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Basil Johnston has written several books ranging from folk tales and humorous stories to works on the Ojibwa language. After St. Peter Claver's School, he studied history and English at Loyola Collage, Montreal, and attended teachers' college. He is a lecturer in the Ethnology Department of the Royal Ontario Museum.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.2. Seller Inventory # G1550130722I3N00
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Near Fine condition hard cover book with Fine condition dust jacket. Very slight bumping to edges. Slightest smudging to text block edges. Writing on ffep. Dust Jacket clipped. Dust Jacket has slightest shelf wear and sunning All of our books are individually inspected and described. Never X-library unless specifically described as such. Seller Inventory # 2312-7126
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. No Jacket. In his introduction to this 250 page volume, the author states (page 11) : " None of the stories recounted in the text will be found recorded in any official or unofficial journals of the Garnier Residential School for Boys. The author lists the stydents (boys and girls ) in attendance for 1939. Includes nicknames. Read more about : St. Peter Claver's, Kelly's Bakery, animal husbandry, cow-barn, cast-offs, piety, Brother Laflamme,Miss Leutsch, and Joe Missabe. The story centers on the Ontario village of Spanish, though no map os provided. It lies near Espanola, Blind River, Sagamok, Spragge, and Walford. Cond : Boards are red with gilt lettering at spine. Rust coloured end-papers. D.J. is missing. Volume is tight, bright, clean, and square. No names, no marlks. Minimal wear. Excellent reading copy. Quote (p. 122) : " It took the entire day to round up the truant heifers, including the three who had taken themselves to Brennan Harbour and the two who had been stranded on the sandbar. The picnic was almost forgotten . " Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 011554
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. pp: 250. FIRST EDITION. The memoirs of the author of the years he spent in one of the notorious residential schools set up for Indian children. A particularly relevant book at this point in Canadian history. A very good copy in "has been read" condition. The jacket has some sunning to the spine and top of the rear panel. Seller Inventory # 005971
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Key Porter hardcover with dust jacket, 1988, 1st edition, unread and carefully stored, No marks/tears or other defects; Fine/Fine (like New). We will add a custom fitted mylar cover, bubble-wrap the book and ship it in a BOX with delivery confirmation/tracking. Seller Inventory # 10460J
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. True First Can. Edition, First Printing. Number line: 88 89 90 91 6 5 4 3 2 1. Author was removed from his family at age 10 and placed in a residential school. A portrait of Indian life of the time and also of a Canadian Government policy still of great impact to this day. 243 pp. plus Glossary, Appendix - The Boys and Girls of Spanish. red cloth covered boards have as-new gilt text on spine, red ep's. Book has very slight end-of-spine wear, ow it is as new. Unclipped DJ has very slight edge wear, sunned spine. Bookseller's inventory # 172652. Seller Inventory # 002652