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PRINCE ALBERT: THE FIRST CENTURY, 1866-1966.

By: Abrams, Gary William David.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Council, City of Prince Albert: 1976

Edition: 2nd Printing

Seller ID: 25986

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

389 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs, maps. Inscribed by former mayor, Dick Spence, on front free endpaper. Contents: Preface; A Mission in the Wilderness, 1866-1874; Fastest-Growing Settlement in the North-West, 1874-1881; "The Great City and Railway Centre of the North-West", 1881-1883; Roughest Town in the North-West, 1883; Loyalty in Adversity, 1884; The Rebellion and its Aftermath, 1885; A Railway at Last, 1886-1890; Prosperity Deferred, 1891-1896; Discarding the Old Ways, 1897-1901; The Hard Hand of Destiny, 1902-1906; Slipping Behind, 1906-1910; The White Coal City, 19...
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THE PATRIOT GAME: NATIONAL DREAMS & POLITICAL REALITIES.

By: Brimelow, Peter.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Key Porter: 1986

Seller ID: 28519

ISBN: 1550130013

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

310 pp, 9 1/2" H. "(A)rgues that Canada ought to be a second Switzerland, with a living standard actually higher than that of the U.S. But in fact it is embroiled in a tangle of regional and linguistic quarrels, mainipulated by both the Liberals and their Mulroney Tory imitators, and an elite in Ottawa that truly represents neither Anglophones nor Francophones. 'The Patriot Games' offers an unconventional view of Canada that will shatter many myths. Brimelow endorses the argument of Goldwin Smith's 1891 classic 'Canada and the Canadian Question' that our country is 'rich by nature,...
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STORMS OF CONTROVERSY: THE SECRET AVRO ARROW FILES REVEALED.

By: Campagna, Palmiro.

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22683

ISBN: 0773726497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

228 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "(R)eveals there was much more to the scrubbing of the sophisticated Arrow than design flaws, cost overruns and obsolescence, the reasons given by federal government officials to justify their decision. Clearly, step-by-step, using never-before-released documents concerning the Arrow, Campagna details a political web of intrigue among the Tory government, the Canadian and American military, and the CIA." Minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling.
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STORMS OF CONTROVERSY: THE SECRET AVRO ARROW FILES REVEALED.

By: Campagna, Palmiro.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Stoddart: 1992

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28816

ISBN: 0773726497

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

228 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "(R)eveals there was much more to the scrubbing of the sophisticated Arrow than design flaws, cost overruns and obsolescence, the reasons given by federal government officials to justify their decision. Clearly, step-by-step, using never-before-released documents concerning the Arrow, Campagna details a political web of intrigue among the Tory government, the Canadian and American military, and the CIA." Previous owner's name, date, signature and place in unk on free front endpaper; minor wrinkling at bottom of spine. Dust jacket has min...
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STORMS OF CONTROVERSY: THE SECRET AVRO ARROW FILES REVEALED. FOURTH EDITION, REVISED.

By: Campagna, Palmiro. Foreword by Major-General (Retired) Richard Rohmer.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Dundurn: 2010

Edition: 4th Edition, Revised.

Seller ID: 24526

ISBN: 1554886988

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

284 pp, large 8vo (9" H). B&w photographs. "The development of the Avro Arrow supersonic fighter was a remarkable Canadian achievement. Its mysterious cancellation in February 1959 prompted questions that have long gone unanswered. What role did the Central Intelligence Agency play in the scrapping of the project? Who in Canada's government was involved in that decision? What, if anything, did Canada get in return? Who ordered the blowtorching of all the prototypes? And did Arrow technology find its way into the American Stealth fighter/bomber program? When (this book) was first p...
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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 CANADIAN HOME: FROM CAVE TO ELECTRONIC COCOON.

