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VIEWS OF DULUTH, MINN.

By: N/A

Price: $55.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto / Duluth, Minn., W.G. MacFarlane for S.H. Knox & Co.: 1910

Seller ID: 30505

Binding: Stapled in Wraps

Condition: Fair

Unpaginated (40 pp excluding covers), oblong (7" H x 9" D), purple paper covers with decorative gilt lettering on front. Undated, but c1910. One page of introductory text followed by captioned b&w photographs of streetscapes, schools, churches, commercial buildings, parks, docks, shipping, industries, scenery, etc. Some pages have two or more images. Interior - most pages have soft creases at top/bottom corner, soiling at top/bottom corners of first page with a tiny corner repair at bottom corner. Exterior - wear at top/bottom of spine icluding a 1/2" tear at bottom of spine, hea...
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THE PICTORIAL HISTORY OF AJAX 1941/1972.

By: Ajax Historical Board, compiled by.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Ajax, Ontario, Ajax Historical Board: 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28319

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good-

130 pp, 8 3/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs, reproductions, maps. Contents: Preface; Prelude to 1941; Ajax Goes to War, 1941/1945; University of Toronto, Ajax Division, 1945/1949; Ajax, Progressive Planned Growth, 1949/1972; Town Planning and Housing; Commerical Development; Industrial Development; Libraries; Churches; Schools; Cultural Activities; Service Clubs and Community Organizations; Fire Department; Police Department; Public Utilities; Recreation Facilities; Hospitals; First Local Municipal Government; First Ajax Town Council; Mayors of the Corporation of the Tow...
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KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL: A SOCIAL & INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY.

By: Angus, Margaret.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, 1973, Ist ed.:

Seller ID: 1536

205 pp text, 16 pp illus, small 4to, HC. A fascinating story of the history of Kingston Hospital, covering a wide social perspective and the medical and nursing progress over the years. Dust jacket has minor wear at corners and minor soiling to edges. VG+ /VG
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CATCH ME A NIGHTINGALE.

By: Ash, Joan.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Robert Hale: 1991

Edition: First Edition.

Seller ID: 23125

ISBN: 0709046049

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

202 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H). "The ward settles down for a quiet night. A serene, starched nurse soothes the brow of a grateful patient as the lamplight flickers. Bleep! Cardiac arrest! The crash team leaps into action, skidding along the corridors, etiquette abandoned in the vital race against time. It is in these frantic seconds that a sister, weighing her responsibilities and priorities, must make efficient, professional decisions - decisions which could mean the difference between life and death. In her autobiography, Joan Ash contrasts her wartime nursing experiences in India with th...
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A PEEK INTO THE PAST 100 YEARS: MIDLAND 1878-1978.

By: Bell, Rena. Mayor's Centennial Message by Moreland A. Lynn.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: 1978.:

Seller ID: 19243

148 pp, 10 3/4" H, soft cover. B&w photographs, many advertisements for local businesses. A local history of Midland, Ontario, with information on the mills, shipyards, grain elevators, schools, churches, hospitals, recreational facilities, etc. I nterior - previous owner's small stamp on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edge wear, a few small soft edge creases, very light browning. Very Good
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THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.

By: Bishop, James. Foreword by Lord Blake.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Angus & Robertson: 1982

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27673

ISBN: 0207148260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

144 pp, 10 1/4" H. Profusely illustrated with b&w reproductions of photographs, drawings, advertisements. "The First World War, which claimed the lives of so many men on the battlefields of the Western Front, also profoundly affected the character and everyday life of the nation at home. It was the first 'total war' and the whole country contributed to the war effort. The unrelenting demands of the trenches eventually forced the Government to introduce conscription while, for those left behind, the state intervened more and more in the lives of its citizens. Hardships increased: f...
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SIMLA PAST AND PRESENT.

By: Buck, Edward J., C.B.E.

Price: $175.00 USD

Publisher: Bombay, The Times Press: 1925

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 30662

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good-

342 pp, 10" H. Brown cloth over bevelled boards, gilt lettering/banding on spine, black lettering/decoration on front board. 2 maps (one full-page, one fold-out), many b&w/sepiatone plates (photographs, drawings) - all present. Chapter headings: Simla: Its Origins, Early History, and Description; Residences of the Governors-General and Viceroys; Viceregal Hospitality and the Aide-de-Camp; Residences of the Commanders-in-Chief; Governors of the Punjab and their Residences; The Government of India; The Legislature; Imperial Properties; Some Simla Institutions; Annandale; Some Old Houses an...
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HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE ROYAL NAVY: AN INTRODUCTION.

