"Official Automobile Road Guide Of Canada 1912"
I have for sale the out-of-print, 1st edition book "Official Automobile
Road Guide Of Canada 1912" by the Ontario Motor League, published in 1971.
The edition contains 352 pages of text, photographs, road maps, as well as
mileages to and from cities, and towns in Canada in the year 1912.
Foreword Excerpt:
"In 1912 car travel was still, to most people, more of a s****t than a
means
of trans****tation-a summer s****t, in fact, and one restricted to the rich,
the eccentric, and the adventuresome. The only properly paved highway in
Canada was a 10-mile concrete strip built in 1910 from Montreal to Ste.
Rose. Some stretches of highway in Ontario and Quebec had been
"macadamized" by compacting layers of crushed stone, but the "tourist", as
the car driver was called in those days, thought himself lucky if he could
open up for a few miles on a nice stretch of gravel, as a respite from the
clay and sand surfaces that were the order of the day and from the shaky
bridges and steep hills for which passengers often had to jump out. At the
time when this, the eighth edition of the Ontario Motor League's annual
road guide was in use, registered cars in Canada totalled: Ontario
(excluding Toronto) 12,435 - Toronto 5,315
Quebec (excluding Montreal 3,534 - Montreal 5,118 - Nova Scotia 1,435 -
New
Brunswick 1,268 - Prince Edward Island 35 - Manitoba 5,010 - Saskatchewan
5,773 - Alberta 3,600 - British Columbia 3,081 - Total 46,604
Altogether, the 1912 Road Guide is a feast of instant Canadiana for the
modern-day motorist and his passengers, a sure source of extra interst and
fun on family trips and outings in the regions it covers, and a rare
experience of nostalgia for armchair drivers throughout the country."
The "Official Automobile Road Guide Of Canada 1912" is in very good
condition.
Price $35. CDN plus postage
Please include your "postal mailing address" so I can calculate postage
costs to your destination. Thank you
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