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2002200 pages. Index. Many reproductions of black and white photos. "Deals with tugs, scows and barges and the tug and barge companies in the Fraser River and along the coast, trailer barge traffic, the aggregates and cement industries and their fleets, dredging and marine construction, the oil tankers and distribution, and explosives and chemical transportation. It looks at old and new industries and their transportation solutions." - from back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Book
196479 pages including index and photos. Black and white photos and illustrations. Geological maps (back pocket). Table of contents include stratigraphy of Bullhead Succession (Monteith, Beattie Peaks, Monach, Brenot, and Crassier Group formations), description of localities and sections (French Petroleum Co, Grant Knob, Peace River Canyon, Rainbow Rocks) and economic geology (coal, oil and gas). Somewhat above-average wear. Spine taped. Usual library markings. A worthy working copy. Book
194040 pages. Circa 1940s. 71 black and white photos and illustrations. Printed on glossy stock. Features: Full-page photo of Australian troops marching down Martin Place, Sydney as they leave for overseas; Training Britain's Submarine Heroes; Article entitled The Farmer and The War, by Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, with photos; Photo portrait of Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, Commander-in-Chief of the French Navy; Arctic conditions on the British front; Pictorial news on the home front; Resignation statement by Leslie Hore-Belisha and the Prime Minister's reply; Rumania - her oil and her army; R.A.F. penetrate deep into Germany; With the Frenchmen who face the Siegfried Line; French shoot down three Nazi planes in a day; Photos of British submarines lost - the Undine, the Seahorse, and the Starfish; Neville Chamberlain surveys the progress of the war; Excellent photos of the struggle on the Finnish front; Nazi mountain troops in the Alps; Commentary on the war this week; Indian troops on the Western Front, including excellent full-page photo of hundreds of transport mules of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps; Summary of the chief events of this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
194032 pages. Printed on glossy stock. 62 black and white quality photos and illustrations. Features: Illustration of the Highlander of Aberdeen which pulled into harbour with the wreckage of a Heinkel lying across her poop; Operations in Africa - photos; Map of Khartoum and area; Aerial photo of smoke over Haifa oil storage facilities after Italian raid on July 24th; Illustrated text of speech by Sir Shenton Thomas entitled "The Colonies Go To It"; Singapore photos; photo of a platoon of a Malay regiment at drill; Photos of damage to Italian warship after being hit by a 15" shell; Photos of the ceaseless coast watch for Nazi invaders; Photos of Churchill inspecting N.E. coast defences; Centerfold illustration by S. Chapman depicts the H.M.S. Alcantara routing an enemy raider in first armed merchant cruiser engagement; Dr. Benes inspects a long line of Czeck bomber crews in England; Signing ceremony photo of Anglo-Polish military agreement; Birds of Battle - the men of the R.A.F.; Aerial photo of destruction of the wharves at Duisburg; Illustrated article on the Somaliland campaign; Photo of E-Boats; A commentary on the war for this week; Canada patrols the Atlantic - photos of Stranraer flying boats; H.M.S. Leaves port again - plus photo of the ship's officers behind a plaque which recognizes major British naval accomplishments; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
