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1991réf. 731H3024Canada: Douglas & McIntyre 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 160 pages. Footnotes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Illustrated in black and white. "The Spanish heritage of the Pacific Northwest has long been overshadowed by that of the region's more persistent colonizers the English. With this book Donald C. Cutter sets aright the historical balance." - dust jacket. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy. Douglas & McIntyre Hardcover
1998réf. 326H3297Canada: Alan Blackwell 1998. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed and dated by author upon dedication page. 150 pages. Bibliography. Black and white reproductions of photos. Map endpapers. "An entertaining look at one man's extraordinary life. Yet with its descriptions of pioneer life and the events that helped mold the author's character it accomplishes much more than the average autobiography. In fact though perhaps as much by accident as design it also affords readers a rare glimpse into the social cultural and economic development of the Ootsa Lake B.C. area - and for this reason if no other should be read." - Foreword. "Blackwell was a member of the First Special Service Force aka 'The Devil's Brigade' and saw action in the Aleutians Italy and France. Upon his return to Ootsa Lake he worked as a logger farmer guide-outfitter and placer miner until retirement." - back board. Clean bright and unmarked with light wear. An attractive copy. Alan Blackwell Hardcover
2006réf. 218H3057Canada: CNCP 2006. Book. Fine. Paperback. Reprint. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. xxiv 464 pages. Index. Three colour fold-out maps. Profusely illustrated with black and white reproductions of archival photos. Stories about the pioneers in and around the Prince George British Columbia area. Includes introduction to log house building and introduction to early agricultural settlement in the Prince George area. "A who's who of the pioneer families that settled in the Prince George area. Based upon five years of research and over one-hundred interviews." - back cover. Clean bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. CNCP Paperback
1978réf. 558H3169Victoria B.C.: Central Junior Secondary School 1978. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Loads of wonderful black and white photos. Approximately 94 pages. Prior owner's name blacked out atop front cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Central Junior Secondary School Paperback
1979réf. 417H3154Canada: Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. 1979. Book. Illus. by Chaplin Carl cover. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Spirit Wrestlers - Alberta's Doukhobors fled persecution in Russia but found more in Alberta; Gabriel Dumont - Metis Warrior; Collins Overland Telegraph part 1; The Ghost at Mackenzie House; Murdered in the Township of Blenheim - J. Reginald Birchall; Tom Clarke - The Man Who Shot NWMP scout Jerry Potts; How to Locate Placer Gold; Ghost Town Log - B.C. offers hundreds of ghost towns mining camps and historic sites conclusion; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. Paperback
1990réf. 417H3135Canada: Sunfire Publications Ltd. 1990. Book. Illus. by Grignon Paul. Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 36 pages. Features: The First Encounter - Samuel de Champlain transformed a tribal rivalry into a continental conflict; Robert Lowery's Laughs from the Past; William Duncan - Missionary to the Tsimshian; Coal Dust Days in Canmore; The Nanaimo Mine Disaster of 1887; Robert Campbell - Yukon Explorer. Unmarked with average wear. Mild undulations from moisture exposure. A sound reference copy. Sunfire Publications Ltd. Paperback
1992réf. 417H3138Canada: Sunfire Publications Ltd. 1992. Book. Very Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 46 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: Bill Maximick - Profile of a Western Artist - one of British Columbia's most respected marine artists; When Whales Were Fair Game - Between 1910 and 1943 Rose Harbour and other whaling stations whaled the Pacific; Amur Danube & Tees - Three Pioneer West Coast Steamers that carried gold-seekers to the Klondike; Blue-Coated Mounties - The Alberta Provincial Police; Klondike Joe Boyle. Clean bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Sunfire Publications Ltd. Paperback
1983réf. 53AH3172Victoria B.C.: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria 1983. Book. Illus. by Maynard Max Singleton. Fair. Paperback. First American Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 48 pages. Illustrated in colour and black and white. Selected Bibliography. Exhibition List. Eight informative biographical pages including archival photos. Looks "primarily at Maynard's painting in the years before he concentrated on his academic pursuits. Included also are examples of his later and more recent work which completes the circle of his artistic endeavours." - Foreword. Former library copy with above-average wear and usual markings. Hinges taped. Not pretty but a worthy reference copy. Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Paperback
1973réf. 644H3038Canada: Nunaga 1973. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 72 pages. "The rich history and valuable photographs presented here are the results of Mr. Woodland's many years of genuine interest and curiosity. As publishers we have endeavoured to make this a credible portrayal of his collected material." - page 2. Includes black and white reproductions of 118 magnificent archival photos. Unmarked with average wear. Binding brittle but holding. A worthy reference copy of this fascinating work. Nunaga Paperback
1968réf. 644H3128British Columbia: B.C. Ferries 1968. Book. Very Good. Map. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 9" x 4" - folds out to 24" x 18". Colour map on one side shows B.C. Ferry routes. Reverse side provides details of tourist destinations with colour photos reservation details for the sailing to Prince Rupert corporate contact details and a brief statement by W.A.C. Bennett. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. B.C. Ferries unknown
1978réf. 417H3151Canada: Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. 1978. Book. Illus. by Mclean Terry cover. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Special triple issue. 104 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Billy Barker - he hit the mother lode; Last Voyage of the Tonquin March 25 1811; Miser's Hoard - Silas K. Vandermark; Policing the Rails - B.C. Provincial Police Constable Fred Emmott; Steamboat in the Rapids - the Maid of the Mist shoots the rapids below Niagara Falls June 6 1861; Murder at Beaver Pass - black barber Wellington Delaney Moses helps solve murder case; Grafton Tyler Brown - Black Artist of the West; Father Rondeault's Butter Church - St. Ann's Church on the Cowichan native reserve near Duncan on Vancouver Island; The Life and Death of the Davis-Humphries Hotel - Augusta Twp. Ontario; Leechtown's $40000 Cache - on Vancouver Island's Leech River; Dead Man's Gold - a tale from up the Stewart River; The Evil-Tempered Explorer - Captain Sir Edward Belcher R.N.; Memories of Mount Sicker - its copper prompted development of two major mines a railway and three small townsites; Cariboo Memories of Constance Pettijohn; The Ghost of Walt Whitman and Ontario's Bon Echo Rock; Haida Chief Koyah's War; The Tragedy of the American Buffalo; Buffalo are moved to the future Banff National Park; Sod House Earns Pioneer's Respect; The Last Great Indian Battle - it became a slaughter when the Cree made a rush for the river; Twenty-six Years With the B.C. Provincial Police - Constable Jack Williams retired in 1949 several drops of soiling and slight moisture exposure to this story. Unmarked with moderate soiling and wear. A sound vintage copy. Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. Paperback
1977réf. 417H3148Canada: Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. 1977. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: They Came Before Cook - Explorers who visited British Columbia before Captain James Cook; Church at Yale B.C. Has Roots - it has seen over a century of service; The Haunted Man - An 1861 Victoria Detective Story; The Unknown Land - times have changed since American fisheries officer James Swan visited the Queen Charlotte Islands almost a century ago; Poundmaker - Son of Crowfoot; British Columbia's Hedley Camp and the Nickel Plate Mine; Reminiscences of hundred-year-old mining man John 'Jake' Turnbull; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. Paperback
1979réf. 417H3152Canada: Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. 1979. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 44 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Gold! - Part 1 - Gold throughout the ages; Massacre at Seven Oaks - the battle became a massacre when a Metis shot the governor; The Black Donald Mines - John Moore slipped on a rock and made the largest and richest graphite discovery in Canadian history; On the Klondike Trail - some struck it rich but many more experienced only hardship; A Brief History of Matches; The Saga of the Steam Threshing Machine on the Canadian Prairies; Writing-On-Stone in the Milk River Valley - a replica of the NWMP fort recalls the border patrols of the past; British Columbia's First Visitors from Outer Space; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. Paperback
1955réf. 326H3283New York: Pageant Press 1955. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 213 pages. Eight pages of photographic plates. "A true saga of the New World is the story of the Dunsmuirs of Vancouver Island. No history of British Columbia no references to older days no account of the 'good old times' could possibly be complete without a story of the famous family whose members helped found the Province and whose adventures in life brought them wealth power and social position." - page 1. Author was the grandson of James Dunsmuir. Lowther indicates publication of this title was withdrawn in consequence of legal action. Bit of writing stroked out atop front free endpaper otherewise unmarked with somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. Dust jacket not included. A worthy reading copy. WHALE 36 LOWTHER 1948 KENT p.37. Pageant Press Hardcover
1993réf. 417H3139Canada: Sunfire Publications Ltd. 1993. Book. Illus. by Kane Paul cover. Very Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 36 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: Paul Kane's Western Art; Fort Victoria 1843-1858 Part I; Mapping the Border; Bulldog Kelly's Buried Loot; The Lost Rocker Mine. Clean bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Sunfire Publications Ltd. Paperback
1972réf. 417H3142Canada: Canada West Magazines 1972. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: The Lost Morgan Mine near Greenwood City; The Highest Judge in the Highest Court in the HIghest City in Canada - W.R. "Willie" Williams; Historic Hedley B.C.; Gold Bullion at Twelve Fathoms - the Pacific went down in 1875 off Cape Flattery; The Money Shell - money used by native peoples of Western Canada was dentalium or higua a sea shell; Letters from the North-West - Part I - A.R. Dyre was a young North-West Mounted Policeman who served in the wests from 1882 to 1885. Name atop front cover. Average wear. A sound vintage copy. Canada West Magazines Paperback
1970réf. 417H3140Canada: Canada West Magazines 1970. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 32 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Beyond Lillooet; Nature Notes; Tokens From Yesterday; Allison Pass Memoirs - part 4 of 5; Our Vanishing Heritage - disappearing lake boats; Ymir - Old Kootenay Mining Town. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy. Canada West Magazines Paperback
1992réf. 115H3136Canada: Sunfire Publications Ltd. 1992. Book. Very Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 44 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: Steveston - A Splendid Opening for a Capitalist; Murder in the Arctic - Oblate Missionaries Rouviere and LeRoux are killed; Old Fort Macleod - Southern Alberta's first white settlement; Old Man Green's Missing Hoard - Murder on Savory Island near Lund B.C.; Nightmare Pass Through the Rocky Mountains. Clean bright and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Sunfire Publications Ltd. Paperback
2010réf. 517H3055Canada: Daisy Havdale 2010. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by author upon title page. 182 pages. Reproductions of black and white photos. "A true account of what happened from the time B.C. Hydro the 'Gestapo' of B.C. began running over us. I kept a detailed diary in which I wrote accurate accounts of events." - back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A nice copy. Daisy Havdale Paperback
1976réf. 417H3147Canada: Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. 1976. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: The Ship That Turned Over In Her Grave - the 'Gulf Stream' owned by Gulf Lines Ltd. served the Vancouver to Powell River run; Jack Fannin - this pioneer extraordinaire was the first curator and virtually creator of the British Columbia Provincial Museum; Forgotten Towns of the West Kootenay - many have been lost to flood and fire; 1689 - Year of the Massacre - Missionaries killed by the Iroquois; Klondike Journey - Part 2 of 3 on Klondike of the 1890s and the travels of Robert beresford Allison; The Gold-Plated Nickels - counterfeiting method used by a deaf-mute in the U.S. in 1880; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd. Paperback
