Telephone Directory Issued September 1st 1916. Steinbach Telephone Exchange

Steinbach, MB, H. F. Reimer, 1970. pp. 20. Small 8vo. Stapled card covers show slightest shelf wear, else nf condition. A facsimile of the 1916 telephone directory for Steinbach, Manitoba with directions on how to use the instrument. .

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Book number: 9900044425

Catalogue: Manitoba History

Keywords: Telephony;;;;;;;;

Temperance Et Intempérance

Montreal, Des Presses a Vapeur de Montigny & Compagnie, 1856. Paperback. pp. 86. 8vo. Blue paper wraps. Covers chipped at corners, some curling to page corners, contents unmarked, binding sound. OCLC 936849327. TPL 8522. In French. An early treatise on temperance in Canada. .

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Book number: 086871

Catalogue: Law & Crime

Keywords: Temperance; alcoholism; Liquor laws; Law; legal history; physiological; abolition

This Agreement Among Norway House Cree Nation, Canada, Manitoba, Manitoba Hydro; Undated Draft

1999. Spiral Bound. Unpaginated. 4to. Blue cloth binding with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Fold out maps. Contains 14 indexed page dividers, each housing a separate article of the agreement. Light shelfwear; else very good. .

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Book number: 069641

Catalogue: Manitoba History

Thompson Facts; Information on the Town of Thompson, Manitoba and the International Nickel Company of Canada, Limited

n.p. n.p. 1969. Stapled Wraps. pp. 16. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 073288

Catalogue: Manitoba History

Through Our Eyes

Steinback, Manitoba, Journey's Education Association, 1989. Stapled Wraps. pp. 48. 4to. Black & white illustrations. Light shelfwear; else very good-. .

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Book number: 069493

Catalogue: Indigenous Studies

Town of Altona Millenium Diary

Altona, MB, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 144.8vo,,Sl. scuffed, else in very good, to near fine, condition, ISBN 1550567349. Ill.: black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900041324

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: ;;;;;;;; black-and-white photographs

Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec; Sessions of 1880-81 | Sessions of 1882-83 / Two Volumes Bound Together

Quebec, 1883. Hardcover. pp. 118. 8vo. Bound in 1/2 red leather over marbled boards. Hinges cracked through, front board detached, sticker to spine, owner's name, library tape to gutter at verso of ffep, stamp to ffep; fair. With the original wraps bound-in. .

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Book number: 079323

Catalogue: Canadian History

[John Lovell, et al]

Transactions of the Canadian Society of CIVIL Engineers [18 Individual Volumes of This Journal]

Montreal, Quebec, John Lovell et al. 1911. 1st edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Six volumes bound in half leather; 12 in dark grey buckram. Charts, diagrams, illustrations. With almost no exception the contents of each of the 18 volumes are pristine and all volumes contain numerous folding plans, charts, maps, diagrams and illustrations; the later volumes including b&w photographs. The bindings show varying degrees of wear, mainly edge rubbing to the boards, with a couple of split hinges. Overall, in very good condition. Note: these are the original publications. Much on railways, bridge-building, water purification and water works, telegraphy, hydro power development, concrete etc. etc. The Canadian Society of Civil Engineers was founded in 1887, and was the first national professional engineering society in Canada. In 1918, the society renamed itself the Engineering Institute of Canada. The first issue of the society's transactions appeared in June, 1887, covering the period March to June of that year. Volume I contained five articles: 'Frazil Ice', by G. H. Henshaw; 'Grain Elevators of the Canadian Pacific Railway', by S. Howard; 'Superstructure of the St. Lawrence Bridge', by G. H. Massy; 'Ventilating and Lighting of Railway Cars', by J. D. Barnett; and 'Water Purification', by Professor Leeds. There were three folding plates. This set contains: volume I, parts I and II, 1887; vol. III, 1889; vol. IV, 1890; vol. V, parts 1 and II, 1891; vol. VI, parts 1 and 2, 1892; vol. VII, parts 1 and 2, 1893; vol. VIII, parts 1 and 2, 1894; vol. IX, parts 1 and 2, 1895; vol. XI, part 1, 1897; vol. XII, parts 1 and 2, 1898; vol. XIV, parts 1 and 2, 1900; vol. XV*, parts 1 and 2, 1901; vol. XVI*, parts 1 and 2, 1902; vol. XVIII, parts 1 and 2, 1904; vol. XX*, 1906; vol. XXI*, 1907; vol. XXII*, 1908; vol. XXIV*, 1910. Volumes marked with an asterisk (*) are bound in half leather. Ill.: charts, diagrams, illustrations.

