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1973Features: Toile de Jouy - textile pattern; Symposium '73; Loyalist Settlement of Upper Canada; British Sporting Prints; Chine Export Trade Porcelain; Chinese Chippendale. Average wear. Address label upon front cover. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1968Features: They called him Coyote - Scott Andrew Smith; Goodhearted and unlucky - Long George Francis; Stump-Jumper on the Fairbanks-Valdez Trail; Blue Riches Halfway to the Sky; Foster Child of the Kiowas - Millie Dergan; Why Badmen were Bad; Gay times in Gibbonsville, Idaho; Climb the Blackjack! - Longhorn Cattle; Climax Jim - Rustler Rufus Nephews, alias Jim Thomas; Noah H. Rose - frontier cameraman; Steamboat on Puget Sound - the Beaver; Oakes Rhymes with Hoax - D.C. Oakes and Pikes Peak gold; Last days of the great northern herd; 'an eye for an eye' was not enough - William Clark Quantrill and his band; Gunfighting tricks of the trade; complete reprint of scarce book - Rube Burrow, King of Outlaws and his Band of Train Robbers by G.W. Agee; and more. Clean and bright with light wear. Nice copy. Magazine
1940249 pages. Index. "Illustrates the truth that both diplomacy and politics rest on a solid commercial foundation." - from Foreward. Heavily worn former library copy with usual markings. Binding intact. Reading copy only. Book
1917This issue devoted to "Dutch Neutrality 1914-1917". Profusely illustrated with black and white contemporary photos. Contents: the fear of war in 1914; the Dutch frontier; military precautions and mobilization; contraband and Dutch supplies; The Rhine Acts; The Netherlands Oversea Trust; Smuggling; The German Submarine War; Outrages on Dutch Shipping; The Maria; The Medea; The Bandoeng; The Tubantia; The Berkelstroom; The Blommersdijk; Attitude of the Dutch Government towards German Lawlessness; Dutch Internment Camps; German Aircraft over Dutch Territory; The Belgian Deportees; German Propaganda; Economic Problems; Trade and the Blockade; Food Difficulties; Industry and Finance; Conditional Prosperity. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
1979Features: The Nine Lives of Captain Frank Jones; "I am no Coward" - Caspar Collins, young Lieutenant in Wyoming; When the Law hit the Strip (the Territory of Oklahoma); Hanging Bill Coons was such fun!; When President Harding Honored the Pioneers - a great day in Oregon, with photos; The Fort Mims Massacre, August 30, 1813 in Alabama; Sam Peppard's Folly - his wind-powered windwagon sailed on a sea of grass; Wagontrain Bride - Nathan Olney's scouts had a strange assignment, kidnap a girl, find a preacher, then hold the line against an irate father; Chuckhole Chuckles - no holds were barred in the old days of journalism and conversation; The Southwest's Greatest Tracker - John Johnson, veteran Negro cowhand; A Ranger of Commerce, or 52 years on the road, by Howard W. Peak; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
1983Features: The Expedition Chronicle - Blood and Honour in the shadow of Europe's highest peak; The Basque Connection - Red Bay Yields New Answers about Canada's earliest known European settlements; Shadowy Mammals - Nocturnal Encounters in Tasmania, Haunt of the World's least understood marsupials; Inside the Royal Mint - Bullish Days in Canada's Bullion Trade; Threading the Cerebral Maze - Canadian Neuroscientist Brenda Milner explores the workings of the human brain. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1990Features: Emperors of North America - Superbly adapted to the coldest, most desolate place on Earth, the Emperor penguin reveals its startling secrets to scientists; A Daybreak Diary - Learning Life, learning love - Seven days in Canadian Jean Vanier's federation of miracles; Romantic Revival - A team of Canadian horticulturalists hopes to restore one of the botanical wonders of the world; Courting Commerce - The brainchild of marketing geniuses, shopping malls have radically altered Canadians' lives, but they are more machines than traditional retail districts. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
1991Features: Where Waters Run Brown - Once the 'pearl of the Caribbean', Haiti hovers at the edge of ecological collapse... a cautionary tale; Audubon's Wake - retracing the route of John James Audubon along Quebec's rugged lower North Shore; The Hounds of Summer - Sans tracks, touts and hustlers, the sleek sport of greyhound racing is catching on in southern Saskatchewan; Bound for Glory - with leather and gold, virtuoso bookbinder Michael Wilcox turns tomes into tiaras; The Great Fire - Early European explorers brought more than fresh ideas to North America - how a simple virus (smallpox) depopulated two continents, destroyed their cultures and helped create, among other things, slavery, the fur trade and capitalism. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
