Aquila Books

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A quila Books was started in 1984 in the basement of my home. Since then Aquila has grown, and we have now maintained a retail shop for over 20 years. We are located on the Trans-Canada Highway in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and are just 20 minutes away from the Calgary International Airport. If you are traveling west to the Canadian Rockies through Calgary, you can easily stop in at our shop. We have our own parking lot at the rear of the store and additional parking is close by if needed.

A tremendous archive related to the career of Henry Wood Elliott, whose tenacious and dogged actions over nearly 20 years helped save the Pacific Fur Seal from likely extinction on the Pribilof Islands and resulted in the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911. This treaty is a landmark in the history of wildlife conservation and is recognized as the first international treaty enacted to conserve wildlife. Henry Wood Elliot was stationed in the Pribilof Islands in 1872 as a Treasury Agent. During the next several years, Elliott witnesses a precipitous decline in seal numbers and began to lobby the government for a restricted hunt. Elliott was told the hunt would be suspended in 1891, but he quickly learned that the government had secretly issued 60,000 kill permits for seals. Elliott leaked this information to the press and was promptly fired. It was this experience that launched Elliott's political and conservation career. Along with Secretary of State John Hay, Elliott co-authored a treaty banning pelagic seal hunting which was not to be ratified for another 6 years, and only after intense lobbying by Elliot.

We are Western Canada's leading professional antiquarian bookdealers, with over 25 years in the antiquarian book trade. One of our specialties is works by the Canadian author, Lucy Maud Montgomery.

A quila books has a large general inventory of historic photos in stock in a variety of formats from Daguerreotypes through Ambrotypes to a variety of different paper images. We specialize in early photos of Western Canada and the North. We are currently in the process of organizing our large inventory and soon will be able to quote individual items. We are aggressive buyers of better material dealing with Western Canada, and will respond to all serious quotes. We are particularly eager to purchase 19th century images dealing with early travel in Western Canada and Native peoples.

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