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A NOVA SCOTIA ALBUM: GLIMPSES OF THE WAY WE WERE.

By: Peck, Mary Biggar. Foreword by Harry Bruce.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Willowdale, Ontario, Hounslow Press: 1989

Seller ID: 28163

ISBN: 0888821166

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

159 pp, oblong (8 3/4" H x 10 5/8" D). "Perhaps nothing evokes a particular time and place more vividly than photographs: the stiff family studio portraits of the Victorians, sad formal pictures of young men standing proudly in their wartime uniforms, grainy snapshots depicting people in the 'new look' clothes of the 1940s. (The author) has selected over 160 black and white photographs from the 1890s to the 1950s, divinding them into ten sections under headings such as, 'Rural Life', 'War and Disaster', 'On Sea and Shore', and 'Ceremony and Celebration'. Each section is arranged...
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BETWEEN FRANCE AND NEW FRANCE: LIFE ABOARD THE TALL SAILING SHIPS.

By: Proulx, Gilles.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn Press: 1984

Seller ID: 28143

ISBN: 0919670814

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

173 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). B&w and color illustrations - photographs, maps, drawings, plans. "(A)n absorbing look at life aboard the sailing vessels which plied the North Atlantic during the French colonial era in North America. Focusing on the first half of the eighteenth century and the Seven Years' War period, this book analyses four major aspects of the crossing: maritime traffic and the outfit of vessels; the Atlantic course and navigation; the people and their occupations; and life aboard the ship. Together they present a fascinating view of sea life. Gilles Proulx has use...
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AFRICA'S CHILDREN: A HISTORY OF BLACKS IN YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA.

By: Robart-Johnson, Sharon.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage: 2009

Seller ID: 24468

ISBN: 1550028626

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

236 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "Chronicling the history of Black families of the Yarmouth area of Nova Scotia, (this book) is a mirror image of the hopes and despairs and the achievements and injustices that mark the early stories of many African-Canadians. This extensively researched history traces the lives of those people, still enslaved at the time, who arrived with the influx of Black Loyalists and landed in Shelburne in 1783, as well as those who had come with their masters as early as 1767. Their migration to a new home did little to improve their overall livi...
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AFRICA'S CHILDREN: A HISTORY OF BLACKS IN YARMOUTH, NOVA SCOTIA.

By: Robart-Johnson, Sharon.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Natural Heritage: 2009

Seller ID: 29327

ISBN: 1550028626

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good+

THE HALIFAX DISASTER, DECEMBER 6, 1917.

By: Robinson, Ernest Fraser/

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: St Catharines, Ontario, Vanwell: 1997

Seller ID: 22648

ISBN: 1551250071

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

64 pp, 7 1/2" H. B&w photographs, maps. "It was a typical winter morning in Halifax. Ships of war passing in the Narrows, kids going to school, stores opening up, trains pulling in along the waterfront. Then suddenly BOOM! There's a tremendous explosion! In a terrific blast of fire and wind whole city blocks are levelled, reduced to rubble. Deadly showers of glass, bricks and red-hot metal spray everywhere, doing enormous damage and causing many deaths. Hundreds of people are buried alive in buildings which have collapsed. The 'Mont Blanc', a small freighter carrying high expl...
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THE HALIFAX DISASTER, DECEMBER 6, 1917.

By: Robinson, Ernest Fraser/

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: St Catharines, Ontario, Vanwell: 1997

Seller ID: 29088

ISBN: 1551250071

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

THE SELECTED JOURNALS OF L.M. MONTGOMERY. VOLUME I: 1889-1910.

By: Rubio, Mary & Waterston, Elizabeth, editors. (L.M. Montgomery - Lucy Maud Montgomery.)

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 29280

ISBN: 019540503X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

424 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, maps, genealogical chart. The first volume of 'The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery' "takes her to 1910, the year before her marriage, when she left Prince Edward Island. It recounts her schooldays in Cavendish, redolent with incidents, impressions, and romantic 'crushes' that found their way into her fiction; a year spent in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, with her father and stepmother; a year of study at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, where she trained to be a teacher, and another at Dalhousie University; her teaching years; a powerf...
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THE RISTIGOUCHE AND ITS SALMON FISHING, WITH A CHAPTER ON ANGLING LITERATURE.

By: Sage, Dean. Edited by Colonel Henry A. Siegel and Harry C. Marschalk, Jr. Introduction by Arnold Gingrich. Notice by DeWitt Sage.

Price: $1,250.00 USD

Publisher: Goshen, Connecticut, Angler's and Shooter's Press: 1973

Seller ID: 29870

Binding: Full-Leather

Condition: Very Good+

(xxxvi), (xvi), 304 pp, 12 3/4" H. No. 115 of 250 copies, initialled on limitation page by both editors. Full dark blue leather with bevelled edges, five raised bands and gilt lettering/decoration on spine, gilt banding and illustration of bird of prey with salmon on front board. Top edge gilt, integral ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers. A facsimile of the 1888 edition, reproducing the original b&w illustrations, fold-out map, decorative headpieces and initial capitals, etc., with the addition of a tissue-covered colour frontispiece by Charles DeFeo - "Dean Sage's Favorite Flies&#...
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THE HANK SNOW STORY.

