The Beaver, Magazine of the North, Spring 1955, Outfit 285 - Athabasca Tar Sands / Liard River Voyage / "Parthia" of The Pacific / Franklin Search and Halkett's Air Boat

Canada: Hudson's Bay Company. Good. 1955. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 58 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Enter the European V. Among the Eskimos (part II); Manitoba Maple Sugar - for centuries the Manitoba Maple has been furnishing syrup and sugar to the Indians and white men - article with photos; Athabasca Tar Sands - Great photo study of the sands before a profitable oil extraction method had been devised; Liar River Voyage; "Parthia" of the Pacific - the first vessel to fly the C.P.R. house flag saw service in the Yukon gold rush and the Aleutian campaign, and still plies the water of the Pacific - article with photos; St. Lawrence Seaway - Photo Study III; Moose Fort Journals, 1783-5 - the latest volume of the Hudson's Bay Record Society; Naturalists on the Back River (part 1 of 2); Footnotes on the Franklin Search - I - Halkett's Air Boat; Fur Trade Gossip Sheet; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall; The Beaver, Magazine of the North, Spring 1955, Outfit 285 - Athabasca Tar Sands / Liard River Voyage / "Parthia" of The Pacific Enter the European V. Among the Eskimos (part II); Manitoba Maple Sugar - for centuries the Manitoba Maple has been furnishin .