D-139 Trueman, Stuart,
ADD TEN YEARS TO YOUR LIFE: A CANADIAN
HUMORIST LOOKS AT FLORIDA. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto,
1989. 1st ed., pb, 158pp. A humorist’s adventures among “grandmothers
who dress like teenagers, bronzed and stumbling octogenarians, and persistent
cemetery salesmen never low in spirits.” VG. $10.00. plus $10 shipping
within North America.
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D-140 Trueman, Stuart,
AN INTIMATE
HISTORY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto,
1970. 1st ed., hb, 154pp. An idiosyncratic history of New Brunswick
by a well known newspaperman and humorist. VG in d.j. $14.00.
plus $10 shipping within North America.
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D-141 Trueman, Stuart,
AN INTIMATE
HISTORY OF NEW BRUNSWICK. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto,
1970. 1st ed., hb, 154pp. An idiosyncratic history of New Brunswick
by a well known newspaperman and humorist. Good in dj. $19.00.plus
$10 shipping within North America.
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D-142 Trueman, Stuart,
COUSIN ELVA.
McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1955. 1st ed., hb, 224pp., with cartoon
illustrations by the author. A fictional narrative about Miss Elva Thwaite
by a Leacock Award-winning humorist VG in vinyl-covered d.j. $10.00
plus $10 shipping within North America.
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D-143 Trueman, Stuart,
DON'T LET THEM
SMELL THE LOBSTERS COOKING. McClelland & Stewart,
Toronto, 1982. 1st ed., hb, 178pp. “The lighter side of growing
up in the Maritimes long ago.” VG in good d.j. $14.00 plus $10
shipping within North America.
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D-145 Trueman, Stuart,
GHOSTS, PIRATES,
AND TREASURE TROVE: THE PHANTOMS THAT HAUNT NEW BRUNSWICK. McClelland
& Stewart, Toronto, 1975. 1st ed., hb, 155pp. Twenty-two
tales, including The Dungarvon Whooper and The Headless Nun from Miramichi
folklore. VG presentation copy in d.j. $14.95 plus $10 shipping
within North America.
plus shipping.
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D-146 Trueman, Stuart,
LIFE’S ODD MOMENTS.
McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1984. 1st ed., hb, 173pp., with
illustrations by the author. A late work by Saint John, N.B.’s “master
of the easy anecdote and the homespun homily.” VG in d.j. $14.95
plus $10 shipping within North America.
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D-147 Trueman, Stuart,
MY LIFE AS A ROSE-BREASTED
GROSBEAK. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1972. 1st
ed., hb, 155pp. A humorous work illustrated by the author. VG+
in good d.j. $10.00. VG presentation copy in fair d.j. $8.00 plus
$10 shipping within North America..
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D-148 Trueman, Stuart,
TALL TALES &
TRUE TALES FROM DOWN EAST. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto,
1979. 1st ed., hb, 171pp. Twenty-two humorous essays on such
subjects as Was Benedict Arnold Misjudged? And Glooscap – He Was the
Greatest. VG in d.j. $14.95 plus $10 shipping within North America.
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D-150 Trueman, Stuart,
THE WILD LIFE I’VE
LED. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 1976. 1st ed.,
hb, 160pp., illustrated. A book on experiences the author had
with wildlife in New Brunswick and elsewhere. New. $10.00 plus $10
shipping within North America.
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5055 Trueman, Stuart,
The Fascinating
World of New Brunswick - signed by author. Gift inscription
1973 Hard cover - first edition 1973. 191 pages. Dust jacket shows shelf
and handling wear. $14.95 plus $10 shipping within North America.
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Trueman, Stuart:
Don’t
Let Them Smell the Lobsters Cooking. The lighter side of growing up in
the Maritimes long ago - Stuart Trueman. Pictorial Dust Jacket in good condition.
Red board cover good. Book is in very good condition. Book # 669.
$19.95 Canadian currency plus shipping of $10.00 within North America
Trueman , Stuart:
Life's
Odd Moments. First edition 1984. Very good condition.
Hard cover with Dust jacket.
Book 776 $19.95 Canadian currency plus shipping of $10.00 within
North America
Book 7089
Life's Odd Moments by Stuart Truema. Hard Cover,
Dust Jacket -
First edition 1984 and signed by the author.
