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Benjamin Bremner Scrapbooks
Benjamin Bremner Scrapbooks
Title: The Benjamin Bremner Scrapbooks
Description: The collection includes three (3) scrapsbooks containing tipped in newspaper clippings, letters, manuscripts and typescripts. Vol. 1) Includes, Handbill for community concert in Charlottetown on April 24, 1888; Clipping titled Informal Opening Today of Harris Memorial Gallery from Guardian, August 4, 1930; Typescript for A Holiday in London and Vicinity - travel piece dated 1927 (laid in); A Holiday In London and Vicinity - serialized clippings from the Guardian March 8, 1930 to March 20, 1930; Reminiscences of Charlottetown - serialized clippings from the Guardian; Typescript for speech to the Grand Lodge of Ontario, I.O.O.F., June 1929. Vol. 2) Includes, Benjamin Bremner signed portrait; Contents page; An Island Scrapbook clippings; Canadian Historical Review of An Island Scrapbook from March 1933; Signed letter from Lowell Thomas - Sunoco News Voice of the Air - Radio City, New York, dated March 7, 1935 (laid in); The Original and Progress of Printing - handwritten article (laid in). Vol. 3) Includes, Rambles Through Florida - serialized clippings from The Guardian printed March 7, 1933, through April 12, 1933; Signed letter from the St. Petersburg, Florida, Chamber of Commerce; Tales of Abegweit press clippings; Signed letter from H. T. Holman, dated September 12, 1936; Signed card from the Bishop of Charlottetown, J.A. O'Sullivan (laid in), dated September 17, 1936; Signed letter from Premier Thane Campbell, dated September 11, 1936; Signed letter from Lieutenant Governor George Des Brisay de Blois, dated September 10, 1936; Signed letter from Canadian Minister of Finance Charles Dunning, dated September 14, 1936; Signed letter from A.S. McKay of Summerside, dated September 5, 1936; Signed letter from R.W.E. Burnaby of Toronto, dated September 16, 1936; Canadian Historical Review of Tales of Abegweit from March 1937.
Benjamin Armitage Bremner (1851-1938) was a lifelong resident of Charlottetown. He's best remembered as a local historian. He began by writing down recollections of the Island of his youth. Initially serialized in the Charlottetown Guardian, his vignettes were later published as Memories of long ago (1930). In his eighties, Bremner released two more historical booklets, An Island scrapbook (1932) and Tales of Abegweit (Prince Edward Island) (1936), both of which followed the anecdotal model of Memories and reprinted accounts from other sources.
This is a pre-owned book. It will show shelf wear. It may show interior soiling from usage. Please contact Gallery 18 before ordering if you have any questions.