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GREY, Albert Henry George, Fourth Earl of Grey [1851-1917] [Governor General (1904-11)].
Manuscript letter written on behalf of Earl Grey by 'Arthur Haden', signed by Haden.
Ottawa: 1909..
8vo. 2 pages on Government House, Ottawa letterhead. GREY, Albert Henry George, Fourth Earl of Grey [1851-1917] [Governor General (1904-11)]. Autograph letter written on behalf of Earl Grey by; 'Arthur Haden', signed by Haden, dated 18 Dec. [19]09, on Government House Ottawa letterhead, to William Murray Esq., Athol Bank, Hamilton. 8vo. pp. 2, with integral blank. (horizontal fold with tears edges of fold). with envelope (large portion torn & missing). "I am desire by The Governor General to thank you for your kindness in sending His Excellency a copy of your St. Andrew's Day verses, which His Excellency is very glad to have./ His Excellency thanks you for your kind expressions."
$100 USD Book Number: alysser178 Order / Enquire

GUILLET, Paul.
"Les Patriotes Vengés. Ébauche dramatique en trois épisodes, par le Patriote Paul Guillet, notaire.
[Montreal: 1937]..
Typescript. oblong 8vo. ff. [1], 102. text on recto's only. plain wrs. (wrs. chipped & front wr. detached). Autograph Inscription 'Á M.É[douard] Z[otique] Massicotte [1867-1947] notre patriote.l'humble hommage Paul Guillet". An unpublished play as far as we can determine, whose characters include Louis Joseph Papineau and Dr. Wolfred Nelson, key figures in the 1837 Rebellion in Lower Canada. The work is dedicated by the author to Lionel Groulx [Humblement dédié au grand chef de la génération des vivants, M. L'Abbé Lionel Groulx, notre patriote historien national."
$990 USD Book Number: elala1048 Order / Enquire

HARDY, Arthur Sturgis [1837-1901] [Fourth Prime Minister and Attorney-General of Ontario (1896-99)].
Typed letter, signed, dated Toronto, 27th October, 1896, on Ontario Department of Attorney General letterhead & marked 'Private', to William Murray Esq., Athol Bank, Hamilton.
Toronto: 1896..
4to. pp. 1. (horizontal vertical folds). with envelope (stamp cut out). Written during Hardy's term as Attorney General & Prime Minister of Ontario. He highly praises Murray and his skills in verse. Hardy also makes note of sending along the poetry: "I must thank you for the verses which you were good enough to send me. it seems an easy matter for you to drop into poetry. I do not know how it is, but I have always had an immense admiration for any man who could write verses easily. Perhaps it is because I absolutely lack in the faculty myself. As your lines seemed to take in the successful candidate, Mr. Auld, I took the liberty of sending them on to him."
$250 USD Book Number: elala5923 Order / Enquire

HARDY, Arthur Sturgis [1837-1901] [Prime Minister of Ontario (1896-99)].
Typed letter, signed.
Toronto: 1899..
8vo. 2 pages on Ontario Department of Attorney General letterhead. HARDY, Arthur Sturgis [1837-1901] [Prime Minister of Ontario (1896-99)]. Typed letter, signed, dated Toronto/20th Oct, 1899, on Ontario Department of Attorney General letterhead & marked 'Personal', to William Murray Esq., Athol Bank, Hamilton. 8vo. pp. 2 on 2 leaves. (horizontal fold). with envelope (most of right side torn & missing). Written after Hardy stepped down from his government posts. "Your kind and sympathetic letter places me under additional obligations to you. I have received from you many kind expressions of esteem and regard since I have been in public life, but none of them have touched me more than your present letter. It is a source of much satisfaction to know that my friends think well of me though I have laid down the responsibility of public life. My doctors tell me that a perfectly quiet life while it will not restore my health entirely will do much good and I hope their diagnosis and predictions will be justified by events. Mr. Ross is so well known that I need say nothing about him. I was fortunate to be able to leave the Premiership in such good hands."
$250 USD Book Number: alysser181 Order / Enquire

HILLS, George [1816-1895].
Autograph letter, signed.
[London]: 1864..
8vo. 3 pages. (fold marks, traces of old mount on inner margin of blank). HILLS, George [1816-1895] [First Anglican Bishop of British Columbia (1860-92)]. Autograph letter, signed 'G. Columbia', dated [London, England], February 8, 1864. "I am to be in Bath next week. Three young men King & one Harding. all worthy - I have seen something of in Columbia. I should like to see the family of the former.& I (.?) to ask whether a meeting could be got together of the neighbourhood to hear particulars of the Columbia Mission.".
$225 USD Book Number: elala793 Order / Enquire

