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1987224 pages. Index. Select bibliography. Reference notes. "Like Beacon Hill in Boston and Nob Hill in San Francisco, Montreal's Square Mile was a golden enclave for the rich and powerful in the halcyon days before income tax, a small geographic area whose inhabitants controlled two thirds of the nation's wealth. The Square Mile was the cradle of Canada's commercial aristocracy home of the McGills and McTavishes (furs), Molsons (beer), Redpaths (sugar), Ogilvies (flour), and scores of families that came after them to live on the elm-shaded streets in the shadow of Mount Royal." - from dust jacket. Wonderful and abundant black and white archival photographs. Usual library markings. Average wear. Binding sound. A solid reference copy. Book
1983Features: Fires of Thunder - Quebec's Project of the Century Roars over the Lands and Lives of the Cree; Marine Dominoes - Scientists piece together the complex ecological puzzles of the once great kelp beds; Everest - The Expedition Chronicle of Canadians facing Mountaineering's Crowning Challenge; Canadian Mount Everest Expedition 1982 - The Team. 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
1995Articles: The Saladin Trial - A Last Hurrah for Admiralty Sessions; Hardly Heroes - Canadian Merchant Seamen and the International Convoy System, 1939-1945; The Origin and Growth of the Canadian Customs Preventive Service Fleet in tyhe Maritime Provinces and Eastern Quebec, 1892-1932; plus several book reviews. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Nice copy. Book
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
1985324 pages. Index. Bibliography. Black and white illustrations. Author's signature upon front free endpaper. "Traces the development of the town of Pointe Claire from its beginnings as a stretch of lonely farms to its present as a major municipality. Covers three hundred years of Canadian history as it affected the people of the West Island community. Old maps, photos and the words of contemporary observers take the reader into a past where the pioneer farmers struggled to defeat Indians, the land, the climate and foreign invaders... This is the only complete history of the town." - from dust jacket. Gift greetings atop title page else book clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Very light wear to dust jacket which has touches of yellowing to flaps, and is now preserved in a glossy new Brodart cover. A premium copy. Book
1937Unpaginated. 11.25" x 8.5" x 0.5". Nicely decorated and textured maroon boards. Contents surprisingly clean, bright and unmarked. Binding sound. Moderate external wear. A nice copy. Book
193880 pages plus advertisements. 11.25" x 8.5" x 0.5". Nicely decorated and textured maroon boards bear average wear and several small white spots. Binding excellent. Contents clean and unmarked aside from sixteen autographs on autograph page at back. A sound copy. Book
193968 pages plus advertisements. 11.25" x 8.5" x 0.5". Nicely decorated and textured maroon boards bear some manner of white residue which *may* be removable if you are very patient - please see our photo. Average wear overall. Contents very clean, bright and unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy. Book
1992Features: Technological Momentum, Motor Buses, and the Persistence of Canada's Street Railways to 1940; Thomas Edison - the battle of the systems and the persistence of direct current; The Persistence of Draft Oxen in Western Agriculture; Technical Advance and Stagnation - the case of nail production in nineteenth-century Montreal; The Influence of Resource Quality on Technological Persistence - Charcoal Iron in Quebec; Time for a Change? - Technological Persistence in the British Watchmaking Industry; Change and Diversity within traditional Cooperage technology; Randolph Hersey and the Montreal Nail Industry, 1852-1903; Revolution Forgotten - The Peters' Combination Lock Co., Moncton, N.B.; and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
1996Features: Transforming the Food Axis - Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis; Machines in Suburban Gardens - the 1936 T. Eaton Company Architectural Competition for House Designs; Tompkinsville, Cape Breton Island - Co-operativism and Vernacular Architecture; Slag Houses in a Steel City; British Army Officer Housing in Upper Canada, 1784-1841; Managing Household Pests the Old-Fashioned Way - Defenses against pest damages in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Also includes the following exhbit reviews: Love, Leisure and Laundry - Why Housework Just Won't Go Away; Finding a Space for Children and Their History; Power and Planning - Industrial Towns in Quebec, 1890-1950. Seven book reviews. and more. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
1999Features: The Architecture of Old Quebec, or The HIstory of a Palimpsest; Material History as Cultural Tradition - A La Ronde, Exmouth, Devon, England; Construction d'un paysage identitaire - Grand-Pre et la collectivite acadienne; Construire une histoire basque au Quebec; "Our Nation's Attic?" - Making American National Identity at the Smithsonian Institution; "Hitler's Car" and the Canadian War Museum - problems of documentation and interpretation; The changing significance of the Warren B. Sheppard Site, Battle Creek, Michigan; David Lowenthal on Public History - an interview; 5 book reviews. Average wear. Former library copy with usual markings. A sound copy. Book
