O Canada!

E-030: Doubleday. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Co, New York, 1963. 95 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn. Briefly describes the native peoples of Canada and then the discovery, settling, and development of this northern neighbor. Cécile Gagnon (born January 7, 1936) is a Canadian writer and illustrator living in Quebec. Born in Quebec City, she received a bachelor's degree in literature from the Université Laval. She went on to study graphic arts at Boston University and the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, and art education at Sir George Williams University. She then pursued Italian studies at the Université de Montréal and the Scuola di Lingua e Cultura in Siena. From 1971 to 1973, she was responsible for the Safari magazine for children at Montréal-Matin. From 1977 to 1979, she was editor in chief of the "Cahiers Passe-partout" at the Quebec Ministry of Education. She contributed to various publications, including Lurelu, Cahiers de la femme, Municipalité and the IBBY Newsletter; from 1986 to 1988, she was editor in chief for Coulicou. E-030; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .