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Glen, Maggie
Ruby to the Rescue
Unpaginated. Ruby the teddy bear is taken to school by her owner and carries out a plan to save two unwanted teddies in the playhouse there. Book clean, bright and unmarked with light wear to attractive glossy illustrated boards. Dust jacket bears average edgewear including two one inch tears to back panel. Book
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Fraser, Donald T.; Porter, George D.
Ontario Public School Health Book
201 pages including index and black and white illustrations. "The general opinion obtained in answer to a questionnaire sent to the inspectors and to a large number of the teachers of the Province was that a suitable book in hygiene should be interesting to the pupils, free from technical terms, and contain only such physiology as is necessary; and that its aim should be to arouse a desire for proper living, to develop health habits, and to teach the pupils of our public schools some simple means for the prevention of disease." - from preface. Contents clean and unmarked. Blue cloth boards show average wear with multiple faint school inkstamps. Binding intact. Nice copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
The Glenlyon Rampant Lion - 1983-'84: School Yearbook
124 pages. Bright, clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Curry, Nancy
A Beautiful Day for a Picnic - Bowmar Early Childhood Series
Unpaginated. Bright colour photographs. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. Book
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Crume, Marion W.
Funny Mr. Clown - Bowmar Early Childhood Series
Unpaginated. Bright colour photographs. Usual library markings. Average wear. Front endpaper removed. Binding intact. Book
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Crume, Marion W.
Let Me See You Try - Bowmar Early Childhood Series
Unpaginated. Readiness to attempt new tasks of physical involvement are encouraged through joyful participation of many children. Usual library markings. Average wear. Book
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Crume, Marion W.
What Do You Say? - Bowmar Early Childhood Series
Unpaginated. Many ways of saying the same thing are introduced through a visit of two children and a friendly adult to a supermarket carnival. Nice colour photography. Usual library markings. Average wear. Front endpaper removed. Book
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Jaynes, Ruth
Do You Know What? - Bowmar Early Childhood Series
Unpaginated. Melissa Lou has begun to discover that she is a special person of capability ad worth. Nice colour photography. Average wear. Usual library markings. Front endpaper removed. Solid copy. Ex-Library
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Jaynes, Ruth
Tell Me Please! What's That? - Bowmar Early Childhood Series
Unpaginated. David speaks English. Juan speaks Spanish. The different animals in the zoo motivate David and Juan to talk, and the vocabulary of each is expanded. Nice colour photography. Average wear. Usual library markings. Front endpaper removed. Solid copy. Book
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Curry, Nancy
My Friend is Mrs. Jones - Bowmar Early Childhood Series
Unpaginated. With his adult friend and neighbour, a little boy enjoys helping, being helped, and doing things with this sensitive, older companion. Nice colour photography. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
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Jaynes, Ruth
That's What It Is! - Bowmar Early Childhood Series
Unpaginated. A lively curiosity is the basis for desire to learn, and in this book, Marcus' actions show that his curiosity has been encouraged. Nice colour photography. Average wear. Usual library markings. Front endpaper removed. Book
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Lovett, Anne: Editor
Polaris - Paul Kane High School Yearbook: 1969-70 - St. Albert, Alberta
84 pages. Average wear. Binding intact. From the days when black rimmed glasses were in vogue! Book
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Patterson, Jerry L.
