Bettie Bernice Wilson was born in Hamilton, ON in 1917. At the age of 24, she enlisted in the Women’s Division of the RCAF on 31 March 1942.

Contents of the scrapbook:

Canada. Department of National War Services. Canadian Women's Army Corps, Canadian Women's Auxiliary Air Force: qualifications, September 1st, 1941 / Corps auxiliaire feìminin de l'armeìe canadienne, Corps auxiliaire feìminin de l'aviation canadienne: qualiteìs requises, septembre 1er 1941. Ottawa: Dept. of National War Services (Edmond Cloutier Printer), 1941. 12, 12 pp. Wire-stitched pamphlet. Only 1 copy recorded (LAC)...Click for more info and photos;

Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow was an English physical chemist, a civil servant, government advisor, novelist, and social critic.

Snow married Pamela Hansford Johnson, Lady Pamela Snow, an English novelist writing 27 novels, a playwright, poet, literary and social critic.

The collection has 21 items dating from 1950 to 1980, specifically, 17 letters and 4 photos....

Aimé Giron was a French lawyer, editor, journalist, children’s author, and poet. One of the most prolific writers of his time, he began his literary career by publishing poems that appeared in La Revue de Paris.

The collection contains 27 items dating from 1866 to 1904 specifically, 24 (25?) letters (22 letters to Giron, 2 written by him), 2 printed documents, and 1 manuscript in Giron’s hand. (50 pp. in total). All documents in French, except a letter in Italian and the associated printed documents. The collection is mainly literary in nature concerning Giron’s contributions to journals, his publications, and his participation and role in prominent organizations and events (for example, inviting Giron to the 500th anniversary marking Petrarch’s death in Padua)....Click for more info and photos;

Henry Sydnor Harrison was an American journalist and novelist, born in Sewanee, Tenn. In 1914, he was elected a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

The collection contains 7 items dating from 1900 to 1922 specifically, 5 letters and 2 books...

Douglas Murray was an English playwright. His works were produced on the English stage from 1907 to 1929. His most successful play is entitled “A Man from Toronto”...

This collection has 14 items dating from 1912 to 1936, specifically, 1 letter, 3 books, 5 programmes, 3 photos, 1 card, and 1 issue of a journal....

Pierre Martin Victor Richard de Laprade was a French poet, writer, professor of French literature, and lawyer. His poetry belongs to the school of Chateaubriand and Alphonse de Lamartine.

The collection contains 15 items dating from 1843 to 1896, specifically, 8 letters, 1 book, 1 pamphlet, 4 post cards and 1 thesis folder with calling card...

2 additional Case File folders, 1773-1806

13 oversized legal documents Dating 1773, 1797-9, 1801 and 1806.

a) A rare and important 19pp folio manuscript document dated 30th Sept. 1824 by Judge James Reid with his comments on the judicial system as requested by Secretary (Andrew William) Cochran (1792-1849).

b) 4 legal documents, pertaining to McTavish, Frobisher etc [North West Co.] vs. Samuel Gerrard law suit, 1799-1800 [Fur Trade related]

Simon McTavish was a fur trader and dealer in furs, militia officer, office holder, landowner, seigneur, and businessman. He was one of the owners of the North West Company (NWC). McTavish was certainly the colony’s [Canada's] most important businessman in the second half of the 18th century. Samuel Gerrard (1767-1857) was a fur trader, businessman, militia officer justice of the peace, politician, and seigneur.

a) 7 oversized legal documents Dating 1797-9, 1801 and 1806....

Daphne du Maurier collection pertaining to two books: her novel, The Glass-Blowers (published 1963); and Myself When Young (published 1977).

The collection consists of 8 items dating from 1977 to 1963, specifically;

• Novel The Glass-Blowers 1 manuscript notebook, 1 letter from an American agent, and 2 books (one inscribed) plus 2 complete typescript of two books,

• Novel Myself When Young 1 Typescript and 2 Final Galley Proofs of Myself When Young....

