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Arnold's Expedition to Quebec - Special Editionby: Codman, 2nd, John/William Abbatt (Editor)

Arnold's Expedition to Quebec - Special Edition
by: Codman, 2nd, John/William Abbatt (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Revised, Limited Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Revised, limited edition - this edition being two hundred and forty-five copies, of which this is handstamped #38. Black & white illustrations, includes fold-out map. Darkening to spine label. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612743

Price: $160.00 
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Before the King's Daughters: The Files a Marier, 1634-1662by: Peter J. Gagne

Before the King's Daughters: The Files a Marier, 1634-1662
by: Peter J. Gagne

Softcover. privately printed, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. Before the state-sponsored immigration program that sent nearly 800 women known as Filles du Roi to Quebec, 262 brave and adventurous women made the journey to New France on their own. Sent by relatives and religious organizations or enlisting on their own account, these women did not benefit from a paid passage and dowry drawn from the King's treasury, but they did face the same if not worse hardships and dangers. Known as the Filles a Marier or "marriageable girls," they were the first single women to set foot in the colony since its return from the English in 1632. True pioneers and heroines, they left their homes in France to found new ones in the New World. This book - the first work dedicated solely to this group of pioneer women - tells their story, collectively and individually. It first examines the much-misunderstood early immigration of women to New France, explaining the need for women in the colony, the difficulties in increasing the population and the unfounded assertions that these women were prostitutes, not pioneers. The book then includes individual biographies of each of these 262 single women and concludes with a table of arrivals per year, an appendix of supporting documentation (marriage and enlistment contracts and inventories), a glossary, index of husbands and a comprehensive index to the book. Like new.

Record # 397499

Price: $100.00 
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Canada Farmer, The: A Fortnightly Journal of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural Affairs (Volume 1, January to December, 1864 issues)by: Clarke, W.F. (Editor)

Canada Farmer, The: A Fortnightly Journal of Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural Affairs (Volume 1, January to December, 1864 issues)
by: Clarke, W.F. (Editor)

Hardcover. Toronto, Canada, George Brown, Rebound 1st Edition, 1864, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover. Rebound edition. Domestic shipping only. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpapers. Previous owner's name and date of acquisition on preliminary page in pencil. Bright blue bound cover boards. Some light tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Pages unmarked. Spine straight.

Record # 99218

Price: $250.00 
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Canada's Road to the Pacific War: Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisisby: Wilford, Timothy

Canada's Road to the Pacific War: Intelligence, Strategy, and the Far East Crisis
by: Wilford, Timothy

Softcover. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages, b&w illustrations. In December 1941, Japan attacked multiple targets in the Far East and the Pacific, including Canadian battalions in Hong Kong. This intriguing account of Canadian intelligence gathering and strategic planning on the eve of the crisis dispels the assumption that the Allies were totally unprepared for war. Canadians worked closely with their US and Allied counterparts to uncover Japan's intentions and to develop a strategic plan for defence. By highlighting Canada's role as a Pacific power, this book sheds new light both on the Pacific War and on events that led to the creation of the Grand Alliance. Clean copy.

Record # 379719

Price: $15.00 
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Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945by: Copp, Terry

Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945
by: Copp, Terry

Hardcover. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 407 pages, b&w illustrations. In his controversial and award-winning 2003 book Fields of Fire, Terry Copp offered a stunning reversal of accepted military history, challenging the conventional view that the Canadian contribution to the Battle of Normandy was a failure. Cinderella Army continues the story of the operations carried out by the First Canadian Army in the last nine months of the war, and extends the argument developed in Fields of Fire that "the achievement of the Allied and especially the Canadian armies... has been greatly underrated while the effectiveness of the German army has been greatly exaggerated." Copp supports this argument with research conducted on numerous trips to the battlefields of France, Belgium, Holland and Germany. His detailed knowledge of the battlefield terrain, along with contemporary maps and air photos, allows Copp to explore the defensive positions that Canadian soldiers were required to overcome, and to illustrate how impressive their achievements truly were. Clean copy.

Record # 379018

Price: $15.00 
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Eskimo Artby: Burland, Cottie

Eskimo Art
by: Burland, Cottie

Hardcover. New York, Hamlyn Publishing Group, Ltd., 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated guide to historical and modern Eskimo art. 96 pages, illustrated with more than 100 photographs, both color and black/white (many full-page). Book and dust jacket are in very good condition, dust jacket shows some light edge wear.

