Distributors, agents, and publishers: creating a separate market for books in Canada 1900-1920. (1) Part I.

From: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

If books are to be distributed to Canadian readers, the work must be done by Canadian publishers. --George N. Morang, "The Development of Publishing in Canada and the Canadian Copyright Question," 1899 (3)

I. "Toronto's Wholesale District Swept by Flames"

Around 8:00 on the evening of 19 April 1904 the most disastrous fire in Toronto's history broke out in the downtown core. A tiny electric wire, "imperfectly insulated," (4) started the fire in the elevator shaft at E. & S. Currie Neckwear, at the northwest corner of Bay and Wellington Streets. That night the fire made a ...

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