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Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Cover: 'Maria Chapdelaine' by Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote (Art Gallery of Ontario). Contents of this issue: Explorations (The price of glory: Dieppe 1942); 'But the King Must Be Obeyed' (Montcalm's last battle, Quebec 1759) by Ian McCulloch; First Lady of the Red Chamber (Cairine Wilson: A life of public service) by Valerie Knowles; The Mothers of Confederation (Lives of unending toil in pioneer Canada) by Sydell Waxman; Home Sweet Suburb (The great post-war migration to suburbia) by J.M. Bumsted; Listening to the Past (The tape recorder as time machine) by Shane Carmody. Very good or better condition. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11, stapled wrappers in magazine format, 56pp. Near fine condition. Feature article traces the roots of baseball to the year 1838 and the small town of Beachville, Ontario. 'The basis of this claim lies with a lengthy letter published 5 May 1886 in the Philadelphia-based Sporting Life magazine. The letter, entitled 'A Game of Long-ago Which Closely Resembled Our Present National Game', was written by Dr. Adam Ford of Denver, Colorado, who had grown up in Beachville. Part of the letter was also printed in the Ingersoll, Ontario, Chronicle. 160 grams.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: The Upper Canada ALMANAC, for the year of our Lord 1803. Contents of this issue include: The Secrets of Halifax Harbour - A maritime history in lost ships by David Napier; Hostess to a Nation - Nellie King poured tea and saved governments by RB Fleming; The Calgary Gold Brick Caper by Hugh Dempsey; A Printer is Indispensably Necessary - The not-so-free colonial press by Chris Raible; Stanley Park's Big Hollow Tree by Meg Stanley; Behind the Legend - Bethune's curious retreat from the Spanish Civil War by Larry Hannant; Hawke of The Transcript - A forgotten hero of Canadian journalism by John Edward Belliveau; Vikings at Play - The unique pleasures of Vinland by David Gardner; plus Book Reviews & Letters. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. Moderately creased vertically down center else a very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Iroquois warrior, 1787, by J. Grasset de St. Sauveur (Library of Congress). Contents of this issue include: The Birthday Party - We celebrated 1967 as dark clouds gathered by JM Bumsted; Our Lodge in the Wilderness - Alma Dick-Lauder, Victorian eccentric by Paul Grimwood; The Treaties of 1760 - Mohawk pacts reverberate across two centuries by John Thompson; The Beast of War & The Lake - German prisoners in Canadian cottage country by Jake MacDonald; Living Picture - The movies come to Canada, 1896 by Peter Steven; Frank Slide - Did greed bring a mountain down? by Allen Seager; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba. …

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 62pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies may also be available). Cover: Trading Company at York Factory, 1780s by A. Sherriff Scott, HBC Collection. Contents of this issue: Explorations; Trading into Hudson's Bay; Twillight of the Fur Trade by Eleanor Stardom; Wobble to Glory; George Goulding, pedestrian, astonished the world by Glynn Leyshon; Armand Trochu's Home on the Range by Darlene Polachic; A visitation of Providence; Fire brings tragedy to New Ontario, 1916 by Margaret Southall; Life at Gjoa Haven: The Old and the New; From Franklin to Bob Newhart on King William Island by TC Landon; Painting the Vision; The Ojibwa Nation in a new age by JM Macdonald; Christopher Moore on the Gitksan and the Wet'suwet'en; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 62pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue also available). Cover: Norse Ship Gaia, North Atlantic, 1991. Contents of this issue: Confederation Summer by Christopher Dafoe; Northern Approaches - Before Columbus, Early European Visitors tot he New World by Robert McGhee; Hurricane - Railcars to fighter planes: A Canadian industry goes to war by David Kemp; A Tale of Three Settlements - Lord Selkirk and his North American agents by JM Bumsted; Journey of a Mind - The genius of Alexander Graham Bell by Marcus Van Steen; Whatever Happened to Confederation? - Writers of history and the Founding Fathers by Christopher Moore; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba. …

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 62pp. Ships lettermail. A very good copy (other copies may be available). Contents of this issue: Explorations: Canada and the Fur Trade; Canada's Hero of The Light Brigade by HM Weedle; Weller's Express Beat the Odds; A wild ride from Toronto to Montreal, 1840 by George McElroy; A Very Affectin Thing; A literary mystery solved? by Hubert Mayes; Undefeated; 300 years of Ojibwa history by JM Macdonald; Beyond Hope, Past Redemption; Teaching in the BC Hinterland, 1928-1933 by Thomas Fleming and Carolyn Smyly; Cicero on the Frontier; higher education in colonial Canada by Patricia Jasen; Writers of History; Christopher Moore on Jack Granatstein; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: The Challenge of the Mountains - from an early CPR travel brochure, Glenbow Archives. Contents of this issue include: Christopher Dafoe on Canada's Century; Guardians of The Rockies - Conservationists and mountain-climbers by PearlAnn Reichwein; The Friendly Games - Hamilton hosts the first British Empire Games, 1930 by Glynn Leyshon; Myth-Making at Fort St. James - History, in various versions, 1828-1928 by Frieda Esau Klippenstein; Kathleen Parlow: A Life in Music - A Canadian virtuoso in St. Petersburg, 1906 by Hubert Mayes; The New Jerusalem - Jewish pioneers go back to the land, 1884 by Abraham Arnold; Christopher Moore meets Pierre Berton; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 62pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Frances Anne Hopkins, 'Young Girl Skating 1867', Royal Ontario Museum. Contents of this issue: The Fragrance of the Past by Christopher Dafoe; Something Terrible; The Odour of Contagion, Montreal 1885 by Michael Bliss; Keyboards for Canadians; Our long love affair with the piano by Wayne Kelly; A Peal of Bells for a Poet by Hubert Mayes; The Duke's Astonishing Telegraph; Good news travelled fast in colonial Atlantic Canada by James Morrison; In the Midst of Life; A young woman's letters evoke the old West by Ruth Buck; Colours of History; Women combined art and utility at the quilting bee by P. Colleen Archer; Christopher Moore on The Happy Warrior; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Skaters in Lawrence Park, Toronto, 1948 by J.S. Hallam. Contents of this issue: Simpson at Red River by Christopher Dafoe; The Great Debate - Lincoln versus John A. Macdonald on the speaker's platform by David Raymont; Painters of Canada's Past - As they were: The art of JS Hallam by Paul Hallam; The Strange Expedition of Alexander McArthur - An amateur ornithologist heads into the unknown by William Barr; The Voyage of the John Barry - From Cook to Canada on the perilous ocean, 1825 by Carol Bennett McCuaig; Kings of the Ice - Hockey's first Golden Age and the men who made it by James Whalen; 999 Queen Street West - George Brown and the Toronto Asylum scandal by Chris Raible; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba. …

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: W. Frank Lynn: Red River carts at HBC Post, Pembina, 1872 (HBC Collection). Contents of this issue: Part of the Oral Tradition by Christopher Dafoe; Upper Canada Preserved; Isaac Brock's farewell to arms, Queenston Heights 1812 by Robert Malcomson; No Mercy for Mercy Hall - Religious mania and murder in colonial New Brunswick by John Edward Belliveau; The Tragedy of White Bird - A great Indian leader's lonely death in exile by Hugh Dempsey; The Seed and The Harvest - Self-help in Depression time Manitoba by Tom Saunders; Our 'Unmade' Roads - Getting around the colonies when the going was not so good by Dave MacIntosh; Canada's Flying Huskies - Anything Anywhere was the motto of this transport squadron by Peter Candy; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba. …

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Baseball by George Benjamin Shepherd, from the University of Virginia magazine Corks & Curls, 1910. Feature article traces the roots of baseball to the year 1838 and the small town of Beachville, Ontario. 'The basis of this claim lies with a lengthy letter published 5 May 1886 in the Philadelphia-based Sporting Life magazine. The letter, entitled 'A Game of Long-ago Which Closely Resembled Our Present National Game', was written by Dr. Adam Ford of Denver, Colorado, who had grown up in Beachville. Part of the letter was also printed in the Ingersoll Ontario Chronicle. Contents of this issue also include: Baraga - A Habsburg prelate in the New World by Graham MacDonald; Abner Who? - Baseball's surprising Canadian roots by Mark Kearney; High Priestess of IT - A touch of sin with Elinor Glyn by Marian Fowler; Well Pleased With The Country - British farmers on the grain and banquet circuit by Wayne Norton; A Life of Service - The remarkable Mary Barrett Speechly by Angela Davis; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Manitoba Elevators - colour woodcut by Walter J. Phillips, Hudson's Bay Co. Collection. Contents of this issue include: A Noble Canadian - The great workhorse of New France by Alison Acker; What Makes Maxie Run? - The future Lord Beaverbrook strikes it rich by Gregory Marchildon; A Schoolboy's Recollections - An eminent historian's first brush with history by PB Waite; The Wheat Board and The Farmer - Who will sell the grain, and for how much? by JE Rea; The Curious Tale of Two Roy Browns - But which one shot down the Red Baron? by Carol Bennett McCuaig; The Philatelic Poets - Stamp collectors court the muse by Les Harding; Canada's Coldest Day - Those who lived through it will never forget by David Phillips; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba. …

