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THE BEAVER - Exploring Canada's History - Volume 75, number 4 - August September 1995
Dafoe, Christopher (editor) (Donald Lamont; Desmond Morton; Cheryl Smith; Martin Zeilig; Bernard Shaw; William Cornwallis King; W. B. Ewart; Clarence Epstein)
Editorial: The Hudson's Bay Company, Winnipeg, Manitoba 1995
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- Primera edición
Librería: WF Sandercombe, Burlington, ON, CanadaWF Sandercombe
Contactar con el vendedorVendedor de 4 estrellasCondición: Usado - Bueno
EUR 8,97
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Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 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, hen…ce 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 colonial Canada by Bernard Shaw; North with the Red River Brigade by William Cornwallis King; A Surgeon on the Bay by W. B. Ewart; and Tourists of Old Montreal by Clarence Epstein; along with an assortment of features. Size: 4to. Marion E. Barker; (ilustrador). Book.
Editorial: School Aids and Text Book Publishing, Canada 1949
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- Primera edición
Librería: RareNonFiction, IOBA, Ladysmith, BC, CanadaRareNonFiction, IOBA
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EUR 180,24
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Hardcover. Condición: Fair. First Edition. 184 pages. Map. Frontis illustration of subject. Reproductions of black and white photos. "Chief Trader King, who died in 1940, was one of the most fearless and colourful traders of the Canadian North. From the day he landed at York Factory in 1862 until his retirement from the Hudson's… Bay Company in 1903 his life was filled with stirring adventure in a vast country where only skilled boatmen could make their way over the water routes from one post to the next and where only expert huntsmen and the most rugged individuals could survive." - from Foreword. Moderate age-toning to contents. Binding intact. Bit of writing in marker atop front free endpaper. Somewhat above-average external wear and soiling. A sound copy. Peel (2) 4182. Shackleton, K. (ilustrador).
