A Treasury of Canadian Humour

Allen, Robert Thomas.  A Treasury of Canadian Humour.  Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1967.  128 p.  Illus.

• p. 12  -  “Sam Slick, the ‘shifty, unsinkable long-winded’ clock pedlar…”
  
• p. 13  -  [Sam Slick courting]
  
• p. 17  -  “A series of humour magazines that appeared in the 1800’s – Grip, The Moon…and others, turned out some of the worst humour Canada    has ever produced, at least it seems the worst now although it was funny to Canadians at the time.”   
  “The Moon, published on Adelaide Street in Toronto, announced that it was being published ‘with the object of supplying Canadian readers with satire and humour dealing as much as possible with Canadian subjects…without being under an obligation to Uncle Sam for it…”
  
• p. 18  [possibly]  -  [cover of The Moon]
  
• p. 122  -  “Madeleine de Vercheres defends her father’s fort.”  Cartoon by Whalley, after CWJ’s “Madeleine de Vercheres at the Gate of the Fort” -  “Champlain on Georgian Bay – 1615”.  Cartoon by Whalley, after CWJ’s “Champlain on Georgian Bay, 1615”
  
• p. 128- Picture credits