ATLANTIC PROVINCES HISTORY CATALOGUE 121 Schooner Books Ltd. 5378 Inglis Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 1J5 Email [email protected] ACADIA 1.Cadieux, Jean (Recteur). Petit Manuel D'Histoire D'Acadie de 1755 A 1867. La Librairie Acadienne Universite de Moncton, Moncton, 1976. Red card covers stapled at spine. Pp.44. Quarto. 11 x 8.5 inches (28 x 21.6 cm). Very good. All text in French. $25.00 2. De La Durantaye, Mde Morel. Review of the People of "Evangeline!" with Historical Sketches of the Present and Future. Le Progres Steam Printing Press, Windsor (Ont.), 1890. Printed illustrated paper covers. Pp.(3)-51. 12mo. 4.75 inches (18 x 12.1 cm). 6 wood engravings and illus. to the front & back of the covers. Exlib. With library stamps to front cover # 1 and some small tears and nicks to the spine. Interesting illus. titled 'Costumes of the Acadians' and 'First church of Annapolis.' The title on # 2 the front cover reads 'The Exile of the Acadians! Departure of the Acadians. The People of Longfellow's "Evangeline". $40.00 3. Rieder, Milton P. Jr. and Norma Gaudet Rieder (compiled, translated and edited by). The Acadian Exiles in the American Colonies 1755-1768. (authors), Metairie, LA. 1977. Card covers with paper taped spine. Pp.54. 8vo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches (21.6 x 14 cm). Very good. $55.00 4. Turgeon, Onesiphore. Un tribut a la race acadienne memoires 1871-1927. G. Ducharme, Montreal. 1928. Card covers. Pp.522,(4). Lg.8vo. 9.25 x 6.25 inches (23.5 x 15.9 cm). Index. Illustrated. Exlib with repaired spine. Stamps and library pocket in rear. Errata slip laid # 3 in at front. $25.00 # 4 New Brunswick 5. Alward, Silas. The Magna Carta of Canada. A Lecture Delivered by Silas Alward, D.C.L. K.C. Dean of King's College Law School. January 13th, 1954 To The Students of the School. Published by Request, St. John, N. B, 1914. Printed card covers. Pp.(2),(1)-29. 8vo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches (21.6 x 14.5 cm). Edges worn and lightly creased where folded otherwise very good. $55.00 Silas Alward (April 14, 1841 – June 12, 1919) was a Canadian politician in the province of New Brunswick. Born in New Canaan, Queens County, New Brunswick, the son of John Alward and Mary A. Corey, Alward received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Acadia College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 1860. In 1871, he received an A.M. degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He studied law in St. John, New Brunswick and was called to the bar of New Brunswick in 1866.He was elected by acclamation to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1887. A Liberal, he was re-elected 1892 and 1895 elections. He was defeated in 1899. # 5 Schooner Books Ltd. Atlantic Provinces History Catalogue 121 6. Allen, John C. Esquire. Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of New Brunswick, By The Honorable Ward Chipman, One of the Justices of the Court. Commencing Michelmas Term, 1825. Fredericton, N.B. 1849. Plain green cloth. Pp.(4),(1)-158. 8vo. 8.75 x 5.75 inches (22.2 x 14.5 cm). Very light circle stain caused by a glass or cup otherwise very good. 'T. Carlton Allen' written in black ink on the top margin of the title page. Prepared for the press and edited, with notes by John C. Allen, Esquire, Barrister at Law. $275.00 Ward Chipman, lawyer, public servant, politician (b at Marblehead, Mass 30 July 1754; d at Fredericton 9 Feb 1824). As a graduate of Harvard College (1770) who assisted the Loyalists forces during the American Revolution, he helped organize the agitation which led to the creation of New Brunswick in 1784. He became the colony's solicitor general, drafted the charter for the city of Saint John, and as clerk of the Crown acted as crown prosecutor in most criminal cases for some 25 years. His law office was a Mecca for students. Chipman's arguments in defence of a black slave in 1800 contributed # 6 to the gradual disappearance of legal slavery in NB. An MLA 1785-95, he was appointed to the council in 1806 and became a judge of the Supreme Court in 1809. As British agent to 2 commissions established to determine the boundary with Maine, he successfully upheld NB's claim to much of the disputed territory. Before his death, he briefly administered the government of the colony. He was arguably the most influential of NB's founding fathers. Thomas Carleton Allen, KC (November 1852 in Fredericton, New Brunswick – 22 September 1927) was a Canadian attorney who was a former mayor of the city of Fredericton, 