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Your search for Canada has returned 34 results. Original Stereocard Photograph. "A Crevasse in the Victoria Glacier, British Columbia."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 13830 (274). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the glacier in Rocky Mountain Park, Canada and Mt. Victoria. Nice upclose view of the glacier with Mt. Victoria in the background.   Condition: Fine.  Victoria Glacier, British Columbia. DK-5  (Book ID 9257)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Beets Stored in Bins, Montreal, Canada."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, Pa.  # 20941 (270). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the harvesting and storage and production of beets into sugar. View of a very large storage bin warehouse filled with beets. Nice clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Beets, Farming, Canada. DK-5  (Book ID 9260)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Church - Montreal, Quebec"  J.G.Parks, Photographer.  Montreal, Quebec.  Unnumbered. Stereogaph on light green board (6 3/4 x 3 1/4 inch) with publishers name printed on the backside. Early view of a Catholic cathedral in Montreal ca.1870s. Nice clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Montreal, Quebec, Church. DK-4  (Book ID 9165)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Harbor of St. John's from Dry Dock, Newfoundland."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, Pa.  # 16320 (278). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the city, harbor and province and industry. Nice view of the harbor looking toward the town.   Condition: Fine.  St.john's, Newfoundland. DK-5  (Book ID 9258)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Ice Peaks in Illecillewaet Glacier, British Columbia, Canada."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 13802 (275). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the Selkirk Range and its glaciers and the mountaineering involved in crossing them. Nice image of a guide looking over the glacier and its unusual formations.   Condition: Fine.  Mountaineering. DK-5. Mountain Climbing  (Book ID 9262)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Mt. Sir Donald, the Materhorn of The North American Alps, British Columbia, Canada."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 13806 (276). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about Mt Sir Douglas and the Selkirk Range with the glaciers coming off the side of the mountain. Nice image of a woman viewing Mt Sir Douglas with glaciers feeding the steams far below in the valley.   Condition: Fine.  Mt. Sir Donald, Sawtooth Range, Selkirk Range, British Columbia. DK-5  (Book ID 9263)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "Quebec's Boasted View from Dufferin Terrace, Quebec, Canada."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, Pa.  #13987 (264). Stereograph on gray board (7 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the city and Duffein Terrace, a sort of public promenade for the city. Wonderful view of the St. Lawrence Seaway and lower old town Quebec.   Condition: Fine.  Quebec, Canada, Dufferin Terrace, St. Lawrence. DK-5  (Book ID 9259)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph. "The Evangeline Country, Nova Scotia."  Keystone View Company.  Meadville, PA.  # 13895 (262). Stereograph on gray board 97 x 3 1/2 inch) with commentary on the backside about the French in Nova Scotia and the forced removal by the British after conquest. It also quotes from 'Evangeline' by Henry W. Longfellow. Nice view of the countryside in Nova Scotia with a wide valley below and a women in period clothing looking down.   Condition: Fine.  Evangeline, Henry WadsworthLongfellow, Nova Scotia. DK-5  (Book ID 9261)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: "Beet Pulp and Juice Flowing Into Large Iron Tanks, Where it is Subjected to Diffusion By Water"  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 271-20944 by the publisher. The black and white photo shows a man standing at the foot of a conveyor belt, filling a bucket with beet sugar. Circa 1915. Two columns of text on back explaining the photo and the sugar beet industry. Letter "B" written on back.   Condition: Very Good.  Montreal, Canada. Sugar Beets. Sugar Industry  (Book ID 7657)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: "Fifth Royal Highlanders of Montreal in the Military Parade of the Quebec Tercentenary, July, 1908."  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 266-16-37 by the publisher. Shows long column of soldiers in kilts marching with buildings and streets in background.   Condition: Fine.  Canadian Military History. Parades.  (Book ID 8254)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: "Indian Basket Weaving, Prince Edward Island, Canada."  