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~ Canada. have been. unearthed in the British Library.

“The find, tracked.down by Patrick O'Neill of Mount St. -
' Vincent University. of Halifax, dincludes. 5,000 photographs.

_Shronicling Cariadian ‘life in the ‘early 1MMs. |

“So far, mare than 40,000° items ~~ 4 treasure trove of.
- Canadiana — have been located. Copies of much of the —

material had: heen deatroyed or Jost to fire in-Canada.

. Cariadian scholars were unaware ‘that the British Library :
hioldings, dating from :1895 to; 1924,: “pxlated: or that the:
material was stored; ‘uncatalogued, in widély’ scattered.

annexes of the huge Hbrary,

- The collection, expected to ‘delight ‘Canadian academic
and fill some of the gaps in Canada’s’ historical recor
includes 2,500 map, 10,000 books, 15,000 pleces of sheet

music ag well as some newspapers), advertising originals

‘and commercial catalogues.

For 20 years, shipments of Canadian copyright material
“arrived in London. Some of. it;. mainly books, was
_ Satalogued and, placed throughout ‘the library's vast
' collections. But most of the rest, including the photographs,
was ‘simply bimdled by year ‘and stored, unrecorded.

' Meanwhile in Ottawa, fire destroyed the parliamentary

? library In 1916, although — a. fae ot collection of
~, Copyrighted fd mater ean aa jt Copyright
ucH ‘atill’ appalis
 dlaposal of the

“About. 200 items we sent to the Secretary of State’ 'S
‘anal collection’ and the rest were: “offered ; to. various

- Ubraries actoas the. country, Guy. ‘Bylyeatre,, ‘the current

“National Ubrarian,of Cariada, told O'Neill.
~ O'Neill and ; colleague in the archival detective effort,

Jolin Ettlinger of Dalhousie University; have their doubts.

O'Neill says years of looking have turned up no evidence
that the Ottawa collections were saved. of. distributed. Less

. politely,. Ettlinger ‘believes. the ‘Copyright office. simply

togsed decades of Canadian history.in.the garbage.
“Whatever happened to the collections in Canada, there’s
no doubt that the British preserved our heritage better than
we did, said O'Neill, who has. returned to, Halifax after
‘spending a-year gathering the long-lost files in London.
- O'Neill has been tracking the collection for seven or eight ~

“years: He first became aware of the existence of copies in’ .
the British library while searching for early Canadian plays ;

in Ottawa.

Canada’s early copyright! laws required: all material tobe
sent to Ottawa, but in 1895 Britain's’ Colonial. Office ‘im-
~ periously demanded ‘that: an extra’ ‘copy be deposited in -
London.

That provoked angry “debate in the “young” “ Dominion’ Ss

House: of Commons. ‘but the Copyright. Office obeyed. the
British edict, That grudging colonial kowtow inadvertently
“gaved:a major chuhk'of Canadian history.

“Robert Fulford, keeper of booki:at: ‘the British ‘Library,
~ -mateG*Neill's efforts represented the tirettinie- anyone has ©

come from Canada to look in the library.

Other historians are expected to follow and arrangements

are’ ‘under way to have much of the British Library ~

collections copied and sent to Canada. :
O’Neill, who along with Ettlinger is sharing a two-year

grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research"
, Council of Canada, has completed ‘cataloguing the books,.

" photographs and maps found in London. Ettlinger has just
arrived in London to-begin an inventory of the thousands of
sheets of music and poems.’

‘“The London find by no means bridges all the Bas in

Canadian archival history.

O'Neill ruefully admits that in his own particular field of

interest the beat collection of Canadian plays in the world is
‘at: Browns University in Providence, Ris

Another 1,000 origlnals of Canadian plays are in the U: Ss.
Library of Congress. -

At least those collections are ales available to Canadian
_-Beholars. ‘Some material, however, may never be found.

O'Neill noted a seven-year blank between 1925 and 1932.

when, under the ‘terma of.a new copyright law, Ottawa
__ dropped its requiremedit f4i deposit of materials, |

“Tt was later. reinstituted but such aps Plague Canadian ff

Jans. -

“O'Neil: said it was impossible to, determine how much of
the material found in Landon was unduplleated in Canada.
Only when all of the British Library mi jterlal is catalogued
_ and those lists compared with Canad nihdldingk
full extent of the find be known. -

: However, the preliminary work rk angaents ON O'Neill has.
ce, the

"unearthed an ‘historical motherldde of fasta
British Library holdings include | 400 Goad insurance maps

— detailed block by:block: plins of Canadian citles: and —
towns...

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‘songs, books and town plans -from, turn-of-the-century |

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Fort Walsh « at Maple. Creek Saskatchewan is
not exactly something that would get lost in.
the British Library but this historical site
-reminds us of our history too. In the summer
of 1875, the North West Mounted Police, under
the command of superintendent James M.

Walsh, built a police fort:In the Cypress Hills,

- 71 km southwest of Swift Current. It was built

The maps, prepared for insurance companies writing fire
"protection policies, contain far more detail than municipal
- surveys because they. were regularly-updated as Canadian -
towns changed rapidly at the turn of the century. The plans.
provide: .a comprehensive block-by-block, history of.
_ Canadian cities, said; ONeill. - .
= Although the National Archives purchased, all: the Goad
” plans it could find In 1971, the Ottawa collection totals only
_ about 50), The British ‘Library find almost triples that.
Other segmenta of the find hold similar promise for. other ~
historians,

‘Marta Bryce, who heads the printed music callection at < ;

: the ‘National Library of Canada, estimated 50 per’ cenit of ihe
~ Cané dian’ imprints ‘and Compositions. deposited, at th
“Britlah: ‘Library are unknown to us.

As for books, - the Tod and Cordinley ‘Dibliography,
‘currently considered the authoritative work on Canadian
* publishing between 1900 arid 1925, lists 3,000 titles. O'Neill
_ has already found 10,000 Canadian books allover the British
~ library and there may. ‘ba another. A 000.

to suppress. the whisky trade and fo establish
contact with the Indians of the area. In 1883,

when most of the Plains Indlans had accepted

treaties with Canada, the post was dismantled

and abandoned. In 1942 the RCMP established -
- a horse ranch on the site and. today It Isa
tourist. attraction open until Thanksgiving.

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