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Month: September 2019

Talk at BC Genealogical Society, September 11, 2019
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Talk at BC Genealogical Society, September 11, 2019

September 10, 2019 agreeableplace

I’m excited to be giving a presentation about early BC booksellers and stationers at the September 11 meeting of the BC Genealogical Society. The program starts at 7:30 p.m.

“The bookstore should be the most agreeable of places. It should invite those thirsting for knowledge, and those whose appetite needs to be stimulated by a tempting display of books, to come in, and make themselves at home, and buy to the extent that they may please." (Publishers' Weekly, February 28, 1885)

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