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1945Unpaginated. 12" x 9" x 0.7". Contains issues from January 1945 through December 1946, a tumultuous time for labour in the wake of World War II. Topics include: Tennessee Poll Tax Fight; A New Revision of Marxian Economics, by Raya Dunayevskaya; Barriers on the Way to Socialism, by CARP; C.C.F confusion, by C. Luff; Marxism in New Zealand by R.R. Everson; Labor Conscription - the May-Bailey bill calls for a compulsory labor draft of 18 million workers from 18 to 45 years of age; Labor and Political Action, by Harmo; Vocationalism in Ireland; Comrade Adolph Kohn; The Future of Cartels; Capitalist Justice; An admittedly Imperfect World; 60 million jobs?; Will War Delay Socialism?; Success Story; The Meaning of Social Revolution; When G.I. Joe Comes Home; The Tinplate War; The Jinni and the Master; Inquiring Student Answered; Mexico; Do away with the Working Class; Human Nature as it Really is; Parasites in Fact and Fiction; Is the Status Quo Unchangeable?; Blood and Iron - contemplating the effect of WWII; Is Socialism Inevitable?; Scientific Socialism; Now that Germany has been knocked out, What Next?; The Nature of Co-ops; A Will for Socialism; Who ar the Workers?; Edward Bellamy; The Irish Scene; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Welcome Home, Joe; Canada Goes to the Polls; A Summer Morning in Dublin; Whom the States Serves; Forced Labor in Russia; A Philosopher Squelched - San Francisco Conference; British Election Message; Willow Run - this massive plant will soon be closed after making B-24 bombers for the war; The Great Divide; Guaranteed Annual Wage; Tobin and the Teamsters; S.P.G.B. Election Message; The War's End; Socialism in Britain?; War Memorials and Poverty; Detroit seething with unrest due to postwar industrial reconversion; Russia as she is; Poverty in New Zealand; From Military to Trade Wars; Atomic Energy; Has Britain Turned Socialist?; A Job with the City; Economics of Control; The Case for Socialism; Reformers Emasculate Unions; The Communications Revolution; Guaranteed Annual Wage; Insurance and Security; So this is Peace!; Wages and Prices; A Soldier Thinks; A Program for Workers; Yours - When you want it; The General Motors Strike - the union wants 30%; An American Seaman in India; Homeward Bound; Delusions of A White Collar Worker; Veterans are workers too; Who owns large corporations?; The Truth about Russia; Socialism and Personal Ethics; The Lenin Legend; Tale of Two Continents; Kaiser-Frazer Bonus Plan; Atomic Policy; Fetish of Full Production; What? - No Money!; Growing Tensions of Capitalism; Two Worlds; India; Henry in Wonderland; Family and Education in U.S.S.R.; How to Deal with the Atomic Bomb; Recruits Wanted; Opportunity under Capitalism; United Nations and War; Catholicism in America; The Rail Strike; From Boom to Bust; T.B. and Capitalism; Stocks don't make a capitalist; Know the Enemy; Fruits of Victory; Unions in Politics; A Note on American Culture; British Labor Government; Between Two Wars; Who Owns America; Materialist Basis of Religion; Selfishness; Occupational Trends in America; Letter to a Jewish worker; OPA - The Price Sieve; Ireland Today; Serfdom in a Free Society; Questions and Answers; Paris "Peace" Conference and World War III; The Sacred Cow; Full Employment and the Liberals; Berlin Letter; The Worker - That's You!; Unity; The Atomic Age; Where are the Unions Going?; Land of Plenty; The "Flood-Like" Form; Socialism or Capitalism?; An introduction to Economics; How About a 51% Majority; What do we mean by Socialism?. Sturdily bound in maroon boards. Unmarked. Average external wear. Contents clean and gently toning with age. Lettering upon backstrip dull but legible. A sound copy. Book
1989334 pages. Index. Black and white illustrations. Author's signature and inscription upon half-title page. "... A story of democracy, of personal leadership, of co-operative education, of business success, and of the odd failure. Most of all, it is a story of people and of what they can achieve when they work together." - from dust jacket. Sunning to spine of dust jacket else clean and bright with light wear. Occasional interesting pencil marginalia by prior owner, who was very active in the Co-op movement and is mentioned at page 242. A nice copy. Book
