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Advertising in the United States, 1900-1920s



National Archives of Canada
C-83565 		 

Canada West: The Last Best West, was published annually for several years. It was a magazine-style pamphlet with 30-40 pages of information for would-be settlers. The front cover was always colourful (but this black-and-white photograph of the 1910 American edition was the only one available).

It is not hard to visualise the bright blue sky, the golden stubble and the red and gold autumn leaves that were the "norm" for so many promotional images of western Canada. But what does the large factory to the right symbolize? Urban markets for western grain? Eastern factories producing agricultural equipment and a great variety of other things needed by prairie settlers?



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