Photograph Album: Canadian Canoe Trip Through Indigenous Lands

[Quebec], 1913. Cloth. Oblong 8vo. Worn and curling limp-canvas binding, black paper leaves, with 92 silver print photographs mounted with black photo-corners. Typed captions below most photographs, and a few handwritten corrections/additions. An engaging and delightful album of personal snapshots of canoe trips through Northern Quebec, 1911-1913. Typed captions pasted-in include information such as locations, dates, names, and the photographer's relationship to the subjects. Many depictions of Indigenous peoples, their settlements, families, activities, and homes, including "Indian Women", "Indian Burial Ground in the Wilderness"; "Indian Family Summer Camp"; an "Indian Cache in the Wilderness"; the content of the captions and ease of the subjects suggesting a friendly and familiar relationship with the photographer (ex. "Kapedkedeutchi -- Foam falls -- never before photographed -- I was probably the Third White Man to see it"). Hudson's Bay Company Posts and Trading Houses, churches, a Lumber Camp, French Habitant farms; a few showing the photographer himself, his canoe, tent, dog ("Mr. Del. Smalley"). One portrait of the photographer is captioned "On Indian Trail along Miskokan River": this bears a Greek annotation translating roughly as "your dear" (- translation c/o Maggs Bros.). Many of the depicted areas and settlements were flooded in 1918 with the installation of the La Loutre Dam. Included is a portrait of a smiling Chief Gabriel Awashish in a birchbark canoe, whose descendants continued to push for compensation of the flooding of their land through 2016 when at long last, they won a Tribunal ruling. Locations mentioned include: Portage de la Montagne; St. Maurice River; Obijuan Lake; Cootijiwasten Lake; Kekendatch; Weymontechene (Wemotaci); Post de Roi on Chamouchouan Lake; La Riviere Croche, Manuan River; Mondonock River; Chaudiere Falls on St. Maurice River; Escalana River; Memmicassiouimany. .

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Book number: 064723

Catalogue: Indigenous Studies

A Pictorial Review of Military District No. 10; 1939-1940

[Winnipeg], [Military District No. 10], 1940. Paperback. pp. 100. 4to. Light shelfwear, bottom quarter of title page missing; very good. A record of those who offered their services in the First and Second Divisions from Military District No. 10. .

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Book number: 083657

Catalogue: Military History

Pilot Mound United Church Pilot Mound, Manitoba 2001

2001. 1st edition.Card covers sl. scuffed; else in near fine condition, Unpaginated, in an 8 1/2' x 11' format. Alphabetical roster of parishioners. Newspaper notice of this item taped inside cover. Ill.: colour photos.

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Book number: 9900033339

Catalogue: Manitoba History

Keywords: Church history;Manitoba;;;;;;; colour photos

Pioneer Days of Weyburn

NP (Saskatchewan), Sask. Golden Jubilee Comm, 1955. 1st edition. Wraps. pp. 40.8vo,,Ex-lib in stapled wraps; covers 'thumbed', sl. scuffed; else vg, Ex-library copy with stamp and accession markings confined to front cover; otherwise contents clean and unmarked. Ill.: black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900030422

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Weyburn;Saskatchewan;Golden Jubilee;;;;;; black-and-white photographs

Pioneers and Pilgrims; the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Manitoba, Nebraska and Kansas, 1874 to 1882

Steinbach, MB, D. F. P. Publications, 1990. 1st edition. pp. 604. 8vo. Card covers slightly scuffed; else very good to near fine condition. Some of the pages are creased, not affecting readibility. This is volume five of the series published on behalf of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde Historical Society. .

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Book number: 9900034268

Catalogue: History

Keywords: Mennonites; Religion;

Policing, Corrections and Security - Facts About Solicitor General Canada

Ottawa, ON, Solicitor General of Canada, 1988. 1st printing. pp. 20, 23. 8vo. Stapled card covers lightly worn, else in very good condition. A booklet 'intended to give Canadians an overview of the work of the Ministry in fulfilling its responsibilities for policing, corrections and security and strengthening the policing, corrections, and security systems.'. Text printed in both English and French. Date stamp to title page. ISBN 0662562569. .

