Report on an Exploratory Survey Between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay Districts of Mackenzie and Keewatin
by TYRRELL, J. W
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Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1901. Card Covers. Fair. 62, [2], 207-329 p. 25 cm. 61 b&w plates and a sketch map. Department of the Interior Appendix No. 26, Part III, Annual Report 1901. New tan card covers with original cover pasted on front. Damp stains to front cover and title page. Last plates have rough edges and very last last has chip in bottom with tape-repaired edges.
James Williams Tyrrell, explorer and mine promoter, practised engineering in Hamilton, Ontario until 1893 when he embarked with his brother Joseph on a canoe trip across the interior of Keewatin District. His book describing the expedition, Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada (1897), is a classic of northern travel writing. In 1900 Tyrrell led a Dominion Lands Survey expedition through the Keewatin and issued the report of which this is a part.
James Williams Tyrrell, explorer and mine promoter, practised engineering in Hamilton, Ontario until 1893 when he embarked with his brother Joseph on a canoe trip across the interior of Keewatin District. His book describing the expedition, Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada (1897), is a classic of northern travel writing. In 1900 Tyrrell led a Dominion Lands Survey expedition through the Keewatin and issued the report of which this is a part.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104585
- Title
- Report on an Exploratory Survey Between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay Districts of Mackenzie and Keewatin
- Author
- TYRRELL, J. W
- Format/Binding
- Card Covers
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Government Printing Bureau
- Place of Publication
- Ottawa
- Date Published
- 1901
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Canadiana, Canada, Ephemera, Northwest Territories, Mackenzie, Keewatin, Great Slave Lake, Hudson Bay
- Bookseller catalogs
- Arctic;
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