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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News - April 30, 1960
Features: Map of over 70 Mycenaean sites, and Nichoria, the most promising; The Snowy River Project in Australia; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Beaver - Canada's History Magazine - April/May 2001
56 pages. Features: Around the world by canoe - the voyage of the Tilikum; The Customs scandal of 1926 - rumrunning and corruption nearly topple a government; A portrait of Tom Longboat; Growing a garden in Labrador; Mifflin Gibbs and the critical black vote in colonial B.C.; Scandal at Red River - the vicar, the servant girl, and the trial; Fuss and furor over daylight saving time. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
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The Fraser River Sockeye Public Review Board
Fraser River Sockeye, 1994 : Problems and Discrepancies: Report of the Fraser River Sockeye Public Review Board
131 pages. "This was not an all-inclusive inquiry into the ecology of this province and the Pacific Ocean as it relates to all species of fish. Rather, this inquiry was about the salmonand about us, who have the responsibility to protect and manage the salmon in such a way that there will always be salmon returning to the rivers and streams of the west coast of North America." - from Preface. Usual library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. Binding intact. Worthy reference copy. Book
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Kettle River History Club
Reflections of the Kettle River Region - Bodie, Curlew, Danville, Ferry, Malo, Toroda, and Surrounding Areas
229 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Clean and unmarked with light to moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
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McLearn, F.H.
Ammanoid Faunas of the Upper Triassic Pardonet Formation, Peace River Foothills, British Columbia - Memoir 311
118 pages. Numerous black and white photographic plates. Minor moisture exposure. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Good working copy. Book
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Finnigan, Joan
Legacies, Legends & Lies
162 pages. "The raciest, raunchiest, most irreverent yarns and characters ever assembled... A genuine feast of Canadian folk humour." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
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Stanley, Golden (Signed)
Pitlighting Through Conscription
99 pages. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Black and white illustrations. "Subject was born in 1910 in Vancouver. His family established a homestead in Horseshoe Valley. He worked in a variety of interesting trades and spent many decades living in Powell River, British Columbia." - paraphrased from page 2. Prior owner's name atop title page. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Author Not Stated
Bridging the Years 1879-1967: A Collection of Community Histories Compiled By Arrow River and Miniota, Manitoba Citizens, Past and Present
515 pages. Fold-out maps. Black and white illustrations. "Pays tribute to our ancestors who conquered what must have seemed insurmountable difficulties, and whose records show such a high degree of courage and initiative; also to the men and women who have carried on since then to help build the pleasant, modern communities which we enjoy today." - from Prologue. Prior owner names upon front free endpaper. Average wear. Binding loose but holding. Hackett (2) 954. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News - September 5, 1964
Features/Photos: South Vietnam - Unstable country wracked by internal government tension/violence in the streets as the new government totters - many pictures; Damage by hurricane Cleo; Turbulent Priest Makarios; Rock-cut tombs of the Cellarka; The Gouffre Berger; Damming the Kistna River in India with their bare hands; and more. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Quality copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine, December 1941
Stories: The Clue of the Broken Needle; The Seer of Kantara; A Day to Remember; Hunting Wild Horses; Stope Number Five East; River Death; A Cant.Mag. on Trek; The Witherell Kidnapping Case; The Derelict; Adventure Ahoy; The Haunted Bungalow; The McGuire Mystery. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine, February 1938
Stories: Canadian Hold-Up; A Clerk Breaks Loose; The Editor's Post Bag; Have You Seen an Elephant; My Cycle Trip to Spain; Latest From London; Spanish Interlude; The Brass River Affair; They Brought Me Back Alive; Crawford's Cobra; The Wolves of the Cascades; My All Blacks; The Tantanoola Tiger. Average wear. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Diver Magazine: 9 Issues from 1991
9 issues from 1991 including the following months: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Topics featured include: Cayman Islands; Port Hardy, B.C. Dolphins; Wreck of the A.W. Perry - Nova Scotia; Kingston and Killarney Shipwrecks; The Elusive Wrymouth; Barkley Sound, God's Pocket, Campbell River; Caribbean ABCs; Blackfish Sound; Wreck of the Emperor; Tropical Fish - in the Maritimes?; Indonesia - Exotic Diving; Yap, Saba, Catalina Island; Sunshine Coast, B.C.; Wreck of the Cornwall; Gulf Stream - Bahamas and Florida; Gargantua Harbour Wreck- Lake Superior; East Coast Anemone; Kona, Palau, CoCo View; Sidney, B.C.; St. Lawrence; Moon Jelly; Six Gill Sharks; Diving naturalist - temperate vs. tropical; B.C's Race Rocks; Diving with the RCMP - Search and Rescue; The US Virgin Islands; Sinking the G.B Church - New Canadian Artificial Reef; The Sea Cucumber; Construction Diving; Emeral Bay - wreck dive in Alberta; Panama; Thunder Bay; The Solomon Islands - WWII remnants; Diamond Knot - West Coast Wreck; Indonesia; Beluga Encounter off Cape Breton; Nudibranchs. Moderate wear. Sound copies. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Diver Magazine: 9 Issues from 1992
Includes the following issues from 1992: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Holiday Diving on Fiji's Matagi Island; Skookumchuck Narrows; Heron Island, Australia; Slides from Prints; Bahamas - 500 years since Columbus; Bella Bella - in Remote B.C.; Red Sea; Fate of the Falconer; The sprightly Seasprint; Floriday Keys; Bonaire; RCMP's Regina; Whidbey Island; Sea Stars; Diving the Capilano; Shoot Like a Pro; The Straits of Mackinac; MCD Strobes; Raratonga; Sherkston Quarry; Georgian Bay Wreck Dive; Luxury Diving abour Truk Agressor; Sipadan Island; Lost Cities of Micronesia; Artificial Reefs of Porteau Cove, B.C.; The Manatee; Fraser River Wreck Dive; Guanaja; Cabo San Lucas; Lake Dive; Underwater Video; The Green Sea Urchin; Scotia Cape; Cayman Connection; 'City of Vienna' in Halifax; Alaska - an exotic dive; The Cunner; Queen Charlotte Islands; Gulf Islands - B.C.'s Playground; Calabogie; Cozumel; Behind the Dolphin Smile; Ucluelet, Vancouver Island; Nova Scotia Wreck Challenge; Canada's Ice Diving; Belize Resort; Alberta's Project Habakuk; Dodd Narrows - current-swept passage in B.C.; Bristleworm. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Diver Magazine: 9 Issues from 1996
Includes the following issues: February, March, April, May, June, August, September, November, December. Features include: Bell Island, Newfoundland; Bahamas; Transpac Expedition; To House or not to House; Filming a Salmon's Struggle; Manola - half a shipwreck; Blissful Beqa Lagoon; St. Kitts; Shipwrecks of Bermuda; Batchawana - in Lake Superior; Octopus at Argonaut Warf; Arrow - Nova Scotia Shipwreck; Catalina; Emergency ascent Lines; Wilcox - Lake Erie Schooner; Adventure Diving in Newfoundland; Ice Diving and Asbestos; Joyland - the honeymoon wreck; Canadian Cayman Islands; Cozumel; A Tribute to Brooks Wetsuits; Reel Diving; Wrecked in Nova Scotia; Socorro; Ghost Fleet of the St. Clair River; Good Samaritan Laws; Sea Urchins of the Bay of Chaleur; Label Your Tanks; Quebec Overview; Barbados - shipwreck haven; Haida Gwai; Tobermory's shipwrecks; Hard water diving - Banff; Romancing the Providenciales; Island Namesake - Jane McLeod; Lumpfish; Thailand; State of the Oceans; The Coral Reef; Project Aware; Preserving the Marine Environment; They are Eating the Ocean; Race Rocks, B.C.; Record-Breaking Cave Dive; Dive in an Aquarium; Florida Reefs; Columbia Sinking; Great Lakes - Narrow Island's B.B. Buckhout; Mexico Cave Adventure; Nitrox to the Arctic; Photography 101. Moderate wear. Clean. Quality copies. Book
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Haig-Brown, Roderick
The Whale People *SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR*
184 pages. Line drawings. Illustrator's inscription and signature inside front board. "This is a story about the Indian tribes in British Columbia who hunted the giant whales of the Pacific." - from dust jacket. Intended for readers aged 12 and up. One of the three names to whom Ms. Weiler inscribed this copy has been obscured by ink. Moderate wear to book. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy. Book
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De Boni, Luis A.; Costa, Rovilio
Making it in America - The Italian Presence in Rio Grande Do Su, Volume III / Far La Merica - A Presenca Italiana No Rio Grande Do Sul, Volume III
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
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Thomas, Philip J.
Songs of the Pacific Northwest: Folk, Topical, Historical
176 pages. Many black and white illustrations. Lyrics and music to many songs. "This unique collection of songs spanning a period of 75 years is a colorful documentary giving vivid glimpses into the social, economic, and political life of the province of British Columbia from the time of Captain Cook to the present." - from back cover. Chapters include: Pre-Colonial Times; Victoria, Vancouver Island; The Fraser River and the Cariboo Gold Rushes; Towards Confederation; Pioneering, Sod-busting and Settling In; Transportation by Land and Water; Logging and Sawmilling; Mining - Prospecting, Coal and Hard Rock Mines; Fishing for Salmon and Halibut; Ranching - Dairy and Cattle. Prior owner's details written atop front cover and title page else unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Book
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Bradley, R. Ken
Historic Railways of the Powell River Area
99 pages. "An account of the seventeen individual railways operating at various times in the area from the middle 1890s until 1955." - from title page. A superlative compilation of archival black and white photographic plates, with accompanying text. Includes: chronology; locomotive rosters; index; and more. Book
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Author Not Stated
River Engineering Plate - Circa 1902
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5". Circa 1902. Displays details of: The River Tyne; The River Seine; The River Maas; The Mississippi Delta; The Delta of the Danube; and more. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
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Crampton, Gertrude
Scuffy The Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River - A Little Golden Book
Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Solid copy. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, January 20, 1900 Vol.26 - No. 663
Scenes of fighting in Natal. The seige of Ladysmith. Scenes at the front. Scenes near Estcourt, Natal. New South Wales Contingent departs for action aboard the 'Aberdeen' (photo). The "Medic" departs Fort Melbourne Pier for the Cape with Victorian and Tasmanian Contingents (photo). Bringing Boer Prisoners into Ladysmith (illustration). 16 Photos of Casualties at the front. Photo of the Canadian contingent passing up Adderly St., Cape Town. Photo of the Bluejackets of H.M.S. "Terrible" with 4.7" gun. Centerfold illustration entitled "The Transvaal War: The Loss of Our Guns at the Tugela River". The Khalifa's last stand at Umdebereikat, in Kordofan. The Battle of Abu Aada. Full-page Monkey Brand Soap advertisement. Photo of four officers of the Dublin Fusiliers. A jubilee group of colonials - photo. Quaker Oats ad upon back cover. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, January 27, 1900 Vol.26 - No. 664
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Cover illustration of The Battle of Magersfontein. Photos of: Squad of the Essex Artillery Volunteers, Detachment of the London Scottish Volunteers, Machine-Gun Detachment of the 22nd Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, the new Royal Yacht "Victoria and Albert", Prominent officers on active service, Scenes on the Western Line of Communicationsl, The Camp of the Grahamstown 1st City Volunteers, at Cradock, Lord Curzon's visit to Lucknow, A Group of Irish Nurses bound for South Africa, Scenes at De Aar. Illustrations include: "With the Kimberley Relief Column, The Burial of General Wauchope and Lieutenant-Colonel Goff, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on the field of Magersfontein, The City of London Volunteers for South Africa, How Long Tom's Shell Disturbed the Middies' Sucking-Pig, Bursting of the Shell that Passed through the Royal Hotel, Ladysmith, and killed Dr. Stark, Rimington's Tigers, on the Mooi River, Manning the breastwork at Naauwpoort Camp, Arundel Camp, Bluejackets Saving Their Gun (Centerfold), Lovely full-page Lifebuoy Soap Advertisement. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Various Contributors
The Illustrated London News, Saturday, February 3, 1900 Vol.26 - No. 665
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos include: The Colonel and Staff of the South Wales Borderers, The City Imperial Volunteers Farewell Supper, Scenes of the Departure of the City of London Imperial Volunteers, Queen Victoria shakes hands with Captain Seeley of the Imperial Yeomanry. Illustrations include: Dublins and Inniskillings across the Tugela, How Lord Roberts' Son Fell at Colenso, New South Wales Lancers, Incident at Modder River, Boer Prisoners from Belmont, Troops detrain at De Aar Junction, Inside the Johannesburg Fort, Trestle Bridge at Frere, Modder River Temporary Bridge Construction, Burial of General Wauchope (centerfold), Full-page Cadbury Cocoa Advertisement, Berkefield Filter Advertisement, The Highland Brigade Re-Forming after the Battle of Magersfontein. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