2004Features: The Appropriation and Disappropriation of Objects/L'appropriation et la desappropriation des objets; La ceinture flechee au carrefour des convoitises des communautes canadiennes-francaises, amerindiennes et metisses du Canada; Vitrines coloniales - ethnologie plastique de l'Algerie a l'exposition universelle de 1889 a Paris; L'identite culturelle armenienne entrevue dans un interieur domestique - les indices d'un patrimoine de diaspora; From Object of Poverty to National Treasure - the Ambiguous place of Catholic convents in Quebec and the Rhetoric of heritage; La modernite paradoxale inscrite dans la culture materielle d'une communaute de Roms hongrois; Reconsidering the Smallest of artifacts - on the origins of Philatelic Collecting; Des musees dans tous leurs etats - trois sites Web; three book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
1978177 pages. Proceedings of the conference sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, September 9-11, 1977. Topics include: Ethnic Minorities in Quebec and the Nationality Policy of the Parti Quebecois; Quebec's Ethnic Communities in the Wake of the Pequiste Electoral Victory; The Ukrainian Canadians in Social Transition; The Federal Policy of Multiculturalism and the Ukrainian-Canadian Community; Banquet address by Keith Spicer; Multiculturalism - The Basic Issues; Canada's Options in a Time of Political Crisis and Their Implications for Multiculturalism; The Search for Consensus - Panel Discussion. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Binding intact. A worthy reference copy. Book
1999192 pages. Index. "Featuring delicious modern interpretations of classic recipes and traditional dishes from Atlantic Canada, Quebec, Ontario, the prairies, the mountains and the Pacific coast, this collection is truly a celebration of great Canadian cuisine... Delectable food photography by John Sherlock, striking images of the beloved hotels and a selection of nostalgic illustrations make this book a treasure both to look at and to cook from." - from dust jacket. Clean, bright and unmarked with negligible wear. Gift quality. Book
198796 pages. Bilingual French/English text. Wondrous colour illustrations throughout. "Bernard creates the beautiful, the wholesome, the fantastic and this is a conscious choice. It is in this way that he has decided to deliver his message to the world... Look carefully! Each of his compositions include an intense light represented by the sun or a star or anything luminous which symbolizes for the artist faith, hope, rebirth...." Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A quality copy. Book
192742 pages. "An educational periodical published weekly for the dissemination of technical information, with a commentary and review of the news and conditions of the Textile Industry in Canada." - from masthead. Contains many finely illustrated advertisements which clearly present the contemporary state of the art. Features: Customs Commissioner's Report; News of the Industry; The Stockinette Tariff; The Edinburgh Textile Exhibition; Some Typical Hosiery Trade Problems - calculations every knitter should know; Glossary of knit underwear terms; Silk doubling and spinning machine; Cotton Mill Efficiency; The Dyeing of Acetate Silk; British Wool Letter; British Rayon News; The Markets; British Wool and Top Quotations; and more. Above-average wear. Covers detached but present, but for top third of back cover. Book
196055 pages. Features: Archbishop Howard H. Clark, Anglican Primate of All Canada; Miami - City of Intrigue in the Sun - plotters, counter-plotters, gun-runners and exiles from a half-dozen Latin-American lands keep U.S. lawmen busy; How to Improve Your Luck; Colour photos of sweater fashions; Under the Knife - comic; Dog with a Soft Spot for Orphans - a motherly French Bulldog; These Men Are Almost Dead of Thirst - French Hunters Die of Thirst in Sahara; Quebec Novelist Marie-Claire Blais Takes New York in her Stride; Stars on Ice - Stars turn out for the 25th anniversary of the Ice Follies in Hollywood; Patron Saint of the Hot-Rod Set - Gordon Taylor, Transportation Minister of Alberta; Dean Griffing and Frankie Filchock say it is time for Canadian football to go American; A boy's best friend is his duck; Nipper by Doug Wright. Colour ads for: Sun-Up; Crown Royal Syrup; Lady Galt Towels; Heinz Spaghetti; Robin Hood Cake Mix; Philishave Speed-Flex; Salada Tea; Five Roses Flour; Canadian General Electric Appliances; Lux Soaps; Coffee; Birds-Eye frozen dinners; Pepsi-Cola; Christie's Premium Crackers; Maple Leaf Sausages; Aylmer Soups; Cadbury's Choco; Betty Crocker; Simon's Cigars; Electrohome Stereos; SOS pads; Cadbury's Dairy Milk. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