Leadership for Tomorrow's Schools
107 pages including bibliography. Presents a vision of leadership at work in the schools of tomorrow, schools that will be "pulled by the future" rather than "pushed by the past". Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Excellent copy. Book
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King, Colin
A Space on the Floor - a Planned Approach to Teaching Drama
150 pages including bibliography and index. Offers suggestions for a progressive yet practical course of classroom drama. Provides an invaluable source of ideas based upon author's day-to-day experience teaching the liveliest of all school subjects. Two inkstamps inside front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy. Book
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Kaye, Beverly L.; Jordan-Evans, Sharon
Love 'Em or Lose 'Em : Getting Good People to Stay
234 pages including index. Provides 26 effective strategies for retaining valuable employees. "This charming, clever, practical, and user-friendly book isa great desk-side coach for anyone who manages people." - Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School. Glossy, clean and unmarked. Negligible wear. Superb copy. Book
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Solow, Daniel
How to Read and Do Proofs : An Introduction to Mathematical Thought Process - Second Edition
242 pages including index. Describes all the fundamental techniques used in mathematical proofs and illustrates each with an example requiring only high school mathematics. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Cady, H. Emilie
Complete Works of H. Emilie Cady : Lessons in Truth, How I Used Truth, and God a Present Help
290 pages. Your life can be transformed by the power of your thoughts, words and beliefts. The spiritual truths presented in these three timeless books will increase your personal empowerment and enhance your spiritual growth. A clear, concise representation of New Thought philosophy and metaphysical Christianity. Discard stamp upon half title page else unmarked. Moderate wear. Binding solid. Nice working copy. Book
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Fried, Henry B.
The Watch Repairer's Manual - Second Revised Edition
310 pages including bibliography and index. Will aid those interested in the practical art of horology. Intended to serve as a course of study, as a means of reference, and as a textbook or working manual to be used in the school, at the bench, or in the library. Completely revised to include new material on automatic watches, shock-proof watches, and other recent developments in watchmaking. Features a handsome set of handsome illustrations in full colour showing exploded views of alarm and self-winding watches. Rubber stamp upon front endpaper else book clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Some foxing to top edge. Average wear to price-clipped dust jacket which is missing some chips and is partly sunned at top of front panel. Solid copy. Book
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Cooper, Jackie: Editor
Mackintosh Architecture: The Complete Buildings and Selected Projects - Second Enlarged Edition
112 pages including bibliography and index. Catalogues Mackintosh's architectural projects, and shows the extent of his achievements in terms of completed buildings, interiors, alterations, unexecuted designs and competition entries both successful and unpremiated. Each scheme is illustrated with photographs and, where possible, original drawings, and accompanied by a description including notes on its present condition and the whereabouts of original documents. In the case of both the Glasgow School of Art and Hill House, Helensburth ten plates have now been added in colour. Over 170 illustrations. Some moisture exposure to top few inches of contents near head of spine has caused minimal staining and minor rippling. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Glossy colour illustrated covers. Book
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Fripp, Molly; Elbourne, Ann; Waters, Maryla
Roslyn - The Story of a Canadian School
92 pages. This history of Roslyn School, Westmount, Quebec. Illustrated in black and white. Gift greetings inside front cover else unmarked. Average wear. Decent copy in illustrated brown covers. Book
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Ollila, Lloyd O.; Mayfield, Margie I.
Emerging Literacy : Preschool, Kindergarten, and Primary Grades
299 pages including index. A basic text intended to serve university and college students enrolled in preschool, kindergarten, and primary education programs and to provide a guide for teachers and administrators who are already working in school systems. Much of the information provided in the text can also be useful in childcare and Head Start programs and in courses for parents and parent groups. Minimal markings. Light wear. Glossy covers. Nice copy. Book
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Black, Newton Henry
New Laboratory Experiments in Practical Chemistry: To Accompany Black and Conant's "New Practical Chemistry"
193 pages. Primarily intended for introductory students. Author has long experience introducing chemistry to new students. Modest quantity of markings. A little more than average wear. Decent working copy. Book
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Johnston, Basil H.
Indian School Days
250 pages. The humourous, bittersweet autobiography of Basil Johnston, a native Ojibway, who was taken from his family at age 10 and placed in a 'residential' school in northern Ontario. A unique portrait of Indian life and a telling commentary on a Canadian government policy that removed native children from their parents - with sad, sometimes even tragic, results. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Slight sunning to spine of dust jacket. Excellent copy. Book
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Queen, J. Allen
Curriculum Practice in the Elementary and Middle School
320 pages including index. "Intended to open 'new avenues' to undergraduate and graduate students by including educational Futurism in a curricular model." - from preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Eby, Judy W.
