Octavo. Original Printed Wrappers. (22 cm x 14.4 cm), pp. 22, side-notes, folding map, tan printed paper wraps, pamphlet-stitched binding. At head of cover: "To be ignorant of the North-West is to be ignorant of the greater portion of our Country", and below title: "The Universal Verdict - Expectations More than Realized." Covers lightly soiled, stamp at lower end of front cover: "From Depository of Emigration Literature, 33 York St., Toronto, W.R. Callaway, General Manager", address stamp to rear cover, department of Emigration plate to rear cover partially covering address stamp, else very good copy. "During the tour the Vice-Regal partly drove nearly 1,500 miles after leaving the Canada Pacific line at Portage la Prairie; hence no more reliable accounts could be obtained from any traveller than His Excellency was in a position to give, and his statements proclaim trumpet-tongued that the Land of Promise surpasses in richness of soil, grandeur of scenery, and gradations of climatology, any other country upon the American Continent." - Introduction. [2291]
File consists of one headshot of Cynthia Armour.
File consists of receipts (including one from the Grand Trunk Railway) and private circulars including one stating that enlisting in the services of the USA is a punishable act. Correspondents include Sylvester Potter
File consists of a letter from E.W. Armstrong (Dartmouth College) to Aaron Greeley (1773- ?) of New Hampshire, son of surveyor Aaron Greeley who was a cousin of Zaccheus Burnham. Letter accounts the daily inconveniences and difficulties of being a soldier and how American soldiers suffer the inconveniences of war more than do the Europeans. Includes religious overtones.
Folder 1
Newspaper clippings
- Undated clippings
- 1966
- 1967
- 1968
- 1968
- 1969
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
Folder 2
- Miscellaneous letters, news releases, etc.
- U.S. Department of the Interior. Indian Arts and Crafts Board Fact Sheet 2
- Houston, Alma. Notes on Eskimo art - Cape Dorset
- Houston, James A. Eskimo Carvings
- The Canadian Banker, Autumn, 1962
- Burgess, Helen. A talent to carve.
Folder 1
Newspaper and magazine clippings
1a. Undated
- 1950's
2-5. 1965-68 - January-August 1969
- September-December 1969
- 1970
- 1971
- 1972
Folder 2
- Exhibitions (no order)
a. miscellaneous
b. individual-(1j) - Advertising (craft shop, etc.)
a. miscellaneous
b. individual (2h)
Folder 3
3a. Articles, Press releases, etc. - (3j)
- Muskego designs
- Press releases, minutes, letters, etc.
- Newspaper and magazine clippings [Missing]
- Ontario Craft Foundation
- Ontario gift stores
- Indian arts and Crafts Board. Fact sheet
- Farrell, V.R. Address at opening of Exhibition of Alaska Native Arts and Crafts in Victoria, B.C., 1955
Includes invitations for exhibits at the Sculptor’s Society of Canada, Roberts Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery Moos, David Mirvish Gallery, and the Bootzy Gallery, displaying artworks by artists including such as Ron Davis, Walter Darby Bennard, Joespeh Legare, Joan Willsher-Martel, Jack Bush, Michael French, John Elderfield, and Chrisopher Varley. Also includes material for ‘Architecture ornaments’ by Lucien Goldschmidt’; ‘the living image’ by Barbara Howard, Cecil Richards, and Rebecca Sisler; and ‘etchings’ by Rodger Chailloux. Also includes texts relating to art, some in languages other than English, and a photograph of an unidentified man standing with snowmen.