Maritime Provinces from Gilt Edge Books

Award winning photographer John de Visser and Maritime writer Harold Horwood have combined their talents to bring alive the history of Newfoundland. Profusely illustrated with color photographs many full page .Semi-gloss stock used throughout. Gift inscription to ffep. An impressive body of work.

Born in the tiny community of Bouctouche, New Brunswick K.C. Irving became a billionaire in one of Canada's poorest provinces and although he was one of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, few people outside the Atlantic provinces knew his name. His holdings ranged from vast forest operations, Canada's largest oil refinery, service stations and convenience stores to pulp, paper and… Saber más sobre este artículo

125th Annual Report of the Department of Lands and Mines of the Province of New Brunswick for The Year Ended 31 March 1962.Honourable H. Graham Crocker Minister of Lands and Mines.The Government of New Brunswick, Fredericton 1962.Card covered format. Near Fine Condition. Laid before the Legislature by Command of the Lieutenant-Governor.The Table of Contents provided by our photo.'Maine Geological Survey' in… Saber más sobre este artículo

St. John's Newfoundland: Breakwater Books Limited, 1985 Card Covers. A collection of Newfoundland short stories by Ray Guy, Leacock Award winning author for humour. Photographic wraps. Cover photo by Hans Weber.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

St. John's Newfoundland: Breakwater Books Limited, 1985 . Card Covers. A collection of Newfoundland short stories by Ray Guy, Leacock Award winning author for humour. Photographic wraps. Cover photo by Hans Weber.. Revised Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Ottawa: Printed By Westboro Printers Limited, 1978. Colour frontispiece is that from an oil painting by Doreen T. Menzies titled North West Miramichi at Menzies Farm oil painting by Doreen T Menzies, 1948. Preface by the author dated 1978 Ottawa. Opposite page from preface is Figure I - a map showing settled area North and South Esk Parishes , Northumberland… Saber más sobre este artículo

Newfoundland: Robinson - Blackmore Publishing, 2002. Illustrated card covers. Reg Frampton, teacher, psychiatric nursing attendant, part time, then full-time ministry, and police chaplain, shares his delightful collection of boyhood memories while growing up in Gin Cove. Gin Cove is a small outport community on the North shore of Smith Sound in Trinity Bay opposite Random Island. This remarkable individual begins… Saber más sobre este artículo

Newfoundland: Robinson - Blackmore Printers & Publishers, 1981. A quarterly magazine in stapled card covered format. The contents provide : Uncle Tommy - Whaling at Hawks Harbour - In Memory of Eliza Lethbridge - Sogusiodlonga, When I Was a Boy - Labrabor - Landmarks and Memories - St. Peters School - A Night of Terror - H.M.S. Raleigh 1922 -… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977. Hair-raising hoaxes, burning ships, spine-tingling spirits and eerie events that only make sense if you accept the supernatural... Name to ffep. Illustrated price-intact jacket design by Bob Young. The seventh book by this Stephen Leacock Medal winner for 1969.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: AMS Press, 1985. Immigrant Communities & Ethnic Minorities in the United States and Canada: 4. " The purpose of this study is to account for the ethnic persistence of French-speaking Acadians in Ste. Marie-Sur-Mer, a rural fishing village in New Brunswick, Canada...". This book offers ten chapters....'Canadian Dualism and the Acadian Dilemma'...'Ethnic… Saber más sobre este artículo

Wolfville ,Nova Scotia, 1932. Economic Publications (No.1). One Thousand Dollar Prize Essay in a Competition Conducted by Acadia University. Annoucement by F.W. Patterson. The judges selected were Senator W.H. Dennis, Professor W.C. Kierstead and Professor A.B. Balcom. Professor Balcom went on to say this of the winning essay: " This essay is by far the most comprehensive… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1995. Abraham Gesner - Geologist, Explorer, Inventor, Author and founder of the first Natural History Museum in Canada. This biography depicts a man far ahead of his time, as interested in social problems, such as lighting cities at night and establishing decent immigrant settlements, as he was in advancing science and industry. Nine very interesting… Saber más sobre este artículo

Hantsport, Nova Scotia: Lancelot Press, 1991. Illustrated card covers. Summer Nature Notes was compiled to help you find and identify some of the more common mammals, birds, repiltiles, amphibians and freshwater fish. Each section also includes a Quick Guide that groups the animals on the basis of size and overall colour. These guides are intended to assist identification by limiting… Saber más sobre este artículo

St John's, Newfoundland: Harry Cuff Publications Limited, 1983. Illustrated card covers. Cryil F. Poole - author born and educated in Pilley's Island, Notre Dame Bay - Principal of Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland. The contents of his book : School Inspectors - School and Prison: A Comparitive Study - Saying Bible Verses in School - On Taxing… Saber más sobre este artículo

Published for the Government of Newfoundland By Brunswick Press, 1960. Oblong format. A history of Newfoundland up to the first decade of Confederation. Foreword is a Statement of Policy by Joseph R.Smallwood, Premier of Newfoundland. Illustrated with numerous colour photos, many full-page. This book has an historical significance as the record of the first years of Confederation between Newfoundland and… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Harcourt, Inc, 2000. From the celebrated short story writer comes a masterful novel set against the harshly beautiful landscape of Nova Scotia. Scott Turow's advance praise for this book reads: "Eros, crime and the inscrutability of a secluded people combine to lend a tantalizing atmosphere of cool suspense - This is a flat-out great book." Well… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: The Ryerson Press, 1957. This is a fictional story of fisherfolk on the south coast of Nova Scotia in the mid-noneteenth century, when sailing ships were proudly meeting the challenge of steam vessels. It is a story that grips the emotions and also enriches our knowledge of people over whom the sea holds a fascinating but terrible power. Evelyn… Saber más sobre este artículo

Lawrencetown Beach N.S.: Pottersfield Press, 1999. Photo illustrated card covers. Stories I've Been Told - collected and edited by Brian Sutcliffe a host of a regional CBC radio show. Brian Sutcliffe travelled around the maritimes talking with some of the most interesting people you ever want to meet. And they all had plenty of stories to tell. A few examples:… Saber más sobre este artículo

St John's, Newfoundland: Blackwater Books Limited, 1978. H.R. Percy..... Founding Chair of the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. In this novel, David Bronson's memories of social and nautical experiences are developed in an alternately lyric and realistic narrative. A respectable copy - clean and bright.. ISBN: 0-919948-57-X. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Canadiana + Canadian Literature… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toronto: Viking, 1992. 'Rare Ambition' follows this extraordinary clan from its misty Viking beginnings all the way to the corridors of power in present-day Ottawa. Michael Harris has created an intimate portrait that takes the reader behind the scenes, balancing the Crosbies' public triumphs with their private tragedies, their rare ambition with the deadly alcoholism that has dogged them through… Saber más sobre este artículo