ENS, GERHARD J.

Homeland to Hinterland; the Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century

Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 1996. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 268pp. Illus. ports. maps.

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Book number: 104586

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Louis Riel, Manitoba, Metis

EPHEMERA; O'BRIEN, JIM, ET AL. (EDITOR)

A Guide to Working Class History

Somerville, Massachusetts, New England Free Press. [no date]. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 32pp. 8vo. Pale blue, light weight, card covers, stapled. Green title, pictorial to front. Clean and bright; black and white photographs. A guide to the resources that cite the labour history of North America. Most of it is about the United States, but there is a section about Canada that was compiled four noted Canadian historians. Not a comprehensive bibliography; rather, the authors chose to highlight the best available resources in literature, film, and records that reflect, with accuracy, a sense of working class history.

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Book number: 127154

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Labour History, American Labour History, Canadian Labour History, Labour History, North American History, Unions, Working Class History

EPHEMERA; CASE, JOHN, ET AL.

Our Generation Volume 8, No. 3, Parts 1 - 3; Part 1: Workers Control; Part 2: The Electoral Game; Part 3: Community Action and the Workplace

Toronto Montreal, Our Generation. [circa 1972]. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 28, 36, 28pp. 4to. Newsprint, stapled. Our generation was an independent, quarterly, radical journal that was, starting with the these issues, published twice a year in Montreal and twice a year in Toronto. These three were published in April, May, and June, respectively in 1972, and each examines, within its own focus, the world of worker management and community control. Clean, bright, very good copies. Pages lightly age-toned.

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Book number: 127156

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Labour History, American Labour History, Labour History, Working Class History

EPHEMERA; CORPORATIONDES ENSIGNANTS (C.E.Q.) / QUEBEC TEACHERS' FEDERATION

Our Schools Serve the Ruling Class; L'ecole Au Service de la Class Dominate

Toronto, New Hogtown Press/University of Toronto. 1973. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 32pp. 4to. Newsprint, hence, lightly age-toned, and stapled, with black and white photographs, drawings. A manifesto presented at XXIIe Congres de la C.E.Q. Juin, 1972. Billingual (English / French); most text in English. Compiled Corporationdes Ensignants (C.E.Q.) / Quebec Teachers' Federation, which is a full-fledged labour federation.

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Book number: 127162

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Labour History, Canadian Labour History, Education, Labour History, Quebec History, Socialism, Teachers

FERGUSON, WILL

Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw; Travels in Search of Canada

Toronto, Alfred A. Knopf Canada. (ISBN: 0-676-97643-3). 2004. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 342pp. 8vo. Jacket fine. Red paper boards, gilt title to spine. Clean, tight, bright, solid.

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Book number: 126430

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Canadian - History, Canadian - History, Canadian - Travel, Canadian Stories 0676976433

FERGUSSON, CHARLES BRUCE (EDITOR AND INTRODUCTION)

The Diary of Simeon Perkins 1804-1812

Champlain Society. 1978. (Cloth) Near fine, no dust jacket. liii, 520,xxiv. The Publications of the Champlain Society Volume L, un-numbered 1 of 1150.

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Book number: 114286

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Canadian History, Champlain Society

FLEMING, ARCHIBALD LANG

Archibald the Arctic: The Flying Bishop

New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts. 1956. (Cloth, 8vo) Fine in fine dust jacket. viii +, 399pp. Stain on front coverdust jacket has some wear and small closed tears on front and spine; black and white photographs, maps and mapped endpapers. "The First Bishop of the Arctic".

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Book number: 115211

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Missionaries, Canada - Natives - North, Canadian Arctic, Canadian North, Eskimo, Inuit, Missionaries, North

GATT-FLY

Sugar: Who Pays the Price?

Toronto, Gatt-Fly. 1975. (Mass market paperback) Very good. [2], 28, [2]. 4to. Ephemera. Mustard-coloured light-weight card wrappers, illustrated, stapled. Clean, bright. Details the Canadian sugar industry, in terms of markets, labour, costs, prices.

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Book number: 127269

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Labour History, Canadian History, Commodities, Ephemera, Labour History, Markets, Sugar

FONER, PHILIP S.

American Labor Songs of the Nineteenth Century

Chicago, University of Illinois Press. (ISBN: 0-252-00187-7). 1975, 1st edition. (hardcover) Very good in good dust jacket. xvii, [1], 356pp. 4to. Blue cloth boards, lettering in white to spine. Dust jacket chipped at head and heel of spine, not price clipped. B&W reproductions of contemporary ephemera (ie: newsprint) and sheet music. Internally tight and clean. From the series Music in American Life.

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Book number: 118405

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Labour History, Labor, Labour, Music, Music - American 0252001877

FONER, PHILIP S.

The Fur and Leather Workers Union; A story of dramatic struggles and achievements

Newark, Nordan Press NONE. 1950. (hardcover) Very good. xii, 708pp. 8vo. Denim blue cloth, lightly marked. Gilt titles to front and spine. The history of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union. Internally clean and bright, solid bound, with black and white photographs.

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Book number: 130831

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Labour History, Labor History, Trade Unions, Union History

FOWKE, VERNON C.

Canadian Agricultural Policy. The Historical Pattern

Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 1947, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good. 304pp. Previous owners name to thrice to ffep. A classic and very useful study.

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Book number: 104722

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Politics-Economics

FOWKE, V.C.

The Myth of the Self-Sufficient Canadian Pioneer

Ottawa, the Royal Society of Canada. 1962. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. pp.23-37pp. 8vo. No wrappers, stapled. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada; Volume LVI: Series III: June, 1962; Section II.

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Book number: 117510

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Canadian Prairies, Economics, Pioneers, Social Sciences, University of Saskatchewan

FOX, VICTOR J. (PSEUDONYM OF ROBERT ALEXANDER WINSTON)

The Welfare Staters

New York, Freedom Press, Inc. NONE. 1962, 1st edition. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 386 +. 8vo. Scarce and important book that explores the beginnings of Socialism in America. Considered by some to be a warning flag about what is happening in the US today from the author of the Pentagon Case: A Novel of the Cold War (1958). The jacket (clipped), black, with titles in white to front and spine, shows some wear at the upper and lower edges. Beige buckram, red title to spine. Corners lightly bumped; else is clean and bright. Errata sheet laid in. Behind the Plan for a Socialist America. Pseudonym of Robert Alexander Winston.

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Book number: 130688

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Cold War, American Political History, Collectible Books, Communism, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Socialism, The New Frontier

FRAGER, RUTH A.

Sweatshop Strife; Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto 1900 - 1939

Toronto Buffalo London, University of Toronto Press. (ISBN: 0-8020-6895-2). 1992. (Mass market paperback) Very good. xi, 300pp. 8vo. There is underlining throughout; that said, all text remains clean. Very good copy.

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Book number: 130202

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Labour Movement, Jewish Studies, Labour History, Trade Unions, Women in Labour History 0802068952

FRANKLIN, JOHN; DAVIS, RICHARD C.

Sir John Franklin's Journals and Correspondence: The Second Arctic Land Expedition 1825-1827

Toronto, The Champlain Society. 1998, 1st edition. (Cloth) As new. 421pp. Portraits, folding maps. Top edge gilt. Champlain Society Publication LXI.

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Book number: 111306

Catalogue: History

Keywords: History, Arctic, Canada, Exploration, North