Canada - Quebec from Capricorn Books

Montreal: McGill Schools of Architecture and Planning, 1987. 134 pp, 11" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. Contents: Introduction; History; Administration; Undergraduate Programs; Graduate Programs / School of Architecture; Graduate Programs / School of Urban Planning; Resource Facilities; Publications; Architectural Undergraduate Society; Scholarships, Prizes and Awards; Staff. Interior - previous owner's bookplate with name on the inside of the… Read more about this item

Vancouver: Purich Books, 2020. 86 pp, 8" H. "At the age of seventeen, an Anishinabe boy who was raised in the south joined a James Bay Cree family in a one-room hunting cabin in the isolated wilderness of northern Quebec. Reflecting on his search for his own personal identity, that boy - Duncan McCue - takes us on an… Read more about this item

Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1990. 232 pp, oblong (8" H x 10" D). B&w and colour illustrations. "Mackenzie King presented a rather lacklustre image to the world: a short, pudgy, balding, dull prime minister, an earnest Christian and a master of compromise. His diaries, however, reveal a very different man - one who participated in seances, interpreted his dreams and… Read more about this item

Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 2000. 237 pp, square (9 3/4" H x 9 3/4" D). Profusely illustrated with colour photographs. "The furniture of New France reflected the styles and traditions of the earliest settlers' ancestral homes - Brittany, Normandy, and as far south as the region of Saintonge. Other areas such as Burgundy and Lorraine are also represented. Later… Read more about this item

Montreal: Ordre des comptables agrees du Quebec, 1980. 251 pp, oblong (7 3/4" H x 9 1/8" D), medium brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt lettering and decoration on front board, integral ribbon bookmark. Sepiatone photographs, reproductions, decorations. A centennial history of The Ordre des Comptables Agrees du Quebec, the organization of Chartered Accountants of Quebec, 1880-1980. "This… Read more about this item

New York: George Sully 337 pp, 8 7/8" H, blue cloth with gilt lettering/banding on spine, blindstamped decoration on front board. No date, but previous owner has written "1926" on front free endpaper in fountain pen. 28 b&w plates (including frontispiece), several with two photographs per plate - all present. Chapter headings: The Dawn of British North American Shipping; The… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1907. 331 pp, 6 5/16" H, red cloth over card covers, gilt titling on spine and front board, blind stamping to spine and covers, text block edges marbled, two ribbon book marks. 13 maps (some fold-out) and 12 plans (all present). The introductory section includes: "The Constitution of Canada" by Sir J.G. Bourinot; "Geographical and Geological Sketch"… Read more about this item

Great Mountain Publishing, 2015. 239 pp, 8 1/4" H. "There has probably not been a person more maligned by the powerful forces of the Roman Catholic Church than Maria Monk. In 1836 she published the famous book, 'Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal'. In that book, she told of murder, rape, and torture behind the walls… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Marcel Broquet, 1988. 201 pp, 4to (12 1/2" H). B&w photographs, colour and b&w reproductions. "Already celebrated in Europe in 1906 as a great 'American' etcher, Clarence Gagnon then 25 years old, did not follow through his great success and wished thereafter to be recognized only as a painter. His work is represented in many different collections, public… Read more about this item

Toronto: Macmillan Canada, 1996. 226 pp, 8 7/8" H. B&w reproductions, maps. "1759 had seen the defeat of the French by the English, but nearly 30 years later, 90% of Canada's 100,000 people remained French-speaking and Catholic. Loyal to England throughout the American Revolution and soldiers for England during the War of 1812, by 1837 these 'Canadiens' were driven… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1968. 203 pp, 11 3/16" H. B&w and colour photographs. A pictorial look at Expo 67, the World's Fair held in Montreal in 1967. Contents: Introduction / A heaven-storming ambition: Tomorrow's World; The greatest show on earth: How the world saw the fair; An exultation of form and structure: Architecture's giant stride into tomorrow; The… Read more about this item

Toronto: Gage, 1978. 304 pp, 4to (12 1/4" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour reproductions. The life and work of Quebec artist, Jean Paul Lemieux. A slight lean to the spine. Dust jacket has some light browning on the inside edges, a few irregar very faint/thin line indentations on the panels.. Not Signed. No. 1399 of… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, 1967. 180 pp, 11" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. A look at Canada's cities in its Centennial year. Contents include: St. John's by Harold Horwood; Charlottetown by Frank MacKinnon; Halifax by Hugh MacLennan, Fredericton by Esther Clark Wright; Charme de Quebec by Gerard Morisset; Trois-Rivieres by Mgr Albert Tessier; Montreal by Alain… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1922. 420 pp, 6 1/4" H, red cloth over card covers, gilt titling on spine and front board, blind stamping to spine and covers, text block edges marbled, two ribbon book marks. 14 maps (some fold-out) and 12 plans (all present). The fourth and final edition. A paper label pasted on the title page gives addresses… Read more about this item

Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1894. 254 pp, 6 1/4" H, red cloth over card covers, gilt titling on spine and front board, blind stamping to spine and covers, text block edges marbled. 10 maps (some fold-out) and 7 plans (all present, although the map listed as at page 33 is actually at page 60, opposite the appropriate text). The introductory section… Read more about this item

Toronto: Canadian Library Service / University of Toronto Press,, 1963. 168 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H) - green cloth with gold lettering and decoration on front board. Facsimile reprint edition of 2,000 copies - this copy unnumbered. Monotone photographs on front and rear pastedowns. Frances Monck's journal of her year (1864-5) in Lower Canada (with marginalia and corrections by… Read more about this item

Montreal: John Mcconniff, 1899. 111 pp, oblong (6" H x 9" D) - red patterned cloth spine with decorated paper-covered bevelled boards, all edges red. Floral-patterned endpapers, profusely illustrated in b&w with photographs (by William Notman, et al) and drawings showing the public, commercial, religious, and private buildings of late 19th century Montreal, along with the surrounding scenery, sports, methods… Read more about this item

Don Mills, Ontario: Longman Canada, 1971. 63 pp, 11 1/4" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "Here is a wealth of fascinating history, going back to the time when Dominion Square was a cemetery outside Montreal. Dr. Collard tells the story of the square's famous buildings, past and present. We visit a political rally when Sir John A. Macdonald was… Read more about this item

Toronto: Canadian Historical Association / University of Toronto Press , 1939. 157 pp, 9 11/16" H. Contents: The Appalachian Barrier in Canadian History (The Presidential Address), by Reginald G. Trotter; The Emergence of the Coureur de Bois as a Social Type, by Richard M. Saunders; Life and Customs in the French Villages of the Old Illinois Country (1763-1939),… Read more about this item

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1964. 160 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). "Life in a Quebec manor-house at the turn of the (20th) century is colourfully described in this biography of his childhood by Robert de Roquebrune. Skilfully woven into the texture of reminiscences about his own growing up are absorbing accounts of the early history of Canada. … Read more about this item