Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians

Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians

Broadside probably referring to the electoral victory of Edward Blake (1833-1912) during the 1882 or 1887 election. Prime minister of Ontario in 1871, Blake was leader of the federal Liberal Party from 1878 to 1887.

West Durham Election!: Final Close of Polls, Right Triumphant! Blake & M'Leod Elected with Immense Majorities...
[Hamilton?, Ont., 1882?].

Broadside for an election held on September 15, 1885, to select a representative from Moosomin to sit on the Northwest Council. A rather unsubtle verbal attack on a political rival.

Spencer Argyle Bedford, b. 1852
Contra Facts for the Electors of Moosomin District: Mr. C.B. Slater's Crowning Falsehoods, Mendacious Statements and Election Bunkum!: Mr. Slater's Single-Handed Game of Bluff.
Moosomin [Sask.]: T. Beer, [1885].

The "Reform party" was the Liberal party led by Wilfrid Laurier from 1887. The Liberal party supported free-trade with the United States while the Conservative party favoured protectionism. The latter, led by John A. MacDonald, won the elections in 1882, 1887, and 1891.

Conservative party (Canada)
Free Traders, Attention!: The Following Is an Exact Copy of a Fly-Sheet Now Being Widely Circulated in Ontario by the Reform Party to Catch Protectionist Votes...
[S.l., 1887 or 1891?].

This Yiddish electoral supplement urges whole-hearted support for Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal candidates. It had been inserted into the English language Jewish Times.
	A gedanken vegen elekshen am 7ten november, 1900. [Some thoughts about the election of November 7, 1900.] Montreal: A.L. Kaplansky, 1900.

The 1921 election was the first federal election in which women could apply the right to vote, which they had achieved in 1918. This pamphlet, favouring Arthur Meighen's policies, is asking women voters to think (and vote) for themselves.
	The National Liberal and Conservative Party and Publicity Bureau *Women Voters Stop and Think!* Ottawa: Mortimer Co. Ltd., [1921]. 2 p.

With a list of speakers including some ministers.

Parti Libéral
Liberal Rally Will Be Held at High School Mansonville, P.Q., Wednesday Afternoon at 1.30, October 17, 1923 / Assemblée libérale sera tenue à High School Mansonville, P.Q., mercredi après-midi à 1.30, octobre 17, 1923.
[Québec (Province), 1923].


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