CANADIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS 1799-1939 Title Page Table of Contents Preface Guide to Symbols ... Illustrations 623 BINDLOSS, Harold, 1866-1946. In the Misty Seas/A Story of the/Sealers of Behring Strait/By Harold Bindloss/Author of "True Grit," etc./S.W. PARTRIDGE & CO., LTD.,/GROSVENOR GARDENS,/ VICTORIA [printer's marks] LONDON./ [192-?]. Two English seafaring boys lost in Vancouver harbour are rescued by a Canadian sealing vessel and taken on as crew members to the sealing grounds. Among other events, they experience the rivalry between American and Russian sealers. As in so many of such hunting tales, the young are shown as feeling revulsion at the slaughter of the animals. 624 RALPHSON, George Harvey, 1879-1940. Ralphson was an American author. The plot of Boy scouts in a motor boat involves a former trading post built by the North West Company in Hudson's Bay Company territory which is now British Columbia. 625 ROCKWOOD, Roy, pseud. THROUGH THE AIR/TO THE NORTH POLE/OR/The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch/BY ROY ROCKWOOD/AUTHOR OF "THE RIVAL OCEAN DIVERS," "A SCHOOLBOY'S/PLUCK," ETC./ [rule] /ILLUSTRATED/NEW YORK/ CUPPLES & LEON CO./ [192-?]. | |
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