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Wentworth Bygones: From the Papers and Records of The Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society, No. 11 (Eleven) 1975

By: Farmer, Eleanor S.D.; Greenfield, Katharine; Copps, Mayor Victor K.; Brooks, The Rev. Canon E.A.; Merrilees, Andrew; Fletcher, J.T.L.; Jones, Lottie M.

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Hamilton, Ontario, The Head-of-the-Lake Historical Society: 1975

Seller ID: 105h2927

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

64 pages. Black and white illustrations. Features: The Journal of a Scottish Farm Pupil in Ancaster 1881-1883; The Reverend Thomas Geoghegan, 1848-1906; From the Mayor's Chair - Then and Now, by Vic Copps; The Story of William Sampson, First Rector of grimsby, 1817-1822; The Railways of Hamilton; A History of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Hamilton; Early American and Canadian Glass; Baptismal Records of the Church of the Ascension (Anglican) Hamilton, 1851-53. Unmarked with light wear. A quality copy.
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 15 July 1939 - Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir

By: Freeman, Devery; Edwards, Frederick; Wetjen, Albert Richard; Jones, Stanley; Smith, I. Norman; Baxter, A. Beverley; Beamish, Royd E.; Moore, H. Napier

Price: $249.95

Publisher: Toronto, The Maclean Publishing Company: 1939

Seller ID: 144g1293

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fair

40 pages. Features: So This is Susan (short story); Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada; Nothing, Not Out (short story); Major article with photos; Colonel Drew stands by charges - author of Bren gun article testifies before Public Accounts Committee; War update from London; Loyalty (short story); Sulfapyridine - Medicine's new weapon in the fight against pneumonia; Edward Johnson of Guelph - article with photos (conclusion); Net Results (short story); The Dionne Quints are featured in a Palmolive soap ad which promotes souvenir "Quin' Teaspoons". Above-average but not excessi...
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Canadian Treasure Magazine - True Stories on Lost, Sunken and Buried Treasure - Volume 2, Number 3 (Collector's No. 6), Fall 1974

By: Friesen, V.C.; Cochrane, Hugh F.; Paterson, T.W.; Basque, Garnet

Price: $79.95

Publisher: Canada, Garnet Publishing Co.: 1974

Seller ID: 115h3124

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

40 pages. Features: Bill Miner - Gentlemanly Highwayman; James Houston - First Man to Discover Gold?; Treasure from Outer Space; A Metal Detector You Can Build in One Evening; New Brunswick - Sophia Jones Hamilton was no lady; Ontario's Forgotten Gold Rush - Marcus Herbert Powell made a discovery at Eldorado, Ontario; and more. Pages toned with age, otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy.
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Canadian Frontier Magazine, April (Apr.) 1973, Vol. 2, No. 1 - Massacre at Big Qualicum

By: Friesen, Victor C.; Wilkerson, Frank; Basque, Garnet

Price: $79.95

Publisher: Canada, Garnet Publishing Co.: 1973

Seller ID: 417h3136

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

36 pages. Features: The 1910 Tornado at Rosthern, Saskatchewan; The Log of the Privateer Dart, of Saint John, N.B. (part 1); The Haunted Tribe; Massacre at Big Qualicum - discovered by Adam Grant Horne; The Mysterious "Red Paint" Indians of Newfoundland. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy.
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Canadian Geographical Journal, September 1945 - John Canuck Applies for Dependents' Allowance

By: Frost, S.R.; Weeks, Kathleen; Lee, W/C H.T.I. ; Dean, S/L Basil

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Canada, The Canadian Geographical Society: 1945

Seller ID: 302g3429

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 106-152 plus fourteen pages of nice ads. Features: Canada's Nitrogen Industry; Monuments Mark This Boundary - the Canadian / US border - article with nice archival photos; John Canuck Applies for Dependents' Allowance - photo-illustrated article on the work of the Dependents' Allowance Board; England's Old Country Markets; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy.
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Canada West Magazine - The Pioneer Years, Fall 1979, Volume 9, Number 3, Collector's Number 35 - Alberta's Doukhobors

By: Fryer, Harold; Fitzgerald, Kathleen; Nickell, Joe; Tunney, Rene; Clark, Hap; Basque, G.; Paterson, T.W.

