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The Northern Magus: Pierre Trudeau and Canadians.

By: Gwyn, Richard. (Sandra Gwyn - editor).

Price: $16.80

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., McClelland and Stewart.: 1980

Seller ID: 26941

ISBN: 0771037325

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 399 pp. Blue paper over boards with gilt lettering on ivory cloth over the spine. Illustrated with 14 pages of black and white photographs. Twenty-one page comprehensive index at the back. Signed and dated (July '84) by the author on the title page and with an inscription to the previous owner. The spine tips show slight wear, otherwise fine. The clipped dust jacket is worn on the head edge with 2 small closed tears and some associated creasing.; Signed by Author
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Doubting Castle: A Spiritual Autobiography.

By: Hiebert, Paul.

Price: $5.60

Publisher: Winnipeg, Manitoba., Queenston House Publishing.: 1976

Seller ID: 18277

ISBN: 0919866158

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Good dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; [8] - 120 pp. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. Hiebert, born of Mennonite parents and the the author of "Sarah Binks", recounts his spiritual quest and ". . . our restless search will not be ended until we find the God of love". The dust jacker is worn on the spine tips and on the head edge with small chips, creases, nicks and a previous taped repair at the spine head.
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Portraits of Canadian Catholicism.

By: Higgins, M. W. and D. R. Letson. (M. T. Griffin - editor).

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Griffin House Graphics.: 1986

Seller ID: 23305

ISBN: 887601111

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 14.5 cm.; 196 pp. Biographical profiles of Gerald Emmett Carter, Remi de Roo, Mary Jo Leddy, Larry Henderson, Morley Callaghan, Marie-Claire Blais, Marc Lalonde, Andy Hogan, Richard Cashin, Emmett Hall, Jean Forest, and Larkin Kerwin. Illustrated with black and white portrait sketches. Minor shelf wear to the covers while the interior is clean and the binding is tight.
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Portraits of Canadian Catholicism.

By: Higgins, M. W. and D. R. Letson. (M. T. Griffin - editor).

Price: $5.85

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Griffin House Graphics.: 1986

Seller ID: 32203

ISBN: 887601111

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

8vo - 23 x 14.5 cm.; (8) - 196 pp. Biographical profiles of Gerald Emmett Carter, Remi de Roo, Mary Jo Leddy, Larry Henderson, Morley Callaghan, Marie-Claire Blais, Marc Lalonde, Andy Hogan, Richard Cashin, Emmett Hall, Jean Forest, and Larkin Kerwin. Illustrated with black and white portrait sketches. Ten pages of Sources Consulted. Minor shelf wear to the covers with a sticker ghost on the front while the interior is clean and the binding is sound.
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Chronicles of an Adventurer.

By: Hine, Harold R.

Price: $7.20

Publisher: Canada, New Ventures Consultants.: 1999

Seller ID: 18274

ISBN: 0968023312

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; [4] - 206 pp. Second printing. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hine joined the Canadian Navy at 16, transferred to the Royal Navy seeing action on the HMS Devonshire during World War II, put himself through law school after mustering out of the service, became a Queen's Counsel and upon retirement, began a business venture marketing products internationally that are dedicated to improving world health. A new and unread / unused book.
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Mr. Speaker

By: Jerome, James

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada, McClelland and Stewart.: 1985

Seller ID: 25194

ISBN: 0771044038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; 175 pp. Author (1933-2005) served as Speaker of the House of Commons in the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa from 1974 to 1979. "This is the first book written by a Canadian Speaker to shed light on the critical and often misunderstood role of the Speaker . . . thorny problem of disciplining some of the most powerful political figures . . . analysis of the narrowly averted constitutional crisis of June 30, 1978, the effects of television into the House, . . . account of why he felt it necessary to initiate a complete overhaul of the administration of Parliament,. . . insi...
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Image for Rest, Perturbèd Spirit: Being the Life of Cecil Francis Lloyd 1884-1938. (Presented in a cento of excerpts from his letters. The haunting story of a Canadian poet).

Rest, Perturbèd Spirit: Being the Life of Cecil Francis Lloyd 1884-1938. (Presented in a cento of excerpts from his letters. The haunting story of a Canadian poet).

