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Maple Leaves: Canadian History and Quebec Scenery (Third Series)

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3062L
Scope and Contents This, the third in a seven-volume series, has material in two main categories; historical essays, chiefly on the campaign of 1759, and thirty-five short accounts of 'Our Country Seats', in the vicinity of Quebec. It was the first Canadian book illustrated by the insertion of actual photographs, and, according to Greenhill (1965) p.64, 'Copies of this book differ very considerably both in the number of photographs included and in the actual pictures used'. The photographer was Livernois;...
Dates: 1865
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