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Country Post: Rural Postal Service in Canada, 1880 to 1945 (Mercury Series)
Country Post Rural Postal Service in Canada 1880 to 1945 - Mercury Series Author:Chantal Amyot, John Willis The rural post office in Canada was once a vibrant institution of sociability and communication. The mail brought books, magazines, newspapers, letters, sometimes money, and parcels. The small-town economy was aided by postal saving banks, the money order, and the mail-order catalog. Country Post recreates the postal world before the era of tele... more »phones and television through photographs and interviews with postmasters from all regions of Canada.« less