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The Illustrated London News, Saturday, February 24, 1900 Vol.26 - No. 668
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos and illustrations include: Troops around the Water-Cart after Colenso, Seaforth Highlanders Bivouacking, "Joe Chamberlain", Transport Leaving Southampton, Camp on Look-out Hill, Pretoria Jail (laid in), Hospital Ship Lismore Castle, Lord Roberts arrives at Cape Town, Mr. Lynch's Captivity, The Brighton Artillery Position Battery, Hampshire Volunteers for the front, Ladysmith images, Lubbes Hoop Farm, 16 photos of men killed at Spion Kop, Ladysmith, and Modder River, "D" Battery, Royal Canadian Artillery, departs Ottawa, In the Trenches at Ladysmith (centerfold), Lord Iveagh's Field Hospital Staff prior to Departure, Two-page illustration of "Canadian Artillery Entraining at Ottawa for the Cape" (laid in). Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
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The Illustrated London News, Saturday, March 10, 1900 Vol.26 - No. 670
Extensive coverage of the Transvaal (Boer) War. Photos and illustrations include: Bivouac of the 3rd King's Rifles, De Beers Diamond Mines at Kimberley during the seige, Lord Roberts's reception at the Modder River Camp (laid in), the remains of the suffolk regiment after Moedder Farm, Chieveley Camp (laid in), Major-General T. Kelly-Kenny, Photos with General French's Command near Colesberg, Canadian Mounted Police Leaving Halifax for South Africa, The Attack on Spion Kop (Centerfold), Photos with the South African Railway Pioneer Regiment, Photo of H.M.S. Viper running at record speed of 35.5 knots. Moisture exposure at edges has resulted in light staining and waviness. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Bell, Leonard M.; Thompson, James M.
The Campbell River Estuary Status of Environmental Knowledge to 1977 - Special Estuary Series No. 7 - With Memorial Dedication to Roderick Haig-Brown
346 pages. Bibliography. Author index. Report of the Estuary Working Group, Department of Fisheries and the Environment, Regional Board Pacific Region. Contains 9 pages of memorial dedicated to Roderick Haig-Brown who passed away in 1976. Includes a full-page photo of Mr. Haig-Brown, a bibliography of his writings, copies of two letters written by RHB to Dr. M. Waldichuk, Director of the Special Estuary Series, and more. Contents include: Geology and Soils, Climatology, Hydrology, Oceanography, Fish, Invertebrates, Flora, Wildlife, Land and Water Use, Pollution and Water Quality, Effects of Development, and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. Quality copy. Book
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Wickersham, Hon. James
Old Yukon: Tales - Trails - and Trials
514 pages. Archival black and white illustrations. An exciting look back at the early days of Alaska. The thirty chapters include such topics as Vigilante Days of '98 at Dyea and Skagway, Dawson and the Klondike Mines, American Occupancy of the Yukon Basin, Rafting Down the Kantishna River, Animla Migration from Asia to Alaska, The Judge Tried by a Miner's Meeting, and many more. Author served as U.S. District Judge in Alaska 1900-1908, Alaska Congressman for 14 years, and as Editor for seven volumes of "Alaska Law Reports". Prior owner names atop front free endpaper and title page. Above-average wear and soiling to blue boards. Few coffee drops to fore-edge. Contents in quality condition. Endpapers yellowed but contents remain bright. Binding intact. Worthy working copy. Book
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History Committee
Tynehead Memories
162 pages. Index. Abundant black and white photography. "Dedicated to the descendants of pioneer families who were at one time residents of Tynehead, a small district tucked away in the northeast end of the municipality of Surrey, near the head of the Serpentine River." - from Dedication Page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Decorated beige boards. Book
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West St. Paul Centennial Committee
The Changing Scene - a History of West St. Paul, Manitoba
156 pages. Map endpapers. Abundant archival black and white photos. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Very nice copy. Book
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Shaw, S/Sgt. T.E. G.: Editor
The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Quarterly - January 1974, Vol. 39 No. 1
120 pages. Features: Calgary's salute to the RCMP; Yukon River Patrol 1973; VE 3 RCMP; The Year at Depot; The Scarlet Divers; Honouring Major Walsh; New Guidon; plus coverage of numerous Centennial events. Faint ink stamp and small blacked out name upon title page, else unmarked with light wear. Nice bright copy. Book