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 62pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: The Carrot, watercolour by Clarence Tillenius. Contents of this issue: Historically Corrent by Christopher Dafoe; Homestead Days - Images of a boyhood on the family farm by Clarence Tillenius; Children of the Farm - At work and play on the Canadian frontier by Jean Cochrane; By Canoe to York Factory - The journal of a river journey, summer 1911 by Kenneth Campbell; The Guibord Unpleasantness - Bishop versus freethinker: A battle beyond death by Louis Lemire; A Border of Flowers - The Peace Garden marks 60 golden summers by Hubert Mayes; Writers of History - Christopher Moore on Canadian Worthies; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 62pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies may also be available). Cover: Blackfoot girl with cat, Macleod, 1880s; Glenbow Archives/Anderton Collection. Contents of this issue: Wings Over the North; An old company learns some new tricks, 1921-1939 by Robert Grant; Son of The Firebrand; William Lyon Mackenzie's long-lost son rediscovered by Chris Raible; The Face Puller; George Anderton, A Victorian photographer on the North-West frontier by Brock Silversides; Was it Murder? To lose one husband to arsenic is bad enough. But two? by Cheryl Macdoanld; Secret Trains Across Canada; An invisible army rides the CPR, 1917-1918 by Elizabeth Tancock; The Dark Side of Mariposa; The years pass slowly at Orillia's Asylum for Idiots by Joan Morris and Virginia Hartley; Christopher Moore on Who Killed the Golden Age of Sail?; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: The Cloth Hall, Ypres, by James Kerr-Lawson - Canadian War Museum. Contents of this issue include: Christopher Dafoe:Annals of The Beaver; The Senate Paintings - Ottawa's forgotten memorial of the Great War by Hugh Halliday; The New Face of War - A loss of innocence at Second Ypres by Paul Dickson; Igor Gouzenko and Canada's Cold War - The strange story of the man with a bag on his head by Laurence Hannant; Playing Football the Canadian Way - McGill met Harvard in 1874 and an old game took a new direction by Eric Zweig; News of the Fur Trade - Dispatches from The Beaver, 1939 ; The Great Saxby Gale of October 1869 - Tides on the Bay of Fundy left a trail of ruin and death by James Whalen; Christopher Moore on Akenson's 'double life'; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. Few light round (coffee cup?) marks to front cover else a very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Detail from an illustration by Captain William Steele, said to show Commodore Yeo observing an action through his telescope in the War of 1812. Contents of this issue include: Christopher Dafoe:Annals of The Beaver; War on Lake Ontario - A costly victory at Oswego, 1814 by Robert Malcomson; Rescue Mission - Canadian soldiers and airmen in an arctic ordeal by Hugh Halliday; Quebec and Conscription - The death of Ernest Lapointe and a fateful change of policy by John MacFarlane; Mysterious Deaths at Onion Lake - Two union men went missing. Was it murder? by Laurel Sefton MacDowell; Reflections on the North, From the Beaver, December 1936 by Stephen Leacock; Christopher Moore on Multiculturalism; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba. …

