Ontario History from Robert Wright Books, ABAC / ILAB

Ottawa: Borealis,. Soft cover. As New. Trade paper format, 135 pages. In 2007 the Rideau Canal was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Labourers on the Rideau Canal honours the difficult, tragic lives of the workers who were instrumental in creating such a world treasure. The book includes genealogical paths to uncovering Irish and other groups´ ancestral… Read more about this item

On heavy card with rounded corners, 3 1/2" x 4 1/2" verso blank. Handwritten caption in lower margin. Architects Frederic Cumberland and William Storm designed the Romanseque Revival-style building with inspiration from the designs of Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England. Construction began on October 4, 1856. University College first opened its doors to students three years later on… Read more about this item

10 1/4" x 7 1/2", stapled pale pink wrappers, unpaginated, but [12]pp. Picture of Mayor Lewis E. Roenigk on cover only illustration. Brief programme notes include "A Few Word of Welcome"; a Cruising Race a Special Train (C.P.R.); the 48th Highlanders Band from Toronto; a Midway Afternoon And Evening (Maple Leaf Attractions); 50 Yard Dash; Balloon Races; Tug of War;… Read more about this item

Minutes and By-Laws of the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Richmond for the Year 1965. - Minutes and By-Laws of the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Richmond for the Year 1966. - Voters' List, 1965. - Voters' List, 1970. All four printed by the Napanee Beaver, Napanee Ontario. Tears to the spines of both… Read more about this item

Toronto: Printed by Imrie, Graham & Co., 31 Church Street, 1899. 7 1/2" x 4 7/8", pale green cloth blocked in black, pp. 218, + 10 pages of ads. Small stain and crimp in spine, suggestive of having been tied in a cord bundle at some point, else near fine. .

October and December Sessions, 1953. 36 pp. January Session 1954. 72 pp. June Session 1954. 36 pp. June Session 1956. 34 pp, January Session 1957. 93 pp. January Session 1958. 74 pp. Various local printers. Condition is generally good, with occasional light foxing and slight rippling to pages. .

St. Jacobs: Sand Hill Books, Inc., (1982). #211 of 1,250 copies offered for sale.. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong quarto, yellow cloth, unpaginted; illustrated. Book is near fine. The jacket has some edge tears and creaes, but is complete and is now in a removable, acid-neutral mylar dust jacket protector.

Ottawa: Borealis,. Soft cover. As New. Trade paper format, 135 pages. In 2007 the Rideau Canal was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Labourers on the Rideau Canal honours the difficult, tragic lives of the workers who were instrumental in creating such a world treasure. The book includes genealogical paths to uncovering Irish and other groups´ ancestral… Read more about this item

Hardcover. Very Good. Yearbook format: quarto, boards, pp. 95, (1). Illustrated in black and white, with some colour images as well. Printed by Jostens Canada. Chronicles the ground breaking ceremony at the plant site in 1947 through the history of the company, with material on their community involvement, and their association with Brown's Fine Foods, unions.as well as… Read more about this item

Self published. "Second generation " of the text, printed in 2017, after the first edition of 2017. Revised.. Hardcover. Fine. Quarto, glossy pictorial boards, pp. a-g, xvii, 264; illustrated. Publication history and author's signature on front pastedown endpaper. Impressive account of this contaminated site in Scarborough Ontario, compiled by a citizen scientist. As… Read more about this item

(Bowmanville):Lynn Michael-John Associates, (1997). Octavo, pictorial card covers, pp.iii, 187; illustrated. Signed by the author. Very good. .

(London): Phelps Publishing Company, (1978). First printing of 2,000 copies. Octavo, orange card covers, pp.viii, 84; illustrated. Spine faded, light soiling to covers, else very good. .

Belleville: Mika Silk Screening Limited, 1971. Octavo: red cloth, pp. vi, 354; illustrated. From the "Illustrated Historical Atlas of the County of Carleton", originally published in 1879 by H. Belden & Co., Toronto. Previous owner's small, tidy ink rubber stamp on front free endpaper, else near fine, no dust jacket. .

Township of Dummer, 1993. Octavo, teal boards, pp. [viii], 296, [4] pp. of advertisements for local businesses. Illustrated and with map endpapers. Near fine in dust jacket. .

(Renfrew: Juniper Books, 1983). First edition. Quarto, pictorial card covers, pp. 114; illustrated. A history of Irish Settlers in old District of Bathurst of the Ottawa Valley (now part of Carleton, Lanark and Renfrew). Publisher's small circular promotional sticker affixed neatly to front cover, else fine. .

The Champlain Society for the government of Ontario / University of Toronto Press, (1965). Reprinted. Octavo, publisher's red cloth, pp. cxiv, 445; illustrtaed with line drawings and plates. Volume VI in theb Ontario Series of The Champlain Society. Book is fine; dust jacket with fading to red printing on spine, a couple of minute… Read more about this item

(Peterborough: Self-published, ). First edition.. Quarto, brown and black wove cloth, pp. iv, 228; numerous b&w illustrations. Book is near fine, in dust jacjket with a long-closed tear to the front panel of the dust jacket, now protected in a removable. acid-neutral mylar dust jacket protector. . .

(Ridgeway): Log Cabin Publishing, (1992). #904 of 1,000 copies., 1992. Quarto: faux leather binding, pp. xxx, 274. Endpapers have facsimile signatures reproduced from documents, else no illustration. Signed by the author. Slight bumps to corners of covers, else fine. No dust jacket and presumably so issued. .

Pittsburgh Historical Society, 1989. First edition. Quarto, beige sloth, pp. xxx, 336; illustrated. History of Pittsburgh Township (east of Kingston, Ontario). Attractively designed by Peter Dorn. Slight lean to spine, else fine in an edge-worn dust jacket, with tears to top edge of the front panel. Presents attractively in a mylar dust jacket protector. May require extra postage..

The Peterborough Historical Atlas Foundation inc., (1975). Large folio, publisher's green cloth blocked in gilt on front cover, titled in silver lettering on spine, pp. 127; illustrated; maps. Set in Bodoni typeface on Oxford Antique paper. Gift inscriptyion on front free endpaper, light wear to rear board, else very good or better condition. No dust… Read more about this item