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Windsor: Electa Press, 1993. Paper bound, first edition, illustrated. Inscribed and signed by author on half title page. 103pp includes references and bibliography. Very good. 200 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Humboldt: Gopher Books, 1999. As new! Paper bound in yellow wrappers, revised edition, illustrated throughout, Pp100. As new. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer, 1990. New! Hard bound, 1st edition, grey cloth, illustrated, xx + Pp298pp. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. New and unread in fine dust jacket. Multiple copies available, all in new/unopened condition. 680 grams unpacked - depending on destination, extra postage may be requested.

Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer, 1990. New! Trade paper bound, 1st edition, illustrated, xx + Pp298pp. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. New/fine/unread. Multiple copies available, all in new, unread condition. 515 grams.

Winnipeg: Watson & Dwyer, 1990. New! Hard bound, 1st edition, grey cloth, illustrated, xx + Pp298pp. Includes appendices, bibliography & index. New and unread in fine dust jacket. Multiple copies available, all in new/unopened condition. 680 grams unpacked - depending on destination, extra postage may be requested.

Toronto: Permanent Press, 1979. Paper bound, first edition, numerous tables, 73pp includes bibliography. Scored text to preface, introduction, and concluding chapter, else very good. 150 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Toronto: Coles, 1980. Paper bound, 4to, reprint edition of History of the Great Lakes, Volume 1, originally published by J.H. Beers & Co., in 1899. Illustrated, 202pp includes general index. BLank library pocket glued to inside of front cover and an ink stamp on front fly else a fine copy. 490 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Toronto: Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 1975. Paper bound, first printing, smaller quarto, illustrated, v + Pp122. Includes guide to journals and bibliographic essay for further reading. Tight and unmarked - a very good or better copy. 230 grams. Scarce. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books and also offer local curbside pick-up. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Calgary: Fifth House, 2003 . As new! Paper bound, 1st edition, illustrated with plates, extensively referenced, xvii + Pp316. Includes index. A tight, unmarked, unread copy. Brand new. 530 grams.

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1985. New! Canadian Biographical Series. Stapled tan wrappers, illustrated throughout, 52pp includes bibliography. As new. 120 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1985. Stapled tan wrappers, illustrated throughout, 52pp includes bibliography. Previous owner name label at bottom of title page else a tight, unmarked, very good or better copy. 110 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Toronto: Coles, 1980. Paper bound, facsimile edition reprint, illustrated with line drawings, 351pp includes appendix. Tight and unmarked - a very good or better copy. 290 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1930. Paper bound in stapled blue wraps, 30pp. Illustrated by C.W. Jefferys. Rear cover moderate creased and abraded on inside. Two inch tear to covers down spine from top. Moderate stain to side edge does not affect text or interior. School stamp to first page and last blank else very good. 45 grams - ships letter mail.

Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1930. Paper bound in stapled red wraps, 28pp. Illustrated by C.W. Jefferys. Moderate stain to side edge does not affect text or interior. Bottom corner a bit fanned and creased and a few school stamps inside else very good. 45 grams - ships letter mail.

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1994. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: On The Cariboo Road - Water-colour by Lucius O'Brien, National Gallery of Canada. Contents of this issue include: Annals of the Fur Trade - The making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives by Deidre Simmons; Mere Curiosities Are Not Required - The story of the HBC Museum Collection by Robert Coutts and Katherine Pettipas; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road - The long, dangerous journey to the mother lode by Robert Busch; 1919 - The Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered by JM Bumsted; The Packet/George Back's Sketchbooks; Christopher Moore on Dechene's New France; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg: Canada's National History Society, 1996. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. Moderately creased vertically down center else a very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Iroquois warrior, 1787, by J. Grasset de St. Sauveur (Library of Congress). Contents of this issue include: The Birthday Party - We celebrated 1967 as dark clouds gathered by JM Bumsted; Our Lodge in the Wilderness - Alma Dick-Lauder, Victorian eccentric by Paul Grimwood; The Treaties of 1760 - Mohawk pacts reverberate across two centuries by John Thompson; The Beast of War & The Lake - German prisoners in Canadian cottage country by Jake MacDonald; Living Picture - The movies come to Canada, 1896 by Peter Steven; Frank Slide - Did greed bring a mountain down? by Allen Seager; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from… Read More

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1991. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 62pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies may also be available). Cover: Blackfoot girl with cat, Macleod, 1880s; Glenbow Archives/Anderton Collection. Contents of this issue: Wings Over the North; An old company learns some new tricks, 1921-1939 by Robert Grant; Son of The Firebrand; William Lyon Mackenzie's long-lost son rediscovered by Chris Raible; The Face Puller; George Anderton, A Victorian photographer on the North-West frontier by Brock Silversides; Was it Murder? To lose one husband to arsenic is bad enough. But two? by Cheryl Macdoanld; Secret Trains Across Canada; An invisible army rides the CPR, 1917-1918 by Elizabeth Tancock; The Dark Side of Mariposa; The years pass slowly at Orillia's Asylum for Idiots by Joan Morris and Virginia Hartley; Christopher Moore on Who Killed the… Read More

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1994. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: The Challenge of the Mountains - from an early CPR travel brochure, Glenbow Archives. Contents of this issue include: Christopher Dafoe on Canada's Century; Guardians of The Rockies - Conservationists and mountain-climbers by PearlAnn Reichwein; The Friendly Games - Hamilton hosts the first British Empire Games, 1930 by Glynn Leyshon; Myth-Making at Fort St. James - History, in various versions, 1828-1928 by Frieda Esau Klippenstein; Kathleen Parlow: A Life in Music - A Canadian virtuoso in St. Petersburg, 1906 by Hubert Mayes; The New Jerusalem - Jewish pioneers go back to the land, 1884 by Abraham Arnold; Christopher Moore meets Pierre Berton; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate… Read More

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1995. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. A very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Fishing on the Souris, by Marion E. Barker. Contents of this issue include: Christopher Dafoe:Annals of The Beaver; Colours of the Farm - A boy's life on a prairie farm between the wars by Donald Lamont; Fuel for the Home Fires - Taking care of the women they left behind, 1914-1918 by Desmond Morton and Cheryl Smith; Louis Slotin and the Invisible Killer - The tragedy of a Canadian scientist and the A-bomb by Martin Zeilig; Tyrant of the Ottawa Valley - Planting the Clan McNab in colonial Canada by Bernard Shaw; North with the Red River Brigade - A York Boat adventure in the days of the fur trade by William Cornwallis King; A Surgeon on the Bay - An eighteenth-century man of all sciences by WB Ewart; Tourists in Old… Read More

Winnipeg: Canada's National History Society, 1996. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Ships lettermail. Front cover somewhat wrinked with a moderate stain near outside edge and first half wirnkled as well (moisture?) else very good (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Eskimos Trading with HBC Ship, painted by Franklin Arbuckle for the Hudson's Bay Company. Contents of this issue include: Can history save us? by Christopher Dafoe; Rumours of Franklin - The strength of the Inuit oral tradition by Dorothy Harley Eber; Quebec in Canada - Founding peoples or sovereign nations? by Ramsay Cook; The Duke's Romantic Retreat - Queen Victoria's father houses his mistress by Sharon Ingallis; Annie Midlige, Fur Trader - A Lebanese widow defies the HBC by Peter Leney; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.