The Salmon Streams Of Anticosti Island -

Montreal: Consolidated Paper Corporation Limited, Anticosti Division, 1939. Seventh edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island loosely inserted, photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's grey pictorial wrappers printed in blue and green. Fine (minor toning to wrapper). Seventh edition. Folding map of Anticosti Island loosely inserted, photographic illustrations throughout. 20 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Anticosti, "the treasure island of the Saint Lawrence," was maintained as a private hunting preserve by French chocolate manufacturer Henri Menier from 1896 until 1926. It was bought by a Canadian paper consortium and this brochure is evidence of their efforts to attract fishermen. It is well illustrated and includes selections from a fictional fishing diary. Wood describes a fifth edition, circa 1936. He notes, "All of these pamphlets are rare.". Bibliotheca Salmo Salar 72 (for 5th ed., 1936); Bruns p. 26