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Radical Mandarin: The Memoirs of Escott Reid.

By: Reid, Escott.

Price: $9.60

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., University of Toronto Press.: 1989

Seller ID: 23508

ISBN: 0802058116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

8vo - 22.5 x 15 cm.; xi - [11] - 405 pp. Very pale mauve cloth over boards with dark mauve lettering on spine. Illustrated with 13 black and white photographs on 10 pages. Comprehensive 11 page index at the back. The text block head edge is lightly dust soiled and the spine tips show a whisper of shelf wear, otherwise very clean and tight.
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A Boy from Burnstown: My Life's Story.

By: Richardson, George.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Ontario., Privately published.: 1998

Seller ID: 32433

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; (6) - 324 - (2) pp. Bound with a black plastic coil in card stock covers with mylar overlays. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Born on a farm outside of Burnstown in Renfrew County, Richardson served as a United Church minister, eventually retiring in Perth, Ontario. Signed by the author on the title page. The clear mylar sheets are scuffed a tad and show some yellowing with age. Otherwise very clean with a sound binding.
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Canadian Portraits: C.B.C. Broadcasts.

By: Riddell, R. G.

Price: $6.40

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Oxford University Press.: 1940

Seller ID: 29098

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 19 x 13 cm.; xi - 154 pp. Green cloth over boards with brown lettering on the spine. Twenty-one brief biographies originally given as radio talks sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association. Illustrated with 8 black and white full page photogrpahs or reproductions. Usual library markings with the book showing moderate wear to the externals and having a soild and sound binding.; Ex-Library
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Diefenbaker's World: A Populist in Foreign Affairs.

By: Robinson, H. Basil.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., University of Toronto Press: 1989

Seller ID: 27121

ISBN: 0802026788

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; xv - [15] - 352 pp. Gray cloth over boards with blue gilt letting on spine. Illustrated with 14 pages of black and white photographs and cartoons. Well annotated with a four page bibliograph y and an eleven page index. The book shows very light wear to the fore corners and spine tips and has 3 pea size stains on the back board. Otherwise, 'tis clean and tight. A clear and removable cover has been fitted.
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Z Wiatru i Ognia . . . Opowiesc o Blogoslawionym Eugeniuszu de Mazenod, Zalozycielu Zgromadzenia Misjonarzy Oblatow.

By: Roche OMI., Aime.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Oblates.: 1975

Seller ID: 27328

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21 x 15 cm.; 141 - (19) pp. The text is in Polish. Illustrated wraps in black and white. Translated into Polish from the original French, "Le bienheureux Eugène de Mazenod", by Gustaw Kania. illustrated with black and white photographs and maps.
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A Son of Québec.

By: Roy, Andrew. (edited by Daniel Huffaker).

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec., Shoreline.: 2004

Seller ID: 27802

ISBN: 1896754392

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo - 24.5 x 17 cm.; (4) - 141 pp. A biography best described by quoting from the back cover: "Andrew Roy, a direct descendent of a 'fille du roi', comes from a family of Québecois nuns and priests. In the early 1800's Charles Roy makes the decision to become an Anglican, and the family tree becomes French Protestant. Andrew grows up in the rectory of Holy Trinity Church in Lévis, where his father is the clergyman. After the RCAF, he goes into teaching and eventually returns to Québec City to work in English Protestant Education at the Provincial level. As a member of the Superior Council o...
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Edward Blake: The Man of the Other Way 1833-1881, Leader and Exile 1881-1912. Two volumes.

By: Schull, Joseph.

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Macmillan: 1975

Seller ID: 18291

ISBN: 0770512178X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; Volume 1: Edward Blake,The Man of the Other Way 1833-1881 (ISBN 0770512178X - 1975). xi - 257 pp. Volume 2: Edward Blake, Leader and Exile 1881-1912. (ISBN 0770513255 - 1976). xi - 266 pp. Both are bound with a gloss black paper over boards and gilt lettering on spine. Both volumes have 16 pages of black and white photographs and reproductions on a coated paper along with smaller in-text illustrations. Both dust jackets show moderate shelf wear and scuffing. Previous owner's inked note (date) on the front free end paper of volume 1.
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Once Again, At Forty.

By: Shannon, Jim

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Burnstown, Ontario., General Store Publishing.: 1995

Seller ID: 19113

ISBN: 1896182194

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 134 pp. Shannon relates his experiences when he, in his forties and a successful college teacher, took the other less travelled path and a winding and world circling path it turned out to be.
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A Woman with a Purpose, The Diaries of Elizabeth Smith 1872-1884.

By: Smith, Elizabeth (edited by Veronica Strong-Boag).

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Toront, Ontario., University of Toronto Press.: 1980

Seller ID: 31974

ISBN: 0802063977

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 22 x 14 cm.; xxxviii - 298 pp. Footnotes in the extensive Introduction and photos. Smith was one of the first women doctors to be educated in Canada. The diary chronicles, among other life events, her battle for admission into the all-male medical school at Queen's University in Kingston. Of interest to those who want a first hand experience of a woman's life in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth century. Bit of minor soiling and edgewear; text is clean and binding sturdy.
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Footpaths and Fishing Boats, Growing Up in Nipper's Harbour.

By: Starkes, Audrey.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Petra Books.: 2015

Seller ID: 33592

ISBN: 1927032423

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 20 x 12.5 cm.; 146 pp. Nipper's Harbour is on the coast of Newfoundland and was an isolated outport when Starkes grew up there, the daughter of a fisherman. Signed by Starkes on title page. A bit of light soiling, otherwise, a clean, sturdy copy. ; Signed by Author
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With the West in Her Eyes, The Story of a Modern Pioneer.