196255 pages. Features: How a Canadian jazz singer became the wife of an Earl - Stevie Wise of Toronto is now Lady Listowel, married to the Earl of Listowel; They Help Themselves by Helping Others - Rev. Henri Groues of France originated the Emmaus idea of collecting, repairing and selling used goods to build homes for the poor - Rev. Laurent Laporte of Montreal; He goes fishing in his own living room - George Wendelkin; A Cold Wind Makes Lola Albright a hot property; Don't put off that children's Party - or you may find it's too late to enjoy the fun yourself; League of the Light-Fingered - Shoplifting is a problem that has grown to million-dollar proportions in Canada; Fiddler with Plenty of Strings to his Bow - Ellis Wilson of Quebec is a band leader, a farmer, a TV salesman and a barber; Ted Bowsfield of Penticton, B.C. succeeds at baseball in Boston and Los Angeles; A British Army Armoured Car is converted to carrying money; Bud Henning's All-Girl Drill Crew - three daughters are all he needs to man his rig - water drilling family in the Kootenays of B.C.; You need luck in this business - Bill Daniels has cornered the market - he owns three million four-leaf clover plants - Gulfport, Florida - his business is called Daniels' Clover Specialty Co.; Nipper by Doug Wright. Great colour ads including Savage Shoes centerfold. '62 Envoy colour car ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
196247 pages. Features: Prince Philip - Royal Patron of Science; Do-it-Yourself Broadway Musicals - twice a year a part-time Hamilton group stages a glamorous and glittering show - the Hamilton Theatre, Inc.; Winnipeg girl who belongs to Paris - Elaine Kennedy Gombault; Grasstronaut - an old space suit relieves a circulatory ailment and a man once bedridden can now walk again - John Pastor of Santa Monica; Raymond Massey Triumphs as a Doctor; Strong Arm Men - a wrist-wrestling contest held in Quebec produces two champions - O'Neil Corriveau and Andre Desbiens; A New Way with Glass - Artist Eric Wesselow creates stained glass with depth and dimension; Campaigning for Laughs - a cross-section of candidates tells about politics' lighter side - stories and pictures from eight political figures; Warren Spahn shows us baseball's $80,000 screwball; Britain brightens up - improving the appearance of buildings; Nipper by Doug Wright. Average wear. Unmarked. Book
196147 pages. Features: I Like Hollywood Children - so says Montreal artist Eva Prager, who has painted portraits of leading stars' youngsters; I became a spy for the man I loved - Ethel Gee, Harry Houghton and the Lonsdale Spy Ring; Lovely full-page colour ad for Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles; The Royal Commission on Publications; Salute to the Salmon - mosaic depicting salmon swimming upstream is part of a fountain in Nanaimo, B.C. which was a belated centennial gift from the city's Italo-Canadian community - two nice colour photos with text - great Nanaimo history; Man O' War's farewell drama - $80,000 thrill for Windsor, Ontario; 10 Photos of Canadian MPs exercising; Terry the tricky dog - drives tractors, water skis, and more; Toronto taxis set up their own theatre; They got what they wanted - Gerry and Elspeth Burnett of Matane Air Services, Matane, Quebec; Muscle men rented out for photo shoots; Sunnyview Outdoor Science School on Toronto Island; 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
196071 pages. Features: Bob (Robert) Goulet - he finds there is room at the top for hard work; Sweat Equity helps pay for their house - Joe Hodgen and Jeannette MacDonald prepare their new home in Chippawa, Ontario; Fidel Castro - Liberator or Slave-Maker? - a Canadian journalist visits Havana; Tragedy strikes the young duchess - The Duchess of Kent Story, Part 3 of 3; Ventriloquist Carolyn Blythe of the Blue Sky Revue in Verdun, Quebec; Porpoise with a purpose - Even blindfolded, Kathy can find her goal; Tachibana Ballet Institute in Tokyo - bathing helps their ballet; Sober piety and sturdy self-reliance mark the old-world ways of Canada's Mennonites; The Man the Sharks would't eat - Captain Haliburton (Bertie) Himmelman explains what happened to the Giant King 38 years ago; Workshop for Equality - Core, the Congress of Racial Equality, uses non-violence/sit-in strikes; School at Concrete, Washington, has a road beneath it; Charles Mohr, Jr., a University of Wisconsin senior, dies as a result of his first and last boxing knockout; Sid Caesar says "I conquered Shyness"; A new generation of bookworms is invading our libraries - children; The 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
1964Features: How William Zeckendorf changed Canada's skyline and found trouble; The good woman and the convict - how Frances McKearney's devotion led a vicious criminal (Joe Flaherty) 'back to the human race'; The Peaceniks go to La Macaza, Quebec - the U.S. civil rights technique - non-violent civil disobedience - comes to Canada (many photos); How I became a solitary noisemaker - Sheila Burnford admits that her secret vice is talking with birds; The highway that's changing Ontario - portrait of 401, the monster that makes and breaks businesses, towns and drivers; How the Scotch out-talked the family compact - Scotch Grits vs. 'Rotten Tories' in Ontario's classic battle of wit and lung power (by John Kenneth Galbraith); Report on Two World's Fairs - New York is fun, but Expo 67 might just change the world; The Man who made it all the way back - excerpt from first novel of Hugh Hood; George Wallace - the educated bigot; a band called The Beavers - Canada's answer to the Beatles; United Appeal hurts our best charities - Dr. Gordon Bates. Average wear. Small piece missing from back cover. Unmarked. Book
