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1 PatrickMcGahernBooks, Inc. (ABAC) since 1969 (Patrick & Liam McGahern) 368 Dalhouise Street, Suite 301 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1N 7G3 Telephone (613) E Mail: books@mcgahernbooks.ca Visit our website, it works: Hours: Monday to Saturday from 11am to 5pm. Catalogue Canadiana Prices in Canadian Funds 1. ADAM, G. Mercer The Canadian North-West: its History and it s Troubles, from the early days of the fur-trade to the era of the railway and the settler: with Incidents of travel in the region, and The Narrative of Three Insurrections. Toronto. Rose Publishing Co. & Whitby, Ont. Robertson & Bros cm, 390p. many illustrations, in original pictorial gilt decorated brown cloth, very good to fine copy Peel ALLAN, Billie Lamb Dew Upon the Grass. Saskatoon. Modern Press cm, first edition, 140p., frontis, illustrations, mapped endpapers, green cloth, a fine copy in very good illustrated jacket Personal reflections on pioneering in the Moose Lake area of northern Manitoba. 3. Anonymous. Annapolis Valley Business Directory and Radio Log, Comprising Home Buyer's Guide, Radio Log, Bridge Rules, Train and Boat Schedules. Np. Np. Nd. [1934]. 8vo, 23cm, 36p., many local ads., title with illus repeated on the upper cover in frame border, original printed wraps, a few ink splashes on the cover, very good copy - Not in Amicus [ARCTIC]. BEALS, C.S. (Editor) Science, History and Hudson Ba y. Design and preparation by D.A. Shenstone. Ottawa. Dept. of Energy, Mines & Resour ces cm, in two volumes, with numerous illustrations and plates, drawings, charts and maps (several folding), tales, bibliography, illustrated cloth, a fine set Contains 43 articles and 15 chapters by various experts on the north. It is aimed at the scientific and the general reader. Covers the physical characteristics of Hudson Bay, its flora, the people, early explorers, etc. 5. [ARCTIC]. BEHRING SEA CLAIMS COMMISSION] Behring Sea Claims Commission. Argument on Behalf of Great Britain. In Reply. N.p. Behring Sea Claims Commission. c.[1897]. 4to. 30cm, 31, 18pp., appendices, marbled endpapers, full pebbled morocco presenation binding, gilt titles on front, spine torn & chipped, rear cover rubbed, very good A scarce presentation copy with name in gilt on front-prominent Montreal lawyer and Canadian Senator, Frederick L. Belique. The "argument" is presented by the Canadian legal councillors representing Great Britain on the Commission: Frederick Peters (Prime Minister of Prince Edward Island, ); Ernest V. Bodwell (Governor of British Columbia); Charles Hibbert Tupper (Canadian cabinet minister); and Frederick L. Belique. Although the Bering Sea Arbitration was settled in 1893 in favour of Great Britain, the Commission was convened to address the question of specific damages. 6. [ARCTIC]. BOAS, Franz & Walter James Hoffman The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians. Based on the Personal Observations and Notes made by Mr. George Hunt. (Boas) [With] The Graphic Art of the Eskimos. Based Upon the Collections in the National Museum. (Hoffman). [Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution...For the Year ending June 30, Washington. Government Printing Office cm, pp & pp , 51 plates & 215 text figures (Boas), 82 plates & 215 text figures, music, doub le-page map (Alaska),appendices, green pebbled cloth, gilt spine titles, hinges broken but holding, spine creased, very good An extensive study of the Kwakiutl of the coast of

2 Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca it works Page order line British Columbia with extensively illustrated chapters on social organization, the potlatch, marriage, clan legends, spirits and religious ceremonies, the winter ceremonial and secret societies. A significant appendix lists the text of Kwakiutl songs, some with music. Much of the research for the Report was carried out by George Hunt of Fort Rupert, British Columbia. The Hoffman study is chiefly of the Inuit (Eskimo) of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands with chapters on prehistory and population, environment, art and materials, pictographs, and shamanism. An appendix describes the many gesture signs of t he Eskimo.Walter James Hoffma n, M.D. was Honorary Curator, Ethnologica l Museum, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. 7. [ARCTIC]. CAIRNES, D.D. Upper White River District, Yukon. Memoir 50. No.51, Geological Series. Ottawa. Geological Survey cm, with 15 plates, 3 folding maps in rear pocket, index, grey wraps, very good to fine [ANTARCTIC]. DOUMANI, George A. The Frigid Mistress. Life and Exploration in Antarctic. Baltimore. Noble House p., illustrations, map, mapped endpapers, biblio., b la ck cloth, signed by the author, a fine copy in fine jacket [ARCTIC]. DRUCKER, Philip & Robert F. Heizer To Make My Name Good. A Re-examination of the Southern Kwakiutl Potlatch. Berkeley and Los Angeles. University of California Press cm, 160p., bibliography, index, tan cloth, a fine copy in very good jacket [ARCTIC]. FLEMING, Fergus Barrow s Boys. London. Granta Books cm, xiv,489p., maps, 15 plates and illustrations, blue cloth, a fine copy in fine jacket [ARCTIC]. HENRY, Walter and the Canadian Bush Pilot Book Project (edited by). Uncharted Skies. Canadian Bush Pilot Stories. Np. A Reidmore Book cm, illustrations from photographs, blue cloth, previous owner s signature, fine in fine jacket [ARCTIC]. HUNT, Barbara (ed.) Rebels, Rascals & Royalty The Colourful North of LACO Hunt. Yellowknife, Canada. Outcrop Ltd cm, v,219p., index, mapped endpapers, original red cloth with gilt spine titles, a fine copy in fine jacket [ARCTIC]. International Boundary Commission Joint Report upon the Survey and Demarcation of the International Boundary between the United States and Canada along the 141st Meridian from the Arctic Ocean to Mount St. Elias. In accordance with the provisions of Article IV of the Convention signed at Washington April 21, Ottawa. Department of the Interior to. 31cm, 305p., frontis, photographs, 14 text maps & diagrams, 8 triangulation sketches, appendices, index, three-quarter morocco, brown cloth, gilt spine title & bands, slight rubbing to covers, near fine An extensive report on the survey and marking of the Yukon/Alaska boundary. The field work was finished in [ARCTIC]. ISHAM, James James Isham's Observations on Hudsons Bay, 1743 and Notes and Observations on a book entitled A Voyage To Hudsons Bay In The Dobbs Galley, [By Henry Ellis]. Edited with Introduct ion b y E.E. Rich. Toronto. Published by the Champlain Society No. 12., cm, cv,352p. appendices, with 19 illustrations, limited to 550 numbered copies, this being number 342, original crest red cloth, t.e.g., slight label residue on the spine otherwise a fine copy T.P.L "Isham's observations are not primarily concerned with the fur trade. Indeed as a serious guide to the practical merchants of the Hudson's Bay Company, they had grave defects, but t hey ar e a mine of interesting information to the historian, anthropologist and naturalist..." 