This is a strange booklet that really comes in two parts. First is a cover that is about 6-1/2″x9.2″. The fine print says the cover was printed in Canada. Second is the interior portion which is about 12″x9.2″. It was printed in the United States and probably shipped to Canada to be stapled to the covers. Once stapled, the interior pages probably folded in half again to fit into the cover.

Click image to download a 20.6-MB PDF of this 24-page booklet. Click here to download a 2.2-MB PDF of the full wraparound cover.

This booklet is from archive.org so I don’t have an actual example to know how it worked. I downloaded the scans of each page, touched up the covers, and relaid it out to be as close to the original as possible. One question is how big was the original, as the archive.org scans are not all the same size. I have a 1929 edition of the same book that came without the covers, and it is about 9.2″x12.1″, so I used this size for this 1926 edition.

One difference between the 1926 and 1929 editions was color: except for the covers, the only color in the 1926 edition is some green trim, while the 1929 edition included nine full-color paintings by some of Canada’s finest landscape artists.

The cover painting on the 1926 edition is signed GFG, which stands for Gordon Fraser Gillespie. Gillespie spent most of his career working as a commercial artist for Canadian Pacific and did the artwork for many booklets, menus, and posters that have been previously shown here.