Reference Planning, Teaching, and Evaluation for the Elementary School
326 pages including index. "Intended to initiate and encourage a voyage of self-discovery on the part of beginning teachers or those who are committed to improving their classroom performance." - from Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Lovely copy. Book
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Young, James; Morrissey, Peter
Figure Skating School : A Professionally Structured Course from Basic Steps to Advanced Techniques
128 pages. A systematic course of instruction, it guides you from the basic steps - skating forwars, skating backward - through to the most advanced techniques such as double flip and triple Salchow. Complemented by over 30 full colour figure illustrations. Diagrams showing correct positioning of the feet accompany each illustration. Includes photos of today's stars. Excellent reference. Usual library markings. Average wear. Solid copy. Book
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Hopkings, J. Castell
Life and Work of Mr. Gladstone - A Great and Varied Career
510 pages. "...to admire him, was it not to admire one of the greatest scholars of the day, and thus share in the honour which his name conferred upon his race? All these circumstances combined to give this century one of its greatest statesmen, and England one of her greatest sons." - from Preface. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Decorated front board features large, bright and ornate gilt lettering. Gilt lettering upon spine worn but legible. Above average but not excessive wear to blue/green boards. Front free endpaper removed. School llibrary stamps atop title page. Writing inside each board. Front hinge open. No markings externally. A warmly sympathetic review of the live of William Ewart Gladstone. Book
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The Royal Commission on Education in Ontario - the Honourable Mr. Justice John Andrew Hope, Chairman
Report of the Royal Commission on Education in Ontario 1950
933 pages. The Commission was appointed in 1945 to "inquire into and report upon the provincial education system, and without derogating from the generality thereof, including courses of study, text books, examinations, financing, and the general system and scheme of elementary and secondary schools involving public schools, separate schools, schools for the training of teachers and all other schools under the jurisdiction of the Department of Education, as well as the selection and training of teachers, inspectors, and other officials of such schools, and the system of provincial and local school administration." - from page vi. Includes the following sections: The Educational Scene; Aims of Education; Proposed Reorganization of Elementary and Secondary Education; The Pupil's Growth and Progress; Programmes for the Schools of the Reorganized Educational System; Social, Spiritual, and other Aspects of Education; Centralization and Decentralization in Administration; Development and Present Status of Local School Administration; Local School Administration Under Other Jurisdictions; Local Education Authorities in the proposed Reorganization; Other Aspects of the Local Administration of Education; The Supervisor of Education; The Central Education Authority; Exceptional Children; History of the French Language in teh Publicly Supported Schools of Ontario; Recommendations on the Teaching and Use of the French Language; Origin and Development of Separate Schools in Ontario; Roman Catholic Separate Schools in the Reorganized Educational System; Protestant and Coloured Separate Schools in the Reorganized Educational System; The Teaching Staff of the Publicly Supported Schools of Ontario; Recommendations with Respect to the Professional Preparation of Teachers; Conditions of Service of Teaching Personnel; Community Programmes of Adult Education and Recreation; School Site, Plant, and Equipment; Other Educative Agencies; The Development of Methods of Financing Education in Ontario; Our Proposed Method of Financing the Educational Programme; Divergence of Opinion Within the Commission; Conclusion; Minority Report and Memoranda; Appendices. Navy boards. Well-preserved with very light wear and soiling externally. Contents clean, bright and unmarked. Binding sound. A superior copy of this landmark work. Book
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McCaig, James
Elementary Agriculture for Alberta Schools
256 pages including index. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Text divided into the following sections: Soil; Plants; Tillage; Crops; Supplement. School stamps and prior owner's details upon endpapers. School stamps upon page 25 else contents unmarked. Back hinge open. Front hinge going. Average wear to green boards which feature attractive embossed decoration and lettering upon front board. A delightful, informative and nostalgic work. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Oxford Regional High School (O.R.H.S.) Memories 1959 - Oxford, Nova Scotia
Unpaginated. 3/8" thick. 1959 High school yearbook from Oxford, Nova Scotia. An excellent keepsake loaded with black and white illustrations. Covers damaged and marked. Contents in decent condition. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Lake Cowichan Secondary School Yearbook 1981
101 pages. Clean and unmarked. Light wear. Very nice copy. Book
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Lowth, Frank J.
