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  • The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright

    by George Cartwright, Marianne P. Stopp ...
    Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), an English merchant who spent time in Labrador between 1770 and 1786, is best known for the fascinating account of his experiences provided in his Journal of Transactions and Events during a Residence of nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador (1792).In recent years more of his papers have been discovered and stand alongside his journal as important ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The New Labrador Papers of Captain George Cartwright

    by George Cartwright, Marianne P. Stopp ...
    Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), an English merchant who spent time in Labrador between 1770 and 1786, is best known for the fascinating account of his experiences provided in his Journal of Transactions and Events during a Residence of nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador (1792).In recent years more of his papers have been discovered and stand alongside his journal as important ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • George Cartwright’s The Labrador Companion

    by George Cartwright ...
    New manuscripts directly related to Canada’s history rarely come to light. The Labrador Companion, written in 1810 by Captain George Cartwright (1739-1819), and discovered in 2013, is a fascinating and unusual find because of its level of detail, its setting in a hardly studied part of Britain’s fur-trade empire, and because it is a personal account rather than a trade outfit ledger or government ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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    Them Days 7.2

    Toys, Games, and Amusements

    by Jean Martin, Leo O'Brien, Albert Ryland, George Cartwright, Jill Saunders, Joe Palliser, Pat O'Brien, Victor Fowler, Joe Ford, Margaret Baikie, Flora Baikie, Harvey Mesher, Thomas O. Pardy, Mary Jacque, Joanne Martin, Caroline Jacque, Garmel Rich, Lillian Broomfield, Franz Boas, Eliis Barney, Elsie Blake, Hilda Decker, Alfreda Blake, Maria Ryland, Olive Marshall, Cynthia Cooke, Edna Campbell, Chelsey Lethbridge, Robert H. Davis, Doris Saunders, Julianna Winters, Sam Webb, Greta Davis, Edna Edmunds, Margaret Davis, Rosie Ford, John Edmunds, Stewart Ryland, James Linstead, Emily Clark, E. W. Hawkes, Judy McGrath, Curtis Oliver, Gus Flowers, Duncan Strong, Frank G. Speck, John Michelin, Clara Voisey, Bella Lyall, Bessie Flynn, Francis Hall, Lucien M. Turner, Jim Saunders, Jim Voisey, Ellen Lyall, Tommy Davis ...
    Narrated by Aimee Chaulk, Patty Way, Ida Suarak, George Way, Clarice Blake-Rudkowski, Morgen Mills, Beatrix Mills ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 22 min

    This special edition of Them Days Magazine from 1982 is all about toys, games, amusements and pastimes. Dive into dozens of short stories about dolls, balls, and boats; learn how to slide on seal skins; listen to memories of specialty holiday games and so much more! ... Read more

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