Price: $99.95

Publisher: Canada, Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd.: 1979

Seller ID: 417h3154

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

36 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Spirit Wrestlers - Alberta's Doukhobors fled persecution in Russia but found more in Alberta; Gabriel Dumont - Metis Warrior; Collins Overland Telegraph (part 1); The Ghost at Mackenzie House; Murdered in the Township of Blenheim - J. Reginald Birchall; Tom Clarke - The Man Who Shot NWMP scout Jerry Potts; How to Locate Placer Gold; Ghost Town Log - B.C. offers hundreds of ghost towns, mining camps and historic sites (conclusion); and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.
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Canada West Magazine, Summer 1977, Volume 7, Number 2: Murder at the Mount Sicker Hotel

By: Fryer, Harold; Hutchings, Ozzie; Paterson, T.W.; Lamont, Cecelia; Renard, Denise; Killum, Jay

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Canada, Stagecoach Publishing Co. Ltd.: 1977

Seller ID: 417h3149

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

40 pages. Black and white reproductions of archival photos. Features: Prohibition and the Runners of Rum (Alberta); Phantom (Growler) of the Unuk River Country; Murder at the Mount Sicker Hotel - miner Fred Beach goes on a rampage with his Winchester; The Silk Connection - the silk train roared from Vancouver to New York with her valuable cargo of silk from the Orient; West Kootenay Memories - the village of Procter; Wild Old Days; Billy Newcombe - son of Dr. C.F. Newcombe; Victoria's First Mayor Was a Character - Thomas Harris; The Great Fire at Miramichi, October 7, 1825; and more. Unmark...
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 15 August (Aug.), 1949 - The Story of the Hudson's Bay Company / Hong Kong Gold Smuggling

By: Gardner, Ray; Katz, Sidney; Anglin, Gerald; Elliott, Robert; Costello, William; Bannerman, James; Holliday, Kate; Hoogstraten, Vinia; Perowne, Barry; Duncan, Thomas; et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Toronto, Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers: 1949

Seller ID: 201h2467

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Fair

56 pages. Features: Great cover illustration of steam shovel; Beads to Billions - The Story of the H.B.C.; Cloak and Dagger Marriage (fiction); How Toronto's Evening Papers Slanted the Election News; The Joey Smallwood Saga; How to Brew Good Coffee; Hong Kong - The Port of Bloodstained Gold - article with great photos; The Man Who Wouldn't Tell (fiction); The Amazing Mechanical Kidney - Doctor Gordon Murray; Gullible's Travels - James Fitzpatrick creates MGM's "Travel Talks"; and more. Front cover missing piece from top corner and secured with archival tape. Back cover missing. Unm...
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, November (Nov.) 19, 1960 - We Adoped a Negro / John Fienberg

By: Gardner, Ray; MAnning, Herbert C.; Croft, Frank; DeWolf, Harry G.; Huycke, Joy; Lolli, Giorgio; Richerl, Mordecai; et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Montreal, Maclean Hunter: 1960

Seller ID: 201g4716

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

92 pages. Features: Cover illustration of St. George's Island Park dinosaur in Calgary; Colour-photo Caterpillar ad inside front cover shows great scene of neon lights at night in Montreal; Great one-page colour Oldsmobile ad features a Super 88 Holiday Coupe and Deluxe Station Wagon, both red; Fantastic two-page colour-photo ad for Zenith radios, including their new shirtpocket radio (red); Classy one-page colour ad for Black Magic chocolates by Rowntree features scene in Venice; The Invisible Unemployed - an intimate report on the real distress of the unemployment that looks like prosperity...
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Canadian West Magazine - The Pioneer Years: April (Apr.)/May/June 1992, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Collector's #28)

By: Goddard, Joan M.; Barnes, Harry D.; Craig, Glen; Polachic, D.; Stevenson, John

Price: $69.95

Publisher: Canada, Sunfire Publications Ltd.: 1992

Seller ID: 115h3135

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Very Good

44 pages. Abundantly illustrated with colour and black and white archival photos. Features: Rose Harbour - A Former Whaling Station; Early History of Hedley Camp; Happy Jack and the Mexico Ranch; Armand Trochu's Home on the Range - The St. Ann Ranch and Trading Company; Colin Cameron - Pioneer Policeman with the British Columbia Provincial Police. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy.
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Canadian Military History, Volume 21, Number 3, Summer 2012 - Clearing Out the Breskens Pocket

By: Goodlet, Kirk W.; Pellerin, R. Daniel; Brown, Andrew; Oliver, Dean F.; Halliday, Hugh A.; Storey, W.E.; Zimmerman, David