15. [ARCTIC]. JENNESS, Diamond & Stuart E. Jenness Through Darkening Spectacles. Memoirs of Diamond Jenness. [Mercury Series. History Paper 55]. Ottawa. Canadian Museum of Civilization cm, 407p., frontis portrait, 57 illustrations, 14 maps, appendices, 2 tables, appendices, biblio,, index, illustrated wraps, fine Inscribed on title-page by co-author and son. With a list of Diamond Jenness' publications. 16. [ARCTIC]. JOHNSTON, Wayne The Navigator of Ne w York. Toronto. Alfred A. Knopf Canada cm, first edition, 486p., blue paper boards with gilt titles, signed by the author, a very good copy in very good complete jacket [ARCTIC]. KANE, Elisha Kent, reduced & discussed by Charles A. Schott Magnetical Observations in the Arctic Seas. Made during the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, in 1853, 1854, and 1855, at Van Rensselaer Harbor, and ot her point s on t he West Coast of Greenland. [Smithsonian Contribut ions to Knowledge.(Vol. 10).] Washington City. Published by the Smithsonian Institution Folio. 33cm, 66p., 2 rear plates, extensive charts, library blind-stamp on title page, string-bound printed wraps, scattered light foxing, spine & edges rubbed, good Arctic Bibliography Contains notes on instruments, and met hods used, w it h t ables of results of observations made by August Sonntag. 18. [ARCTIC]. KENDRICK, John (Tr anslat ed and Introduced by) The Voyage of Sutil and Mexicana The last Spanish exploration of the northwest coast of America. Spokane, Washington. The Arthur H. Clark Co cm, 260p., 6 maps, 13 illustrations, bibliography, index, blue cloth, fine in fine jacket [ARCTIC]. PEARD, George To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey. The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of H.M.S. `Blossom', Edited by Barry M. Gough. Hakluyt Society. Cambridge, at

3 Page Patrick McGahern Books, Inc the University Press cm, 272p. frontis & 2 plates & 2 folding maps (on one sheet), bibliography, fine in fine jacket [ARCTIC]. RAY, George R. Kasba. (White Partridge). A Story of Hudson Bay. Author's Edition. Toronto. William Briggs mo. 19cm, first (sole) edition, 259p., grey cloth, tit les and decorations stamped in white on the spine and upper cover, fine in fine jacket Novel based on the author's experiences in the Chesterfield Inlet area. 21. [ARCTIC]. REGEHR, T.D. The Canadian Northern Railway. Pioneer Road of the Northern Prairies, Tor ont o. Ma cmillan of Canada vo. 23cm, 543p., with 10 maps, 15 tables, 6 appendices, index, biblio, fine in very good jacke2t Further proof that internet bookselling is follow the leader, copies online list from [ARCTIC]. RICH, E.E. The Fur Trade and The Northwest to The Canadia n Centenary Series. Toronto. McClelland and Stewart cm, 336p., plates and illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, blue cloth, a fine copy in very good to fine jacket [ANTARCTIC]. ROSE, Lisle A. Assault on Eternity. Richa rd E. Byrd and the Exploration of Antarctica, Annapolis, Maryland. Naval Institute Press vo. 23cm, x,292p., many plates and illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, black cloth, silver stamped titles, near fine in similar jacket [ARCTIC]. SHACKLETON, Edward Arctic Journeys. The Story of the Oxford University Ellesmere Expedition, With a preface by Lord Tweedsmuir. London. Hodder & Stoughton. Nd. 21.5cm, 372p. with 56 plates and illustrations, and 4 maps plus rear folding map, appendices, green cloth over paper boards, spine faded (titles clear), a very good sound copy Travel Book Club issue but with the same plates and pagination as the first edition. - A.B The story of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition led by Dr. G.N. Humphreys and organized by Edward Shackleton. 25. [ARCTIC]. SHEARWOOD, Mrs. F.P. By Water and the Word. A Transcription of the Diary of The Right Reverend J.A. Newnham, M.A., D.D., LL.D. While Plying the Waters and Ice Fields of Northern Canada in the Diocese of Moosonee. Toronto. The Macmillan Company of Canada cm, viii,216p., 8 illustrations, mapped endpapers, red cloth, gilt titles, upper edges & spine sunned, very good to fine J.A. Newnham, Anglican clergyman, was the Bishop of Moosonee from 1983 to [ARCTIC]. STAMP, Tom and Cordelia William Scoresby. Arctic Scientist. Caedmon of Whit by Pr ess cm, xii,253p., illustrtions, bibliography, index, blue cloth with paper label, a fine copy in fine jacket [ANTARCTIC]. STOKKE, Olav Schram & Davor Vidas (Edited by) Go verning the Antarctic. The Effectiveness and legitimacy of the Antarctic Treaty System. Cambridge. Cambridge at the University Press cm, xxii,464p., 5 figures, index, blue cloth, fine in fine jacket [ARCTIC]. STUCK, Hudson Ten Thousand Miles With A Dog Sled. A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska.. New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, vo, 23cm, first edition, xix,420p., frontis portrait, many illustrations on 51 plates (including 4 in colour), folding colour map has tear in one panel, blue cloth, gilt titles, a very good to fine copy A.B The author over a period of eight years traveled for the Episcopal Missions along the rivers of central Alaska and on Seward Peninsula... he touches upon the native and white inhabitants, travel conditions, and life in the interior ; discusses the Indians and Eskimos, dogs, and photography. 