Smith And Miles To Go

British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel./Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1945 Through November/December1946, British Columbia British Columbia Telephone Company 1946
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[SW: Telus History British Columbia Telephone Company Telephony Telephone Talk Internal House Magazine Periodical and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: awarding of Distinguished Flying Cross to Flt.-Lieut. Gordon Smith; Excellent photo of Vancouver radiotelephone operators at work; Long Distance Load in '44 set new record - statistics; Radiotelephone saves 3 lives when tug sinks; Annie Gillman - never late for work in 38 years as operator; Telephone Trouble - by Francis Aldham of the Vancouver Daily Province; Forty Miles of Telephone Bills - reprinted from the December 1944 issue of Western Business and Industry; Harold Morse retires; A few lines from the front lines - portions of letters from telphone employees on active service; Large black and white reproduction of B.C. Tel. Victory Bond advertisement featuring Winston Churchill; Expansion Programme will fall short of needs - with drawing of new central office building at Tenth Ave. and Yew St.; Digits control names of new Central Offices; Report shows phone situation still serious - no prospect of relief in near future; Al Miller retires after 36 years of service; Popular chief operator, Edna Green, resigns; Farewell to Don (Mac) McAuley; Photo of the "Kamloops Kid" - Dave Wilkie; Photos of Sports Starlets; A Telephone Man in the Navy - a lengthy letter to the editor from Elect. Lieut. N.J. Dunlop, R.C.N.V.R.; Article - Two Million Wait for Phones in North America, and relevant B.C. Tel advertisement; Cover photo of U.S. Army Bronze Star recipient Staff Sgt. Robert Creech; Photos of the three Stephan sisters who are operators; Photo of war shortage billboard; Voices with smiles - article from the Vancouver Daily Province by Gordon McCallum; Article - $64 question in the telephone business; Plagued by Shortages - article from the National War Finance Committee; article and photo - Pup Flies Atlantic with Flt. Lt. Gordon Heselton; Article on Robert Garnett Tatlow, Vancouver Pioneer; B.C.'s First Emergency Phone Call - Pants torn by Dog; Construction photos of 'Cedar'; War's End Brings Record Long Distance Load; Heading Back to Normal - but still a long way to go; Death removes Ernest F. Helliwell; Radiotelephone service to the rescue; Photo of phone installer Charlie McAndrew, and the billboard which used the photo; Photos of North Vancouver staff and facilities; Secret of wartime 'what-is-it' building on Seymour finally revealed - photos and two-page article; 5 excellent pages of photos and article on the building of the Pacific Communications System, 'One of our Biggest War Jobs'; Daisy Bonde retires; Excellent photo of B.C. Telephone's 'Sky Riders', dangling 350 feet in the air over Rock Creek Canyon; 3 more billboard photos; We are establishing an F.M. Radio Network; We subscribed nearly $2,000,000 to the war effort; Farewell to Miss Mary Lloyd, Ernest Cole and William Silver; Many photos of employees knitting; Trail operators at work; Eighteen Thousand Calls a day - article; New record for telephone calls in 1945; Difficulties of supply situation again stressed in telephone company's annual report; Charlie McAndrew has installed 40,000 photos; Cupid is main cause of our traffic problems - article; Only photo available of Vancouver's first telephone exchange, established in 1885 in Tilley's book store, on the east side of Carrall St.; PNE float; Alma open house; Hastings Hay Ride; Better phone service to central B.C. points - article; Gilbert (Gil) Gilfillan has served Abbotsford for 20 years; New Communications Centre for Vancouver; Refurbishing the former defense communications building on Seymour; Telephone Trouble - article from the Vancouver News-Herald; Let Your Smile Be Heard - from an address by Miss Marion Mitchell, P.B.X. Supervisor, Victoria; photo of 3,000 cards of people awaiting phones in New Westminster; Photo of busy New Westminster operating room; Victoria Host to 1946 Phone Convention; Third Dial Unit for Downtown Vancouver; Vancouver girl weds by long distance - Dawn V. Bohmer; Vancouver Operator recruiting campaign - desperate need for female workers; great photos of construction of the Trans-Canada Telephone Line in the wilds of B.C.; 3 humourous billboards explaining shortages; Article on R.F. (Bob) Williams, president of

Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: awarding of Distinguished Flying Cross to Flt.-Lieut. Gordon Smith; Excellent photo of Vancouver radiotelephone operators at work; Long Distance Load in '44 set new record - statistics; Radiotelephone saves 3 lives when tug sinks; Annie Gillman - never late for work in 38 years as operator; Telephone Trouble - by Francis Aldham of the Vancouver Daily Province; Forty Miles of Telephone Bills - reprinted from the December 1944 issue of Western Business and Industry; Harold Morse retires; A few lines from the front lines - portions of letters from telphone employees on active service; Large black and white reproduction of B.C. Tel. Victory Bond advertisement featuring Winston Churchill; Expansion Programme will fall short of needs - with drawing of new central office building at Tenth Ave. and Yew St.; Digits control names of new Central Offices; Report shows phone situation still serious - no prospect of relief in near future; Al Miller retires after 36 years of service; Popular chief operator, Edna Green, resigns; Farewell to Don (Mac) McAuley; Photo of the "Kamloops Kid" - Dave Wilkie; Photos of Sports Starlets; A Telephone Man in the Navy - a lengthy letter to the editor from Elect. Lieut. N.J. Dunlop, R.C.N.V.R.; Article - Two Million Wait for Phones in North America, and relevant B.C. Tel advertisement; Cover photo of U.S. Army Bronze Star recipient Staff Sgt. Robert Creech; Photos of the three Stephan sisters who are operators; Photo of war shortage billboard; Voices with smiles - article from the Vancouver Daily Province by Gordon McCallum; Article -64 question in the telephone business; Plagued by Shortages - article from the National War Finance Committee; article and photo - Pup Flies Atlantic with Flt. Lt. Gordon Heselton; Article on Robert Garnett Tatlow, Vancouver Pioneer; B.C.'s First Emergency Phone Call - Pants torn by Dog; Construction photos of 'Cedar'; War's End Brings Record Long Distance Load; Heading Back to Normal - but still a long way to go; Death removes Ernest F. Helliwell; Radiotelephone service to the rescue; Photo of phone installer Charlie McAndrew, and the billboard which used the photo; Photos of North Vancouver staff and facilities; Secret of wartime 'what-is-it' building on Seymour finally revealed - photos and two-page article; 5 excellent pages of photos and article on the building of the Pacific Communications System, 'One of our Biggest War Jobs'; Daisy Bonde retires; Excellent photo of B.C. Telephone's 'Sky Riders', dangling 350 feet in the air over Rock Creek Canyon; 3 more billboard photos; We are establishing an F.M. Radio Network; We subscribed nearly2,000,000 to the war effort; Farewell to Miss Mary Lloyd, Ernest Cole and William Silver; Many photos of employees knitting; Trail operators at work; Eighteen Thousand Calls a day - article; New record for telephone calls in 1945; Difficulties of supply situation again stressed in telephone company's annual report; Charlie McAndrew has installed 40,000 photos; Cupid is main cause of our traffic problems - article; Only photo available of Vancouver's first telephone exchange, established in 1885 in Tilley's book store, on the east side of Carrall St.; PNE float; Alma open house; Hastings Hay Ride; Better phone service to central B.C. points - article; Gilbert (Gil) Gilfillan has served Abbotsford for 20 years; New Communications Centre for Vancouver; Refurbishing the former defense communications building on Seymour; Telephone Trouble - article from the Vancouver News-Herald; Let Your Smile Be Heard - from an address by Miss Marion Mitchell, P.B.X. Supervisor, Victoria; photo of 3,000 cards of people awaiting phones in New Westminster; Photo of busy New Westminster operating room; Victoria Host to 1946 Phone Convention; Third Dial Unit for Downtown Vancouver; Vancouver girl weds by long distance - Dawn V. Bohmer; Vancouver Operator recruiting campaign - desperate need for female workers; great photos of construction of the Trans-Canada Telephone Line in the wilds of B.C.; 3 humourous billboards explaining shortages; Article on R.F. (Bob) Williams, president of the Fed. of Telephone Workers; and more. Moderate wear. Ink stamp of company executive E.P. LaBelle upon fore- and top edges, and endpapers. Back half of backstrip almost entirely open. Binding tight and square. First Edition Half Leather 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Dewar, Jane (editor): TRUE CANADIAN WAR STORIES - from Legion Magazine, Toronto Prospero Books 1989
ISBN: 155267231X Very Good+

(ix) 310 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a faint crease on the spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: THE FIRST WORLD WAR: Dear Dad by Gordon L. McIntosh; An Incident by James Frances; Eyes Eyes Eyes by Will R. Bird; Business is Business by Gregory Clark; What Price Liberty by Will R. Bird; Passed with Flying Colours by James Warner Bellah; Royalty Never Forgets by D. E. Macintyre; Marked Men by Will R. Bird; A Padre at the Front by George Frederick Scott. THE SECOND WORLD WAR: The Other September by Ben Malkin; The Inquisition by Dave McIntosh; The Only Way to Go by Ben Malkin; The Long and the Short and the Tall by Ruth C. Auwarter; The Battle of B Flight by Gerald Wright; Road to the Isle; Garbage Run; and The Coal-oil Kids by Rosemary Hutchinson; Home Port by Hugh Garner; A Star Is Born by Vic Cousins; Cruising on the Queen E by Rosemary Hutchinson; Chasing the Margaree by C. L. Carroll; War Games by Ben Malkin; The Old Pub Game by Ben Malkin; Agony at Aldershot by Douglas How; The Darkest Year by F. C. L. Wyght; Through English Eyes by Ben Malkin; The Wedding Cake by Joy Smith; No Secrets by Dave McIntosh; Public Relations Army Version or How the Colonel Got His Christmas Presents by Doug Smith; Ritchie's Snack Bar by Doug Macbeth; No Room at the Inn by Dave McIntosh; Goodbyes by Ben Malkin; God Knows; and Faces of War by Rosemary Hutchinson; Surviving the Slaughter by Jean Margaret Crowe; Mystic Munda by H. Layton Bray; Waiting for the Charwallah by Ed Pearson; A Bloody Miracle by Eswyn Lyster; This Too They Endured; Openings; Joy and Sorrow; Diversions; and The Paper Shoot by Ben Malkin; The Longest Wait by Ralph Niessen; The Night the Big Plane Fell by Donald MacDonald; The Danzig Caper; Pigswill and Prestige; Namenstausch; Waiting Games in a POW Camp; A Birthday to Remember; and Christel's Kitchen by Kingsley Brown; Escape by John Grogan; The Great Friendship by Douglas How; Home for Christmas by Joyce Turpin; Ten Days and 7000 Miles by Eswyn Lyster. KOREA: The Keener by Terry Meagher; Rum along the Imjim by Aralt Murphy; The War That Never Really Ended by D. A. Strickland. REMEMBERING: The Survivors Go Back to Vimy by Jane Dewar; How Can You Forget by Kingsley Brown; and Beyond Words by James Hale. Scans are available for all books. Second Printing Trade Paperback 8vo

[SW: world war two ii 2 second 2nd; one i 1 first 1st; korea; korean; warfare; canadian author; canadiana;]

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Paretsky, Sara, Introduced and Edited By. Women on the Case; 26 Origianl Stories By the Best Women Crime Writers of Our Time, New York, New York, U.S.A. Dell Book/Dell Publishing Co., Inc. 1997
ISBN: 0440223253 Near Fine

Near Fine Binding is solid; no crease to spine, corners; slight crease along spine edge of front cover; slight rub to corners; small bump to upper back spine corner; rub to bottom spine corners; slight edge wear; slight age tanning, pages are not brittle; pages are clean, no marks to text, no owner signatures, inscriptions, store stamps, remaimder marks, stains, moisture damage. Printing stated. 447 pages. Contents: P. M. Carson, 'Parties Unknown by the Jury or the Valour of My Tongue'; Nancy Pickard, 'A Rock and a Hard Place'; Liza Cody, 'Solar Zits'; Ruth Rendell, 'Astronomical Scarf'; Irina Muravyova, 'On the Edge'; Eleanor Taylor Bland, 'Nightfire'; Nevada Barr, 'Beneath the Lilacs'; Frances Fyfield, 'Nothing to Lose'; Elizabeth George, 'Surprise of His Life'; Amel Benaboura,'Only a Woman'; Dorothy Salisbury Davis, 'Miles to Go'; Andrea Smith, 'Lesson in Murder'; Linda Barnes, 'Miss Gibson'; Susan Geason, 'Green Murder'; Amanda Cross, 'Baroness'; Pieke Biermann, '7.62'; Susan Dunlap, 'I'll Get Back to You'; Helga Anderle, 'Saturday Night Fever'; Dicey Scroggins Jackson, 'Dreams of Home'; Linda Grant, 'Hamlet's Dilemma'; Myriam Laurini, 'Lost Dreams'; Antonia Fraser, 'Witch and Her Cats'; Barbara Wilson, 'Belladonna'; Sara Paretsky, 'Publicity Stunts'; Marcia Muller, 'Cracks in the Sidewalk'; Lia Matera, 'Performance Crime'. Will gift wrap, no charge, just state the occasion. Scan available on request. 1st Printing No Jacket Mass Market Paperback 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

[SW: FICTION MYSTERY SHORT STORIES ANTHOLOGY Mystery and Suspense Literature]

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Speare, M. E. (editor): The Pocket Book of Verse: Great English and American Poems, Washington Square Press W-241
ISBN: W-241

