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1) British Columbia: 1913, Land Districts, Scale 30 miles to 1 inch [Map]
Aitken, G. G. (Chief Geographer)

[British Columbia]: Department of Lands. 1913. Good. Some separations in folds, some edge tears.. Good. Some separations in folds, some edge tears. Trade paperback One folded sheet, 38.5"x32". more information

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2) Vancouver's Chinatown: Racial Discourse in Canaada, 1875-1980
Anderson, Kay J

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1991. Very good in very good dust jacket. Five pages in the beginning have. minor markings (x's).. First edition. Very good in very good dust jacket. Five pages in the beginning have minor markings (x's). Hard cover x, 323 p. McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, 10. more information

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3) Les Nuits l'Underground: Roman
Blais, Mari-Claire

Montreal: Stanke. 1978. Very Good, wraps, 267 p. First edition. Old prices crossed out on. blank endpaper. Pages tanned.. Very Good, wraps, 267 p. First edition. Old prices crossed out on blank endpaper. Pages tanned. Trade paperback more information

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4) Un Joualonais sa Joualonie: Roman
Blais, Mari-Claire

Montreal: Editions du Jour. 1973. Near Fine, wraps, 300 p. First edition. Les romanciers du jour.. Near Fine, wraps, 300 p. First edition. Les romanciers du jour. Trade paperback more information

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5) Le Canada Par L'Image
Brouillette, Benoit

Canada: Editions Albert Levesque. 1935. Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Pages browned.. Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Pages browned. Trade pb Unknown printing. 123 p. plus 48 plates. 25 cm. more information

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6) Resorts in the Canadian Rockies
Canadian Pacific Railway

Canada / United States: Canadian Pacific Railway. 1929. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Interior booklet in very good. condition. Map in excellent condition, small edge tears. Exterior. wraps in fair condition, chipped on edges, taped on spine, tear on. rear cover.. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Interior booklet in very good condition. Map in excellent condition, small edge tears. Exterior wraps in fair condition, chipped on edges, taped on spine, tear on rear cover. Trade paperback Booklet: cover 6.5"x9.5", interior 12"x9.25", folded to 6.25"x9.25". Interior is 28 p., profusely illustrated with 9 full page color illustrations (one double page) and 54 black & white photographs. Double-sided full color map attached to interior of rear cover, 32.75"x18.25". One side is "The Canadian Rockies, Canadian Pacific Railway: Rocky Mountain Park, Yoho Park, Kootenay Park" and the other side is a rail map of the United States and Canada. Cover printed in Canada in 1929, interior booklet printed in the United States in 1929. They were then put together presumably, but have since come apart again. The cover illustrations are of Lake Louise and Banff from their repective hotel terraces. more information

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7) Morley Callaghan
Conron, Brandon

New York: Twayne Publishers. 1966. Very Good. No dust jacket. Appears unread.. Very Good. No dust jacket. Appears unread. Hard cover Twayne's world authors series, 1. Canada. Unknown printing. 188 p. 21 cm. Bibliography: p. 181-184. more information

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8) Canadian Pacific Facts and Figures
Dept. Of Public Relations

Montreal: Canadian Pacific Foundation Library. 1946. Good. No dust jacket, as issued.. Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Trade pb Unknown printing. 299 p. ; maps; 21 cm. Fold-out map of routes. more information

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9) Paddlewheels on the Frontier: the Story of B. C. -Yukon Sternwheel Steamers
Downs, Art

Surrey, B. C.: Foremost. 1968. Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Previous owners name on cover.. Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Previous owners name on cover. Trade pb Unknown printing. 80 p. ; illus. ; maps; 28 cm. Signed by author. more information

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10) Paddlewheels on the Frontier; the Story of B. C. Sternwheel Steamers
Downs, Art

Cloverdale, B. C.: B. C. Outdoors Magazine. 1967. Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Previous woners name.. Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Previous woners name. Trade pb Unknown printing. v. illus. , map. 28 cm. Signed by author. more information

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11) Surveying in Northern Labrador
Forbes, Alexander

New York: American Geographical Society. 1932. Very good. No dust jacket.. Very good. No dust jacket. Trade paperback [30-60] p. Illustrated. Reprinted from The Geographical Review. more information

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12) A Flight to Cape Chidley, 1935
Forbes, Alexander

New York: American Geographical Society. 1936. Very good. No dust jacket.. Very good. No dust jacket. Trade paperback [48-58] p. with separate map. Reprinted from The Geographical Review. more information

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13) Adrift on an Ice-Pan
Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1909. Very Good, cloth, no dj, decorated cover, 69 pp. Illustrated with. photographs. NAP.. Very Good, cloth, no dj, decorated cover, 69 pp. Illustrated with photographs. NAP. Hard cover more information

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14) Sault Ste. Marie: City By the Rapids: an Illustrated History
Heath, Francis M

Burlington, Ontario: Windsor Publications. 1988. Fine in fine dust jacket. Appears unread, almost as new.. Fine in fine dust jacket. Appears unread, almost as new. Hard cover 223 p., 8.75"x11.25". Profusely illustrated. more information

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15) The Lower Mackenzie River Area, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Geological Survey of Canada, Memoir 273
Hume, G. S., and Appell, Laura W. R

Ottawa: Edmond Cloutuer, Queen's Printer. 1954. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine chipping at top, interior and. maps very good.. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Spine chipping at top, interior and maps very good. Trade paperback viii, 118 p. Illustrated. Three folding maps in rear pocket. Laid in is an 8 p. stapled offprint from 19958 by Appell: With Paddle and Notebook in the Northwest Territories. more information

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16) Peterborough, The Electric City, An illustrated history
Jones, Elwood & Bruce Dyer

