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195138688Coaldale Alberta 1951. First Edition. Quato. Staple-bound wrappers; 80pp; illus. Mild external wear; ownership stamp to front wrapper; internally clean tight and unmarked. Memorial album celebrating the first 25 years of this Mennonite community. PEEL Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 7242. OCLC locates only 5 copies only one in Canada. unknown
191259399Vancouver Coquitlam Sumiqwuelu B.C.: Essondale Hospital for the Mind Colony Farm W.J. Moore Photographer 1912. Oblong 8vo. 7.5 x 5.75 in. 50 leaves unnumbered. on thick black paper stock. Printed mounted title in gilt & black on black with 49 silver gelatin photographs sized 4 x 6 in. mounted each leaf w/ printed text below in gilt on gray slips. Contemporary flexible textured calf Heinn Co. binding minor rubbing shelfwear still an excellent exemplar. This exceptional souvenir photo album visually documents the efforts of the British Columbia government to relieve the overcrowding at the Provincial Hospital for the Insane in New Westminster in the first decade of the 20th Century. In 1904 after appropriating 1000 acres of the traditional lands of the Kwiketlem First Nation peoples Dr. Charles Doherty focused on clearing over 180 hecatres of the flood plain constructing dikes building state-of-the-art farm buildings to provide purpose therapeutic occupational training and food for the new hospital which would later become Riverview. The Progressive Era movement to reform treatment of the mentally ill was to not only free them from deplorable asylum conditions which reformers such as Julia Lathrop Adolf Meyer and Eleanor Clark Slagle believed only increased otherwise curable mental illnesses but also provide training to gain employment upon discharge from the hospital. Doherty insisted on paying the patients a small salary to work and live at the farm and the Holstein herd which began with 22 cows in 1910 grew swiftly after importing 50 more from New York and Carnation Farms of Seattle so that that by the end of 1912 the farm was producing nearly 50000 gallons of milk with prize cows capturing top prizes at local farm exhibitions. The photographs open with shot of the gate to Colony Farm cottages and dining halls for patients barns and milking stations stables hay barn water tower silos corrals pumping station and dairy facilities. In addition there are several photos showing land clearing burgeoning silage corn fields nurseries horse-drawn seeding cutting hay oats and steam threshing.The final photo shows the initial reinforced concrete Essondale Hospital with red brick facades in the final stages of construction and would open later in 1913. One of the photos includes an office calendar dated November 1912 while two others show the visit of Prince Arthur Duke of Connaught 1850-1942 the first Governor General of Canada to be a member of the British Royal Family and his wife Princess Louise to the successful Colony Farm Sept. 11 1912. The Colony farm was expanded in 1918 by another 700 acres and would continue to thrive through World War II. Unfortunately in 1946 a series of arson fires destroyed most of the documents of the dairy operation and Colony Farm and eventually due to budgetary pressures the farm closed in 1983. The halcyon intentions of Manchester and Doherty would later be undone during the 20th Century as budgetary restraints prevented expansion or proper treatments so that by 1956 the Essondale Hospital was housing 4306 patients and 2200 staff members in buildings designed for 1800 patients. In addition medical practices of the time ranged from electroshock therapy and forced sterilization and would eventually be closed in 1992 as the de-institutionalization movement gained favor. Moore 1887-1963 launched his photographic career with Byron Harmon in Banff Alberta and by 1912 was established in Vancouver specializing in panoramic photographs after 1913 and later forming a partnership with Wilfred F. McConnell buying the Canadian Photo Co. He retired from the firm in 1953. We could find no similar souvenir albums in institutional holdings but some are retained as part of the Riverview Hospital Historical Society Collection Glass Plate Negatives Coquitlam Archives 2022; Sam Wiebe How a Century-Old Vancouver Mental Hospital Became a Film Industry Hot Spot Montecristo Magazine 2021; History of Colony Farm Colony Farm Community Gardens 2022. Essondale Hospital for the Mind], Colony Farm, W.J. Moore, [Photographer], unknown
189820311Wisconsin: American-Canadian Gold Mining Company 1898. Ephemera. Good overall. Public Offering for the American-Canadian Gold Mining Company of West Superior Wisconsin of 500000 shares. The "Alice A" gold mine is in mining location K 191 District of Rainy River Ontario. The claim is 80 acres with 2 good mill sites either on Little Turtle River or Wild Potato Lake.<br /> <br /> Oblong 8vo 8 1/4 x 6" 16 pp original tan printed paper wrapper with 6 b&w photos staple bound. Slightly sunned short split at top of wrapper but binding solid blue text on cover. American-Canadian Gold Mining Company unknown
1947508000Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company 1947. Paperback. VERY GOOD. 368 xlviii Maps of Canada's Mineral Areas. 9x11.5' sewn binding in red printed wraps spine backed in green tape. Includes: 'Review of Mining Activities; Company Analyses; Price Range; Production Tables; Maps.' Stated twenty-first year of publication. With color illustrated advertisements throughout for various industrial machinery. Wrappers a bit worn clean and sound otherwise. Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company paperback
18139Watertown NY. 4 pp on a single folded sheet 8.5 x 11 inches when folded. Undated but reprints an article from The American Mining News August 1901. Old creases from folding staple holes at upper corner all else very good. Dunbar a broker appeals to Americans for investment in this Canadian mining region because "Canadians besides lacking the mining experience are too slow to take advantage of the golden opportunities which are being grasped by the more venturesome Americans." The Rainy River District he says "possess advantages over almost every other gold mining country in the world" due to easily worked ores and ready access to fuel water transportation and labor. There was apparently something to these claims as the area is seeing a resurgence in commercial mining activity today. Not found in OCLC. unknown
19275282Various locations in Minnesota and Canada 1927. Good. 1721pp. of mimeographed text illustrated with thirty-six original silver gelatin photographs mounted within the text. Original dark green cloth binder text bound with two brass brads. Abrasions and heavy rubbing to covers cloth fraying along spine. Minor toning and occasional thumb-soiling to text. Numerous ink corrections to text. A wonderful handmade detailed travel narrative documenting a two-week canoe excursion into the wilds of northern Minnesota and Canada in 1927. The author Harold R. Greenlee headed out from Winton Minnesota with his friend Donald MacNaught on June 5 and returned to the same location on June 23. In the meantime Greenlee and MacNaught traveled via canoe through "practically virgin wilderness without roads railroads or communication of any kind." Specifically they began their canoe trip up Fall Lake Basswood Lake and Prairie Portage then into Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario Canada. They then journeyed through Birch Lake Carp Lake Knife Lake and other locations along the U.S.-Canada border eventually reaching Saganaga Lake before they turned for home again. They were back in Minnesota by June 16 and spent the remainder of their trip at Red Rock Lake Ogishkemuncie Lake and various parts of the state on the way home. Greenlee's narrative records details on their fishing adventures catching mostly Great Northern Pike but also pickerel and trout locals and others encountered along the way the natural landscape and various natural features especially with regard to their rowing efforts the details in making camp and so forth. Greenlee's narrative is unusually detailed compared to similar fishing excursion memoirs of this type often comprised of a few or more pages per day.<br /> <br /> The photographs picture both Harold and Donald in their boat posed with fish carrying their canoe across the portages resting in camp cooking lunch on the river bank and more as well as scenes of the rapids at Prairie Portage an expanse of Knife Lake three different views of Silver Falls at Saganaga Lake a Native American grave on an island in Cache Bay on Lake Saganaga Jasper Falls a scene in Eddy Lake and "A full blooded Indian and canoe he built Saganaga Lake" among others. Harold and Donald spent part of their journey traveling with a party of engineers and a Native American canoeman and some of the photographs capture the other travelers.<br /> <br /> A representative entry reads as follows: "Just above the rapids and in Cypress Lake there is a sort of bowl shaped pool in which we saw Bass Wall-eyed pike Pickerel and Great Northern Pike. We decided to cast there a awhile and caught several Great Northern Pike and Pickerel. I hooked one Bass but he succeeded in throwing the hook out of his mouth. I was not sorry of this for the Bass season is not open. After fishing for a while we started up the Lake. We had to go through some narrows which looked more like a river than a lake and this lasted for some few hundred yards. We then had to make an abrupt right hand turn and headed northeast to Cypress Lake."<br /> <br /> We were unable to locate any other copies of this likely unique personal canoe trip narrative in OCLC or elsewhere. unknown
189021552Mankato MN et al. 1890. Very Good. Mankato MN et al: ca. 1890s. Small oblong octavo 14x18cm.; publisher's grey card wrappers lettered in white; 16ll. of pale grey stock to which are mounted sixteen 16 silver gelatin snapshots all ca. 8x8cm. on rectos only usually with manuscript captions on facing page. Some photographs a bit overexposed at margins else an exceptional album in Near Fine condition. Retains the album seller's ticket inside rear cover "Ward's Souvenir Album" rubberstamped no. 11.<br /> <br /> Small souvenir album capturing the rather long journey from Mankato Minnesota to British Columbia. The first nine photographs appear to have been taken in the former location possibly the photographer's home the images depicting scenes around a woodframe house and a young girl astride a horse before turning outward to views of the Minnesota River from the bluff of North Mankato the cows on said bluff Minneopa Falls and the Minnesota River Bridge. The next location captured is a train station between Denver and Colorado Springs presumably Pikes Peak looming in the background. The next shot shows a rather large group of people both men and women walking along the railroad tracks through Royal Gorge Colorado the bank of the Arkansas River just a few feet to their left. The following photograph jumps from the Gorge to the Cawston Ostrich Farm in Pasadena California where a rather substantial clutch of ostriches peer out at the photographer from behind their enclosure's gate. The farm the first of its kind opened in 1886 to meet the demand for newly-fashionable ostrich feathers and was immediately a major tourist attraction. Two photographs follow of a horse-back ride across Mt. Lowe a peak in the southern folds of the San Gabriel Mountains California. The concluding two photographs show the train ride from northern California en route to Portland Oregon and finally a view of Mt. Sir Donald "highest peak of the Selkirk mountain British Columbia. unknown
1893000016701Montreal: John McConniff 1893. Later edition. Hardcover. Good. Oblong 8vo. 2 3-99 5 pp. Quarter textured red cloth over pictorial paper boards a lithograph illustration on the front board in green red and brown the city motto of Montreal printed in color on the rear board; all edges decoratively stained red. Peach endpapers and pastedowns. With in-text and full-page engravings throughout. First published in 1890. Two leaves detached from the binding but laid in a tear to one leaf toning to the endpapers and pastedowns. John McConniff hardcover
191543552Headquarters Banff Alberta: Alpine Club 1915. thick8vo. 8vo. 23cm iv263 pp. 4p. rear ads. plus numerous plate illustrating folding map appendices inc. club notes reviews list of members on WWI active service original printed grey wraps a fine copy. Laid in are 4 letters/responses regarding Alpine Club queries with responses. <br /> <br /> Mountaineering Section: Northern Rockies- Ascents of Mounts Natazhat in Alaska Mt. Robson Mt. Whitehorn Mt. Resplendent and The Whirlpool. Southern Rockies Selkirks-Freshfield Glacier Ascents: Beaver Duncan & Farnham and McBean. Scientific Section: Yoho and Robson Glaciers Yellowhead Pass Rocky Mountain spiders. Alpine Club unknown
19359900045230Vancouver BC: Mounted Police Veterans Assoc 1935. Stapled Wraps. pp. 102. 4to. Cover shows creasing and tears and separated from text some loss to spine and first page cup ring to one page ink to foredge text shows marginal ride marks; fair. This edition of the magazine of the Mounted Police Veterans' Association published on the 50th anniversary of the North West Rebellion presents 'many interesting stories of that time written chiefly by the men who took an active part in this Canadian drama. We. believe that this issue should be treasuresd as an historical souvenir'. Articles include: 'Riel Rebellion of 1885' by Judge Forin 4 pgs; 'Pioneering in the West' by J B Ross 4 pgs; 'Toronto to Fort Garry' by James T. Fullerton 2 pgs; 'Prisoners with Indians' by Neil Brodie 4 pgs; 'Sergeant D B Smith Honored' 1 pg; 'With General Strange's Column in the Riel Rebellion': reprinted from the 1885 'The Souvenir Number of the Illustrated War News' 9 pgs; 'Charles Dickens' Son' by George Shepherd 1 pg; 'On the March with 'The Little Black Devils' ' by Monro St. John 20 pgs; 'The Trial and Sentence of Louis Riel' by George Bartley 5 pgs; and 'Jubilee Year of Loyalists' Victory Riel's Second Rebellion in 1885' by George Bartley 19 pgs. All articles are peppered with photos and illustrations. Last two pages appear in duplicate. Mounted Police Veterans Assoc unknown
