Category: Canada - Native Peoples

AROUND THE SOUND: A HISTORY OF HOWE SOUND-WHISTLER.

By: Armitage, Doreen.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Madeira Park, BC, Harbour : 1997

Seller ID: 5109

ISBN-13: 9781550171693

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, maps. "From Horseshoe Bay to Whistler and the islands and communities of Howe Sound, (this book) traces the area's rich and exciting history. Told in the voices of the people who call the area home, this anecdote-filled book tells of the first peoples, the early European explorers, the bustling gold rush trade, and the newcomers who settled to farm the fertile valley bottoms, log the fir and cedar forests, harvest the ocean's bounty, mine the region's deep veins of copper, and transform the area into the year-round outdoor recreation mecca it is today." Rev...
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GEORGIAN BAY: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY.

By: Barry, James P.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto / Erin, Stoddart / Boston Mills : 1992

Seller ID: 31003

ISBN-13: 9781550460629

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

240 pp, square (11 3/4" H x 11 3/4" D). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, maps. "This is the story of the once mighty Huron nation's tragic collapse, the aftermath of long battles against hostile tribes, disease and conversion by French missionaries. It is the story of the first white settlers' struggle to raise crops on the rugged Canadian Shield. Later, lumbering boomed and for decades the early mills flourished. The railroad reached the Bay in the mid-1800s, and fortunate depot towns prospered. Steamers and schooners brought transportation and commerce to previousl...
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THE INVASION OF CANADA, 1812-1813.

By: Berton, Pierre.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart : 1980

Seller ID: 30458

ISBN-13: 9780771012358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

363 pp, 9 3/4" H. Pictorial endpapers, maps/battle plans. Blue (faux?) leather spine with gilt lettering & decoration, gray boards with blue decoration on front board. "This first edition copy - is one of a limited number (unspecified) which have been specially bound and slipcased" from the copyright page. " To America's leaders in 1812, an invasion of Canada seemed the best way to bloody John Bull's nose. It would, as Thomas Jefferson confidently predicted, be 'a mere matter of marching'. How could a nation of eight million fail to subdue a struggling colony of 300,000? Yet, when the campai...
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BELLEVILLE: A POPULAR HISTORY.

By: Boyce, Gerry.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage / Dundurn : 2008

Seller ID: 24510

ISBN-13: 9781550028638

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

310 pp, square large 8vo (9" x 9"). B&w photographs, reproductions, maps. "(A) treasure trove of stories - 'glorious and not-so-glorious' - embodying the history of the city of Belleville (Ontario) and its beautiful surroundings. Gerry Boyce, the dean of the area's historians, has done a masterful job of pulling together the best of Belleville's storied past, episode by episode, decade by decade: here one learns about the Native roots of the place, its debatable 'discovery' by Champlain, its hot-headed pre-Confederation politics, its involvement in Spiritualism in the 1850s and the spread o...
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LOUIS RIEL AND GABRIEL DUMONT.

By: Boyden, Joseph. Introduction by John Ralston Saul.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Penguin : 2010

Seller ID: 31001

ISBN-13: 9780670066711

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

204 pp, 8" H. Part of the Extraordinary Canadians series. "Louis Riel, a controversial Metis mystic and visionary, fought for his people's rights against an encroaching tide of white settlers. Hunter and Metis leader Gabriel Dumont, a man tested by warfare, was, in contrast, a pragmatic realist of the land. Celebrated novelist Joseph Boyden explores the tumultuous year when Riel and Dumont united the Metis while dividing a nation. Could Dumont have foreseen the impact of the Metis cause when he brought Riel home? While making rational demands of Sir John A. Macdonald, Riel seemed increasingly...
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FOUR ANCESTORS: STORIES, SONGS, AND POEMS FROM NATIVE NORTH AMERICA.

By: Bruchac, Joseph.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: N.P., BridgeWater : 1996

Seller ID: 24882

ISBN-13: 9780816738434

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

96 pp, small 4to (10 1/8" H). Wonderful colour illustrations and decoration throughout. "Just as we have four grandparents, and our lives come from their lives, so we might describe fire, earth, water, and air as our 'Four Ancestors'. From the giant who pulled the sun across the sky to the mighty elk who created the earth, from the greedy monster who kept the rivers from flowing to the bird whose wings made the wind, this collection offers tales from more than twenty Native North American cultures. Joseph Bruchac's masterful storytelling combines with evocative illustrations by four Native Am...
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ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PAPERS AND RECORDS. VOL. I.

