Author: CANADA. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Title: Annual Report of the Department of the Interior for the Year 1899
Description: Ottawa. 1900. (hardcover) Near fine. Tall 8vo. Rebound in blue cloth boards; lettering in gold to spine. Lacking the title page, contents pages, and the first six pages of the Report of the Deputy Minister (most likely missing at the time of the re-bind). Despite these blemishes, the volume remains bright, tight, and clean; seemingly hardly even opened. Two fold-out maps present following the Report of the Deputy Minister. Part I - Dominion Lands (pp.112); Part II - Immigration (pp.237); Part III - Report of the Lieutenant Governor of Keewatin (pp.1); Part IV - Yukon [this part appeared as a supplementary report; lacking]; Part V - Rocky Mountains Parks (pp.12); Part VI - Dominion Lands Surveys (pp.94); Part VII - Irrigation (pp.78) [includes 5 monochrome photographs and 15 graphs / diagrams at rear of report]; Part VIII - Report of the Half-Breed Commissioners (pp.9); Part IX - Report of the Chief Inspector of Timber and Forestry (pp.20.

Keywords: Canada, Canadian North, Canadian Prairies, Government of Canada, Western Canada


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