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346 pages. Author and his wife set out in the summer of 1996 to drive across Canada. Starting from Ottawa they drove east through Quebec, through New Brunswick, P.E.I., Nove Scotia, and Newfoundland. From St. John's they headed west on a different route through the Maritimes to Montreal, Toronto, and Lake of the Woods. Then it was west to Vancouver and Victoria. Next, via Prince Rupert, they followed the Yellowhead Trail back through Edmonton ad Saskatoon, hitting Flin Flon and Northern Ontario on the way home. The dream trip you would love to take... if you had the time! Some yellowing to edges of pages. Book
251 pages including index. The story of why, from a very personal point of view, the Maritimes look the way they do, and how to find some of the best experiences these three provinces have to offer. Some wear to illustrated covers but pages clean and square. Book
48 pages. Lists coins of Canada, United States, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Canadian Tokens, Canadian Currency. Includes many illustrations and prices. Book
253 pages. "A book really telling our story would offer different things to different people. Indian women, who read it would say, 'Why, if they could do that - accomplish that - then we can too.' To white women and others, it would be an education: they would see what life on a reserve is like for women. They would see what all our protesting has been about." - Glenna Perley to Editor. Bit of high-lighting else unmarked and clean with very light wear. Attractive copy. Book
532 pages including index. Includes New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Newfoundland. Features the established Scott Numbering System. Unmarked. Clean. Very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
251 pages. A charming collection of letters, lush with gardening facts and folklore, which reveal as much about the seasons in a woman's life as they do about the cycles of clematis and crabgrass, blossoms and bulbs. Gift greetings atop half-title page. Average wear. Crease to front cover. Solid copy. Book
139 pages. "When John Brunswick, a Swiss immigrant woodworker, built his first billiard table in 1845, he started a 140-year series of events that has resulted in the transformation of his small Cincinnati firm into today's diversified Brunswick Corporation. Archival photography throughout. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Dust jacket now in archival-grade Brodart cover. Beautiful copy. Book
56 pages. Features: The Arctic ordeal of Captain John Ross; Health reformers and alternative medicine in 1860s New Brunswick; Canada's aboriginal soldiers come into the light; Louis Cyr and his Amazing feats; The Sisters of Ann - the Pacific Coast Mission of four faithful Quebec daughters; Devil's Island - the brief but vital life of a tiny Atlantic community; Canada's last political club celebrates its longevity. Clean, bright and unmarked with minimal wear. Lovely copy. Book
56 pages. Features: The next world problem - Who Owns Space?; Barry Morse - The Barrymore of Canadian TV; Louis Archambault's Wonderful Wall; Diefenbaker's Home Town - Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Nice Colour Ads: Matinee Cigarettes; Canadian Car Company; Caterpillar - New Brunswick Theme; Red Cap Ale; 1958 Plymouth Automobile; Dow Beer; O'Keefe Ales; Coke (back cover). Average wear. Please note! Pages 31 through 34 missing Book
260 pages including answers. Originally published in 1920. Authorized in separate edicions for use in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. Chapters include: Notation and Numeration; Common and Decimal Fractions; Percentage and Simple Applications; Applications of Percentage; Powers and Roots; Mensuration; The Metric System; Review. Few pencil markings primarily at or near endpapers. Above-average but not excissive wear. Book
359 pages. Recalls the tragic ruination by fire of Saint John New Brunswick in 1877. "It is a hideous story at the best, full of the very saddest events and the most exciting scenes. The contemplation of that disastrous evening, that lurid night, that pile of spectral ruins, makes us hesitate to dip the pen; yet it should be written." - from Preface. Illustrated. Front free endpaper removed. Heavily worn. Various defects. Reading copy only. Book
175 pages. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Quality copy. Book
Outside dimensions 14.5" x 10.5". Circa 1902. Also shows Prince Edward Island and the Magdelen Islands. Centerfold. Light wear. Please see our photo for details. Book
Approximately 100 pages in binder. Map stored in sleeve. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Excellent copy. Book
102 pages. Features: Painted Illustions - Decorative Wall Painting in Saint John, New Brunswick; The Fascinating World of Historical Costume Design; Louisbourg Gaming; Artifacts of the Saphire - a glimpse of life on board a 17th century English warship; Furnishing Louisbourg; The Orderly Gardens of 18th century Louisbourg; Fashions and Fabrics at 18th century Louisbourg; The Durell service - Chinese export porcelain with a Louisbourg connection; Art History at Beausejour; A colonial merchant's life-style in 18th century Canso; P.E.I.'s Confederation Chamber; An invitation to Fanning Bank, P.E.I.'s gracious Government House; The Temperance Wars - a chronicle of booze and temperance in Newfoundland; Part II (2) of Traditional Crafts in Nova Scotia Today; Quilts from the New Brunswick Museum; The Mystery of Robert Field; Nova Scotia's smaller museums. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
62 pages. Features: A Salute to the Settlement of Ontario; Shelburne's Ross-Thomson House... The Largest Loyalist artifact in the Nova Scotia Museum's Collection; Toronto a la carte - Exhibition mapping Toronto's First Century marks the city's Sesquicentennial; Return to Glengarry - Retired Northwest Company partners of Eastern Ontario; The Canadian Connection - Parisian Art Nouveau Designer Edward Colonna spent much of his life in North America; From Shore to Shore - Print-derived drawing from Victorian New Brunswick depicts man's passage through life; A Quiet Wealth - Textile Arts of Coastal Native Women; Collecting Playing Cards; The Weldon Collection - Part IV - Chinese Export Porcelain; George Brown's Lambton Lodge - 'The Best House in Toronto'. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
68 pages. Features: The Weldon Collection - Part II - English Pottery; Snuff Bottles; The Loyalists - Bicentennial Exhibition at the New Brunswick Museum; Silk Roads, China Ships - Inspiration for 2000 years of collecting; Furniture-Making in Harbour Grace - Part II, Albert Rogers; James Kerr-Lawson Restored; "La Haute Folie" Still Standing - The Hurtubise house has endured three turbulent centuries; Survival Transcended - Folk Art in Canada; An American in London - a report on London's Grosvenor House Antique Fair. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
Features: Toronto Print Gallery - Old Etchings, Engravings & Watercolours, Ltd.; Collecting Antique Dolls Today; Steamboats and the China Collector; New Brunswick Sketches; Gingerbread - The Gilded Treat; The Documentary Tradition in Photography; The Humberstone Potteries of North York. Sound copy. Magazine
279 pages. Index. Author's signature and inscription upon title page. Adapted from the award-winning series 'Watershed Down', published in The Telegraph Journal. "Extraordinary research and detailed depth of analysis. Written with great flair." - Jane O'Hara, Canadian Association of Journalists. Moderate wear. Binding tight. Sound copy. Book
159 pages. Abundantly illustrated in black and white. Printed on glossy stock. Average wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
Features: Uncle Ben and the Panther - a story involving Joseph and Daniel Smith of the parish of Blissville, Sunbury Country, New Brunswick; A White Woman in the Congo - Marguerite Roby; The Spanish Heiress - Mr. E. Player defends a pretty girl from some scoundrels aboard the Vigo, of which he is the Ship's Engineer; Among the Bedouins of Eastern Palestine - the life and habits of the strange nomadic Bedouins; Hung Up in a Cave - The Rev. R. Marle relates his perilous experience while cave-exploring in the Mendip Hills; Sacred Elephant - a hunter kills an elephant which is considered sacred... and finds himself in trouble; The 'Swinging Festival' of Siam - a strange harvest ceremony; The Ordeal of Mrs. Page - kidnapped by Apache raiders on the Arizona border; Celebrating the Dashara - a remarkable Indian festival; My Sambur - a funny story from India; Across Persia and Europe on Pony-back - a remarkable ride of over 2,000 miles; A Shaker Romance - the author (then aged 9) helps a romantic young couple from this sect which did not believe in marriage and died out; The Sportsman in Rhodesia - the paradise of big game hunting; Diamond cut Diamond - a case of a Chinese Sherlock Holmes; and more. Nice Vose Player Piano ad on back cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
Contents include: Number, area, value, tenure and size of occupied farms, live stock and machinery. The 1951 census, held two years after Newfoundland became part of Canada, marked Canada's first census as a nation of ten provinces and two territories. The content of the population and household questionnaire covered name, sex, age, marital status, relationship to "head" of household, and the structural type and tenure of dwelling. This census also provided information for small areas such as counties, municipalities, cities, towns, etc. Multi-paginations. 11.25" x 9" x 3". 3.7 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrips. Usual library markings. Average wear. Bindings sound. Quality copies. Book
30 pages. Features: France's Furniture Craftsmen; Japanese Theatre Prints - Part 3; The Nor'Wester Museum; Decorating with antiques; Early Canadian Printmakers; Pressed Glass Exhibition at New Brunswick Museum. Some peeling to front cover and address label on back else moderate wear. A sound copy. Magazine
221 pages. Several black and white illustrations. Unmarked. External soiling. A worthy reading copy. Book
63 pages. Features: I betrayed my country and the woman I love - the Lonsdale spy ring - Harry Houghton is now serving 15 years for selling British naval secrets to the Russians (Part 1 of 2); Pirates with the (Sir Tyrone) Guthrie Touch - a famed director brings Gilbert and Sullivan back to life; Robert Goulet lets his hair go straight again; TLC - a new way with the mentally ill - a new PEI program of placing patients with foster families - key figure is Mary Farmer; Tommy Douglas tackles a new job - as New Democratic Party (NDP) leader he admits "it's going to be tough" - he leaves Regina for Ottawa - lengthy text with many photos; Noel Coward's musical Sail Away; A Tartan reflects Muskoka's Charms - Mrs. Eileen Kirkvaag; Canary Islanders have a whistle language; Decorative hats (helmets) for motoring women; Great young Canadian runners Bruce Kidd of Toronto and Walter Williams of Minto New Brunswick; Nipper by Doug Wright. Nice colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book