Trained as a medical doctor at Cambridge University, Warwick Deeping served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War I. He abandoned medicine and became a full-time author. Seven of his novels were best-sellers, notably Sorrell and Son...

The collection contains 38 items dating from 1908 to 1950, specifically, 35 Autographed Signed Letters, 1 book (signature laid in), 1 movie herald, 1 photo card, and 1 custom postal cover signed in ink...Click for more info and photos;

William Allen White was an American newspaper editor, politician, poet, novelist, biographer of presidents, a founding editor of the Book of the Month Club, “the Sage of Emporia”). He won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. In 1947 White posthumously won his second Pulitzer Prize for his book, "The Autobiography of William Allen White".

This collection includes 23 items dating from 1916 to 1943, specifically 22 typed letters signed (TLS), 2 photos, 2 Ephemera and 1 book. Included are 7 TLS, 1 ALS, 1 signed inscribed photo from White to Edna Ferber a very close family friend for 30 years and 1 signed envelope....

Paul le Jeune was a French Jesuit missionary in New France. He served as the Superior of the Jesuits in Canada from 1632 to 1639. During his tenure, he began a mission at Trois-Rivières, founded the community at Sillery, and saw the establishment of the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec...

1665. 2nd edition and considered rare. [10], 326 pp. Brown calfskin, ribbed spine stamped with gilded boxes, red and brown sprinkled edges...

1852 First UK edition. 2 volumes, Vol. 1; [i]-xx,[1]-293,(3). Vol. 2; [4], [1]-294., [1 blank]. 8vo, older rebound in full brown calf, new endpapers, marbled paper edges. Light wear to corners, else vg-fine in modern calf. A very attractive copy of the first edition of this pioneer classic by Susanna Moodie.

Susanna Moodie wrote these series of twenty-eight sketches, based on her difficult experiences and what to share these, thus she was "prompted by the hope of deterring well-educated people, about to settle in this colony, from entering upon a life for which they were totally unfitted by their previous pursuits and habits....

1759 First edition. 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, (6),[3]-643 pp. including the year-end supplement and 17pp. index. Original leather spine cracked at hinges, five raised bands with original red label present.

Original 1759 accounts and maps of the French Indian war at Quebec and Crown Point (New York). Included are 3 maps relating to above topic ;

1) the Island of Orleans with the Environs of Quebec [issued within a month of the surrender of Quebec] and

2) An Authentic Plan of the River St. Laurence from Sillery to the Falls of Montmorency.

3) The third map is of the Country between Crown Point and Fort Edward, showing Ticonderoga and Lake George (New York). All three of the French and Indian war maps (and articles) are in very good condition....

1852 First UK edition. 4-1/4 x 7-1/2 inches. vii, (3), 320 pp, Full brown tan calf, gilt-ruled boards and edges, raised bands with gilt decorations in the panels, red morocco label...

4 chromolithograph plates entitled “Cape Hotham”, "Breaking through the ice", "Resolute winter quarters" and "Sledge travelling", all drawn by Lieutenant Osborn and lithographed by M & N Hanhart, and 7 engraved illustrations in text...

1815. 2nd edition. 8vo, vi, 352pp. Contemporary full polished calf, original marbled end paper...

With illustrative anecdotes of many of her most particular friends and distinguished contemporaries. With some minor corrections and additions...

1962. 5 x 8 inches. vi, [7]-95pp. Original green cloth boards with gold type on spine. South Australian Facsimile Edition No. 30. Photocopies from the original book published in 1839. All pages are copied on 4pp sheets and folded in book so each page is untrimmed as a two page section, complete, no missing pages.

1905. First edition. 4-3/4 x 7-3/8 inches, (3 including tissue guarded portrait plate), 309pp., original green cloth boards with gilt lettering and perimeter gilt rules. New endpapers. Cover a little marked and a dent in the top board, otherwise in very good condition. 86 poems of which 52 appear for the first time in book form...

