ISBN: 9780889255159 - Lizzie Rummel : Baroness of the Canadian Rockies (9 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. In Very Good+ condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed, Inscribed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 155 pages. 23 cm. Illustrrated card covers. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. Bibliography. Unmarked, crisp and clean book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In Very Good Used Condition. May Have Minor Shelf Wear To Edges. For More Information On Condition. Please See All Photos. Although Her Name Today Is Synonymous With The Women'S Suffrage Movement In Canada, Nellie Mcclung'S Long And Varied Career Covered Several Fields—From Social Activist To Elected Politician, From Novelist To Journalist. Mcclung Was Instrumental In Canadian Women Gaining The Right To Vote Before Their British And American Counterparts—2016 Marks The One-Hundred-Year Anniversary Of Women'S Suffrage In Manitoba, Alberta, And Saskatchewan—And In Women Being Recognized As Persons Eligible To Sit In The Senate. Mcclung Was A Household Name By The Time She Was Elected To The Legislative Assembly Of Alberta In 1921, A Post She Held For Five Years. When She Settled On Vancouver Island In 1932, Mcclung Was A Highly Esteemed Public Figure Who Had Not Only Changed Canada'S Political Landscape And Influenced Women'S Rights Worldwide But Had Also Raised Five Children And Written A Dozen Best-Selling Books. From Her Beloved Island Home, Lantern Lane, Mcclung Continued To Speak Out Against Social Injustice And Inequality. In The Late 1930S, She Began To Write A Syndicated Weekly Newspaper Column That Served As Social Commentary For The Years Leading Up To World War Ii. The Valiant Nellie Mcclung Highlights A Selection Of Those Columns—Covering Themes As Grave As War, As Fundamental As The Strength Of The Family Unit, And As Whimsical As The Pleasure Of Gardening—And Offers A Unique Reflection Of Our Country'S History And An Uncanny Resonance Today.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 155 pp, b/w photos. Wraps creased corners. Small stain top edge.

[0-88925-515-6] 1983, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 155pp.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. SUBTITLED : `Baroness of the Canadian Rockies'. 155 pages, The adventures takes place around Banff. LEARN more about : Gate Ranch, Sunburst Camp, Franz Dopf, ice axes, Spray Lakes Reservouir, and Mehitabel the moose. Elisabet von Rummel was born in Germany in 1897. She first came to Western Canada in 1911, when her mother bought a small ranch near Priddis. Cond : Paper wrapper is white (and yellow) with back lettering. Front cover (colour) photo of Ms. Rummel (aged 68) in her cabin. Minimal soiling. Light general wear. No names nor marks. Tight in binding. Excellent reading copy. QUote (p. 61) : " The following day Al Gaetz returned with a better cookstove and skied with the girls to the Alpine Club huts (now the Naiset Cabins) and borrowed the Club toboggan to haul the stove up to Sunburst Cabin. Al helped install ._._._. ." Size: 8vo. B/W Photographs (illustrator).…