194032 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Dozens of quality black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Illustration by C. Gibberd of a wrecked Nazi plane; General de Gaulle's Free Frenchmen; Anti-Aircraft guns in day and night action; Photos of German fighter attacking British balloon; Illustrated text of speech by Winston Churchill entitled "Progress of the War"; Photos of some of the 152 german planes shot down on August 18th; Photos of German bomb damage in England; Series of centerfold illustrations show how the R.A.F. checks the number of enemy machines destroyed; Photo of the Italian submarine Galileo Galilei in the Gulf of Aden behind the trawler Moonstone which captured it; Excellent full-page photo of a devastating artillery bombardment upon Fort Maddalena, the Italian outpost in Eastern Libya; Great photo of the Officers of the York and Lancasters Regiment outside their mess in Egypt; Italian guns and tanks taken; The Occupation of Iceland; Illustrated article by Lord Milne entitled "The Auxilliary Military Pioneer Corps"; Great photo of Nazi oil depot at Dolvik, Norway on fire after being attacked by Skua aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm; Photos of honoured men including R.B. Stannard, Lilian Phillips, H. Ervine-Andrews, H. Hicholls, A.S. Irwin, William Dickson, Daphne Pearson, J. Simpson; A Commentary on the war this week; full-page map illustrating the week's bombing raids by the R.A.F.; Illustration by S. Drigin of the bombing of a mercy ship in the Channel on August 14th; Summary of chief events in the war this week. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
194132 pages. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: Rulers of the waves - various naval photos; Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland - photos of Hess, his smashed plane, and David Maclean, the ploughman who witnessed Hess's arrival and took him into his mother's house; Photo-illustrated text of article by Anthony Eden entitled "Progress of the War"; Photo of the Nazi advance on Larissa; Full-page photo of a quayside scene as British and Imperial troops return from Greece; Aerial photo of the Kirkuk oil fields from which oil is pipelined to Haifa; Map of the Middle East entitled "Threat to the Oil-Fields of Iraq shows the position of Iraq and its oil-fields in relation to Turkey, Syria and the Mediterranean; Wars of the night air - Photo of Wellington bombers and a crew as they wait for nightfall on May 10th when a heavy raid was made on Hamburg; Photo of a bomber crew being debriefed upon their return; Photo of a Douglas DB7 in flight; H.M. the King chats with crack night-fighting pilots before they take off to engage the enemy on May 8th; Photos of the Home Guard which is now one-year-old; Illustrated centerfold by Montague B. Black shows R.A.F. havoc in Hamburg; Photos of destruction to Big Ben, the House of Commons, Westminster Hall, Westminster Abbey, the Westminster Deanery, Westminster Upper School, a 700-year-old church in Bromley, Kent, and Liverpool; Photo of smiling German prisoners being marched at a London station; Photo-illustrated article by Dr. P.S. Gerbrandy of the Netherlands entitled "Faith of the Netherlands"; German sketch of a mysterious massive gun which is used to shell Dover; Photos of medical patients being removed from London's blitz; A commentary on the war this week; Photos of Britain on guard; Full-page photo of a Newfoundland artillery crew hauling its large 6" gun; Summary of the chief events in the war this week. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
199340 pages. Features: Initial Camber - Stabilizing Wood for Relief Woodcarving; New Works in Wood by Bayot Heer, Gerald Johnston, Tom McKenzie and Doug Haslam; Gothic Tracery; Dovetail Jig; Screws; Macrojoinery in the Maritimes; Making a Wooden Hand Plane the Fast Way; Armando's Story - Armando de Gobbo (misspelled as de Gobo) of Kingston, Ontario is a blind woodworker; Indexes to Woodworking Magazines and Newspapers; The Carvers' Quilt; Great photo of Farm Mechanics Students at the Prov. School of Technology and Art, Calgary, Jan. 25, 1926; Woodworking Incunabula; XceL multiple head wrenches, Nod and Shake goggles, and the Lunkenheimer "Universal" Glass Body Oil Pump are featured on back cover. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A lovely copy of this fine Canadian woodworking publication. Book
195866 pages. Features: The Shape of Custom to Come; Super Streamliner - Bob Teller and Don Johnson (featured on cover, too); Gallery of All-New Custom Dashes; How to Install a Stick Gear Shift; Bend your own Nerfs and Bumpers; Jim Earp of Wichita and his Chev-powered highboy roadster; Choose the Best '53 Stude Custom; Don Kanterman's convertible '49 Ford; Oil Filter - key to peak power; Molded Merc - Henry Brunjes - '49 Merc; Engine Swapping Mad Simple; List of available engine to transmission adapters; and more. Above-average external wear. Name on front cover. Binding intact. A worthy vintage copy. Book
