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1930s ARCHIVE OF HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED LETTERS, LOGS AND JOURNAL OF CANADIAN DEPARTMENT OF MARINE AND METEOROLOGICAL WEATHER WATCHER

1934 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED HANDWRITTEN BY A MEMBER OF THE FAMED BOWDOIN MACMILLAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION ON A SCIENTIFIC JOURNEY TO THE WILDS OF LABRADOR NEWFOUNDLAND

1940 ORIGINAL PHOTO ALBUM AND DIARY OF A GROUP OF CANADIAN UNITED CHURCH MISSIONARIES ON THEIR WAY TO PROVIDE CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ON THE ASIAN SUB CONTINENT

1933 ORIGINAL CHARMING SASKATCHEWAN DEPRESSION ERA AUTOGRAPH ALBUM AND MEMORY BOOK

1854 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT FOLDED LETTER DETAILING THE SHIPWRECK OF THE 'HUMBOLDT' NEAR HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA

1810 TO 1827 ORIGINAL LEDGER AND LOG OF THE NEW YORK BASED SHIP, THE EDWARD, SPANNING THE PRE WAR OF 1812 ERA TO RECOMMENCE AFTER THE BRITISH AMERICAN WAR

1905 Original Handwritten Diary by a Vermont Student Who Would Become the Matriarch of a Multigenerational British Columbia Lumber Dynasty

1901 - 1902 ORIGINAL HANDWRITTEN LOG BOOK OF THE MANY TRIPS OF THE SCHOONER ‘KIPLING’ FROM NOVA SCOTIA TO BRAZIL AND THE CARIBBEAN PROVIDING AN EXCELLENT LOOK AT EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN SAILING COMMERCE

1909, 1910 & 1911 ARCHIVE OF THREE [3] MANUSCRIPT JOURNALS AND DIARIES OF TWO DEDICATED CANADIAN MISSIONARIES BRINGING WESTERN HEALTH CARE AND CHRISTIAN OUTREACH TO THE SICHUAN PROVINCES WITH THE BACK DROP OF SUN YAT-SEN AND THE REVOLUTION

1906 & 1944 ORIGINAL SKETCHBOOKS AND JOURNALS OF NOTED TORONTO ARTIST AND ARCHITECT FROM A YOUNG TEENAGER TO A MIDDLE AGED MAN

1918 NEW YEAR'S EVE AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED [ALS] HANDWRITTEN BY A CANADIAN SOLDIER VETERAN OF VIMY RIDGE AND PASSCHENDAELE ON BLIGHTY LEAVE COMPLAINING TO HIS GIRLFRIEND OF THE HIGH AND MIGHTY 'YANKS' AND MORE

1909-1916 Charming French Diary of a Religious, Romantic Young Woman in Quebec’s Eastern Townships

1915 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT TRANSCRIPTION OF A CONVERSATION OVERHEARD BETWEEN ENEMIES IN THE TRENCHES

1917 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTER OF THANKS, GRATITUDE AND OF THE SOLDIER'S LIFE IN THE TRENCHES

1941 - 1944 ALGONQUIN PARK CAMP TANAMAKOON PHOTO ALBUM - ELITE GIRL'S CAMP IN IDYLLIC SETTING DURING THE WAR YEARS

1942 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY AND LOG BOOK HANDWRITTEN BY A DETAIL ORIENTED CONSTABLE FOR THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY PROTECTING AND GUARDING THE PORTS AND RAILWAYS OF VANCOUVER BRITISH COLUMBIA

1944 + 1945 ORIGINAL PAIR [2] OF MANUSCRIPT DIARIES HANDWRITTEN BY A SERGEANT OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE DESCRIBING HIS TRAINING AND THEN POSTING TO BRITISH COLUMBIA

1943-47 Diary of a Camrose, Alberta Student, Labourer and Film Buff Discussing Work, Life, the War, and Many, Many Movies