1890-1892. He was the son of Sir John Campbell Allen and Margaret Austen Drury. His father was for many years Chief Justice of N.B., and mayor of Fredericton in 1851. He was educated at Fredericton Collegiate Schools until 1868. After completing his general studies at the Charlotte County Grammar School, he studied law with Messrs. Botsford and Wetmore of Fredericton and with Messrs. Duff and Jeremiah Norman Travis of St. John. He graduated from Harvard Law School with a degree of Bachelor of Laws and later pursued a special course at the same institution. He was admitted an attorney, Oct. 1874, and was admitted as a barrister the following year. He practiced alone in Fredericton, N. B., until 1878, when he moved to St. John, and became identified with W. B. Chandler under the name of Chandler and Allen, which firm existed until 1883. He was appointed Clerk of the Pleas and Court in Equity, Apr. 1883. 7. Barristers' Society of New Brunswick "The Barristers' Society Act, 1931" (into force September 1, 1931) and Regulations Thereunder (into force September 8, 1931). (Barristers' Society of New Brunswick), 1931. Printed card covers. Pp.(1)-28. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches (22.7 x 15.2 cm). Very good. Chapter 50, Acts of Assembly, 1931 An Act Respecting the Profession of the Law. $20.00 8. Barristers' Society of New Brunswick The Barristers' Society Act, Regulations Thereunder. (Barristers' Society of New Brunswick), 1931. Printed card covers. Pp.(1)-26,(1). 8vo. 8.75 x 6 inches (22.2 x 15.2 cm). Light water mark to the cover's spine and on page 22 there are corrections in black ink to law forms names. An Act Respecting the Profession of #7 Law Chapter 50, Acts of Assembly, 1931. $20.00 #8 2 Email [email protected] 902-423-8419 www.SchoonerBooks.com Schooner Books Ltd. Atlantic Provinces History Catalogue 121 # 9 # 10 # 11 9. Braesiders. Sunny Brae The Town That Was. Tribune Press, Sackville, NB. 1985. Card covers. Pp.113. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches (22.7 x 15.2 cm). Photo illus. Piece torn from upper corner front endpaper otherwise very good. $25.00 10. A Catalogues of Books Belonging to the Law Society of New-Brunswick. Fredericton, 1834. Disbound with printed covers. Pp.(3)-10. 8vo. 9 x 5.5 inches (22.7 x 14 cm). Very good with a few small brown stains to back page. $75.00 11. Catalogue and Index of Subjects of the Library of the Barristers' Society of New Brunswick Michaelmas Term 1897. (Barristers' Society of New Brunswick), Fredericton, N.B. 1897. Printed card covers. Pp.(1)-70. 8vo. 8.75 x 6 inches (22.2 x 15.2 cm). Front cover has soiling to the top half and foxing to edges. Some bottom corners are bent or creased. The last blank page has some additions in pencil, condition in general is good. $40.00 12. Cahill, Rev. Joseph A. Santification Instantaneous and Complete, In This Life is Unscriptural. Barnes & Co. Saint John, NB. 1885. Yellow paper wraps stapled. Pp.58. Sm. 8vo. 7 x 4.5 inches (18 x 11.5 cm). Very good. Rhodenizer p.766; MacFarlane p.17. $125.00 Author was Pastor of Carleton Baptist Church, Saint John, NB. We couldn't find much biographical information on this author, MacFarlane notes he was a Baptist Clergyman in Centreville, NB. 13. Corey, R.H. Historical Sketch of the First Settlers of New Canaan. (Author), (Sussex, NB). 1946. Card covers. Pp.30. 8vo. 9 x 6 inches (22.7 x 15.2 cm). Very good. $20.00 # 13 #12 A short sketch of the pioneers of New Canaan Settlement who settled along the Saint John River. Family names include Alwards, Briants, Coreys, Clarks, Kitcheners, Keiths, Prices, Thorns, Humphreys, Perrys, Ryders, Jones, Cromwells, Curreys, Mcdonalds, etc. 3 Email [email protected] 902-423-8419 www.SchoonerBooks.com Schooner Books Ltd. Atlantic Provinces History Catalogue 121 14. Davis, John E. The Life Story of a Leper Autobiography of John E. Davis Canadian Baptist Missionary among the Telugus. Canadian Baptist Foreign Mission Board, Toronto, 1918. Second edition. Blue cloth. Pp.289. 8vo. 7.5 x 5.25 inches (19 x 13.4 cm). Cloth worn & scuffed. Paper browned & chipped due to poor quality. The author contracted leprosy while working as a missionary in India & spent his last months at the Lazaretto in Tracadie, NB. $45.00 15. Foster, Hon. George E. The Naval Policy of the Borden Government. Speech delivered by Hon. George E. Foster, Minister of Trade and Commerce, # 14 in the House of Commons, December 18. 1912. No publisher or place of publication, (1919). Printed card covers. Pp.(3)-47. 8.5 x 6 inches (21.6 x 15.2 cm). Very good.