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CATALOGUE of BOOKS for sale on CANADIAN CEMETERIES, PHOTOGRAPHY, ART & ARCHITECTURE |
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PORTSMOUTH VILLAGE, Kingston. An Illustrated History by Jennifer McKendry, 96 pp., 8.5" x 11", 300 illus., pb., chronology, index, ISBN 0-9697187-6-4, $ 22. Includes an essay on the village's history, and features the histories and architectural features of more than 60 buildings from the 19th century, all well illustrated with historic and contemporary photographs, as well as helpful maps. Here are such well known examples as the Kingston Penitentiary and Rockwood Villa - and also the houses and shops that tell us something about how ordinary people lived and worked in the 19th century. The appendices include Selected Buildings of the 20th and 21st Centuries, Lost Portsmouth, and Chronology 1784 to 2000. |
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INTO THE SILENT LAND: Historic Cemeteries & Graveyards in Ontario by Jennifer McKendry, 372 pp., 367 b & w illus. plus 11 in col., ISBN 0-9697187-5-6, $45. new reduced price (originally $53)
Fully described under BOOK ON CEMETERIES
"The definitive work on the burial grounds of Ontario" Bulletin, The Ontario Historical Society
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OUT-OF-PRINT: limited number of copies available WITH OUR PAST BEFORE US: 19TH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE in the KINGSTON AREA by Jennifer McKendry, University of Toronto Press, 242 pp., 8.5" x 11", 107 illus., pb., glossary, index, ISBN 0-8020-7474-X, $30. Early buildings of all types and materials are examined inside and out. Architectural histories of the Penitentiary, Rockwood Insane Asylum, Kingston City Hall, The Crystal Palace, St George's Cathedral, Rockwood Villa, Bellevue House, and many more. Chapter headings: (1) "An Impression of Substantiality and Durability": an Introduction to the Architecture of the Kingston Area; (2) "A Residence Fit for Any Gentleman in the Country": from Cabin to Castle; (3) God's Houses; (4) Buying and Selling; (5) Civic Pride; (6) Controlling Society through Architectural Design; (7) From a "Howling Wilderness" to a "Stately and Antiquated City". "a special bargain that will repay hours of pleasure, in reading and in admiring the 'past before us' in our historic buildings" Kingston Whig-Standard |
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WEEP NOT FOR ME: An ILLUSTRATED HISTORY of CATARAQUI CEMETERY, KINGSTON by Jennifer McKendry, 60 pp., 8.5" x 11", 61 illus., pb., chronology, index, ISBN 0-9697187-4-8, $15. A garden cemetery founded in 1850, burial site of Sir John A. Macdonald. "This book is a must" the Upper Canadian "a book worthy of emulation with striking black and white photos, the history is thorough and includes historic photographs and excellent drawings by the author" Association of Gravestone Studies Quarterly.
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EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY in KINGSTON by Jennifer McKendry, 71 pp., 8.5" x 11", 81 illus., pb., ISBN 0-9697187-3-X, $15. Introductory essay plus entries on 60 photographers from 1841 to c1920. Awarded a prize by the Photographic Historical Society of Canada.
"The book's plates vividly illustrate the faces and places of Kingston's past, with images ranging from the familiar to the eerie to the rare" Kingston This Weekend
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KEY DATES in CANADIAN ART
by Jennifer McKendry and Blake McKendry, |
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OUT-OF-PRINT: limited number of copies available An ILLUSTRATED COMPANION to CANADIAN FOLK ART by Blake McKendry, 297 pages, 8.5" x 11", 208 black & white illustrations plus 2 in col., pb., ISBN 0-9693298-2-2, $45. An extensive illustrated essay on folk art with a dictionary of 3000 painters, sculptors and craftspersons.
"This book has to be one of the more important works to emerge in Canada in this decade" Main Antique Digest |
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HOLD FAST: the
Story of William & Catherine McLeod and their Descendants, Glengarry
County
by Ruth McKendry and Jennifer McKendry, 52
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An ILLUSTRATED GUIDE to MONUMENTS, MEMORIALS & MARKERS in the KINGSTON AREA by the Kingston Historical Society (including Jennifer McKendry), 258 pp., 8.5" x 11", 191 illus., pb, chronology, bibliography, maps, Sir John A. Macdonald's Kingston, ISBN 0-919770-10-X, $25. Included are the texts of 190 plaques, monuments & memorials recording the region's history to 1945. "Based on detailed research and careful sleuthing, this is a superb guide" Jack Granatstein |
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37 pages, 8.5" x 11", 23 b & w
illus., pb., ISBN 0-9693298-5-7, $5 new
reduced price (originally $10). An extensive chronology of Canadian
art and architecture providing a backbone or overall time reference for
persons studying specialized portions of the nation's visual culture. A timeline
for the connoisseur and student alike!
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11", 80 illus., pb., index, ISBN 0-9693298-3-0, $12. The
emigration of William McLeod and Catherine McCrimmon in 1815 from
Scotland to Glengarry County, Ontario, and the story of their
descendants is told in a "fully illustrated and carefully researched
book that sets an example for the presentation of a a family history"
Ontario Historical Society Bulletin