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. Rear cover and bottoms of most pages wrinkled as though from moisture damage yet a near very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Artist's Home and Orchard, 1927 - by JEH MacDonald, from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. Contents of this issue include: Mr. McIntosh's Wonderful Apple - In 1811 a settler made a strange discovery by Shane Peacock; The Trial of Ambroise Lepine - Murder, politics and the public memory by JM Bumsted; In the Footsteps of the Workers - Discovering our hidden history by Peter Steven; Mr. King and Lady Byng - A case of hate at first sight by PB Waite; Canada's Black Defenders - Former slaves answer the call to arms by Wayne Edward Kelly; Canada Votes - The struggle for a secret ballot; plus Book Reviews & Letters. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Northcote at Fort Edmonton, 1875 by Peter Rindlisbacher. Contents of this issue: Northcote - Paddlewheels and glory on the Saskatchewan; Men Bred in the Rough Bounds - The Scottish military tradition in Canada by Ian McCulloch; Left, Right or Down the Middle? - Rules of the road; a perplexing mystery solved by Frederick A. de Luna; Lost Honour - The very strange story of the medal that nobody won by Hugh Halliday; Golden Boy - A symbol running North over Winnipeg by Hubert Mayes; Memories of a Day of Horrors - Dartmouth and the Halifax Explosion, 1917 by Harry Chapman; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Catharine Parr Traill, by Sydney Strickland Tully. Contents of this issue include: Living History - Remembering Canada's most elderly citizens by Donald Smith; Quebec's Laurier, Canada's Prime Minister who bridged two solitudes by PB Waite; The Sport of Kings in Victorian Canada - Running from the rural races to the Queen's Plate by Glen Mikkelsen; A Glorified Stall - Newfoundland contemplates its options, 1946-48 by CJ Fox; Yonge at 200 - The dramatic story of a street and a dream by RB Fleming; Conflicts and Adversities - Scientists in the Arctic, 1913-1916 by Stuart Jenness; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Fishing on the Souris, by Marion E. Barker. Contents of this issue include: Christopher Dafoe:Annals of The Beaver; Colours of the Farm - A boy's life on a prairie farm between the wars by Donald Lamont; Fuel for the Home Fires - Taking care of the women they left behind, 1914-1918 by Desmond Morton and Cheryl Smith; Louis Slotin and the Invisible Killer - The tragedy of a Canadian scientist and the A-bomb by Martin Zeilig; Tyrant of the Ottawa Valley - Planting the Clan McNab in colonial Canada by Bernard Shaw; North with the Red River Brigade - A York Boat adventure in the days of the fur trade by William Cornwallis King; A Surgeon on the Bay - An eighteenth-century man of all sciences by WB Ewart; Tourists in Old Montreal - Prime destination on the Victorian Grand Tour by Clarence Epstein; Christopher Moore looks at video; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: On The Cariboo Road - Water-colour by Lucius O'Brien, National Gallery of Canada. Contents of this issue include: Annals of the Fur Trade - The making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives by Deidre Simmons; Mere Curiosities Are Not Required - The story of the HBC Museum Collection by Robert Coutts and Katherine Pettipas; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road - The long, dangerous journey to the mother lode by Robert Busch; 1919 - The Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered by JM Bumsted; The Packet/George Back's Sketchbooks; Christopher Moore on Dechene's New France; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba. …

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 63pp. Cover: The Parting of the Brigades, 1826 by Walter J. Philips. Contents of this issue: A Forest of Poles (In the summer of 1876 vice-regal tourists visited a far corner of the new Dominion) by Judy Hall; Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition (A greenhorn from Edinburgh plunges into the depths of darkest Vancouver Island, 1864) by John Hayman; Vancouver's Real Estate Tree (As fires raged and mighty trees fell, a great city was born) by Betty C. Keller; Exploring for The Telegraph in B.C. (London and Paris via New Westminster and Russia? Why not?) by Gerard Chapman; New Dawn at Skidegate (Bill Reid and the Haida revival) by Max Wyman; Books in Review. Very good condition. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…

Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 62pp. Cover: Chief from Fort William, by Paul Kane. Contents of this issue: Aboriginal Rights a Century Ago (Were the Indians cheated in 1885? An old case re-examined) by Donald B. Smith; Kind Hearts or Forked Tongues? (From 'noble-savage' to 'welfare bum' - a century of decline) by Boyce Richardson; The Road to Camp 10 (Self Help: Back to the bush) by Jake MacDonald; The Voice of Missahba (Self Help: Going into business) by Jean Sangwine; Michabous and the White Beaver (He came to kill the British officer, why did he hesitate?) by Charles Garrad. Very good condition. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.…