Seven 8 x 5 inch photos, captioned in pencil at foot, and with Burns-Miller signature in pencil lower right. Each photo tipped on to a mount in a presentation 'greetings' folder. Gift inscription (varied) in each on tissue guard, from Mr. and Mrs. B.A. Cunliffe [presumably the city planner]; the recipient is specified in only one: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Webster [the broadcaster?]. No photo is dated. The titles: Sanctuary - Stanley Park - Vancouver B.C. / Second Beach - Stanley Park - Vancouver B.C. / Lost Lagoon - Stanley Park - Vancouver B.C. / Cloth O'Gold - Stanley Park - Vancouver B.C. / Sincl... View More...
Complete with all eight large folding maps on thin paper, including the significant 60 x 68 inch Map of the North West Part of Canada, Indian Territories & Hudson's Bay. Compiled & Drawn by Tho. Devine, Provincial Land Surveyor & Draughtsman by order of The Hon. Joseph Cauchon Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Department; Toronto: March, 1857. Maclear & Co. 1. Lower Canada. 2. Upper Canada. 3. Gaspe and Bonaventure. 4. The Saguenay. 5. The St. Maurice. 6. The Ottawa Country. 7. The North Shore of Lake Huron. 8. Canada, Indian Territories, and Hudson's Bay. Corner (when folded) tidelin... View More...
Four sheets folded to make sixteen pages 13 x 10 inches (again folded by owner along three vertical creases). The publisher D. A. Holbrook is noted as "successor to R. W. Prittie & Co." and indeed this paper focuses on information pertaining to settlement in Manitoba (for which Prittie was renowned): "Mr. R. W. Prittie still continued to inundate us with a profitable flood of well to do immigrants. In October, '78, he brought through his sixth party, making in all 840 families, Mr. Prittie deserves, the practical recognition of our citizens for the untiring energy and zeal displayed by him in ... View More...
20 pages including cover. Promotional brochure for a Toronto - Victoria return train/steamer journey conducted by Rev. Dr. S.W. Fallis, publisher of the recently founded The New Outlook journal resulting from the 1925 amalgamation of The Christian Guardian (est. 1829), The Presbyterian Witness (1848), and The Canadian Independent [later Congregationalist 1854] - journals of the Methodists, Presbyterians, and Congregational churches respectively. "We have planned this tour in the hope of making some slight contribution toward a United Canada, believing that nothing can make for this end more t... View More...
128 pages. Various articles, numerous adverts, comprehensive monthly list of Saints' days in the Catholic Year. Cover worn and detached; silverfish predation to first three and final leaves (no loss of text). 10.2 x 7 inches. View More...
128 pages, and four pages of adverts on yellow paper at centre (other ads throughout). With 5.75 x 10.25 inch folding map of Winnipeg at front (adverts verso) and 11.4 x 23 inch Map of Western Canada... Published with Waghorn's Guide (banks & legal info. verso) laid in at rear. Booklet measures 6 x 3.4 inches. Binder trimmed the top edge a bit tight, resulting in occasional partial loss to header. Excellent condition all 'round; no inscriptions. View More...
137pp. The story of the Cayford family, who immigrated to the Bow River Valley in I902 from the United States. The story of homesteading and ten children growing up on the Prairies is told by Elmer Cayford, the third of the four older boys who moved to the Northwest Territories with their parents Howard and Alice. After their first succesful establishment of a homestead, they and other ranchers were forced off their quarter sections by a Chicago meat packing syndicate. The family finally settled in the Manitou Lake District, where the children were among the first pupils at the Wells Schoo... View More...
27 pages, This was Doreen Bolstad's copy of the Handbook. She was Lady Stick this year. Her name is written on the title page, with her annotations throughout. This wartime edition has a large red V on the cover as well as a V in Morse code. The cover has become separated from the staples and is split at the bottom half of the spine. 5" x 3 5/8" View More...
333 pages. Wear to covers, tanning to outer edges of textblock. Endpapers foxed; inscriptions to front free endpaper; rear pastedown bubbled and with datestamp. Binding is sound. Remnant of Boots sticker to front board. View More...
166, [3] leaves printed recto. Born in Kings County Nova Scotia, this is autobiography of work in Alberta, family connections, and accounts of travel - not a comprehensive Knowlton genealogy. 11.25 x 8.5 inches. The Gathering of the Knowlton Clan, Nova Scotia 1972, recounts the family gathering: comb-back binding, 11.25 x 8.75 inches, 16 unnumbered leaves printed recto. View More...
pp. 153-455. Complete, with five large maps in rear pocket. The Franklin map is complete but in 3 pieces. Considerable section on explorers and exploration in the North. Old ownership stamp of RCMP to front pastedown and first title page.. View More...
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