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 263-13882 by the publisher. Shows two women making baskets in front of a tepee, with a man standing in the background. A few brown stains on the right hand side of the photograph. No date, but circa 1915. Two columns of text on the back about Indian basket making and Prince Edward Island.   Condition: Very Good.  Basket Making. Indians.  (Book ID 8252)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: "Indian Woman Working on Moose Hide Near Atlin, British Columbia  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 265-27359 by the publisher. Shows the woman standing in front of the moose hide, which is on a stretcher. Circa 1910. Two columns of text on back explaining the photo. Letter "B" written on back.   Condition: Very Good.  Native American.  (Book ID 7630)  $20.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: "Inner Harbor, Victoria, British Columbia."  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 277-13837 by the publisher. Black and white photo showing people walking in front, an automobile and then the harbour with both sailing and steam ships. Circa 1915. Two columns of text on back discussing Victoria history. Letter "B" written on back.   Condition: Very Good.  Canada. Shipping.  (Book ID 7646)  $20.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: "Quebec from Tower of the Parliment Building Looking Across the St Lawrence to Levis  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 264-16002 by the publisher. Bird's eye view. Circa 1915. Black and white photo. Two columns of text on back explaining the photograph. Letter "B" written on back.   Condition: Very Good.  Canada  (Book ID 7651)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: "The Wharves, Montreal, Canada."  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 267-10625 by the publisher. Shows wharf, buildings, railroad cars, sailing ship and cargoes. No date, but 1914 mentioned in text on the back, which discusses the wharves and Montreal history.   Condition: Fine.  Canadian Shipping and Fishing.  (Book ID 8253)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: "Western Terminus of the Canadian Pacific Transcontinental R.R. And Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, B.C., Can."  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 x 7 inches. Numbered 277-13837 by the publisher. Shows man sitting on ledge, overlooking railroad depot with inlet in background. Circa 1910. Two columns of text on the back with information about Vancouver.   Condition: Fine.  Canadian Railroad Photographs. Western Canada. Birds-Eye Views of Vancouver. Tac-3  (Book ID 8194)  $25.00 Original Stereocard Photograph: "Winding Linen Yarns on Bobbins, Guelph, Ontario"  Keystone View Company.  3 1/4 by 7 inches. Numbered 268-20967 by the publisher. The black and white photo shows two women, one working the spindle, the other hanging the finished thread. Two columns of text on back explaining the process. Circa 1915. Letter "B" written on back.   Condition: Very Good.  Canada. Flax. Weaving. Milling  (Book ID 7652)  $15.00 Original Stereocard Photograph; (1) Niagara, Mightiest of Waterfalls -- General View from Steel Arch Bridge -- U.S.A.  Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.  New York.  1901.  Land and small buildings in the foreground with the falls in the background showing mist rising from the falls. Works and Studios, Arlington, N. J., etc.   Canadian Scene. Tourist Attraction. Sightseeing. Waterway.  (Book ID 4885)  $12.50 The Governors-General of Canada 1608 - 1931  L. J. Lemieux, M. D. (Circa 1932). (London)..  Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Biographical descriptions of the Canadian Governors-General from Samuel Champlain, 1608, to the 9th Earl of Bessborough in 1931. This position was filled by the French through 1760 at which time the British repla ce d the French.   CANADIAN FRENCH ENGLISH HISTORY. DIPLOMATIC CORPS. Canada  (Book ID 2631)  $25.00 Bridle, Augustus  Sons of Canada; Short Studies of Characteristic Canadians  J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1916. Toronto..  First edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Ink notation front end paper. Although millionaires and industrial leaders have helped to develop Canada, so too have the so-called "lesser men" built this country. Some people described by the a utho rs: John Ross Robertson -- a Benevolent Despot; General Steele -- Courage; Rev. Albert Carman -- The Uncompromising Cleric; Sir William Van Horne -- Prodigious; C. A. Magrath -- A Genuine Westerner; etc.   NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY. PARLIAMENT. CANADIAN PRAIRIE. Canada  (Book ID 2618)  $17.50 Brymner, Douglas, Archiviste  Rapport sur les Archives Canadiennes, 1885  Imprimerie MacLean, Roger Et Cie, Rue Wellington. 1886. Ottawa..  