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A crew of men tow logs behind a rowboat, for use by a steam wheeler.

I chose this copy of The Fishing Tourist for rebinding as the text block was generally clean but the binding had suffered serious damage. When I received the rebound book from Debra Frances, I was delighted to find a portion of the original…

Acquired in honour of Dr Lorne Tyrrell

P. Burns and Co. was a large Prairie abattoir and packing-plant company. Established by Pat Burns in 1890 in Calgary, the company soon expanded to Vancouver and Edmonton, and changed its name to Burns and Co. in 1923. Though Burns and Co. specialized…

The front cover of Travels and Tales of Miriam Green Ellis: Pioneer Journalist of the West, edited by Dr. Patricia Demers.

Here we have an example of photojournalism before photojournalism was entirely practical. It would still be a few decades before thehalftone process made it efficient and therefore cost-effective to print photographs and text side-by-side. In this…

Illustrators and printers have struggled with how best to represent the vibrant colours and unusual shapes of fish on the page. The invention of chromolithography presented a new way to print in colour, and this technique was quickly used to print…

Two First Nations women at Fort Norman (now Norman Wells), Northwest Territories.