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1912réf. 328a4724Ottawa: Canada Department of Mines Geological Survey Branch. Fair. 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. 208 pages. Black and white photographic plates. Colour Geological Reconnaissance Map of Southern Vancouver Island stored in pocket inside back board. This map has been bolstered in many places with adhesive tape which has yellowed over the years. Above-average wear. Binding intact. It appears that a reference library may have added stiff boards to what was initially a softcover copy. A worthy copy of this very informative work.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Southern Vancouver Island - Memoir No. 13 Colour Geological Reconnaissance Map Coal Minerals . Canada Department of Mines, Geological Survey Branch hardcover
1929réf. 170383Edmonton: The Western Veteran 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. pp. 4 27 The Western Veteran paperback
1954réf. 558H3361Nanaimo B.C.: Nanaimo Senior High School. Fair. 1954. First Edition. Paperback. 80 pages loaded with black and white photos of students and staff plus nostalgic ads for local businesses some with photos. Who knew Nanaimo used to have an Egg Pool Many dozens of autographs of both staff and students including Valedectorian Doreen Dobinson. Somewhat above-average wear. Binding intact. A sound and pleasing vintage copy of this memento of the school which has since been renamed Nanaimo District Secondary School / NDSS.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Nanaimo District Secondary School Bastion 1953-1954: Student Yearbook of N.S.H.S. Nanaimo Senior High School Now N.D.S.S. Nanaimo B.C. Staff . Nanaimo Senior High School paperback
1971réf. 417H3141Canada: Canada West Magazines. Good. 1971. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 40 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Features: Gold Along Little Hixon Creek; The K and S Railway; Our Vanishing Heritage - Salishan Indian Basketry; Old Fort Rupert Vancouver Island; W.G. Cox - Gold Commissioner - Part III; Collector's Page; The Battle Bend Country; W.S. Hatton's Paintings; Historic Three Forks in the silver country of the West Kootenay. Unmarked with average wear. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Canada West Magazine Fall 1971 Volume 3 Number 3 - Gold on Little Hixon / The K & S Railway Kaslo and Slocan Gold Along Little Hixon Creek; The K and S Railway; Our Vanishing Heritage - Salishan Indian Basketry; Old Fort Rupert Vancouver Island; W.G . Canada West Magazines unknown
1973réf. 318c6926British Columbia: Self-Published. Good. 1973. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Paperback. 147 pages. Detailed index. Bibliography. Maps. Archival black and white illustrations. Includes a new chapter on "Two Generations of Steamboating on British Columbia's Inland Lakes" as told to the author by Otto L. Estabrooks. Light wear and soiling. Unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Sternwheelers Sandbars and Switchbacks: A Chronicle of Steam Transportation in the British Columbia Waterways of the Columbia River System 1865 to 1965 Inland Lakes . Self-Published paperback
1970réf. 744a9732Victoria BC: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Paperback. 16 pages. A transcript from research conducted for the CBC radio series entitled "People in Landscape." "The days of sealing along the coast of British Columbia. Includes references to Jack London's book 'The Sea-Wolf.' Describes in detail various aspects of the sealing industry. Interviewees - Jimmy Newman Max Lohbrunner and Noel Robinson". - from title page. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Black and white illustrations. Nice copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Days of the British Columbia Sealing Fleet: A Transcript from the 'People in Landscape' Series The days of sealing along the coast of British Columbia. Includes references to Jack London's book 'The Sea-Wolf.' Describes in detail various aspects of th . Provincial Archives of British Columbia paperback
1995réf. 644H3601Canada: Harbour Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550171283 . 223 pages. List of sources. Index. Many black and white reproductions of photos. "Sointula a tiny community on Malcolm Island was founded at the turn of the century by Finnish settlers who driven from their native land by Czarish oppression hoped to build their own utopia on the B.C. coast." - dust jacket. Gift greetings upon half-title page otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Dust jacket now preserved in archival-grade Brodart. A quality copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Sointula British Columbia B.C. History Malcolm Island Matti Kurikka Finns Finnish Immigrants Local History Pioneers . Harbour Publishing hardcover