Everyday Problems of the Country Teacher: a Textbook and a Handbook of Country-School Practice - Revised Edition
625 pages. Black and white illustrations. "The subject matter of these chapters has to do with guiding objectives, essential principles of school practices, and general teaching-learning procedures." - from preface. Part I: Problems of Rural School Management; Part II: Problems of Teaching and Learning. Pencil markings to contents. Prior owner's name upon front endpaper. Some lean to spine. Somewhat above-average wear to cloth-covered boards. Gilt lettering remains legible. Book
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Various
Perspectives 1-76
Approximately a quarter of an inch thick. Contains selected essays written by officers of JSC 20, including: G.W. Barling; R.F. Yarker; K.B. Barton; G. Balodis; N.G. Willis ("A Canadian Policy to Combat Terrorism); G.W. Healey; J.G. Demers and M. Melissen. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Perspectives 2-76
Approximately a quarter of an inch thick. Contains selected essays written by officers of Junior Staff Course 22, including: V.W. Kennedy; P. Torunski; J.G. Verret; G.A. Newell; L.C. Reeves (Should the Canadian Forces be Trained in Counter-Terrorism?); R.A. MacLean. Includes fold-out class picture. Moderate wear. Solid copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Cedar Junior Secondary School Yearbook - 1994
64 pages. Major markings to front endpaper else clean with light to moderate wear. Book
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Multiple Contributors
John Barsby High School Yearbook 1977-78
156 pages. Light wear. Many autographs. Binding tight and square. Blue cloth-covered boards. Nice copy. Book
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Flinchbaugh, Robert W.
The Twenty-First (21st) Century Board of Education : Planning, Leading, Transforming
521 pages including index. Intended to help board members think about themselves and their behaviors and about those with whom they work and serve. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
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Mason, Charlotte M.
Ourselves - Book II - Self-Direction: 'Home Education' Series
252 pages including index. "The point of view taken in this volume is, that all beautiful and noble possibilities are present in everyone; but that each person is subject to assault and hindrance in various ways of which he should be aware in order that he may watch and pray." - from preface. Prior owner's name atop front endpaper else unmarked. Binding intact. Minor warp to blue boards. Moderate to average wear. Nice early copy of this classic home-learning work. Book
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Mason, Charlotte M.
Ourselves - Book I - Self-Knowledge: 'Home Education' Series
210 pages. "This little book is offered to the reader in the hope that it will help him/her to liberate the beautiful self which is him/herself; and also to see that everyone has a beautiful self waiting to be let out." Early printing of this classic home schooling work. Prior owner's name atop front endpaper else unmarked. Binding intact. Moderate wear to blue boards. Yellowing to endpapers. Nice copy. Book
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Multiple Contributors
Western & Eastern Treasures - Volume 13 Number 7 July 1979
62 pages. Features: Seeking out that elusive gold; Napa Valley's abandoned wineries - virgin coinshooting territory; The treasures of Fort Teran; Research, then search the ghost train lines; Barnyard bonanzas; Treasure stories - fact or fiction; national archives can be used by all; Bottle collecting for the gun enthusiast; Down came the school and up came the coins; Build your own research library; Quarry treasures; Coinshooting - a state of mind; Why not collect crystals?; The Old Campsite; Prospecting for gold in a coyote hole - how they did it in the old days. Above-average wear. Book
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Harris, Andrew: Editor
Lakefield College School - The First 100 Years
240 pages. Commemorates the centennial in a fascinating visual history of the school. Lovingly illustrated in black and white with hundreds of photographs and reminiscences. Prior owner's name atop front endpaper else clean and unmarked with very light wear overall. Excellent copy. Book
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Woodsworth, Bruce; Woodsworth, Sylvia (editor)
African Adventures... An Autobiography
410 pages. Subject was born in Winnipeg as the third son of J.S. Woodsworth. With his geological degree he pioneered in the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Northern Rhodesia. He taught high school for 17 years, became principal, and was a fruit farmer in the Okanagan. Clean, bright and unmarked with faintest wear. Blank bookplate inside front cover. Excellent copy. Book
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Hellyer, Paul
Stop : Think
242 pages including notes, bibliography and index. Claims the vast majority of economists and opinion leaders have got it all wrong; that they have set the world on a collision course with disaster. A treatise against globalization. Clean, bright and unmarked. Two staple perforations atop half-title page. Very light wear to covers. Excellent copy. Book
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Rose, Veva; McNutt, Mary; Bugbee, Sally; Rublatz, Leah
In the Shade of the Mountains - a History of the Following School Districts: Chedderville, Clear Creek, Crammond, Crooked Creek, Dovercourt, Hazeldell, (North) Caroline, Pineview, Ricinus, Shilo, South Fork, Wooler
392 pages including index. Profusely illustrated with black and white archival photos. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Decorated blue cloth boards. Very nice copy. Book
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Bond, Guy L.; Cuddy, Marie C.
