EDWARDS, Wm. [Secretary of the Board and Editor]

The Journal of the Board of Arts and Manufactures for Upper Canada / Volumes VI and VII

Toronto, Board of Arts & Manufactures, 1867. Hardcover. pp. 328, 328. Royal 8vo. Two volumes bound as one: boards detached but present. Minor soiling to first and last few pages of each volume. Otherwise contents clean and tight. A journal established in 1861 'to make better provision for the encouragement of agriculture, and to provide for the promotion of mechanical science'. It also contains a fund of knowledge about trade and industrial production in Upper Canada in the years just before Confederation. Each monthly issue contains editorial notices, news of new industrial designs, techniques or patents, and lengthy articles on new developments in industry or agriculture (e.g. 'On Ozone in Relation to Disease and Health'; 'The Propagation of Trout'; 'The Spectroscope and its Revelations'); as well as reports from the Board of Arts & Manufactures. Each volume contains a comprehensive Index at the front. Volumes I to III were edited by Henry Youle Hind. Beginning in 1864, this journal was edited by the Secretary of the Board. Ill.: black-&-white illustrations.

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Book number: 9900030326

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Upper Canada;Technology;Manufacturing;Trade and industry;Commerce;;;; black-&-white illustrations

Barry, Donald; Applebaum, Bob and Earl Wiseman

Fishing for a Solution; Canada's Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013

Calgary, Alberta, University of Calgary Press, 2014. Paperback. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies Series. .

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Book number: 045695

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Beyond Boundaries: Canadian Defence and Strategic Studies Series;

Bowsfield, Hartwell (ed.)

The Letters of Charles John Brydges 1883-1889

Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1981. Hardcover. pp. 380. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light shelfwear, smoky odour. Dustjacket with some nicking and one short tear, with darkening to spine; very good+ in very good dustjacket. Hudson's Bay Record Society XXXIII. .

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Book number: 085918

Catalogue: Canadian History

Bowsfield, Hartwell (ed.)

The Letters of Charles John Brydges 1879-1882; Hudson's Bay Company Land Commissioner

Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1977. Hardcover. pp. 328. 8vo. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Includes fold out map. Light shelfwear, smoky odour. Dustjacket lightly worn, with darkening to spine; very good+ in very good dustjacket. Hudson's Bay Record Society XXXI. .

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Book number: 085919

Catalogue: Canadian History

Bremner, Benjamin

Tales of Abegweit (Prince Edward Island); Containing Historical, Biographical and Humorous Sketches and Selections

Charlottetown, PEI, Irwin Printing Company, Limited, 1936. Paperback. pp. 132, xiv. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Moderate shelfwear, creasing and agetoning to covers, thumbing. Staples visible at first and last pages, previous owner's notation to first page; good+. Collated, Edited and Written by Benjamin Bremner. With an Appendix of Place-Names in Prince Edward Island with their Origins or Meanings. .

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Book number: 073143

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Canadiana; Maritimes; East Coast;

Breon, Emmanuel; et al.

French Embassy in Canada

Paris, Artistic & Printing, 2018. Hardcover. pp. 223. 4to. Colour photographs, text in both English and French. Light shelfwear, small puncture to spine; very good in very good+ dustjacket and very good slipcase. .

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Book number: 066480

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[Mounted Police Veterans Association] Brookhouse, A. A., ed

