This website is based on the Pierre Ouvrard Collection held at the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta. The website showcases the work of the master bookbinder, Pierre Ouvrard. Pierre Ouvrard has designed bindings for the artistic works of many Canadian artists and writers. The collection itself has over two hundred items. This site, through the inclusion of the bindings M. Ouvrard designed for the Governor General's Awards, contains over three hundred examples of M. Ouvrard's work.

Finding your way through this site is fairly simple. First, if you ever need to get back to this page, just click on "Home," found at the bottom right of each page in this site. This site has seven main areas, as listed with the links on the left. Clicking on the links will take you to the one of following areas:

The Man Himself: A page with links to our pages with content by and about Pierre Ouvrard
The Bindings: The section of the website showcasing the Pierre Ouvrard Collection
Governor General Awards: Images of Governor General Awards from 1973-1999
Virtual Exhibit: A QuickTimeVR version of the exhibit held at the University of Alberta
Interview: A series of sound files and excerpts from an interview held with M. Ouvrard
Acknowledgements/Bibliography: Acknowledgements page and further reading materials.
About Us: Short biographic sketches of this website's design team.


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Every required and appropriate effort has been made to acquire copyright clearances for the material on this web site. The content of these pages has been developed at the University of Alberta. All the works presented within, with the exception of the Governor General Award bindings are held at the University of Alberta in the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library.