- tear on Dust Jacket $14.95 plus shipping of $10.00 within North America
7090 Y
ou're Only As Old As You Act - Hard cover - dust
jacket marked -
first editon 1968 $14.95 plus shipping of $10.00
within North America.
7091
Don't Let Them Smell the Lobsters Cooking - hard cover
- dust jacket has small tear -
first edition 1982 - $14.95
plus shipping of $10.00 within North America
INTIMATE HISTORY
OF NEW BRUNSWICK by Stuart Trueman. 154 pages. The author
injects a new vigour into early pioneering times with his portayal of the
unbelievable persecutions endured by the United Empire Loyalists in the American
colonies. With understanding he has written of the Acadians. Here you
will find unforgettable men and women - true-life characters who will surprise
and amaze the reader - ranging from Chief Membertou to renegade General Benedict
Arnold; from heroine Lady LaTour to extraordinary Union soldier Sarah Evelyn
Edmondson; from slave boy John Gyles to a stage-fright stricken Walter
Pidgeon. Written with affection by a New Brunswicker. A delightful, informal
history of New Brunswick. Emphasis on the persecutions endured by the United
Empire Loyalists in Maine. Discusses the Acadians and various personalities
who lived in or visited New Brunswick: Lord Beaverbrook, Louis B. Mayer,
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walter Pidgeon, Benedict Arnold, Sarah Evelyn Edmondson.
Book #565 Price $24.95 Canadian. Shipping $ 10.00
An Ultimate History of New Brunswick
( Canada ) by STUART TRUEMAN . SOFT COVER - USED BUT SATISFACTORY CONDITION
. 154 PAGES . REPRINT of 1972 .
Book 1122 $14.95 plus $10.00 shipping
within North America
ADD TEN YEARS TO YOUR LIFE - Stuart Trueman. A Canadian
Humorist looks at Florida. 1989.
Book # 569 . $15.45 Canadian Shipping $9.00
FASCINATING WORLD OF NEW BRUNSWICK
(Canada) by Stuart Trueman. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. This book gives a lively
entertainment of the curiosities and off beat wonders of New Brunswick. There's
the last horse-harness shop, an inn without a menu, and the list goes on.
Book 417. Canadian currency $19.95 plus shipping of $ 10.00 within North
America.
"The Ordeal of John Gyles: Being an Account of his Odd Adventures,
Strange Deliverances and as a Slave of the Maliseets" by Stuart
Trueman. In 1689 John Gyles, a nine year old Puritan boy was captured by
fierce Maliseet braves invading what is now Maine. He became a slave of the
St. John River Indians and one of the first English-civilian residents of
what is now the Province of New Brunswick. Exactly eight years, ten months,
and seventeen days after he was captured he returned home. This semi-fictional
book is based on John Gyles' incredible adventures during the six years he
spent with the Indians and the three years he lived with a French seigneur's
family as chronicled in his personal journey written in 1736. The many relevant
passages quoted give a fascinating picture of the vivid, dramatic episodes
of torture, Indian warfare and living conditions. He had become completely
familiar with the way Indians lived and with the details of the French-Indian-English
conflicts of the second half of the 17th century. His thorough knowledge
of the French, Maliseet and Micmac tongues gave Gyles uncommon insight into
the vastly differing viewpoints of these struggling peoples.
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History on every page of Stuart Trueman’s book
For two days
Mum had been at Gram's helping to get the house spotless. Aunt Ethel was
bringing several of her city friends out to have a tupperware party on Saturday
afternoon.
Bright and early on the morning of the party, the work of cutting crusts
off the bread, and making the filling went into full swing.
Aunt Sadie had made two different coloured jello salads, three kinds of scallop
and was in the process of getting ready to cut the turkey and ham, when Gramp
entered the kitchen.
He stopped in his tracks and surveyed the display of food and spoke: "I hope
Major John Coffin does not crash this party and take the food?" "If
he comes, he may even insist on dancing with one of city ladies."
As usual I did not have a clue what he was talking about but if I had read
"
An Intimate History of New Brunswick"
by Stuart Trueman, it would have been obvious he was referring to the raid
of Major John Coffin during the Revolutionary War on a home where a wedding
reception was taking place at which time he demanded turkey, hams and wine
to feed his men. Before leaving, he waltzed with the bride much to the astonishment
of the guests.
