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ERINDALE AT THE CROOK OF THE CREDIT.

By: Adamson, Jean.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Cheltenham, Ontario, Boston Mills Press: 1978

Edition: Revised Edition

Seller ID: 28053

ISBN: 0919822126

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

80 pp, 10" H. Number 16, Credit Valley Series. B&w photographs, map. Contents: The Crook of the Credit; Beginning the Village; A Doctor's Letter; Life in the Village; Roads; Churches; School Days; Doctors; Social Events; Politics; Erindale Hydro; Ice Cutting on the Pond; Falconer House; Toronto House; Magrath Estate; Schreiber Estate; Evans Estate. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, minor rubbing on rear cover.
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AT THE MOUTH OF THE CREDIT.

By: Clarkson, Betty. With contributions by Lorne Joyce and Harold Hare.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Boston Mills Press: 1988

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 29256

ISBN: 0919822169

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

72 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w maps, photographs, drawings. Errata sheet tipped in. Contents: The Mississauga Indians; The Government Inn at the Mouth of the Credit River; Survey and Settlement, 1805-1818 Treaty L and; The Credit Harbour Becomes a Shipping Centre; The Government Builds a Log Village for the Indians; The Government Plans a Village at the Credit Harbour; Rebellion Years 1837; Government and the Coming of the Railway; Stone Hooking and Fishing (by Lorne Joyce); The 1855 Harbour Fire, and the Coming of the Railway; Old Port Credit (from a talk by Harold Hare); Port Credit Becomes an ...
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THE CREATION OF A NATIONAL AIR FORCE. THE OFFICIAL HISTORY OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE. VOLUME II (2 - TWO).

By: Douglas, W.A.B.

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1986

Seller ID: 22916

ISBN: 0802025846

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

797 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Map endpapers. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps (some fold-out). "From a small militia organization the Canadian air force had grown by 1945 into one of the country's three major autonomous military services. In this second volume of the RCAF's official history, covering the years from 1918 to 1945, W.A.B. Douglas chronicles the force's rapid growth and provides a vivid portrait of the Battle of the Atlantic as it was fought from the eastern shores of Canada. Military necessity had brought Canada into the air age. In the peaceful 1920s, civ...
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THE BARBER DYNAMO: A PERSPECTIVE.

By: Filter, Reinhard.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Cheltenham, Ontario, Boston Mills Press: 1977

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28112

ISBN: 0919822207

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Very Good+

Unpaginated (approx. 64 pp), 10" H. B&w photographs, reproductions, maps, plans. The story of the dynamo built on the Credit River by the Barber brothers of Georgetown, Ontario to produce electrical power in the late 19th/early 20th century. Laid in is a contemporary invitation to an event commemorating 'The Barber Heritage'. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - tiny tear at top of spine.
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THE CANADIAN PRAIRIES: A HISTORY.

By: Friesen, Gerald.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto: 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28829

ISBN: 0802025137

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

524 pp, 9 7/8" H. B&w photographs, maps. "Native leaders, immigrant farm families, Alberta oil barons, and political reformers all have prominent roles in this lively and comprehensive history of the prairie west. Based on the latest research in native, labour, and urban history as well as the author's own work in social and intellectual movement, (this book) draws upon hundreds of recent books and articles and government reports to create a new, authoritative interpretation of the prairie experience." Small light bump at bottom corner of rear board, light wrinkling at top/botto...
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THE NIAGARA ESCARPMENT FROM TOBERMORY TO NIAGARA FALLS.

By: Gillard, William and Tooke, Thomas.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1975.:

Seller ID: 22376

137 pp, small 4to (10" H), hard cover in dust jacket. B&w photographs, maps. "This book provides an informal history and tour of the Niagara Escarpment, the backbone of Ontario and one of Canada's natural wonders. Stretching from Tobermory at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula to Niagara Falls, the escarpment exhibits a wide diversity of landscape, people, and industry, in the present and in the past....Over 80 photographs....capture the various facets of the region. The rugged cliffs o f t h e B ruce Peninsula contrast with the pastoral lands beneath Mount Nemo; the neatly trimmed h...
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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

Edition: Facsimile Edition.

