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Fleecing the Lamb, The Inside Story of the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

By: Cruise, David and Alison Griffiths.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia., Douglas & McIntyre.: 1987

Seller ID: 33153

ISBN: 0888945582

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

8vo - 21 x 15 cm.; x - 277 pp. Inside story of a leading venture market, "fast paced, hard hitting and investigative, this book is full of tales about money makers, scams and scandals, as well as inside dirt about the amazing growth of the VSE. . ." Appendices, notes on sources, index. A clean, tight edition; dust jacket has minor wear.
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The London & Port Stanley Railway 1915-1965.

By: Curnoe, W. Glen.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: W. Glen Curnoe.:

Seller ID: 34384

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

4to - 28 x 21.5 cm.; 96 pp. No date of publication, in text states it was written in 1974. Lots of photos, history, maps, statistics, glossary, bibliography, index. A clean, sturdy copy.
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After the Fire, Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons Since 1649.

By: Delaney, Paul J. and Andrew D. Nicholls (edited by Irene Golas)

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Elmvale, Ontario., Eastern Georgian Bay Historical Foundation.: 1989

Seller ID: 32666

ISBN: 0969181221

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

xii - 101 pp. Traces the development of this historic site from its abandoned ruins (it was simpy known as the "French ruins" after the fire of 1649) through to the completion of its careful reconstruction in 1971. Illustrated with black and white photographs, maps and sketches. Six pages of notes, a 2 page bibliography and a 4 page index. Minor wear to the covers, otherwise clean with a sound binding.
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Signed black and white portrait photograph of John Diefenbaker.

By: Diefenbaker, John.

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., 1977

Seller ID: 30475

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

17.5 x 12.5 cm; Signed and dated (1977) black and white portrait photograph of John Diefenbaker. The image size is 14.5 x 11.5 cm. Inscibed to a "Moran McMahon - with best wishes". Penciled note on back "66-1443. Dec. 1977".
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Preserving Peterborough's Past: 150 Years of Museums and History.

By: Doherty, Ken.

Price: $3.60

Publisher: Peterborough, Ontario., The Peterborough Historical Society.: 1995

Seller ID: 33115

ISBN: 0969674333

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 26 pp. Pale yellow wraps with black lettering in a saddle stapled binding. Illustrated with black and white photographs. An 'occasional paper', #16, published by the society. Minor wear to the edges and the spine margins of the covers are faded. Sticker scar on the top spine corner of the front. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered.
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The Cambodians, Laotians and Vietnamese in Canada. (Booklet #28 in "Canada's Ethnic Groups" series).

By: Dorais, Louis-Jacques.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Canadian Historical Association.: 2000

Seller ID: 33118

ISBN: 0887982263

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 32 pp. Dark blue wraps with white lettering in a saddle stapled binding. Translated from the original French by Eileen Reardon. Four statistical tables in the text. Three pages of suggestions for further reading at the back. An as-new and unused booklet. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered.
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Girl's Schooling in Quebec, 1639-1960. (CHA Booklet No. 49).

By: Dumont, Micheline.

Price: $3.60

Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Canadian Historical Association.: 1990

Seller ID: 33104

ISBN: 0887981623

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 32 pp. Blue covers with white lettering in a saddle stapled binding. Translated from the French by Carol Élise Cochrane. Four page listing of suggestions for further reading at the back. Minor wear to the covers, else fine to near fine. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered.
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Women and Their Work in Upper Canada. (CHA Booklet No. 64).

By: Errington, Elizabeth Jane.

Price: $3.60

Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Canadian Historical Association.: 2006

Seller ID: 33083

ISBN: 0887982646

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 43 pp. Blue covers with white lettering in a saddle stapled binding. Two and a bit page list of suggsted further reading at the back. Very minor wear to the edges of the covers. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered.
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A Fly on the Curtain.

By: Euringer, Fred.

Price: $5.85

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Oberon Press: 2000

Seller ID: 9403

ISBN: 0778011429

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21.5 x 14 cm.; 218 pp. Euringer documents the early days of the Stratford Festival and summer stock theatre in Ontario during the 1950's. The author worked with the likes of Tyrone Guthrie, Michael Langham, Christopher Plummer, Frederick Valk, Kenneth Wicks, Bob Huber, John Douglas, and Donald Sutherland. Minor soiling to the white wraps with a black remainder mark on the head edge. Cover art by Egon Schiele. Illustrated with 4 pages of black and white photographs.
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52 Questions on the Nationalization of Canadian Railways.

By: Fabius.

