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Echoes of the Past: A History of the Rural Municipality of Louise and Its People
by Louise Municipality..
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(N.p).: The Rural Municipality of Louise, 1968.. Hardcover. Very Good. Large ocatvo, publsher's red cloth lettered and blocked in black, pp. 632; illustrated. Map of Louise municipality printed on endpapers. Very good, clean copy, lacking the dust jacket. Heavy book, which can be mailed as far west as Manitoba without additional charges to the default postage… Read more
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Thinking With Both Hands: Sir Daniel Wilson in the Old World & the New
by Ash, Marinell and colleagues. Edited by Elizabeth Hulse.
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- 1999
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- 9780802044433
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$23.00
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Univ of Toronto Pr, 1999. Octavo, cloth hardcover, pp. [xvi], 352 illustrated. Fine in dust jacket..
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A Lifetime of Limericks for the Millenium.
by ROWAT, Donald C.
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(Ottawa: Self Published), January 1999. Printed blue card covers, pp. 60. Inscribed by Rowat to a fellow political scientist/policy maker noting a poem in his honour that is published in the book. Very good. .
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Hudson's Bay Trader.
by TWEEDSMUIR, Lord. (John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir).
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London: Robert Hale Limited, (1978). Second edition. Octavo, black boards, pp. 188; illustrated. Signed by the author, as "Tweedsmuir", and dated 16 October 78. John Norman Stuart Buchan, 2nd Baron Tweedsmuir, (25 November 1911 - 20 June 1996), a.k.a. Johnnie Buchan. Son of the novelist John Buchan, (1st Baron Tweedsmuir). Book is fine;… Read more
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Bear River / Untapped Roots. Moving Upward.
by BAULD, Florence, L.
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[No place: Self-published], (1996). Printed by Minuteman Press. Trade paperback format, pp. 169; illustrtated. Light wear and minor creasing along spine, else very good. .
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A History of Canadian External Relations.
by GLAZEBROOK, G.P. de T.
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$65.00
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Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1950. New edition. 22 cm x 14 cm, dark blue cloth, pp. vii, 449. The first part of this historical study was originally published in 1942, and is reprinted here with no changes except the correction of a few errors. The second part chronicles the development of Canadian foreign policy since 1919.… Read more
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Twenty-Eighth Annual Archaeological Report, 1916. Being Part of Appendix to the Report of the Minister of Education, Ontario.
by ORR, Dr. R.B.
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Toronto: Printed and Published by A.T. Wilgress. 1916. 15 cm x 16.5 cm, original red cloth lettered in gilt, pp. 111. Eight panel folding frontis, "The Trail of the Ottawas - Lake Nipissing to the Ottawa River", engraved by W.J. Thomson. Includes material on the trade route of Hurons And Algonquins, Indian Trade Travel and Exploration,… Read more
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The Last Forty Years: Canada Since the Union of 1841.
by DENT, John Charles.
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$175.00
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Toronto: Published by George Virtue, 1881. First edition. 25 cm x 19 cm, publisher's original dark blue cloth, with gilt decoration and bevelled edges, pp. 392 & 649; all edges gilt, numerous portraits and engravings. Typed book labels on paste-downs, slight fraying to spine ends and corner tips, small spot on upper board of Volume II, else a… Read more
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Bibliography of Canadiana Published in Great Britain 1519-1763
by Waldon, Freda Farrell. Revised and edited by William F.E. Morley.
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$55.00
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(Toronto): Published by the ECW Press in cooperation with the National Library of Canada., (1990). Octavo, red cloth, pp. lxv, [iii], 535; illustrated with the author's portrait and reproductions of twelve specimen pages. Erratum slip laid in. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. Heavy book - may require extra postage to distant locations..
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Fifth Census of Canada 1911, Volume IV, Agriculture
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Ottawa: King's Printer, 1914. Large octavo, orange cloth, pp. cii, 428; tables at rear a little creased at fore-edge, but in good order. Very good or better..
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The Reciprocity Treaty of 1854. It's History, Its Relation to British Colonial and Foreign Policy and to the Development of Canadian Fiscal Autonomy.
by MASTERS, Donald C.
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$50.00
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London: Longmans, Green and Co., (1936). First edition. Octavo, original rust red cloth, pp. xxiv, 267. Briefy inscribed by Masters. Top corners bumped, spine a bit darkened, else very good; no dust jacket..
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Heraldic/Genealogical Almanac (1988).
by Birk, Hans Dietrich; Merey, Peter Bela;
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Toronto: Published under the auspices of the Armorial Heritage Foundation, by Pro Familia Publishing, 1988. Quarto, blue cloth, pp. xi, 221. Includes colour and black and white images of various Canadian armourials. The first in a proposed series of heraldic almanacs with a printed dedication: "To the newly established Canadian Heraldic Authority". Near fine, presumably published without dust jacket. Will… Read more
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Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec: Founded, January 6, 1824. Volume I.
by (QUEBEC).
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Quebec: Printed for the Literary and Historical Society; by Francois Lemaitre, Star Office., 1829.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo, rebacked in paper vellum retaining original boards and edges of calf boards, pp. xxxvi, 261, [1] errata, 72 catalogue of the society's mineralogical collection, + plates, and folding plans. With considerable amount of information on the geology of Lake Superior, Upper… Read more
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Nil alienum.
by SISSONS, C.B.
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University of Toronto Press, (1964). First edition. Octavo, brown cloth, pp. xii, 260; illustrated. Brief introduction by Claude Bissell (then President University of Toronto). Near fine in a very good dust jacket, with a 3 cm tear to the front panel, and tiny chips at the top of the spine. Comes with a mylar dust jacket protector..
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Carte-de-visite photograph. [cdv].
by SUTHER, Catherine, nee Fraser.
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With the backmark of A. Adams , Photographer, 26 Broad St., Aberdeen. Catherine Suther, "fourth daughter of the Hon. James Fraser, M.L.C., of Halifax, born 1813. She married in 1835, the Rev. Thomas G. Suther, who, in 1857, was consecrated Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney, in Scotland. Mrs. Suther, who was a sister of Lady Gore, (qv), died at Aberdeen… Read more
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River for My Sidewalk.
by MADISON, Grant.
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Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons, (1953). First edition. With wood engravings by Julius Griffith. The author relates his life in a wilderness valley among the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia. A fine copy in a dust jacket, which is fine save for a few tiny edge nicks. Lovely copy. Watters p. 630.
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Why Educate?
by PERCIVAL, Walter Pilling.
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Toronto: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., (1935). "Second edition". Octavo, black cloth, pp. ix, 179. Inscribed by Percival. Percival was a high ranking official in the Department of Protestant Education in the Province of Quebec. Slight smudging of inscription and signature, else very good in a used spine darkened dust jacket, chipped at the spine ends and corner tips. Presents… Read more
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The Last Spike. The Great Railway 1881-1885.
by BERTON, Pierre
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, (1974). Tenth printing. Octavo, orange cloth, pp. xii, 478; illustrated. Signed by Berton. This copy with a presentation inscription to Lennox and Addington historian and former Ontario Grand Master, Walter Herrington from a member of his family dated Xmas 1974. Page edges toned with a few spots to the fore-edge, else near fine in a… Read more
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Chart of the Rideau Lakes Route Between Kingston and Ottawa.
by LAKE, Elmer J.
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Kingston: Published by the Author, 1920. Third edition. 8vo., stapled wrappers, pp. 54 + [14] ads, illustrated. Corners creased, spine browned, else very good..
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Historic Houses of Canada.
by HALE, Katherine.
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Toronto:The Ryerson Press, (1952). 20 cm x 14.5 cm, deep green cloth, pp. pp. vii, 152; illustrated with drawings by Dorothy Stevens, and photographs. This book is an enlarged and completely revised edition of the author's "Canadian Houses of Romance", published in 1926. Briefly inscribed by the author. Light bump to one corner of the covers, else near fine… Read more
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