Major Coffin and his wife, Ann Matthews, arrived in Saint John in September
of 1783 as United Empire Loyalists. They went up river to Nerepis and moved
into the mansion, which he called Alwington Manor but known as Coffin Manor
to the locals.
Although the war was over the Major was always ready for a scrap - one being
a duel with Colonel Campbell and later with others. He never forgot his military
background, but gradually things settled down and he operated a grist mill
and sawmills.
There is more information in the chapter titled - The Great Migration.
If you want to know about ghosts and other apparitions, take a look at chapter
two where you will read about the Lake Utopia monster, the Dungarvon Whooper,
the Penobsquis Pedlar, the Firewood Man of Chatham, and the Haunted Mountain.
Stuart Trueman states, "
History is everywhere
in New Brunswick. You find it around every sweeping turn." I
might add you find history in every page you turn in "
An Intimate History of New Brunswick" -
History of the English, Acadia and its people, the Dutch, the Natives, the
boundary disputes, wars where nobody emerged as a true winner, the horseless
carriage that could have changed the face of Saint John, North America's
almost first oil well, horse thief Henry More Smith who laughed at the locksmiths,
the lady ship builder - Mrs. Edmund Powell, the famous Marco Polo, and the
list goes on.
The history of our province needs to be read by all New Brunswickers young
and old. A great starting place is "
An Intimate History of New Brunswick" by
Stuart Trueman.
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Stuart Trueman
Newspaper man and author Stuart Trueman
“could find humour in a flat tire,” a colleague once said at the Telegraph
Journal and Evening Times Globe, where Mr. Trueman was editor-in-chief for
20 years until he retired in 1971.
Most of his 300 humourous articles for
Canadian and American magazines- and all of his 14 books- he wrote in Rothesay,
after moving here from Saint John in 1950 with wife Mildred and sons Douglas
and Mac.
The family’s first Rothesay home was
in a triplex at what is now Pugsley Court, near Rothesay Common. They soon
moved further down Gondola Point Road to a house just a few doors from the
proposed new site of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church.
Mr. Trueman won the Stephen Leacock Award
for Humour in 1969, and collaborated with Mildred on two cookbooks.
He began his newspaper career fresh our
of high school in 1929 as an office clerk, but was quickly discovered as
a sports cartoonist, then sports writer and reporter.
He was one of three Telegraph Journal
reporters who drove to Moncton on a lark in 1933 to hunt for a long-fabled
road where cars rolled uphill.
Setting out at 3 a.m., just after press
time for the morning paper, the crew spent a hopeless morning of driving
their Model A Ford roadster to the bottom of every rural hill back of Moncton
and waiting for the vehicle to roll upward. That’s how they became the first
to document Magnetic Hill.
At 11 a.m., the team tested one final
hill- a 200 metre grade leading up toward Lutes Mountain- and the car slowly
started to rise.
The group was so elated, Mr. Trueman
wrote in his book An Intimate History of New Brunswick, “We all jumped out
and almost let the roadster get away on us.”
After his retirement from the newspapers,
he contributed weekly columns until 1993.
Other
Titles by Stuart Trueman:
Add Ten Years to Your Life...A Canadian Humorist Looks at Florida
AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF NEW BRUNSWICK.
COUSIN ELVA
DON'T LET THEM SMELL THE LOBSTERS COOKIN
FASCINATING WORLD OF NEW BRUNSWICK, THE,
Favourite Recipes From Old New Brunswick Kitchens
Ghosts Pirates and Treasure : The Phantoms That Haunt New Brunswick
Intimate History of New Brunswick
Life's Odd Moments
My Life as a Rose-Breasted Grosbeak
Ordeal of John Gyles, Being an Account of His Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances
& as a Slave of the Maliseets
Tall Tales And True Tales From Down East: Eerie Experiences, Heroic
Exploits, Extraordinary Personalities, Ancient Legends And Folklore From
New Brunswick And Elsewhere In The Maritimes
Wild Life I've Led
You'Re Only as Old as You Act.
The Colour of New Brunswick - La Couleur Du Nouveau-Brunswick