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Toronto: James Campbell and Son,, 1871. Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Forming a Supplement to the Fourth and Fifth Reading Books of the Authorized Series. Entered by Rev. Egerton Ryerson in 1871. Canadian Series of School Books. Authorized ty the Council of Public Instruction for Ontario. Boards are quite worn and have a little soiling and the spine is weakThe contents are fairly clean but for a little foxing and the paper just starting to tan a bit. 483pp including index of authors..
BRITISH COLUMBIA, and VANCOUVER ISLAND; Comprising a historical sketch of the British settlements in the North-West coast of America ... Compiled from Official and other Authentic Sources. by Hazlitt, William Carew - 1858
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BRITISH COLUMBIA, and VANCOUVER ISLAND; Comprising a historical sketch of the British settlements in the North-West coast of America ... Compiled from Official and other Authentic Sources.
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Glass Canyons
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Edmonton, NeWest Press, 1985, trade paperback, 190 pp, Edition not stated, No previous printings noted, Very Good condition, Signed and inscribed by the Editor on the title page "To Vi - Ian Adam". Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light corner bumps, light rubs. A collection of the work of 29 writers on the City of Calgary as it enters its second century. Contributors include; John Ballem, Joan Clark, Ken Mitchell, W.O. Mitchell, and Aritha van Herk. ISBN 9780920316832
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The Doctor Rode Side-Saddle
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Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1974, hardcover, 175 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Signed by the Author on the title page, Very Good in Poor dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean, gift inscription (non-authorial) to front endpaper, slight spine-end and edge wear. Dustjacket price-clipped, edge chips, short edge tears, color offsetting to front panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The story of Dr. Elizabeth Matheson, one of Canada's first woman doctors, and her work with the Cree Indians at the Onion Lake Mission in Northern Saskatchewan, as told by her daughter. Illustrated throughout with black-&-white photographs. Bibliography appended. ISBN 9780771017353
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Fredericton N.B.: New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1972. Book. Illus. by Cover By Bruno Bobak. Very Good. Paperbound. First Edition,. Sm 4to.,(20cm). pict. paper wraps, stapled at spine, 30 pages, New Brunswick Chapbook No. 17., limited edition 0f 250 copies, Richards second published work, a clean, bright copy, not common .Preceeded only by a privately printed book of poetry and short stories entitled One Step Inside (1972)..
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Irwin's Handbook to the Canada Tariff and Resume of Ontario Commercial Law
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C.W. Irwin, Customs Broker, Toronto, 1897, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 200 pages, 4.5" x 6", light soiling to boards, otherwise tight and clean. Also includes Commercial Law of Ontario, Exchange tables for Franc, Mark, Florin and Tables for Metres into Yards, etc
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Les Ursulines de Quebec, depuis leur établissement jusquà nos jours
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Quebec: Des Presses de C. Darveau, 1863-1866. First Edition. TPL 9135. Gagnon I 3635 (incorrectly citing 1864 publication date for Vol. I). Sabin 98171n. 4 Volumes in 3. 8vo. pp. xxviii, 579; 2 p.l., 362, [2]blank, x, [2]blank, [4], [2]blank, 38; 2 p.l., 397, [1]blank, [4], [2]blank; 2 p.l., [397]-741, [1]blank, [2]. with half-titles in Vols. I, III & IV (none required in Vol. II). 2 portraits (incl. frontis.). contemporary gilt-stamped chagrin, all edges gilt (rubbed, last volume upper rear joint cracked & gouge in one compartment of spine)
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Anne of Green Gables
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Toronto: Ryerson 1942, 1st Canadian Edition. (Hardcover) 396pp. Very good, no dust jacket. Blue cloth with yellow titles. Light wear at the tips of the corners and the top and bottom ends of the spine, a previous owner's inscription on the front endpaper, some stains on a few pages and edges, the untrimmed fore-edges show wear, a few pages have dog-ear creases, and on close inspection one can see that the back inner hinge has been repaired from the inside. In a mylar jacket. (Fiction, Canadian, Juvenile).
