Peel’s Prairie Provinces: University of Alberta Library, a Division of Learning Services

Peel 378

Corbett, Griffith Owen (fl.1851-1904) [info]. A few reasons for a Crown Colony. [Red River, NWT]: Headingley Press, 1859.

Physical description: Broadside: 34 lines.; Type-page, 31 x 16 cm.

Language: English

Eight reasons are enumerated by Corbett, its author and amateur printer. The hand-press used has not been positively identified, but would seem to have been one brought to Fort Garry for missionary purposes. In 1875 this "first imprint" in the Red River Settlement was entombed with a miscellany of documents and other artifacts in the cornerstone of Winnipeg's city hall. When it was demolished the broadside was given into the custody of the Winnipeg City Clerk's office. For variant versions of this bibliographic tale see Peel's introduction to the Bibliographical Society of Canada's reprint of Peel 479 (pages 6-7) and Peel's Early printing in the Red River Settlement, 1859-1870 (pages [v], 1-3). Facsimile of broadside is included in both those sources.

Subject headings:

• Land tenure
• Natural resources