By: Snow, Hank. With Jack Ownbey and Bob Burris.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Urbana, University of Illinois Press / Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame: 1994

Seller ID: 28640

ISBN: 0252020898

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

555 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "(Traces Hank Snow's) life from humble beginnings, through his emergence as an entertainer in Canada, the United States, and throughout the world, to his stature as one of the most influential figures in country music today. But more than a rags-to-riches memoir, this book presents Hank's life and career in his own voice, with remarkable candor and incredible detail. It provides the first extensive look at the early development of country music in Canada, reveals the inner workings of the music industry (including Hank's vital and unsung role in l...
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LETTERS TO LEVI: A YOUNG FISHERMAN'S MAIL.

By: Stephenson, Joan, ed.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Roseway, Lockeport, Nova Scotia, (1991), Ist ed.:

Seller ID: 1687

92 pp, 8vo, soft cover. A collection of letters found in an old sea chest that belonged to Levi Thomas (1872-1933) who lived in Blanche at the southwest tip of Nova Scotia. The letters were from his sister in Massachusetts, who encouraged Levi to move near her where work was more plentiful (which he did), and later letters from his family and friends back in Blanche. The last letter is the only one written by Levi to his brother James. It is a remarkable story and window on the lives of or dinary people and their trials and amusements. Minor wear to edges of covers, front hinge crease, so...
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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE GREAT AWAKENING IN NOVA SCOTIA, 1760-1791.

By: Stewart, Gordon T., edited with introduction by.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, The Champlain Society: 1982

Seller ID: 28122

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

299 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). Orange/red cloth with gilt lettering/crest on spine, top edge gilt. No. 721 of an edition of sixteen hundred and fifty printed for the Champlain Society. B&w frontispiece, map. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Documents - A Return of the Settlers with Their Stock of the Township of Yarmouth, June 1764; Letters from John Winslow to John Hancock, Chignecto, May 12, 1768; The Memorial of the Congregational Church in Cornwallis in the County of Kings County in the Province of Nova Scotia, Cornwallis, November 8, 1769; Bejamin Gerrish and Malachy Salter to the ...
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FROM THE GROUND UP: THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF McCAIN FOODS.

By: Stoffman, Daniel. With Tony Van Leersum.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McCain Foods: 2007

Seller ID: 27464

ISBN: 097837200X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

250 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). B&w and colour photographs. "Nobody, least of all the McCain brothers, imagined that the little frozen foods plant they opened in 1957 would, before the century was over, make Florenceville into the French fry capital of the world. Wallace and Harrison McCain worked hard and played hard and turned their family's name into the most famous Canadian brand in the world. Because they knew people were their most important asset, they hired and trained enthusiastic, independent thinkers to help them build McCain Foods into a global powerhouse in the frozen fo...
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ARTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK.

By: Tweedie, R.A., Cogswell, Fred, MacNutt, W.Stewart, editors. (Desmond Pacey, David Galloway, Brian Swarbrick, Emery LeBlanc, Lawren Harris, Huia Ryder, Carleton Elliott, Alfred Pinsky, George MacBeath, Stuart Allen Smith, Yvon LeBlanc, W.W. Alward,

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Brunswick Press/University Press of New Brunswick, n.p., (1967), No. 102 of an edition of 2,000 copies.:

Seller ID: 11822

280 pp, folio (13 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w and color reproductions and photographs, tissue-covered color frontispiece of Lord Beaverbrook. Contents: Foreword; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Literature in New Brunswick; Painting in New Brunswick; Music in New Brunswick; Architecture in New Brunswick; Handicrafts in New Brunswick. Two strips of glue residue on front pastedown with corresponding areas surface paper loss on front free endpaper, very light edge wear. Dust jacket is worn with moderate edge wear, browning on spine and edges, small chips, small tears, edge cre...
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NO HAY FEVER & A RAILWAY: SUMMERS IN ST. ANDREWS, CANADA'S FIRST SEASIDE RESORT.

By: Walker, Willa.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Goose Lane Editions: 1989

Seller ID: 22207

ISBN: 0864920962

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

176 pp, oblong 8vo (8 3/4" H x 11 1/4" D). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. SIGNED AND DATED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. "During the latter years of the nineteenth century St. Andrews was 'discovered' by a wealthy few who sought a summer place by the sea. Escaping from Boston, Montreal, St. Louis, Toronto and elsewhere, they bought, rented, or built houses, returning year after year as their children did in turn. Luxurious hotels such as 'The Argyll' and 'The Algonquin' - advertising 'no hay fever' and good rail connections - were built to serve them, and a summer soci...
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NO HAY FEVER & A RAILWAY: SUMMERS IN ST. ANDREWS, CANADA'S FIRST SEASIDE RESORT.