[1859] First edition (with this title). 4-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches. iv,(2), [7]-428pp. Original brown cloth covers with gilt type and gilt Indian about to scalp design on spine,

The History of King Phillip's Warm, and Personal and Historical Incidents of the Revolutionary War...

1599. Size: 7-3/4 x 0-3/4 inches. Fair condition....

Adrien Thomassin was born in Vesoul in eastern France before 1556. Thomassin was the seigneur de Crissey et de Mercey and lieutenant general of the Bailiwick of Amont. He was made advisor to the parliament and was president of the parliament in 1605. He was an ambassador to Swiss cantons. He died in Dole on 9 March 1631. Click for more info and photos;

Souvenir d'Algérie, recueil de chansons. Signed “Georges”. Mécheria, Algérie, 24 October? 1927. 23 × 18 cm. 72 leaves (numbered on the verso of each leaf). Marbled paper boards, half bound in green cloth; marbled paper endpapers. The covers are worn, stained with loose leaves inside, but the interior of the book is complete and in good condition.

A charming album of songs and drawings, at times comical, whimsical, sad, and daring (semi-clad women), a veritable work of art of life among the élite of French society in the colony of Algeria during the 1920s. Original ms. written in blue and violet ink, a collection of 70 songs or poems and approximately 75 drawings in ink and pastel and coloured pencil made in Mécharia, Algiers, a small city situated in the Atlas Mountains, Naâma Province....

An interesting file of 32 French legal case 1807 documents in various sizes and condition, very good to fair, with overall considered good condition. These legal cases covers debt, wills, suing for money etc. The people named in these documents lived in or near Montreal in 1807. Documents include ones sent to, and written by, James Reid, who at the time was a prominent Montreal lawyer.

Names of some of the people include: Pierre Foretier, Charles Carpentier, Joseph Nonat, Jean Archanbeaue, Charlotte Nayen, Jgnace? Robitaille, François Bourgon, Louis Desautel dis Lapointe, B.Billion, Basile Lachapelle, Willian Wragg and Marie Judith Segie....

An interesting file of 39 English legal case 1807 documents in various sizes and condition, very good to fair, with overall considered good condition. These legal cases covers debt, wills, suing for money etc. The people named in these documents lived in or near Montreal in 1807. Documents include ones sent to, and written by, James Reid, who at the time was a prominent Montreal lawyer.

Names of some of the people include: Marquerite Salande, Paul Prejeau, John Fleming, Moses Myers, John Mills, Abraham Gale, William McLean, Samuel David, James Fraser, John Sanford, John McLean, John Connolly, Charles Smith, Aylivin Harkness & Co. J. Jones, William Harrington, Jacob Porter, Abner Woolcot, Jean Semondo, George Cook, James Clarke, william Ireland, John Hagerman, Henry Goat, George Cook, Benaiah Gibb and William Fortune....

15 manuscripts total - All English legal case documents dating 1803, 1805 & 1807, with 12 signed by Philip Byrne, (plaintiff) in the St. Johns district of Montreal and 2 signed by James Reid, Montreal Byrne’s lawyer.

Two Philip Byrne legal cases were he is the plaintiff against ; 

• c1805 Francis Tetro Montreal (defendant)

• c1807 Thomas Bedard (1766-1840), & Rev. Jean Baptiste Bedard (1754-1821), Montreal (defendants)

• one letter referring to Sir John Johnson (Bryne’s client)..

13 manuscripts total - 2 English and 11 French legal case documents

John (Jean) McKay ; 9 manuscripts in total , 7 in French and 2 in English, dating from 1803 to 1807, and 8 signed by John / Jean McKay and one signed by James Reid, Montreal lawyer. Various dates: 1803, 1805, two 1806 and five 1807.

Barthelemi Billou ; 4 documents, all in French and dated 1807 and all signed by Barthelemi Billou, Montreal merchant (plaintiff)...

8 English and 2 French legal case documents (8 letters & 2 documents) 1798 to 1806

Many signed by Francis Winter

Francis Winter (d/c1808), an American born and local Montreal agent negotiating deeds for Alexander Elise seigniory to make a general survey of the seigniory and lay out in lots a portion of the lands bordering the St Lawrence and the Chateaugay. This task he seems to have fulfilled in the summer of 1800. Francis Winter, who bought Pew 94, and whose name is down for nine pounds, nothing more can be gathered than that they were traders connected with the North-west Company...

57 English and French legal case documents (40 letters & 17 documents)

• Andre Lemer St. Germain [André Lemaire St-Germain] vs Louis Salinandiere and Joseph Aussen

• Edward William Gray Sheriff of the district of Montreal

Andre Lemer St. Germain [André Lemaire St-Germain] (c1746-1830)

Late of the parish of St-Eustache in the district of Montreal, trader.

Joseph André Lemair dit St Germain was born on 26 Mar 1746 in Lachine Parish QC and was baptized on 28 Mar 1746 at Saints-Anges de Lachine, Montréal, Canada, Nouvelle-France.

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George McBeath, fur trader, and others, Montreal legal cases with documents dating from 1799 to 1807 with James Reid lawyer defending. 11 letters and 19 documents. A number of documents signed by George McBeath (c1740-1812)

Some case files:

1799 William Harkness, merchant of L’Assomption plantiff vs George McBeath & William Shepparo

1800 Catherine Tarrand*, widow of John Valentine, plantiff vs George McBeath

1806 James Watson, plantiff vs George McBeath

1806 Nicole Graham, plantiff vs George McBeath...

Three pages in a secretarial hand on single bifolium of foolscap paper (J Snelgrove 1814 watermarked paper) Docket title on final blank 'Private Timothy Leary 100th Regt tried at Montreal... No 4.' In red ink below: 'Laid before the P regent 28 Decm.r 1815' In pencil below: 'Disposed off'. Old folds, marginal fraying at folds, some fingermarks...

Signed by 'Henry : C: Darling Colonel [...] President'; and counter-signed 'Approved Gordon Drummond' with the signature of Captain George Lowndes, advocate. ...

1744. First edition. Copper engraved map. Image size to neat line: 11-1/4 x 7-7/8 inches Saint Anns Bay (N.S.). Port Dauphin is now Englishtown on Cape Breton island, Victoria Province, Nova Scotia. This map also has an inset view of "Fort Dauphin". The fort is "planned for defense of the harbor entry of Port Dauphin". Very detailed, showing many place names ( Pointe Rouge, Isles Siboux, Grandee entree de Labrador etc). Attractive Compass Rose. "Par N.B. Ing. au D. de la M." Visual scales. Includes inset, "Fort projetté pour défendre l'entreé du Port Dauphin.

Condition: Was folded now flat. Some loss of paper on the left margin, not affecting the map.

[1830]. Montreal, Adolphus Bourne

11-1/2 x 15 inches in frame. Early hand-coloured stipple and line copperplate engraving on wove paper, "The View Of Montreal, From Saint Helens Island". Inscribed in the plate, l.l.: R.A. Sproule. Delt; l.r.: W.L. Leney. Sc.; l.c.: VIEW OF MONTREAL. / From Saint Helens Island. / Published by A. Bourne. Montreal. 1830. Browning overall on engraving and some repaired paper tears on right side border edge, otherwise good condition....

[1885] Black and white print with an oval mezzotint image of Alexander MacKenzie. Paper size: 14-12 x 18-1/4 inches ; Image size: 11-1/2 x 13-3/4 inches

On light card printed signature: Yours very truly A. MacKenzie

On light card printed along the bottom; left side: Maclure & Macdonald Litho to the Queen, London. right side: Halifax, N.S. Buckley & Co. Publishers. 101 Granville Street...

[1881] Four hand-coloured views of residences and street scenes in Arnprior (3) and (1) Lanark Ontario, Canada, from a circa 1881 Belden Co. County printed Atlas. Each image has been trimmed and mounted on a light white card. Hand coloured, some light foxing otherwise, very good condition. Sizes vary....