199452 pages. Features: Cover photo of car ferry Juno; On the Waterfront; European Ferry Commentary; New Warships for Old (?) - a review of additions and deltions to the fleets of the Royal Navy, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and the Royal Maritime Auxiliary Service; P&O's 'C' Class Liners of 1925 - Part 1; Voyage Report - Gordon Turner describes a memorable laker trip in the Great Lakes bulk carrier Peter Misener; Ships Pictorial; Singapore Shipping - colour photorfeature; Forty Years of Clyde Car Ferries; 'Ships Monthly' Ferry Cruise '94; A Captain and His Ship - Ronald Regan is master of the trailing suction dredger Sand Harrier; Naval Review; The Last voyage of the Olivebank - part 2 - towards Australia; Eagle Oil Tankers - photofeature; Ports of Call; Large colour photo of the HMS Westminster inside front cover; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
196630 pages. Features: Royal Ontario Museum - Vienna Porcelain; The Art and Science of Collecting Drawings by Old Masters; Indian Cradle Boards; Silver Markings Complex Study; Two Recent Discoveries and Other Items of Interest; The Joy of Collecting; Miniature Oil Lamps; Letters to the Editor; Collector's Dictionary; Where to Find it. Bit of writing atop front cover. Moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
194950 pages. Features/Articles: Ben Hur's chariot set the wheel base gauge for today's railroads; Canadian National Exhibits and Displays; Alberta's Hot Spot - The New Oil Fields near Edmonton, Leduc, Woodbend and Redwater; Canadian Nationial Telegraphs Blaze New Northern Trail - modern service makes the whole world neighbors of Red and Pickle Lake areas; The Cornerstone of a Community - The C.N.R. in Cornwall; An Approach to the Problem of Industrial Plant Location; Knowledge Pays Traffic Dividends; A.J. Lomas Named Vice-President Central Region; G.T.W. "Crop" Train set for mercy trip; New Railway Quarters in Victoria; Staff Changes; Around the Departments; Traffic; Young Railroaders' Club; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. Address label on back cover. A sound copy. Book
2002234 pages. Features: Pat Robert - Oil, Gold and Jesus; Problems at Vivendi; Class-Action Lawsuits against investment banks - the next trend; In Search of the last honest analyst; The Bernstein way - inside the best little shop on Wall Street; Henry Blodget in Exile; How to Play the Recovery; The Economy's Biggest Problem - Tighwad CEOs; Larry Ellison and Scott McNealy face rough times ahead; Insurance after 9/11; Problems at ABC; Is Energy Trading a big Scam?; Devout Muslims don't pay or charge interest - so how can their financial system work?. Address label clipped from front cover. Average wear. A sound copy. Magazine
1957Features: Eel fishing in the Richelieu at the twin towns of St. Jean and Iberville; Writing on Stone - Milk River, Southern Alberta; East Coast Totem Pole - John L. Bradford of Hunt's Point, Nova Scotia; Lillooet's Ice Cave - a freak of nature discovered near Lillooet, B.C. by Martin Chernault; Protecting Our Heritage - the work of Ducks Unlimited; The "Tent" that's Permanent - the Shakespearean Festival Theatre at Stratford, Ontario. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
1956Features: Pictures from five Canadian Zoos; Raising speckled trout at Balsam Creek, near North Bay, Ontario; The Senega-Root (Snake-root) Diggers of Manitoba; Alberta Handicrafts; The North Shore Highway from Baie Comeau to Quebec along the St. Lawrence River; Sandford Boat Hole - pine-sized picturesque harbour just north of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
195018 pages. Cover illustration of Princess Margaret Rose by Dorothy Wilding. Contents: How often should motor oil be changed?; Vancouver Island's new Island Highway; Where Past and Future Meet - Fantastic industrial sites along Ontario's Highway 17; Gordon Lund - Taxidermist of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan; Identify photos of Canadian sites; Casa Loma - Canada's Famous Castle; Average wear. Three-inch opening at foot of cover-fold. Unmarked. Address label on back cover. Book
