Search Results: Canada - History from KALAMOS BOOKS

Peterborough, CA: Broadview Press, 1990 Book. Fine. Soft cover. 1st Pbk Edition. Entertaining episodes reported about Canadian personalities, political or peculiar, famous or infamous."A browser's holiday, as well as a unique back-door look at Canadian society's most vulnerable point: its sense of humour" [This is the text of the 1988 edition as distributed in paper wraps in 1990] edition.188p. bibliography.index..

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2003 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. weaves together hundreds of letters written by Canadians over the course of two centuries. With an abundance of correspondence at her disposal, Gray has selected letters that express intimate and moving moments in the live sof both the ordinary and the famous, as well as those that reflct significant historical events as seen from unexpected perspectives. Uncensored, spontaneous, and written from the heart, these letters capture the uniqueness of the time at which they were composed...Complemented by maps, sketches and photographs, together with Gray"s own notes and commentary, the letters within this marvellous volume will enlighten readers as well as touch them with the timelessness of the emotions they express-loneliness, excitement, determination, and pride." 544p. illus index.

Montreal: House of Seagram, 1941 Book. As New. Decorative Cloth. First Thus. The House of Seagram sponsored this handsome patriotic volume during World War II.The colophon describes in detail the physical production of this "fine example of modern Canadian craftsmanship" in both letterpress and lithography on specially made paper, in a. handsome linen hardcover binding with the Crest of the Dominion of Canada on the front. The Canadian artists commissioned to illustrate it were Stanley Roye, Chas. W Jefferrys W.J.Phillips, A.Sherriff Scott, F.H.Varley,H.R.Perrigard, James Crockhart, T.M.Schintz and Ernst Neumann. xxx 247.illus, plates (some col) maps,index.This copy appears unread.A Nice Gift Book NOTE : a heavy [1.2 kg] oversized volume [27x19x2.4 cm] .

Toronto: Nelson Canada, 1998 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 474p. index.

Mississauga: David L. Cook Book. As New. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. Fading History- stories of historical interest relating to Missisauga, touches on a wide range of topics. Each of the 14 chapters tells a different story. There are chapters on great football players, golfers, the once world-renowned 400-bed Workmen's Compensation Hospital, a 2000-seat Broadway music theatre under a tent at Dixie Plaza, flying saucers, the manufacturer of the Lancaster bomber .flying saucers ?????? Yes, you read correctly, we actually built and flew an honest to goodness flying saucer right here in Mississauga. Now, many of the old timers will surely remember when A.V. Roe had its top secret Project Y under wraps in the 1950s. Later we all discovered it was a real flying saucer. Plenty of pictures make this chapter come alive. For the sports minded, I tell the story of the great Toronto Argonaut player Teddy Morris. Just after the war years, Teddy, who lived on the 6th Line, Malton, took the… Read More

Vaughan ON: Vaughan Township Historical Society, 1971 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. "Two Centuries Of Life In The Township" A comprehensive account of the settlement and growth of this community in southern Ontario. Illustrations by Thoreau MacDonalds as well as photographs. and facsimiles of documents The detailed lists of names in appendices and index are a valuable genealogical resource .xii, [2], 346p. 68p.of plates, index. maps on endpapers..

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1980 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Can Ed.. " Between 1870 and the 1930s, more than 80,000 children from the British Isles were sent to Canada. Mainly from the slums, some were orphans, some were taken from families who could no longer provide for them. All were uprooted from familiar surroundings and sent to live amongst a nation of strangers." 271p. plates. bibliography. index. Donor inscription on ffep, else fine..

Toronto: Swan Publishing Co Ltd., 1966 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Canadian Edition. John Robert Colombo "selected significant statements, ...from ..William Lyon Mackenzie's writings..and typographically rearranged ...in verse form.. Whether Prose or Poetry it gives us the liveliness of Mackenzie's mind and shows the vigour of his assaults on the Establishment." 94p. near fine. Editor inscription on ffep also the bookplate of the same previous owner..

Montreal: McGill Queens Univ Press, 2005 Book. As New. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition.. "During an era of separate spheres for men and women, Margaret Macdonald used her nurse's training to gain access to the military and a life of work, travel, and adventure. In 1906, she was one of the first two nurses to receive a permanent appointment to the Canadian Army Medical Corps. She became matron-in-chief of Canada's overseas nursing service during World War I with the rank of major - the first such appointment for a woman in the British Empire. Macdonald also served as a nurse in the military during the Spanish-American and Boer Wars and in Panama during the construction of the canal. Margaret Macdonald traces the life and work of this extraordinary woman from rural Nova Scotia whose sense of duty and ambition found an outlet in the imperialism of Great Britain and the U.S. Susan Mann weaves the threads of character, ideology, and opportunity into a vivid portrait of Macdonald… Read More

Mississauga: Streetsville Historical Society, 2012 Book. New. Soft cover. First Edition.. This is a transcript of some research by Mary Manning on the sawmills and grain mills established by the early setters in Streetsville together with "Power from Flowing Waters" by Bill Tolton which describes the types of waterwheels used to power the mills and the millstones ised to grind the grain. 50p. illus. map.

Toronto: Longmans Canada, 1966 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Covers 38 homes ranging in dates from 1795 to 1880, and in style from log cabins and coach-houses to converted mills and barns, which were carefully restored "for the intrinsic pleasure of living in them". 199p. illus. index..

Toronto: Little Brown & Co (Canada), 1992 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Canadian Edition.. A trip of 7,000 miles by bus along the Trans Canada Highway from St.John's, Newfoundland to Victoria, British Columbia. 239p. Donor inscription on title page, else fine..

Toronto: Stoddart., 1990 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st.Can Ed... Suggested political and economic agenda for Canada by a Greek Canadian writer A Greek Canadian author "Philippe Gigantes served as an officer in World War II with the Royal Navy, worked as a correspondent and as a secret agent, and was captured and tortured by Communists in North Korea. He served for fifteen years in the Senate of Canada, was Assistant to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Director General in Canadian Public Service, Greek Minister of Culture in Washington DC, a professor of history and host and writer of a TV public affairs programme. (Also wrote under the name "Philip Deane") 202p.index.

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1998 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Can Ed. "...tells the colourful, upstairs/downstairs saga of two remarkable, unsung women of the Edwardian era, whose lives would intersect in Canada at that era's precipitous end. While the ninth Duchess of Devonshire and her cook were born to as different destinies as can be imagined, those destinies were forged in a singular historical moment. These were the last, golden days of Empire, remembered as much for their splendour and pageantry as for utter obliteration in the First World War. In this, la belle epoque, Ritz and Escoffier would reinvent magnificently the trappings of leisure, while women would attempt to reinvent the sexual hierarchy. This was the social and political backdrop in which Evelyn Lansdowne and Dorothea Mary Lee would find themselves..."345p. plates. bibliography.index.

Streetsville, Ontario: Streetsville Historical Society, 1985 Book. New. Soft cover. First Edition.. Collection of interesting articles about the village of Streetsville including the Fire Department,Telephone service, Fenian Raids, Election nights, Barberton, Businesses. and other events in the village 20p. illus..

Mississauga, ON: Pioneer Publishing, 2011 Book. New. Laminated Hardcover. First Thus. Translated into Arabic by Mohammad Zahid.Ta'lif Dizmund Murtun ; tarjamah Muammad Zahid Bin Abd al-Fatta Abu Ghuddah. 648p.illus maps.

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1973 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. "The old cowboying life is almost gone, but this classic book by one of the few survivors . old enough to remember the great days of the open range, before the homesteaders moved in with their plows and fences . the lost but not forgotten world of cowboys, cattle and horses, and shows us the West as it really was. The details of the cowboy's life are all here: what he ate on round-up, what he had in his bedroll, why he sang while riding night herd, how he broke a horse. what happened when he reached the ranch head. " 343p. illustrated by the author.