Cloth. In French. Registre de la paroisse anglicane de Montreal, 1766-1787. Precis des actes de Foy et Hommage. Livre de lettres sur les affaires de la Floride, 1768-1770. Documents relatifs aux cours martiales, etc., 1758-1779. Papiers divers , ord onnances et situations, 1756-1776. Etc.   DOCUMENTS. FRENCH HISTORY. Canada  (Book ID 2612)  $37.50 Freemantle, Elizabeth, Pseud. Of Elizabeth Covey Rockford  The One and I.  George W. Jacobs & Co..  Philadelphia, Penn.  1908.  1st American Edition. originaly published in Canada, 1907, under the title "Comrades Two". A fictionalized account of family life in the Qu'appelle Valley to the west of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Clean, bright copy in the publisher's illustrated blue cloth cover. A few pages carelessly opened. 319 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Canadian Plains, Qu'appelle Valley  (Book ID 8792)  $25.00 Greswell, The Rev. William Parr  Geography of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland...with Ten Maps Under the Auspices of the Royal Colonial Institute  The Clarendon Press.  Oxford.  1891.  First Edition.  10 folding color maps. Original publisher green cloth. 154 pages, including index, 2 page publisher's advertisement at end. Nice bright clean copy.   Condition: Very Good.  Geography.  (Book ID 6970)  $75.00 Logan, Harold A.  The History of Trade-Union Organization in Canada  The University of Chicago Press. (1928). Chicago..  First edition. Cloth. Dust wrapper; chipping to top edge, slight chipping to bottom edge. From the Preface: "The aim of this work is to give a general survey of trade-union organization in Canada from its beginnings down to the present". Chapte rs d escribe: Early Labor Movement, 1825-80; Period 1880-1902; The Provincial Workmen's Association; Activities of the Congress Since 1902; The Canadian Federation of Labor; Rise and Decline of the One Big Union in Canada; etc.   COALITION. ALLIANCE. ASSOCIATION. COUNCILS. LABOR NEGOTIATORS. Canada  (Book ID 2636)  $37.50 Mallet, Thierry, Captain  Plain Tales of the North  Revillon Freres. 1925. New York..  First edition. Cloth backed boards. Margin illustrations. Cloth spine has small split at top and bottom of spine. Slight discoloration to boards. Page edges are uncut. For twenty years Captain Mallet spent part of each year inspecting Revillon Frere s trading posts on the outskirts of civilization in the far North. He also collected these unusual and striking tales: A Grave in Saskatchewan; War News in Husky Land; An Indian Wake; Fighting Against Starvation; A Greenhorn in a Rapid; A Pra ctical Joke; Eskimo Arithmetic; etc.   HISTORY. TRADING POSTS. ESKIMOS. CANADIAN PIONEERS. Canada  (Book ID 2629)  $37.50 Milner, Viscount  Speeches Delivered in Canada in the Autumn of 1908  William Tyrrell & Co. 1909. Toronto..  Cloth backed boards. Some pages unopened. Page edges are uncut. Book plate on front end paper. Some speeches delivered by Viscount Milner during his 1908 visit in Canada; "Imperial Unity. External Advantages"; "Imperial Unity. Internal Benefi ts"; " South African Development"; "Preferential Trade"; "Imperialism and Social Reform"; etc.   GOVERNMENT POLICIES. BUSINESS. TRADE. COMMERCE. Canada  (Book ID 2620)  $25.00 Parker, Gilbert, and Claude G. Bryan  Old Quebec, the Fortress of New France  The Macmillan Company. 1903. New York..  First edition. Illustrated cloth. Plates, illustrations and maps. Gold design on cover and spine. Gilt on page tops. Page edges are uncut. 486 pages. Ink notation front end paper. Offsetting to page 316 and following blank page. The authors write ab out The Era of Champlain; "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam", Frontenac and La Salle, During The Seven Years' War, First Years of British Rule, etc.   CANADIAN FRENCH HISTORY. BRITISH RULE. TRADING COMPANIES. Canada  (Book ID 2616)  $37.50 Parkman, Francis  Francis Parkman's Writings  George N. Morang and Company.  Toronto.  Parkman's complete works in 12 volumes, published in 1899-1900, consisting of: "The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life", Eighth Edition, Revised. "The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada" Tenth Edition, Revised, with Additions (two volumes); "Pioneers of France in the New World" Revised with Additions; "the Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century"; "La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West:; "The Old Regime in Canada" Revised, with Additions; "A Half-Century of Conflict" (two volumes); "Count Frontenac and New France Under Louis XIV"; "Montcalm and Wolfe" (two volumes). Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering.   Condition: Very Good.  Literary Sets. Pacific Northwest. Canadian History. Fur Trade. French and Indian War  (Book ID 7859)  $200.00 Roberts, Charles G. D.  The Watchers of the Trails; A Book of Animal Life  L. C. Page & Company. 