By: Coad, J.G. (Jonathan)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz, London, 1983.: 1983

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27428

ISBN: 0575032774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

160 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w with photographs, reproductions, plans, elevations, maps. "From the 1690s to the First World War, British maritime power, though often challenged, ruled supreme. It was a key factor in the nation's commercial growth which fuelled and underpinned industrial and imperial expansion. Central to the creation and maintenance of that supremacy were the royal dockyards, and the naval hospitals. Without these there could have been no Royal Navy, and Britain's modern history would have been very different. (This book) concentrates ...
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THE TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL, 1819-1965: A CHRONICLE.

By: Cosbie, W.G.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada: 1975

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28447

ISBN: 0770511848

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

373 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "The story of the Toronto General Hospital is intimagely and inseparably associated with the development of the city of Toronto and the support of its citizens. Dr. Crosbie traces the history of the Hospital from its founding in York, through its humble facilities on King Street, to the ornate Victorian structure on Gerrard, and finally to the great institution which today dominates the corner of College Street and University Avenue. Its early services to the victims of the War of 1812 and of the cholera epidemics of the nineteenth ...
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LUCILLE TEASDALE: DOCTOR OF COURAGE.

By: Cowley, Deborah. Inscribed by author.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: Montreal, XYZ Publishing: 2005

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 21289

ISBN: 1894852168

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

177 pp, 8vo (8 7/16" H). B&w photographs, map. "Lucille Teasdale was determined to become a doctor and help children in need. She entered medical school in 1950 and was one of the first women in Quebec to receive a diploma as a surgeon. In 1961, she married an Italian doctor, Piero Conti, and went to northern Uganda with him. There, they established St. Mary's-Lacor Hospital. For over 35 years, they treated people with contagious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS. They continually expanded the services of the hospital and trained Ugandans to staff it. Dr. Lucille perfor...
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CENTURY ONE: A HISTORY OF THE ONTARIO VETERINARY ASSOCIATION, 1874-1974.

By: Evans, A. Margaret and Barker, C.A.V.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Guelph, Ontario, Self-published: 1976

Seller ID: 28273

ISBN: 0969069000

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

516 pp, 9 1/4" H. Pictorial endpapers, b&w photographs. "Few people appreciate the significant contribution made by veterinarians to the economic importance of the livestock industry, the quality of small animals and the control of diseases affecting public health throughout Canada. The increasing value of such work is largely due to the efforts of the profession itself, particularly in the province of Ontario. Human survival still depends on animals and animal products. To that close relationship the veterinarian brings the benefits of modern science; his professional skill and i...
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BODYSNATCHERS: A HISTORY OF THE RESURRECTIONISTS 1742-1832.

By: Fido, Martin.

Price: $27.50 USD

Publisher: London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1988

Seller ID: 23003

ISBN: 0297793934

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

184 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w illustrations. "From 1740 to 1832, freshly buried corpses were dug up and surreptitiously hawked to surgeons and anatomists in London and Edinburgh to dissect for research and teaching purposes. The resurrection trade brought together Fellows of the Royal Society and slum-dwelling criminals in an unholy alliance. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the illicit trade had become one of London's most efficiently organized departments of crime, with gang-leader Ben Crouch securing a virtual monopoly of delivery to half the teaching hospitals. In Scotlan...
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THE TOWN OF YORK 1793-1815: A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS OF EARLY TORONTO.

By: Firth, Edith G., edited and with introduction by.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Champlain Society for Government of Canada/University of Toronto Press: 1966

Seller ID: 28128

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

381 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). Red cloth with gold lettering/banding on spine. B&w illustrations (1 colour), fold-out map. "The period covered by this book is one of the most important in the history of Toronto. It begins in February, 1815, when news of the end of the War of 1812 reached York, and ends on March 6, 1834, when Toronto became the first incorporated city in Ontario. During this time it had changed from a small, undistinguished village, whose main reason for being was that it was the capital of Upper Canada, to a booming city. Immigration increased the population fourt...
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'A NECESSITY AMONG US': THE OWEN SOUND GENERAL AND MARINE HOSPITAL. 1891-1985.