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Book number: 9900044393

Catalogue: Science & Technology

Keywords: Engineering; Canadian history; maps; plans; charts; civil; Engineering Institute of Canada charts, diagrams, illustrations

Tricolor '48

Kingston, ON, Alma Mater Society, 1948. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 200.Oversized 4to,,Bound in padded steel blue cloth with bright red title, Queen's University yearbook for 1948. Boards rubbed at edges, spine slant, veryn light soiling; else very good condition. Ill.: black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900034008

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Queen's University;Kingston;Student union;University students;Yearbooks;;;; black-and-white photographs

Two Good Dialogues; Little Pitchers and a Sudden Discovery

Toronto, Educational Publishing Co, N.D. Stapled Wraps. pp. 4; unpaginated. Shelfwear, thumbed corners, age toned pages; very good-. .

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Book number: 074726

Catalogue: Drama

[Two Wartime Government Pamphlets on Tomato Production]

Ottawa, ON, 1940. Wraps. 8vo. Both pamphlets show some wear and light soiling, but are intact and perfectly readable. The two titles are: 'Tomato Diseases', by G. H. Berkeley and J. K. Richardson; and 'Tomato Culture', by the Agricultural Services Board. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900014857

Catalogue: Natural History

Keywords: black-&-white illustrations

Uncle Joe's Will; a Comedy

Toronto, Educational Publishing Co. Ltd, N.D. Stapled Wraps. pp. 16. 12mo. Booklet showing age toning. Light shelfwear; else very good-. .

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Book number: 074725

Catalogue: Drama

United Grain Growers 77th Annual Report for the Year Ended July 31, 1983

NP (Winnipeg, MB), United Grain Growers, 1977. 1st edition. Wraps. pp. 84.4to,,Stapld card covers sl. rubbed & soiled; else very good condition, Covers illutrated with photos of vintage tractors. Very clean copy - no internal markings. Ill.: colour photos.

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Book number: 9900017591

Catalogue: Business & Economics

Keywords: Farming;Agriculture;Grain growing;Annual reports;;;;; colour photos

United Mennonite Churches of Essex County

NP (Chatham, ON), No publisher stated, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 139. 4to. Boards a bit scuffed & soiled; else in very good condition. A church picture book, produced as a cooperative effort by the Essex County United Mennonite Churches - Faith Mennonite Church, Harrow United Mennonite Church, Leamington United Mennonite Church, and North Leamington United Mennonite Church. 'As a pictorial record of church members and family units up to December, 1983, it represents a total church membership of close to 1500, photographs are included of 705 families.' Ink note on front free endpaper reads: 'Oct. 22, 1988 rec'd. from Eric Unger at UMEI, (signed) Peter D. Zacharias'. Zacharias is a noted Mennonite author ('Footprints of a Pilgrim People' and 'Reinland: An Experience in Community'). This is a scarce item, no copies being available at time of cataloguing. Ill.: black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900032980

Catalogue: Religion

Keywords: Mennonites;Church;Ontario;Genealogy;;;;; black-and-white photographs

The University of Winnipeg Collegiate / Tric-Tics / 1976-1977

Winnipeg, MB, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. 96,4to,,Boards sl. scuffed & soiled; else very good, to near fine, cond, Photos, write-ups and other features. No markings by former owner. Ill.: black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900034861

Catalogue: Manitoba History

Keywords: Univ. of Winnipeg;;;;;;;; black-and-white photographs