1995Features: Who's Fit? Who's Fat? - Canadian researchers are at the forefront of exploring how and why we put on fat; Animal Family Values - bringing up baby is a universal behaviour that reveals critical clues to how species survive; The Meaning of Markets - Communities of Commerce that connect us to our earthly roots; Art and Soul - a roaring fire destroyed their home, but not their dreams - a story of the steel spirit and true heart of arctic art. Light wear. Nice copy. Book
200348 pages. Features: The Meaning of the Sexual Labour of Slaves in the Nuu-chah-nulth-European Sex Trade at Nootka Sound in the Eighteenth Century; A Little Known Account of "Charles Haick's" Missionary; The Station Agent's Wife; Early Prince George - Through the eyes of a young boy; and more. Average wear. Few markings. Sound copy. Book
2004821 pages. Index. New copy - clean, bright and unmarked. "If you are an American that loves this nation and our way of life, you need to snap out of "The Bush Mythology Bubble" and take a hard look at what is really going on in the nation. I did, and as a Conservative Christian Republican, I did not like what I found. You will not either, if you take the time to know the truth." - from back cover. Book
1996Articles: Adventures in the Sack Trade - London Merchants in the Canada and Newfoundland Trades, 1627-1648; The Battle for Convoy UC-1, 23-27 February 1943; Not More Ports, Better Ports - The Development of British Ports since 1945; Keeping the Local Economy Afloat - Canadian Pacific Navigation and Shipowning in Victoria, 1883-1901; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1997Articles: Ginseng, Otter Skins, and Sandalwood - The Conundrum of the China Trade; Management Response in British Coastal Shipping Companies to Railway Competition; Toponymie ancienne et origine des noms Saint-Pierre, Miquelon et Langlade; Death was Their Escort, and glory passed them by - Life in the Marine Convoys of World War II; plus several book reviews. 3 items high-lighted in table of contents and sunning to spine else a clean and lightly worn copy. Book
1997Articles: The Advisory Committee on Trade Questions in Time of War; British Marine Industry and the Diesel Engine; Management and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Ports; The Development of Strategic Concepts and Shipbuilding Programmes for the Soviet Navy, 1922-1953 - Stalin's Battleships and Battlecruisers; plus several book reviews. One article high-lighted in Table of Contents, else clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
1998Articles: The Master's Measure - Remunerative Patterns for Hudson's Bay Company Captains, 1726-1736; Politics, Technology and Policy-Making, 1859-1865 - Palmerston, Gladstone and the Management of the Ironclad Naval Race; This Sad and Melancholy Catastrophe - Port Maitland, Ontario and the Wreck of the Troopship 'Commerce', 6 May 1850; A Dundee Ship in Canada's Arctic - SS Diana and William Wakeham's Expedition of 1897; The Historical Experience of Scaled-Down Nineteenth Century Drydock Technology; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
1999Articles: Women and Seamen Don't Mix - VD in Canada's Merchant Navy, 1943-1945; Home Ports and Destinations - English Shipping in the Baltic Trade, 1536-1547; The Living Conditions onboard UK Distant-Water Trawlers, 1945-1970; This Fraudulent Trade - Confederate Blockade-Running from Halifax During the American Civil War; plus several Book Reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Book
1980519 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. "The power and profits of the five giant companies at the center of the world's food supply." - subtitle. Clean, tight and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
2004Please note: CD NOT included. 775 pages. Clean with light wear. A nice copy. Book
1953Contents include: Retail trade establishments by geographic areas, kinds of business and type of operations, including such data as number of establishments, sales, employment, payrolls, inventories and commodities. 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 1.7". 2.0 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
1953Contents include: Wholesale trade establishments and service establishments by geographic areas, kinds of business and type of operations including such data as number of establishments, sales, employment and payrolls, with inventories and commodities shown for the wholesale trade. 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 1.7". 2.0 kg. Forest green buckram with gilt lettering upon backstrip. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. Quality copy. Book
2000195 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Book
1986Features: How Polar Bears Keep Their Cool; The Great Bird that Beat the Odds - the Great Blue Heron; Out of Kiusta - young people discover inner resources they didn't know they had; Classroom in a Virgin Rainforest; Free Trade - The Environmental Dilemmas; Cross-Country Caravan to save South Moresby Island from logging. Minimal library markings. Moderate wear. Sound reference copy. Book
1958Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Laying cable for the new United States - Alaska telephone link; Working around the sudden collapse of a 150-foot span of the Mission Abbotsford Bridge in 1955(photos); New truck digs its own post holes in the Peace River area; Storm cripples telephone plant; Overseas Rates Cut; More Long Distance Circuits; Repeater key to Trans-Atlantic Cable; Telephone man (Clifford Sherlock) treads trapline on weekends; 1956 review; Recruiting Program; microwave towers to carry second Radio Telephone system - article and photo; List of Exchanges i.e. # of phones operating in each community; photo of microwave relay truck; Dog Mountain tramway completed - text and photos; Howe Sound Line Rebuild -photos with captions; Squamish Exchange - photos; Private radiotelephone system feeds sawmill operations - two pages of photos and text; Nanaimo to be SATT dialing center - article; photos of 'microwaves across the mountains; passing of Mr. R.S. Argue; Great photos of the Vedder Crossing; Ladner goes automatic; Photos of Terrace staff; 'floating phones' - nice set of photos of phones at work at sea; Training; photos from atop Promontory Mountain and Greenstone Mountain; Gordon Farrell now Board Chairman (Karsh photo); Cyrus H. McLean now President (photo); B.C. Microwave to open 1 July - great photos; microwave opening previewed; 1958 big year for radiotelephone - article and map; 7,000 mile trade goodwill call; picture of a Moore "Formorama"; Coverage of the Ripple Rock Blase - with photo; increasew will not give required revenue; Microwave Skyway - text and photos; B.C. Centennial coverage facilities very complex; Oliver cutover; photo of men at work over the Sumas River; TOC - the Television Operating Center, inside the Farrell Building in Vancouver; Lloyd Purdy and John Martin retire; Creston Cutover; Photos of the radiotelephon serving an active paving company; Meet Fred Feeney - article with photo; Ladysmith converts to Automatic - photos; Lloyd Purdy and Percy Crute retire after a combined 82 years of service; Victoria 2-5 conversion; photos of microwave sites readying for onslaught of winter; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. Binding tight and square. Marbled endpapers. Name of E.P. LaBelle stamped on bottom- and fore-edges of text. Mr. Labelle was a second-generation employee off the company. Book
1924Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Great cover photo of Duncan operating room; Several photos of new interior plant equipment at Duncan; Sensational 9-page feature on Duncan and district with great photos of the area including Duncan Station, Maple Bay, Genoa Bay, and an aerial view; Fire deprives downtown Vancouver of service - photos and text; Grand Forks office and staff; Table showing "Exchanges in order of Per Cent Good Calls Out"; Statement of Development as of 1 January 1924 showing number of phones per community; Cover photo of steamer Jacques Cartier; Nice full-page showing two views of Vancouver Harbour with many ships in port; 7 page feature on the Port of Vancouver with several great photos; Possibilities of both radio and wire telephony; Exchanges in order of percent good out calls; Excellent full-page photo of Ballantyne pier, Burrard Inlet; Take advantage of company's new savings plan; Fine addition to shipping facilities on Burrard Inlet - Ballantyne Pier - 5 great photos with text; Greater Vancouver will benefit by reduced telephone rate; Repair shop has greatly expanded in recent years - 6 pages with nice photos; nice full-page photo of the Empress of Australia in port; Greater Vancouver Inter-Exchange Telephone Service; Fold-out map of Vancouver area exchanges, complet with great statistics; Telephone extenstion to Campbell River; 8 page feature on the flow of commerce through Canada's western port with many absolutely smashing photos; Cover photo of Glenburn office; 6-page feature on the B.C. Herring fishery with excellent photos (re: sea lions, contains the following quote "The government is undertaking