HUNTER, Peter [1746-1805] [second Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (1799-1805) & Commander-in-Chief of the forces in Canada].
Printed and Manuscript Document on Vellum: Grant of 300 Acres in the Township of Elmsley in the County of Leeds to George Chisholm, dated May 7, 1803, entered with the auditor September 5, 1804, signed & initialed by Peter Hunter, also signed by Peter Russell [1733-1808; former president and administrator of Upper Canada (1796-99)].
np: 1803..
with wax seal. An early Upper Canada land grant, complete with the original wax seal of the province (imprinted with anchor, crown and sword). The grantee, George Chisholm, was a United Empire Loyalist who was settled in the Township of Flamborough East, near Hamilton. His son, William Chisholm, became a prominent Upper Canada politician and businessman who founded the town of Oakville.
$1249 USD Book Number: elala0004 Order / Enquire

JAPANESE CANADIAN INTERNMENT.
Collection of 9 typed and manuscript letters and original documents, most relating to the internment during World War II of Eitaro Aida originally of Cumberland, B.C.
vp: 1911-1951..
[ff. 24]. Aida was born in Japan in 1880 and first came to Canada in 1907, living in Cumberland, Vancouver, and again in Cumberland where he owned four properties including a tailor shop, until he was evacuated in April, 1942. He stayed at Hastings Park for five months before being moved the interior housing centre of New Denver in the Kootenays. There he remained in detention for four years until he was released and able to relocate to Toronto. Aida was one of some 21,000 Japanese Canadians living in British Columbia detained and dispossessed under the War Measures Act following the attack on Pearl Harbour. The papers document the seizure and forced sale of Aida's properties and personal possessions at auction, all itemized with prices realized, in four typed letters, dating from 1945 to 1948, from the Canadian Department Of The Secretary of State, Office of the Custodian, Japanese Evacuation Section in Vancouver, B.C. Also included here are Aida's 1911 Japanese Passport, his 1947 request for compensation, his 1949 application for naturalization papers, and his 1951 Certificate of Canadian Citizenship.
$1250 USD Book Number: elala5681 Order / Enquire

KELLY, James Butler [1832-1907].
Autograph letter, signed.
[London]: 1867..
8vo. one page, with integral blank leaf (horizontal folds). stitch in paper wrs. KELLY, James Butler [1832-1907] [Anglican Coadjutor Bishop of Newfoundland; Bishop of Newfoundland (1876-77)]. Autograph letter, signed 'James B.Kelly', dated 2. S. Katharine's, Regent Park N.W., [London], Sept. 25, 1867. Promising Miss Mackenzie he will promote the circulation of the 'Net' in Newfoundland.
$100 USD Book Number: elala797 Order / Enquire

KEMPT, Sir James [1764-1854].
Autograph letter, signed.
np: 1825..
8vo. 2 pages. (fold marks, very small tear at centre fold). KEMPT, Sir James [1764-1854] [Quartermaster-General in British North America (1807-1811); Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia (1820-28; with intermittent leaves of absence); Administrator of the government of Lower Canada (1828-30)]. Autograph letter, signed, dated April 18, 1825, to Colonel Cochrane of the 3rd Foot Guards. Acting in his capacity as Colonel of the 81st Regiment, Kempt expresses his interest in a Macdonald of the 3rd Foot Guards. "The Adjutantcy of my Regiment (the 81st) being now vacant - in Consequence of the recent promotion of the Adjutant to a Company in the Corps - I have heard good Character of Sergeant (?) Major Macdonald of the Battalion under your Command that I am induced through you to make him an Offer of that Situation, under the impression that he is every way qualified to fill it with credit to himself and advantage to the Division.".
$150 USD Book Number: elala799 Order / Enquire

LANSDOWNE, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, Fifth Marquess of [1845-1927].
Photo on card, signed.
np: nd..
4 3/8" x 3 3/8". framed. LANSDOWNE, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, Fifth Marquess of [1845-1927] [Governor-General of Canada (1883-1888)]. Photo by Lafayette on card, signed 'Lansdowne'.
$175 USD Book Number: elala804 Order / Enquire

