We’ve previously seen a 1958 version of this booklet. This one, from 1964, is smaller: 5-1/2″x7-1/2″ vs. 8-1/4″x10-1/4″ for the 1958 edition. This one is also 32 pages rather than 28, but unlike the 1958 booklet this one is bilingual: half the pages are in English and half in French.

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Fitting 28 pages of material into 16 smaller pages requires some sacrifice, and in this case CN elected to drop ten beautiful color photos while keeping intact around 2,700 words of text that probably was not as avidly scrutinized as the photos. If a picture is worth a thousand words, they lost 10,000 highly persuasive words in order to gain 2,700 French words. I would probably have kept the photos and published two separate booklets, one in English and one in French, but political pressures may have discouraged such “separate but equal” policies in 1964.