VANCOUVER'S SVENSKAR - A History of the Swedish Community in Vancouver
by Howard, Irene
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Vancouver, British Columbia: Vancouver Historical Society, 1970. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 127 pp. Blue boards lettered in dark blue on the spine; illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with black and white plates and maps. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket with rubbing on the panels; no interior markings. The Contents are: Foreword by Joseph Collins Lawrence; From Goteborg Every Friday; The Swedish Success Story; From Lomma to Ladner; Near the Old Maple Tree; The Church that Swedes Built; Poverty, Illness and Death; Temperance and Good Times; Rudolph Verne, Newspaperman, Sportsman; Paul Axel Boving; Skogsarbetaren - The Logger; Gruvarbetaren - The Miller; Skogsarbetarna and the Union; Three Letters from an Immigrant; Nothing to Lose; Svenskhet and the Swedish Press; Carl Mander Gravell, G.C.; Practical Visionaries; E. A. Alm; E. A. Alm Letters; and Our Home, Our Native Land; followed by Appendix and Index..
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 218256
- Title
- VANCOUVER'S SVENSKAR - A History of the Swedish Community in Vancouver
- Author
- Howard, Irene
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Vancouver Historical Society
- Place of Publication
- Vancouver, British Columbia
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- sweden; immigrant; emigrate; canadiana; canadian author;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - Canada;
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About the Seller
W. Fraser Sandercombe
Biblio member since 2004
Burlington, Ontario
About W. Fraser Sandercombe
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