panel. An excellent copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine: Bound Issues January 5, 1981 Through March 30, 1981
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: 1980 - the turbulent year that was; Shelly Hack; Farley Mowat; U.S. Heads into Recession; Terry Fox Cover Illustration; Trudeau wants to patriate the constitution; Indonesia's struggles; Kayakers visit the rivers of the Himalayas; The NHL Comes of Age; Italians are returning home from Canada; The stench of political patronage in Quebec; Economic harship in Britain; Margie Gillis; Truedea's quest for a foreign policy; John Dowd creates the Ronald Reagan survival kit; Kim Mitchell - Max Webster is about to trade its cult status for international glory; Possible break in the hostage crisis; Frank Sinatra at centre of political storm in Washington; Enemy fire at Jean Chretien; Hostages Come Home; Crazy Weather; Jo Penney; Royal Trustco-Campeau hearings; Doris Anderson; Cover photo and story of Karen Kain; Roger Jouret/Plastic Bertrand; Jean-Luc Godard; CIA hostages return home; Saudi officials try to entice Chad from Libya's grip; Steve Podborski story and cover photo; Trappers; Nuclear mishap in France; van Gogh at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO); Raquel Welch sues over firing from film Cannery Row; Trudeau and Thatcher - who will stand down?; Sigourney Weaver; Did Ottawa encourage Inco to poison the skies?; The Schreyer family in Rideau Hall; Who will pay for the RCMP?; David Stockman - wunderkind in cabinet; Cover illustration "The Day Alberta Turns off the Oil; The Pope in Asia; Joe Clark faces severe damage; Carol Connors; Donald Sutherland; 4,000 year-old settlement unearthed in Labrador; Tony Tanti; Our Next Queen - cover photo of Lady Diana Spencer; Joe Clark survives leadership with likely mortal wounds; Reagan's team aggressive toward Moscow; Joe Granville says 'Sell!"; the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell; Voyager I renews interest in Titan; Ontario's Crucial Vote; Ouellet's combines sleuths write seven green volumes on price-fixing by oil's big four; Atlanta - beseiged by fear; Lynn Seymour; Sally Field's roll in Back Roads; John Gray is home from Broadway; Alberta's sulphur industry; Will Reagan Deliver?; Canadians flock to the south; Kim Cattrall; passengers endure two weeks of desert runway heat; Compulsory measles vaccination; Panic buying in the home market; Khmer Comeback; Alice Arm, B.C. mine tailings dumping; Dave Broadfoot, and many more. Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. Book
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Maclean's Magazine: Bound Issues October 5, 1981 Through December 28 1981
Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: the powers that be decide Canadians can handle high mortgage rates; Haig and Gromyko agree to arms talks; Carole Laure; Applied Research is threatening free discovery; Fiction's Triumph; Bora Laskin story and cover illustration; Trudeau pushes Candus in South Korea; Solidarity re-elects Lech Welesa in Poland; Shannon Tweed; Glorious Crete; David Steinberg; Murder of Anwar Sadat; Appalachia struggles through coal's booms and busts; Gouzenko's case revisited; Jeff Conaway; The Montreal Expos were one game from the World Series; Birth of a new social order in Spain; Europe's New Left; New Leader in Poland; Jean Wadds; Peter Hodgson; Joanne Curran; Cancun Summit falls short of success; Via Rail; Poland's ruler tightens his grip; St. Jean Baptiste Day parade is back; Canada's national soccer team; Scott Hylands; Cutbacks loom for Canada's universities; Federal agreement - less Quebec; Evelyn Hart; the threatened caribou; Saudi peace plan makes headway; Dome Petroleum; Conchata Ferrell; Budget '81 - the gathering storm; Space Shuttle Columbia's safe return; Rene Levesque talks tough, but so does Trudeau; Martha and the Muffins; Sylvia Tyson; Robert Bateman; Howard Pawley's upset victory in Manitoba; Ulster's days of rage; Angie Dickinson; Canada's soccer team falls short to Cuba; Women and native groups fight for inclusion in the charter of rights; Edith Butler; Victoria Snow; Arab Summit Fez fell apart; Allan Gotlieb becomes ambassador to U.S.; Levesque plays for time; Special report on the Constitution; Barbara Amiel; Urban problem in Connecticut; Peter Munk; Poland's hour of agony; Deborah Harry; Trevor Berbick; Images of 1981; Grab for the Golan; Last stand at Szczecin; MacEachen gives in to screams about the budget; and many more. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with few associated markings. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, November 1969 - Treasures in Canada's Museums, Galleries and Historic Sites
