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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Canada's National History Society, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Binding is tight, pages clean. Stains to front cover.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Hudson Bay Company, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Binding is tight, pages clean.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Hudson Bay Company, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Binding is tight, pages clean.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Canada's National History Society, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Binding is tight, pages clean.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Hudson Bay Company, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Binding is tight, pages clean.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Canada's National History Society, 1995. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Binding is tight, pages clean.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Canada's National History Society, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Binding is tight, pages clean.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Canada's National History Society, 1997. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Binding is tight, pages clean.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: Hudson Bay Company, 1993. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Binding is tight, pages clean.

Winnipeg, Manitoba: The Hudson's Bay Company, 1995. Book. Illus. by Marion E. Barker;. Very Good. Soft cover. First Edition. 4to. 56 pp. Light wear. Cover art by Marion E. Barker. Started in 1920, this magazine was founded by the Hudson's Bay Company as part of their 250th anniversary celebrations. HBC was chartered on the 2nd of May in the year 1670. Their main business was furs, primarily beaver pelts, hence the name of the magazine, The Beaver. In 1994, the magazine was acquired by Canada's National History Society. In 2010, the History Society changed the name from The Beaver to Canada's History because, apparently, an assortment of half-wits thought the original title of the magazine was disgustingly sexist. This issue contains: Colours of the Farm by Donald Lamont, illustrated by Marion E. Barker; Fuel for the Home Fires by Desmond Morton and Cheryl Smith; Louis Slotin and the Invisible Killer by Martin Zeilig; Tyrant of the Ottawa Valley - planting the Clan McNab in… Read More

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Co, 1986. Softcover. Near Fine in wraps.. 8 1.2" x 11" staple bound magazine. 62 pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps. Great cover art.

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1988. Softcover. Near Fine in wraps.. 8 1.2" x 11" staple bound magazine. 62 pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps. Great cover art.

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1986. Softcover. Very Good in wraps.. 8 1.2" x 11" staple bound magazine. 62 pp. Illustrated throughout in black and white and color with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps. Great cover art.

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1992. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 56pp. Cover: 'Maria Chapdelaine' by Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote (Art Gallery of Ontario). Contents of this issue: Explorations (The price of glory: Dieppe 1942); 'But the King Must Be Obeyed' (Montcalm's last battle, Quebec 1759) by Ian McCulloch; First Lady of the Red Chamber (Cairine Wilson: A life of public service) by Valerie Knowles; The Mothers of Confederation (Lives of unending toil in pioneer Canada) by Sydell Waxman; Home Sweet Suburb (The great post-war migration to suburbia) by J.M. Bumsted; Listening to the Past (The tape recorder as time machine) by Shane Carmody. Very good or better condition. We welcome all reasonable offers on our books. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg: Canada's National History Society, 1994 . Periodical, 8.5 x 11, stapled wrappers in magazine format, 56pp. Near fine condition. Feature article traces the roots of baseball to the year 1838 and the small town of Beachville, Ontario. 'The basis of this claim lies with a lengthy letter published 5 May 1886 in the Philadelphia-based Sporting Life magazine. The letter, entitled 'A Game of Long-ago Which Closely Resembled Our Present National Game', was written by Dr. Adam Ford of Denver, Colorado, who had grown up in Beachville. Part of the letter was also printed in the Ingersoll, Ontario, Chronicle. 160 grams.

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 copy (other copies may be available). Contents of this issue: Explorations: Canada and the Fur Trade; Canada's Hero of The Light Brigade by HM Weedle; Weller's Express Beat the Odds; A wild ride from Toronto to Montreal, 1840 by George McElroy; A Very Affectin Thing; A literary mystery solved? by Hubert Mayes; Undefeated; 300 years of Ojibwa history by JM Macdonald; Beyond Hope, Past Redemption; Teaching in the BC Hinterland, 1928-1933 by Thomas Fleming and Carolyn Smyly; Cicero on the Frontier; higher education in colonial Canada by Patricia Jasen; Writers of History; Christopher Moore on Jack Granatstein; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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: Baseball by George Benjamin Shepherd, from the University of Virginia magazine Corks & Curls, 1910. Feature article traces the roots of baseball to the year 1838 and the small town of Beachville, Ontario. 'The basis of this claim lies with a lengthy letter published 5 May 1886 in the Philadelphia-based Sporting Life magazine. The letter, entitled 'A Game of Long-ago Which Closely Resembled Our Present National Game', was written by Dr. Adam Ford of Denver, Colorado, who had grown up in Beachville. Part of the letter was also printed in the Ingersoll Ontario Chronicle. Contents of this issue also include: Baraga - A Habsburg prelate in the New World by Graham MacDonald; Abner Who? -… Read More

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1992. 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 of this issue may also be available). Cover: Frances Anne Hopkins, 'Young Girl Skating 1867', Royal Ontario Museum. Contents of this issue: The Fragrance of the Past by Christopher Dafoe; Something Terrible; The Odour of Contagion, Montreal 1885 by Michael Bliss; Keyboards for Canadians; Our long love affair with the piano by Wayne Kelly; A Peal of Bells for a Poet by Hubert Mayes; The Duke's Astonishing Telegraph; Good news travelled fast in colonial Atlantic Canada by James Morrison; In the Midst of Life; A young woman's letters evoke the old West by Ruth Buck; Colours of History; Women combined art and utility at the quilting bee by P. Colleen Archer; Christopher Moore on The Happy Warrior; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and… 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: Skaters in Lawrence Park, Toronto, 1948 by J.S. Hallam. Contents of this issue: Simpson at Red River by Christopher Dafoe; The Great Debate - Lincoln versus John A. Macdonald on the speaker's platform by David Raymont; Painters of Canada's Past - As they were: The art of JS Hallam by Paul Hallam; The Strange Expedition of Alexander McArthur - An amateur ornithologist heads into the unknown by William Barr; The Voyage of the John Barry - From Cook to Canada on the perilous ocean, 1825 by Carol Bennett McCuaig; Kings of the Ice - Hockey's first Golden Age and the men who made it by James Whalen; 999 Queen Street West - George Brown and the Toronto Asylum scandal by Chris Raible; plus Book Reviews. All… Read More

Winnipeg: Canada's National History Society, 1997. 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: The Upper Canada ALMANAC, for the year of our Lord 1803. Contents of this issue include: The Secrets of Halifax Harbour - A maritime history in lost ships by David Napier; Hostess to a Nation - Nellie King poured tea and saved governments by RB Fleming; The Calgary Gold Brick Caper by Hugh Dempsey; A Printer is Indispensably Necessary - The not-so-free colonial press by Chris Raible; Stanley Park's Big Hollow Tree by Meg Stanley; Behind the Legend - Bethune's curious retreat from the Spanish Civil War by Larry Hannant; Hawke of The Transcript - A forgotten hero of Canadian journalism by John Edward Belliveau; Vikings at Play - The unique pleasures of Vinland by David Gardner; plus Book Reviews &… Read More