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Scroll. 230 cm x 17.5 cm (opened).
N 7433.3 M646 2000 folio

This beautiful full-page plate of an Arctic Grayling is the only colour illustration in Richardson’s Notice of the Fishes and is one of my favourite images in my collection.

Texts in English and Spanish. Collection of sentences that build off the previous. A single sentence appears on each page and is written first in Spanish and then in English below it.

Printed by the Calgary-based Western Printing & Lithographing Co., this particular edition is not included in Elizabeth Driver’s Culinary Landmarks; other 1915 editions were printed by S.A. Hynd Litho-Print Ltd. of Calgary (1043–44).…

Edmonton’s Ladies Hospital Aid, founded in 1898, paid the initial $8000 cost of opening the 25-bed Edmonton Public Hospital in 1900 (Infofile). The cornerstone was laid in 1910 for a replacement hospital, which opened in 1912. This new building,…

Printed and bound reproductions of the media, communications and photographs of the Mr. Peanut for mayor of Vancouver political campaign. Inscribed: For Francis, See you at the White House. Signed by MItchell and Trasov.

Clearly serving as a local business advertiser as much as a household guide, the first edition of this series was published in Vancouver around 1911–13, but versions soon followed for Winnipeg, Hamilton, Toronto, and Montreal (Driver, Culinary…

A rock formation along the Mackenzie river known locally as The Ramparts. This formation is located at the entrance to Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories.