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WILLSON, Beckles.
The Life of Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal.
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1915]..
2 vols. 8vo. pp. xi, 543, [1]; 5 p.l., 532 [2]. 15 plates, 2 photogravure frontis portraits, 1 folding facsimile letter. original gilt-stamped cloth (t.e.g., others untrimmed). Second Greatly Enlarged Edition. Peel 2652n.
$154 USD Book Number: CLLeWILL61 Order / Enquire

WILLSON, [Henry] Beckles [1869-1942].
The Great Company Being A History Of The Honourable Company Of Merchants-Adventurers Trading Into Hudson's Bay.With An Introduction By Lord Strathcona And Mount Royal.
oronto: Copp, Clark Company, Limited, 1899..
8vo. pp. xxii, [17]-541. with half-title. title in red & black. folding map, 14 plates & numerous text illus. (some full-page). original gilt-stamped cloth (spine dull & trifle frayed at foot). First Edition. Peel 1587.
$150 USD Book Number: CLLeWILL8 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Alan.
John Northway a Blue Serge Canadian.
Toronto: Burns & Maceachern Limited, [1965].
8vo. pp. xv, 235. frontis portrait. 12 double-sided plates. illus. on endleaves. index. cloth (stained). dw. (chipped). First Edition.
$41 USD Book Number: CLShnWIL49 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Barbara M. (Editor).
Ontario and The First World War 1914 - 1918 A Collection of Documents.
Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1977..
8vo. pp. 201. cloth. First Edition; No. 15 of 1,250 copies printed for the Society.
$77 USD Book Number: CLStaWIL99 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Catharine Anne.
A New Lease On Life Landlords, Tenants, & Immigrants in Ireland & Canada.
Montreal, Kingston.: McGill-Queen's University Press, [1994]..
8vo. pp. xiv, [2], 315. text illus. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$51 USD Book Number: CLSNeWIL96 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Charles.
Mapping the Frontier Charles Wilson's Diary Of The Survey Of The 49th Parallel, 1858-1862, While Secretary Of The British Boundary Commission Edited and with an introduction by George F.G.Stanley.
Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, [1970]..
8vo. pp. 5 p.l., 182. frontis. portrait. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (small sticker residue on front wr.). First Edition.
$40 USD Book Number: elala4757 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Donald M.
Lost Horizons: The story of the Rathbun Company and The Bay Of Quinte Railway...
Belleville: Mika Publishing Company, 1983..
4to. pp. 200. text in double columns. illus. cloth. dw. (upper edge of dw. creased & with a few short tears, book in very good condition). First Edition.
$75 USD Book Number: dola2172 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Edmund.
O Canada.An American's Notes On Canadian Culture.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967..
12mo. pp. 3 p.l., 245. 4 double-sided plates. bds. wrs. (bit rubbed & creased).
$61 USD Book Number: CLSCaWIL66 Order / Enquire

WILSON, F.A. & Alfred B. Richards.
Britain Redeemed And Canada Preserved. In Two Parts.
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850..
8vo. pp. xxx, [1 leaf], 556. complete with half-title. 5 plates (incl. folding plan of the Manner of Working the Railway Between Each of the 400 Mile Distances) & folding map. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth, rebacked with spine mounted (hint of foxing to plates & first few leaves, 2 small tape repairs). First Edition. With a view to relieving economic distress and working class poverty in Great Britain, and preventing the loss of the Canadian colonies to the United States, the authors advocate an extensive immigration scheme, the building of a transcontinental railway utilizing convict labour in spaced prison camps along the line of construction, and the creation of a convict colony on the Island of Anticosti. TPL 3124. Dionne II 1293. Lande 898. Peel 136. Goldsmiths' 36909.
$384 USD Book Number: CLSitWIL86 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Francis.
Francis Wilson's Life Of Himself.
Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1924..
8vo. pp. 7 p.l., 463. title in red & black with vignette. 61 illus. on 57 plates (incl. frontis. portrait). Uncut in original quarter cloth. First Edition.
$125 USD Book Number: elala1933 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Helen Dacey.
Tales from Barrett's Landing.
Toronto & Montreal: McClelland & Stewart, [c1964]..
8vo. pp. ix, 155. text illus. pictorial stamp on cloth. dw. (short tears to upper edges of dw.). inscribed from 'Helen' (the author?) dated Nov. 10, 1964. First Edition.
$31 USD Book Number: CLSleWIL49 Order / Enquire

WILSON, Thomas.
Transatlantic Sketches; Or, Travelling Reminiscences Of The West Indies And United States.
Montreal: Printed By John Lovell, 1860..
12mo. pp. 1 p.l., x, [11]-179. without the errata slip mentioned by TPL. contemporary calf (spine faded, front joint cracked, head of spine chipped, corners worn). Inscribed 'To Mrs.(?) Hopkins with the Authors Compts., Montreal April 1860. First Edition. Wilson's descriptions of Trinidad (Chapters II-VII) and Cuba (Chapters VIII-XI), are particularly extensive, with much on the cultivation of sugar and processing of sugar cane, the abolition of slavery, insects, the cocoa plantations, social life in Havana, government of Cuba, the cigar trade, &c. His brother, Robert, owned a large sugar plantation in Trinidad. Wilson also describes his visits to St. Thomas, Barbados, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, and Niagara. TPL 8868. Dionne III 985. Not in Sabin.
$450 USD Book Number: elala1158 Order / Enquire

WINGFIELD, Alex[ander] H[amilton] [1828-1896].
Poems And Songs, In Scotch And English.
Hamilton, On.: Printed At The "Times" Book And Job Office, 1873..
12mo. pp. xvi, 255, [1]. (2 preliminary leaves misbound). original gilt-stamped cloth (covers stained, some foxing to outer leaves). First Edition. Watters p. 213.
$60 USD Book Number: elala3894 Order / Enquire

WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE DEFENSE COMMITTEE.
The Winnipeg General Sympathetic Strike May-June 1919.Strike - Arrests - Trials - Penitentiary. [At Head of Title: "Saving The World From Democracy"].
[Winnipeg]: Wallingford Press, [1919]..
8vo. pp. 276. original printed wrs. (head & foot of spine chipped, some dampstaining to lower margins). First Edition. The defense committee was composed of delegates from the various labour organizations in Winnipeg. Peel 4548.
$200 USD Book Number: elala3507 Order / Enquire

WINNIPEG TRIBUNE.
Winnipeg Tribute Tourist Edition 1927.
[Winnipeg: 1927]..
folio. ff. 178. b/w text illus. wrs (extremities tattered with chips, short tears, wrappers loose at front hinge).
$200 USD Book Number: aly1155 Order / Enquire

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