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Book number: 9900042405

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Keywords: Criminal law;Penology;Criminology;;;;;;

Portland Style-Comfort Shoes Autumn and Winter 1927-28

Portland Shoe Company, 1927. pp. 12.12mo,,Card covers a bit soiled. Binding tight. Contents unmarked,Many images of the 'latest fashion' in ladies' foot wear for 1927-1928. Laid-in loose is a TLS on the letterhead of T. Roberts & Sons, of Leicester, UK, announcing this new Portland Shoe booklet. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900045130

Catalogue: Race & Gender

Keywords: Footwear;;;;;;;; black-&-white illustrations

A Practical Treatise on Manures. From the Recent Publications of the British Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Philadelphia, PA, E. S. Jones & Co, 1851. Hardcover. pp. x, 204. 12mo. Bound in original ribbed brown cloth, blocked in blind, Cloth shows light scuffing and shelf wear, Contents foxed, but tightly bound. A good, to good plus, copy. .

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Book number: 9900007240

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: Fertilizer;Farming;;;;;;;

Prairie Scenes; Happy Birthday; Portage la Prairie 1880 - 1980

Portage la Prairie, [Murray Printing], 1980. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated. 12mo oblong. Black and white photographs. Lightest shelfwear; very good+. Various black and white postcards depicting sights from around Portage la Prairie. .

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Book number: 079901

Catalogue: Manitoba History

Preview 1952; Hollywood-London

London, A World Film Publication, 1952. Hardcover. pp. 160. 4to. Bound in blue cloth with black lettering to spine and front board. B&W and colour photographs. Light shelfwear, scuffing and discolouration to extremities, tape to spine, ink owner's name to ffep, stiff tape repair to hinge at front endpapers; good. .

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Book number: 090991

Catalogue: Theatre, Film & Media

Preview 1950

London, World Film Publications, 1950. Hardcover. pp. 153. 4to. Bound in red cloth with black lettering to spine and front board. B&W and colour photographs. Light shelfwear, front board bowed, ink owner's name to front pastedown, foxing to endpapers; very good- in very good-, clipped dustjacket with front tear to front, now protected in brodart sleeve. .

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Book number: 090992

Catalogue: Theatre, Film & Media

Preview 1949

London, World Film Publications, 1949. Hardcover. pp. 150. 8vo. Bound in light blue cloth with black lettering to spine and front board. B&W and colour photographs. Light shelfwear; very good in very good dustjacket with minor chips and scuffing to edges, now protected in brodart sleeve. .

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Book number: 090995

Catalogue: Theatre, Film & Media

Preview 1947

London, World Film Publications, 1947. Paperback. Unpaginated. 4to. Black and white photographs. Stapled binding. Light shelfwear, creasing and some annotations to extremities, lesion to rear cover; good+ in protective "cling film" jacket. .

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Book number: 090999

Catalogue: Theatre, Film & Media

Proceedings of the Ninety-Eighth Annual Conclave of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar of the State of Virginia

Richmond, VA, 1920. 1st printing. Wraps. pp. 199.8vo,,Bound in original printed stiff card covers,Presents various committee reports, and with list of members from each 'commandery' of the 27 situated throughout the state, and the ranks held by each member therein, plus an extensive 'Report on Correspondence' from each of the other states in which the Freemasons have organized. Written across the top of the front cover is: 'Portsmouth Commandery #5 Recorder's Copy'. Covers scuffed and worn, but still serviceable. Some pencil 'ticking' to a few pages, else unmarked. A good plus copy. 'Held in the asylum in Masonic Temple in the City of Richmond October 28th, A.D. 1920, A.O. 803.'. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900043408

Catalogue: Magic & Occult

Keywords: Freemasons;Virginia;Masons;;;;;; black-&-white illustrations

The Producers of Ice Follies and Ice Capades Present Ice Cycles of 1947

Ice Follies and Ice Capades, 1947. 4to. Illustrated paper covers scuffed & 'thumbed'. Pages coming loose but everything present. Contents clean: a fair/good copy. Ill.: black-and-white photographs. wrappers .

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Book number: 9900037166

Catalogue: Theatre, Film & Media

Keywords: Ice capades;Figure skating black-and-white photographs