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The Dominion illustrated : a Canadian pictorial weekly

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1888-1891

Publisher: Montreal, Sabiston Lithographic and Pub. Co. [etc.]

Call Number: P Newspaper oversize

Publisher: Montreal, Sabiston Lithographic and Pub. Co. [etc.]

Published Date: 1888-1891

Physical Description: 7 v. : ill., ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Canadian Pacific Railway; Notman, William & Son; Politics

Notes: v. 1-7, no. 182; July 7, 1888-Dec. 26, 1891

Call Number: P Newspaper oversize

Collection: Archives Library

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The amateur trapper and trap-maker's guide : a complete and carefully prepared treatise on the art of trapping, snaring, and netting, containing plain directions for constructing the most approved traps ... with concise but comprehensive instructions for preserving and stuffing specimens ...

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1875?

Author: Harding, Stanley

Publisher: New York : Dick & Fitzgerald

Call Number: 02.7 H11t

Author: Harding, Stanley

Publisher: New York : Dick & Fitzgerald

Published Date: 1875?

Physical Description: 134 p. : ill.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Trapping; Wildlife; Guidebook

Abstract: Guide to trapping fur-bearing and animals including how to make traps and taxidermy and other preservation methods.

Notes: Cover missing

Accession Number: 2926

Call Number: 02.7 H11t

Collection: Archives Library

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The history of the North-West rebellion of 1885 ... including a history of the Indian tribes of North-Western Canada

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1885

Author: Mulvaney, Charles Pelham

Publisher: Toronto : A.H. Hovey

Call Number: 08.2 M91 1885

Author: Mulvaney, Charles Pelham

Publisher: Toronto : A.H. Hovey

Published Date: 1885

Physical Description: 424p. : ill., maps, ports

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Riel rebellions; Wheeler, Arthur Oliver

Contents: Includes list of 56 illustrations; Full title: [Warning - contains outdated and inappropriate language] The history of the North-west Rebellion of 1884 comprising a full and impartial account of the origin and progress of the war, of the various engagements with the Indians and Half breeds, of the heroic deeds performed by officers and men, and of touching scenes in the field, the camp and the cabin; including a history of the indian tribes of North-Western Canada, their numbers, modes of living, habits, customs, religious rites and ceremonies, with thrilling narratives of captures, imprisonment, massacres, and hair-breadth escapes of white settlers, etc.

Accession Number: 492

Call Number: 08.2 M91 1885

Collection: Archives Library

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Cupid and Chow-Chow and other stories

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1873

Author: Alcott, Louisa M.

Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle

Call Number: 05 A2c

Author: Alcott, Louisa M.

Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle

Published Date: 1873

Physical Description: 283 pages ; 19 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Literature; Canadian; Short Stories

Abstract: A collection of short stories by famed author of Little Women, Louisa M. Alcott

Contents: Cupid and Chow-Chow ; Huckleberry ; Nelly's hospital ; Grandma's team ; Fairy Pinafores ; Mamma's plot ; Kate's choice ; The moss people ; What Fanny heard ; A marine merry-making

Accession Number: 3069A

Call Number: 05 A2c

Collection: Archives Library

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Scrambles amongst the Alps in the years, 1860-69

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1871

Author: Whymper, Edward

Publisher: London : John Murray

Edition: 1st edition

Call Number: 01.2 W62s

Author: Whymper, Edward

Edition: 1st edition

Publisher: London : John Murray

Published Date: 1871

Physical Description: 432 pages ; 111 ill.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Alps; Mountaineering; Switzerland

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 W62s

Collection: Archives Library

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The mountain

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1886

Author: Michelet, Jules

Publisher: London : L. Nelson and Sons

Call Number: 01.2 M58t

Author: Michelet, Jules

Publisher: London : L. Nelson and Sons

Published Date: 1886

Physical Description: 260 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Switzerland; Europe; Alps; Mountaineering; Glaciers; Nature

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 M58t

Collection: Archives Library

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Upon the origin of alpine and Italian lakes ; and upon glacial erosion

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1889

Publisher: New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.

Call Number: 03.4 R14u

Responsibility: A. C. Ramsay, John Ball, Roderick I. Murchinson, B. Studer, A. Favre, Edward Whymper, and J. W. Spencer.

Publisher: New York : The Humboldt Publishing Co.

Published Date: 1889

Physical Description: 148 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Switzerland; Italy; Europe; Alps; glaciology; Glaciers; Geology

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 03.4 R14u

Collection: Archives Library

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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1885

Author: Dent, Clinton

Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Call Number: 01.2 D43a

Author: Dent, Clinton

Publisher: London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Published Date: 1885

Physical Description: 327 pages

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Exploration; Mountaineering; Alpine Club (Great Britain); Expeditions; Switzerland

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 D43a

Collection: Archives Library

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Handbook of geology for the use of Canadian students

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1889

Author: Dawson, Sir J. William

Publisher: Montreal : Dawson Brothers

Call Number: 03.1 D32

Author: Dawson, Sir J. William

Publisher: Montreal : Dawson Brothers

Published Date: 1889

Physical Description: viii, 250p. : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Paleontology

Accession Number: 20

Call Number: 03.1 D32

Collection: Archives Library

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Annual report

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1885; 1886; 1887; 1888-1889; 1894; 1898

Author: Geological Survey of Canada

Call Number: 03.1 G29ar

Author: Geological Survey of Canada

Responsibility: articles by George Mercer Dawson, G.C. Hoffmann, R.G. McConnell, E.D. Ingell, J. McEvoy, J.B. Tyrell and others

Published Date: 1885; 1886; 1887; 1888-1889; 1894; 1898

Physical Description: 7v. : ill., maps; Library has: 1886, 1885 Pt. 3, 1886 Pt. R, 1887 (photocopy), 1887 Pt. T (photocopy), 1887 Pt. E (photocopy), 1887 Pt. D, 1888-1889, 1894, 1898, 1898 Pt. D

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mineral resources; Peace River; Yellowhead Pass

Notes: Contents: Report on a part of Northern Alberta and portions of adjacent districts of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan / J.B. Tyrell. -- Montreal, 1887. [Pt. E]; Extracted from geological and natural history survey of Canada 1887 : assay reports from samples taken in the Northwest Territory and the Province of British Columbia [Pt. T];