Ottawa: 1884. Octvo, 68 pp, sewn. Disbound ex library copy, no covers. Pulpy text paper tanned; paper remains to spine; library perforation to first leaf and several others; "884" rubber stamped to top margin of page 1; else VG, binding tight, text clean and unworn . The French language version of ANNUAL STATEMENT RESPECTING THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY...5th Feb., 1884. Ottawa: McLean, Roger, 1884 (51 pp). Sir Charles Tupper, one of the "Fathers of Confederation", was a very important Canadian politician of t he 19th century. From 1873-78 he was right-hand man of Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald, and was himself briefly (6 months) Prime Minister in 1896. From 1879-1884 he was minister of railways and canals, and as such supervised the arrangements for the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.

Ottawa: Printed by Maclean, Roger, & Co, 1878. Tall octavo. Original light green printed wrappers. pp 104 + 3 colour folding maps. Spine chipped, neatly repaired; old tape stains to inner margins of covers; 2 cm strip at top of front cover clipped away with resultant browning to first page; hole cut in front cover just about the imprint; corner chips to covers; text paper lightly toned; light damp stain at bottom margin of first four leaves; in all, VG internally clean and unworn, just fair externally, the whole now sound in the binding. With rubber stamp to front cover "Library of Sanford Fleming". Lowther 523. When Sir John A. MacDonald was returned to power on 16 Oct., 1878 (after being booted from office in consequence of the Pacific Scandal of bribe-taking over the CPR contract), Sir John's government quickly decided that the great railway would take the southern route and terminate at Port Moody, British Columbia, following the Fraser and Thompson Rivers from Kamloops. Sir San Fleming had argued for the northern route, crossing the Rockies at the Yellowhead Pass.

London & Toronto: J.M. Dent, 1915. Octavo, blue cloth gilt. Pp xvi, 264 + frontispiece portrait, 30 plates, and 2 folding maps. Bibliography, index. Mild rubbing to tips of lightly darkened spine and outer corners; front cover has 4 tiny white flecks and a small dark spot; 1916 ink name at front; offset tanning to free endpapers; 3 inch closed tear to rear map neatly repaired; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy otherwise. The author, of the Manitoba bar, was founder and for two years editor of the "Herald" at the Pas. "The purpose of this book is chiefly to tell of the country along the Hudson Bay Railway now under construction, of Hudson’s Bay, the Mediterranean Sea of North America, and of the resources to be found in Manitoba’s new territory, including the great inland sea on which it borders." - Preface. Laid in is a folded TLS on Dept. of Railways & Canals signed by F.M. MacLennan. He is returning the book to someone. He says there are "so many erroneous newspaper extracts" and "the talk of a great city on the coast of Hudson Bay seems to me to be absurd" because of the weather there. Peel III 4167.