File P890 - Ontario. Department of Crown Lands (Prepared under instructions from Hon. J.M. Gibson, Commissioner of Crown Lands for Ontario). Northern Districts of Ontario Canada: Nipissing, Temiscaming, Algoma, Thunder Bay, Wabigoon and Rainy River. Their Climate, Soil, Products; Agricultural, Timber, and Mineral Resources and Capabilities, With information as to How to Acquire Lands. . Toronto: Warwick Bro's & RutteR

Octavo (24.7 cm x 16.7 cm), pp. 112, original printed pink paper wrappers, stapled binding, frontispiece + 20 inserted plates of photos, huge folding map of townships open for settlement, large folding map of Rainy River district. Covers dust soiled, tanning to margins of text block, with deeper tanning around margins where the folding maps are placed. Otherwise a very good, tight copy a scarce item. "These pages, while applicable in great measure to the whole of the Free Grant Territory, are intended to have special reference to that part of the Algoma District between Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury, to the part of Nipissing District bordering on the Canadian Pacific Railway, to the Temiscaming Settlement, and to the Rainy River District, including the Thunder Bay District and the Wabigoon Settlement on the C.P.R. (in connection with the Government Pioneer Farm); all of which Districts are now easily accessible by railway or steamboat." [2229]