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Shaw, S/Sgt. T.E. G.: Editor
The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Quarterly - July 1970 Vol. 36 No. 1
80 pages. Features: Deputy Commissioner Fitzsimmons Retires; Policing the Green Gold Country - Alert Bay, Vancouver Island; A Mine Washes up; Hugh Keenleyside Dam near Castlegar, B.C.; Patrol Boat Moosomin II; Dangerous Water Skier; Resuce on the Red River; Arctic Honeymoon; Montreal Tragedy; The Plastic Witness; Retired Undefeated - Cst. Martin Parsons; N Division - 1921; Hockey Memories; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
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Shaw, S/Sgt. T.E. G.: Editor
The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) Quarterly - April 1969 Vol. 34 No. 4
96 pages. Features: The 19th Olympiad - Sgt. A.G. Rae; The Quality of Mercy - Norman G. B. McLetchie M.D.; Wilfred H. Heffernan; Airlift to Bermuda; Near Tragedy on the St. Lawrence River; Friday the 13th in Saskachewan; Huge Expo-bound logs from Duncan/Chemainus Vancouver Island; Indian Justice; The Changing Division; Hall of Famer - Cst. Raymond Powell, Halifax Sports Hall of Fame; Bonnie and Clyde - Newfoundland Version; New Sydney Sub-Division Building; Kim Mi Sook - a year later; Royal Bank Hold-up - Turner Valley, Alberta; Burnaby's Home; and much more. Prior owner's details stroked out upon page one else unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
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Basque, Garnet: Editor
Canadian West Magazine - The Pioneer Years: Jan./Feb./Mar. 1993, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Collector's #31)
46 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: The Origins of the Fraser River Gold Rush; Donald McLean - Hudson's Bay Company Man at Hat Creek; Death in the Barrens of the North West Territories; Rocky Mountain Rangers - Southern Alberta Milita. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Equinox Magazine, November 1996 - No. 90
88 pages. Abundant colour photography. Features: George River Caribou; Junkyard Robots - built from worn-out watches and discarded Walkmans; Alberta's Lac Ste. Anne; Teeth - the amazing rocks in your head; A South Seas Mystery. Average wear. sound copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian West Magazine - Summer 1989
Features: Massacre at Woody Point; Bennett City; Sam Greer; Leech River Gold Rush. Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian West Magazine - Summer 1987
Features: Historic Zeballos; The Upper Kootenay River Canal; The War Orders; Queen of the Klondike (conclusion). Clean, bright and unmarked. Book
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Schofield, Jack: Editor
BC (British Columbia) Aviator Magazine: December/January 1993 - Campbell River Focus
Features: W. (Bill) Sylvester/Victoria Flying Services - Part Two; CF-CCO Comes Home; The Found FBA 2C; Fred Sebus - From Jet Mech to Prop Doc; Murphy's Ultralight Maverick; Campbell River; Island Airlines, Ltd.; Dispatchers we have known; Travels of a Beaver; YBL. Sound copy. Magazine
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Bradshaw, Marian Hahn
Canadian Collector Magazine, September/October 1984, Volume 19, No. 5 - Treasures From Mohawk Village
78 pages. Features: Treasures from Mohawk Village - the Mohawk Chapel and other reminders of Native Loyalists; Nova Scotia Basketry Traditions; Tools of the Harvest; Loyalists - The First Year... The Experience of 1784 on the St. Lawrence River; Preserving Food in Early Ontario; Gardens, Hearts and Distelfinken - Symbols in Mennonite folk art speak of Paridise; Of Grapes and Wine - a look at the early days; Pennsylvania German Mennonite Food; French Cooking in Ontario; British Recipes; Hamilton's Stitt Collection of 19th century views of Canada; Ontario Kitchens in Transition; Ontario's Black Settlers. Moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Canadian Collector Magazine, January/February 1976, Vol. 11 No. 1 *SPECIAL ALBERTA ISSUE*
Features: Prehistoric Plainsmen; Fort Chipewyan; Saint Albert; Writing on Stone - Milk River Valley; The Ranching Saga of Southern Alberta; Home, House and Temple Among the Plains Indians; Oil City, Alberta; Some Early Travellers' Accounts of Alberta; The Mountains in Maps; The Frontier Art of R.B. Nevitt; Gerald Tailfeathers; Carl Rungius - An Artist's View of Nature; Architectural Heritage; Heritage Park; Ukrainian Vernacular Architecture; Medalta Pottery; Saddles; Hutterites - The Peaceful People; Cattle Brands; From an Alberta Kitchen; Beadwork by Alberta Native Peoples; The Doukhobors; Museums in Alberta; and more. Average wear. Date hand-written atop front cover. Sound copy. Magazine
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Multiple Contributors
Rock and Gem Magazine, February 1972, Volume 2, Number 2
Features: Rebirth of an Aquamarine Mine; Buyer's Guide - Hand Power Tools; The Greek Had a Word For it; Where's the Fire, Mac - Opal Misadventures; Hammer and Anvil Forging; Micro-Mounts; Heel Ends into Gem Slabs; Beyond the Sidewalk; Lost River Caverns; Steam Casting; Bhend Brothers' Saw; Points to the Past. Date stamp to front cover. Sound copy with above-average wear. Magazine
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Bradshaw, Marian: Editor
Canadian Antiques Collector - A Journal of Antiques and Fine Arts: November/December 1971, Volume 6, Number 8: Special Manitoba Issue
87 pages. Features: Historic houses; The Dialect called Bungi; Early Manitoba Furniture; Seven Oaks House; Legislative Buildings; The Magnificent Adventure - The first printing press and publications west of Toronto in 1940 - James Evans; Log Construction at Red River; The Crockery Trade; Lower Fort Garry; St. Andrews on the Red; Story of Transportation; Ukrainians in the Manitoba Mosaic; Upper Fort Garry; Sir Thomas Button; St. Boniface Museum; Manitoba Glass Works; Local Museums preserve history; Manitoba Art; Portageto Winnipeg; Indian Trade Silver; Museum of Man and Nature; The Metis and the Buffalo. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
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Turner, Robert D.
Sternwheelers and Steam Tugs: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Pacific Railway's British Columbia Lake and River Service
280 pages. Index. Bibliography. Archival black and white photos abound, plus several in colour. Includes maps, timetables and scale drawings. "This is the dramatic story of the CPR's British Columbia sternwheelers and steam tugs through the races, boiling rapids, moonlit cruises, and gold rushes to their passing." - from dust jacket. Light wear to clean and unmarked book. Average wear and closed tears to back panel of dust jacket which is now preserved in glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. Sound copy of this wonderful piece of B.C. history. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Sea Frontiers - Vol.29. No. 4 - July/August 1983
Features: Boats of Malta; In the belly of the whale; Surf smelt run; burying radioactive waste in the deep-sea floor; eat or be eaten - survival strategies of fishes; least terns of Gasparilla Island; the City of Rio De Janeiro - Voyage #80; the Distressed ocean swimmer; Dredge spoil - not always a waste. Sound copy. Book
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History Book Committee
Glimpses of Osgoode Township: 150 Years, 1827-1977 [Ontario Local History]
52 pages. Loaded with black and white reproductions of wonderful archival photos supplemented with informative text. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this informative local history. Book
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Morton, James W. (Signed)
Capilano: The Story of a River
184 pages. Index. Author's signature upon front free endpaper. Nice black and white photographic plate. "Will be of great interest to those Canadians who have an attachment to their country's wilderness and are concerned by thte death of wilderness at the hands of men." - from dust jacket. Prior owner's large signature upon front free endpaper else book clean and unmarked with only moderate wear. Above-average wear to dust jacket. Book
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Scholefield, E.O.S.; Gosnell, R.E. (Signed)
British Columbia (B.C. / BC) - Sixty (60) Years of Progress: A History
Unread. As new. Number 216 of limited edition of 350 copies. Signed by co-author R.E. Gosnell. "Few publications, if any, of similar size and excellence have been produced in Canada." - From Editor's Foreword. Part I includes 210 pages and eighteen chapters which constitute "a survey of events from the earliest times down to the Union of the Crown Colony of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada." Part II is "a history, mainly political and economic, of the Province since Confederation up to the present time." Part I is preceded and followed by dozens of tissue-protected black and white portraits of individuals influential in the early history of the province, complete with their brief biographies upon the tissue. Part II comprises eighteen chapters over 226 pages plus 5 pages of addenda followed by dozens of tissue protected portraits of "some of the men conspicuous as present day factors in development." Top edge gilt. Gilt lettering upon backstrip. Marbled endpapers. Exceptionally clean, bright, and unmarked with zero wear. Brown suede exterior appears as fresh as the day it was applied over 100 years ago. This majestic fourteen pound tome measures 13" x 10.5" x 4". A magnificent acquisition for any serious collector of British Columbia history. A better copy will not be found. [Lowther 1607, Hale 2523, Edwards & Lort 3177, Strathern 495] Book
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Clapp, Frank A.