Price: $31.50

Publisher: Toronto, Canada, J. M. Dent & Sons.: 1918

Seller ID: 30557

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

16mo - 16.5 x 10 cm.; 127 pp. Addendum tipped-in on a back blank page. A discussion on the prudence of Railway Nationalization through a series of questions. Green cloth-covered boards with black lettering on spine and front board. Some edgewear to boards and a bit of staining on back board, gutter on front endpapers a bit broken but binding is sturdy, former owners' stamps on front free endpaper and back free endpaper; text is otherwise clean. A clear and removable archival cover has been fitted.
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Pioneers in the Queen's Bush.

By: Fee, Florence A. (compiler).

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Florence A. Fee.:

Seller ID: 33330

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21.5 x 16 cm.; 110 pp. There is no publication date but author's preface indicates this is a second edition with line drawings added. This is the story of William Williams and Margaret Pearse Williams who emigrated from England and settled in Holland Township, Grey County, Ontario, (also called Queen's Bush) in 1850. It was written by their daughters, Jane and Kate, and put together for publication by the granddaughter of Kate, Florence Fee. Index, bibliography and lots of line drawings of different aspects of pioneer life. A bit of soiling on cover, otherwise, a clean, sturdy copy.
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Louis Riel. (CHA Booklet No. 50).

By: Flanagan, Thomas.

Price: $3.60

Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Canadian Historical Association.: 1992

Seller ID: 33075

ISBN: 0887981801

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21.5 x 13.5 cm.; 27 pp. Orange and white covers in a saddle stapled binding. Two pages of suggested further reading. Very minor wear to the edges of the covers. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered.
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Cassocks, Doublets, and Deerskins. Religious and Secular Costume on the Mission Frontier of New France in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.

By: Folkes, Patrick and Nancy Penny.

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Midland, Ontario., The Friends of Sainte Marie.: 1988

Seller ID: 32671

ISBN: 0969387814

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; (10) - 67 pp. Illustrated with 5 black and white photographs. Thirteen pages of reference notes, 4 page select bibliography and a 3 page glossary. An as-new and unused book.
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Cassocks, Doublets, and Deerskins. Religious and Secular Costume on the Mission Frontier of New France in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.

By: Folkes, Patrick and Nancy Penny.

Price: $11.25

Publisher: Midland, Ontario., The Friends of Sainte Marie.: 1988

Seller ID: 32672

ISBN: 0969387814

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Aspects of Maritime Regionalism, 1867-1927. (CHA Booklet No. 36).

By: Forbes, Ernest R.

Price: $3.60

Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Canadian Historical Association.: 1983

Seller ID: 33086

ISBN: 088798083X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 22 pp. Tan covers with white lettering in a saddle stapled binding. One page list of suggested further reading at the back. Very minor wear to the edges of the covers. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered.
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A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada.

By: Foster, Cecil.

Price: $7.20

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., Harpercollins.: 1996

Seller ID: 32056

ISBN: 000638028X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 23 x 15 cm.; 324 pp. French folded flaps on the fore edges of the covers. Three page index of names. The "Heaven" in the songs of the slaves in the southern US was the end of the underground railroad, Canada. This image of Canada is still alive, but, does it deliver? This is an account of the troubled state of race relations in a modern Canada by one who immigrated from Barbados. Foster is a respected journalist and broadcaster. Some light wear to the head and tail edges of the covers and general, though light, scuffing to the covers.
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Canadian Society in the French Regime. (CHA Booklet No. 3).

By: Fregault, Guy.

Price: $3.60

Publisher: Ottawa, Ontario., Canadian Historical Association.: 1968

Seller ID: 33077

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

8vo - 21 x 13.5 cm.; 16 pp. Gray covers with black lettering in a saddle stapled binding. One page bibliography. First published in 1968, this is the sixth printing. Very minor wear to the edges of the covers and some fading of the margins of same. The shipping cost for this small item will be reduced after it is ordered.
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The University of Toronto: A History. (second edition).

By: Friedland, Martin L.

Price: $36.00

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario., University of Toronto Press.: 2013

Seller ID: 32594

ISBN: 1442648007

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

4to - 25.5 x 17 cm.; lv - 764 pp. Black cloth over boards with gilt lettering on the spine. First published in 2002 on the 175th anniversary of the founding of King's College, the predecessor of the University of Toronto. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Thirteen page listing of principal sources, 18 page bibliography, 40 page comprehemsive index. This book won the Heritage Toronto Award of Merit and the Ontario Historical Society J. J. Talman Prize. An as-new and unused book.
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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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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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Category: Canadiana - History