29. [ARCTIC]. TYRRELL, Edith I Was There. A Book of Reminiscences. Toronto. The Ryerson Press cm, first edition, 131p., with 14 illustrations, original blue cloth, very good to fin e The author was Mrs. J.B. Tyrrell and includes here reminis-cences of Brantford, Ottawa, the Barren Lands, the Gold Fields, the Klondike, etc. The jacket contains a interior portrait illustration (The Author and Her Husband in Their Log Cabin at Porcupine), on the upper panel under the caption title: "Perhaps the most fascinating autobiography ever written by a Canadian woman". 30. [ARCTIC]. VANCOUVER, George, edited by W. Kaye Lamb A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World In 4 Volumes. [Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society. Second Series. No ]. London. The Hakluyt Society cm, xx, 1752pp., 4 frontis portraits, 46 plates including frontispiece portraits, large folding ma p in rear pocket (Vol. I), appendices, bibliography, index, blue cloth, gilt decoration on upper covers, gilt spine titles, a fine set in jackets The first annotated edition of Vancouver's journal as he revised it for publication in His narrative has been supplemented by logs or journals by other members of the expedition. W ith a very significant introduction and appendices by W. Kaye Lamb, former Dominion Archivist and National Librarian of Canada. Includes a large facsimile map:" A Chart shewing part of the Coast of N.W. America with the tracks of His Majesty's Sloop Discovery' and Armed Tender Chatham'" 31. [ARCTIC]. WALDO, Fullerton Down the Mackenzie through the Great Lone Land. New York. Macmillan cm, first edition, 251p. with 35 plates and illustrations, mapped endpapers, original decorated green cloth, with photo illustrations laid down on the upper cover, a fine copy A.B A good travel account, with description of

4 Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca it works Page order line Canada's northern peoples by a popular travel and adventure writer. Narrated from a passenger boat trip in ATHEARN, Robert G. Forts of the Upper Missouri. (American Forts Series). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Prentice-Hall cm, xi,339p., w it h 24 phot ogr aphs, mapped endpapers, bibliography, notes, index, black cloth backed brown cloth boards, gilt spine titles, very good to fine A history of the string of forts built along the Upper Missouri in the 1850's and expanded during the Civil War as a result of the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. 33. BEAVER, Herbert Reports and Letters of Herbert Beaver, Chaplain to the Hudson's Bay Company and Missionary to the Indians at Fort Vancouver. Edited by Thomas E. Jessett. Portland, Oregon. Published by the Champoeg Press sm4to. 26.5cm, xxiv,148,[5]p., frontis view, limited to 750 copies, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy, title page printed in red and black, on rag paper, green cloth, a fine copy Strathern 32. "Reports to the Governor and Committee and letters to the Deputy-Governor, with James Douglas' report on the Beaver affair, edited from the originals in the Company's Archives. 34. BERNECHE, Stanley M., edited Fuddle Duddle. The Hansard of the Common People. Volume I, Numbers 1 to 5. Ottawa. JRD Publishing Co t o cm, various paginations, heavily illustrated, cartoons, colour illustrated wraps, a fine set A complete run of a short-lived Canadian political satirical magazine modeled on the style of "Mad" magazine. Intended to run at ten copies a year, the magazine was cancelled after the first five copies. The title "Fuddle Duddle" was based on a euphemism used by Prime Minister Trudeau for unparliamentary language spoken by him on 16 February, 1971 in the Canadian House of Commons. With extensive cartoon illustrations by editor, Stanley M. Berneche. Copies of "Fuddle Duddle" a r e rarely seen particularly as a complete run. 35. BETHUNE, A.N. ( ). The Clergy Reserve Question in Canada. London. Printed by R. Clay cm, 24p., printed self wraps (fragile, library stamp on the upper cover), wraps rebound in black library cloth with blanks, rare T.P.L Lande S181. Gagnon I-269. Casey I BOURINOT, J.G. Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island of Cape Breton and of Its Memorials of the French Regime: with Biographical, Historical, and Critical Notes. Montreal. W. Foster Brown & Co to. 31cm, 183p., 4 maps (1 folding), 6 figures, 2 folding plans, maroon cloth-backed grey paper over boards, gilt titles on front & spine, boards slightly dust worn and bit worn on the edges else a fine copy, scarce in this condition With extensive details on the two sieges of Louisbourg, including two plans of the Fortress. 37. BRADLEY, Mary A Narrative of the Life and Christian Experience of Mrs. Mary Bradley, of Saint John, New Brunswick. Written by Herself. Including Extracts from Her Diary and Correspondence during a Period of Upwards of Sixty Years. Boston. Published for the Author, by Strong & Brodhead, Boston mo, 19cm, first edition, 375p., rebound in modern gray fine grain book linen, gilt spine titles, text is clean sound, a fine copy thus, rare Mrs. Mary Bradley, a native of Gagetown, Queens County, born Sept. 1, Her father was Edward Coy, the first Englishman to settle at that place. (MacFarlane. New Brunswick Bibliogr a phy , p14.). Contains some pre-loyalist history but the autobiography leans on her religious experiences. A scarce and interesting insight into the early settlement of New Brunswick. Manuscript Shipping Registers 38. [BRIDGETOWN, Nova Scotia] Shipping Registers. In Two Volumes: Coasting Registers; Inwards and Outwards. I. Register of British Vessels employed in the Coasting Trade of the Dominion of Canada, which arrived at the Port of Bridgetown, N.S. during the Fiscal Year ending 30th Year, [to 30 June 1906]. II. Register of British Vessels...which departed from, Bridgetown, N.S. during the Fiscal Year ending 30th June, [to 30th March 1910]. [Bridgetown, Nova Scotia.]. Handwritten manuscript folio. 42cm, unpaginated (each volume around 65 pages used plus many blank leaves), the pages are printed with hand-written entries, half bound in reversed calf, cloth boards, gilt spine titles on crimson morocco labels, corners & edges rubbed, very good (internally fine) , Very informative registers with dates of arrivals (or departures), name of vessel, master's name, destination (or original port), cargo (or in ballast), tonnage and number of crew. Entries are in ink (black or red) and are in very neat script. Unique items displaying an active Nova Scotia and New Brunswick coastal shipping trade from 1876 to BROWN, Pearl Cochran Rambling Over Roads and Hills of Newport Township. Windsor, Nova Scotia. Lancelot Press cm, reprint of the 1968 edition, 124p., illustrations, printed wraps, fine An anecdotal history of a Nova Scotia township with much genealogical information. Family histories include Forrest, Chambers, Palmer, Hunt er, Sw eet, Glassey, Rockwell, and Fox. 40. BURNADA, Isabelle & A.O. Jacob A Canuck Goes to the Continent. Book I: France and Germany. Ottawa. Canadian Legion War Services Inc., Committee on Education mo. 14.5cm, 149 & 93pp., brown printed wraps, some creasing to fore-edge, very good A practical booklet written for Canadian servicemen serving in Europe during World War Two. Includes vocabulary, grammar, expressions including specific military terms.