Scarlet & Gold : Riel Rebellion Edition / Vol. XVII, July 1935

Vancouver BC, Mounted Police Veterans Assoc, 1935. Stapled Wraps. pp. 102. 4to. Cover shows creasing and tears and separated from text, some loss to spine and first page, cup ring to one page, ink to foredge, text shows marginal ride marks; fair. This edition of the magazine of the Mounted Police Veterans' Association, published on the 50th anniversary of the North West Rebellion, presents 'many interesting stories of that time, written chiefly by the men who took an active part in this Canadian drama.. We.. believe that this issue should be treasuresd as an historical souvenir'. Articles include: 'Riel Rebellion of 1885' by Judge Forin (4 pgs); 'Pioneering in the West' by J B Ross (4 pgs); 'Toronto to Fort Garry' by James T. Fullerton (2 pgs); 'Prisoners with Indians' by Neil Brodie (4 pgs); 'Sergeant D B Smith Honored' (1 pg); 'With General Strange's Column in the Riel Rebellion': reprinted from the 1885 'The Souvenir Number of the Illustrated War News' (9 pgs); 'Charles Dickens' Son' by George Shepherd (1 pg); 'On the March with 'The Little Black Devils' ' by Monro St. John (20 pgs); 'The Trial and Sentence of Louis Riel' by George Bartley (5 pgs); and 'Jubilee Year of Loyalists' Victory Riel's Second Rebellion in 1885' by George Bartley (19 pgs). All articles are peppered with photos and illustrations. Last two pages appear in duplicate. .

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Book number: 9900045230

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Keywords: Riel Rebellion; North West; Louis Riel; Memoirs; Articles;

Brown, Ron

Ghost Towns of Canada

Toronto, Cannonbooks, 1987. Paperback. pp. 112. 8vo. Black & white and colour photographs. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 071170

Catalogue: Canadian History

Brown, Helena M.

The Rainbow Story

Three Hills, AB, E.M.F. Press, 1971. Paperback. pp. 88. 4to. Card covers. Black and white illustrations and photographs. Lightest edgewear and sunning to spine, ink mark to first page. Contents clean and unmarked with sound binding; very good+. .

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Book number: 054245

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Canadiana; Religion; Christianity; Manitoba

Brymner, Douglas

Report on Canadian Archives; Being an Appendix to Report of the Minister of Agriculture

Ottawa, MacLean, Roger & Co, 1884. Paperback. pp. 247. 8vo. Light shelfwear, open tear to front panel, owner's name to verso of front cover, wear to extremities; good+. .

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Book number: 080587

Catalogue: Canadian History

Brymner, Douglas

Report on the Canadian Archives (Two Volumes in One); 1886

Ottawa, Maclean, Roger and Co, 1887. Hardcover. pp. 741, 84. 8vo. Bound in pebbled dark brown cloth. Light shelfwear, corners bumped, sunning to spine and edges, bookplate to front pastedown; very good+. Being an Appendix to Report of the Minister of Agriculture. .

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Book number: 083756

Catalogue: Canadian History

Bumsted, J. M. (ed.)

Reporting the Resistance; Alexander Begg and Joseph Hargrave on the Red River Resistance

Winnipeg, Manitoba, University of Manitoba Press, 2003. Paperback. pp. 288, 8vo. Lightly scuffed and discoloured to cover, author's signature to title page; very good. SIGNED by Bumsted. .

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Book number: 084407

Catalogue: Canadian History

Burnford, Sheila

Without Reserve

Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1969. Hardcover. pp. 242. 8vo. Bound in orange cloth. Illustrations by Susan Ross. Light shelfwear, ink inscription to ffep, some discoloured spots throughout. Dustjacket price clipped, light shelfwear and soiling; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 090958

Catalogue: Canadian History

Bush, Peter

Western Challenge; the Presbyterian Church in Canada's Mission on the Prairies and North, 1885-1925

Watson And Dwyer, 2000. Paperback. pp. 272. 8vo. Black and white illustrations. Light general shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 072446

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Frontier Canada; Western Expansion; Prairie Church

Campbell, Glen [Ed.]

Humanities Assocation of Canada Newsletter: Spring/Printemps 1985; Riel: 1885 Remembered

Calgary, Alberta, Humanities Association of Canada, 1985. Vol. XIII No. 2. Paperback. pp. 52. 4to. 28 cm. Stapled Wraps. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Slightest shelfwear; very good+. .

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Book number: 024561

Catalogue: Canadian History

Keywords: Unviersity of Calgary; Alberta; History; Canadian History; Saskatchewan; Manitoba History;