Price: $49.95

Publisher: Canada, LCMSDS: 2012

Seller ID: 838g4572

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

80 pages. Many reproductions of archival black and white photos. Features: The Geneva Convention, Medical Treatment, and the Repatriation of German POWs in Ontario, 1940-46; Canadian Counter-Battery Work in the Clearing of the Breskens Pocket, October-November 1944; An Assessment of Reinforcements to the 48th Highlanders in Italy, January-October 1944; Vimy Ridge Day, 2012; Algernon Mayow Talmage (1871-1939) - Official Canadian War Artist; CH146 Griffon Nose Art in Afghanistan; The Continuing Historical Legacy of Dominick "Toby" Graham; and more. Average wear. Date stamp on page 1....
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, June 1939

By: Graham, Captain Stuart; Clarke, A.H.; Ritchey, V.J.; Bradbrooke, Lymburner, J.H.

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Montreal, Canada, Aeronautical Publications Limited: 1939

Seller ID: 845g0935

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

48 pages. Features: Cover photo of a T.C.A. Lockheed approaching Canada's National War Memorial in Ottawa; Full-page Lockheed ad on page one features Two T.C.A. photos and one illustration - full T.C.A. theme - excellent!; Just Twenty Years Ago - Captain Stuart Graham's memoirs of Canada's first post-war flying; Full-page Lycoming ad; Awesome full-page illustrated ad for the Pioneer Instrument Company shows a 74-passenger transatlantic Boeing Clipper skipping across the water; Airport and Airway Lighting - article with illustrations; Nice full-page Beechcraft ad promotes their Model 18; 1917 C...
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 18 November (Nov.) 1961: The Story Behind Runner Bruce Kidd / House Pets a Health Threat? / Rene Levesque

By: Gray, Grattan; Wilson, Prof. J. Tuzo; Tyrwhitt, J.; Robertson, Terence; et al

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Toronto, Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers: 1961

Seller ID: 201h2449

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

74 pages. Features: What Happens When Parents Start a School of Their Own?; The Friendly Way to Have Hair-Raising Adventures at Home - The National Geographic Society; A Guide to Radioactive Fallout; The Real Point About Bruce Kidd - Very uplifting article about a fine young Malvern Collegiate student, written by his dad; Plasma Physics Researcher Morrel Bachynski of RCA Victori in Montreal; James Goad was trapped in the carrier Nabob after it was hit by a torpedo; Rene Levesque - The Man in the Middle of Quebec's New Deal; No Thinking Man Would Keep a Pet; The Ironic Birth of "O Canada&...
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, October (Oct.) 13, 1956: Annacis Island - Industrial Colossus in the Making / The Black Day the Quebec Bridge Fell

By: Gray, John; Fraser, Blair; Moon, Barbara; Markham, Charles; Earl, Marjorie; Bennerman, James; Bodsworth; Fred; Trevor, Elleston; Horowitz, Mort M.; Et al

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Montreal, Maclean Hunter: 1956

Seller ID: 201g4688

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

120 pages. Features: Cover painting of Okanagan apple harvest by James Hill; Great macho colour ad for GWG workwear inside front cover features hardy men building pipeline; Don't damn the U.S. for facing up to segregation; Let's stop leaving our future to old men; We're not so smart about the U.S.; Nice one-page colour Canadian Pacific ad features the luxurious new Empress of England; Nostalgic one-page colour ad for the GE pushbutton range (yellow); Your stake in teh U.S. Election between Eisenhower and Stevenson; The Next Ten Years of TV - amazing article foretells remote control, recorded...
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, March 1937 - The Work of W.R. Turnbull / Noorduyn Aircraft Centrefold Ad

By: Green, Dr. J.J.; Bradbrooke, F.D.; Main, J.R.K.