5 Page Patrick McGahern Books, Inc 41. BURPEE, Lawrence J. Among The Canadian Alps. New York & London. John Lane 1914, 23cm, the first edition, 239p. with 4 colour plates, 45 reproductions from photographs & 5 maps, green cloth, gilt titles, a very good to fine copy "Includes descriptions of Yoho, Illecilliwaet, Nakimu Caves, and mountains in the Selkirk range". Edwards 545. There was another edition in 1915 and Toronto (191 8). Neate, CAMPBELL, Wilfred & T. Mower Martin. Canada. London. A.& C. Black cm, first edition. xviii,272p. ads., with colour frontis & 76 full page colour plates, rear folding map, original crimson cloth extra gilt and color decorated, t.e.g., a fine bright copy CAMPBELL, Wilfred & George Bryce The Scotsman in Canada. Volume One: Eastern Canada, including Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario. Volume Two: (by George Bryce). Western Canada, includes Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and portions of old Rupert's Land and the Indian Territories. Toronto & London. The Musson Book Company. nd. [1911], 8vo. 21cm, in 2 volumes, 432 & 439pp., with 16 portrait plates, index, green cloth, gilt spine and cover titles, a very good set A letter written to the author is loosely inserted in the front of volume one. 44. [CANADA]. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation 1956 Winnipeg Declaration of Principles of the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation (Parti Social Democratique du Canada). Montreal. Printed by Metcalfe Robinson Printing Service cm, 4p., pamphlet, fine Weinrich The CCF Party was established and proclaimed by the Regina Manifesto of This pamphlet reaffirms the principles and goals of the Party over twenty years later. 45. CANADA. Dept of Agriculture. Canada In Reports of Tenant Farmers' Delegates on the Dominion of Canada as a Field for Set t lement. Second Series. [Ottawa]. Department of Agriculture vo. 21.5cm. viii,[9]-144p. in the original gilt and blind stamped brown cloth, a fine bright copy, rare in cloth, - Peel (3) CANADA. Report of the Select Committee Appointed by the House of Commons To Obtain Information as to Geological Surveys, &c. &c. Ottawa. Printed by Order of Parliament cm, 207p. original printed wraps, fine The object of the committee was "to obtain information as to the methods adopted by the Geological Surveys in this and other countries in the prosecution of their work, with a view of ascertaining if additional technical and statistical records of mining and metallurgical development in the Dominion should not be procured and preserved". 47. CANADA. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on Canadian Gold Fields. Report on the Canadian Gold Fields, and the best means of their development. Quebec. George E. Desbarats cm, 126p., 2 folding maps, rebound in new wrappers with upper cover laid down, very good to fine copy thus T.P.L Dionne The committee was chaired by Robert Bell. The report and the maps deal with the Chaudiere and St. Francis River regions in eastern Quebec, and with the St. John River in New Brunswick. An early and important report. Report with the Scarce Atlas 48. CANADA. Geological Survey. Report o f Progress for the Years Toronto. Printed by John Lovell cm, 494p. with 4 large folding maps, (one map illustrates the distribution of the Laurentain limestones, a reduced map of Mr. Murray's explorations...), rebound in black fabrikoid, with gilt titles, new endpapers, otherwise a very good to fine se4t Together with: The Atlas to accompany the report: Plans of Various Lakes and Rivers between Lake Huron and The River Ottawa, to accompany the Geological Reports for Toronto. Printed by John Lovell folio. 30cm, with 22 large folding maps, some maps have minor tape repairs, rebound in black fabrikoid with gilt titles, new endpapers, The maps show the explorations of the Muskoka, the Pet ew ahw eh, the Bonne-Chere, the South-West Branch of the Madawaska, and the Sources of the Ottonabee; Lake Nipissing and several rivers of the surrounding country. Etc. etc. "All the maps are required for the proper understanding of the reports." - W.E. Logan, from the introduction. 49. CANADA. ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE. The Queen's Regulations and Orders for the Royal Canadian Air Force. CAP 4. In Three Volumes. Ottawa. Canadian Forces Headquarters small4to. 25.5cm, numerous paginations, amendments, appendices, in four-ring binders, blue cloth covered boards, RCAF crest on front, edges worn, a very good set, uncommon ~ Vol. I: Administrative. Vol. II: Disciplinary. Vol. III: Financial. A set of Q.R.(Air) would have been found in all R.C.A.F. orderly rooms. 50. [CANADA]. Presentation Program Visit of His Royal Highness Prince Arthur of Connaught, K.G. to Canada. March 27- May 10, Ottawa. Government Printing Bureau cm, 73p., regal crest vignette on title, 13 programs, itineraries, speeches, in full limp morocco, gilt spine and upper titles with crest, marbled endpapers, t.e.g., slight half circular damp stain on the top margin of the text only, some slight wear on the edges else very good to fine With printed pr esentation slip tipped on to title page-"with Mr. Pope's compliments". Sir Joseph Pope was the Under-Secretary of State for Canada from 1896 to Prince Arthur traveled from Victor ia t o Halifax then Montreal via Canadian Pacific, Canadian Northern, Grand Trunk and Intercolonial Railw ays. The book gives itineraries, programs, speeches and replies. As Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Prince Arthur was appointed Governor-General of Canada in 1911.

