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River Song: Sailing the History of the St. Lawrence.

By: Jenkins, Phil

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Penguin / Viking.: 2001

Seller ID: 20327

ISBN: 0670880094

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; xiv - 306 pp. Two tone paper over boards (gray on boards and blue on spine) with off-white lettering on spine. Mapped end papers. Illustrated with small black and white photographs (an oval vignette style) acting as chapter headpieces. Jenkins traversed the length of the river (~1200 kms.) in a tall ship with many stops along the way to explore the surrounding country. The book shows a wee bit of wear to the spine tips and the front fore corner has a small bump. The jacket mild wear on the spine tips.
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Music for Orchestra I / Musique pour Orchestre I (Canadian Musical Heritage).

By: Kallmann, Helmut.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada., Canadian Musical Heritage Society.: 1990

Seller ID: 31908

ISBN: 0919883095

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Elephant Folio - 30 x 23 cm.; xxvi - 272 pp. Vol. 8 of series. Text is in English and French. Contains music of Antoine Dessane, Guillaume Couture, Joseph Vezina, W.O. Forsyth, Clarence Lucas, Rodolphe Mathieu, Ernest MacMillan. A clean, sturdy edition.
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Music for Orchestra II / Musique pour Orchestre II (Canadian Musical Heritage).

By: Keillor, Elaine.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Canada., Canadian Musical Heritage Society.: 1994

Seller ID: 31906

ISBN: 0919883222

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 30 cm.; xxxv - 197 pp. Vol. 15 of series. Text is in English and French. Contains music of Calixa Lavallee, Guillaume Couture, Claude Champagne, Georges-Emile Tanguay, J.-J. Gragnier, Healey Wilan. A clean, sturdy edition.
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Polish Canadians, Profile and Image (Polonia Kanadyjska, Jej Profil i Oblicze).

By: Krychowkiego, T. W. (Krychowski, T. W.).

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Toronto, Canada., Polish Alliance Press.: 1969

Seller ID: 33038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 22 x 15 cm.; 111 pp. # 7 in the Polish Canadian Research Institute Studies. In spite of the Polish title page, the six studies are in English with summaries in French. A number of statistical tables and graphs. Cloth-covered boards lightly soiled, front free endpaper has an attached note from Clare Westcott, a long time assistant to a former Premier of Ontario, Bill Davis. Binding sturdy, text pages clean.
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Shahtoosh. Oncle Feyodor Tales. Species: You Man, Me Woe-man. (3 books).

By: Landiak, Olga.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Ontario (?)., Privately published.: 1996

Seller ID: 28419

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; Shahtoosh: (2) - 72 - (2) pp. Oncle Feyodor Tales: (2) - 77 - (3) pp. Species: You Man, Me Woe-man: (2) - 80 - (2) pp. All are printed by Heavensgate Press. All are signed by the author on the first pages. Very minor wear and some light soilng to the covers, else fine. All 3 are included. ; Signed by Author
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The Liberal Idea of Canada: Pierre Trudeau and the Question of Canada's Survival.

By: Laxer, James and Robert Laxer.

Price: $5.60

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, James Lorimer.: 1977

Seller ID: 20634

ISBN: 0888621248

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 234 pp. With a foreword by George Grant. From the back cover: "Canada in the late 1970's is beset by increasingly severe constitutional and economic problems which threaten its political survival. But the public debate on these issues, dominated by the ideas of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is extremely limited in scope and fails to provide any compelling sense of hope or opportunity for the future". Sticker scar on the back cover (lower fore corner) and the cover edges show mild shelf wear. Otherwise clean and tight.
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While There is Time: The Case Against Social Catastrophe.