1946132595Ottawa: The National Gallery of Canada 1946. Softcover. fine. 26pp. Pamphlet. Original manilla printed wrappers; staples as issued. Notation in ink to front panel. Some pencil notations to interior. Un-illustrated. A tight copy; exceptionally clean and bright. fine Catalogue for exhibition of the same name with an introduction by Vincent Massey then High Comissioner for Canada. The exhibition was convened to celebrate the work of war artists comissioned in 1942 by the Canadian Overseas Artists Control Committee over which Massey was chairman. The catalogue features work by Captain D.A. Colville and Captain Lawren Harris among others. Extremely scare in original. 1946 The National Gallery of Canada paperback
185935117Albany: J. Munsell 1859. First Edition. Wraps. Fair. Wraps. 10" X 6.5". 4 92 pages 4. Original tan paper printed stitched wraps with title surrounded by decorative border on the front cover. "Two Moons" written in pencil on front. Large stain on the front cover penetrating to page 2. Paper spine chipped. Former institutional copy with small white label with numbers 644 on the left margin front cover. Remnants of small label left margin lower front cover. Edge chips to both covers. Limited edition of 200 copies. Number 1 written on the verso of the title page. Fair only. <br /> <br /> Howes W - 451; Field 1670. J. Munsell unknown
192059237Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office Hydrographic Office U.S. Navy 1920-1940. Five vols. 8vo. vi 638; v 1 287 1; 8 390 pp.; 1; 2 17 1 leaves. With 5 large folding colour maps numerous plates showing elevations. Three volumes uniformly bound in blue publisher’s buckram gilt lettering front cover & spine darkening to spines fore-edges minor shelfwear dustsoiling slightly shaken Supplements in self-printed softcovers edgewear toning to fore-edges minor chipping still VG- set. Third editions revised & updated of vols. I & II second edition of vol. II and 1st editions of both scarce Supplements of these coast pilot guides to British Columbia including lower Alaska and upper Washington in the years between the World Wars. Prior to modern GPS systems and satellite navigation these regularly updated and revised navigation handbooks provided key sailing instructions often drawing not only from Brazilian Argentine and British coast pilots as well as sailing reports from U.S. Navy vessels and those from merchant ships. The first large map delineates the requisite coast pilots for sailing in B.C. waters and charts to be ordered from the Hydrographic Office while the second maps depict the sailing routes to Asia the Soviet Union and the Arctic across the Pacific. Both editions of Vol. II are offered here with the expanded 3rd edition featuring nearly double the material and extra map of the 2nd. Government Printing Office, Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy, paperback
1125558859Battle Creek MI: New Brunswick Tourist Association Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. brochure coloured covers no date circa 1907 54 pages illustrated numerous black & white illustrations from across the province center fold two colour map.21 x 22 cm folded to 21 x 11 of Maritime Provinces of Canada showing St. John. lists and illustrations of hotels game laws numerous adverts including CPR RR. [New Brunswick Tourist Association] Paperback
1882083579Toronto: C. Blackett Robinson 1882. Leather Bound. pp. 504. 8vo. Quarterbound with brown leather gilt lettering to spine. Decorated endpapers. Contains fold out map. Light scuffing ink inscription and blind stamp to title page some age toning to page ends; very good. Ontario Boundary Papers 1882. [C. Blackett Robinson] unknown
sala23Ottawa: c1925. 12mo. pp. 79 1. wrs. covers soiled creases to back cover & last few leaves one gathering loose but present & rust stains from staples [Ottawa: c1925] unknown