This is an extra large issue. Features: The Pursuit of Heritage; The National Gallery as Collector; Furniture for History; Preservation in Canada; Canada Council; Development of Museums in Canada; Prince Edward Island; Art Collection of Memorial University; The NovaScotia Museum; L'Art Traditionnel Musee du Quebec; Art Gallery of Ontario; R.O.M. Canadiana Gallery; Ontario Council for the Arts; Arts and Periodicals; Winnipeg Art Gallery; Vancouver Art Gallery; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; Treasures from the Northwest Coast; The Crisis in Art Museums; Saskatoon Art Centre; James Henderson - Western Artist; Edmonton Art Gallery; The Hudson Cup. Address label on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Sights and Scenes of the World: A Series of Magnificent Photographic Views Embracing the World of Nature and Art, People's Series, No. 11, 6 January 1894
16 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: The Tower of London; Ely Cathedral, England; The City of Berlin; The Doges', or Ducal Palace, Venice; The Interior of the Gesuiti Church, Venice; Town of Chamounix, Switzerland; Summit of Mont Blanc; The Temple of Karnak; Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia; The White House, Washington, D.C.; The City of Quebec, Canada; Treasury Building, Santiago, Chili (Chile); Solis Theatre, Montevideo, Uruguay; Gate to the Alcazar, Seville; Travelers ascending the Great Pyramid; The Theatre of Dionysius, Athens. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Benoit, Jehaine
My Grandmother's Kitchen
86 pages. "Madame Jehane Benoit shares the treasured recipes of the grandmother who taught her that 'cooking is part of our folklore which bears testimony to our past, to our mothers' ingenuity, and the the spirit of our own flesh and blood'" - from back cover. Above-average wear and soiling. Binding intact. A worthy reading copy of this precious work. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, March 1968, Volume 3, Number 3: Master Potters of Quebec
30 pages. Features: 18th Century Wedgwood - Beeson Collection, Birmingham, Alabama; Master Potters of Quebec; Victorian Jewelry; Museum of Leaterhcraft; Defining Regency; Daniel Fowler, R.C.A. 1810-1894 - Part 2 - The Artist in Canada; Bermuda's Tucker House; Rouen Museum - Early Ironwork; Bermuda Fan Collection; The Cardinal's Strainer Dish. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, July 1968, Volume 3, Number 7: Parian Statuettes
30 pages. Features: Parian Statuettes; Maisons du Quebec - The Maillou Place; Burlington Glass Site; Scottish Silverware - the Royal Scottish Museum; Unusual Exhibits in a Handmade Country - there are about 400 museums and art galleries in the Netherlands; Dried Bouquets for your Antiques; Canadian (Kitchen) Woodenware; Guide to Canadian Woods - Part 1 - Hardwoods. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, November 1966, Volume 1, Number 6: The Old Mills of Quebec
30 pages. Features: The Old Mills of Quebec; Leith Hill Place; Bateman Tea Service; Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Canadian Antiques Collector Magazine, November 1966, Volume 1, Number 6: The Old Mills of Quebec
30 pages. Features: The Old Mills of Quebec; Leith Hill Place; Bateman Tea Service; The Milk Glass Hen; A Home With Antiques - the Montreal home of Mrs. James Grier; Adventures in Collecting - old silver; First Sotheby Auction of new season brings record prices; The Art of Stencilling. Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Heller, Ursula; Gray, Barry; Satu, Repo
Village Portraits
127 pages. "Photographer Ursula Heller travelled through North America for nine years, stopping off in small towns - sometimes for several months - to document photographically a way of life that is fast disappearing. This study of eight small Canadian communities, portrayed in her unique style, truly captures the diversity of people and lifestyles across the country... Captures a special sense of place and lets us find out what it's really like to live there." - from dust jacket. The communities documented include: Alma, New Brunswick; Huberdeau, Quebec; Toronto Island, Ontario; Feversham, Ontario; Big Trout Lake, Ontario; Hafford, Saskatchewan; Carcross, Yukon Territory; Vallican, British Columbia. Gift greetings upon front free endpaper in pencil. Book clean with light wear. Dust jacket partially sunned with half-inch opening to top edge of front panel. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine 31 August 2009 *Colin Thatcher Claims He Was Framed*
Features: Colin Thatcher claims he was wrongly convicted; Harper's Recovery; Alberta's Wildrose Alliance; Obama's Health Care Proposal; Abdullah Abdullah - a new hope for Afghanistan; Germany gets Tough - sends troops to Afghanistan; Canada's chance to Emerge from America's Shadow?; The Race for the Perfect Battery; The Cooling Cure for Cardiac Arrest; Is Quebec the Human Guinea Pig Capital of North America?; Are we Drinking too much Water?; In Praise of Dead-End Jobs; What Happened to Quentin Tarantino?; Keeping a lid on Vancouver fun; Wal-mart's new cookies taste like Girl Scout cookies; Judith Josephine Koritar - Obituary; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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The (Toronto) Star Weekly, Saturday March 15, 1947 - Complete!
