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1953Contents 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
196930 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
1980221 pages. Several black and white illustrations. Unmarked. External soiling. A worthy reading copy. Book
196163 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
196139 pages. Features: Why I Fled Russia - Scientist Dr. Mikhail Klochko's own story of his defection to Canada (part 1 of 4); Mitzi Gaynor's $40,000/week comeback; A Dam to make the Prairie Bloom - The South Saskatchewan River Dam slowly takes shape - great colour photos; Cultivate a new skill or interest and start developing it into an avocation for later years (part 3 of 3); Has Success Spoiled Rudy Pilous - He won the Stanley Cup as coach of the Chicago Black Hawks; Colour Birks Jewelry centerfold; Neil Harnish and his war with the Canadian Army at Camp Gagetown, New Brunswick; Maud Watt - angel of the north brought beaver back to the Quebec wilderness; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
1965Features: News piece on furor over new Social Insurance (SIN) numbers; The Battle of Nouveau Quebec - how the territorial ambitions of Rene Levesque may yet bring down our government; Can these men really figure out Canada? - the intricacies of the biggest royal commission ever, the Dunton-Laurendeau Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism; How K.C. Irving wields his power - concluding a three part series on the complex man who dominates New Brunswick; The Great Money Panic of 1963 - a recreation of the four days when Canadians learned who really runs the economy (a fascinating and little-known story); The Greatest Canadian-bred ever - how Northern Dancer, 'overpriced at $25k' earned his first quarter million; How Kahn-Tineta Horn became an Indian - a young native who has grown proud of his race; The Bachelor Party Circuit - a pretty girl (Marika Robert) describes her holiday in Jamaica with everything.. but bachelors; When Mounties were imported - a retired RCMP senior officer recalls colleagues like the Honourable Eustace; W.O Mitchell claims all westerners are snobs. Nice colour ad for the 1964 Chevrolet Impala Sport Sedan. Average wear and soiling. Book
1970Features: The Seven Best Highway Diners in Canada - Parkside Service Centre, Maberley, Ontario - Kanaka Bar Restaurant, Lytton, BC - Helen's Coffee Shoppe, DeWinton, Alberta - Headingley Husky Travelcentre - Headingly, Manitoba; Gil's Truck Plaza, Quebec City - Valley Restaurant, Saint-Basile, New Brunswick - Blanche's Grill, Moosomin, Saskatchewan; Miss Nude America... is a Canadian, Dianne Boisclair; Colour ad for GM Pontiac models - Firebird, Le Mans, Grand Prix; The NHL's Ten Best Fighters - John Ferguson, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr, Orland Kurtenbach; Ted Harris; Reggie Fleming; Eddie Shack; Derek Sanderson; Jim Dorey; Shades of Captain Marvel - fashion; Nice colour Hush Puppies ad; Nothing succeeds like failure - ask Marvin Fleishman of auctioneer Danbury Sales Ltd; Rebuilding a wreck and restoring a memory - an HS-2L flying boat and Don Foss; The Things you didn't know about Nature; Maggie Grant; Doug Wright's Family. Clean and unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1971Five pages of photos, most in colour, of Pierre and Margaret Trudeau and their wedding; Don't Cry, There's Still Richard Hatfield - The bachelor premier of New Brunswick is young and handsome and drives a Cougar - he also has lots of money and likes discotheques (for those women upset that Pierre Trudeau is now off the market); Maggie Grant; Gorgeous fashion photos of Scrunchable Hats; CBC's International Shortwave Radio Service in Sackville, New Brunswick; The Great Jim Stillwagon Steal - Green Bay Packers fumble, Toronto Argonauts recover, and Canadian football (CFL) comes up with the finest young lineman in America; William Ready brings the Bertrand Russell Papers - more than 200,000 books, letters, photos, manuscripts and love letters - to Hamilton, Ontario's McMaster University; Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1960Features: The Electric Vehicle Company - The Failed Coup by the Electric Trust to monopolize the automobile industry - fascinating article with beautiful photos; Mr. Electric - George De Laplaine of New Brunswick, NJ and his collection of electric vehicles; The Invincible Electric Trucks of the Curtis Publishing Co. - article with great photos - 22 electric trucks dating from 1910 to 1927 have proven the efficiency and economics of the electric vehicle; A Portfolio of Electrics - super photos of early electric cars with captions; Discovering a 1911 Hupp Yeats Electric; A 1914 Baker Electric Roadster Model WB; The Herb Singes - Jr. and Sr. - article with photos; Restoring a 1911 Palmer-Singer; Photos of Illinois region cars; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1967Features: The Well-Trained Retriever is the Hunter's Best Friend; Atlantic Salmon Problem; Ontario ESOX for Expo Bound Fishermen; Hunting through the Ice; Ancient Fishing Hints and Tips; The Timpline; The Big One That Didn't Get Away; A Long Hard Look at Conservation in New Brunswick; Kokanee; How to Fillet Panfish; Pike on a Fly; Nice Honda Generator ad inside back cover;Travelall ad on back cover; and more. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
1995374 pages. "What began as a tribute to the 41 names listed on the cenotaph in the author's native Dorchester, New Brunswick emerges as an intimate portrait of what the two wars, and the in-between Depression, did and meant to the typical Canadian village." - from back cover. Moderate wear. Bit of curl to front cover. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
19349" x 4" map folds out to 24" x 18". Printed in two colours - the traditional Gulf blue and orange. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A quality copy of this wonderful vintage road map. Map