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 t...
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WINTER STUDIES AND SUMMER RAMBLES IN CANADA. (3 VOLUMES IN 1)

By: Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Coles: 1972

Edition: Facsimile Reprint of John Murray 1912 Ed

Seller ID: 28280

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

315 pp, 341 pp, 356 pp - 3 volumes in 1, 8 1/2" H. Originally published in 1838 by Saunders and Otley, London, England, this facsimile reprint is part of the Coles Canadiana Collection. Maroon boards with black title block, gold lettering/banding on spine, golde lettering/banding on front board. Anna Jameson's account of her travels in Upper Canada, by sleigh, steamboat, canoe, stage coach, etc., gives firsthand impressions of the people and places, including much information on the native people she encountered. Light wrinkling at top of spine, minor corner wear.
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THE FAMILIES OF MERIGOLD'S POINT.

By: Martin, Dorothy L.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Mississauga, Ontario, Mississauga Heritage Foundation: 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29255

ISBN: 0969199503

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

155 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs, reproductions, maps, family trees. "Merigold's Point was the name given to a small formation of land jutting out into Lake Ontario, west of the Credit River. It consisted of the surveyed lots 27-33 and their broken fronts in Concessions 3 and 4, south of Dundas Street (S.D.S.), Toronto Township. Today, most of this land is owned by Gulf Canada, which is situated at the foot of Southdown Road and the Lake Shore Highway in Clarkson, Mississauga. Merigold's Point was part of the first purchase within the Mississauga Tract in 1805. Following t...
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CHANGING LANDSCAPES OF SOUTHERN ONTARIO.

By: Martin, Virgil. Foreword by Gordon Nelson.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Boston Mills: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28166

ISBN: 0919783775

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

243 pp, oblong (8 1/2" H x 11 1/4" D). Glazed pictorial boards. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "In this unusual book, carefully matched before-and-after photographs are used to explore Southern Ontario's landscapes. As might be expected, the photos depict a dramatic reworking of the urban environment, particularly on the 'urban frontier' where the countryside is disappearing under a wave of development. But even our seemingly changeless rural scenery, when viewed with the aid of time-lapse photography, is shown to be evolving - and in some unexpected ways." C...
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LEGENDS OF THE MISSISSAUGAS,

By: Mills, W. Gordon.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Altona / Natural Heritage: 1992

Seller ID: 24517

ISBN: 0969572905

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

48 pp, 11" H. "An epic retelling in poetic form of the creation myth of the Mississaugas. The author of the poem, W. Gordon Mills, was a businessman with the T. Eaton Company in Toronto in 1923 when he wrote the poem. He was later to serve as Deputy Minister of National Defence for Naval Services in the Second World War. In recognition of his wartime work he was named a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (CMG). The poem is illustrated by eleven paintings, specially commissioned for this publication. The paintings are the work of Saul Mamakeesick, a young Cree/Oji...
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NORVAL ON THE CREDIT RIVER.

By: Ruggle, Richard, Reverend.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Erin, Ontario, Press Porcepic: 1973

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 29261

ISBN: 0888780214

Binding: Sewed in wraps

Condition: Very Good

51 pp + (4 pp) footnotes, 8 1/8" H. Green textured soft covers with black lettering and pastedown illustration on front cover. Volume I in the Credit Valley History Series. Signed on title page: "Richard Ruggle". B&w photographs. Contents: Before History; The Indians; The Mill; The Name and the Post Office; Transportation; Presbyterians; Anglicans; Methodists and the United Church; The Militia; Work in Town and Country; Education; The End; Footnotes. Interior - previous owner's name on half-title page, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - soft...
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Keyword: Credit River