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Bella Coola Country
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Vancouver: Illahee Publications, 2003. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo (imperial). SIGNED to title page by author. Second printing. Soft cover. 128 pp. B&W photos in-text by Cliff Kopas. Slight bumping to corners, else fine. Cliff Kopas took more than a thousand black and white photographs between 1933 and 1956 that provide a visual history of the Bella Coola valley and the surrounding area. This book features a selection of those photos, along with text from Kopas's son.
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Reminiscences of the North-West Rebellions: With a record of the raising of her majesty's 100th Regiment in Canada and a chapter on Canadian social and political life.
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Boulton, Major (Charles Arkell)Reminiscences of the North-West Rebellions With a record of the raising of her majesty's 100th Regiment in Canada and a chapter on Canadian social and political life.Toronto: Davis & Henderson/Grip Printing and Publishing, 1886Red buckram hardback with very nice gilt illustration and lettering upon red front board and gilt lettering upon spine.Floral front and end papers.- Frontispiece portrait (head to toe) of Major-General Fred Middleton with tissue guard - title page (with small repair to tear)- dedication - preface - reminiscences pp8-469appendixes; - official despatches pp471-498, - List of officers and Men pp499-531Condition; lacks pp 57-64 map and 1 illustration but appear never to have been bound in.Extra(!!); signed by the author Boulton.
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The Recycled Citizen
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016MacLeod, Charlotte. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN, by popular Canadian author Charlotte MacLeod. Mysterious Press ISBN 96187-2.1988. Published January 21, 1988. Softcover. Advance Uncorrected Proof. 199 numbered pages. Signed." The reigning queen of the whimsical whodunit brings back amateur sleuth Sarah Kelling and her art detective husband, Max Bittersohn, in this tasty mystery involving a black-tie charity auction, scandal, and more than one murder." Stated First Printing January, 1988. Number line 1090807060504030201 . Flat-Signed by the author on title page. Used VG Condition.
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British Columbia and Vancouver Island
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N. Y.: S.r. Publishers Limited / Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Facsimile Reprint. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Fine but for prev. owner address and label. Complete with folding map..
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British Columbia, and Vancouver Island; Comprising a Historical Sketch of the British Settlements in the North-west Coast of America; and a Survey of the Physical Character, Capabilities, Climate, Topography, Natural History, Geology, and Ethnology of...
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BRITISH COLUMBIA, AND VANCOUVER ISLAND; COMPRISING A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE BRITISH SETTLEMENTS IN THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF AMERICA...
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London, 1858.. viii,247pp. Folding frontispiece map. Half title. 16mo. Original color pictorial boards, backstrip neatly replaced. Tiny closed tear in map near mounting stub. Otherwise a very good, clean copy. Includes descriptions of the Gold Rush, which had begun the same year as the publication of this work and radically changed the character of the region, which had until that time been mainly a source of furs for the Hudson's Bay Company. Reprinted in the appendix is the act of Parliament dated Aug. 2, 1858, which called for a separate government for British Columbia. Hazlitt also treats the natives of the region and includes a brief Chinook vocabulary. He "[d]rew on primary sources - letters, and reports from the LONDON TIMES correspondent - for his description of the gold fever" (Streeter). TPL 3818 (lacking map). GAGNON I:1635. LANDE 1219. SABIN 31126. WAGNER-CAMP 300b. SMITH 4272. LOWTHER 73. STREETER 3411.
