CANADA WEST: Information for the Intending Settler (1921)
Ottawa: Ministry of Immigration and Colonization, 1921. First Thus. Soft cover. Collectible Good. Item #2210011
Original publication. Beautiful color pictorial 4to wraps. 40pp. Illus. Three large folding maps of Saskatchewan, Alberta, and Manitoba. Also full page map of British Columbia. For a number of years in the early twentieth century, the Canadian government highly promoted the settling of the prairie provinces and touted primarily the rich farmland. They produced on an annual basis these booklets magazine size with fabulous covers. They are highly collectable from source material, cartography, and simply aesthetic reasons. This is the 1921 issue. Very good with splits to cover folds repaired and split to one map repaired. Scarce.
Price: $95.50