1960811Peace River Alberta Canada: Peace River Lodge No. 131 Auxiliary To The B.P.O. Elks Canada N.D. Circa 1960's. First printing. Spiral Bound. pp. 40 h. 8vo. measuring 9.5" x 6". White stiff card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Black and white illustrations many advertisements by local business merchants of Peace River Alberta. A variety of recipes with the names of contributors noted below each recipe. Light rubbing to covers contents bright clean and unmarked with tight sound binding; very good. Contains a full listing of members of Order of the Royal Purple. Note: The Order of The Royal Purple was the female auxiliary of the Elks of Canada. At time of cataloguing this title does not appear amongst the holdings at Peel LAC/BAC University of Alberta or The University of Guelph Special Collections Cookbook Collection. Scarce. <br/><br/> Peace River Lodge No. 131, Auxiliary To The B.P.O. Elks Canada unknown
19304225Toronto Ontario Canada: PECO Photogelatine Engraving Co. Limited Toronto Ontario Canada N.D. Circa 1930's. First Edition First Printing. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated 18 unnumbered leaves. Oblong 12mo. measuring 6.75" x 4.5". Illustrated twice-stapled mustard-yellow textured card covers with an oval cut-out to the front cover which in-turn reveals a lovely colour photographic view of presumably Clear Lake beneath. Short one-page introduction of the history and various amenities and recreations available to prospective visitors to the famed Manitoba-based National Park. Chiefly comprised of lovely period colour photogravures of the various landmarks lakes and beaches accommodations lodges hotels etc government buildings the famous entrance gate to the Park and much else. Also includes one colour map of the Park and region at-large. Remarkably well-preserved and entirely without blemish to the extremities or contents. The booklet is accompanied with its original equally well-preserved envelope. Near fine. <br/><br/>Rare in commerce. Unrecorded in OCLC. Not in Peel BAC/LAC University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections et al at time of cataloguing. [PECO] Photogelatine Engraving Co., Limited (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) paperback
92428Very Good. Photo approximately 21 cm x 26 cm. "Photos by Caldwell" printed on back of photo. Lee was a professional boxer as a welterweight before becoming an actor. He starred on Broadway in Orson Welles adaptation of Richard Wright's "Native Son" in 1941. He was also a Progressive and a Civil Rights activist . His leftist politics and associations put him on Hollywood's blacklist. Acting roles had become scarce before he died of kidney disease at the age of 45. unknown
190635279High Bluff Manitoba: Edwin C. Blair Photographer 1906. Photograph. Very good. Photograph. Approx. 9" x 7". Printed on the back of the photograph is the photographer statement "Scene or Subject blank This reproduction is the result of labours of Edwin C. Blair or one of his representatives for the quality of whose work he alone is responsible." A pencil inscription written on the back reads "Lill with best love from Harry W. J. In a rock cut on Grand Trunk Pacific Ry Vermilion Vermillion Bay Ontario." From the Manitoba Historical Society:<br /> <br /> Born at North River Nova Scotia on 12 September 1862 son of Robert Blair 1824-1889 and Jane Lynds 1823-1909 he moved to the United States in 1881 to work for a camera company founded by his brother Thomas H. Blair 1855-1919 and manage camera stores at New York Philadelphia and Chicago. On 5 September 1899 he married Edith Justina Bemis 1879-1930 at Northborough Massachusetts and they had a son although the marriage ultimately ended in divorce. He came to Manitoba around 1906 and worked as an itinerant photographer based at High Bluff taking photos along the railways of western Canada. In 1908 he opened a photographic studio at Wainwright Alberta but later returned to High Bluff. Known to suffer from mental illness and having served time in an insane asylum he was arrested at Grandview in the fall of 1917 and was charged according to a local newspaper account with “manufacturing photographs tending to corrupt public morals.†Six years earlier he had been sentenced to six months in jail for a similar offense at Dandarand Alberta. In November 1915 he was sentenced to nine months in jail for sending indecent photographs through the mail. He later moved to British Columbia where he died at New Westminster on 12 December 1945 and was buried in the Woodlands Memorial Garden. Edwin C. Blair, Photographer unknown
