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Bon Echo Co., Bon Echo Inn

Bon Echo Inn, Lake Massanoga, Frontenac Co. [County], Ontario - Vintage Promotional Brochure for This Famed Ontario Highlands Summer Resort

Bon Echo Co., 1911

350,00 €

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Año de publicación
1911
Lugar de impresión
Canada
Autor
Bon Echo Co., Bon Echo Inn
Editores
Bon Echo Co.
Formato
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Edición
F First Edition
Materia
Bon Echo Inn, Bon Echo Co., Kaladar, Ontario, Kaladar Station, Canadian Pacific Railway, Lake Massanoga, Frontenac County, Ontario, Ephemera, Tourist Resorts, destinations, Fishing, Highlands of Ontario, Bon Echo Mountain, Group of Seven, Walt Whitman Canadiana Ephemera Ontario
Descripción
S Pamphlet
Conservación
Bueno
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

Wonderful vintage brochure in brown decorated card covers. Measures 23 cm x 10.5 cm when closed. Opens to reveal six large double-side leaves, each measuring 30.5 cm x 23 cm when folded-out. Includes twenty-three black and white reproductions of photos plus a map, all supported by considerable text. Rates for cottages and tents provided inside back cover. A plaque located near the former site of the inn states it closed in 1928 and burned down in 1936. It was purchased in 1910, a year before this brochure was printed, by Toronto feminist Flora MacDonald Denison who, inspired by the philosophy of Walt Whitman, set out to build a wilderness retreat for the avant-garde. Guests were offered painting lessons, amateur theatre, and poetry readings. Many well-known Canadian artists, including members of the Group of Seven, painted and sketched in this area, drawn by the strking landscape. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A marvelous piece of Canadiana. Book
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