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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: 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. Stains to front cover.

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, Canada: Hudson Bay Company, 1994. 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 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, 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 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, 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, 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: On The Cariboo Road - Water-colour by Lucius O'Brien, National Gallery of Canada. Contents of this issue include: Annals of the Fur Trade - The making of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives by Deidre Simmons; Mere Curiosities Are Not Required - The story of the HBC Museum Collection by Robert Coutts and Katherine Pettipas; On the Cariboo Gold Rush Road - The long, dangerous journey to the mother lode by Robert Busch; 1919 - The Winnipeg General Strike reconsidered by JM Bumsted; The Packet/George Back's Sketchbooks; Christopher Moore on Dechene's New France; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Winnipeg: Canada's National History Society, 1996. 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. Moderately creased vertically down center else a very good copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Iroquois warrior, 1787, by J. Grasset de St. Sauveur (Library of Congress). Contents of this issue include: The Birthday Party - We celebrated 1967 as dark clouds gathered by JM Bumsted; Our Lodge in the Wilderness - Alma Dick-Lauder, Victorian eccentric by Paul Grimwood; The Treaties of 1760 - Mohawk pacts reverberate across two centuries by John Thompson; The Beast of War & The Lake - German prisoners in Canadian cottage country by Jake MacDonald; Living Picture - The movies come to Canada, 1896 by Peter Steven; Frank Slide - Did greed bring a mountain down? by Allen Seager; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from… Read More

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 or better copy (other copies may also be available). Cover: Blackfoot girl with cat, Macleod, 1880s; Glenbow Archives/Anderton Collection. Contents of this issue: Wings Over the North; An old company learns some new tricks, 1921-1939 by Robert Grant; Son of The Firebrand; William Lyon Mackenzie's long-lost son rediscovered by Chris Raible; The Face Puller; George Anderton, A Victorian photographer on the North-West frontier by Brock Silversides; Was it Murder? To lose one husband to arsenic is bad enough. But two? by Cheryl Macdoanld; Secret Trains Across Canada; An invisible army rides the CPR, 1917-1918 by Elizabeth Tancock; The Dark Side of Mariposa; The years pass slowly at Orillia's Asylum for Idiots by Joan Morris and Virginia Hartley; Christopher Moore on Who Killed the… 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: The Challenge of the Mountains - from an early CPR travel brochure, Glenbow Archives. Contents of this issue include: Christopher Dafoe on Canada's Century; Guardians of The Rockies - Conservationists and mountain-climbers by PearlAnn Reichwein; The Friendly Games - Hamilton hosts the first British Empire Games, 1930 by Glynn Leyshon; Myth-Making at Fort St. James - History, in various versions, 1828-1928 by Frieda Esau Klippenstein; Kathleen Parlow: A Life in Music - A Canadian virtuoso in St. Petersburg, 1906 by Hubert Mayes; The New Jerusalem - Jewish pioneers go back to the land, 1884 by Abraham Arnold; Christopher Moore meets Pierre Berton; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate… Read More

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1995. 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: Fishing on the Souris, by Marion E. Barker. Contents of this issue include: Christopher Dafoe:Annals of The Beaver; Colours of the Farm - A boy's life on a prairie farm between the wars by Donald Lamont; Fuel for the Home Fires - Taking care of the women they left behind, 1914-1918 by Desmond Morton and Cheryl Smith; Louis Slotin and the Invisible Killer - The tragedy of a Canadian scientist and the A-bomb by Martin Zeilig; Tyrant of the Ottawa Valley - Planting the Clan McNab in colonial Canada by Bernard Shaw; North with the Red River Brigade - A York Boat adventure in the days of the fur trade by William Cornwallis King; A Surgeon on the Bay - An eighteenth-century man of all sciences by WB Ewart; Tourists in Old… Read More