By: Casey, Thomas, et al.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, William Briggs : 1899

Seller ID: 28953

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good

140 pp, 10" H. 2 b&w plates. Contents: Rev. John Langhorn - Personal Note; Marriage Record of Rev. John Langhorn, No. 1; Rev. G. O'Kill Stuart's Register at St. John's Church, Bath; Marriage Register of St. John's Church, Ernest Town, No. 2; Langhorn's Book, No. 3; In the Parish Register of St. George, Kingston; A Register of Baptisms for the Township of Fredericksburgh; Rev. John Langhorn's Records, 1787-1813 - Burials; Rev. John Langhorn Register of St. Paul's Church, Fredericksburgh; Rev. Robert McDowall - Personal Note; McDowall Marriage Register; A Register of Baptisms by the Rev. Rober...
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PEEPS AT MANY LANDS: CANADA.

By: Cranston, J. Herbert.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, A. & C. Black : 1935

Seller ID: 23586

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

90 pp, small 8vo (7 11/16" H). 4 colour plates by T. Mower Martin, b&w map, photographs - collated. Contents: "From Sea to Sea and From River Unto the Ends of the Earth"; Seen From an Aeroplane; A Climate Second to None; The Canadian Melting Pot; City and Country Life; The Habitants of Quebec; Maintaining Law and Order; The Red Man's Last Stand; Caring for the Eskimos; Centres of Population; The World's Fastest Games (Ice Hockey / Lacrosse); Fun in the Out-of-Doors; The Gigantic Iron Horse; More Motorists than Cyclists; Mercy Flights in the Northland; Wild but not Dangerous; Mining Comes to ...
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ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. PAPERS AND RECORDS. VOL.VIII.

By: Cruickshank, E., Lt.-Col.; Gardiner, H.F; Bruce, G.W., Lt.-Col.; Mills; G.K.; Rogers, R.V.; Ellis, W.S.; McMorine, Rev.; Machar, Agnes Maule; Cumberland, Barlow; MacKenzie, Charles; Gilkison, Augusta Isabella Grant; Carnochan, Janet.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario Historical Society : 1907

Seller ID: 28955

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Good-

228 pp, 9 7/8" H. B&w illustrations. Contents: The Insurrection in the Short Hills in 1838; The Hamiltons of Queenston, Kingston and Hamilton; The Petuns; The Nottawasaga River Route; The First Commission of the Peace for the District of Mecklenburg; Some Events in the History of Kingston; Early History of the Anglican Church in Kingston; Some Epochs in the Story of Old Kingston; The Navies of Lake Ontario in the War of 1812. Notes from the Papers of a Naval Officer then serving on His Majesty's Ships; Cataraqui; Captain William Gilkison. Notes from a Paper; Early Churches in the Niagara Pen...
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THE GREAT MACKENZIE: IN WORD AND PHOTOGRAPH.

By: Davies, Raymond Arthur.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Ryerson Press : 1947

Seller ID: 28975

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

139 pp, 8 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. A pictorial work about the Mackenzie River basin, its people, industries, institutions, shortly after the end of World War II. Contents: Foreword; The Awakening; The Gateway; The Great River; Northern Wealth; Fuel for the World; Northern Farming; Make Way for People; The Churches of the North; A Plan to Build the North; Conclusion. Small area of light printing ink smudging of text on page 41 - still very legible, light printing ink mark in bottom margin of page 48, some light edge wear, wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, small min...
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AYORAMA.

By: De Coccola, Raymond (signed) and King, Paul.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press : 1956

Seller ID: 28090

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

316 pp, 9" H. Map endpapers, drawings in black on blue stock by James Houston. Signed on title page "R. de Coccola". There is a non-authorial inscription on the half title page from one couple to another, stating "Father De C. is a good friend of ours, we hope you enjoy his story". "This is (the story of 'The People Beyond'), occasionally poignant, often shocking, but always heroic, from the opening scene of birth in an isolated iglu lit only by a flickering blubber lamp to the final disaster wrought by an epidemic that rages through a whole encampment. Raymond de Coccola was a missionary...
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Image for ALBERTA HISTORY. VOLUME 25, NUMBERS 2-4 (SPRING/SUMMER/AUTUMN 1977), VOLUME 26, NUMBERS 1-4 (WINTER/SPRING/SUMMER/AUTUMN 1978), VOLUME 27, NUMBERS 1 & 2 (WINTER/SPRING 1979), VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 (WINTER 1980). 10 NUMBERS IN TOTAL.

