Report of Commissioners for Superintending the Improvement of the River Saint Lawrence

Toronto, Canada, 1838. Ephemera. Good. No Binding. Toronto: Printed at the Patriot Office, [1838]. pp. [133]-160, [2], 161-167, [1]. Collation: 34-422. It's possible that this pamphlet was part of a larger work. Sewn gatherings, the thread now gone, no wrapper. Wove paper, small pieces missing from the top right of the preliminary leaves and the last 2 leaves. Addressed to His Excellency Sir Francis Bond Head, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, the report was submitted by the Office of the Commissioners at Cornwall on 1 January 1838 by Jonas Jones, the President of the Board. The report consists of the minutes of the Saint Lawrence Commission in 1837 with letters from engineers and contractors, statement of expenditures (1834-7), and estimates of expenses for the completing the work on the Saint Lawrence Canals. Not recorded by Fleming's Upper Canadian Imprints, 1801-1841. The only other copy of this imprint is located at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto..