“Why do people suck at Trivial Pursuit?”
Au zoo de Londres: singe jouant avec un rat (Agence Meurisse, 1925)
Concours de Tabac à Belleville (Agence Meurisse, 1926)
Public Library and librarian, in Darwin after Cyclone Tracy (B. LeLievre. Northern Australia, 1975)
Taking a Beer Break (Langenburg, Sask. ca. 1899)
Bookmarks: Peel’s Prairie Provinces
I first used Peel’s Bibliography of the Prairie Provinces in Library School. Dr. Peter McNally was big on this resource. The old print editions we used had a decent, if somewhat rough, subject index, and I spent a fair amount of time flipping through these pages to find historical documents from the Canadian prairies.
Incidentally, my institution’s copy of the 3rd edition has been signed by editors Ernie Ingles, Merrill Distad, and Linda Distad, with the inscription “For Mel Hurtig, a great Canadian.”
The most modern version of this resource is found online at peel.library.ualberta.ca. You can now search through the entire bibliography. There is a significant collection of historical documents, newspapers, and images that have been digitized and made available online. People interested in the history of the Canadian prairies will find it easy to waste hours here.
Sepia Postcard: Life in the Golden West. (Alberta, Canada. 1913)
Women playing field hockey. Canberra, Australia, 1956.
From the National Library of Scotland.
Jolies baigneuses (Muskoka Lakes, Ont. 1909)
