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THE FORKED ROAD: CANADA, 1939-1957.

By: Creighton, Donald.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1976

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28339

ISBN: 077102360X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

319 pp, 9 1/4" H. One of 'The Canadian Centenary Series'. B&w plates. "Canada's declaration of war against Germany in 1939 marked the beginning of the most significant eighteen-year period in the history of this nation. By the end of the Liberal regime in 1957 the country had undergone immense growth in human and material resources. The experience of the Second World War had been followed by participation in the Korean War and ten years of the Cold War. The Great Depression had given way to a boom which had continued through the exchange crisis, serious inflation and minor recess...
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THE LIFE AND ART OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 1792-1878.

By: Evans, Hilary and Evans, Mary.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, S.G. Phillips: 1978

Seller ID: 27804

ISBN: 0875992277

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

192 pp, 11 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions. "When George Cruikshank died, (over) a hundred years ago, he was admired as an artist, respected as a reformer, loved as a man. But he had lived so long and created so much that few could discern any unity underlying the diverse creations of his seventy-year working life - creations ranging from a thumbnail caricature of Napoleon III ('it never reigns but it bores!') to the four-metres-wide 'Worship of Bacchus' which now hangs, dusty and neglected, in the storerooms of the Tate Gallery. For some he was the artist who ...
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SATURDAY'S CHILD: MEMOIRES OF CANADA'S FIRST FEMALE CABINET MINISTER.

By: Fairclough, Ellen Louks. Introduction by Margaret Conrad.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto: 1995

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28330

ISBN: 0802007368

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

179 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "Ellen Fairclough is perhaps best known as the first woman in Canada to become a federal cabinet minister. John Diefenbaker appointed her Secretary of State in 1957. In the course of her career she also served as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and Minister responsible for Indian Affairs, and was in charge of the National Gallery, the National Film Board, the Dominion Archives, and the National Library. She was also a chartered accountant, a business woman, a local politician in Hamilton (Ontario), and a wife and mother. At a time when m...
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O.P.P.: THE HISTORY OF THE ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE FORCE.

By: Higley, Dahn D.

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Queen's Printer: 1984

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28207

ISBN: 0774389648

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

668 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "The OPP came into existence (in 1909) with a total strength of fifty-one men, of whom forty-four were constables deployed across the vast province. By the end of World War I in 1918, only twenty-six constables were still serving with the force, but returning veterans were sought for enlistment with the provincials and the force grew, assuming every-increasing responsibilities for policing the province. Liquor law enforcement during the rumrunning days of the 1920s, and the creation of a highway patrol in 1930 played major parts in the evolution o...
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KING'S WAR: MACKENZIE KING AND THE POLITICS OF WAR, 1939-1945.

By: Nolan, Brian.

Price: $10.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Random House: 1988

Seller ID: 28619

ISBN: 0394220366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

188 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "(A)n extraordinary chronicle of raw politics and ruthless courage; of one man's 'divine mission' to save Canada from dismembering itself over controversial wartime issues such as conscription, Japanese internment, the infamous 'Zombie' army, and the tragic battles of Hong Kong and Dieppe, where thousands of Canadian soldiers lost their lives. (B)rilliantly details King's close friendship and political bond with Roosevelt; his key role as negotiator for Churchill; and his bizarre meeting and mystical attachment with Hitler. (T)he shock...
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RUPERT: A BEAR'S LIFE.

By: Perry, George. With Alfred Bestall.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Pavilion: 1986

Edition: Second Impression.

Seller ID: 27654

ISBN: 0907516769

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

169 pp, 9 5/8" H. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w. "(T)ells the story of Britain's longest-lived children's comic character, Rupert Bear. Rupert commenced his existence in the pages of the Daily Express in 1920 and for generations of Britons he has been part of childhood mythology. The central character, apart from the small bear himself, is the late Alfred Bestall, who drew Rupert daily for thirty years. He was interviewed at length, and gave the book his full co-operation. The book assesses Rupert's popularity and includes full descriptions of the associated enterprises...
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THE MACKENZIE KING RECORD. VOLUME 2. 1944-1945. (VOLUME II)

By: Pickersgill, J.W. And Forster, D.F.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1968

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28871

ISBN: 802015255

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

495 pp, 9 1/4" H. *Volume 2 only.* B&w photographs. Contents: Preface; Introduction; A Domestic Interlude; Waiting for Victory; Cabinet Reorganization; The Reinforcement Crisis, 1944, Phase I; The Reinforcement Crisis, 1944, Phase II; The Switch to Conscription; Grey North and the Aftermath of Confederation; Political Preparations; San Francisco and the Election; Election Postmortems and Peace; Appendix; Index. Three tiny edge bumps on boards, one very small corner bump, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light toning to spine, light wrinkling at top/bottom of spi...
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"OUR SPECIAL ARTIST": ALFRED R. WAUD'S CIVIL WAR.

By: Ray, Frederic E.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Mechanicsburg, PA, Stackpole: 1994

Edition: Second Hardcover Edition.

Seller ID: 24176

ISBN: 0811711943

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

192 pp, 10 3/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions, photographs. "Waud covered the war from the first to the last, initially for the 'New York Illustrated News', and later for 'Harper's'. From the formation of the Confederate government in Montgomery, Alabama, to the last campaigns of Grant's army leading Appomattox, 'Alf' Waud was there, pencil in hand. Waud even went into battle alongside the Yankee troops he accompanied in the field. He was under fire almost as much as they as he frantically sketched the rudiments of the brutal scenes before him, then polished them aft...
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A COUNTRY SO INTERESTING: THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY AND TWO CENTURIES OF MAPPING, 1670-1870.

By: Ruggles, Richard I.

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Montreal, McGill - Queen's University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 28200

ISBN: 0773506780

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

300 pp, oblong (9 1/4" H x 12 1/4" D). Dark blue cloth with gold lettering/banding on spine. "Maps were an essential tool for the Hudson's Bay Company. The Company became, during the two centuries before Confederation, the main mapping agency in British North America for the immense territory extending from Ungava Bay to the Pacific Ocean. Richard Ruggles describes and analyses the mapping activities of the more than 160 Company servants and surveyors engaged in the field, as well as the contributions of more than fifty Indians and Inuit who drew sketches and gave confirguratio...
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Keyword: George Drew