Hare Collection of Early Canadian Job Printing Date of Creation: 1765 – 1962 [1802 – 1864 predominant] Extent: 1 box; 0.13 meters Biographical Sketch: Dr. John Ellis Hare (1933-2005) was an author, biographer, historian, and professor of Literature and Literary Criticism (emeritus) with the Department of French Literature at the University of Ottawa. Hare earned an MA (1962) and PhD (1971) in Linguistics at the Université Laval. In 1996 he was named Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa, where he had taught since 1966. His publications (single-author and collaborative) include: Les Canadiens francais aux quatre coins du monde: une bibliographie commentee des recits de voyage, 1670-1914 (1964); Les Imprimes dans le Bas-Canada, 1801-1840: bibliographie analytique (1967); Contes et nouvelles du Canada français, 1778-1859 (1971); Les patriotes, 1830-1839 (1971); Dictionnaire pratique des auteurs québécois (1976); La pensée socio-politique au Québec, 1784-1812 (1977); Anthologie de la poésie québécoise du XIXe siècle: 1790- 1890 (1979); Histoire de la Ville de Québec, 1608-1871 (1987); Joseph Lenoir, Oeuvres (édition critique) (1988); and Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord (1989). (Source : Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord , pp.666-667.) Custodial: The material was collected by John Hare and acquired after his death as a gift of the Hare Estate. Accession Year: 2005 Languages: English and French. Scope & Content: This collection includes over 120 Canadian broadsides and printed blanks, predominantly pre-Confederation items from the Province of Quebec. Included are legal or judicial documents, including summons from the Quebec Court of Common Pleas, affidavits, court notices, warrants, property agreements, deeds of land sale and land applications; and military documents such as service records and return of provisions forms. Municipal printed forms issued from the City of Montreal or City of Quebec include building permits, house and property assessments, business tax assessments, and bills/receipts for water and gas rental. There are also cashier’s cheques and purchase receipts issued by the Bank of Montreal and Bank du Peuple. Among the numerous receipts gathered in the collection are those for shipping; college payments; church membership and pew rental; insurance premiums, including Alliance Life, Phoenix Fire Insurance, and the Quebec Fire Office; merchants James Ferrier, Moss & Brothers, and Robertson, Masson, Strange & Co.; post office rental; and payments issued to surveyors working under Alphonso Wells, Provincial Surveyor. Other material includes public 1 notices, religious items such as prayer cards and church tickets, and ephemera from the St. Jean-Baptiste Society. A significant part of the collection is comprised of items relating to the early printing, publishing, and book-selling industry in Quebec. There are a number of bills and receipts issued for advertisements printed in the Montreal Gazette, Quebec Mercury, L’Aurore des Canadas, la Minerve, Montreal Herald, and Moniteur Canadien, as well as from Booksellers and Stationers such as Armour and Ramsay and William Neilson. Please see the following page for a complete list of the Canadian and Quebec printers represented in the collection. Arrangement Note: The material represented in this collection arrived as part of a larger accession of autographed letters, documents, bound manuscripts, and books. The majority of the documents in this collection had been placed individually or in groups in transparent plastic sleeves and housed in a 3.5-inch binder. The remainder had been placed in legal-sized envelopes in an archival box. While some items were grouped together based on a common origin, there did not appear to be any chronology or solid subject arrangements. Accordingly, the items have been re-arranged chronologically, with undated items located to the rear of the collection, and placed in two 13 cm legal- sized archival boxes. Finding Aid Description: Item-level descriptions in the finding aid are organized as follows: Title as it appears on document [with clarifying information about the type of document or creator in square brackets]. – Type of material. – Language of material. – Date as given on document. – Scope and content note. Signatures appearing on the document. Printer of the document if known. A Tremaine reference is given if found. Any dates or names that are uncertain are indicated with a question mark. Associated Material: Other Hare material has been catalogued individually by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library. 2 EARLY QUEBEC PRINTERS REPRESENTED IN THE COLLECTION Andrew Harvie Armour & Hew Ramsey Robert Armour (also printed as Andrew H. Armour and Co., and Robert and Andrew Harvie Armour) Léger Brousseau William Brown Rollo Campbell Brown Chamberlain Francois Cinq-Mars Augustin Côté Octave and Joseph Crémazie W. & F. Dalton Jean-Guillaume De Montigny et Cie. Georges-Pashel Desbarats Georges-Édouard Desbarats Ludger Duvernay P.