1926238471926. Photography. Good overall. 200 original photographs of a 1925/26 trip which begins in the Philippines and includes Singapore Java Australia New Zealand and Suva with many great images of Middle Harbor in Sydney. This is followed by a railway trip across Canada from the Pacific coast and Banff cross country ending in Montreal with the last image of the Engineering building at McGill University.<br /> The album is likely an American military man's photographic record of his trip beginning in December 1925 and ending April 1926 as many of the images are of railways bridges ships and military installations and one image identifies a Captain Richardson in white Navy uniform. <br /> <br /> The album opens with images of the Philippines with rail yards captioned "H. P. Co"; Fabrica Occ. Negros; San Carlos; Fort Santiago Manila; SS "Taiping" of A-O Line; Zamboanga including a shot of "Pettit Barracks" this was the location of the US Army's 43rd Infantry Regiment which was a Philippine scout unit in 1921; Fort Pilar Zamboanga; SS 'Darvel' at Jolo; and city streets of Jolo.<br /> <br /> The next stage of the trip is the through southeast Asia and Malaysia and Indonesia with images of Sandakan North Borneo; Jesselton Soldier's Monument rubber grove; Labuan government building Naval cemetery two western men in the caption identified as "Jefferson & Watt"; Singapore Bridge government building street scene reservoir old cemetery; Johore Causeway; Fort Canning; Batavia current day Jakarta Indonesia Batavia street scenes bridge canals old Portuguese fort; near Djokjakarta; lowland locomotive; Papandajan smoking craters; Mendoet; Borodbudur temples; Prambanan temples; Surabaya; KPM SS 'Plancius' Dutch ship; Semarang steam tram; KPM SS 'Houtman'; old Fort Macassar; and Celebes canal works views of country side.<br /> <br /> On to Australia with Brisbane Victoria Bridge Sydney Harbor north & south Head Garden Island "Sydney bridge site" the future site of the Bridge Fort Dennison Spit Bridge Middle Harbor Middle Head Bradley's Head Kuringai Chase Manly and Darling Harbor.<br /> <br /> Auckland and Fiji are next with images of the RMS 'Niagara' at Auckland and views from Mt. Eden; then on to Suva Fiji with city views landscapes and natives & their dwellings. The author is next in Canada with a Canadian Pacific Railway trip with views from the train windows of the Selkirks Rockies Banff Cascades Mt. Rundle Banff hot springs Mt. Royal Montreal the St. Lawrence River the Victoria Bridge and closing with a shot of the facade of the Engineering Building at McGill University. <br /> <br /> Oblong album 9 1/4 x 7 1/2". Three quarter leather and stamped patterned paper covered boards the leather at corners rubbed and perished at the spine. 50 pages with 4 photographs per page a total of 200 images 3 x 2 1/2" each dated and captioned on the frame. Photographs in excellent condition. unknown
1847List2609Quebec City and Brockton Canada 1847. Four letters approximately sixteen total pages: four 8 x 12.5 inches twelve 8 x 10 inches and smaller. Two letters dated 1846 one 1847 missing final pages and one without date missing initial and final pages. Very good. Edmund John Senkler 1802–1872 was born in Norfolk England educated at Cambridge and in 1827 ordained as an Anglican minister. Senkler his wife Eleanor and their children immigrated to Canada in 1843 to live in Quebec City Canada East now the province of Quebec. They then moved to Sorel also known as William Henry and finally to Brockville near Kingston Canada West now Ontario.<br /> <br /> Offered here is a set of four letters from Senkler to his friend G. W. Chad back in Norfolk describing the activities of Senkler and his family as they settle into life in Canada. The Senklers had first moved to Quebec City but did not enjoy their time “in that pestiferous cloaca . over which the destroying angel seems evermore to hover with his drawn sword in his hand†May 8 1846. On planning to leave the Bishop of Montreal offers Senkler an unpaid position in “Coteau du Lac a lonely place 40 or 50 miles above Montreal†whose previous missionary had “been enjoying for many years a handsome salary†and was now “on his return to England.†Senkler turns down this meager offer and takes his family to Sorel.<br /> <br /> The move is providential as “Not fewer than 27 persons with whom we had some acquaintance have died there Quebec City since we left†September 10 1846. The family’s acquaintances apparently died in a theater fire in Quebec City—probably the St. Louise Theater—which seemed to have turned into a crowd crush:<br /> <br /> “I knew some of the sufferers: some were very pious people . What shocked the feelings of all who witnessed the scene with some of whom I have conversed was that the misery was so easily approachable and yet so utterly beyond relief. . In the case of poor Mr. Scott mentioned in all the papers particularly the Illustrated London News of July 18 where there is a view of the place his brother could not only see him but talk with him – caress him petting his face weeping over him while the poor suffering man commended his wife family to his care; and yet no force could drag out his limbs from the entangled mass of human beings. They did pull at him until they pulled the ball of his shoulder out of the socket and he begged to be allowed to die.â€<br /> <br /> By 1847 the family had sold their property in Sorel and moved west to Brockville in what is now Ontario. The family are noticing the effects of England’s Panic of 1847:<br /> <br /> “The great scarcity of money now felt in England will very shortly be felt here. The produce sent from hence home has not been paid for. Consequently our merchants must pay for the manufactures c. sent out by bills of exchange which must be in so much greater demand therefore fetch a higher premium.†December 8 1847<br /> <br /> And around the same time an epidemic of typhus breaks out in Canada from Irish immigrants fleeing the famine:<br /> <br /> “Probably you have learned from the papers what misery the unfortunate Irish emigrants have brought and are likely yet to bring to this country. They have spread a pestilence through the city of Montreal. Grosse Isle the quarantine station below Quebec has been crowded with fever patients to an alarming extent. . The emigrants as they recover are forwarded by the steam-boats from Grosse Isle to Montreal without touching at Quebec where they are received in miserable wooden sheds. Many suffer a relapse; others first shew symptoms of fever when there; and spread the infection though the town by begging. You can imagine what hotbeds of infection those steam-boats must be. Last week 3 passed Sorel without touching at the port one had 1000 emigrants on board the other two about 800 500 respectively. . These unhappy people are forwarded to their destination in the Western Country. For many of them doubtless that destination will be an untimely grave in a strange place.†No Date.<br /> <br /> Nonetheless the Senkler family happily settles in the town of Brockville with “an orchard garden with plenty of pasture for a couple of cows and horses with ground for growing all the vegetables required for the family†December 8 1847. The land is rapidly developing with land prices increasing and a telegraph line from Toronto to Quebec running through it – which to Senkler is “surprising in a country in which 60 years ago there was only an Indian’s hunting track for hundreds of miles.â€<br /> <br /> Overall the letters provide an intimate look at life for settlers in Canada in the middle period of its rule by the British. unknown
11831St Anne's Board Mill Company Limited Bristol. 1946. 311pp. folio. With page of 'Errata' laid down on rear pastedown under the manuscript heading 'COPY NO. 3. PB.' With fold-out map of North America and numerous plans and diagrams laid down in text as well as several full-page plates. In original blue buckram binding with 'REPORT ON AMERICAN VISIT 1946.' in gilt on the spine. Good on lightly-aged and spotted paper. An informative and intelligent document containing reports on 39 visits to American Companies and two telephone conversations from 'Visit to New York Office of Price & Pierce' to 'Visit to the Riegel Paper Corporation Warren Mill New Jersey'. [St Anne's Board Mill Company, Limited, Bristol. 1946.] hardcover
11832St Anne's Board Mill Co. Ltd. 1954. v 135pp. folio. With diagrams and plans in text and one large fold-out diagram of '100 Ton Waste Paper Cleaning System'. A well-produced item well-typed and with clear diagrams bound in navy buckram with 'REPORT ON AMERICAN VISIT 1954' on the spine. In good condition on lightly-aged paper. The text is preceded by an Index a map of North America and an itinerary. The 'objects of the visit' are given on the first page as 'a To obtain information on the current production practice in Woodpulp and Paperboard Mills. b To discuss with Machinery Manufacturers the latest designs now in operation and in the experimental stage. c To assess the best method of exploiting the F. B. Principle.' Plans and diagrams on are laid-down pieces of paper. This intelligent and well-produced document contains reports on visits to and interviews with 32 companies from Price & Pierce New York to J. O. Ross Engineering Corporation New York. [St Anne's Board Mill Co. Ltd. 1954.] hardcover
18860101767Ottawa: l'Imrimeur de la Reine 1886. Hardcover. pp. 213. Royal 8vo. 20th century rebind: leather spine lettered in gilt over marbled boards with original front cover bound-in. Pages brittle with some chipping to edges and pulling at staples; contents unmarked new binding sound. Peel 1532. l'Imrimeur de la Reine hardcover