By: Walker, Willa.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Goose Lane Editions: 1989

Seller ID: 28314

ISBN: 0864920962

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

176 pp, oblong 8vo (8 3/4" H x 11 1/4" D). B&w photographs, maps, reproductions. "During the latter years of the nineteenth century St. Andrews was 'discovered' by a wealthy few who sought a summer place by the sea. Escaping from Boston, Montreal, St. Louis, Toronto and elsewhere, they bought, rented, or built houses, returning year after year as their children did in turn. Luxurious hotels such as 'The Argyll' and 'The Algonquin' - advertising 'no hay fever' and good rail connections - were built to serve them, and a summer society was established: riding, sailing, playing ten...
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IN THE WAKE OF THE WIND-SHIPS: NOTES, RECORDS AND BIOGRAPHIES PERTAINING TO THE SQUARE-RIGGED MERCHANT MARINE OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.

By: Wallace, Frederick William.

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Musson: 1927

Seller ID: 28347

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

282 pp, 8 7/8" H. Green cloth with gold lettering/banding on spine, blindstamped ship on front board. Map on front endpapers, b&w frontispiece, plates. Section headings: In the Wake of the Wind-Ships; Quebec's Shipping Era; The New Brunswickers; The Nova Scotia-men. Index. Previous owner's name stamp on front and rear pastedowns and at bottom of "forward" page, gift inscription on half-title page, light browning on rear free endpaper, browning to edges of text block, some shelf soiling on bottom of text block, dust staining to top of text block, light wrinkling at top/bottom o...
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UNDER THE ELECTRIC SKY: THE LEGACY OF THE BILL LYNCH SHOWS.

By: Walsh, Christopher A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Lawrencetown Beach, Nova Scotia, Pottersfield: 2010

Seller ID: 25518

ISBN: 1897426178

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

158 pp, 9" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "(T)akes readers on a thrilling ride through the strange and fabled history of the Bill Lynch Shows, from its modest beginnings on McNab's Island in Halifax Harbour to the successful, tumultuous years criss-crossing the countryside to its current incarnation struggling along dark Maritime highways today. This is one of the most curious stories of this region's past, one never completely understood and, until now, never told in its entirety. The Bill Lynch Shows would breeze into small Maritime towns after dark, packed with enough electrici...
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A PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND ALBUM: GLIMPSES OF THE WAY WE WERE.

By: Watson, Julie V. Foreword by the Honourable J.A. Doiron.

Price: $22.50 USD

Publisher: Willowdale, Ontario, Hounslow Press: 1987

Seller ID: 28165

ISBN: 088882095X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

111 pp, oblong (8 1/2" H x 10 5/8" D). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "Julie Watson has divided (this) book into sections that include travel by sea, land, and air; silver fox farming; fishing; sports; arts; and ceremonial occasions. She takes us on a nostalgic trip around the Island through scenes of rustic charm, from picturesque farms to the harness races, from shipyards to socials, from Charlottetown to the sea. Perhaps more fascinating still, in evocative pictures and words, she introduces us to the proud and patriotic Islanders: nurses, missionaries, dignitar...
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CHRISTMAS WITH MAUD LEWIS.

By: Woolaver, Lance and Brooks, Bob.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, New Brunswick, Goose Lane: 2017

Seller ID: 30472

ISBN: 1773100602

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

115 pp, square (7 3/4" H x 7 3/4" D) - glazed pictorial boards - no dust jacket (as issued). Colour reproductions and photographs. "Maud Lewis has become one of Canada's favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with rheumatoid arthritis, but Maud earned her living by painting Christmas cards and pictures and selling them from her tiny, gaily painted one-room house beside the highway near Digby, Nova Scotia. Originally issued in 1997 and now available in thi...
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THE SHORT TRIANGLE. A STORY OF THE SEA AND MEN WHO GO DOWN TO IT IN SHIPS.

By: Young, George. (Inscribed by author.)

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: Queensland, Nova Scotia, Self-published: 1991

Seller ID: 27013

ISBN: 0920454011

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good

79 pp, 8 15/16" H. In dust wrapper which repeats design on front cover. Inscribed on page 5: "For ____ and ________; With the Warmest Wishes of the Author, George Young of Queensland N.S. Christmas, 2001." B&w photographs, drawing. "The Short Triangle was an area bounded by drawing a line from Cape Race Newfoundland to Cape Hatteras then, to Bermuda and, back to Cape Race. Many a fierce engagement took place in these waters and this then, is the story of one. Sometimes, convoys moved on their errands unmolested for several weeks at a time but, when the submarines of the e...
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Category: Canada - Maritime Provinces