By: Denhez, Marc.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Durndurn Press: 1997

Edition: 2nd Printing

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 4812

ISBN: 1550022024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

256 pp, 11 1/4" H. Inscribed by the author on half title page: "In appreciation / Marc Denhez / 1998". B&w photographs, plans, drawings, reproductions. "(This book) is about fashion, politics, social mores, innovation, imagination, and technology. Prehistoric Inuit homes with windows of stretched seal guts, the log cabin, the bungalow, the R-2000 house, habitations in space - Denhez examines the ways and wherefores of them all." Dust jacket has minor edgewear/rubbing, light wrinkling.
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THE CANADIAN HOME: FROM CAVE TO ELECTRONIC COCOON.

By: Denhez, Marc.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Durndurn Press: 1994

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Inscribed By Author

Seller ID: 29491

ISBN: 1550022024

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

256 pp, 11 1/4" H. Inscribed by the author on half title page: "With Best Wishes / Marc Denhez". B&w photographs, plans, drawings, reproductions. "(This book) is about fashion, politics, social mores, innovation, imagination, and technology. Prehistoric Inuit homes with windows of stretched seal guts, the log cabin, the bungalow, the R-2000 house, habitations in space - Denhez examines the ways and wherefores of them all." Slight bump at bottom of spine, tiny scuff on bottom edge of both boards. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling, minor rubbing.
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NORTHERN APPROACHES: CANADA AND THE SEARCH FOR PEACE.

By: Eayrs, James.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan Canada: 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28515

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

195 pp, 8 3/4" H. "A brilliant intelligence is brought to bear on the vital issues of Canadian defence and foreign policy, on Canada's relations with the U.S. and the British Commonwealth and the Communist bloc. Canadians do not always look at these problems in the same way as their North American neighbours. This book considers the Canadian 'style' in approaching such questions. (Discusses) difficult and frightening issues such as the location of the Great Deterrent, the acquisition of nuclear weaons, the fate of the Avro Arrow, civil defence. (Eayrs) examines the 'Nostrum of Neu...
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THE LIFE OF LESTER PEARSON. VOLUME ONE: SHADOW OF HEAVEN, 1897-1948. VOLUME TWO: THE WORLDLY YEARS, 1949-1972. (VOLUMES I & II).

By: English, John.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Lester & Orpen Dennys: 1989

Edition: First Editions

Seller ID: 28713

ISBN: 0886191653

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

414 pp, 473 pp, 9 1/4" H - 2 volume set. B&w photographs. 'Shadow of Heaven' - ISBN 0886191653 - published 1989. 'The Worldly Years' - ISBN 0394227298 - published 1992. "Lester Pearson - Canada's 14th prime minister, and foremost diplomat - was a man of deep and passionate convictions. His vision of Canada as a force for international peace, mediation, and good will helped redefine our view of ourselves. But how did this seemingly mild and easy-going man develop such a powerful and unswerving vision - and how did he win the political clout to put his beliefs into practice?" 'S...
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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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PRIME MINISTERS OF CANADA, 1867-1980.

By: Furtado, R. de L.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Markham, Ontario, Datinder S. Sodhi: 1980

Seller ID: 28660

ISBN: 0889290407

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

104 pp, 12 1/4" H. Full page sepiatone portraits of each prime minister with short biographical essays. Contents: Preface; John Alexander Macdonald; Alexander Mackenzie; John Joseph Coldwell Abbott; John Sparrow David Thompson; Mackenzie Bowell; Charles Tupper; Wilfrid Laurier; Robert Laird Borden; Arthur Meighen; William Lyon Mackenzie King; Richard Bedford Bennett; Louis Stephen St.-Laurent; John George Diefenbaker; Lester Bowles Pearson; Pierre Elliott Trudeau; C. Jospeh Clark; Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Book is very clean. Dust jacket has minor edge wrinkling, light edge wear - mainly...
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CITIZEN AND SOLDIER: THE MEMOIRS OF LT.-GEN. HOWARD GRAHAM.

By: Graham, Howard, Lt.-Gen. Epilogue by George E. Renison.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23855

ISBN: 0771033907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

304 pp, 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs. "The fascinating personal account of a man who packed apple barrels as a boy and led soldiers through the dust and heat of Sicily as a brigade commander. It is an insider's story of life on the farm, life on the battlefields of Europe and life with royalty." Dust jacket has slight fading to spine colour, very light rubbing, minor wrinkling at top of hinges - light wrinkling at bottom of front hinge.
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CANADA 1957-1967: THE YEARS OF UNCERTAINTY AND INNOVATION. THE CANADIAN CENTENARY SERIES NO. 19.

