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 Trans-Canada Airlines (TCA) was founded in April 1937, and the first passenger service shown here from Moncton, N.B. to Vancouver was inaugurated on February 15, 1940. Trans-Canada Air Lines Schedules, Dec. 1, 1940.
The Hand-Book of Quebec: A Compendium of Information for the Use of Strangers Visiting the City and Its Environs Handbook of Quebec. Quebec: Printed by T. Cary, 1850. 18, [2] p. The Quebec Guide: Being a Concise Account of All the Places of Interest in and about the City and Country Adjacent, together with a Carters' Tariff, and Table of Railroad Distances throughout the Province. Quebec: Sinclair, 1857. 48 p. Most of the guides to Niagara Falls, and there were hundreds, were printed in Great Britain or the United States, quite often in Buffalo and Albany, and were illustrated using techniques not readily available in Canada. This modest Canadian guide gives a brief description of what to see, and includes many advertisements which, no doubt, helped pay the printing costs. George H. Hackstaff New Guide Book of Niagara Falls for Strangers. Niagara Falls, Ont.: Printed at the Iris Office, 1850. 31, [17] p.
In August 1854, shortly after the beginning of the Crimean War, a letter could be sent from New Brunswick to Great Britain in a number of ways: by Cunard steamer through Halifax; by the relatively new Canadian packet service from Quebec City in summer or Portland, Maine, in winter; in "closed mails" through the United States; or by United States packets. The following announcement sets the different rates, all having been lowered except for the United States packet service. New Brunswick. Post Office Notice to the Public, and Instructions to All Postmasters and Way-Office Keepers: ...the Following Changes Will Be Made in the Rates of Postage on Letters and Parliamentary Proceedings Passing between New-Brunswick and the United Kingdom...J. Howe P.M.G...St. John, 24th July 1854. [Fredericton?, N.B., 1854]. |
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