1986réf. 644H1930Canada: Tamahi Publishing. Good. 1986. First Edition. Paperback. Signed and generically inscribed by both authors atop title page. "The first complete directory of pioneer soda water companies in BC." - subtitle. 104 pages. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of black and white photos and diagrams primarily of antique soda water bottles. Prior owner's details written inside front cover. Yellow staining to top corner tip of some pages. Average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this fascinating and authoritative reference.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Pioneer Soda Water Companies of BC British Columbia Bottles Antiques History; Signed by Authors . Tamahi Publishing paperback
1984réf. 713c8442Canada: Publisher. Good. 1984. Second Printing. Paperback. 0920225020 . 52 pages. Index. Signed by author atop title page. Profusely illustrated in black and white. A reference to what many consider to be Nanaimo's most spectacular natural feature. Average wear with bit of peeling to front cover. A worthy reference copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Piper's Lagoon Vancouver Island Nanaimo Shack Island; Signed by Authors . Publisher paperback
1983réf. 75404078Victoria BC: Government of British Columbia. Very Good. 1983. First Edition. Paperback. 23 pages. Black and white illustrations. Prior owner's name atop front cover else clean and unmarked with light wear. Very nice copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Research Note No. 91 - 1983: Mass Wasting October-November 1978 Storm - Rennell Sound Queen Charlotte Islands BC Forestry Silviculture . Government of British Columbia paperback
2022réf. 291799Calgary: Bighorn Books 2022. First edition. paperback. very good/no dustjacket. 8vo oblong. pp.401 heavy book additional postage will apply Bighorn Books paperback
1999réf. 323a0775British Columbia: Harbour. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 1550172123 . 182 pages. "Recounts the area's history with the rigour of a historian and with the warmth and enthusiams of a hometown boy." - from dust jacket. Abundantly illustrated with archival black and white photos. Clean bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Lovely copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; CITIES TOWNS SOCIAL SCIENCE SOCIOLOGY Small City in a Big Valley: The Story of Duncan British Columbia . Harbour hardcover
1994réf. 291699Edmonton: Alberta Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and the Alberta Research Council 1994. First edition. hardcover. very good/no dustjacket. 4to oblong. pp.510 Very heavy book additional postage will apply.Signed and inscribed by Mika Madunicky on verso of title page Alberta Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and the Alberta Research Council hardcover
1997réf. 738G0583Canada: SHT. Good. 1997. First Edition. Paperback. 096815770x . 210 pages. Index. Profusely illustrated in black and white. "Focuses on the Halq'emeylem speaking peoples known as the Sto:lo who live along the lower Fraser River watershed. Issues ranging from early contact to contemporary urbanization are addressed providing important and often overlooked insights into Canada's Pacific Coast history. Archival as well as recent photographs and illustrations enliven the papers while the viewpoints within the essays reflect the authors' diverse backgrounds." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; British Columbia Native Peoples Stalo Indians History Indians of North America Lower Mainland . SHT paperback
1986réf. 325c9553Canada: Morriss Printing. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0919203582 . 255 pages. Primarily "a photographic record of many of the major camps sawmills pulp mills and other logging camp concerns that developed flourished faded discontinued were dismantled taken over or amalgamated on this island since its pioneer days. Also includes unique stories reminiscences trials and tribulations concerning life in the forest industry plus contributions from loggers' wives families and later generations. will be of interest to photographers loggers and laymen alike." - from dust jacket. Black and white photos abound. Map endpapers. Book clean and unmarked with light wear. Average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival Brodart cover. A quality copy of this superb compilation of Vancouver Island logging history.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; LUMBERMEN NATURE FORESTS FORESTRY Loggers Logging As It Was - a Pictorial History of Logging on Vancouver Island Sawmills Shawnigan Lake Railroads Youbou Mill Caycuse Nitinat Hillcrest Lumber Sahtlam Honeymoon Bay BCFP Chemainus Great Central Lake Albe . Morriss Printing hardcover