6 Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca it works Page order line [CANADA] Souvenir Menu South Soporific. Parliamentary Press Gallery. March 27, (Ottawa). Privately printed to. 29.5cm, (4p.), menu, cover cartoon illustration, menu, fine A satirical souvenir menu designed as a spoof on the musical "South Pacific" a nd Pr ime Minister Louis St. Laurent' s travels to Hawaii- by "The Horse and Cart Opera Company". The cover cartoon by Doyle Smith shows Prime Minister St. Laurent in a hammock in Hawaii being serenaded by hula girls! In 1954, St. Laurent made an extended trip to England, France, Italy, India, and Hawaii. The menu "cast" is listed as "An itinerant Prime Minister, his Son, a Chore Boy, $10,000-a-year men, Opposition party leaders, and anyone else who gets into the act". 52. [ CANADA] House of Commons Souvenir of the New Mace for the House of Commons of the Dominion of Ca nada...this Mace, replacing the original Mace of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada destroyed by fire on February 17th, 1916 was presented by Colonel the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles Cheers Wakefield, Lord Mayor of London, and the Sheriffs of London, George Alexander Touche, Esq., M.P. and Samuel George Shead, Esq., June, In its design and execution the Mace forms an emblem of Authority well worthy of the great country for which it is intended. [With a full page photogravure of the Mace]. London. Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company, Ltd Oblong Folio 28x 37cm, 2p., heavy stock paper, in white printed card covers with British Coat of Arms on front, imprint of illustration on opposite page, a very good to fine copy The Mace, still in use today, was manufactured by the Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Company, Ltd., Jewellers to His Majesty the King, 112, Regent Street, London. Laid-in are four moder n pr ofessional reproductions of original photographs dated from 1917 to 1920 showing stages in the rebuilding of the Parliament Buildings. 53. [CANADIAN Trade Catalogue]. Canada Wire... Wire Rope and Fittings. Catalogue No. W.R. 42. Canada Tr u-lay. Steel Wire Rope for Every Purpose. Toronto, Montreal, Hamilton... Canada Wire and Cable Co. Nd. [1947]. 12mo, 20cm, 287,[2]p., extensively illustrated, original colour illustrated dark green fabrikoid, a fine clean copy Many illustrations of steel wire and fittings, and applica t ions including heavy equipment. Also much practical information a bout setups and procedures. A useful and informative trade catalogue. 54. CARMICHAEL, James Is There a God for Man to Know? Toronto. The Musson Book Co mo, 113p., dark blue green cloth, gilt titles and border on the upper cover, text has slight wrinkling else a fine copy Studies belief in God as practiced by numerous other cultures, including The Tonga Islands, the numerous North American tribes, etc. etc. - James Carmichael, D.D., D.C.L. Dean of Montreal. 55. CARMICHAEL-SMYTH, Colonel Sir James Precis of The Wars in Canada, from 1755 to the Treaty of Ghent in With Military and Political Reflections. Edited by his son Sir James Carmichael. London. Tinsley Brothers vo, 2nd edition, 216,[4]p., ads., in the original dust worn wavy grain red cloth, gilt spine titles, int er nal pr ivat e library stamp (Royal Engineers), attractively printed 19th century bookplate & one call number, some wear at the edges, a very good sound copy, in my experience this second edition is scarcer than the first edition T.P.L Sabin Lande 802. Gagnon II This work, first published in limited numbers in 1825, was Car michael-smyth's official report to the Duke of Wellington, prepared just after his mission to Canada in 1825 to inspect its fortifications. It was printed for official circulation only, in 1826 and is here reprinted with a preface by the Author's son. It covers, in some detail, the campaigns against Quebec by Arnold and Mont gomer y in 1775, Burgoyne's campaign in 1777, and the military and political operations of the War of The work was designed to prove, on the evidence of these former wars, the feasibility of the British retaining Canada, by adopting the measures recommended in the Author's Copy of a Report, etc. A memoir of Major General Smyth forms pp According to p. 21, "In the present disturbed state of the great continent of North America, no one can foretell what complications may ar ise, or how soon the acts of some reckless and unprincipled adventure may produce a rupture between the Federal States and this country." 56. CASTONGUAY, Jacques Les Voltigeurs de Quebec. Au service du Canada depuis Volume 2. Quebec. The Regiment cm, 458p., numerous illustrations, chronology, appendices, black cloth, silver regimental badge on front, fine in fine jacket, very scarce A history of the Regiment from the end of World War Two to the present. Much about peacekeeping operations and with a substantial history of the regimental band. Very few copies of Volume 2 are available due to most copies being burned in a recent armories fire. 57. [CATALOGUE] Timothy Eaton Company Spring and Summer Catalogue, Your Price Guide. (Cover). Toronto. T. Eaton Co. Limited to. 32.5cm, 283p., thousands of illustrations including some colour, index, green wraps with a ds on rear cover, upper corner of pp.179/180 clipped, lightly rubbed, fine The first Eaton's catalogue appeared in 1884 in Toronto and rapidly became an indispensable mail-order catalogue for a primarily rural Canada. This Depression-era catalogue has a plethora of items from clothing to farm implements with most items selling for less than $5.00!! 58. Canadian Periodical. The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science, and Art: Conducted by The Editing Committee of the Canadian Institute. New Series. Vol. IV. Edited by Daniel Wilson. Toronto. The Canadian Institute cm, 510p., frontis, 2 rear plates, folding diagram, charts, text figures, index, in contemporary half calf, blind and gilt decorated raised bands, leather label gilt, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, near fine