1938réf. 644H2835Victoria B.C.: Government of British Columbia B.C. 1938. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 50 pages. Reproductions of many black and white photos. Diagrams. Map. "Prepared to meet an ever-increasing demand from people in all parts of Canada and the United States as well as abroad for non-technical information on this major B.C. industry." - Foreword. Topics include: history varieties of Pacific salmon spawning migration methods of catching canning government inspection of canned salmon salting smoked salmon science in the fisheries the value of fish in the human diet comparison of the composition and food value of salmon compared to other foods. Author was Provincial Assistant Commissioner of Fisheries. Printed upon glossy stock. Minor pen mark atop map on page 35 otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding tight. A sound vintage copy. Government of British Columbia [B.C.] Paperback
1979réf. 651H2557Victoria B.C.: British Columbia Historical Association 1979. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 44 pages. Features: Captain Inskip R.N. and British Columbia; The Bell-Irving Land Surveyors in British Columbia; Alfred Pendrell Waddington and "Bute Island Route"; Old Trails and Routes in British Columbia; - The HBC 1849 Brigade Trail - Fort Hope to Kamloops; Reginald C.R. Tweed; Book Reviews; and more. Address label on back cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. British Columbia Historical Association Paperback
1973réf. 843H2553Nanaimo B.C.: Westward Collector Publishing Ltd. 1973. Book. Fair. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Premiere issue. 30 pages. Features include: Second annual Victoria and Nanaimo Antique Bottle Show; Letters; We Dig Bottles by "Bob & George"; Blowing Off Foam! - The Karbonated Korner by Bob & Donna Skrill; What on Earth Is It; George Coletti & Son of Nelson B.C.; Jewels of Talking Wire - insulators; Cecil and Joan Harris of Vernon B.C.; Books in Review; Relics by Jim Heidt; License Plate Collecting by Allan Gadsen; Old Ads from Victoria Colonis Christmas 1874; Photos of Free blown bottle; Pottery Jugs; Ads; Club News. Printed on glossy stock. Covers and first few pages wavy from moisture exposure otherwise unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A worthy collectible copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Westward Collector Publishing Ltd. Paperback
1974réf. 843H2554Nanaimo B.C.: Westward Collector Publishing Ltd. 1974. Book. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 48 pages. Features: Letters; Chinese Artifacts by Flo & Al Clemens; 3rd Annual Vancouver Island Bottle Show & Sale - photo-illustrated article; Nanaimo Dig Club; Sealed Bottles by Dick & Barbara Hoyle; Insulators by Larry & Wendy Lundgren; Relics by Jim Heidt; Auto Collectibles by Allan Gadsen; Old Guns by Mike Hill; Vancouver Notes by D. Harrison; Gold Seal Liquor Co. Vancouver B.C.; International Wine Co. by G. Northcote; Collecting Old Locks; Documents & Other Paper Collectibles; More Jugs; Living Free - Patricia Armitage writes about Dieter and Tina Bonkowski of Yellow Point - with photos; Old Phonographs by Coleman Kiss; Depression Glass; Fruit Jar Corner; Collectors of Note; The Karbonated Korner - The Comox Valley Mysteries by Bill Patterson; The West Coast Mystery - "Stone Bear" found by Morris McNally of Nanaimo; Articles from the collection of Norm and Sandy Barker of Chase River B.C.; Furniture Lamps & Bric A Brac; French Ivory by M. Skrill; Prairie News; Club Directory; Classified ads; and more. Printed on glossy stock. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this interesting British Columbia bottle collecting periodical. Westward Collector Publishing Ltd. Paperback
1951réf. 346H2545London: The Wide World 1951. Book. Illus. by Nicolson W.C. cover;. Good. Single Issue Magazine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxiv 129-192 pages. Features: 500 miles to freedom -nine men escape Rabaul after it is overrun by the Japanese in 1942; The land sharks - a story from Canada in 1925 about get-rich-quick schemes in real estate; Man-Eater - the brief but eventful career of a man eating tiger as recounted by a former member of the Burma Frontier Service; The Vale of the Gods the northern Punjab - photo illustrated article; The Ju-Ju Doctor - the facts of an amazing occurrence on the Gold Coast; The Dragon - big scare on East Indian Island; Photo of typical Cyprus Brickyard; The Sea-Dyaks of Borneo - photo illustrated account of this little-known race of former headhunters and pirates; Section Man - an interesting glimpse of the life of a track labourer on a Canadian railroad; The Poorhouse Tragedy - 3 People Were Shot Dead in Crawford County Arkansas; The Bluffton Wolf - famous Texas wolf; and more plus many vintage ads. Small pencilled name atop front cover otherwise unmarked with moderate wear. Binding intact. A quality vintage copy. The Wide World Paperback