1929 Teen Girl’s Handwritten Account of an Epic Family Road Trip from Texas through the Northern States, Washington, DC and Ontario, Canada

1956 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY AN INDUSTRIOUS TORONTO ONTARIO OIL INDUSTRY SALES REP

1964 - 1974 ARCHIVE OF TYPED LETTERS SIGNED [TLS] ON PERSONAL STATIONERY TO A DEVOTED CANADIAN FAN

1998-2008 ARCHIVE OF EIGHT [8] HANDWRITTEN AND TYPED LETTERS AND POSTCARD FROM THREE [3] NOTED CANADIAN POETS TO POLISH-CANADIAN POET AND HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SAM SIMCOVITCH - SUPER CANADIAN POETRY CONTENT

1856-1931 Outstanding Archive of Diaries and Mementos, Following Three Generations of the Notable Robinson Family of Peterborough and Haileybury, Ontario

1889 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPHED LETTER SIGNED BY SAINT JOHN NEW BRUNSWICK METHODIST CHURCH MAN WRITING THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH TO THE SON OF A FORMER PASTOR

1879 + 1883 HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT LETTERS [ALS] TO RENOWNED LT. COLONEL C.A. O'MALLEY OF 25th ELGIN INFANTRY FORMED AFTER THE RAID AT FORT ERIE BY THE FENIAN BROTHERHOOD IN 1866

1877 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER BY NOTED REVEREND IMPLORING THE SINGER SEWING COMPANY TO HELP PROVIDE A MEANS OF INCOME TO THE DRESSMAKERS AND SEWING GIRLS WHO LOST ALL IN THE MASSIVE FIRE THAT DESTROYED HALF THE CITY SAINT JOHN NEW BRUNSWICK

1860s HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AUTOGRAPH AND MEMORY BOOK FROM YARMOUTH NOVA SCOTIA

1898 Rare Letters About the Fate of a Hamilton Ontario Asylum Patient

1900s Letters Featuring Business and Gossip of an Ontario Lumber Firm

1940s Pair of Diaries Handwritten By A Wealthy Toronto Area Woman

c1810 Manuscript Document on Surrogate Appointment Signed Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Commander-in-Chief and Governor of Newfoundland 

1910 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM NEWFOUNDLAND IMPORTERS THE STEER BROTHERS TO A SUPPLIER, DETAILING A BUSINESS TRANSACTION SOON TO TAKE PLACE BETWEEN THEM

Evocative 1940s Archive of Letters and Ephemera from a Member of the Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada During World War II

Exceptional 1943-1945 Original Handwritten Autograph Book Compiled by a Canadian World War II Soldier in the Italian Campaign As the Allies Advanced North

1945 - 1946 ORIGINAL WWII ERA MANUSCRIPT LETTERS HANDWRITTEN BY A WINNIPEG CANADA NATIVE WHO WOULD GO ON TO BE ONE OF AMERICA'S MOST NOTED EXPERTS IN 18th CENTURY LITERATURE

c1915 ORIGINAL WWI BRITISH ROYAL NAVY DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A DEDICATED VOLUNTEER RESERVE SIGNALMAN

1937 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT MERCHANT SHIP'S LOG AND SUPERB RELIC OF MERCHANT MARINE COMMERCE FROM ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT SHIPPING COMPANIES

1922 and 1924 PAIR OF ORIGINAL TRAVEL DIARIES TAKING US TO EUROPE AND PANAMA, FEATURING A CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH A NOTEWORTHY BUSINESSMAN

1888 ORIGINAL, FRENCH LANGUAGE MANUSCRIPT BOOK OF POETRY, ESSAYS AND OPINION BY A LATE 19th CENTURY MONTREAL MAN

1915 - 1931 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL DETAILING A TROVE OF GENEALOGICAL INFORMATION RELATING TO WATERLOO ONTARIO AND LANCASTER PENNSYLVANIA BY A VERY SOCIAL TORONTONIAN