Meeting New Friends
408 pages. Children's reader. Lovely color illustrations throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked. Lightest wear. Tight and square. Pristine copy. Book
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Quine, Albert: Business Manager
Amasika - Premier Student Yearbook of West Valley High School, Spokane Washington, June 1925 *Personal Signed Copy of Yearbook Business Manager Albert Quine*
100 pages. Personal signed copy of Albert Quine, business manager of this publication. Contains numerous autographs and inscriptions of graduating class notables, including Student Body President Roy Sohns. Contents in nice shape. Chipping and short tears to black covers. Lettering and decoration upon front cover worn but visible. Two identical news clippings ca. 1980s laid in. These clippings show Dr. Gunnar Berg, the first principal of the school, and his wife arriving at a reunion of the Class of 1925. Representative of its vintage, this yearbook stylishly presents and preserves the wonderful Gatsby-era fashions of the day. A truly unique and wonderful item. Book
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Andrews, H.C.
Agriculture for High Schools - Second Edition
408 pages including index. Stress has been placed on the principles underlying a permanent system of agriculture, and it is hoped that the student will find many suggestions of practical value to him/her. The student who is familiar, even to a slight degree, with the problems and difficulties confronting the farmer will be better equipped to take his place in whativer sphere of activity he/she may in the future find him/herself, particularly in Western Canada, an essentially agricultural community. Printed on glossy paper. Copiously illustrated in black and white. Average wear. Binding intact. Small numbered ink stamps upon each endpaper else unmarked. Nice solid copy. Book
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Martin, Fr. Patrick A.
Fantastic! He Loves Me
197 pages. Father Pat's own story of blindness: a journey from "handicap" to "gift". Examines questions such as: Why am I blind? Why can't I go to school? Why am I different? I can't be a priest? What can I do with my life? Is there anything in life for me? Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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Lindsay, Coral
Kars on the Rideau
228 pages including numerous black and white photographs. Published to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the settlement of the community and the sixtieth anniversary of the Kars Branch of the Women's Institute. Chapters include: The Land Settlement and Roger Stevens; Richard Garlick and the Lumbermen; The Pioneer Settlers 1820-1830; The Wharfinger and the Rideau 1830-1850; Migration and Immigration; A Rural Community; The Village of Wellington 1850-1860; Communication and Concern 1850-1860; School Days; Rafts and River Boats; Keeping the Farm. Average wear to covers. Contents clean and unmarked but for gift inscription atop decorated front flyleaf. Solid copy of this excellent and rare slice of Ontario history. Book
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Helgesen, Marion I.
Footprints - Pioneer Families of the Metchosin District: Southern Vancouver Island 1851-1900
316 pages including black and white illustrations and an extensive index. Records the first half-century of settlement in Metchosin on southern Vancouver Island. Frontis illustration by Sue Coleman. Minimal wear to book which remains clean and bright in blue boards. Prior owner's ink stamp upon half-title page and endpapers, both of which are decorated with an ornate old-time map of the area. Dust jacket, now preserved in archival-grade Brodart, shows average wear and sticker removal patch atop front panel. A quality copy of this important genealogical reference. HALE & BARMAN 399. Book
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