Author: BEGG, ALEXANDER; NURSEY, WALTER R.
Title: Ten Years in Winnipeg; a Narration of the Principal Events in the History of the City of Winnipeg from the Year A.D. 1870 to the Year A.D. 1879 Inclusive
Description: Winnipeg, Times Printing and Publishing House. 1879. (Cloth) Good to very good. 226pp. 8vo. Floral decorative covers. Title label to spine. Advertisements to front, Winnipeg business directory to rear. Map, tables. FF EP, title page and pgs. 5 - 16 completely separated otherwise reast of book is clean and tight. Age toning throughout. Ephemera includes news clipping regarding scarcity of original copies of book and the auction of book in 1965. Gift inscription. (48)P "Business Directory of the City of Winnipeg 1879 Shewing the Leading Houses in the Various Branches of Trade." at rear. Peel(3) 860.

Keywords: Fur Trade, Canada, Canadian Prairies, French, Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company, Louis Riel, North American Indian, Politics-Economics, Urban


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