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9781459732520 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, July 12, 2016, cover price $29.00
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9781459719521 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, March 1, 2014, cover price $35.00
Product Description: In the early 20th century the Canadian North was a mystery, but the Canadian military stepped in, and this book explores its historic activities in Canadaâs Arctic. Is the Canadian North a state of mind or simply the lands and waters above the 60th parallel? In searching for the ill-fated Franklin Expedition in the 19th century, Britainâs Royal Navy mapped and charted most of the Arctic Archipelago...read more
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9781554889877 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, December 13, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the early 20th century the Canadian North was a mystery, but the Canadian military stepped in, and this book explores its historic activities in Canadaâs Arctic.
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9781550028492 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, March 30, 2009, cover price $35.00
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9781550026740 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, February 28, 2007, cover price $35.00
Product Description: The conveyance of royalty, whether to Balmoral or Buffalo, by Rolls Royce or Canadian Pacific train, has its own mysterious traditions and protocols. With dry humour and a keen sense of history, Peter Pigott describes how the British royal family has adapted to technological innovations...read more
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9781550025729 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, August 31, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The conveyance of royalty, whether to Balmoral or Buffalo, by Rolls Royce or Canadian Pacific train, has its own mysterious traditions and protocols.
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9781550025491 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, March 30, 2005, cover price $49.99
Product Description: It is a cruel irony of history that as we celebrate the centenary of flight on December 17, 2003, aviation is in a tailspin and airlines are disappearing in Canada. Yet flight itself remains one of humanity's most spectacular triumphs, and Canada especially has much to be proud of...read more
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9781550024692 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, July 26, 2003, cover price $38.00 | About this edition: It is a cruel irony of history that as we celebrate the centenary of flight on December 17, 2003, aviation is in a tailspin and airlines are disappearing in Canada.
Product Description: With unique insight and straightforward prose, Wingwalkers tells the saga of Canada's other airline, a scrappy western mongrel that, through eight decades and numerous name changes--Canadian Airways, Queen Charlotte Airlines, CP Air, PWA, Wardair and Canadian Airlines International--transformed itself from a bush flying and mining operation into an international carrier...read more
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9781550172928 | 2 edition (Harbour Pub Co, July 1, 2003), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: With unique insight and straightforward prose, Wingwalkers tells the saga of Canada's other airline, a scrappy western mongrel that, through eight decades and numerous name changes--Canadian Airways, Queen Charlotte Airlines, CP Air, PWA, Wardair and Canadian Airlines International--transformed itself from a bush flying and mining operation into an international carrier.
Product Description: Here is the dramatic and entertaining story of one of Canada's most historic places: the local airport. The dreams, courage, ambition and sweat of a handful of visionary Cnaadians created the first of our airports from frozen farmers fields and lakes...read more
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9780919001961 | Pottersfield Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Here is the dramatic and entertaining story of one of Canada's most historic places: the local airport.
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9781550024128 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, October 1, 2002, cover price $29.99
Product Description: Before the birth of Trans Canada Airlines (TCA) in 1937, Canada was one of the very few countries of the world that had no organized air service connecting its principal cities. In 1936, many of the one million people who travelled on scheduled flights in the United States were Canadian citizens who needed to travel south of the border to reach destinations in Canada...read more
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9781550172683 | Harbour Pub Co, October 1, 2001, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Before the birth of Trans Canada Airlines (TCA) in 1937, Canada was one of the very few countries of the world that had no organized air service connecting its principal cities.
Product Description: "In the five years since the Flying Canucks series began," says Pigott, "I have never ceased to marvel that everything connected with aviation in Canada took place in the proverbial blink of an eye." It is barely nine decades since Casey Baldwin became the first Canadian to achieve sustained flight, and only seventy-odd years since J...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781550172249 | Harbour Pub Co, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: "In the five years since the Flying Canucks series began," says Pigott, "I have never ceased to marvel that everything connected with aviation in Canada took place in the proverbial blink of an eye.
Product Description: With unique insight and straightforward prose, Wingwalkers tells the saga of Canada's other airline, a scrappy western mongrel that, through eight decades and numerous name changes--Canadian Airways, Queen Charlotte Airlines, CP Air, PWA, Wardair and Canadian Airlines International--transformed itself from a bush flying and mining operation into an international carrier...read more
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9781550171853 | Harbour Pub Co, October 1, 1998, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: With unique insight and straightforward prose, Wingwalkers tells the saga of Canada's other airline, a scrappy western mongrel that, through eight decades and numerous name changes--Canadian Airways, Queen Charlotte Airlines, CP Air, PWA, Wardair and Canadian Airlines International--transformed itself from a bush flying and mining operation into an international carrier.
Product Description: Among the many technological advances of this century that have shrunk our country, few have had as great an impact as aviation. Technologies evolve and national priorities change, but the qualities necessary to design aircraft, fly them in war and peace, and manage airlines remain constant...read more
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9780888821935 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, September 1, 1997, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Among the many technological advances of this century that have shrunk our country, few have had as great an impact as aviation.
Product Description: Flying Canucks tells the fascinating story of aviation in Canada through this collection of 37 biographies of important aviators in our nationâs history. As early as 1908, having read the Wright brothersâ invention, Alberta farm boys and mechanics in Quebec villages were constructing large kites, attempting to fly them...read more
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9780888821751 | Dundurn Pr Ltd, October 1, 1994, cover price $13.99 | About this edition: Flying Canucks tells the fascinating story of aviation in Canada through this collection of 37 biographies of important aviators in our nationâs history.
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