How Canada Assisted the United States

Doughty, Arthur G., How Canada Assisted the United States to raise the sum of fifty one million dollars in Baltimore: Canada Day inaugurated and perpetual memorial established, [Ottawa]: [publisher not identified], 1918.

Typescript notes with illustrations mostly news clippings from the Baltimore Sun, written/compiled by A.G. Doughty.   This typescript with illustrations was bound in a brown cloth binding, with “Baltimore Exhibition 1918” in gold lettering embossed on the spine.  The contents described the war trophies exhibition entitlted "Over There" held in Baltimore, Maryland in 1918.  The notes, written 30 September 1918, provided the background leading up to this exhibit, the logistics involved in putting such an exhibition together, the various aspects of the displays and presentations, the overall impressions and public response to the thirty day event, the Canadian contribution to the exhibit including that of the Public Archives of Canada, and the financial success of the Baltimore as well as other similar exhibits in the United States to raise monies in support of the war campaign.  

At the beginning of the book was a note handwritten by AGD which indicated that the information was compiled by A.G.D for Senator Foster of Brome Co. The Senator requested information for a speech he intended to make to the Senate.  Senator George Green Foster, a conservative from Brome, Quebec, was appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden in 1917, and served in that capacity until his death in 1931.  

This bound typescript (OCLC #1007654228) held by Library and Archives Canada in its Preservation collection was reviewed; select images are pictured above.