-J. Guitté John Lowe John Lovell Donald McDonald Robert Middleton John Neilson William Neilson 3 SIGNATORIES OF NOTE WITHIN THE COLLECTION AULD, JOHN. Birth and death dates not found. Auld was a general commission merchant and agent for steam tow boats to Quebec (accessgeneology.com). Notice of his marriage to Mary Ann M’Grigor, only daughter of John M'Grigor, Esq., of Summerhill House, can be found at: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~leighann/wfp/ marriages/15.html. Items reference: 74 (also noted on 49, 50, 63, 64). BROUSSEAU, LÉGER (baptized Joseph). Born 21 May 1826 at Quebec City; died 8 Feb. 1890 at Quebec. Bookseller, publisher, and printer. Brousseau was a member of the Association des typographer de Québec and is thought to have learned the trade at the Quebec Mercury before entering into partnership with his elder brother, Jean-Docile Brousseau (Dictionary of Canadian Biography). Item reference: 103 (also noted on 104). BROWN, WILLIAM. Born c.1737 at Nunton, Scotland; died 22 March 1789 at Quebec. Brown arrived in Quebec in September 1763 with the intention of co-founding a weekly newspaper with Thomas Gilmore. The first issue of the Quebec Gazette/La Gazette de Québec was printed on 21 June 1764. The first periodical to be published in the Province of Quebec, the Gazette followed the American model of four two-column pages, with English on the left and the French translation on the right. Brown explained the bilingualism of the paper to be “the most effectual Means of bringing about a thorough Knowledge of the English and French Language to those of the two Nations now happily united in one in this Part of the World.” Brown and Gilmore also published the first books in Québec, including a catechism, legal works and Abram's Plains (1789), a collection of poems by Thomas Cary (DCB; thecanadianencyclopedia.com). Item reference: 2 (also noted on 1, 3, 5, 6, 7). CAUCHON, JOSEPH-ÉDOUARD. Born 31 December 1816 at Quebec City; died 23 February 1885. A descendant of one of the oldest families in the colony, Cauchon was a journalist, businessman, and politician. With his brother-in-law Augustin Côté, Cauchon launched Le Journal de Québec on 1 Dec. 1842. The paper replaced the French edition of the Quebec Gazette, which had ceased publication on 29 October as a result of insuperable financial difficulties. Cauchon was proprietor from 1842 to 1862 and editor from 1842 to 1875, except for the years 1855 to 1857 and again in 1861 when he was a member of the government (DCB). Item reference: 66. CINQ-MARS, FRANÇOIS. Birth and death dates not found. Founder of L’Aurore des Canadas (Montreal), a political, literary, and commercial newspaper that first appeared on January 15, 1839. The paper sought to restore social and political peace in Lower Canada by seeking a basis of agreement between French Canadians and their governors, stressing understanding between the two linguistic/national groups of French and English, and to defend the Catholic clergy. (DCB: Jean Baptiste Boucher-Belleville; Joseph Emery-Coderre). Item reference: 61 (also noted on 60). DUVERNAY, LUDGER. Born 22 January 1799 in Verchères, Quebec; died 28 November 1852 in Montreal. Duvernay was a prominent printer, newspaper man, and 4 politician. As a young man, he founded and edited “La Gazette des Trois-Rivières" (1817), "Le Constitutionnel" (1823), and "L'Argus" (1826). As a newspaper printer he is perhaps best known for La Minerve, which he purchased from Augustin-Norbert Morin in 1827. Duvernay took the place of Jocelyn Waller as the editor of the Canadian Spectator, which he published until 1829. In August of 1829 he acquired the Montreal printing house of James Lane, where he remained until 16 Nov. 1837 producing La Minerve in the heart of the business quarter. From this shop Duvernay supplied the various kinds of printed material useful to businessmen, members of the liberal professions, and officials; he was, from 1829 to 1837, the principal producer of books and pamphlets in the city. Duvernay is also known as the founder of the Association Saint-Jean-Baptiste (today, the Societe Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Montreal) in 1834. (DCB; Catholic encyclopedia online). Item reference: 62 (also noted on 83, 106). FERRIER, JAMES. Born 22 October 1800 in Fife, Scotland; died 30 May 1888 in Montreal, Quebec. Ferrier, who emigrated from Scotland to Montreal in 1821, was a merchant, politician, and railway promoter. He opened the first store on Rue Notre-Dame, a residential street which soon became part of the city’s commercial hub, and by the 1830s was considered to be among the wealthiest Montrealers of the mid-19th century. Ferrier was elected in 1845 to serve as Montreal’s mayor, and, in May 1847, was appointed to the Legislative Council, where he remained until confederation. Like many other prominent businessmen of the era, Ferrier served as a justice of the peace and held the post of lieutenant-colonel in the local militia.