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   From: jrsinc@mnsi.net   
      
   "Official Automobile Road Guide Of Canada 1912"   
      
      
   I have for sale the out-of-print, 1st edition book "Official Automobile   
   Road Guide Of Canada 1912" by the Ontario Motor League, published in 1971.   
   The edition contains 352 pages of text, photographs, road maps, as well as   
   mileages to and from cities, and towns in Canada in the year 1912.   
   Foreword Excerpt:   
   "In 1912 car travel was still, to most people, more of a sport than a means   
   of transportation-a summer sport, in fact, and one restricted to the rich,   
   the eccentric, and the adventuresome. The only properly paved highway in   
   Canada was a 10-mile concrete strip built in 1910 from Montreal to Ste.   
   Rose. Some stretches of highway in Ontario and Quebec had been   
   "macadamized" by compacting layers of crushed stone, but the "tourist", as   
   the car driver was called in those days, thought himself lucky if he could   
   open up for a few miles on a nice stretch of gravel, as a respite from the   
   clay and sand surfaces that were the order of the day and from the shaky   
   bridges and steep hills for which passengers often had to jump out. At the   
   time when this, the eighth edition of the Ontario Motor League's annual   
   road guide was in use, registered cars in Canada totalled: Ontario   
   (excluding Toronto) 12,435 - Toronto 5,315   
   Quebec (excluding Montreal 3,534 - Montreal 5,118 - Nova Scotia 1,435 - New   
   Brunswick 1,268 - Prince Edward Island 35 - Manitoba 5,010 - Saskatchewan   
   5,773 - Alberta 3,600 - British Columbia 3,081 - Total 46,604   
   Altogether, the 1912 Road Guide is a feast of instant Canadiana for the   
   modern-day motorist and his passengers, a sure source of extra interst and   
   fun on family trips and outings in the regions it covers, and a rare   
   experience of nostalgia for armchair drivers throughout the country."   
   The "Official Automobile Road Guide Of Canada 1912" is in very good   
   condition.   
   Price $35. CDN plus postage   
      
      
   Please include your "postal mailing address" so I can calculate postage   
   costs to your destination. Thank you   
      
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