By: Granatstein, J.L.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 28770

ISBN: 0771035152

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

375 pp, 9 1/4" H. B&w photographs, political cartoons. Signed by author on title page. "In the tenth decade of Canada's confederation, the expansive and unifying post-war boom gave way to rapid change and conflicting choices. These were the years of John Diefenbaker and Lester Pearson, years when Canada's culture, economy, and politics took new directions and the foundations of today's political and social realities were laid. Beginning with a survey of the country in 1957, poised to grasp Diefenbaker's grand 'Vision', the author vividly describes how the Progressive Conservative ...
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THE HISTORY OF CANADA.

By: McNaught, Kenneth.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Praeger: 1970

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28814

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

336 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w maps. "The history of Canada is the story of an ever expanding frontier and of the attempt to create a new nation in the face of enormous physical and human obstacles. (The author) follows this development from the very first probings of the tiny bands of explorers, missionaries, and 'coureurs de bois' that opened up 'New France'. He examines the great military struggles for control of the continent in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which played such a vital part in laying down the present political and racial divisions. (Later) Canadians faced the en...
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HOORAY FOR TODAY! A CANADIAN CHILD'S YEAR.

By: Newman, Fran and Boulanger, Claudette. (Leslie McFarlane, Kerry Wood, Robert Thomas Allen, Bruce Hutchinson, Horst Schmid, Jean Little, Mona Gould, Andy O'Brien, Bess Kaplan, Bobby Hull, Carlo Italiano, Pitseolak, Miyuki Tanobe, John Diefenbaker, et al.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ontario, North Winds Press: 1979

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20305

ISBN: 059007623X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Unpaginated, oblong (8 1/4" H x 9 7/8" D) - pictorial boards. Profusely illustrated in colour with 24 full page drawings facing 24 pages of text, describing various cultural, religious and ethnic celebrations held during the year, starting with Canada Day on July 1st. From the Calgary Stampede, Highland Games, Caribana, and Oktoberfest, to Hallowe'en, the Grey Cup, Hanukkah, Christmas and Chinese New Year through Carnaval, the Arctic Winter Games a Ukranian Easter, the Stanley Cup, Victoria Day, St. Antony's and St. Jean Baptiste Day, the varied authors cross the country and the years...
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YEARS OF IMPATIENCE, 1950-1960 & YEARS OF CHOICE, 1960-1968. 2 VOLUME SET.

By: Pelletier, Gerard. Translated by Alan Brown.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Methuen: 1984

Edition: First English Language Edition.

Seller ID: 28961

ISBN: 0458982709

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

245 pp, 320 pp, 9 1/4" H - 2 volume set. B&w photographs. 1. Years of Impatience, 1950-1960: "Gerard Pelletier - activist, journalist, politician and diplomat - deftly portrays 'a Quebec and a Canada immobile on their surface but moved in their depths by hidden currents of rare power.' And he tells of the birth of the men of action who tapped those currents - who 'were' those currents - and created a new Quebec, confident, assured and comfortable with the ideas and the attitudes of the late twentieth century. (This book) is also about friendships within this band of catalysts loosely...
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SHUTTING DOWN THE NATIONAL DREAM. A.V. ROE AND THE TRAGEDY OF THE AVRO ARROW.

By: Stewart, Greig.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson: 1988

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23493

ISBN: 0075496755

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

320 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "In fourteen short, precocious years, from 1946 to 1959, A.V. Roe Canada and its two subsidiaries, Avro Aircraft and Orenda Engines, almost single-handedly set the aviation world on its ear. Their designers and engineers were described by NATO's General Norstad as 'just about the best team anywhere'. By 1958 Avro had designed, and was about to produce, the most sophisticated piece of aviation design and technology the world had ever seen: the Arrow, decades in advance of world competition. Truly, they had redefined the national dream. On ...
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Keyword: John Diefenbaker