By: Leacock, Stephen.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd.: 1945

Seller ID: 2878

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; 136 pp. Brown cloth with ivory lettering on spine and front board. Leacock presents his views on social criticism drawing from previous publications and some articles published in the Financial Post. Bottom fore edge corners are mildly bumped and previous owner's name on front free end paper. The dust jacket (unclipped and in Brodart) is generally but mildly browned with minor edge wear.
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Against Judicial Activism, The Decline of Freedom and Democracy in Canada

By: Leishman, Rory

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Montreal & Kingston, McGill-Queen's University Press.: 2006

Seller ID: 21621

ISBN: 0773530541

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; ix - 310 pp. Leishman "argues that the courts (especially the Supreme Court) have subverted the judicial process in the name of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms." The author is a former lecturer in political science at the University of Western Ontario, was the national affairs columnist for The London Free Press, and is a frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines across Canada. Footnotes, bibliography, index. Minor soiling on cover, inscription by author on front free endpaper; binding tight, text pages clean and bright. Dust jacket is in great c...
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If I Were Prime Minister.

By: Lemieux, Carlotta (editor).

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Hurtig Publishers.: 1987

Seller ID: 20115

ISBN: 0888303157

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; vi - 320 pp. Light gray paper over boards with silver gilt lettering on spine. Sixty prominent Canadians from all walks of life were asked the question posed in the title. Introduction by Mel Hurtig. Both book and jacket (unclipped) show a whisper of shelf wear to the tail edges.
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Favorites in Foliage, Flowers, Food, Folks and Feathered and Furred Friends in Streetsville.

By: Lundy, M. D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., The Streetsville Review.: 1957

Seller ID: 33591

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 19.5 x 14 cm.; 49 pp. Saddle-stapled booklet. A whimsical booklet put out by the Streetsville Review, which started publication in 1846 for the community of Streetsville, Missasauga, Toronto area. Bits and pieces on different subjects, a few recipes and a few photos of children, including "Mr. and Mrs. Alec Mann's grandchildren". Minor wear on cover, former owner inscription on verso of front cover. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered.
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A Funny Way to Run a Country: Further Memoirs of a Political Voyeur.

By: Lynch, Charles

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta, Hurtig.: 1986

Seller ID: 20646

ISBN: 0888302940

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 217 pp. Bright green paper over boards with gilt lettering on spine. A collection of twenty nine stories and anecdotes by one of Canada's wittier political journalists. Five page index at the back. The dust jacket shows very mild wear at the spine head.
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The Slopes of the Andes: Four Essays on the Rural Myth in Ontario.

By: MacGillivray, Royce

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Belleville, Ontario., Mika Publishing.: 1990

Seller ID: 20316

ISBN: 092134144X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15.5 cm.; 191 pp. Bright red cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Royce writes from his and his parents own experiences on a farm in Eastern Ontario at McCrimmon West. The four essays are: 1 - "The Sense of Community", 2 - "The Round of the Year", 3 - "From Pioneer to Farmer: Honour and Reviling", 4 - "The Uses of Education: A thoroughly negative-minded report from the Late Twentieth Century", followed by a short section on further reading and some notes of the sources. The book appears to have never been used at all. About the title: other than it is a line from Moby...
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The Most Dangerous Branch: How the Supreme Court of Canada Has Undermined Our Law and Our Democracy.

By: Martin, Robert Ivan.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Montreal, Quebec / Kingston, Ontario., McGill-Queen's University Press.: 2003

Seller ID: 23830

ISBN: 0773529179

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xxii - 285 pp. Foreword by Senator Anne C. Cools. Well footnoted, 6 page "Table of Cases", 18 page bibliography, and a comprehensive index. The book appears to have never been used.
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A Peculiar People: The Doukhobors.

By: Maude, Aylmer.

Price: $28.00

Publisher: London, UK., Archibald Constable & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 17447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

8vo - 20 x 14 cm.; xi - [1] - 338 pp. Dark green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Illustrated with 15 black and white plates (photographs), one of which is the frontis plus 2 maps. A sympathetic history of these Russian immigrants as they settle in Western Canada along with 3 appendices and a general index. The ninth and tenth chapters are centered on the Tolstoy controversy with Maude giving a considered rebuttal. The spine is quite worn with the back joint being decrepit and the head and tail being worn away. The board corners are bumped and worn. The binding i...
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Experience Pittsburgh Township. (Experience '80)

By: McInnis, Karin and Kathy Verbeek. (Cynthia E. Dawson - editor).