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C.W. Irwin, Customs Broker, Toronto, 1897, Very Good Hardcover / no dustjacket, 200 pages, 4.5" x 6", light soiling to boards, otherwise tight and clean. Also includes Commercial Law of Ontario, Exchange tables for Franc, Mark, Florin and Tables for Metres into Yards, etc
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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1994. Previous Owner Markings/Ex-Library; Front Cover Pulled From Removal of Pocket; Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers; Front, Rear Covers Lightly Chipped; Edges Lightly Soiled. SUB-TITLE: A Report. AUTHOR: the National Council of Welfare. Members of the National Council of Welfare: Ms. Claudette Arsenault Bradshaw, Moncton, New Brunswick; Ms. Lucie Blais, Sullivan, Quebec; Mr. Jon Buttrum, Hamilton, Ontario; Ms. Helen Margaret Finucane, Regina, Saskatchewan; Mr. Bruce Hardy, North Delta, British Columbia; Mr. J. Michael Miltenberger, Fort Smith, Northwest Territories; Mr. David S. Northcott, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Mr. Calvin A. White, Flat Bay, Newfoundland. Acting Director: Steve Kerstetter. Liaison Officer: Carole Lanthier Bayram. Publications Officer: Anna Kyle. CONTENTS: INTRODUCTION; INCOME ASSISTANCE FOR FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN; WELFARE AND SOCIAL SERVICES Fair and Reasonable Federal Funding; Reasonable Levels of Income Support; Eliminating Disincentives to Work; Expansion of Child…
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THE SETTLER'S DREAM A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE OLDER BUILDINGS OF PRINCE EDWARD COUTNY
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Picton, On: Corporation of the County of Prince Edward, 1994. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. John de Visser. pp: 454. FIRST EDITION. Bound in mid-brown cloth covered boards, gilt lettering on the spine. The book opens with a short history of the County, accompanied by maps and photographs. There are hundreds of photographs in the text covering homes, churches, businesses, and natural features. In addition, there are four section of full colour photographs. In almost all cases, property owner's are named. A very good copy with very light wear to the covers.
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CLARENCE GAGNON; English Version By Raymond Chamberlain
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La Prairie, Que.: Marcel Broquet Publishing Co., 1988. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio. green cloth, gilt cover and spine letters, 210 pages,index, illustrated, many full color illlustrations, ports. dust jacket has signs of moisture stain at lower front corner and at foot of spine which does not involve book, sligh spine fade, book is bright, clean, tight copy, Size: Folio -(32cm) English version by Raymond Chamberlain..
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The Recycled Citizen
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016MacLeod, Charlotte. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN, by popular Canadian author Charlotte MacLeod. Mysterious Press ISBN 96187-2.1988. Published January 21, 1988. Softcover. Advance Uncorrected Proof. 199 numbered pages. Signed." The reigning queen of the whimsical whodunit brings back amateur sleuth Sarah Kelling and her art detective husband, Max Bittersohn, in this tasty mystery involving a black-tie charity auction, scandal, and more than one murder." Stated First Printing January, 1988. Number line 1090807060504030201 . Flat-Signed by the author on title page. Used VG Condition.
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017MacleodPalace. THE PALACE GUARD, by popular Canadian author Charlotte MacLeod. ISBN 0385175337. Published 1981, by Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City NY. STATED FIRST EDITION. SIGNED WITH BLUE PEN BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. USED. VG/ VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. AUTHOR PHOTO ON BACK PANEL. Summary: " A Peacock screams. A dark something falls past them from the floor above. Serenity turns to pandemonium as the oldest guard sprawls dead among the hyacinths..." 5 ¾ X 8 ½. Will ship from Oregon.
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Wrack and Rune
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Signed 1st Ed. w/DJ) WRACK AND RUNE: A PETER SHANDY MYSTERY BY FAMED CANADIAN AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1982. Used First printing SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by author on title page. Good Condition/ Good condition unclipped Dust Jacket, $10.95 original price. Will ship from United States.
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Something The Cat Dragged In
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SOMETHING THE CAT DRAGGED IN - A PETER SHANDY MYSTERY. SIGNED BY FAMED CANADIAN AUTHOR CHARLOTTE MACLEOD. Publisher: Doubleday & Co., Garden City, NY, 1983. Used First printing. Flat-signed by author on card affixed to title page. Dark-grey textured paper boards with light-grey imprinting on spine Price intact: $11.95. Good Condition/ Includes good condition unclipped $11.95 Blue and white dust jacket. Will ship from United States.
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