1904. Boston..  First edition. Illustrated cloth. Illustrations. Page edges are uncut. Ink notation on front end paper. Front end paper split at spine. In the Prefatory Note, the author writes that the stories in this book "are avowedly fiction". He writes about: T he Freedom of the Black-Faced Ram; The Little Wolf of the Pool; Horns and Antlers; When the Moon is Over the Corn; When the Moose Cow Calls; etc.   WILDLIFE. WILD FOWL. THE FOREST. FICTION. LITERARY WORKS. LITERATURE. Canada  (Book ID 2622)  $25.00 Russell, Alex. J.  The Red River Country: Hudson's Bay & North-West Territories, Considered in Relation to Canada with the Last Two Reports of A.j. Dawson, Esquire, C.E. Ofn the Line of Route Between Lake Superior and the Red River Settlement, Accompanied By a Map  G.E. Desbarats.  Montreal.  1870.  Third Edition, Revised.  Third edition, revised. Containing eight folding illusrations, no found in the previous two editions. Three quarter red leather binding, cloth boards. Original wrappers bound in. Inscribed by the author: "To John C. Lang, Esq., with A.J. Russell's compliments." Cloth boards somewhat soiled, but a very handsome copy. Holes in margins of title page and page 41 professionally repaired. (The holes are in the margin only and do not affect the text). Paper browning and somewhat brittle--some minor marginal tears and chips, but again not affecting the text. Thin scuff along gutter of front inside hinge. The eight plates, showing various scenes and towns, and the map are printed on higher quality paper and are fine. 197 pages.   Condition: Very Good.  Hudson's Bay Company. Fur Trade. Westerward Expansion. View Books.  (Book ID 6945)  $400.00 Scholefield, E.O.S.and R.E. Gosnell  A History of British Columbia: Part One, Being a Survey Of Events from the Earliest Times Down to the Union of the Crown Colony of British Columbia with the Dominion of Canada (by) E.O.S. Scholefield, Provincial Librarian; Part Two (cont. In Desc.)  British Columbia Historical Association.  Vancouver and Victoria, B.C..  1913.  First Edition.  (title continued): "Being a History, Mainly Political and Economic, of the Province Since Confederation Up to the Present Time" (by) R.E. Gosnell. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering and impressed design of maple leaf on spine and eternal flame on front cover. Top edge gilt. Number 312 of 350 copies signed by Gosnell. 9 3/4 by 12 1/2 inches. The two parts consist of 210 and 226 pages. There are also 390 unnumbered portraits (complete). Bookseller and bibliographer Peter Decker, in his catalog "The George Soliday Collection of Western Americana" (Part Four, item 595b) notes that this book was published at $150.00 in 1913 and says: "In the plates, printing and binding it is perhaps the most magnificent book ever produced in the Pacific Northwest."   Condition: Fine.  Canadian History. Pacific Northwest. Fine Press and Printing  (Book ID 7853)  $750.00 Steffanson, Vilhjalmur  The Northward Course of Empire...with an Introduction By Dr. Edward William Nelson, Chielf of the United States Biological Survey...with Illustrations and a Map  Harcourt, Brace and Company.  New York.  (1922). A later printing, but in the uncommon dust wrapper that is chipped along the edges. Publisher's gray cloth with black lettering. Steffanson's argument that the north is a place for expansion. Photo illustrated. Scuff to foot of title page, not affecting printed portion. Folding map in back 274 pages.   Condition: Fine.  Alaska. Arctic. Famous Explorers.  (Book ID 7862)  $25.00 Talman, James J.  The Development of the Railway Network of Southwestern Ontario to 1876.  The Canadian Historical Association.  1953.  Separate from the Canadian Historical Review of 1953. 8 pages; stapled. Concerned with the development of railways along the north shores of the Great Lakes under the control of Canada from 1832 to 1876. Fine clean copy.   Condition: Fine.  Canada, Ontario, Railways. Dk-104  (Book ID 12180)  $15.00 Willson, Beckles  Canada; Romance of Empire  T. C. & E. C. Jack.  London.  Three-Quarter Leather.  Illustrated by Sandham, Henry.  Circa 1925. With marbled boards. Colored illustrations. Abundant gilt decoration on spine, with gilt lettering. Spine labels. Previous owner name in gilt on lower corner front cover. Page tops are gilt. Ribbon bookmark. Page sides and bottoms uncut. Some unopened pages. Contents include: Cartier Unfurls the Flag of the Lilies; The Founding of Montreal; The Fury of the Iroquois; King Louis Builds a Mighty Fort; How Louisburg Surrendered and was Given Back; The Acadians are Banished from Acadia; How the Gallant Wolfe took Quebec; The Coming of the Loyalists; Traitors, Redcoats, and Redskins; etc.   Montreal. Settlement. Iroguois Indians. Jacques Cartier. Hudson Bay Trading Post. John Cabot.  (Book ID 4188)  $75.00

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