195088 pages. Includes lyrics, piano music and guitar chords for the following songs: Pagan Love Song, A Song of Old Hawaii; My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua Hawaii; Lovely Hula Hands; Coral Sea; Manuela Boy; Hawaiian War Chant (Ta-Hu-Wa-Hu-Wai); Drowsy Waters (Wailana); Across the Sea; A Flower Lei (One Little Kiss Good-bye); King Kamehameha (The Conqueror of the Islands); Maori Brown Eyes; An Old Hawaiian Custom; Pretty Red Hibiscus; On the Beach at Waikiki; Malihini Mele; It Happened in Kaloha; For you a Lei; I want to learn to speak Hawaiian; Honolulu Moon; My Sweetheart (Kuu Ipo); The Old Plantation (Kuu Home); I've Found a Little Grass Skirt; Hawaiian Dreams; Kalua Lullaby; Honolulu Eyes; One, Two, Three, Four; Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee); Tropic Trade Winds. Light pencil markings. Average wear. A worthy working copy. Book
1958Features: Nice colour ad for the Parker 61 Capillary Pen inside front cover; Editorial - Let Courts, Not Customs Men, Decree Which Books to Ban; Nice Matinee cigarette colour photo ad; Colour ad for EMBA brands of mutation mink; Jockey Johnny Longden tells his own story - many great photos; Why the World Wants More of the Theatre du Nouveau Monde; Trade Secrets of the Combines Detectives - they seek out 'price-fixers'; How the Dutch sold Canada on Tulips, by Alan Phillips; Should you send your child to camp?; Pearl McLeod's old-fashioned kitchen in Penobsquis, New Brunswick; How to Plan for your Retirement; Dictaphone Time-Master colour centerfold ad loose but present. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Magazine
1985Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: Beirut Hostages; American Protectionism; Sting; Closing the Levesque Era; Air India Flight 182 is blown up; Peter Loughheed's Legacy; Office Politics; Jenilee Harrison; Judy Chicago; Paul Desmarais (?) stalks Southam Inc.; Forty Years after Hiroshima; Nagasaki then and now; Fighting the fires of Summer; Boris Becker wins Wimbledon; Tina Turner; Reagan's surgery; Tears are not enough - starvation in Africa - Live Aid; Prairie Drought; Moves to buy Gulf Canada; South Africa Under Seige - the world debates sanctions; Bryan Adams - Superstar; Rock Hudson and AIDS; Toyota announces plans for Canadian plant; Debating Star Wars; Whale Watching; New Terror of AIDS; Paul Reichmann and his brothers buy Gulf Canada; Recovery in Tibet; The Race to Dominate the Arctic - the Polar Sea in Canada's north; Pierre Marc Johnson; Maple Leaf coins gain in popularity vs. the Krugerrand; Apartheid inferno in South Africa; Two-day Major League Baseball Strike; The Crisis of Canada's Water; Mulroney's first visit to B.C.; Year of the Dragon - Movie by Michael Cimino; The Takeover Frenzy; Botha's defiant stand; Cover photo of The Boss - Bruce Springsteen; Mulroney Cabinet Shuffle; War in Afghanistan; Pressure on Canada's wheat industry; Hard days for Canada's Navy; Special Report on Mulroney's Second Year; Pia Zadora; South Africa - a nation on the brink; Beer Battle; Quebec's garish crime press; Free Trade - climax to a historic debate; Swedes prepare to elect a new government; Canada's rapidly vanishing wilderness; Agnes of God - film; Joshua - Canada's costliest movie; Travels of Joseph Savimbi in Angola; Collapse of the Canadian Commercial Bank; Marcel Masse; Cover Photo - The Blue Jays race to the World Series; Mexico's week of death; The Tainted Tuna Scandal; TV Shows; Fishing Treasures of the Bow River. Light wear. Firmly bound. Former library copy with usual markings. Book
1981Over one inch thick. Some of the many topics include: 1980 - the turbulent year that was; Shelly Hack; Farley Mowat; U.S. Heads into Recession; Terry Fox Cover Illustration; Trudeau wants to patriate the constitution; Indonesia's struggles; Kayakers visit the rivers of the Himalayas; The NHL Comes of Age; Italians are returning home from Canada; The stench of political patronage in Quebec; Economic harship in Britain; Margie Gillis; Truedea's quest for a foreign policy; John Dowd creates the Ronald Reagan survival kit; Kim Mitchell - Max Webster is about to trade its cult status for international glory; Possible break in the hostage crisis; Frank Sinatra at centre of political storm in Washington; Enemy fire at Jean Chretien; Hostages Come Home; Crazy Weather; Jo Penney; Royal Trustco-Campeau hearings; Doris Anderson; Cover photo and story of Karen Kain; Roger Jouret/Plastic Bertrand; Jean-Luc Godard; CIA hostages return home; Saudi officials try to entice Chad from Libya's grip; Steve Podborski story and cover photo; Trappers; Nuclear mishap in France; van Gogh at the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO); Raquel Welch sues over firing from film Cannery Row; Trudeau and Thatcher - who will stand down?; Sigourney Weaver; Did Ottawa encourage Inco to poison the skies?; The Schreyer family in Rideau Hall; Who will pay for the RCMP?; David Stockman - wunderkind in cabinet; Cover illustration "The Day Alberta Turns off the Oil; The Pope in Asia; Joe Clark faces severe damage; Carol Connors; Donald Sutherland; 4,000 year-old settlement unearthed in Labrador; Tony Tanti; Our Next Queen - cover photo of Lady Diana Spencer; Joe Clark survives leadership with likely mortal wounds; Reagan's team aggressive toward Moscow; Joe Granville says 'Sell!"; the Moral Majority's Jerry Falwell; Voyager I renews interest in Titan; Ontario's Crucial Vote; Ouellet's combines sleuths write seven green volumes on price-fixing by oil's big four; Atlanta - beseiged by fear; Lynn Seymour; Sally Field's roll in Back Roads; John Gray is home from Broadway; Alberta's sulphur industry; Will Reagan Deliver?; Canadians flock to the south; Kim Cattrall; passengers endure two weeks of desert runway heat; Compulsory measles vaccination; Panic buying in the home market; Khmer Comeback; Alice Arm, B.C. mine tailings dumping; Dave Broadfoot, and many more. Light wear. Firmly bound. Few library markings. Book
1966Over one inch thick. Many black and white photos. Features include: Through the Fields of Chukchi - a report of a Russian icebreaker's trip through a frozen sea; Along the Walnut Run - an N.F.B. story of the Nodwell Transporters, all-Canadian mechanical monsters; Tin Can Line is a Mighty Fine Line - a fast trip along a fantastic railway; Pioneering Arctic Air Services in Greenland - Scheduled Helicopter Flights; Transportation and the Settlement Frontier in the Mackenzie Valley Area; 175 Years after Mackenzie - a trip along the route of the great explorer; Beasts of Burden - a chapter from a book by Eskimo children of Chesterfield Inlet; Television in the North; Blow Spirit - Irene Baird's strange rescue from a storm; Yukon Pattern - a total approach to the problem of development of the Yukon; Fossil Harvest in the Far North; Tundra Trading - the fox fur trade; The Fur Auction - an exciting business; Canadian Fur Overseas - Canadian fur promotion; Fur Industry - the old and new of the industry; The Trapping Profession in the Northwest Territories - Father Brown of Colville Lake presents his case for a new approach to trapping; Walrus Galore! - Chesley Russell reminisces about walrus hunts he has been on; Neighbours - an Eskimo famly enlivens an Arctic campout; Turnabout - an African couple brings light to the dark north; Yukon Paperback - A. A. Wright browses through a 1909 publication; How to cook a Polar Bear; The Port Burwell Co-operative; From the Journal of Baron Munchausen - the great travel-liar visits Russia; Yukon tourist calendar; N.W.T. Tourist Calendar; A Tour of the better spots in the North; Cathay Revisited; Eskimo Art from Holman; Comment Est-ce Dans Le Nord; A Fair Trade - his freedom for a mug of tea - excerpt from a novel by Robert Kroetsch; Bicultural Ookpik - a pin-up designed by Eric Wilson; Yukon Mining Survey - 1965; Flowers of the Forest - Indian crafts from Fort Franklin, N.W.T.; The Tukcoat - an example of Eskimo handiwork; The Co-operative movement in the Arctic (2nd part in a series); The Return - a story of the occult; Northern Health Service - a picture story of the people it serves; Transportation at the top of the world; Indian Giver - short story by Fortesque McKay; Manuel - short story by Alf Copland; The Romance of Northern Names; The Bronze Cross - Scouting's Highest Honour; Early Geographical Concepts of the Northwest Passage; Pine Point Revisited; Growth of NWT Government; But Eskimo Children don't cry!; Bewildered Hunters in the 20th Century - N.W.T councillor Abe Okpik recounts a modern dilemma; Mountain Climbing in the Arctic, by P.D. Baird; A Daughter of the Midnight Sun; Women in Soviet Arctic Regions; Ma Courte Carriere de Vice-Reine; Memories of a Whaling Town; Transport by Submarine in Arctic Waters; Inukshooks and Itigaseemautes - mysterious beacons of the North; High School Drop-ins; Who will Be I; Community Health Workers at Hobbema; Wrangel Island Wrangle; Murder Trial in Spence Bay; Christmas on the Trapline; You only take the First Trip Once; Penny's Polar Probe, 1850-51; Tea and Bannock; Ookpik; The reindeer Journey; The Seal Hunt; An Indian Tale of Birch Bark, Musk-rat Tails and Rabbits' Ears; Since the Days of Barter; Still Life in a Tent; Eskimo Wife. Moderate wear. Tightly bound. Minimal library markings. Book