7 Page Patrick McGahern Books, Inc Six issues for Articles include: On Parasites. (Oille); On the Fossil Cor als of the Devonian Rocks of Canada West (E. Billings); Not es on Latin Inscriptions Found in Br itain (Rev. John McCaul); Of Some of the Superstitions and Customs Common among the Indians of the Valley of the Assiniboine and Saskatchewan (Henry Y. Hind); Early Notices of the Beaver, in Europe and America (Daniel Wilson); The Sensationalist Philosophy (William Hincks); The Quigrich [pictured as frontispiece](daniel Wilson); On the Employment of the Electric Telegraph in Determining the Longitude of Some of the Principal Places in Canada. (Lieut. E.D. Ashe). Also includes extensive book reviews, scientific reports and meteorological observations. 59. Canadian Periodical. The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science, and Art: Conducted by The Editing Committee of the Canadian Institute. New Series. Vol. VI. Edited by E.J. Chapman. Toronto. The Canadian Institute., cm, 5 46p., 1 folding plate, text figures, index, in contemporary half calf, blind and gilt decorated raised bands, leather label gilt, marbled boards, endpapers and edges, near fin1e The six issues of the scientific periodical for Articles include: Notices of Birds Observed near Hamilton, C.W. (Thomas McIlwraith); Of the Science of Political Economy (W. Hincks); Remarks on the Fauna of the Quebec Group of Rocks, and the Primordial Zone of Canada (Sir William Logan); "Note on Regelation" (Michael Faraday); A Popular Exposition of the Minerals and Geology of Canada (E.J. Cha pma n); Of Lake Area of Western Canada (E.J. Chapman); Notes on the Davenport Gravel Drift (Sandford Fleming); On the Devonian Fossils of Ca na da West (E. Billings); On the Petroleum Springs of Western Canada (Charles Robb); On Great Fluctuations of Temperatures in the Arctic Winter (J.J. Murphy). Also includes book reviews, scientific reports and meteorological observations. 60. [CLARK, Charles]. A Few Words on the Subject of Canada. By a Barrister. "It seems to be the obligation of a general law which affects all these disputes between a popular assembly on the one hand, and the executive on the ot her... that popular assemblies are hardly ever wrong in the beginning, and hardly ever right at the conclusion, of these struggles", - Lord John Russell. London. Longmans, Rees, Orme, Brown, Greene & Longman vo., 20.5cm, 52p., disbound, fine thus, rare T.P.L Not in Lande or Gagnon. Early Canadian Temperance 61. CHINIQUY, C. Manual of the Temperance Society, dedicated to the youth of Canada by the Rev. Father... Translated from the French by Pierre Octave Demaray. Montreal. Lovell & Gibson vo, 20.5cm, first English edition, 113p. original printed wraps with title reproduced in decorated bor der on the upper cover and "The Drunkard's Tree" printed on the bottom wraps, slightly dust worn else very good to fine Lande T.P.L Morgan p74. Gagnon II:431. Chiniquy, w ho w as a Cat holic priest and a native of Kamouraska, founded t he first French Canadian Temperance society. 62. [COACH HOUSE PRESS] PORTER, D.H. [pseud. of David Hlynsky]. Baggage. Toronto. The Coach House Press x 14cm, first edition, [28]p., limited to 1000 copies, with 44 plates and illustrations (about half, tipped in plates in colour), quarter green fabrikoid and linen boards, a fine copy CONNER, Daniel and Lorraine Miller Master Mariner. Capt. James Cook and the Peoples of the Pacific. Vancouver. Douglas & McIntyre cm, oblong, xi,164p., 61 engravings, 23 illustrations, endpapers, bibliography, cloth, fine in very good jacket [CONTACT PRESS] MANDEL, Eli Fuseli Poems. Toronto. Contact Press. [1960]. 8vo. 62,[2]p., coloured decorated stiff card wraps, slight dust worn at the spine and along the edges, author's signed presentation copy, the Author's First Separate Book, scarce Approximately 250 copies were printed DAWSON, J.W. Contributions toward the Improvement of Agriculture in Nova Scotia; with Practical Hints on the Management and Improvement of Live St ock, compiled from Youatt, Johnston, Young, Pet er s, Stephens, &c. Second Edition, Revised and Improved. Halifax. Printed by Richard Nugent vo. 21.5cm, 280p. with 6 plates containing 12 wood-cut illustrations, rebound in half light grey fine grain linen and marbled boards, titles bands and rules stamped in black, usually extensively foxed this copy is relatively clean, a fine copy thus T.P.L Sabin Morgan p94. Dionne II-890. Not in Lande. Dawson had vigorously a dv a nced the teaching of agricultural chemistry, and when no suitable text was obtainable he wrote several himself, including Scientific contr ib ut ions towards the improvement of agriculture in Nova Scotia (Pictou, 1853) and Practical hints t o t he farmers of Nova-Scotia... (Halifax, 1854). A combined and revised version of these texts for use in Quebec schools would appear in 1864, published in Montreal by John Lovell as First lessons in scientific agriculture: for schools and private instruction (DCB). Published under a grant from the Legislature, it includes chapters on soils, grains, cattle, horses, sheep, swine, poultry, ma nures, orchards, etc 66. DAWSON, George M. Notes on the Shuswap People of British Columbia. [Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. Section II, 1891]. (Ottawa). Royal Society of Canada to. 29cm, pp.3-44, 9 figures, rear map, bound in modern wrappers with paper title label, very good Ethnological notes and observations made by the author while engaged in geological work in the southern inland portion of British Columbia during the years 1877, 1888, 1889 and Includes a list of 250 place-names in the Shuswap country with Indian names, location and meaning.

