Search Results: Northern Ontario from Attic Books

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing, 1993. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 119 p. 26 cm. B&w and colour photos. Green paper in pictorial dustjacket.

Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, nd. Card covers. Ex library - very good. Canada Department of Mines and Resources, Surveys and Engineering Branch, Geodetic Service of Canada Publication No. 45. 153 p. 25 cm. Blue card covers. Ink notation and library stamps on front cover. Topics: the precise level net of Canada; Canadian geodetic datum; control levelling in Northern Ontario; sources of information; selection and arrangement of data; highest and lowest altitudes in Northern Ontario; altitudes in Northern Ontario; altitudes along Seventh Base Line.

North Bay, Ont., 1939. Good. 4 p. leaflet. 24 cm. Horizontal and vertical folds. Green print on cream paper. Lists graduates, programme, etc.

ca. mid-1940s. Very good. A series of reports about logging in Northern Ontario, dating to mid-1940s, in 29 cm green binder labeled Department of Lands & Forests. 3 diagrams, 23 tables, fold-out chart, 4 maps (Opasatika River, Upper Lost River, Smoky Falls Railway, & Swanson Township operations). 34 small b&w photos inserted at rear show various mills, burn area, Fort Charles Hudson Bay supply ship and R.C.D. boats at Moosonee, Hudson Bay Post at Moose Factory, small town of McInnis north of Cochrane, Lake Abitibi. Occasional pencil notes, extra binder holes. Articles: The Results on the Forest Cover of the [Kapuskasing] District After Logging; A Method of Regenerating Artifically a Burned Area which is in Division 3 ie. Cut-Over, Young Stands, or Recent Burn; Forest Fires and Their Results in the Clay Belt; Regeneration of Burns in the Clay Belt; Use of Fire to Reproduce a New Crop of Spruce and Eliminate Fire Hazard Resulting From Slash; Report on Trip Cochrane to Moosonee and Return June 14-18,… Read More

Sudbury, Ont.: La Societe Historique du Nouvel-Ontario, College du Sacre-Coeur, 1944. Booklet. Very good. Documents Historiques No. 5. 67 p. 23 cm. B&w illustrations. Stapled blue covers. French text.

Toronto: Ontario Department of Mines, Ministry of Natural Resources, 1977. Softcover. Very good. Geoscience Report 159. v, 39 p. 1 map in rear pocket. Other photos, map inside. Blue card covers. Curled bottom corner. Ink marks within.

Markham, ON: Globalinkage, 2001. Booklet. Fine. 84 p. 22 cm. B&w illustrations. Stapled. Signed by author on first leaf. Life and Experiences of Her More Than 35 Years Alone in Algonquin.

Fort William, Ont.: Times-Journal Presses, 1927. Card covers. Fair. 31, [1] p. 32 cm. 20 b&w illustrations. Illustrated brown card covers. Tape repair to spine, lower rear, and top and bottom edges. Tape now coming off. Fore-edges chipped and torn. Pages neat with a bit of thumbing. Topics: Historic Fort William; the fur trading companies; the great inland waterway; the rising tide of western grain; the coming of the transcontinental railway; the Jesuits; local personalities incl. John Joseph Vickers.

[Toronto], 1963. Softcover. Very good. No 1., District History Series. 16 p. 25 cm. Map at front. Stapled. Light wear. Ink signature on front cover.

Pakesley, ON: C. C. Courtney, nd. ca. 1933. Booklet. Fine. 19, [1] p. 16 cm. 1 fish illustration. Map showing route from Pittsburgh to the lodge on rear cover. Staplebound booklet. Ink stamp top of p. 15. "In the Wilds of the Highlands of Northern Ontario Invite Thee for Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-three." Lodge owned and operated by Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Courtney, formerly of Pittsburgh, PA. Contains accolades from numerous American visitors.

Killarney, Ontario: Friends of Killarney Park; Ontario Parks, 1998. Softcover. Fine. Various paginations. 19 cm. B&w illustrations. Spiral binding. Advice on trip planning, canoe routes, wilderness skills, a lake directory, list of further reading, emergency procedures. Included is a map of the park.

Ottawa: La Societe de Colonisations du Diocese D'Ottawa, 1884. Booklet. Very good. 7 p. 22 cm. Paper covers with light soiling. "Notes par le Reverend Pere Paradis, O.M.I. Missionaire du Lac Temiskaming et de la Baie d'Hudson." French text.

[Toronto], 1977. Softcover. Good +. 86 p. 28 cm. Partial colour maps, including one in rear pocket. Spiral binding. Some edge wear.

February 1994. Softcover. Near fine. 33 p. + Appendices. 28 cm. Spiral binding.

Cobalt, Ont., August 7, 1918. Very good. 5 leaves, 4 of which have pencil writing on both sides. Folds and some stains. An early 20th century letter from "Olive" in Cobalt, Ontario to "Pearl" who lives close to Arnprior, Ontario. Olive is from "C.P." (Carleton Place perhaps?) and has a job there but she's enjoying Northern Ontario. Cobalt is rough but she likes the atmosphere. She visited a big rock called "The Whale's Back" or "The Mile Rock", has been swimming at Haileybury, and may be going on an excursion to new Liskeard which she describes as "an hour's run on the street car." Poor Olive is feeling "punk" and suffering from "nerves" so perhaps she's on a rest cure. She also describes a big fire in Cobalt that burned six stores. An interesting read that leaves questions unanswered, since we haven't been able to identify Olive or Pearl. However, Temiskaming Streetcar Line was an interurban streetcar system connecting New Liskeard, Haileybury and Cobalt on the western bank of Lake Temiskaming in… Read More

Matheson, ON: O'Donnell Expeditions, 1995. Reprinted from The Enterprise Newspaper. Softcover. ex library-fair. 154 p. 22 cm. B&w illustrations. Paperback. Some wear and stains to covers and top and bottom edges. Stains in upper margins extend to about p. 30. Inscribed by author inside front cover.

Matheson, Ont.: O'Donnell Expeditions, 1995. Softcover. Near fine. 154, [2] p. 22 cm. B&w illustrations. Paperback. Light wear.

Toronto: The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 248 p. 21 cm. Frontispiece. 3 plates (photographs, presumably by the author). Tan cloth. Owner's inscription on front free endpaper. The story of the author's adventures with a white husky in the Northern Ontario woods.

ca. 1970. Good. 22 cm before it's unfolded. Some soiling to exterior. Lists Hon. Rene Brunelle as Minister (he was minister of Lands & Forests 1966-72). Includes general info and canoe routes.

Port Arthur, ON, ca. 1928. Very good. 24 cm fold-out map. Also a photo of McNulty's Clothing. Small tear at one end. Advertises McNulty's for Jaeger Pure Wool Wear and genuine Hudson's Bay "Point" Blankets. Details about imports in USA and rates of duty. Facts about Port Arthur and surrounding auto trips.