Burlington, ON: Windsor. 1987. Near Fine, dj Near Fine, 176 pp, 8.75x11.25 ins. Profusely. illustrated. First edition.. Near Fine, dj Near Fine, 176 pp, 8.75x11.25 ins. Profusely illustrated. First edition. Hard cover more information

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17) Karsh & Fisher See Canada
Karsh

Chicago: Rand McNally. 1960. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Price clipped dust jacket. Previous. owners bookplate.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Price clipped dust jacket. Previous owners bookplate. Hard cover Unknown printing. 165 p. ; index; A portrait of canada by the well known photographer Yousuf Karsh. Over 150 photographs more information

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18) Through the MacKenzie Basin: a Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899; Also, Notes on the Mammals and Birds of Northern Canada
Mair, Charles, and MacFarlane, Roderick

Toronto: William Briggs. 1908. Good. No dust jacket. Cover worn, especially spine, hinges cracked,. old light water stain to bottom page margins. Text clean.. First edition. Original edition, not a modern reprint. Good. No dust jacket. Cover worn, especially spine, hinges cracked, old light water stain to bottom page margins. Text clean. Hard cover 494 p. Frontis. Illustrated. Fold-out map. Errata slip tipped in. more information

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19) Strangers Entertained, a History of the Ethnic Groups of British Columbia
Norris, John

Vancouver: BC Centennial Comm.. 1971. VG, cloth, dj slight edgewear, 254 pp. Illustrated.. VG, cloth, dj slight edgewear, 254 pp. Illustrated. Hard cover more information

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20) The Mountains of Northern Labrador
Odell, N.E

London: The Geographical Journal. 1933. Very good. No dust jacket.. Very good. No dust jacket. Trade paperback 29 p. Includes: illustrations, maps. Reprinted from The Geographical Journal. "Brewster Morris / With the best wishes of the Author" written on cover. more information

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21) Huron: Grand Bend to Southampton
Orr, Sandra

Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press. 1993. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription.. Very good in very good dust jacket. Previous owner's inscription. Hard cover 144 p., 10.25"x8.25". Profusely illustrated. more information

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22) Dance Today in Canada
Oxenham, Andrew, And Crabb, Michael

Toronto: Simon & Pierre Pub. Co. 1977. Very Good in Good dust jacket.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. Hard cover First printing. 228 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. Includes index. more information

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23) The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada
Parker, George

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1985. Fine. No dust jacket. As new.. First edition. Fine. No dust jacket. As new. Hard cover xiv, [13], 346 p. Contains: Illustrations. more information

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24) A Biological Investigation of the Athabaska-Mackenzie Region: North American Fauna No. 27
Preble, Edward Alexander

Washington: U. S. Dept. of Agriculture / Government Printing Office. 1908. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Spine cover missing, cover worn. chipped, abraded. Binding cracked, text block in two pieces.. Complete. Folding map in very good condition, interior nice,. Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Spine cover missing, cover worn chipped, abraded. Binding cracked, text block in two pieces. Complete. Folding map in very good condition, interior nice, Trade paperback 574 p. Illustrated. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Plates. Bibliography: p. 535-557. more information

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25) Place Names of the Canadian Alps
Putnam, William Lowell, And Boles, Glen W. , And Laurilla, Roger W

Revelstoke, B. C.: Footprint. c1990. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Appears unread.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Appears unread. Hard cover Unknown printing. xviii, 383 p. : ill. (some col. ), col. map; 24 cm. Map on folded leaf in pocket. Includes index. more information

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26) History of the Jews in Canada, From the Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day. V. 1. From the French Regime to the Nineteenth Century
Sack, Benjamin Gutelius

Montreal: Canadian Jewish congress. 1945. Very Good. No dust jacket. Endpapers browned.. Very Good. No dust jacket. Endpapers browned. Hard cover Unknown printing. 285 p. No more published. Bibliography: v. 1 p. [267-273. more information

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27) First Man West: Alexander Mackenzie's Journal of His Voyage to the Pacific Coast of Canada in 1793
Sheppe, Walter, and Mackenzie, Alexander

Berkeley: University of California Press. 1962. Very good in very good dust jacket. Appears almost unread.. Very good in very good dust jacket. Appears almost unread. Hard cover ix, 366 p. Map. Frontis. more information

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28) Incomes Policies: Some Foreign Experiences and Their Relevance for Canada
Smith, David C

Ottawa: Economic Council of Canada. 1966. Very Good, wraps, 207 pp. Top spine bumped.. Very Good, wraps, 207 pp. Top spine bumped. Trade paperback more information

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29) A Decade of Change: the University of Saskatchewan 1959-1970
Spinks, J.W.T

Saskatchewan: University of Saskatchewan. 1972. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Newspaper article about the. author laid in.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Newspaper article about the author laid in. Hard cover Unknown printing. 169 p. ; illus. ; 24 cm. Signed by author. more information

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30) The Palliser Expedition; an Account of John Palliser's British North American Expedition, 1857-1860
Spry, Irene M

Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada. 1964. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Hard cover Unknown printing. vii, 310 p. illus. ports. , maps. 23 cm. more information

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31) The St. Lawrence Seaway Story
Thomas, Lowell

Buffalo: H. Stewart. 1957. Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued.. [1st ed. ] Very Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Trade paperback Unknown printing. unpaged. illus. 27 cm. more information

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32) Kootenay National Park and the Banff Windemere Highway
Williams, M.B

Ottawa: Acland. 1929. Very Good, decorated wraps, 45 pp. Illustrated. Two fold-out maps in. rear. Oversize wraps a little worn on edges, small chipping.. Very Good, decorated wraps, 45 pp. Illustrated. Two fold-out maps in rear. Oversize wraps a little worn on edges, small chipping. Trade paperback more information

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