LAURIER, Sir Wilfrid. [1822-1892] [Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911)].
Typed letter written and signed on behalf of Laurier by his Private Secretary, Rodolphe Boudneau.
Ottawa: 1906..
4to. 1 page on Prime Minister's Office letterhead. LAURIER, Sir Wilfrid. [1822-1892] [Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911)]. Typed letter written on behalf of Laurier by his Private Secretary; Rodolphe Boudneau, signed 'Rodolphe Boudneau', dated Ottawa, 16th October, 1905, to William Murray Esq., Athol Bank, Hamilton. 4to. pp. 1, with integral blank. (horizontal folds). With free-franked envelope. Thanking Murray for his past letter.
$400 USD Book Number: alysser190 Order / Enquire

LE VASSEUR, Michel [c1699-1755].
Autograph document, signed.
Chambly: 1737..
small 4to. one page. LE VASSEUR, Michel [c1699-1755] [Recollet, parish priest at Chambly, 1724-45, and at Berthierville, 1745-51]. Autograph document, signed, dated Chambly, March 23, 1737. Ratification of sale of property by Jacques Gauthier and his wife, Marie-Louise Tessier, to Geofroy Lefebvre. Also signed by Pierre De Forest and Joseph De Niverville (probably Joseph Claude Boucher de Niverville [1715-1804], of Chambly, who was a lieutenant in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War, superintendent of the Indians in the district of Trois-Rivières, and colonel of militia.
$250 USD Book Number: elala806 Order / Enquire

MACDONALD, Sir John Alexander [1815-1891] [First Prime Minister of Canada (1867-73 & 1878-90)].
Autograph Letter, Signed, dated Quebec, January 24, 1861, to G.H.Ryland, Montreal.
Quebec: 1861..
8vo. pp. 2 with integral blank. (horizontal & vertical folds). Reading: "There should be a presentation from the County Judge Mr. Fairfield who is ex officio Chairman of Quarter Sessions of the prevalence of the crime of maiming & shooting cattle in Prince Edward and a recommendation that a reward should be offered. This reward can only be offered for some specific act of killing & maiming & which should be deposed before the judge or some J.P. Rewards are at present only offered in Cases of Homicide or Arson.". At the time Macdonald was attorney-general for Canada West.
$2300 USD Book Number: elala5932 Order / Enquire

MACDONALD, Sir John Alexander [1815-1891] [First Prime Minister of Canada (1867-73 & 1878-90)].
Autograph Letter, Signed, marked 'Private', dated Toronto, April 3rd, 1856, to G.H.Ryland, Montreal.
Toronto: 1856..
8vo. pp. 1, with integral blank. (horizontal & vertical folds). With initialed cover, with seal & note mentioning an enclosure from the Duke of Argyll which is not present. Reading: "I enclose you the Duke of Argyll's letter -- and am glad to learn that there is some prospect of your long standing claims being adjusted. I shall take an early opportunity of enquiring as to the appt. of the other arbitrators." Over the course of many years MacDonald supported George Herman Ryland, Registrar of Montreal and former Clerk of the Executive Council for the Province of Lower Canada, in his efforts to obtain financial compensation from the government. Ryland's claim was based on a promise made to him by Lord Sydenham, the first Governor-General of the United Province of Canada (1841). At the time of this letter Macdonald was attorney-general for Canada West. George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, a British Liberal politician who served as Lord Privy Seal (1852 and 1855) in the cabinet of Lord Aberdeen, and then as Postmaster General (1855-58) in Lord Palmerston's first cabinet, was a leading supporter of Ryland's case for financial compensation from the British Government. His son, the 9th Duke, best known as Marquess of Lorne, was Governor-General of Canada from 1878 to 1883.
$2600 USD Book Number: elala5933 Order / Enquire

MACDONALD, Sir John Alexander [1815-1891] [First Prime Minister of Canada (1867-73 & 1878-90)].
Autograph Letter, Signed, marked 'Private', on Dept. of Attorney General, U.C. letterhead (crossed out), dated Kingston, Oct. 16, 1865, to G.H.Ryland, Montreal.
Kingston: 1865..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., with integral blank (horizontal & vertical folds). Reading: "I have done what I could, and have not yet been able to persuade Council to dispose of the matter. I will try again when we re-assemble at Ottawa...you will have early opportunities of seeing [Alexander Tilloch] Galt [Minister of Finance] with whom the initiative in money matters rests...". Over the course of many years MacDonald supported George Herman Ryland, Registrar of Montreal and former Clerk of the Executive Council for the Province of Lower Canada, in his efforts to obtain financial compensation from the government. Ryland's claim was based on a promise made to him by Lord Sydenham, the first Governor-General of the United Province of Canada (1841). At the time Macdonald was attorney-general for Canada West.
$2700 USD Book Number: elala5931 Order / Enquire

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