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Old Enough to Fight : Canada's Boy Soldiers in the First World War. First Editon Hardcover in dustjacket.

By: BLACK, Dan. BOILEAU, John. DALLAIRE, Romeo, foreword.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: James Lorimer and Company, Toronto, 2013, ISBN:9781459405417:

Seller ID: 112209

BLACK, Dan and John BOILEAU. Old Enough to Fight : Canada's Boy Soldiers inthe First World War. Foreword by Romeo Dallaire. Toronto: James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Publishers, (2013). First Printing. Pp. (8),9-448, + 16 p. ofcolour map plates. WIth 139 black and white photos and reproductions to te xt. Illustrated. 8vo, black cloth with silver lettering to front cover and spine. "Between 15,000 and 20,000 underage youths, some as young as ten, signed up to fight in Canada's armed forces in the First World War. They served in the trenches alongside their elders, and fought in all the major b...
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Half-Hearted Enemies : Nova Scotia, New England, and the War of 1812. Paperback.

By: BOILEAU, John

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited, Halifax, 2005, ISBN:0887806570:

Seller ID: 64991

BOILEAU, John. Half-Hearted Enemies : Nova Scotia, New England, and the Warof 1812. Halifax: Formac Publishing Company Limited, (2005). Pp. (6),[7]-1 76. Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated white card covers. John Boileau (b. 1945,Moncton, New Brunswick) long-serving Canadian miliary officer and author. A volume focusing largely on the indifferent relations between two regions supposedly at war, in Nova Scotia and New England, and the reluctance of Nova Scotia's merchants -- in spite of strong suggestions from the English Crown - to cease and desist their business relations with the Americans during...
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Fastest in the World : The Saga of Canada's Revolutionary Hydrofoils

By: BOILEAU, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Formac, Halifax, 2004, ISBN:088780621X:

Seller ID: 65837

BOILEAU, John. Fastest in the World : The Saga of Canada's Revolutionary Hydrofoils. Halifax, NS: Formac, 2004. Pp. (2),3-96. Illustrated with numerous b/w and/or colour photos to text; double column. Square 8vo, illustrated grey card covers. Mr. Boileau presents the reader with a well-researched history of Canadian involvement in the development of hydrofoils in the twentieth century. He begins in 1919 in Cape Breton with Alexander Graham Bell and Casey Baldwin's hydrofoil prototype, the HD4 that achieved a record-breaking speed of 61.5 knots. He ends with the mothballing of the Bras d'Or, an...
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Where the Water Meets the Land : The Story of the Halifax Harbour Waterfront. First Edition

By: BOILEAU, John

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Halifax Waterfront Development Corporation Limited, Halifax, 2007, ISBN:9780973883022: 2007

Seller ID: 75782

ISBN: 0973883022

BOILEAU, John. Where the Water Meets the Land : The Story of the Halifax Harbour Waterfront. (Halifax): Waterfront Development Corporation Limited / (Dartmouth, NS : Saltscapes Publishing Limited, (2007). Waterfront Development Corporation Limited 30th Anniversary Edition. First Edition. Pp. (6),vii-ix,10-80. Double column. Illustrated throughout. Oblong 8vo, photo-illustrated card covers with blue spine, white lettering to spine.

John Boileau (b. 1945, Moncton, New Brunswick) long-serving Canadian military officer and author.

"The waterfront is the historical core ...
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Halifax and the Royal Canadian Navy. pbk.

By: BOILEAU, John Images of our Past series)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 2010, ISBN:9781551097473: 2010

Seller ID: 86997

ISBN: 1551097478

BOILEAU, John. Halifax and the Royal Canadian Navy. (Halifax): Nimbus Publishing, (2010). First Printing. Pp. (4),v-x,1-214. Illustrated with b&w photos throughout. 8vo, photo-illustrated white card covers.

A volume in the Images Of Our Past series.
An ampersand is used in the title.

"On May 4, 1910, the Liberal government of Sir Wilfrid Laurier passed the Naval Service Act, which created the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). Evere since, the RCN and the city of Halifax -- a strategic Canadian port on the Atlantic -- have been partenrs. During the Second World ...
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Valiant Hearts : Atlantic Canada and the Victoria Cross. First Paperback Edition.

By: BOILEAU, John MacKENZIE, Lewis W., Major-General, foreword

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Nimbus, Halifax, 2005, ISBN:1551095483:

Seller ID: 74046

BOILEAU, John. Valiant Hearts : Atlantic Canada and the Victoria Cross . Foreword by Major-General (ret'd) Lewis W. MacKenzie. (Halifax): Nimbus Publishing Ltd, (2005). First Paperback Printing. Pp. [i]-xii,[1]-276. Illustrated. 8vo, illustrated cream card covers. John Boileau (b. 1945, Moncton, NewBrunswick) long-serving Canadian miliary officer and author. Contents: 1. "I Will Take the Chance, Sir": Assistant Surgeon Valentine Munbee McMaster and Able Seaman William Neilson Hall; 2. On Imperial Service: Command John Edmund Commerell, Lieutenant William Henry Snyder Nickerson, Lieuten...
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The Peaceful Revolution : 250 Years of Democracy in Nova Scotia. First Edition

By: BOILEAU, John.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 2008, ISBN:9781551096803: 2008

Seller ID: 90308

ISBN: 1551096803

BOILEAU, John. The Peaceful Revolution : 250 Years of Democracy in Nova Scotia. (Halifax) : Nimbus Publishing, (2008). First Edition. Pp (6),[vii]-xiv,[1]-226. Illustrated throughout. Index. Large 8vo (185 x 235 mm), art- & photo-illustrated green cardcovers, with French flaps. With white, brown, & black lettering to spine.

John Boileau (b. 1945, Moncton, New Brunswick) long-serving Canadian miliary officer and author.

Foreword by Premiers John Hamm & Russell MacLellan.
Prologue - The Beginnings of Parliamentary Democracy.
1. Conflict for a Continent.
2. C...
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Historic Eastern Passage. First Edition, Signed.

By: BOILEAU, John. Images of our Past).

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Nimbus Publishing, Halifax, 2007, ISBN:1551096315:

Seller ID: 115383

BOILEAU, John. . (Halifax, NS) : Nimbus Publishing, (2007). First Edition. Illustrated with b&w photos throughout. Pp.[i]-vi,1-186. 8vo (164 x 235 mm), photo- and art-illustrated card covers, with brown & whitle lettering to spine.

From the Images of Our Past series.

John Boileau (b. 1945, Moncton, New Brunswick) long-serving Canadian miliary officer and author.

"Drawing upon powerful images and stories ofthe past, John Boileau takes readers on a journey through the Eastern Passage region, including Imperoyal, Shearwater,...
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Samuel Cunard : Nova Scotia's Master of the North Atlantic. First Edition

By: CUNARD, Samuel). BOILEAU, John.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Formac Publishing Company Limited, Halifax, 2006, ISBN:9780887807121:

Seller ID: 82424

(CUNARD, Samuel). BOILEAU, John. Samuel Cunard : Nova Scotia's Master of the North Atlantic. Halifax : Formac Publishing Company Limited, (2006). First Edition. Pp [1]-112. Illustrated. Index. Double Column. Square 8vo, illustrated blue card covers. John Boileau (b. 1945, Moncton, New Brunswick) long-serving Canadian miliary officer and author. “Worldwide the name Cunard is synonymous with luxurious ocean travel. This book tells the story of Samuel Cunard who established the world's first ocean steamship line. As a boy in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Cunard showed an early bent for making money. He...
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