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Trudeau and Our Times. Volume 1 - The Magnificent Obsession, Volume 2 - The Heroic Delusion.

By: Clarkson, Stephen and Christina McCall.

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McClelland & Stewart: 1990

Seller ID: 18382

ISBN: 0771054149

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo - 23.5 x 15.5 cm.; Volume 1 (ISBN 0771054149): The Magnificent Obsession. 502 pp. 24 pages of black and white photographs. 20 page bibliography. Volume 2 (ISBN 0771054173): The Heroic Delusion. 588 pp. 30 page bibliography. Volume 2 is signed by Clarkson on the title page. Both volumes are bound in a black paper over boards with red gilt lettering on the spine. Both show very mild shelf wear and appear to have never been used. The unclipped dust jackets of both volumes show very mild shelf wear / scuffing.; Signed by Author
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Laurier: His Life and World.

By: Clippingdale, Richard.

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McGraw-Hill Ryerson: 1979

Seller ID: 18294

ISBN: 0070823022

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

8vo - 24.5 x 17.5 cm.; 224 pp. Dark green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. One of the volumes in the McGraw-Hill series on Canadian Prime Ministers under the general editorship of W. Kaye Lamb. Illustrated with 20 colour plates and over 100 black and white photographs. Previous owner's name stamed on the front paste down end paper, else fine. The dust jacket shows moderate shelf wear and that to the jacket edges with small chips, nicks and creases with one pea size chip on the tail edge of the back panel.
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Big Daddy, Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto.

By: Colton, Timothy J.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Toronto, Canada., University of Toronto Press.: 1980

Seller ID: 32444

ISBN: 0802023932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 216 pp. This biography of Gardiner (1895-1983) mainly focuses on his time as the "founding boss" of Metro Toronto advocating for expansion, with little public consultation, deserving of the name "political bulldozer". Photos, footnotes, index. A clean, tight copy with a dust jackey in very good condition. Only fault is a price stamped on half-title page.
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My Dust Will Dance: The Adventurous Life of Joan Pauline Barberis.

By: Dathan, Wendy.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec., Shoreline.: 2015

Seller ID: 34297

ISBN: 1926953347

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 23 x 18 cm.; 281 pp. Illustrated with 34 pages of black and white photographs. From the back cover: "Wendy Dathan, using Joan's personal travel journal, letters and columns, reveals a diminutive (5ft.) Navy Wren at a Loran naval base during WWII, traveller (alone, but never lonely) in the Orient, CBC Radio Producer in Toronto and Montreal, newspaper reporter, passionate defender of women's rights and the dignity of the underdog." Joan retired to Grand Manan island in the Bay of Fundy and Wendy was a very close friend of hers there. Signed by the author on the half title page.
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Testament of My Childhood.

By: De Roquebrune, Robert.

Price: $10.80

Publisher: Toronto, Canada., University of Toronto Press.: 1972

Seller ID: 33276

ISBN: 0802060226

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; 160 pp. Translated from the French by Felix Walter. A vivid account of life in a Quebec manor-house at the turn of the twentieth century. Some staining on front cover, otherwise, a clean, sturdy copy.
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Le frère André et l'Oratoire Saint Joseph du Mont Royal.

By: Dubuc, Jean-Guy.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Strasbourg, France., Editions du Signe.:

Seller ID: 31487

ISBN: 2877182452

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

4to - 29.5 x 21 cm.; Unpaginated with 44 pages. No date of publication is given. Full colour glossy wraps in a saddle stapled binding. Profusely illustrated with many colour photographs. A souvenir type publication sold at the Oratory in Montreal. Minor wear to the edges of the covers, else fine.
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A Time Apart: Letters of Love and War.

By: Egener, Fred and Norah. (edited by Joan Barfoot).

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Owen Sound, Ontario., The Ginger Press.: 1995

Seller ID: 32534

ISBN: 092177334X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 214 pp. "Four years of letters (1941-1945) between a young Owen Sound housewife and her husband stationed overseas, published on the fiftieth anniversary of his return." Illustrated with 4 black and white photographs. An as-new and unused book.
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And Now Here's Max.

By: Ferguson, Max.

Price: $10.80

Publisher: New York / Toronto., McGraw-Hill Company of Canada.: 1967

Seller ID: 32447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; 167 pp. Ferguson (1924-2013) was a popular CBC radio broadcaster famous for his comic and controversial Rawhide radio series. This book won the 1968 Stephen Leacock Award for humour. Lime green cloth-covered boards with red spine lettering. Minor wear on boards, former owner's name and brief notation on front free endpaper and half-title page; text is otherwise clean and binding sturdy. Dust jacket is rubbed with light edgewear.
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The Mantle of Howe / Mr. Minister of Finance (2 volume set).

By: Fergusson, Dr. Bruce

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Windsor, Nova Scotia, Lancelot Press: 1970/1971

Seller ID: 19338

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; Biography of William Stevens Fielding (1848-1929), journalist, Premier of Nova Scotia, and Minister of Finance under Laurier and Mackenzie King. The author was the Nova Scotia Provincial Archivist and Professor of History at Dalhousie University. Volume 1 - 304 pp.; volume 2 - 288 pp. Endnotes, photos. Some light wear and soiling on card stock covers and text block edges; bindings tight, text pages clean.
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Hands to the Needy, Marguerite d'Youville, Apostle to the Poor.