By: Kirkconnell, Watson. (editor).

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Windsor, Nova Scotia., Lancelot Press.: 1974

Seller ID: 33384

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21 x 14 cm.; 60 pp. Pale red and beige wraps with black lettering. Two and a bit pages of footnotes at the back. I do have quote the first paragraph of the preface: "On the 13th of July, 1938, in a small frame cottage on Victor Street, Winnipeg, a slight, white-haired Welsh scholar, having first shot his two cats to save them from privation, put a revolver bullet in his own brain. At the age of fifty-three, he at last capitulated to ill fortune and laid aside a life that had become intolerable to him. Widowed, childless, still unemployed after six hungry years of job-hunting in the D...
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A Very Ordinary Life.

By: Knight, Phyllis and Rolf Knight.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Vancouver, Canada., New Star Books.: 1974

Seller ID: 34339

ISBN: 091988803

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20 x 13 cm.; 317 pp. Story of the eventful life of Phyllis Knight from 1901 to 1973, an ordinary woman living through extraordinary times in Germany and Canada. Photos and footnotes. Card stock covers rubbed; a clean, sturdy copy.
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Our French-Canadian Ancestors, Volume XXIII.

By: Laforest, Thomas J.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Palm Harbor, Florida., LISI Press.: 1996

Seller ID: 34495

ISBN: 091416323X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

xi - 278 pp. This is the English translation of Nos Ancetres, researched and written by R.P. Gerard Lebel, C.Ss.R. and M. Jean-Jacques Saintonge. As well as translate the text, Laforest added an index of names, bibliography, maps, illustrations, appendices. The volume has biographies of Jacques Bernier dit Jean de Paris; Denis Brosseau; Christophe Drolet; Pierre Fauteux; Augustin Fraser; Francois Gariepy; Pierre Groleau; Jean-Baptiste Halle; Pierre Jean; Thomas Journeau; Pierre Maheu, Sieur des Hazards; Charles Marquis; Jean Mignault dit Chatillon; Francois Quemeneur dit LaFlamme; Joseph-Noel ...
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Grace MacInnis: A Woman to Remember.

By: Latta, Ruth and Joy Trott.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation: 2000

Seller ID: 18331

ISBN: 0738855855

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; 455 pp. Grace MacInnis (1905-1991), the daughter of J. S. Woodsworth, served in Canada's Parliament (the House of Commons) from 1968 to 1972. Illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs with a nine page bibliography at the back. The front cover shows edge wear on the fore edge and there is a black remainder mark on the text block head edge.; Remainder
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Count Frontenac - Wolfe and Montcalm. The Makers of Canada Series, Volume II, Anniversary Edition.

By: Le Sueur, William D. and Abbe H. R. Casgrain.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Oxford University Press: 1926

Seller ID: 18403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

12mo - 19.5 x 12.5 cm.; x - [4] - 382 - [14] - 292 pp. Two volumes bound as one for the anniversary edition. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with 16 black and white reproductions plus a coloured fold out map of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. Presentatio n bookplate from the Minister of Education dated 1928 plus an inscription from the then Inspector, a Dr. John M. Bennett on the front paste down end paper and the front free end paper respectively. Red bookmark set into the headband. The externals show mild shelf wear and the spine is faded. A clear and removable archi...
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Claude Ryan; A Biography.

By: Leclerc, Aurelien.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., NC Press: 1980

Seller ID: 18351

ISBN: 0919601006

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 127 pp. Originally published in French as "Claude Ryan; l'homme de devoir" and translated into English by Colleen Kurtz. Preface by the Honourable Jean Chretien and dated 1979. Illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs. The covers show mild shelf wear and a previous owner's name resides on the top of the first page, the half title page.
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Gophers and Tumbleweed: Tales of a Saskatchewan Boyhood.

By: Lowes, Warren.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Abraham Tanaka Associates.: 1987

Seller ID: 27858

ISBN: 0969237510

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15.5 cm.; 156 pp. From the back cover: ". . . is a slice of frontier history depicting those days in southern Saskatchewan during the dustbowl period of the late twenties and early thirties." Illustrated with 8 pages of black and white photographs. Signed by Warren's brother, Ray Lowes, on the title page with an inscription to the previous owner. Ray had the book published after his brother, Warren, had died. Minor wear to the cover edges and the spine is faded, otherwise clean and tight.
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Affectionately Yours: The Letters of Sir John A. Macdonald and His Family.

