ROBERTS, Charles G. D., and Ernest INGERSOLL [author of Part II]. The Canadian Guide-Book. Part I Eastern Canada - Part II Western Canada. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1893.
Two volumes, small 8vo. Publisher's illustrated red cloth; spines lettered in gilt; boards ornamented in black and gilt; pp. [10, advertisements], viii, 270, [10, advertisements]; [x], v, 262, [12]; with maps and illustrations throughout; a little rubbing to extremities; bumping to corner of upper board on vol. II; ink ownership inscriptions to titles; a very attractive set.
First printed in 1892. Comprised of two parts, Part I being Eastern Canada, including full descriptions of routes, cities, points of interest, summer resorts, fishing places, etc., in Eastern Ontario, the Muskoka District, the St. Lawrence Region, the Lake St. John Country, the Maritime Provinces, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. With an appendix giving fish and game laws, and official lists of trout and salmon rivers and their lessers. Part II focusing on Western Canada, including the peninsular and northern regions of Ontario, the Canadian shores of the Great Lakes, the lake of the woods region, Manitoba and the 'Great Northwest,' the Canadian Rocky Mountains and National Park, British Columbia and Vancouver's Island.
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