Search Results: History - Canada from W. Fraser Sandercombe

Toronto: Triumph Books, 2016. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Exclusive stories and photos from the Archives of the Toronto Star, beginning in 1917..

Toronto: Pagurian Press Limited, 1968. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiii) 192 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Edge and corner wear on the dustjacket with some rubbing on the back cover; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword by G. Sydney Halter; Introduction; In the Beginning; The Grey Cup - For Hockey; The Second Half; The Price of Revolution; The Day of the Pro; and The Year of the Golden Grey Cup; followed by Conclusion and A Statistical Record..

Toronto: Triumph Books, 2016. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. This includes two unopened dropped-in items celebrating the Leafs: Toronto Maple Leafs 1917 - 2017 - Set of 3 Collectible Envelopes, and 100 Years of the Toronto Maple Leafs - a celebration of their Stanley Cup wins..

Burlington, Ontario: North Shore Publishing, 1995. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (x) 142 pp. Trade paperback format. Very light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and drawings. Includes two dropped-in tickets from The Presentation of Colours to the Highland Light Infantry of Canada by H.R.R. The Princess Margaret on August 1st, 1958 at Hamilton Civic Stadium. The Contents are: Foreword; Preface; Amazing Progress; Hamilton 1846; From Town to City; An Articulate Observer; The Spectator; Sketches of Scenery; A Most Exotic Locale - Waterdown; The Legend of Lover's Leap - Albion Falls; The View from Ancaster; The View from the Mountain; In the Spirit of Fellowship - Dundas; The Theatre Royal; Hamilton's Poet Laureate - Harriet Annie Wilkins; Some Boyhood Memories; Early News Wars Were Fierce; Fires Were a Serious Threat; City of Muddy Streets; Bumping Down to Dover - Stage Coach Rides; Not an… Read More

Guelph, Ontario: Private Printing, 2000. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 104 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with maps, including a fold-out map. The Contents are: Major Trail Links: Trans Canada Trail; Bruce Trail; Grand Valley Trail; Waterfront Trail; Niagara Parks Recreation Trail. Grand River Conservation Authority: Apps' Mill Nature Trail - Brantford; Cambridge to Paris Rail Trail; Elora Gorge Trail; Elora Cataract Trailway; F.W.R. Dickson Trail - Cambridge; Luther Marsh Trail - Orangeville; Pinehurst Lake Trail - Cambridge; Rockwood Trail; Shade's Mills Trail - Cambridge. Halton Region Conservation Authority: Crawford Lake Trails - Milton; Iroquoian Village Trail - Milton; Hilton Falls Trails - Milton; Kelso/Glen Eden Trails - Milton; Mountsberg Trails - Campbellville; Raptor Centre Trail - Campbellville; Mount Nemo Trails - Burlington; Rattlesnake Point Trails - Milton.… Read More

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 12mo. 272 pp. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs and a map. First they bulldozed the church so the people had nowhere to go, then they rounded up as many of them as they could and shipped them off to another place. No, this wasn't in Africa or the Deep South or Nazi Germany, this was in Halifax, Nova Scotia and these people were mostly the descendants of slaves who escaped from their so-called owners. The Chapters are: Black Settlement in Nova Scotia and the Development of Africville; Africville Society: An Historical Overview; The Major Institution: The Seaview African United Baptist Church; Africville as a Social Problem; The Relocation Decision: 1962 - 1964; Mechanics of Relocation: 1964 - 1969; Relocation and Relocatees; and The Implications of the Africville Relocation; followed by an index..

Port Perry, Ontario: Blake Books, 2005. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo. Signed by Lynn Philip Hodgson and Alan Paul Longfield on the title page. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; aside from the authors' signatures, no interior markings. Illustrated with black and white photographs..

Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection - Coles Publishing, 1972. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 528 pp. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. The full title is: ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE GOLD FIELDS - containing a Full Account of the Discovery of Gold; Enormous Deposits of the Precious Metal; Routes Traversed by Miners; How to Find Gold; Camp Life at Klondike - Practical Instructions for Fortune Seekers, Etc., Including a Graphic Description of the Gold Regions; Land of Wonders; Immense Mountains, Rivers and Plains; Native Inhabitants, Etc. Originally published in 1897, it goes on to say: Including Mrs. Eli Gage's Experiences of a Year Among the Yukon Mining Camps; Mrs. Schwatka's Recollections of her Husband as the Alaskan Pathfinder; Prosaic Side of Gold Hunting, as seen by Joaquin Miller, the Poet of the Sierras. Illustrated with black and white drawings..

Toronto: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xiv) 252 pp. Quarter-bound in black cloth on red boards; headband; illustrated with black and white plates. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; no interior markings..

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Second Edition. 8vo. (xviii) 329 pp. Blue cloth decorated in gilt on the front panel and spine; endpaper maps; illustrated in black and white. Light wear at the corners with the presentation details on the first blank page and some fading on the spine; book plate on the front pastedown; wear along the edge of the front free endpaper. The history of Niagara from the beginnings with the indigenous people and the Jesuits and Chevalier de la Salle, through the battles with the United States, General Isaac Brock and on through the Rebellion and the Fenian raids..

Windsor, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1978. Book. Illus. by Howard Lewis Trueman;. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 224 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the back cover and an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Edited and illustrated with line drawings by Howard Lewis Trueman. The Contents are: Foreword by Howard Lewis Trueman; Prologue; I Enter This Vale of Tears; Off to School; Growing Up on the Farm; To the Meetinghouse; Hell and Damnation; Clitton Characters; The Missing Link; Enter Elva May van Blarcom; We Set Our Sails; Getting a Foothold; Oats and Votes; The Iron Mines; Society Life in Brookvale; A Change in Course; The End of the Road; and In Green Pastures; followed by an epilogue..

Ottawa, Ontario: National Museum of Canada, 1949. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 46 pp. Staple-bound in card covers. National Museum of Canada Bulletin No. 113 - Canada Department of Mines and Resources - Mines, Forests and Scientific Services Branch. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Light wear at the corners; no interior markings. This report contains: General Activities of the National Museum of Canada by F. J. Alcock; Anthropological Division; Biological Division; Educational Work; Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the Kant Site, Renfrew County, Ontario by J. N. Emerson; An Archaeological Survey of the North Bank of the St. Lawrence River Between Cornwall and Cardinal, Ontario, June 19 to July 11, 1947 by Douglas Leechman and Frederica de Laguna; The Parker Site by Douglas Leechman and Frederica de Laguna; Botanical Investigations on the East Coast of Hudson and James Bays by W. K. W. Baldwin; and The Edmonton Fauna and Description of a New Triceratops… Read More

Albany, New York: The State of New York, 1921. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xvi) 689 - 693 - 1423 pp. Both volumes are blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates. Light edge and corner wear; no interior markings; as issued, no dustjackets. The Contents of Volume One are: Preface by the State Historian, James Sullivan; Charles Mason Dow - in Memoriam by James Sullivan; Introduction by Charles Mason Dow; Niagara Discovered: The French Period; Other Eighteenth Century Accounts: The English Period; Travelers' Original Accounts 1801 - 1840; Travelers' Original Accounts since 1840; Niagara - Historical and Reminiscent; Flora and Fauna; and Science Geology and Physics. The Contents of Volume Two are: Music Poetry Fiction; Maps and Pictures; Industrial Niagara; Preservation of the Falls; Open Road - Guides - Railroads - Canals - Bridges; and Alphabetical List - Bibliography..

Montreal: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC, 1967. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. (ix) 152 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings..

Ottawa, Ontario: Department of Citizenship and Immigration, 1958. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Edition. 12mo. 120 pp. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with colour paintings and with black and white photographs and paintings. The Contents are: French Colonial Period: Architecture; Painting; Decorative Arts; Sculpture; Silver. British Colonial Period: Early Portraits; The Documentary Picture; Folk Art; Architecture. Art in the Later Nineteenth Century: The Gothic Revival in Architecture; Painting from the Sixties to the Eighties; Architecture in the Eighties. The Turn of the Century: Architecture; The Rich Art of the Nineties; Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. The National Movement in Painting: Formation of New Art Institutions; The Toronto Group; After 1920: The Group of Seven; Contemporaries of the Foregoing. Contemporary Art Since 1930: Architecture; Further Development of the National Style; Abstract Painters; and The… Read More

Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection - Coles Publishing, 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. (xvi) 198 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Illustrated with line drawings and a fold-out map. Originally published in 1825, the full title is: A Brief Narrative of an Unsuccessful Attempt to Reach Repulse Bay through Sir Thomas Rowe's Welcome in His Majesty's Ship Griper in the Year 1824..

Cobalt, Ontario: The Highway Bookshop, 1975. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 39 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Light wear on the corners; previous owner's name inside. Profusely illustrated with line drawings by Muriel E. Newton-White..

Cobalt, Ontario: The Highway Bookshop, 1987. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Later Printing. 8vo. 39 pp. Staple-bound in pictorial card covers. Light wear on the corners; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with line drawings by Muriel E. Newton-White..

Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection - Coles Publishing, 1971. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 351 pp. Trade paperback format. This was originally published in London in 1836 by Charles Knight. Illustrated with engravings. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a small scuff mark on the upper right of the front cover and a flat uncreased spine; previous owner's name inside. Catherine Parr Traill was the sister of Susanna Moodie and Samuel Strickland. The Contents are: Letter One: Departure from Greenock in the Brig Laurel. Letter Two: Arrival off Newfoundland; Gulf of St. Laurence; Difficult Navigation of the River; French Fisherman engaged as a Pilot; Gros Isle; Quarantine Regulations; Arrival off Quebec. Letter Three: Departure from Quebec; Towed by a Steam Vessel; Arrival off Montreal; The Rapids. Letter Four: Landing at Montreal; Ravages of the Cholera; Departure from Montreal in a Stage Coach; Embark at Lachine on board a Steam Vessel; Arrival at Cornwall;… Read More

Ontario: Badenoch Historical Committee, 1967. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 8vo. 56 pp. Staple-bound in card covers. Light wear on the corners with a small ink mark on the front cover; no interior markings. The Contents are: Pioneers from Badenoch, Scotland; Military Record; The First School; Teachers; Beginning of Presbyterianism; Industries; Badenoch Men on the Puslinch Council; Professional Men from Badenoch; March of Time - Mail Delivery; The Telephone; Hydro Electric Power; Conservation; Reforestation; Flood Control; Local Organizations: The Badenoch Women's Institute; Sports Activities; 4-H Clubs; Badenoch Community Centre; Red Cross; Badenoch Centennial; and Century Farms..