Record # 805388

Price: $15.00 
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Here and There in Montreal and The Island of Montrealby: Stokes, Charles W.

Here and There in Montreal and The Island of Montreal
by: Stokes, Charles W.

Softcover. Toronto, Musson Book Company Limited, Revised Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original cream paper cover with light green and black lettering and decoration, and color pastedown of a painting. Ad for Chateau Frontenac inside front cover, and one for McColl-Frontenac Oil Co. Limited inside back cover. Interior is clean and free of markings. The book describes historical places of interest in the Montreal area. 96 pages including Index. Size: 6 1/4 x 9 Inches. Mild edgewear to covers.

Record # 374944

Price: $25.00 
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History of British Columbia: From its Earliest History to the Present Timeby: Begg, Alexander

History of British Columbia: From its Earliest History to the Present Time
by: Begg, Alexander

Hardcover. Toronto, William Briggs, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Inscribed by author's son. 568 pages, b&w illustrations. Fold-out map in rear torn, but present. Bright blue cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and design. Light wear to corners; small stains on rear cover. Ex-lib with number on bottom of spine, embossed stamp on title page, pocket inside rear cover. Else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 851327

Price: $100.00 
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King's Daughters and Founding Mothers: The Filles du Roi, 1663-1673 (Two Volumes)by: Peter J. Gagne

King's Daughters and Founding Mothers: The Filles du Roi, 1663-1673 (Two Volumes)
by: Peter J. Gagne

Softcover. privately printed, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes, 662 pages. A groundbreaking biographical dictionary of the nearly 800 women and girls sent from France to populate Quebec between 1663 and 1673. The introduction explains the need for the program, compares it to similar initiatives by the English and the Spanish, dispels misconceptions about Filles du Roi and gives a history of the program in Canada. After defining who can be considered a Filles du Roi this work presents comprehensive biographies of all the "King's Daughters" including a wealth of information never before available in English. This 2-volume set also includes biographies of women falsely identified as Filles du Roi, a glossary, a thematic index and an index of husbands. Clean, like new.

Record # 397498

Price: $80.00 
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La Famille McCord : une vision passionn

La Famille McCord : une vision passionn

Softcover. Musee McCord d'histoire, 1st, d'histoire, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Text in French and English. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 460611

Price: $12.00 
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Lake St. Louis Old and New and Cavelier de La Salleby: Girouard (transl.), Disire

Lake St. Louis Old and New and Cavelier de La Salle
by: Girouard (transl.), Disire

Hardcover. Montreal, Poirier, Bessette & Co., unk., 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 546 pages, many b&w illustrations including maps and fold-outs. Binding is shaken and both covers loose with cracked hinges, front fly leaf loose. Internally good. Leather spine and corners with pink pebbled cloth covers, marled end papers.

Record # 406545

Price: $100.00 
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Loch Bras D'Orby: MacPhail, Margaret

Loch Bras D'Or
by: MacPhail, Margaret

Softcover. Windsor, NS, Lancelot Press, 8th pr., 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 164 pages. "This is an authentic picture of pioneer life in Cape Breton about a hundred years ago - a scene in the family chronicles of the John MacNabs. The book is too delightful to be called a social document, but here, without sentimentality, is the story of the labors and joys and pains of this highland people, the endless toils of the women folk, and the journeys of the young men to the Grand Banks,and of young women to Boston, to get money to send to those at home." Light soil to wraps, otherwise clean.

Record # 397500

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Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contactby: Lyle Dick

Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
by: Lyle Dick

Softcover. Calgary CA, University of Calgary Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 615 pages. Critical forces of culture and nature collide in this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island in the age of contact. Surveying the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lyle Dick presents an impressive treatment of European-Inuit contact in the High Arctic (the area of what is now the Quttinirpaaq National Park) while considering the roles of the natural environment and cultures as factors in human history. As he charts the dynamic interplay between change and continuity in this forbidden land, Dick unravels the complexities of cultural exchange and human relationships to the Arctic landscape. Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration. Winner of the Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Clean copy.

Record # 378547

Price: $28.00 
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Sitting Bull: The Years in Canadaby: MacEwan, Grant

Sitting Bull: The Years in Canada
by: MacEwan, Grant

Hardcover. Edmonton CA, Hurtig , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 221 pages, b&w photographs, map end papers. Edge wear, rubbing, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 386418

Price: $15.00 
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Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 1918: A Story of Exploration Science and Sovereignty by: Stuart E. Jenness

Stefansson, Dr. Anderson and the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913 - 1918: A Story of Exploration Science and Sovereignty
by: Stuart E. Jenness

Softcover. Quebec, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations. This book presents the first comprehensive account of one of the great sagas of Arctic exploration and discovery, the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913-18, led by the ethnologist/ explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson and the zoologist Dr. Rudolph M. Anderson. Within its pages are details of the Expedition's successes and tragedies, including the discovery of all but one large island north of the Canadian mainland, the accumulation of considerable scientific information and valuable collections, and the personal feud of the Expedition's two leaders.' Illustrated with 64 photos and 20 maps. Clean copy.

Record # 385696

Price: $50.00 
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The Children of Aataentsic; A History of the Huron People to 1660 by: Bruce G. Trigger

The Children of Aataentsic; A History of the Huron People to 1660
by: Bruce G. Trigger

Softcover. McGill-Queen's University Press, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 913 pages, b&w illustrations, maps. Trigger's work integrates insights from archaeology, history, ethnology, linguistics, and geography. This wide knowledge allows him to show that, far from being a static prehistoric society quickly torn apart by European contact and the fur trade, almost every facet of Iroquoian culture had undergone significant change in the centuries preceding European contact. He argues convincingly that the European impact upon native cultures cannot be correctly assessed unless the nature and extent of precontact change is understood. His study not only stands Euro-American stereotypes and fictions on their heads, but forcefully and consistently interprets European and Indian actions, thoughts, and motives from the perspective of the Huron culture. The Children of Aataentsic revises widely accepted interpretations of Indian behaviour and challenges cherished myths about the actions of some celebrated Europeans during the "heroic age" of Canadian history. In a new preface, Trigger describes and evaluates contemporary controversies over the ethnohistory of eastern Canada.

Record # 385512

Price: $28.00 
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The St. Lawrence by: Beston, Henry

The St. Lawrence
by: Beston, Henry

Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 2nd pr., 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 274 pages. Black and white illustrations by A.Y. Jackson. Twentieth volume in the Rivers of America series. Clean copy.

Record # 397543

Price: $28.00 
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Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment, the life of William Hardy Eshbaugh and the role he played in its early development (SIGNED COPY)by:

Though Memory Plays Me False. A Story of Anticosti. The St. Lawrence River Isle of Enchantment, the life of William Hardy Eshbaugh and the role he played in its early development (SIGNED COPY)
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Hardcover. Southbury CT, self-published, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, printed paper over pictorial boards. 75 pages with many b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 379114

Price: $200.00 
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We Went to Heaven Before We Died: Tales of the Quebec Bush (SIGNED COPY)by: Baker, James A.

We Went to Heaven Before We Died: Tales of the Quebec Bush (SIGNED COPY)
by: Baker, James A.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Academy Books, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY BAKER on title page. Unnumbered copy of 500 printed.

Record # 404469

Price: $70.00 
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West of the Fourth - Local History/Genealogy of Lloydminster, Albertaby: n/a

West of the Fourth - Local History/Genealogy of Lloydminster, Alberta
by: n/a

Hardcover. Alberta, Canada, West of the Fourth Historians, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 635 pages, photographs throughout, illustrated brown cover. Minor edge wear and fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 854200

Price: $150.00 
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World of William Notman, The: The Nineteenth Century Through a Master Lensby: Triggs, Gordon Dodds; Roger Hall; Stanley

World of William Notman, The: The Nineteenth Century Through a Master Lens
by: Triggs, Gordon Dodds; Roger Hall; Stanley

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Oversized. Black cloth cover, gilt design, very little wear. Dust jacket with minor wear. Many b&w photographs throughout. A bright, clean copy. The story of William Notman and his sons and proteges who for over 60 years chronicled North America ( Canada and continental United States ) through the eye of a camera. He gives an invaluable view of what was like to live in the latter part of the Victorian era.

Record # 455393

Price: $30.00 
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