8 Visit our website: mcgahernbooks.ca it works Page order line DAWSON, Sir William, edited by Rankine Dawson Fifty Years of Work in Canada. Scientific and Educational. Being Autobiographical Notes by Sir W illia m Dawson, C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S. etc. etc. Late Principal McGill University, Montreal. London & Edinburgh. Ballantyne, Hanson & Co cm, first edition, ix, 308p., frontis photographic portrait with tissue guard, t.e.g., black & red cloth, gilt spine titles & family cr est on front, corners bumped, near fine A posthumously published autobiography by eminent Canadian natural scientist, geologist and educationalist, Sir William Dawson ( ). Chapters cover his pioneering geological work in the Maritimes, educational work in Nova Scotia, his long principalship of McGill University. He is noted for over 400 publications including controversial subjects as evolution and the Ice Age. 68. [DAWSON, J. Wiliam] AMI, Henry M. A Brief Biographical Sketch of Sir John William Dawson C.M.G., LL. D., F.R.S., F.G.S. Minneapolis. The Amer ican Geologist t o. 30cm, 64p., frontis photographic portrait (Dawson), bibliography, printed stapled wraps, edges chipped else a very good cop50y A tribute written on the passing of Sir John William Dawson in November Included is a valuable reference: a chronological bibliography of his extensive writings. Tipped in is a printed slip-"with the compliments of Henry M. Ami. Geological Survey, Ottawa." 69. DISTURNELL, J. Influence of Climate in North and South America: showing the Varied Climatic Influences operating in the Equatorial, Tropical, Sub-Tropical, Temperate, Cold and Frigid Regions, extending from the Arctic to the Antarctic Circle. Accompanied by an Agricultural, and Isothermal Map of North America. New York. Published by D. Van Nostrand vo, 23cm, 334,[2]p, colour lithographed frontis and 2 folding maps, rebound in tan linen with the original cloth label, fine thus Sabin Not in T.P.L. or Lande. T.P.L. lists four other travel and travel guide titles by John Disturnell. 70. [DOUGLAS (John, Bishop of Salisbury)] A Letter Addressed to Two Great Men, on the Prospect of Peace and on the Terms necessary to be insisted upon in the Negotiations. London. A. Millar cm, first edition, second issue iv,56p., wraps? disbound?, a very good copy Sabin 40263, Lowes L J.C.B The writer emphatically urges upon William Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle (two Great Men) in making peace with France. He discusses the war in Canada, the capture of Quebec and the death of Wolfe. He urges that Great Britain demand the full cession of Canada. Benjamin Franklin s The Interest of Great Br it ain is a direct outcome of this important pamphlet. Has the rare half-title. 71. Du CREUX, Francois The History of Canada, or New France. [in ten books t o t he year of Our Lord, MDCLVI. (1656)]. By Fat her Francois Du Creux. Translated with an Introduction by Percy J. Robinson. Edited with Notes by James B. Conacher. In Two Volumes. The Champlain Society No. 30. & 31. Toronto & cm, xxvii,[-404] & 775pp. in two volumes, with 16 plates & maps (being reproductions from the original; including 3 folding), limited to 550, original crested red cloth, t.e.g., a very good to fine matched set The chief sources of information for the ea r ly seventeenth century in Canada are Champlain, Sagard, and the Jesuit Relation. Du Creux's book, one of the rarest items of Canadiana, covers the period from 1625 to 1658, and was published in Paris in 1664 in a sumptuous edition by the Cramoisy Press, which had long been connected, through the printing of the Relations, with the Society of Jesus and their mission in New France. 72. DUNCAN, Major Francis The Royal Province of New Scotland, and Her Baronets. London. William Clowes and Sons cm, 20p., title-page vignette (Arms of Nova Scotia), appendices, blue printed wraps, some neat annotating, front cover detached else very good The pamphlet includes a list of the first 111 Baronets from 1625 to A short history of the ancient baronets of Nova Scotia by an Royal Artillery officer "enhanced by happy years of military service in this beautiful and Royal Province." 73. EASTMAN, Ralph M. Some Famous Privateers of New England. (Boston). Privately printed, State Street Trust Company cm, vii,87p., frontis, over 40 illustrations, colour illustrated wraps, spine rubbed & slightly sunned, very goo3d0..00 A history of New England privateering in both the American Revolution and War of ELLIOT, Daniel Giraud North American Shore Birds. A History of the Snipes, Sandpipers, Plovers and their Allies. Inhabiting the Beaches and Marshes of the Atlantic Coast, the Prairies, and the Shores of the Inland Lakes and River s of t he North American Continent; Their Popular and Scientific Names, Together with a Full Description of their Mode of Life, Nesting, Migration and Dispersions, with Descriptions of the Summer and Winter Plumages of Adults and Young, so that each Species may be Readily Identified. New York. Francis P. Harper cm, second edition, xvi,268p., with 74 plates, glossary, original tan fine grain linen, colour titles and pictorial decorations, spine dust worn (titles discernible), otherwise a fine sound clean copy EVANS, Art & John Yardley-Jones All Our Own Work. Evans & Jones. Translated from the Welsh. Edmonton. The Edmonton Journal. [1962?]. Oblong. 19.4cm, 48p., printed wraps, very good Life and politics in Edmonton, in the first year the cartoonist and journalist lived in Edmonton after emigrating from Wales. 76. FETHERSTONHAUGH, R.C. McGill University at War, & With an Epilogue by F.Cyril James. Montreal. McGill University cm, 437p. colour frontis and 24 plates, honour rolls index of persons, red cloth with gilt titles, inscribed by F. Cyril James, a fine copy