1958Topics: Shocking mess in civil defense; Canada-US Partnership problems; Lester Pearson - Peacemaking to Politicking; New Surgery repairs the heart - Dr. Wilfred Bigelow; Nice 2-page colour GM ad with five illustrations of Chevrolet through Cadillac; Canada's CF-100 - Boldest and Costliest Aviation Venture; How the Price Squeeze hit the Newspapers; U.K. Trade Mission - what it achieved; How to make money when stocks go down; Colour Chevrolet ad; Toronto Exchange in Losing Battle with Skulduggery; Let's not panic on Canadian Education; Playground of Danger in the Middle East; Small Investors invade Real Estate; Cover photo - Dr. E.J. Pratt; Cover photo of Conductor Walter Susskind; Our Shabby Airports - a growing shame; The Cigarette war comes to Canada; How we cover up our Racia Abuses; Confused Tax Laws cost you money; Cover photo of TV's Joyce Sullivan; Our 'forgotten force' in the middle-east - Snafu in UNEF; Closed-circuit TV catches on in Canada; Revival of Freedom on Latin America; Natural Gas Stocks - profit possibilities; Cover photo of George C. Metcalf; Election Pollsters; Can a machine prove you are drunk?; What free trade would mean to Canada; Cover photo of J.E. Coyne of the Bank of Canada; What do we need most in Canadian schools - money or brains?; A Long-Term Payoff in Labrador Power; Spoon-fed patriotism won't work in Canada; New market technique for skillful traders; Cover photo and story on Sir Robert Watson-Watt; Rescuing a world bent on Suicide; How many people are really out of work?; Our moonstruck U.S. Neighbors; Sales Promotion brings in hard cash; Cover photo and article on Rev. Dr. J.R. Mutchmor; The Recession; Dilemma of Diplomacy; Parlor politics and the video vote; New play in the copper market; Cover photos and article on CCF leader M.J. Coldwell; How Canada built and abandoned the world's first Jetliner - designed by James Floyd; Gold's new glitter brings out old glamor; Our religious revival - new faith or old fear?; Boating craze booms business; Cover photo and article of CPA's Grant McConachie; Business in British Columbia; Could we stop Russian missiles?; Global triple play - Ike to Dag to Mr. K; Vancouver's Deas Island Project - Submarine Highway Under the Fraser; Cover photo and story on Stratford's Charmion King; Trade Policy; Why the CF-105 had to be built *Great Avro Arrow Article with Photos*; The case against the Grand Jury; Mutual Funds; Cover photo and article on Labour Minister Mike Starr; Why the market rises while business slumps; Will resurgent Tories take over in B.C.?; How the DBS figures can make you money; Can leadership solve the world's ills; Cover photo and article on Federal Finance Minister Donald Fleming; Canadian-UK banks combine to develop South American trade; Terror in British Columbia - the Sons of Freedom in the Kootenays; NORAD and NATO and their affects on our national interest; New Trend - Mutual Life Companies; Dollars and cents re: Air Conditioning; Jason Robards cover photo and article; Cover photo and artile on Davidson Dunton; Hoffa Muscles in - will labor racketeers strangle the Seaway?; Feeble defense policy cripples our armed forces; TV inquisitors give journalism new depth; Mining market madness; Cover photos and article on Dag Harrarskjold; The State of Alaska - partner or problem?; Sherman Adams Case - Pharisee's Prattfall; What Shakespeare did to Stratford; Who benefits from Gasoline wars?; Cover photo and article on Maurice Duplessis; Will foreign cars drive U.S. Makers to Model-T thinking?; How NORAD worked in Mid-East Crisis; Successful Pay-TV - a first for Canada?; TBill sale can fight inflation; Cover photo and article on CBC's Jack Duffy (who bears a resemblance to Mr. Obama); The Family Fortunes; TV in Russia; Arab Showdown; Buy a house and stay solvent; Cover photos and article on Claude Bissell; Does Ottawa connive in U.S. attempt to tax Canadians?; Why emotion rules in U.S. School Fight; Army faces atom war without atomic arms; A hundred-y Book
1963Features include: Orchids of Nepal - Three Coelogynes; Producing Cattleyas for the Cut-Market Trade; An Orchid of Lake Mead National Recreational Area; Instant Media for Orchid Seed Germination; A Note on Schomburgkia Brysiana; The Genus Coelogyne; Getting Along with the Humidity; Hobbyists' Round-Up: Greenhouse Watering System; How to Grow Orchids (Pt 2): A Greenhouse for your Orchids; and Collectors' Item: Coelia triptera and Bothriochilus macrostachyus. Little Wear. Unmarked. A clean copy. Book
2007Over 600 pages. Tight and square. Moderate wear. Minimal high-lighting to contents else clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Book
193872 pages. Features: Two-colour black and white photo ad inside front cover for International Harvestor's Industrial Power Products; Out of the Indian Night, by William J. Makin - a tale of the Northwest frontier and teh courage that drives frail flesh to heroism; Britain's Unemployment Insurance , by Brian Meredith; Can War Cross the Pacific?, by Charles Lugrin Shaw who argues that adequate defenses are needed to protect Canada's west coast from attack; You Roll Your Own, by Kalman Phillips - she fell in love with a man who kep finding an octopus in a trout pool; The Bay Street Boys, by Frederick Edwards - life is just one up and down after another to the Dominion's 4,000 stock salesmen - with nice black and white photo of Bay Street, Toronto; The Exile, by Beryl Gray - it took them a long time to realize that love does not feed on selfishness; Beverley Baxter's London Letter - an address to the United States; Sable Island, by C.F. Blackadar - "While men sail in ships there will be wrecks on Sable's greedy sands" - with photos; The 7th (Seventh) Day, by Max Brand (part); Checks Please, by Lotta Dempsey - checks are very much in fashion; Mexico and Manana, by Madge Macbeth - Growing trade with Mexico opens new opportunities to Canadian business; Nice full-page black and white DeSoto ad on page 31; Two-colour Oldsmobile full-page ad on page 33; Black and white photo two-page centrefold ad for the Hudson 112 car; Black and white full-page 1938 Plymouth ad on page 45; Black and white photo full-page Dodge truck ad on page 49; William G. Gibson of Ladner, BC - world's champion wheat grower; Cougar Pets, by Francis Dickie - Marion, Pearl and Pansy Schnarr of Sonora, BC have brought up from babyhood two cougars - includes two photos; Page 65 missing; Small piece removed from page 67; Nice Kodak ad on back cover shows baby covering his mouth. Address label atop front cover. Covers loose but present. A worthy copy. Book
195532 pages. Undated but appears to be circa 1955. Wonderful black and white photos throughout. Features: British Columbia's Centennial Celebrations; Canada's Boy's Town in Malaya; Colombo Plan Steel Technicians in Britain; Ghana's Goodwill and Trade Mission; Designs of the Year - annual U.K. awards; Ceylon's Buddhists in London; H.M. the Queen Mother's World Tour; Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition; Child Welfare in Pakistan; Modern New Airport in Nairobi, Kenya; New Zealand's expanding forests; The Craft of the Nigerian Potter; Spare-Time Studies in Britain; Uganda's New Agrucultural School. Bonus: includes 8-page Canadian supplement which bears a lovely colour portrait of H.R.H. the Princess Margaret. Second Bonus: 13" x 9" photographic portrait of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, suitable for framing. Covers detached from textblock but present. Average wear. Unmarked. A worthy copy. Book
189316 pages. 13" x 10.5" oblong. Wonderful full-page black and white photos of: Monaco, France; A Square in Utrecht, Holland; Johan's Strasse and Royal Palace, Christiana, Norway; Palace of the Crown Prince, Stockholm; Frelsors Kirk, or, Church of Our Redeemer, Copenhagen, Denmark; The Place of Commerce, Lisbon; Mansion House, London; The Royal Palace, Madrid; St. Isaac's Cathedral, St. Petersburg; Winter Palace, St. Petersburg; Mars Hill, Athens; The Suez Canal; The Great Sphinx, Egypt; Mount of Olives; Trafalgar Square, London; Stone Relief in the Church of St. John and St. Paul, Venice. Small chips from spine. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1984298 pages. Bibliography. Index. Black and white photographic plates. "...Give the whole story - the political intrigues, bizarre partnerships, fortunes made and lost, the harsh realities of the prairie winters and the brave men and women who came to the new land and made it their home." - from dust jacket. Light wear. Unmarked. Tight and square. A quality copy of this engaging work. Book