1909. Paper size: 31 x 20 inches

Image size ( no lettering): 25" by 14"

Black and white lithograph print. Item was in frame and when removed from the frame and matting the poor condition of the border was exposed. A uncommon print of a very famous British battle.

Poor condition, with some age browning but with proper matting and framing will still be appealing.

Quite scarce photo or profile of Noah Shakespeare. Taken in Ottawa when Noah Shakespeare was an MP for Victoria. It is also only photo of him signed we could find. He is most known for being the author of the 1885 Chinese Immigration Act passed in Ottawa.

4-1/4 x 5-3/4 inches Cabinet card of Noah Shakespeare signed and with imprint on the back of the photographer James Ashfield, Ottawa. Circa 1885 given Ashfield's photo studio was active from 1884 to about 1889 and Shakespeare was a federal MP for Victoria and in Ottawa between 1883 to 1887. Some spotting and slightly cropped at top right, otherwise good condition. A historically and politically important person quite scarce signed cabinet card....

1836 RARE Quarto. 7 pages. Among the 27 rules included are: "Rule No. 5 : That all polls shall be held in the open air, or in some building, not a Tavern, to which free access can be had by every Elector -- and no woman shall be allowed to vote''; "Rule No. 24 : That no man of color shall be hindered from voting, if otherwise qualified".

Rare Upper Canada imprint printed by Robert Stanton (1794-1866). Open 1/4 tear in upper border not affecting any text, otherwise, very good condition. The Bill was passed after third and final reading on April 15, 1836, [22 Yeas and 4 Nays) 2nd Sess. 12th Parl. 6th. The act to be called, "An Act to Provide Elections throughout this Province"....

Very unusual and interesting ephemera item includes 4 items;

1) Envelope, 9 x 4 inches, Registered, Free-franked and addressed to Mr. N Hassard, Toronto

2) 4pp book order holder House of Commons green embossed letterhead, flat 17 x 11 inches folded to 8-1/2 x 11 inches with a book order form

3) Book order form 5-1/2 x 8 inches, printed one side, for the book "A New Light on Lord Macaulay (1918) by Albert R(ichard). Hassard, and order form is SIGNED BY WILFRID LAURIER)

4) The Dominion of Canada 1917, $1 bill, ...

Quarto, 2p. Disbound, small holes in margin.

At head of title: 1st Session, 6th Parliament, 21 Victoria, 1858.

Petition

Of the Honble. William Henry Draper, stating that he is a holder of Debentures of the Cobourg and Peterborough Company, and praying that his interests may be protected...

1840 First edition, Canadian. Quarto, 2 pages. Disbound, small holes in margin. Address to Her Majesty, on the subject of the Re-union of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada. [Toronto], British Colonist Office, J. Cleland printer, [1840]. At head of title: 5th session 13th Parliament. "Ordered to be printed by the House of Assembly, 14th January, 1840." 2,000 copies. Ontario. House of Assembly.

Fleming UC Imprints #1488, TPL 7614...

1804 17 x 15-1/4 inches, was folded now flat, some angular trimming on the left and more so on the bottom left side and two small holes in top portion of the document, otherwise good condition.

Signed & initialed by Peter Hunter, also signed by Peter Russell and William Jarvis. Dated 17 March, 1804 and signed 20 March, 1804 

Land Grant to Joshua Bennett of the Township of Willoughby, the County of Lincoln in the district of Niagara Yeoman in the Township of Willoughby in the County of Lincoln, in the district of Niagara. One Hundred acres Lot Number thirteen in the south concession of the said Township of Willoughby......

1854 First Canadian edition. Resolutions To be moved by Mr. Marchildon, with a view of showing to the Imperial Government the injustice of the Union of Upper and Lower Canada, and asking for the Repeal of the Union Act of the 23rd July, 1840, 3rd & 4th Victoria, chapter 35.

1st Session, 5th Parliament, 18 Victoria, 1854

Quebec, Printed by John Lovell, Mountain Street....