to greatly lessen the numbers of this prey animal"); archival photo of laying the first underground cable in Vancouver; Statement of Development - # of phones operating in each community; Cover photo of Milner office; photo mosaic of 5 lower valley exchange offices; Wonderful 8 page feature on the great supply district (i.e. the lower Fraser Valley) of BC coastal cities - excellent photos including a shot of the only remaining original Hudson's Bay Company building at Langley; New Gordon Head Exchange cut over; New Point Grey office under way; new observation office aids efficiency; Electrical Communication Development; Full-page photo of sailors from the battleship H.M.S. Repulse marching through Vancouver; Multiple photos of British warships docked at Victoria; Article and photos of the visit of the Royal Navy to Vancouver; The Traffic Department and the Public it serves; Tennis Tournaments; Printing a phone directory; Great feature on Ship Salvors (Salvagers) with many photos; A motoring trip through the U.S., with photos; Biggest cable will cross False Creek; Oxygen Farms; Cornelius Vanderbilt writes of his long distance call from Alberni to Los Angeles; P.B.X. serves interesting purposes - 5 pages with photos; Early motor tourists to B.C., with photos; Full-page photo of the Empress of Canada; 5 page illustrated article on the reclamation of the Sumas; The switchboard as a newspaper; Health secrets of the telephone pole - 3 illustrated pages; new Victoria equipment; Bayview library proves popular; cover photo of a long-distance operator timing a call with a calculagraph; Billing toll and inter-exchange calls keeps eight clerks busy - 3 pages with photos; 7 page a Book
1921Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: Greatest growth of company was during past year; Sound - a non-technical talk on a technical subject; Accidents which a careless workman may cause; Graph of the number of phones in service from 1903 through 1920; Table listing the exchanges in order of percent good toll calls; Statement of development - a table listing the number of phones in service per exchange across the province; Photo montage of three of the Agents of lower mainland offices; Proposed central office extensions indicate a busy year; Snow and wind storms seriously damage toll leads on Vancouver Island; Repairing submarine cable near Friday Harbor was trying experience; Preparing to lay a third cable between the mainland and Vancouver Island; Magnets - non-technical talk on a technical subject; Statistical Review of the province's industries; Nice photo montage of 5 lady Vancouver Island company representatives; Planned additions; Start of Export Trade in Bulk Wheat - nice photos; Naming a telephone office; Fourty Years of the Telephone; Photo montage of 4 lady company representatives on southern Vancouver Island; The Gathering of Material for Use of Telephone Men - 5-page illustrated article; Application for increased rates before Railway Board; Shipping railway ties to Egypt; Plant activities; Excellent 10-page article describes the laying of the second submarine cable to Vancouver Island (Point Grey to Nanaimo) - many great photos; Photo montage of four lovely ladies who serve as supervising officials in the traffic department; Railway board accedes to request for rate increase; Repair job on North Vancouver Submarine Cable - photos and map; First Convention of Canadian telephone companies very successful - 10 page article with photos; Convention Delegates tour Capilano Timber Company operations - photo montage; Photo montage of chief operators of mainland two-number offices; new Kerrisdale exchange opens; New P.B.X at Spencers (Department Store); Current phone directory is an improvement; 2 pages of samples of past phone directories; Construction of switchboard cords; laying conduit along Georgia St., Vancouver (2 photos); Emergency reveals bravery of B.C. telephone operators; photos of Port Coquitlam flood; amazing photo of washed out bridge over Capilano River; Pioneer line construction - telegraph line between Toronto and Buffalo, NY in 1846; Good Qualities of Loud Speakers; photo of timber cutting to clear a right-of-way to give service to the Broadview district; photo of underground conduit being laid in downtown Nanaimo, with horses and wagon in picture; What constitutes Central's activities at the Capital City Exchange - 4 pages with photos; Rubber covered wires and cables - 3 page article with photos; and more. Half-leather binding. Average wear. Backstrip loose along front edge. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon top edge else unmarked. Binding intact. Aside from backstrip, a sound copy. Book