1967, 60th. (Paperback) *.*.*.*.*Good. *.*.*.*.* *.*.*.*.* *.*.*.*.* Some spine and cover wear and creasing. There are two small spots on the back cover where the top layer has been lifted. *.*.*.*.* Includes Matthew Arnold--* Dover Beach * Shakespeare * Requiescat, Stephen Vincent Benet--* the Ballad of William Sycamore, The Bible--* Address of Ruth to Naomi * the Voice Out of the Whirlwind * Psalms * Ecclesiastes * the Song of Songs * the Sermon on the Mount * Corinthians I, William Blake--* from Milton * the Tiger * the Lamb * Auguries of Innocence, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt--* with Esther, Rupert Brooke--* the Soldier * Day That I Have Loved * Oh! Death Will Find Me, Thomas Edward Brown--* My Garden, Elizabeth Barrett Browning--* Grief * If Thou Must Love Me * Go from Me * How Do I Love Thee, Robert Browning--* Song * Home-Thoughts, from Abroad * My Last Duchess * Meeting at Night * Parting at Morning * Prospice * Rabbi Ben Ezra * the Patriot * Youth and Art, Robert Burns--* Mary Morrison * John Anderson, My Jo * Sweet Afton * Auld Lang Syne * Scots Wha Hae * Highland Mary * a Man's a Man for A' That * to a Mouse, Lord Byron--* She Walks in Beauty * So, We'll Go No More A-Roving, Henry Carey--* Sally in Our Alley, Lewis Carroll--* Jabberwocky * Father William, Geoffrey Chaucer--* Ballade of Good Counsel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge--* Kubla Khan, Abraham Cowley--* the Wish, Walter de la Mare--* the Listeners, Emily Dickinson--* Chartless * the Only News I Know * My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close, John Donne--* Song, Michael Drayton--* Love's Farewell, Ralph Waldo Emerson--* Brahma * Concord Hymn * Good-Bye, Eugene Field--* Little Boy Blue * a Dutch Lullaby, Edward Fitzgerald--* Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Robert Frost--* Mending Wall * Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening * Birches, Oliver Goldsmith--* the Deserted Village, Thomas Gray--* Elegy, William Ernest Henley--* Invictus, Robert Herrick--* Delight in Disorder * the Argument of His Book - Hesperides * to Virgins, to Make Much of Time * to Electra * upon Julia's Clothes * a Thanksgiving to God for His House, Thomas Hood--* the Bridge of Sighs * I Remember * the Song of the Shirt, A. E. Housman--* Loveliest of Trees * with Rue My Heart Is Laden * When I Was One-And-Twenty * When Smoke Stood Up from Ludlow * on the Idle Hill of Summer, Leigh Hunt--* Jenny Diss'd Me, Abou Ben Adhem, Orrick Johns--* Wild Plum, Ben Jonson--* Song to Celia, John Keats--* to One Who Has Been Long in City Pent * on First Looking into Chapman's Homer * When I Have Fears * from Endymion, Book I * Ode on a Grecian Urn * Ode to a Nightingale * la Belle Dame Sans Merci * the Mermaid Tavern * to Autumn * Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art, Joyce Kilmer--* Trees, Rudyard Kipling--* Danny Deever * Mandalay * If * Recessional, Charles Lamb--* the Old Familiar Faces, Walter Savage Landor--* Rose Aylmer * Mother, I Cannot Mind My Wheel * on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, Sidney Lanier--* Song of the Chattahooche, Edward Lear--* the Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Vachel Lindsay--* Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight * the Congo, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow--* My Lost Youth * a Psalm of Life * the Day Is Done * the Children's Hour, Richard Lovelace--* to Lucasta, Going to the Wars * to Althea, from Prison, Amy Lowell--* Patterns * Lilacs, Edwin Markham--* the Man with the Hoe, Christopher Marlowe--* the Passionate Shepherd to His Love, John Masefield--* Sea-Fever * the West Wind * a Consecration, Edgar Lee Masters--* Louise Smith * Abel Melveny * Hohn Hancock Otis, John Milton--* Lycidas * on His Blindness * with Thee Conversing, I Forget All Time, Thomas Moore--* 'tis the Last Rose of Summer * the Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls * Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms, Alfred Noyes--* the Barrel-Organ * the Highwayman, Edgar Allan Poe--* Ulalume * the Raven * Annabel Lee * the Bells * to Helen, Alexander Pope--* Solitude * Man, Lizette Woodworth Reese--* Tears, Edwin Arlington Robinson--* Richard Cory * Miniver Cheevy * the Dust of Timas, Christina Georgina Rosetti--* Song, Dante Gabriel Rossetti--* the Blessed Damozel * the Ballads of Dead Ladies of Francois Villon, Carl Sandburg--* Chicago * Fog * Cool Tombs * Grass, George Santayana--* O World * Sonnet 29 * to W. P., Sir Walter Scott--* Lochinvar * Coronach * Soldier, Rest * Patriotism * Clarion * Hunting Song, William Shakespeare--Silvia * Under the Greenwood Tree * Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind, Fancy * O Mistress Mine * Lovers Love the Spring * Winter, Hark! Hark! The Lark!, Dirge * Where the Bee Sucks * a Sea Dirge * Sonnets, Percy Bysshe Shelley--* Ozymandias * to a Skylark * the Cloud * Ode to the West Wind * to Night, Richard Brinsley Sheridan--* Let the Toast Pass, Robert Louis Stevenson--* Romance * Requiem, John Still--* Jolly Good Ale and Old, Sir John Suckling--* Why So Pale and Wan? * the Constant Lover, Algernon Charles Swinburne--* a Forsaken Garden * the Garden of Proserpine, Alfred Lord Tennyson--* Choric Song from the Lotos-Eaters * Ulysses * Tears, Idle Tears * Sweet and Low * Bugle Song * the Charge of the Light Brigade * Ring Out, Wild Bells * Flower in the Crannied Wall * Break, Break, Break * Crossing the Bar, Francis Thompson--* the Hound of Heaven, Edmund Waller--* Go, Lovely Rose! * on a Girdle, Walt Whitman--* Mannahatta * When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd * O Captain! My Captain! * When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer * Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking & John Greenleaf Whittier--* Barbara Frietchie * the Barefoot Boy & Oscar Wilde--* the Ballad of Reading Goal * the Harlot's House & William Wordworth--* She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways * My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold * to a Sky-Lark * the Solitary Reaper * I Wandered Lovely As a Cloud * Perfect Woman * the World Is Too Much with Us * Desideria * upon Westminster Bridge * It Is a Beauteous Evening * to Milton * Ode to Duty * Ode on Inimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood * Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey & Elinor Wylie--* Prophecy * Let No Charitable Hope * Peregrine * Love Song & William Butler Yeats--* the Lake Isle of Innisfree * When You Are Old. A scan of the cover is available. *.*.*.*.* Weight .200 Kg.

[SW: Poetry]

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