Price: $299.95

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada, Aeronautical Publications Limited: 1937

Seller ID: 845g0913

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

52 pages. Features: Cover photo onboard a new Douglas Sleeper shows mother, son and stewardess; Pratt & Whitney ad inside front cover; Reproduction of an amazing 1883 circust poster drawn by Emil Roe which shows Prof. Harriman's Steam Air Ship; The Turn of the Tide - a review of tremendous aviation progress in 1936; News and Views of the Month; Fantastic full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes features Antoinette Cellier and Richard Arlen who star in the film "The Great Barrier"; The Trans-Canada Airway - Progress Report - major article with photos and interesting graphic; Full-p...
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, February 1937

By: Green, Dr. J.J.; Sandwell, A.H.; Ritchie, V.J.; Bradbrooke, F.D.; Main, J.R.K.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Ottawa, Aeropublications Limited: 1937

Seller ID: 845g0911

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

24 pages. Features: Nice Pratt & Whitney ad inside front cover; The Trans-Canada situation; Cold weather tests; Increase in budget for the R.C.A.F. for next year; High octane fuels increase performance; Marvelous full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes features photo of Gertrude Lawrence; Radio Compasses for the Airways; Early Aeronautical Research in Canada - Part II - with photo of the famous "Red Wing" just prior to its first flight, plus a photo of a tetrahedral kite on floats built at Baddeck, Nova Scotia in 1906; New York's National Aviation Show - article; Nice half-page p...
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Canadian Aviation Magazine, January 1937 - Sensational Fleet Aircraft Four-Page Centerfold Ad

By: Green, Dr. J.J.; Sandwell, Flight Commander A.H.; Bradbrooke, F.C.; Main, J.R.K.

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada, Aeronautical Publications Limited: 1937

Seller ID: 845g0912

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

28 pages. Features: Pratt & Whitney engine ad inside front cover; Half-page photo of the Bristol "142" in flight; Article about the high number of aviation disasters in December 1936; Brief article with photos about float planes which sunk under the weight of heavy snow; Super full-page photo ad for Gold Flake cigarettes shows Dolly Haas; How to honour the pioneers - the Silver Dart; The Story of the Silver Dart - article with three photos; Carmand and Warner Elliott of Sioux Lookout make aircraft skis - article with photos; Nice photo ad for the Monospar by General Aircraft; Hennessy...
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Canadian Geographical Journal, March, 1958 - The Richilieu, Historic Water-Way of Eastern Canada

By: Greening, W.E.; Crich, W.V.; English, R.E.; Gillies, D.A.

Price: $149.95

Publisher: Canada, The Canadian Geographical Society: 1958

Seller ID: 302g3438

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 83-119 pages plus thirteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: The Richilieu, Historic Water-Way of Eastern Canada; Some Wild Animals of Canada, Part II; Agriculture in Alberta; Canot du Maitre or Montreal Canoe; and more. Nice one-page RCAF recruiting ad. Colour-photo BOAC ad inside back cover shows lobster and liquor being served on-board. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy.
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Canadian Geographical Journal, May 1944 - Toronto's 150 Years

By: Guillet, Edwin C.; Nobbs, Percy E.; Munday, Don; Gaunt, Arthur; Fairweather, C. Lillian

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Canada, The Canadian Geographical Society: 1943

Seller ID: 302g3428

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Pages 203-243 plus nineteen pages of nice vintage ads. Features: Toronto's 150 Years; Metal Crafts in Canada - many photos of beautiful creations; Western Mountain Flowers; Britain's Storied Stones and Crosses; Interiors of Pioneer Houses in New Brunswick; and more. Some of the best ads include:.Ford Motor company (military theme); Magnificent two-page two-color Victory Bonds ad features soldier on battlefield; CIBC (features photo of heavy navy guns); Gold Flake cigarettes (features photo of male and female military personnel); Canadian Women's Army Corps - nice colour ad on back cover Mo...
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Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 16 January (Jan.) 1960: Anthony Eden / Winnipeg's Wonderful Elm

By: Gzowski, P.; Beattie, Jeann; Metcalfe, R.; Pope, Sir Joseph; Lefolii, Ken; Garner, Hugh; et al

Price: $199.95

Publisher: Toronto, Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers: 1960

Seller ID: 201h2451

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Good

52 pages. Features: Cover illustration of plane loading with folks travelling to avoid winter climes; Communist Party of Canada changes its name back from Labor Progressive Party; One-page colour ad for the Chevrolet Corvair; Why Are Canadians So Slow to Anger? - asks Hugh Garner; Ross Maclean - the CBC TV star you never see; Jeann Beattie's robbery led to her becoming 'big sister' to youth group "The Saints"; Visit with Anthony Eden; Women fight to save elm tree in Winnipeg's Wolseley Ave; Canada finds her own Pepys - Sir Joseph Pope; When Ballet Came to the Bush - Les Grans Ballets ...
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Category: Canadian History