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[CANADA -- BRITISH COLUMBIA]. [FERGUSON, John Bowerman, PEARSON, Thomas Robson, ROBSON, David & HART, JA] J ABiblio.com

Souvenir British Columbia. . . .

1887réf. 55678Victoria New Westminster & Vancouver B.C.: The British Columbia Stationery & Printing Co. ca. 1887. 8vo. 5.75 x 7.6 in. 16 leaves unpaginated. sepia-tinted lithographed images bound leporello accordion style w/ 68 different images all w/ white & red borders. Embossed pebbled red publisher’s cloth gilt lettering front cover blind embossed raised borders very minor shelfwear 1 leaf w/ lifting from facing litho 1 very minor closed tear still a VG bright copy. First edition of this beautifully printed and illustrated souvenir book issued by the noted British Columbia printing firm which operated from 1885 to 1888 in Victoria and Vancouver BC. The views include the Victoria harbour the Fraser River Lighthouse birds-eye views of New Westminster Vancouver Coal Mining Co.’s Shaft No. 1 in Nanaimo the dockyards at Esquimalt Native American carvings totem poles and tribes people along with views of Sitka Alaska. Ferguson partnered with Pearson Robson & Hart in May 1886 to form the British Columbia Printing Co. who intended to establish themselves as the leading stationer printers in the province but due to the destruction of the company’s Vancouver branch by fire June 13 1886 and then on Sept. 1 1886 in Victoria but even though the company reconstituted and continued with their contract to print the West Shore Magazine locally as well as Canadian Pacific Railway literature the firm only survived until November 1888 when Ferguson returned to Winnipeg to open a book and stationery store. Worldcat locates 2 copies UBC WSU; See: Lana Okerlund British Columbia Stationery and Printing Company A Most Agreeable Place History of Booksellers and Stationers in British Columbia Oct. 3 2017; The West Shore Vol. 1 Vol. 13 1887 p. 496. The British Columbia Stationery & Printing Co., hardcover

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[CANADA -- PETROLIANA].Biblio.com

Trans-Canada pipe line spread ‘X’: Majestic Construction Co.; Sturgeon River crossing. . . excellent souvenir photo album chronicling the construction in 1958 of the first natural gas pipepline from Alberta to Central Canada and at the time the longest natural gas pipeline in the World.

1958réf. 59583Calgary ALB & Geraldton ONT Canada: Trans-Canada Corporation Fisher’s Studio Box 370 1958. Oblong 4to. 11.25 x 7.25 in. 78 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 69 tipped-in silver gelatin photographs 57 sized 5 x 7 in. & 12 sized 3.5 x 5 in. all tipped-in w/ silver corners first third of the album featuring white ink manuscript annotations in drafting hand occasional offsetting at upper fore-edges from old tape. Contemporary red boards post-binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover punch-sewn at gutter margin w/ black silk braid small label for Fisher’s Studio Geraldton ONT on front pastedown slight scuffing shelfwear still VG bright exemplar. This exceptional souvenir construction album illustrates the efforts of the Majestic Construction Co. building the Trans-Canada pipeline originally conceived following World War II by the Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. subsidiary of Texas oil magnate Clint Murchison’s Canadian Dehli. Majestic Construction specialized in building pipelines as well as power generation and transmission projects across Canada the United States India Malaysia and the Middle East. This album opens with photos of the Trans-Canada inspection crew engineering department and Majestic personnel followed by photos of caterpillar excavators digging ditches building right-of-ways drilling through rock and blasting. Also included are photographs of back hoes digging the pipeline ditch road boring machines giant bending machines and pipe gangs welding and x-raying the finished pipes. Also depcited are spooling machines for laying cables cranes laying pipe into position as well as pouring and placing the concrete sleeves and more. The Sturgeon River Crossing construction is also shown in the album which runs through the Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Reserve Land. Smaller photos show some of the labor crews which managed to complete the pipeline by Oct. 1958. Fisher’s Studio often produced commercial souvenir albums including a similar album depicting the construction of King’s Highway 11 for the Ontario Ministry of Transportation and also issued souvenir Real Photo Postcards. We could find no similar albums in Worldcat or private holdings; See: Deborah Sawyer & Nathan Baker TC Energy formerly TransCanada Canadian Encyclopedia 2021. Trans-Canada Corporation], Fisher’s Studio, Box 370, hardcover

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[Canada – Religious History – Communal Societies] Soukoreff, George S; Verigin, John JBiblio.com

We Appeal To The Public. A Broadside Concerning the Doukhobor–Freedomite Conflict.

1947réf. List3322Trail British Columbia: Hall Printing Co 1947. Broadside measuring approximately 19 x 19 inches. Folded with some wrinkling and very small tears at margins; excellent. The Doukhobors are a Spiritual Christian group that originated in the Russian Empire around the late eighteenth century. Persecuted for their pacifism and rejection of the Orthodox Church the Doukhobors were first removed to present-day Ukraine then the Transcaucasus with some of their leadership exiled to Siberia. In the late nineteenth century they were allowed to emigrate and with the help of both Quakers and the Christian anarchist Tolstoyans—whose beliefs largely accorded with the Doukhobors’—many ended up in western and central Canada. In Canada the dissident group Sons of Freedom or Freedomites Svobodniki formed out of the Doukhobors; their opposition to assimilation and government interference was more extreme than their parent group and they were known for eschewing cooked food the use of animal labor and clothing.1 The Freedomites became increasingly violent in their protests of the modern world particularly making use of arson and bombings leading the vehemently pacifist Doukhobors—who were often their victims—to disavow the group. Offered here is a broadside produced by the Doukhobors in British Columbia appealing to the Canadian government for help in apprehending and controlling the radicals ending the Doukhobor’s “dreadful existence under constant fear.” The broadside reproduces the correspondence between the Union of Doukhobors of Canada and various provincial and federal officials and especially emphasizes that contrary to popular belief the Doukhobors had been open and cooperative with law enforcement. Despite the “suspicion on the part of our people as to whether necessary measures were ever taken by the proper authorities” the group tried “to cooperate to the best of our ability.” They ask: “We regarded Canada as foremost in racial and religious tolerance. Why is ‘a civil war between Doukhobors’ allowed to go on and people forced to engage in violence in contradiction to the principle of faith they endeavor to uphold” We find one copy of this broadside in OCLC. 1 Maurice Gerschon Hindus “Doukhobors and Dissenters” in A Traveler in Two Worlds Doubleday 1971 290–303. Hall Printing Co unknown