A very rare and wonderful find! Take a trip down memory lane with this complete issue of the (Toronto) Star Weekly from March of 1947. Includes five separate components. Magazine Section Number One (16 pages) includes: Harvest in Springtime, by Mary Brinker Post; Tall Tales of the Rattler, by J. Frank Dobie; article entitled 'Arctic Becomes Frontier in New U.S. Strategy'; Trouble in the Desert, by Chester Chatfield; Article - Swing to Nationallization - in which Emil Lengyel describes how various European countries are nationalizing their industries; Article - England's Under Ground - in which Harold A. Albert writes of English Archaeology; Article by Benjamin Waife describes Einstein's contention that two-thirds of people might be killed in nuclear war; Go-Getting Granby, Quebec - nice article with photos; Article - Argentina's 'Little Eva' Bids for More Power; 'Mart, I Know Women!', by Sven Skaar; King of the Clarinet - Barry Ulanov writes of Benny Goodman - includes photos; Moshin Ali writes about 'Opening Up a Forbidden Land' in Nepal; 'Jap Children Learn a New Way', in which Richard Hughes writes about children in the 'bomb-blackened' suburbs of Tokyo; Boxing's 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs; Article on scientific study of the sun by Charles Greeley Abbot; Article - Bombay to Cut Booze by States; Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma has invented a Global Alphabet - article by Mario A. Pei; Claws and Effect, by Clifford L. Walters; plus various black and white ads. Magazine Section Number Two (12 pages) contains: Superior Moustrap, by Travis Ingham; The Sobbing Wind, by Keith Edgar; Monkey-Shines in Zooland, by William M. Mann; News article with the headline "German Divorce a Bargain at $40 - Free if Poor; Britain's Land Revolution, in which Matthew Halton of the CBC describes progress with Britain's Town and Country Planning Bill; Plant Sleuth, by Leigh Henry; Lost Lode - Third Instalment; Your Easter Bonnet, with photos; Variety in the Lenten Menu; The 'Cheesecake' Industry - How Hollywood celebrities spend much of their time posing for publicity photos - includes colour photos of Patricia White and Frances Gifford; Colour half-page cartoon entitled 'Right Around Home' by Dudley Fisher on the theme of 'We Do Our Banking - Such as it is'. The third section is 'Rimrock Red' - a Star Weekly Complete Novel (15 pages) by Lytle Shannon. Page 16 of this section is a cartoon called Vignettes of Life on the theme "Spring is Near". Next we have a twenty-page colour cartoon section - "Canada's Best" - including offerings of: Jane Arden; Thimble Theatre - Starring Popeye; Winnie Winkle; The Lone Ranger; Steve Canyon; Ella Cinders; Invisible Scarlet O'Neil; Dick Tracy;Tarzan; Blondie; Little Orphan Annie; Superman; Napoleon; Flash Gordon; Moon Mullins; Pepsi and Pete (Pepsi cartoon/ad); Mandrake the Magician; Bringing Up Father; Li'l Abner; Terry and the Pirates; Little Lulu; Abbie and Slats. Please note there are fore-edge tears to some of these cartoon pages. Finally we have the 26-page Star Weekly magazine which features a colour cover illustration by Anderson of a boy preparing cough medicine for his sick pooch in front of the pot-bellied stove. The magazine contains dozens of black and white photos on themes including: The Far East's Colorful Highways and Byways (including a most primitive scene scene of stilt fishing huts in the Kalang River near Singapore's civil airport); The Transit Twins and Trolley Triplets - the children of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Macatee of Philadelphiago through 420 diapers weekly!; Life with the world's largest fishing fleet of Norway; Nice full-page colour Campbell's Soup ad; British Folk Dances; Rebirth of Monte Cassino; Colour Bovril ad. Barbara Ann Scott; Lois Maxwell; Gale Robbins; Colour centerfold ad for Rogers Bros. Silverplate; Nice colour Kellogg's All-Bran ad (with beige stain in upper corner; Michele and Mikey Morgan; Stewart Granger with son James; Grandson of Rin Tin Tin; Colour ad for Lipt Book
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Time Magazine, 6 June 1949 *Cover Portrait of U.S. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson*
60 pages. Features and Articles: Chairman David Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission is questioned about Government-financed scholarships for Communists, and more; U.S. Foreign Aid is whacked to save money; U.S. Military in-fighting involving the Consolidated B-36 and more; Louis Johnson - Master of the Pentagon; The Angels of the Truman Campaign; Victor Reuther; Ralph Bunche; Berlin Rail Strike"; Communist Gerhart Eisler is freed in London on a technicality; Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan are engaged - with photo; China - "The Communists Have Come"; Japan's Emperor Hirohito shifts from divinity to human monarch; Kis Tarcsa concentration camp in Hungary opened again to hold 8,000, 90% of whom are Jews; Willy Messerschmidt mass produces homes of steel and 'foam concrete' in Germany - with photos; Colour ad for DeSoto automobiles; Colour ad for Woodwind suits for men; Grasshoppers in Saskatchewan; Quebec City's Maison du Bucheron provides 55 rooms for loggers; Full page election ad for "Canada's Great Leader", Louis St. Laurent; Railroad construction in Latin America; Soccer contest - Scotland vs. St. Louis; Archibald Henderson of North Carolina; Acne misery; Bill Stern of NBC's Sports Newsreel; Dow Brewery ad features the train engine heroics of 58-year-old Fred Ryan; Pope Pius XII delivers manuscript of Papal Bull - with photo; Pastor Salau; V-2's rival - the U.S. Navy's Viking rocket; Eddie Rickenbacker on the Airlines; Rudy Fah Tongg showed the people of Hawaii how to get rich - early in the second world war he formed a hui which bought up properties of fleeing Caucasions; Sir William Stevenson and the World Commerce Corp.; Colour Chevrolet ad inside back cover; Bruck Mills colour ad on back cover. Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news" - from page 4. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Staining and occasional related damage to top one of two inches of many pages. A worthy copy. Book
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Charbonneau, Andre; Sevigny, Andre
1847 - Grosse Ile: A Record of Daily Events
276 pages. "...a day-to-day account of the sad events that took place in 1847, a year in which nearly 100,000 emigrants, mostly Irish, disembarked at Grosse Ile or the Port of Quebec. Written as a diary, the book gives a detailed description of the administrative measures taken by the authorities to deal with the influx of such a large number of emigrants in deplorable conditions of disease and misery." - from back cover. Bookplate upon first blank leaf. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, July 18, 1983: Drought in Africa
Contents: Drought in Africa (short article); B.C.'s Bill Bennet swings his axe - spending down and taxes up; Newfoundland politics - Brian Peckford; Worst of times for the NDP; U.S. shelves a fish treaty; Manitoba bilingualism battle; Robert Bourassa seeks Quebec Liberal leadership; Two-page ad for the new Audi 5000S; Blunt talk between Helmut Kohl and Yuri Andropov; George Schultz - futile side trip to the middle east; Fallout from the Robert Falls affair; Guatemala and Rios Montt; No Expo 1989 for Mitterand; Herman Kahn Obituary; Social update on Vickie Moss and Wayne Gretzky with nice photo; Dave Steib does well in baseball all-star game; Bill Vander Zalm to work for Vancouver Sun, after suing it while in office; The recovery takes shape; The Lessons of Japan Inc., by Peter C. Newman; Washington wakes up to Acid Rain; Results of Universiade 1983 in Edmonton; Wynton Marsallis; Reunion of The Band; Poor Toronto - forced to watch as Vancouver opens domed stadium - B.C. Place. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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Maclean's Magazine, July 4, 1983: The New Census - A Portrait of Canadians
Contents: The Politics of Pot; The federal government's six and five program stays alive; Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Canada; The NDP's quiet revolution; Quebecair for Quebecois; The Way We Are - latest national census results; The rise of a bilingual Canadian elite; Tales of five vibrant cities in transition - Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax; Walter Mondale vs. John Glenn; Pope John Paul's challenge of hope for Poland; Yasser Arafat's movement is faced with disintegration; Striking back at Pinochet in Chile; Takeover battle for Canadian Tire; Peter Newman writes about how the next Japanese export to Canada will be money; Carling Bassett's brush with tennis glory; Battle over the Health Act; The Garrison Diversion Scheme; Thomas Barton's device eats PCBs; Nice ad for Apple personal computers; Rev. Kaye McKibbon founds organization to support ministers in conflict with the church; Allan Fotheringham's humorous take on the federal Liberals sniffing the wind for a successor to Trudeau. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
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