Publisher:
Ontario: Ministry of Culture and Recreation, Historical Planning and Research Branch, 1979.
Seller ID: 18261scs
Octavo, paperbound (stapled, illus. wrappers), 11 pp. Illustrated. From Introduction: The prehistory of North-Central Ontario spans nearly 9,000 years, from about 7,000 BC to the AD 17th Century. Archaeologists working in the area over the past 20 years have recorded over 1,000 sites belonging to the original inhabitants of Northern Ontario. Through their stone tools, broken pottery sherds, food remains, and other discarded items, the long forgotten lifeways of these prehistoric peoples are slowly and painstakingly being reconstructed... View More...
Signed by both authors. Quarto, gold cloth, decorations to upper cover, 127 pp. Very Good+ with minor soiling to covers and former owner signiture. View More...
Octavo, softbound (slick, full-color illus. wrappers), 168 pp. Illustrated with full-color photographs. Near-Fine, with small former-owner bookplate. Contents: Bluebell: A Mining Saga; Ainsworth: West Kootenay's First Town; Historic Nelson & The Fabled Silver King; Pioneer Days in Wild, Wooly Ymir; Rossland: The Golden City; The Kaslo & Slocan Railway; Ghost Towns of the Silvery Slocan; The Ss Moyie; Popular City. View More...
Large, blong octavo; gold cloth (hardcover), gil tletters & decoration to upper cover, illus. endpapers, unpaginated. Numerous illustrations. Near-Fine, in a Very Good dust jacket with foxing (age darkened spotting) and edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: These pages portray the story of a great Hospital and a part of the history of Canada. The role played by the General carries on today through the continuous service to the sick and advancement of medical knowledge through teaching and knowledge. View More...
Publisher:
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1997).
Seller ID: es4132
Octavo, grey cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, [xiv] + 291 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Our knowledge and appreciation of the nineteenth century seem largely to have vanished. In this book, the author reconstructs that world, basing her story on a vast family correspondence that was meant to be destroyed. With their fair share of eccentricities and human failings, several generations provide a microcosmic view of the building of a nation. All the Journey Through is also the story of the making of a Toronto family, though much of the narrative takes ... View More...
Cloth-backed illus. boards, 32 pp. Full-color illus. Very Good, with rubing to covers and light foxing (age darkened spotting) to endpapers. View More...
Publisher:
Halifax, Nova Scotia: Wm. Macnab & Son Ltd., (1983).
Seller ID: m2778
Signed and inscribed by the author. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 397 pp. Neat former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Fine (As New), in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light rubbing. From dust jacket: Athene is a history, but ist's also a love story, an unexpected unveiling of the first days of women's liberation in Canada, and a retrospective look at how more than 21,000 Canadian women convinced a federal government, a reluctant army and a doubting Canadian public that they not only had the right to serve their country in time of war, but could be of valuable assistance as well... View More...
Publisher:
Toronto: Ambassador Books Limited, (1949). First Edition, First Printing.
Seller ID: es4133
Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, xiii + 233 pp. Very Good+, with former-owner signature and slight rubbing along edges. View More...
Publisher:
Atona, Manitoba, Canada: D.W. Friesen & Sons Ltd., 1982. First Edition.
Seller ID: 00426sc
Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xi, 373 pp. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Includes bibliographic documentation, numerous tables, maps, and illustrations. ÒThis book tells the story of Altona, settled by a small group of pioneers on an original settlement on the prairies in the 1870s. The old Altona Village, which was settled in the 1880s, graduallly evolved into a modern town. It is an absorbing story well told. The author has researched her book thoroughly from original as well as secondary sources and supplemented this with oral interviews. The book is well illustrated, a... View More...
Publisher:
City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972.
Seller ID: mfs05
Quarto, paperbound (stiff, printed blue wrappers), xix + 299 pp, 80 figures, 87 plates, 30 tables. Very Good-, with edgewear and rubbing to covers. From Abstract: This monograph presents the results of a two-year investigation of the prehistoric and contemporary cultural geography of the Hamilton Inlet region of the central Labrador coast. Previously archeologically unknown, this 200-mile estuary cross-cuts the boreal-tundra ecotone and is an are in which there exists contemporary cultural diversity, including Eskimos, Indians, white trappers, and codfishermen. Until recently these cultur... View More...
Publisher:
Vancouver, Canada: J. J. Douglas, Ltd., (1977). First Edition.
Seller ID: es4143
Quarto, black cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, xix + 151 pp. Near-Fine, in a Very Good, price-clipped dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket:Vancouver's Edwardian wood frame houses now stand in the shadow of highrises; her few cobblestone streets reflect neon lights in the rain, and her turn-of-the-century mansions look out onto the terraces of condominium apartments. Only scattered reminders of the earlier city still exist -- an old brick facade on Hastings Street, a giant fir stump in Point Grey. But Vancouver's past comes alive in the pages of this book. Over 200 photographs... View More...
Publisher:
Charlottetown: Institute of Island Studies, 1989.
Seller ID: qmsc1384
Signed & Inscribed by the Author. Octavo, paperbound (slick, stiff, grey wrappers), xi + 78 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: The Bonshaw Hill is a collection of 25 stories, anecdotes, reflections, and observations by a life-long resident of Prince Edward Island. The author has an ear for the vernacular of Islanders and an eye for the extraordinary in everyday life. Illustrated throughout by Island artist P. John Burden, who spent days roaming the Bonshaw hills with the author, this work is a unique contribution to Canadian literature. Through MacQuarrie's provocative sketches and Bu... View More...
Octavo, paperbound (stapled stiff illus. wrappers), 104 pp. Near Fine, with small former-owner signature. From lower cover: A Guide to Exploring Pelee Island Wildlife is a readily used introduction to both the common and unique wildlife of Pelee Island. The guide touches a broad range of subjects from birds and mammals to reptiles, amphibians, trees, wildflowers, insects and mollusks. Descriptions of the three nature reserves are included to enhance the visitor's experience. Specific accounts of species are offered to help the reader discover each, wherever possible, in its natural setti... View More...
Publisher:
National Museums of Canada Bulletin 230, Contributions to Anthropology: Ecological Essays, 1969.
Seller ID: 17887scs
Octavo, paperbound (stapled wrappers), [21] pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner signature. It has long been recognized that the form, size, and fixity of human settlements bear a definitive relationship to the modes of exploiting the natural environment to provide subsistence. Hunting and gathering people, as is well known, tend to live in small nomadic bands, whereas those who depend on agriculture clearly tend to live a sedentary life in local groups of considerably greater magnitude. But what are the social concomitants of such alternative exploitative patterns as fishing and pastoralism?.... View More...
Publisher:
Ottawa: Queen's Printer for Canada, 1969.
Seller ID: 17890scs
Octavo, stapled wrappers (paperbound), [10] pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner signature. Contents: The Ecosystem; The Ecological Population; Quantifiable Variables; Other Variables; Culture and Ecology. View More...