ALBERTA HISTORY. VOLUME 25, NUMBERS 2-4 (SPRING/SUMMER/AUTUMN 1977), VOLUME 26, NUMBERS 1-4 (WINTER/SPRING/SUMMER/AUTUMN 1978), VOLUME 27, NUMBERS 1 & 2 (WINTER/SPRING 1979), VOLUME 28, NUMBER 1 (WINTER 1980). 10 NUMBERS IN TOTAL.

By: Dempsey, Hugh A., Editor. Donald B. Smith, J.W. Chalmers, L.J. Wilson, D.J. Hall, C.E.D. Wood, john Liss, W.T. Williamson, Elise A. Corbet, Tom M. Henson, Terry L. Chapman, Rolf, T. Lund, Colin A. Thomson, Eric, J. Holmgren, Anne B. Woywitka, et al.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta, Historical Society of Alberta

Seller ID: 28936

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

10 numbers of Alberta History, running from Spring 1977 to Spring 1979 plus Winter 1980, 10" H, each 40 pp. Colour pictorial covers, b&w photographs, drawings, maps, political cartoons. Articles cover: Half-Breed Commission; 1919 Royal Visit; Treaty No. 6; Road to Banff, 1890; Tom Kerr; Ku Klux Klan; Early Eugenics Movement; Skiing in Banff; Black Immigration; High Level Bridge; Women in Labour Movement; Railway to Athabasca; Bobtail Land Surrender; Edmonton Theatres; Arthur Evans; Stocking the Canadian Range; Elliott Galt Letters; Chivaree; Alberta Field Force; George Chipman; Buffalo Bone ...
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CHEADLE'S JOURNAL OF TRIP ACROSS CANADA 1862-1863.

By: Doughty, A.G. and Lanctot, Gustave. (Walter Butler Cheadle)

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Graphic Publishers : 1931

Seller ID: 3695

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good+

311 pp, small 8vo (8" H) - brown cloth with pale green letter/decoration on spine/front board. Volume One of The Canada Series, edited by F.P. Grove. Fold-out b&w map at rear, b&w illustrations. "This is the journal of the first transcanadian tourist. Before him others either on business, exploration or duty, had crossed overland from Eastern Canada to British Columbia. But Walter Butler Cheadle was the first to traverse the whole country from the Saint Lawrence to the Pacific simply 'for pleaseure', for the sheer enjoyment of seeing new lands, hunting the buffalo and visiting the gold region...
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HANS WALTIMEYER. (CAPTAIN JOHN WALDEN MEYERS, U.E.)

By: Goddard, Jane Bennett, U.E.

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Cobourg, Ontario, Privately Published : 1980

Seller ID: 10020

ISBN-13: 9780969028307

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

545 pp, 12 1/4" H, brown simulated leather with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Monotone drawings, reproductions, maps (some fold-out), photographs, colour plates. "Being an historical account of the life and times in turbulent eighteenth century America of Captain John Walden Myers, U.E., outstanding Royalist Patriot, British Secret Scout, Spy and Soldier-Adventurer, during the revolution in the American colonies and the record of his consequent settlement and patriarchal founding of a leading family of pioneering prominence at the Bay Kentie in His Majesty's loyal province of Upper ...
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THE INUIT PRINT / T'ESTAMPE INUIT.

By: Goetz, Helga. Foreword by William E. Taylor, Jr.

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, National Museum of Man : 1980

Seller ID: 22997

ISBN-13: 9780660502786

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

267 pp, oblong large 8vo (9 3/8" H x 10 5/16" D). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour reproductions. Bilingual text (English/French). "The 155 prints reproduced in this widely acclaimed catalogue, 12 of them in full colour, constitute a retrospective survey of the first twenty years of Inuit printmaking in the Canadian Arctic. Selected for exhibition internationally, the prints provide exciting insights into the traditions and beliefs of a unique group of artists. Five widely scattered communities are represented - Cape Dorset (where James Houston introduced the Inuit to this form of exp...
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DREAMCATCHERS: MYTHS AND HISTORY. (DREAM CATCHERS)

By: Gottlieb, Julie V., Researcher

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Etobicoke, Prospero : 1999

Seller ID: 25930

ISBN-13: 9781552678459

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

128 pp, 10 1/4" H. Colour and b&w photographs, drawings. "In Ojibway tradition, mothers and grandmothers netted tiny circular cobweb-like charms from willow and sinew. These delicate charms were not meant to last but were intended to protect newborn children from 'everything evil, just as a spider's web catches and holds everything that comes in contact with it'. The beauty of dreamcatchers is reflected in their symmetry and natural accents. For generations, they have been crafted by making a hoop out of fresh wood, and then weaving a web inside the circle of deer sinew or colored thread. ...
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LETTERS FROM THE 49TH PARALLEL, 1857-1873: SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE OF JOSEPH HARRIS AND SAMUEL ANDERSON.

By: Harris, Joseph and Anderson, Samuel. Edited and with introduction by C. Ian Jackson, technical appendix by Louis M. Sebert.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Champlain Society : 2000

Seller ID: 13429

ISBN-13: 9780969342588

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

477 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H) - bright red cloth with gold lettering and emblem on spine. One of an limited edition of 820 copies - this copy unnumbered. B&w photographs, maps, figures. Selected letters of Joseph Harris (serving the U.S. government) and Samuel Anderson (serving the British government) during the Boundary Survey from Point Roberts to the Rockies (1857-62) and from the Lake of the Woods to the Rockies (1872-74). Interior - two tiny corner creases, tiny crease at top edge of pages 290-360, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - two tiny faint marks...
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Image for THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. REPORT, 1964 OF THE ANNUAL MEETING HELD AT CHARLOTTETOWN, JUNE 10-13 OF THIS YEAR. WITH HISTORICAL PAPERS.

THE CANADIAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION. REPORT, 1964 OF THE ANNUAL MEETING HELD AT CHARLOTTETOWN, JUNE 10-13 OF THIS YEAR. WITH HISTORICAL PAPERS.

By: Heisler, John P. And Ouellet, Fernand, Editors. Marcel Trudel, Yves F. Zoltvany, J. Mackay Hitsman, Marc La Terreur, Russel Ward, J. Hanrahan, Richard M. Saunders, C.B. O'Keefe, W.B. Hamilton, A.V. Tucker, G.S. French, Forest McDonald.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, Canadian Historical Association : 1964

Seller ID: 28935

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

163 pp, 9 3/4" H. Contents (two articles in French marked by *): *Discours du President, par Marcel Trudel; The Problem of Western Policy under Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil 1703-1725, by Yves F. Zoltvany; Military Defenders of Prince Edward Island 1775-1864, by J. Mackay Hitsman; *Correspondence Laurier - Mme Joseph Lavergne 1891-1893, par Marc La Terreur; 'Frontierism' and National Stereotypes, by Russel Ward; Cathedral Schools: The Institutional Development of Twelfth-Century Education, by J. Hanrahan; Education Against the Jesuits: A Weapon of the Enlightenment, by Richard M. Saunders; ...
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Image for AN ARCTIC SKETCHBOOK. A LECTURE GIVEN AT THE OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NOVEMBER 4, 1999. THE HELEN E. STUBBS MEMORIAL LECTURES. NUMBER TWELVE.

AN ARCTIC SKETCHBOOK. A LECTURE GIVEN AT THE OSBORNE COLLECTION OF EARLY CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NOVEMBER 4, 1999. THE HELEN E. STUBBS MEMORIAL LECTURES. NUMBER TWELVE.

By: Houston, James.

Price: $19.95 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Toronto Public Library : 1999

Seller ID: 16493

ISBN-13: 9780920601457

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

31 pp, 8 1/2" H. Limited to an edition of 500 copies. B&w illustrations from 'Tika'liktak' and 'The White Archer' by the author. The text of a lecture by James Houston - "Mr. Houston's distinguished career as an author, illustrator and artist began fifty years ago, and like the Arctic community whose creations he brought to the attention of the world, it has flourished ever since. The books Mr. Houston has written and illustrated have contributed to the international knowledge and appreciation of the rich culture and traditions of Canada's aboriginal peoples, and have achieved that particu...
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WINTER STUDIES AND SUMMER RAMBLES IN CANADA. 3 VOLUME SET.

By: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna Jameson).

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Coles : 1972

Seller ID: 28325

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

315 pp, 341 pp, 356 pp, 8 3/8" H - 3 volume set, without the original slipcase. Part of the Coles Canadiana Collection - a facsimile reprint of the Saunders and Otley, London, 1838 edition. The journals of Anna Jameson. "While in Canada, I was thrown into scenes and regions hitherto undescribed by any traveller, (for the northern shores of Lake Huron are almost new ground,) and into relations with the Indian tribes, such as few European women of refined and civilised habits have ever risked, and none have recorded. My intention was to have given the result of what I had seen, and the refle...
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Category: Canada - Native Peoples