Author: Hudson's Bay Company (Dafoe, Christopher, ed. with Carol Preston, managing ed.)
Title: The Beaver, Exploring Canada's History, December 1991/January 1992
Description: Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1992. Periodical, 8.5 x 11 stapled wraps, illustrated throughout in black and white and colour with numerous photos, art, diagrams and maps, 62pp. Ships lettermail. A very good or better copy (other copies of this issue may also be available). Cover: Frances Anne Hopkins, 'Young Girl Skating 1867', Royal Ontario Museum. Contents of this issue: The Fragrance of the Past by Christopher Dafoe; Something Terrible; The Odour of Contagion, Montreal 1885 by Michael Bliss; Keyboards for Canadians; Our long love affair with the piano by Wayne Kelly; A Peal of Bells for a Poet by Hubert Mayes; The Duke's Astonishing Telegraph; Good news travelled fast in colonial Atlantic Canada by James Morrison; In the Midst of Life; A young woman's letters evoke the old West by Ruth Buck; Colours of History; Women combined art and utility at the quilting bee by P. Colleen Archer; Christopher Moore on The Happy Warrior; plus Book Reviews.

Keywords: Beaver Magazine Hudsons Bay Company; Frances Anne Hopkins Young Girl Skating; Something Terrible; Odour Contagion Montreal Michael Bliss; Keyboards Canadians Love Affair Piano Wayne Kelly; Hubert Mayes; Ruth Buck; Colours History Women Quilting Bees Colle


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