By: Gagan, David.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1990

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28088

ISBN: 0802034624

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

161 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, tables, graphs. "Near the end of the nineteenth century the town of Owen Sound, Ontario, opened a charity hospital. Over the next ninety years the General and Marine Hospital underwent a series of changes in direction and purpose, until it was eventually transformed into a major regional health care centre. In charting the history of the hospital, David Gagan reveals much about developments in medicine, health care policy, and social change in Ontario." Minor wrinkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, three very ...
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THE STORY OF TORONTO.

By: Glazebrook, G.P. deT.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28286

ISBN: 0802017916

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

310 pp, 10" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. 3 maps - one on inside of dust jacket, 2 in book (1 folds out). "The purpose of this book is to tell the story of Toronto from its earliest days to the present: to describe its character at each stage of growth, how it changed, and why." Contents: Preface; Illustrations; A place in search of a purpose; The birth of a town; War and reconstruction; Government and governed; Urban supremacy; Provincial capital; Pride and prejudice; Progress and poverty; The end of an era; Problems of greatness; Life in Metropolitan Toronto; Toronto's r...
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CHILD OF CHINA. OXFORD CHILDREN'S LIBRARY NO. 2.

By: Gleit, Maria. Translated by E.F. Peeler.

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1967

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 27967

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

188 pp, small 8vo (7 7/8" H). B&w illustrations by William Holz, dust jacket design by William Stobbs.. "Sa Tu Sai was a happy little Chinese girl until the great flood came, and she and her family were swept away into the unfriendly waters of the overflowing Yangtze Kiang. Huts, crops, animals, and livelihood disappeared overnight, and Sa Tu Sai, her mother, her father, and her three brothers were stranded in a leaky old houseboat. And that night, while they were floating slowly down the river, Sa Tu Sai rescued a small baby, whom she named Tu Ku. The subsequent adventures of Sa T...
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THE GOOD FIGHT: CANADIANS AND WORLD WAR II.

By: Granatstein, J.L. and Neary, Peter, eds. (William Lyon Mackenzie King, Howard Graham, Timothy Findley, Hugh Garner, Marc Milner, Raymond Souster, Farley Mowat, Bill McAndrew, Murray Peden, Rene Levesque, Roch Carrier, William Caplan, F.R. Scott, et

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark: 1995

Seller ID: 23899

ISBN: 0773054588

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

466 pp, large 8vo (9 3/4" H). B&w and colour plates. "World War II has been called the last just war. For most of the Canadian men and women who served their country on land or at sea, in the factories, mills, or hospitals, in the air or on the farm, this was the defining moment of their lives. Now, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the end of the War, (this book) brings together the experiences of Canadians, at home and abroad, in a unique collection of memoir, non fiction, poetry, fiction, photography, and art that will touch and intrigue all those interested in this remar...
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A CROWN OF LIFE: THE WORLD OF JOHN McCRAE.

By: Graves, Dianne. (John McCrae.)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: St Catharines, Ontario, Vanwell: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24637

ISBN: 15506809149

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

300 pp, lg.8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w maps, drawings, photographs. "Born in Canada, (John) McCrae served in the South African War before carving out a career as an eminent doctor. It was during the Great War, whilst serving in 1915 as both an artillery and medical officer in the Second Battle of Ypres, that he wrote his famous poem (In Flanders Fields). Set against a background of nearly half a century of history, (the author) brings alive in fascinating detail John McCrae and his world - amongst them Rudyard Kipling, Leo Amery, Sir Alexander Fleming, and Stephen Leacock; the threads that...
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A CROWN OF LIFE: THE WORLD OF JOHN McCRAE.

By: Graves, Dianne. (John McCrae.)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: St Catharines, Ontario, Vanwell: 1997

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 29092

ISBN: 15506809149

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

BLENHEIM.

By: Green, David.

Price: $12.50 USD

Publisher: London, Collins: 1974

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 14539

ISBN: 0002111772

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good -

162 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Map endpapers, b&w and color photographs, maps, reproductions, details from Blenheim tapestries. "(S)kilfully draw(s) on contemporary records and illustrations to create this vivid evocation of the battle - Marlborough's attack on the fortified village of Blenheim, the courageous and generous action of his ally, Prince Eugene, the capture of Marshal Tallard and the rout of the French cavalry, many of whom perished in the Danube. Nor has the cost to the Allies been forgotten. Unpublished letter-books at Blenheim have been drawn upon to show Marlborough...
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Keyword: Hospitals