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Pittsburgh Township, Ontario., The Township of Pittsburgh.: 1980

Seller ID: 30011

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

4to - 27.5 x 22 cm.; 55 - 13 pp. Pittsburgh Township is in Frontenac County and was amalgamated into the city of Kingston in 1998. It is home to Old Fort Henry, the Royal Military College (RMC) and the Canadian Forces Base Kingston. From the foreword: "This book was compiled in an effort to provide a concise and informative reference for the residents of Pittsburgh Township as well as the visitor." Loosely laid in is a folded 16 panel map of the township highlighting the points of interest. The map size is 89 x 63 cm. One inked notation in red on the lower left hand corner of map. The ...
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Canada and the Constitution 1979 - 1982: Patriation and the Charter of Rights.

By: McWhinney, Edward

Price: $9.60

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, University of Toronto Press.: 1982

Seller ID: 20618

ISBN: 0802065015

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xii - 227 pp. From the back cover: "This volume follows on Professor McWhinney's 'Quebec and the Constitution 1960-1978' but is more than a mere sequel. . . . He shows how Quebec's special claims have given way to a regional approach . . ." Extensive footnotes, comprehensive index along with eight appendices. Mild shelf wear to the covers, otherwise the book appears to have never been used.
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Manitoba Milestones.

By: McWilliams, Margaret.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., J. M. Dent & Sons.: 1928

Seller ID: 7782

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 19.5 x 13.5 cm.; xiv - 249 pp. Green cloth over boards with blue lettering on spine and provincial crest on front. An illustrated general history of Manitoba. Well indexed with many useful charts and lists at the back. Mild wear and soiling to the externals. Previous owner's bookplate on the front paste down end paper. The binding is solid and the interior is clean. A clear and removable archival cover has been fitted.
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Nickel Deposits of the World. Reprinted from the Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission, 1917.

By: Miller, Willet G. and Cyril W. Knight. (senior editors).

Price: $24.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., A. T. Wilgress.: 1917

Seller ID: 24507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket

8vo - 24.5 x 16 cm.; x - pages 95 to 286 - 12 pp. Olive green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine and the front board. This is copy 554. Illustrated with many black and white photographs, geologic maps, sections, charts and tables. Fold outs are Composite Plan of Crean Hill Mine, Model of the Creighton Ore Body, Composite Plan of Creighton Mine, Composite Plan of Garson Mine, Section through No. 3 Shaft of the Creighton Mine. One map in back pocket as issued, Geological Map of Creighton Mine at 200 feet to the inch. All fold outs and maps are present as issued and in very good t...
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The Review 1986-87 La Revue: Royal Military College of Canada. Kingston, Ontario.

By: Milne, Ian. (editor).

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Kingston, Ontario., 1987

Seller ID: 29462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

4to - 30 x 22.5 cm.; 256 pp. Red cloth over boards with a faux leather finish, silver gilt lettering and stampings on the spine and the front boards and the title blind stamped on the front board. The 1987 graduating class year book for RMC, the Royal Military College located in Kingston, Ontario. Minor scuffing to the back board, else fine.
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French-Canadian Backgrounds: A Symposium.

By: Monseigneur Olivier Maurault, Father Henri Saint-Denis, Jean Bruchesi, Marius Barbeau, Leon-Mercier Gouin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Ryerson Press: 1940

Seller ID: 13672

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good+

12mo - 19 x 13 cm.; 101 pp. One of a series called The New Dominion Books from Ryerson Press. A collection of a series of lectures given at Queen's University in 1940 to facilitate a better understanding of French Canada. Contents: 1 - "Foreword" by R. C. Wallace, 2 - "Some French-Canadian Backgrounds" by Msgr. Olivier Maurault, 3 - "French-Canadian Ideals in Education" by Fr. Henri Saint-Denis OMI, 4 - "French Canada in Literature and Song" by Jean Bruchesi, 5 - "Art in French Canada" by Marius Barbeau, 6 - "French Canada in the National Setting"...
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Category: Canadiana