1984293 pages. Maps. Index. Extensive bibliography. Examines "...the way people exchanged goods withother people who had a different way of life." - from Preface. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1973271 pages. Glossary. Index. Wonderful black and white archival illustrations. "Examines the transatlantic trade and the significance of British metropolitan demand... Not a mere dryasdust account of tariffs and the course of trade, for its second part is concerned with the men and their ways - the merchants, importers, exporters, loggers, lumbermen, lumberjacks, timbermakers, raftsmen, sailors and their ships." - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Above-average but not excessive wear. A sound working copy. Book
19201182 pages. Index. Many fold-outs of detailed diagrams. Undated. Appears to be circa early 1900s. Topics include: Strength of Materials; Shipbuilding; Heat; Definitions; Electricity; Turbines; Steam Engines; Condensers and Auxiliaries; Refrigeration; Boilers; Oil Fuel; Internal Combustion Engines; Fire Precautions. Above-average wear to maroon cloth-covered boards. Binding intact. Some pencil writing upon endpapers. Central portion of back free endpaper torn. A worthy reading copy of this magnificent tome. Book
196730 pages. Features: Canadian Cut Glass; The Proud Years of Farming - Ontario Rural Life during the 1850s, '60s and'70s; New Year's Greeting from Ancient Egypt; Josiah Spode and the Chinese Trade; Chippendale Chinese; Sotheby's Toronto Auction Reviewed; The Chinese Taste in Silver. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
194960 pages. Features and Articles: Chairman David Lilienthal of the Atomic Energy Commission is questioned about Government-financed scholarships for Communists, and more; U.S. Foreign Aid is whacked to save money; U.S. Military in-fighting involving the Consolidated B-36 and more; Louis Johnson - Master of the Pentagon; The Angels of the Truman Campaign; Victor Reuther; Ralph Bunche; Berlin Rail Strike"; Communist Gerhart Eisler is freed in London on a technicality; Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan are engaged - with photo; China - "The Communists Have Come"; Japan's Emperor Hirohito shifts from divinity to human monarch; Kis Tarcsa concentration camp in Hungary opened again to hold 8,000, 90% of whom are Jews; Willy Messerschmidt mass produces homes of steel and 'foam concrete' in Germany - with photos; Colour ad for DeSoto automobiles; Colour ad for Woodwind suits for men; Grasshoppers in Saskatchewan; Quebec City's Maison du Bucheron provides 55 rooms for loggers; Full page election ad for "Canada's Great Leader", Louis St. Laurent; Railroad construction in Latin America; Soccer contest - Scotland vs. St. Louis; Archibald Henderson of North Carolina; Acne misery; Bill Stern of NBC's Sports Newsreel; Dow Brewery ad features the train engine heroics of 58-year-old Fred Ryan; Pope Pius XII delivers manuscript of Papal Bull - with photo; Pastor Salau; V-2's rival - the U.S. Navy's Viking rocket; Eddie Rickenbacker on the Airlines; Rudy Fah Tongg showed the people of Hawaii how to get rich - early in the second world war he formed a hui which bought up properties of fleeing Caucasions; Sir William Stevenson and the World Commerce Corp.; Colour Chevrolet ad inside back cover; Bruck Mills colour ad on back cover. Editorial content identical with U.S. edition except for added Canadian news" - from page 4. Above-average wear. Binding intact. Unmarked. Staining and occasional related damage to top one of two inches of many pages. A worthy copy. Book
194922 pages. Contents: Your Washington Reporter; President Green Denounces Taft-Hartley Act; Labor's Next Great Advance, by Tom Gillespie, Labour Correspondent in Europe; The Grim Reaper Strikes Again - Obituary of W.F. Donaldson, one of the organization's oldest members; Battle Over Health Insurance - foes bribe press and raise huge war chest; Columns by Robert Hewitt and J.T. Powell; News from various lodges; Know your rights - how much will you get when you retire?; Trade Education - the chilled car wheel - historical information about the development of rail wheels by the Griffin Wheel Company; Ad inside back cover for U.S. Savings Bonds; Ad on back cover for a special railman offering of zippered wallet, pencil-type flashlight, ball point pen, and monogram initialled key holder by Illinois Merchandise Mart of Chicago. Average wear. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
194922 pages. Contents: Cover photo of President Harry S. Truman, The Man of the Year (for advocating repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law, and more); Your Washington Reporter; "Closed Shop" - An How! - considers the 'union security' of doctors and lawyers - by Ruben Levin; Some aspects of the Legislative picture, provided by Senator Wayne L. Morse; Harold L. Walker joins MacArthur's staff in Tokyo; Column by Robert Hewitt; Lodge news; Photo of Progressive Lodge 528, Brandon, Manitoba; Large photo of Pullman local Lodge Chairmen at Kansas City meeting, January 10-12, 1949; Photo from Pointsettia Lodge 78, Los Angeles; Trade Education - The Chilled Car Wheel - rail wheel history by E.W. McDonald of the Griffin Wheel Company; Gaylark Seatcover ad inside back cover; Illinois Merchandise Mart back cover ad for combination Zipper Billfold, Ball Point Pen, Pocket Flashlight and plastic key holder. Above-average external wear. Address label on front cover. A sound copy. Book
1993132 pages. Features: Is the Metropolitan Vancouver Economy Uncoupling from the rest of the province?; British Columbia's Private Sector in Recession, 1981-86 - Employment flexibility without Trade Diversification?; Sharks and Red Herrings - Vancouver's Male Employment Agencies, 1898-1915; Bibliography of British Columbia. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
197254 pages. Contents: Four-page colour photo-illustrated tourism ad for Lebanon; Feature article on country music with many great colour photos, including Webb Pierce and wife at their guitar-shaped pool; Nashville Cats - photos of American cowboys, hobos, howlers, growlers, yodellers - and one dark stranger (country music stars); Motoring and the Law - automobiles produce more ways of breaking the law than any other aspect of modern life; Colour photo ad for Long Beach, British Columbia, Canada; Traps of the Trade - buying and selling a car is an area beset with pitfalls; Attractive full-page colour photo ad for Tonik; The Parking Jungle - a guide to the mystery of parking your car; When you Have an Accident; Colour photo ad for the Triumph 2.5 P.I. Chunk torn from fore-edge of page 12 affecting Hank Snow photo and part of the text of the country music article. Clipping from page 47 affecting text of article on 'when you have an accident'. Last page loose but present. Book
1978168 pages. Index. Bibliography. Handsome colour illustrated boards. "...Extends back to the earliest days when Norsemen landed the first domestic animals on the North American continent at Nova Scotia... The story of the big historic spreads: Bar U, Oxley, Matador, Empire Valley, Douglas Lake, Hitchcock, Chilco, Gang, '76', McIntyre, Bow River Horse Ranche, 100 Mile, and many more throughout the 'northwest territories' and what is now British Columbia." Contains about 300 photos, many from private collections. Light wear. Pages yellowed with age. Binding tight. A nice copy of this entertaining and informative work. Book
1983Features: Argentina - a civilian solution?; Arson at Red Hot Video - B.C.'s war on Pornography; Cover article - John Crosbie - the Tory to watch; 1-page article on Jane Crosbie, John's wife; Nova Scotia's 'Tollgate'; Righting a terrible wrong - Donald Marshall; The Margaret Thatcher Factor; Rumour of war in mideast; Cracks in South Africa's wall of white; Canada's illegal alien trade - smuggling people into the US; Stock Market - some insist the current market is ready for another 1929 crash; Eastern Airlines - soaring debt load; Taxing burden for Canadian distillers; Peter Newman on Victor Rice, CEO of Massey-Ferguson; Joseph Borowski's legal challenge to Canada's abortion law; Nuclear power's soft underbelly - Indian Point; Revolution in Romance novels, by Anne Collins; Blue Thunder - movie review. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
