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Country post : rural postal service in Canada, 1880 to 1945
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19833
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Amyot, Chantal and John Willis
- Publisher
- Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
- Call Number
- 08.1 Am1c
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- Responsibility
- Chantal Amyot and John Willis
- Publisher
- Gatineau, Quebec : Canadian Postal Museum
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 210 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Postal services
- History
- Canada
- Abstract
- Pertains to the ways in which rural postal service combat isolationism in rural communities across Canada while using examples in Alberta. References and/or photos pertaining to Alberta include the following locations, Bently, Beverly, Big Valley, Capon, Claresholm, Consort, Coronation, Cressman, Gadsby, Hanna, Kinnodale, Lacombe, Ogden, Rapid City, Lethbridge, Red Lodge, Richdale, Rimbey, Stand Off, Troche, Wardlow and Worsley. The book draws similarities to the isolationism that was likely to exist in the Rocky Mountains at the time of early settlement, and the ways in which rural postal services increased communication among communities.
- Contents
- Foreword -- Canadian Postal Museum -- Foreword -- Canada post -- Foreword -- Canadian postmasters and assistants association -- Ch. 1. The transformation of rural society in Canada and the post office -- Ch. 2. The significance and symbolism of post offices and their locations -- Ch. 3. The rural postmaster -- Ch. 4. Social role of the post -- Ch. 5. Sending saving, and spending money -- Conclusion : whither the rural post office?
- Notes
- References and/or photographs of locations in Alberta can be found on the following pages Bently (98), Beverly (103), Big Valley (132), Capon (80), Claresholm (109), Consort (123), Coronation (114), Cressman (43), Gadsby (107), Hanna (98 and 124), Kinnodale (57 and 59), Lacombe (51), Lethbridge (89), Ogden (88), Rapid City (59), Red Lodge (59), Richdale (85), Rimbey (98), Stand Off (41), Troche (116), Wardlow (105) and Worsley (97)
- ISBN
- 0660189984
- Accession Number
- 2019.44
- Call Number
- 08.1 Am1c
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Avaliable through online subscription to jstor
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