1990"On the 17th of April 1851, a ship was launched from the yard of James Smith at Marsh Creek in Saint John, New Brunswick. She was the largest ship the yard had ever built and they named her Marco Polo." - from page 5. Former library copy with usual markings and library binding. Seven one-sided pages of text plus a three-page bibliography prepared by Deborah Carhart, and a list of 16 books beneath the heading 'Canadian Ship Marco Polo 1851-1883. The first four pages are entitled "The Wreck of the Marco Polo in Canadian Prize Stories" (written for the Montreal Witness). The next three pages are entitled "The Legend of the 'Marco Polo' Pride of all New Brunswick". Average wear. A sound working copy. Book
1967211 pages. Fold-out map. Upon front free endpaper is written in the author's hand "To the Reader With Best Wishes" below which is his signature dated February 28th 1969. Usual library markings. Half-leather binding a little loose but intact. A worthy reference copy. Ex-Library
196548 pages. Contents include: How Red Refugees get asylum in Halifax; Joe Blasko helps inventors; Terence Robertson - the man who exposed the Suez Plot; Donald C. Rowat - A professor's career as Mr. Ombudsman; Why northern Quebec's Eskimos may have to learn French - even under protest; Feature Article - The Promise of Estrogen for Women; How Canada is building the greatest show on earth - Expo 67 (with photos); How to eat the scenery - painter Jack Humphrey of New Brunswick; Montreal's Windsor Hotel, Last of the Grand Hotels; Feature article on Gordon Sinclair - "Some People are Beginning to Like Him"; Algeria - where freedom rules with fear; Midsummer skiiing on New Hampshire's Mount Washington - colour pictures; How three hard-boiled eggs nearly caused a naval mutiny in World War II; Ralph Hedlin proposes to pay farmers to get off the land. Average wear. Unmarked. Five inch tear to lower corner of colour Coke ad on back cover. A quality copy of this entertaining and informative issue. Book
1982Features: The Canadian Railway Museum twenty years ago - many great b/w photos; Manitoba 1982 - photos; Report of New Brunswick Division; The Pinafore Park Railroad - photos. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
1956Features: 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
1999Features: Saving our Lighthouses; Disappearing Prairie Giants - Western Canada's Country Grain Elevators; Hamilton's Auchmar Estate Slated for Development; Calgary Construction Heats Up; Old Government House, Fredericton, New Brunswick; International Heritage Corridor Project for The Champlain-Richelieu Valley; Nova Scotia's Sales Tax Rebate Program for Heritage Property Owners. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. An excellent copy. Book
1997Features: Meeting the Challenge of Adaptive Re-use - in the city of Kitchener, Ontario - 410 King St. W., the Kaufman footwear complex; Downsizing and Privatizing in the Good Ol' 90s; Charles B. Ross and his Sash and Door Factory in Blackville; The Victorian Factory Phenomenon - Tales of the Cotton and Candy in New Brunswick - the Ganong Chocolate factory in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Modest moisture exposure near one corner else clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. A worthy copy. Book
1956Features: Editorial - our cheap but costly funerals; How Alfred Valdmanis took Newfoundland to the cleaners by taking payoffs for government contracts; What's wrong with subsidies for the arts?; They're selling packaged weather - Paul Denison and Bernard Power and their Weather Engineering Corp. of Canada; Bruce Hutchison rediscovers New Brunswick; They're freezing people to life - by imitating hibernation (with cold) doctors are performing 'impossible' operations and saving accident victims, feeble babies and dying old folk; Nobody can Curl like the Campbells - Sandy Campbell and his 5 boys from Avonlea, Saskatchewan - story with photos; Movies of 1955 - Clyde Gilmour picks the best and worst; nice colour ad for the 1956 Oldsmobiles; Wonderful full-page colour ad for Wabasso Cottons inside back cover. Address label on front cover. Restapled. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A quality copy. Book
1952Features: They Never Left Home - "Your Happy Motoring Show"; Nelson's Mid-Summer Bonspiel; Keep your eye on the scenery; Blessing the Fleet - colorful annual event on New Brunswick coast; The Frank Slide, on Alberta's No. 3 highway toward Crow's Nest Pass; Ghosts of the Past Walk Here - an old Toronto Jail; Courtesy Keys - courtesy pays in the thriving city of Woodstock, Ontario; From the Mailbag of Eddie Torr. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1965Features: The haunting of Bayview Hill - a developer walks away from a half-built apartment hulk in East York; The car and you - interviews with auto executives, photos of future concept models, and more; "My Job is to Kill the Guy" - feature story on George Chuvalo with photos; New ways to prevent suicide; Bitter last days of Happy Valley - the Mactaquac and power development in New Brunswick; How Maxine Samuels built her own Seaway - the largest Canadian-produced TV film series ever; Gerald Stevens on Canadiana; Back page story on medical transplants - how hospitals are building up banks of human parts; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1992142 pages. "A guide to the location of records, repositories and genealogical societies in Atlantic Canada: New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia." - from Preface. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
196730 pages. Features: Sotheby Comes to Canada; Potters of Lincoln County; John Kulp - Pioneer Potter; Painting on Derby Porcelain; Wiser's Canadiana Collection; Simon Fraser's Snuff Mull; Elegance of New Brunswick Furniture; Antique Fakes, Forgeries and Reproductions; Yorkville Village, by Marina Sturdza. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1982127 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