1945réf. 318c7766London: The Mitre Press. Fair in Fair dust jacket. 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. 56 pages. Undated - appears to be pre-1950. Contents: Poems of British Columbia; Indian Poems; Various Ballads and Ditties. Usual library markings. Average wear. A sound copy.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; Along the Road to Hazelton . The Mitre Press hardcover
1960réf. 318c6423Powell River BC: Publisher. Fair. 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Unpaginated - Half an inch thick. Very informative. Includes a plentiful and wonderful assortment of archival black and white illustrations plus a nice assortment of nostalgic advertisements. Covers beginning to separate from textblock. Somewhat above-average wear. Prior owner's details handwritten atop front cover. A worthy copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; Powell River's First Fifty 50 Years - Golden Jubilee History British Columbia . Publisher paperback
1951réf. 873G2312Vancouver British Columbia: Students of Lord Byng High School. Fair. 1951. First Edition. Paperback. 100 pages. Hundreds of reproductions of black and white photos. Lots of autographs. Heavy external wear and soiling. Lacking back cover. Prior owner clipped out his own small photo. A worthy copy of this wonderful vintage yearbook.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; 1951 Yearbook of Lord Byng High School Vancouver British Columbia West Point Grey . Students of Lord Byng High School paperback
1932réf. 563H4962Chicago: M.M. Cole Publishing Co. 1932. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Sensational vintage compilation of thirty-five 1930s lumberjack songs from the Pacific Northwest. Elmore Vincent was known as "The Northwest Shanty Boy" and the front cover art features his image superimposed over a scene of tall timber being brought down by hand as chainsaws were but a dream at that time. 64 pages. Includes lyrics guitar chords and piano sheet music for these songs: A Lumber Lad's Love Ballad of the Lumberjack Billy the River Driver Canaday-I-O Come With Me In My Little Canoe Darling Janet Down in That Lonely Valley Drinking Song Fair Charlotte Grizzly Hogan Lonesome Lumberjack Lumberjack Memories Moose Meat Smart Johnny the Logger Song of the Lumberjack Strawberry Lane The Death of George Phalen The Flying Cloud The Gambling Lumberjack and the Jim Creek Girl The Good Old Times The Great Fit The Green River Girl "The Jam at Gerry's Rock" The Lakes of Pontchartrain Three Leaves of Shamrock The Little Brown Bulls The Lumberjack and the Pretty Girl The Lumberjack's Alphabet The Lumberjack's Bible The Lumberjack in Town as sung on Seattle's "Skid Road" by Syd Johnson The Sandy Stream Song The Stranger and the Maiden Fair The Two Sisters Who Feeds Us Beans and Yodeling Lumberjack. Most songs have several verses or more. Unmarked with above-average wear. Binding intact. A rare and wonderful musical memento of the glory days of Northwest lumberjacking. M.M. Cole Publishing Co. Paperback
1907réf. 737H3538Toronto: William Briggs. Good. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. 243 pages. Tissue-protected frontis photo portrait of author. Attractively decorated maroon cloth-covered front board. All seventeen black and white plates present. "An autobiographical account of the author's first twelve years from 1862 to September 1873 as a Methodist missionary among the Cowichan and Nanaimo Indians." - Lowther. Average wear. Prior owner's name in light pencil upon front free endpaper. Faint moisture marks to fore-edge of first twenty-five pages. Hinges starting. Issued without dust jacket. LOWTHER 1556 RICKS p.75 AMTMANN 3499 SMITH 2134 WALLACE p.52 MATTHEWS 295 TOD & CORDINGLEY p.85.; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; An-ko-me-nums Flathead Tribes Indians - Pacific Coast Northwest Coast - Native Peoples Missionaries Christian Methodist Missionaries Accounts Cowichan Nanaimo Vancouver Island Whiskey Whisky Fire-Water Slavery Feuds Chilliwack Coal Tye . William Briggs hardcover