By: Strange, Kathleen.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada., Macmillan Company of Canada Limited.: 1945

Seller ID: 32190

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo - 20.5 x 13.5 cm.; 293 pp. First published in 1937, this is a later reprint with an Epilogue dated 1945. Autobiography of English immigrants to western Canada and the farm life outside of Fenn, Alberta. Front free endpaper has the following "Inscribed with the best wishes of the author, Kathleen Strange, Winnipeg, 1947." Blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Some soiling on fore-edge text block and on a few pages. ; Signed by Author
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George-Etienne Cartier, A Biography.

By: Sweeny, Alastair.

Price: $13.50

Publisher: Toronto, Canada., McClelland and Stewart.: 1976

Seller ID: 32451

ISBN: 0771083637

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 352 pp. A major biography of an important Canadian politician and a Father of Confederation. Cartier (1814-1873) was a French Canadian rebel and member of the first federal government. Extensive bibliography, photos, index. A bit of soiling on text block fore-edge, otherwise, a clean, sturdy copy. Dust jacket has some light rubbing.
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La Vénérable Marie de l'Incarnation, Ursuline. Née Marie Guyart, Fondatrice du Monastère de Québec.

By: Ue religieuse des Ursulines.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Paris, France., P. Tequi: Libraire-Editeur.: 1910

Seller ID: 30907

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; xxiv - 534 pp. The text is in French. Textured black cloth over boards with a faux panelled spine and gilt lettering on the spine with blind stamped border rules on the front and back boards. With an 8 page introduction by Mgr. Baunard. A quite comprehensive table of contents, "Table des Matières", at the back. This is the "new edition" illustrated with 15 black and white plates one of which is the tissue protected frontis piece. The library markings, none of which are exrternal, are a blacked out stamp on the half title page, a stamp on the title page and attachments on ...
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Limerick Township and Area History Bits.

By: Vallieres, Catharine M. (editor).

Price: $40.50

Publisher: Bellevile, Ontario., Essence Publishing / Epic Press.: 2015

Seller ID: 32129

ISBN: 1460004671

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 25.5 x 20.5 cm.; 269 pp. This is the second printing from the same year as its first publication. Illustrated with many black and white archival photographs and 1 colour plate of the "Digital Memories Quilt". Limerick township is located in the northern part of Hastings County, Ontario about an hour's drive north of Belleville on Highway 62. It is south of Bancroft, east of Coe Hill and north of Madoc. First opened up 'officially' by the Hastings Colonization Road which ran from Belleville to Maynooth. I live just north of this area and it can be truly said to be a land of rocks, trees a...
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The Outsider: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

By: Vastel, Michel.

Price: $6.80

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Macmillan: 1990

Seller ID: 18381

ISBN: 0771591004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; vi - 266 pp. Red cloth with black lettering on spine. Illustrated with sixteen pages of black and white photographs. Previous owner's name stamped discreetly on the bottom of the title page and again on the bottom of the back free end paper. Otherwise very clean and tight with no signs of use. The unclipped dust jacket shows mild shelf wear.
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Tessa & Scott, Our Journey from Childhood Dream to Gold.

By: Virtue, Tessa; Scott Moir (as told to Steve Milton).

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto, Canada., House of Anansi Press.: 2010

Seller ID: 33875

ISBN: 0887842739

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket

4to - 28 x 21 cm.; 191 pp. The most decorated Olympic figure skaters, Tessa and Scott were multiple winners in ice dance team competitions. This is a short biography of them with lots of photographs. They have both signed this copy on the half-title page. Dust jacket has very moderate rubbing; a beautiful copy of this book. ; Signed by Author
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Run of the Town: Stories of an Unfettered Youth.

By: West, Terrence Rundle.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Renfrew, Ontario., General Store Publishing House.: 2006

Seller ID: 24616

ISBN: 1897113420

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; viii - 205 pp. From the preface: "These seventeen stories chronicle life and times in a small Northern Ontario resource town in the quarter century between 1940 and 1965. The community happens to be Hearst . . ." Signed and dated by the author on the title page along with a personal inscription. "Winner of the 2007 Northern Lit Award" sticker on the front cover.; Signed by Author
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Memories of the Beach, Reflections on a Toronto Childhood.

By: Williams, Lorraine O'Donnell.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Dundurn Press.: 2010

Seller ID: 34519

ISBN: 155488389X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 23 x 15 cm.; 239 pp. Combining history with her memoirs, Williams speaks of life in the Toronto Beach community (the Beaches) in the 1930s and 1940s "from the vantage point of her veranda, which abutted the boardwalk", replete with stories of amusement parks, dance halls and how the area changed from cottage to urban living. Lots of photos. Inscribed by Williams on half-title page and signed by her on title page. A clean, tight volume. ; Signed by Author
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Truck Driving to Glory

By: Winquist, Henry S.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press.: 1978

Seller ID: 22832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket

8vo - 20 x 13.5 cm.; 40 pp. An upbeat memoir of a farm boy from near Edmonton, Alberta, who made a success of himself as a truck driver. A clean, tight volume with a dust jacket that has minor edgewear.
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Wilkinson: Warrior, Musician, Bishop.

By: Young, George.

Price: $8.80

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Anglican Book Centre.: 1984

Seller ID: 27304

ISBN: 0919891179

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 151 pp. Burgundy cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Foreword by Roland Michener. Illustrated with 10 pages of black and white photographs. Five pages of acknowledgement s, a 6 page appendix, a 3 page chronology and an 8 page index. The dust jacket shows some light scuffing best seen in reflected light. Otherwise the book appears to have been used very little if at all.
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Category: Canadiana - Biography