SEAWAY VALLEY CARTOONS

Vesta Publications, Cornwall, 1976, 1^st.  ISBN 0-919806-17-1.  Large soft cover, 127 pages.  Good plus; illustrated card wraps are a bit sun-faded with some soil, some rubs and light stray marks; sticker ghost at upper front corner; lettering on spine rubbed and faded.  Light edge wear, small upper front corner crease; soil spot on outer page block; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked; black & white reproductions of cartoons published in the Standard-Freeholder 1947-1963.  Majority of cartoons deal with the Great (St. Lawrence) Seaway Project and Cornwall, Ontario.  Signed and dated by author on title page.  ‘The years 1950 to 1960 were particularly hectic for Cornwall and provided a wide range of subjects for cartoon material.  In addition to the giant Seaway project were other problems such as annexation of part of Cornwall Township, the housing shortage, search for new industry, relocation and naming of new towns, the new lake, etc. … This random collection of old cartoons gives a rollicking history of Cornwall during the Seaway Years.’ (from Preface)