1914réf. 644H3358Victoria B.C.: Province of British Columbia Water Rights Branch 1914. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 194 pages. Index. Many black and white photographic plates plus graphs charts fold-outs and maps. Provides detailed provincial river flow benchmarks which constitute an invaluable historical reference in light of modern climate change and water supply concerns. Above-average wear. Spine taped. Binding intact. Name atop front cover. A sound reference copy. Province of British Columbia, Water Rights Branch Paperback
1918réf. 731H1153Vancouver B.C.: The Citizen Printing & Publishing Co. 1918. Book. Illus. by Hawkins Norman N. Front cover. Fair. Paperback. Signed by Authors. First Edition Thus. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed and inscribed by author dated 1918 atop first blank leaf. 66 pages. Accepted by the Royal Society of Canada as part of their Proceedings 1918. "Tsoqalem according to the Indians was a real historic character a member of the Cowichan tribe a Vancouver Island division of that linguistic group of the Salish stock known to us under the term Halkomalem whose habitat is and was the Lower Fraser Valley. How far the incidents of this story are literally true it is now impossible to say as myth and fact are inextricably woven together in it; but there can be little doubt that an Indian of the character of Tsoqalem existed some generations ago among the Cowichans and met with a tragic end at the hand of a woman somewhat in the manner recorded in the story." - from Foreword. Front cover loose but present. Portions of backstrip missing. Age-toning to contents. Above-average external wear. Binding tender. Amtmann 488 Watters p.88. The Citizen Printing & Publishing Co. Paperback
1935réf. 738G1656London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. Fair. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. 240 pages. Thirty excellent sepia-toned photographic plates. Description of life in northern Vancouver Island by a pioneer of Kingcome Valley. Part 1 The potlatch reconstruction of a typical potlatch; part 2 Recollections of an Indian agent. Interesting large newspaper clipping from 1972 laid-in describes 'The Crime of Indian-Giving - Kwakiutl fight for return of seized potlatch riches'. Heavy fading to backstrip but lettering still clearly legible. Lower right quadrant of front board faded. Short openings to top of backstrip. Somewhat above-average external wear. Binding intact. Minor foxing to endpapers. Contents lightly tanned. A worthy reference copy of this informative work. Edwards & Lort 1640.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Native Peoples British Columbia Vancouver Island Alert Bay Indian Agent Government Potlatch Department of Indian Affairs Kwawkewlth Indian Agency Kwakiutl Kingcome Valley . J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. hardcover
1913réf. 213G1775Victoria: Ministry of Education Province of British Columbia 1913. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 187 pages. Index. Attractive gilt advertisement upon black front board. Few black and white illustrations. Contents secured to boards by original black cord. "Covers a three-years course in Household Science." - from Preface. Above-average but not excessive overall wear. Errata page at front and memo page at back very heavily worn. Many contemporary hand-written recipes upon nine memo pages at back. Minimal markings to contents excepting pages 114-115 upon which are handwritten contemporary prices of dozens of grocery items. A worthy copy of this wonderful and very uncommon antiquarian British Columbia household science text. Ministry of Education, Province of British Columbia Hardcover
1923réf. 328c9891Vancouver B.C.: British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited 1923. Book. Fine. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 40 pages. Oblong 12" x 9.5". Circa 1923. Profusely illustrated with glorious contemporary black and white photos. Considerable supporting text. A sumptuous promotional work intended to highlight the investment potential of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company and its subsidiary companies: Vancouver Power Company Limited; Vancouver Island Power Company Limited; Western Power Company of Canada Limited; Vancouver Gas Company Limited; Victoria Gas Company Limited. Very attractive gilt lettering and decoration upon chocolate brown front cover. Clean and fresh with very light wear. Discrete prior owner's name atop front cover. Two short openings to fore-edge of front cover. An exceptional and rare copy of this exquisite vintage item. British Columbia Electric Railway Company Limited Paperback
