The Beaver, Exploring Canada's History, October/November 1991

Winnipeg: Hudson's Bay Company, 1991. 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 may also be available). Cover: Blackfoot girl with cat, Macleod, 1880s; Glenbow Archives/Anderton Collection. Contents of this issue: Wings Over the North; An old company learns some new tricks, 1921-1939 by Robert Grant; Son of The Firebrand; William Lyon Mackenzie's long-lost son rediscovered by Chris Raible; The Face Puller; George Anderton, A Victorian photographer on the North-West frontier by Brock Silversides; Was it Murder? To lose one husband to arsenic is bad enough. But two? by Cheryl Macdoanld; Secret Trains Across Canada; An invisible army rides the CPR, 1917-1918 by Elizabeth Tancock; The Dark Side of Mariposa; The years pass slowly at Orillia's Asylum for Idiots by Joan Morris and Virginia Hartley; Christopher Moore on Who Killed the Golden Age of Sail?; plus Book Reviews. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.