By: Macdonald, Sir John A. (J. K. Johnson - editor)

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Macmillan: 1969

Seller ID: 18329

ISBN: 0770510175

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo - 22 x 14.5 cm.; 205 pp. A collection of over 200 letters that date from 1842 to 1891. Illustrated with eight pages of black and white photographs and reproductions. General and moderate scuffing to the covers with mild shelf wear. The interior is clean and the binding is solid.
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The Danger Tree: Memory, War, and the Search for a Family's Past.

By: MacFarlane, David.

Price: $27.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Macfarlane Walter & Ross: 1991

Seller ID: 4046

ISBN: 0921912048

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; [12] - 224 pp. Biege linen over boards with gold lettering on spine. This is a nonfiction family saga built around the Goodyears of Newfoundland - their move early in the 20th century from Ladle Cove on the Straight Shore to Grand Falls in the interior; the deaths of three brothers during WWI; the ambitions and failures of the family enterprises; their bitter division over the question of whether Newfoundland ought to become a province of Canada. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Author has inscribed and signed on the title page. One small surface stain on the te...
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Man of Steel: The Story of Sir Sandford Fleming.

By: Maclean, Hugh.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Ryerson Press.: 1969

Seller ID: 18271

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

12mo - 19.5 x 13 cm.; 145 pp. Bright green cloth over boards with gilt lettering on spine. When Fleming, an immigrant engineer from Scotland, arrived in Canada in 1845, there were only 16 miles of railroad in the whole of the country. Besides being instrumental in linking all of Canada by rail, he also developed and established Standard Time and a Commonwealth cable system for communication. Other than very mild shelf wear to the board and dust jacket edges, the book appears to have been little used if at all.
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Robert Service: Under the Spell of the Yukon.

By: Mallory, Enid Swerdferger.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Surrey, British Columbia., Heritage House Publishing.: 2006

Seller ID: 18244

ISBN: 1894384954

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xvii - 238 pp. Red cloth over boards with white lettering on spine. Foreword by Jack White. A biography of the "Bard of the Yukon" that fills in some of the missing gaps of Service's years in Canada and the US. Illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. Signed by the author on the title page. Both book and dust jacket show a hint of mild shelf wear.; Signed by Author
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A Truly Loyal Subject: An Account of the Life of George Brown and the Founding of Canada.

By: Marquis, Vincent.

Price: $5.60

Publisher: Russell, Ontario., Home Works Company: 2000

Seller ID: 18168

ISBN: 0968505805

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; xiv - 98 pp. Written by a seasoned educator, this biography of George Brown is designed to be part of a history curriculum at the senior high school level. A select two page bibliography at the back. Very slight edge wear to the covers, otherwise an unused and unread book.
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What's Past Is Prologue: The Memoirs of the Right Honourable Vincent Massey, CH.

By: Massey, Vincent

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Totonto, Ontario, Macmillan: 1963

Seller ID: 18414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 14.5 cm.; [18] - 540 pp. Tan / gray cloth with gilt lettering on a black spine panel. Illustrated with twenty-four pages of black and white photographs. The book shows quite mild shelf wear with like age-darkened text block edges. The dust jacket is lightly worn on the edges with a sunned spine and a inside tape repaired closed tear on the top fly fold at the front.
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John P. Robarts: His Life and Government

By: McDougall, A. K.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada., University of Toronto Press.: 1986

Seller ID: 32349

ISBN: 0802034268

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xiii, (18), 320 pp. Part of the Ontario Historical Studies Series. Robarts (1917-1982) was Premier of the Canadian province of Ontario from 1961-1971 and remembered "for his integrity and for the status and stability he gave Ontario . . ." Photos, appendices, footnotes, bibliography, index. A clean, sturdy volume. Dust jacket has very minor rubbing and a couple of small closed tears.
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Category: Canadiana - Biography