9 Page Patrick McGahern Books, Inc 77. FIRTH, Edith G. (edited with Introduction by) The Town of York, A Collection of Documents of Early Toronto. In Two Volumes. Toronto. The Champlain Society, Ontario Series Nos. 5 & cm, xciv,368 & lxxxvii,381pp. with 38 plates (inc. 2 in colour), folding map, bibliography, original red cloth, both volumes signed by the author, a fine set in very good jackets A source for primary material and an interesting account of the early years of Toronto. 78. FORTIER, L.M. Champlain's Order of Good Cheer and Some Brief Notes Relating to its Founder. Toronto. Thomas Nelson & Sons cm, 28p., with 3 plates (contains 2 portraits of Champlain by Jefferys), one reproduction, with notes on the pictures by Charles W. Jefferys, cloth backed boards, private library marks, the author s signed presentation copy, a very good copy FOSTER, John Railway from Lake Superior to Red River Settlement, considered in a Letter to the Hon. Wm. McDougall, C.B., Minister of Public Works. Montreal. John Lovell cm, 16p., rear folding map, olive green printed wraps, creased along centre, small stamp on front cover otherwise a fine copy An argument for the use of "Foster's new system of wooden railway" using wood for the rails rather than steel. In the Wooden Railway "all materials would be found on the ground...the woods furnishing the supply, and conveyance of the materials.." The author supplies figures and estimates for the construction. Needless to say, the wooden construction was not adopted. 80. FRANCIS, Daniel and Toby Morantz Partners in Furs. A History of the Fur Trade in Eastern James Bay Kingston and Montreal. McGill-Queen's Press cm, xxix, 203p., 15 illus., 8 maps & plans, 9 figures, 9 tables, appendix, references, index, beige illustrated cloth, fine An scholarly investigation into the effects of the fur trade on the social patterns of the Algonquin peoples living in northern Quebec. 81. FRASER, J.M. (Edited and Compiled) St. Mungo's Centennial, [Chatham, Quebec]. The Story of One Hundred Years at Cushing - with The Chur ch of Scotland, The Presbyterian Church in Canada, and The United Church of Canada - including Full Report of the Celebration, July 4th & 5th, (Cover-title). N.p. np. The author?. Nd. [193?]. 8vo. 23cm, 72p., with c.100 illustrations and portraits, stiff printed wraps, sc6a5r.c0e GAUTHIER, Jean and Yves Aubry, Edited by The Breeding Birds of Quebec. Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Southern Quebec. Montreal. Co-published with the Province of Quebec Society for the Protection of Birds and the Canadian Wildlife Service, Quebec Region Folio. 33cm, xviii,1302p., around 1500 photographs (some colour), illustrations of birds by Quebec artists, hundreds of distribution maps, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index, brown cloth, gilt titles, fine in fine jacket A massive ornithological study of 292 bird species in Southern Quebec with each species given an account of breeding chronology, habits, special notes on territory, and worldwide distribution. The book is the product of six years of extensive field work involving 1000 volunteer birders, with 130 writers, 15 illustrators, and 120 photographers. 83. GRAHAM, Clara Fur and Gold in the Kootenays. Vancouver. Printed for the Author by Wrigley Printing Company cm, xiii, 206p., frontis map, 27 illustrations, references, brown cloth, signed by author on title page, fine Smith A scarce history of the Kootenay country of British Columbia. With sections on the First Nation peoples (Kootenays and Interior Salish); the early explorers, fur traders, and missionaries ( ); and early gold mining and anecdotes. ( ). 84. GUILLET, Edwin C. (Edited, with Notes by). The Valley of the Trent. Toronto. The Champlain Society, Ontario Series No cm, lviii,474p. with 109 illustrations and 3 maps (one doub le- pa ge), 23 text illustrations, red cloth, a very good to fine copy [HALIBURTON]. O'BRIEN, A.H. Haliburton ("Sam Slick"). A Sketch and Bibliography. Second Edition. Montreal. Gazette Printing Co cm, 26p., plus 4 plates, limited to 300 copies, original printed wraps, string tied, wraps loose else near fine Read before the Royal Society of Canada, May, 1908, and reprinted from its Transactions, HALIBURTON, Robert Grant A Review of British Diplomacy and Its Fruits. "The Dream of the United Empire Loyalists of 1776." (From the St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review.) London. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle cm, viii, 31, 4pp., magazine advertisement laid in, printed grey wraps, light cover wear, periodical advertisement laid in, very good Prominent Canadian lawyer, Robert Grant Haliburton ( ), son of Thomas Chandler Haliburton and founder of the "Canada First Party" in 1868, advocated Canada as a Anglo-Saxon nation. In this pamphlet he argues that the descendants of the United Empire Loyalists deserved more from the British after concessions were made to the United States in the Treaty of Washington. 87. HAYES, E.H., (collected by) Canadians As We See' Em. By the Canada Newspaper Cartoon Ass. N.p., Nd., [ ?]. 8vo, 21.5cm, c.[100]p., being c.100 cartoon plate illustrations, in the original pebble grain red cloth, gilt cover title "Canucks", a fine copy A collection of Canadian newspaper cartoonists' renditions of prominent early 1900 Canadian figures including politicians, financiers, lawyers, engineers, soldiers, and industrialists. Includes Borden, Shaughnessy, John Stanfield, Lord Strathcona, Van Horne, Lt. Col. Balderson, Perth, Ontario,... There are several editions of this title, between 1900 and The present titles is one of the least