Ministry of Transportation and Highways Inland and Coastal Ferries (of British Columbia)
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
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine - December 1925: Vol. LVI No. 333
Features: The Mine that Disappeared - a story related by a mining engineer about the Bocanegra Mine; Casshel's Escape - the story of Ernest Casshel, one of the few criminals to ever escape from the "North-West Mounted" (locale - Calgary, Alberta); On the trail of the Dinosaur - a recent expedition into the Colorado River section of the great American Desert, in the State of Arizona, claims to have found not only fossil tracks of the three-toed dinosaur, but a rock-carving of a dinosaur - a picture which man could not have made unless he had seen the reptile he attempted to portray - photos; Babes in a boat - a neophyte sailor and his wife set sail across the Pacific - Part II (conclusion); The Padded Room - one of the most amazing plots in the annals of the French police; Five Greenhorns in Canada - An amusing and illustrated account of the adventures of five inexperienced Englishmen who set forth to make homes for themselves in the Canadian wilderness; Lost in the heart of Peru - an explorer is abandoned by his guide in the upper reaches of the Amazon - part IV (conclusion); The Demon Lion of Bandari - Lion Hunt; At Grips in the Girders - an extraordinary battle; An Alligator-Hunter's Story in Mexico; Part IV of In Search of the Lost Oases - a desert trip from Sollum on the Mediterranean to El Obeid in the Sudan - many photos; The Phantom Reporter - a story from Canada's Pacific Coast by Charles Harrison Gibbons. Above-average wear. Faint owner's name atop front cover else unmarked. Binding intact. Nothing loose. Decent copy of this broadly interesting issue. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Wide World Magazine - July 1928, Vol. LXI, No. 364
Features: Two Men and a Donkey - Part I - two young artists walk from the South of France to Spain; With a Pack-Train in Jasper National Park, Canada; Dead Men's Tracks - Part II - a Western Australia Story about a lost mine; My Adventures in Mexico - Part I, by John Edwin Hogg; Obtaining an identity card in France; The Harpist of Alexandria; My First Panther - The Fur Trail - a trappers tale from the southern end of Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada; To Lhasa in Disguise - Part III (Conclusion) - how a white woman succeeded, for the first time in history, in entering Lhasa, the Forbidden City of Tibet; The King of the Dedangs - how an obsure adventurer became a short-term king of certain savage tribes; Checkmate - how a murderous gang of dacoits in India met their Waterloo; a special home in Parksville, British Columbia (photos); A Night with Crocodiles - an eventful African river journey. Covers loose but present. Light pencil signature atop front cover. Above-average wear. Still a worthy copy. Book
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Orchard, Imbert: Producer
Fishing at the Delta (British Columbia): A Transcript from the 'People in Landscape' Series
20 pages. Undated. Possibly circa 1970s. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "Isaac Nelson, Arthur Swenson, Engman Iverson discuss fishing in the Fraser River delta prior to World War I, the contribution of a number of ethnic groups to the fishing industry, the operation of the canneries in the region." - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy. Book
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