By: Fitts, Sister Mary Pauline, G.N.S.H.

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Yardley, Pennsylvania., Grey Nuns of the Sacred Heart.: 2000

Seller ID: 30836

ISBN: 0967971608

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 20.5 x 13 cm.; xiii - 293 pp. Approbations present. Biography of the Foundress of the Grey Nuns. Bibliography, index. An as-new and unused book.
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Circles of Power: The Most Influential People in Canada.

By: Fleming, James.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Doubleday: 1991

Seller ID: 18388

ISBN: 0385253125

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; vii - 404 - [1] pp. Black paper with gilt lettering on spine. With 5 appendices: Political Elite Survey Results, Bureaucratic Elite Survey Results, Corporate Elite Survey Results, Religious Elite Survey Results, Media Elite Survey Results, an eight page bibliography plus notes and an index. The dust jacket has two small chips on the spine tail. The book appears to have never been used.
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A Life on the Fringe: The Memoirs of Eugene Forsey.

By: Forsey, Eugene.

Price: $5.60

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Oxford University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 18402

ISBN: 0195408683

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; viii - 241 pp. Illustrated with six pages of black and white photographs. Well indexed and with a five page appendix of literary allusions, 'tis from Eugene Forsey after all. The covers show very mild shelf wear and scuffing, otherwise it appears to have never been used.
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A Life on the Fringe: The Memoirs of Eugene Forsey.

By: Forsey, Eugene.

Price: $9.60

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Oxford University Press: 1990

Seller ID: 23467

ISBN: 0195408683

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; viii - 241 pp. Gray-blue paper over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with six pages of black and white photographs. Well indexed and with a five page appendix of literary allusions, 'tis from Eugene Forsey after all. Very minor shelf wear to the spine heel, otherwise the book appears to have never been used.
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Island Wings: A Memoir.

By: Foster, Cecil.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., HarperCollins.: 1998

Seller ID: 24077

ISBN: 0006384978

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 21 x 13 cm.; [6] - 313 pp. First soft cover edition and so stated, the same year as the hardcover. Cover illustration by Clemente Botelho.
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Graham Towers and His Times.

By: Fullerton, Douglas H.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McClelland and Stewart: 1986

Seller ID: 18365

ISBN: 0771032188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 348 pp. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with sixteen pages of black and white photographs. From the dust jacket, a comment about Towers by Stephen Leacock: "Graham Towers has distinguished himself as that happy combination of a practical banker and theoretical economist for which the world usually looks in vain". Slight edge wear to the head edge of the unclipped dust jacket.
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Signposts of Our Faith: Canadian Witnesses to Vocation and Mission.

By: Gaffney, Fr. Myles.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta., Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary.: 2010

Seller ID: 31659

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 21 x 15.5 cm.; 59 pp. A series of short biographies of Canadian Catholics who were called to love: Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, Fr. James Morrow, Brother Anthony Kowalczyk, Katherine Hughes, Georges and Pauline Vanier, Jeanne Le Ber, Bishop Vital Grandin, The Canadian Martyrs and Joseph Chiwatenwha, Catherine Doherty, and Brother André Bessette. Illustrated with both colour and black and white full colour portraits by Joseph Adolphe one of which is a 2 panel fold-out. Two page bibliography. An as-new and unused book.
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Le Québec et ses historiens de 1840 a 1920. La Nouvelle-France de Garneau à Groulx.

By: Gagnon, Serge.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Quebec City, Quebec., Les Presse de l'Universite Laval.: 1978

Seller ID: 28310

ISBN: 0774668296

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; (8) - 474 pp. The text is in French. Volume 23 in the series "Les Cahiers d'Histoire de l'Université Laval". Twenty-five page bibliography, 13 page "Index onomastique" and an 8 page "Index thématique". Minor wear and light scuffing to the covers, otherwise clean with a solid binding.
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Four Roads, The Life of George E. Gomme

By: Gomme, George E.

Price: $14.40

Publisher: Burnstown, Ontario, Canada, General Store Publishing House: 1993

Seller ID: 27433

ISBN: 091943181X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

125 pp. Gomme (1912-1996) was a Canadian politican, Progressive Conservativ e of Ontario, at one time Mayor of Almonte. Lots of photos, author has inscribed and dated this copy on title page. Former owner's name on title page, otherwise, a clean, sturdy copy. ; Signed by Author
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A Meeting of Minds: The Massey College Story.

By: Grant, Judith Skelton.

Price: $58.50

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., University of Toronto Press.: 2015

Seller ID: 32021

ISBN: 1442650206

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; ix - 778 pp. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Opened in 1963, Massey College was built as a residential college for graduate students studying at the University of Toronto. The first Master of the College was Robertson Davies. Well illustrated with black and white photographs and reproductions throughout. Forty-nine pages of end notes and a 28 page general index. Other than some very light scuffing to the dust jacket, the book appears as-new and unused.
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Paul Martin: The Power of Ambition.

By: Gray, John.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Key Porter Books.: 2003

Seller ID: 27127

ISBN: 1552632172

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.
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Category: Canadiana - Biography