1955Features: The Shediac Lobster Festival; Vancouver Playground Traffic School; A Bronze for the Best Bulldogger - Charles Beil, Alberta's cowboy sculptor; Wishing Wells Across Canada; Hamilton for History Hunters; From the Mailbag of Eddie Torr. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1955Features: Virgin Forest... in Big City! - Vancouver's Stanley Park; Santa's Village near Bracebridge in Muskoka, Ontario; The Fish come Big in Nova Scotia - swordfish and bluefin tuna; The Kingsmere "Ruins" in the rolling hills of Kingsmere, Quebec; Family Week a la Jasper; From the Mailbag of Eddie Torr. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1955Features: Saskatchewan under one roof - the new museum of natural history in Regina; Canada's Wonder of the World - Peterborough's 65-foot hydraulic lift lock; Fundy's Lovely Isle; Scenes along the Thompson River in British Columbia; The Annual Sparta Parade in the little Quaker community south-east of St. Thomas, Ontario. Three-inch opening at top of cover fold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1955Features: Highway to Canoe Country - one of Ontario's newest roads leads to the well-established town of Atikokan and Steeprock Mine in Northwestern Ontario; Five Ways to 'Do' the Rockies; The Woodcarvers of Port Joli - Route 2 on the south shore of the St. Lawrence; Twin Brothers, Twin Trucks - The Robertson brothers, Dave and Phil, from near Niagara Falls and their 1948 1/2-ton pickup trucks customized with early truck caps for storage and sleeping, all for less than $50.00!; Those Road Maps, by Lillian Allison. Two-inch opening at bottom of cover fold. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1954Features: Festival of Flowers - Ottawa during Tulip Time; Phil Foster's Unique Collection of Ancient Cars - Mr. Foster operates Speedway Service on Douglas St. at Queen's Ave. in Victoria, B.C.; Quebec's Laurentide Park - for nature unspoiled; Le Pas (The Pas) Festivities are Winter Snow classic; Canada's Bridges - from log to aluminum. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1954Features: Time Gun in Ottawa; Cape Breton - an island of contrasts; Winter comes to British Columbia; Pack Knacks - A very nostalgic look at luggage sets; Your Carburetor is a Refrigerator; Bonanza in Bones - Cypress Hills of southwestern Saskatchewan; Fairies and Artistry in Muskoka - Fairy Garden at Pine Ridge Road in Bala, Ontario. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1954Features: Mountain Climbing - nice photos; Nova Scotia Feast - the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture's Annual mammoth chicken barbecue, the chicken a la grille; Drumbeats on the Prairie - Fort Battle, built by the Northwest Mounted Police in 1876; Ontario Roadside Parks Invite You; Trip Tips for Camera Fans; Summer Theatre - the Stratford Festival; Esso's Touring Service. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1953Features: The Land of Believe it or Not - great photos from the Bay of Fundy; Lac Le Jeune - Angler's Dream; Island of Orleans, below Quebec City on the St. Lawrence; Those Pesky Post cards; The Nature Programme in Algonquin Park; Dinosaur Valley - the banks of the Red Deer River in central Alberta (Drumheller); The International Peace Garden - astride the International border between Dunseith, North Dakota, and Boissevain, Manitoba; From the Mailbag of Eddit Torr. Drawing of contemporary gas pumps on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1952Features: Stop! - You're Wasting Gasoline!; The Calgary Stampede; Uncle Tom's Cabin, on Highway 2 between Windsor and London - Rev. Josiah Henson of Dresdon, Ont. was the escaped slave whom Harriet Beecher Stowe met and used as a model for her famous story; "Your Happy Motoring Show" - Imperial Oil's thrice-weekly 15-minute radio show starring Terry Dale and Wally Koster; Gather Heirlooms as you Go! - souvenirs to gather across Canada; May Day at New Westminster; From the mailbag of Eddie Torr. Back cover rumpled. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
1952Features: They Never Left Home - "Your Happy Motoring Show"; Nelson's Mid-Summer Bonspiel; Keep your eye on the scenery; Blessing the Fleet - colorful annual event on New Brunswick coast; The Frank Slide, on Alberta's No. 3 highway toward Crow's Nest Pass; Ghosts of the Past Walk Here - an old Toronto Jail; Courtesy Keys - courtesy pays in the thriving city of Woodstock, Ontario; From the Mailbag of Eddie Torr. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book