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Songs of a Sourdough By Robert W. Service (details | pdf)

Internet Archive Canada has reached a milestone, in scanning its 200,000th book! We want to thank everyone involved, who have made Internet Archive Canada a success here in Toronto.

First and foremost, the employees of Internet Archive Canada. Without your dedication and tireless efforts, we could not have been able to contribute, all these wonderful texts to the populace at large. Thank you all. From the Archive staff in San Francisco, to the University of Toronto and OCUL members – not to mention all the wonderful Canadian Institutions who have donated material. Your commitment to this great endeavour has helped make “Universal Access to Knowledge” all the more tangible. Our 200,000th book has been generously donated for scanning by the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

The well-known collection of verse, Songs of a Sourdough was the first publication of author Robert W. Service and became instantly popular when it was published in 1907. There were 10 Canadian printings in that first year of publication, totaling 12,750 copies. The collection includes “ The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “ The Cremation of Sam McGee”. Which have become classics taught in literature classes, recited widely, referenced in films and music such as the 1949 song "Dangerous Dan McGrew" by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians.

Service initially sent the manuscript of Songs of a Sourdough to the Methodist Book and Publishing House in Toronto to be published at his own expense. The book subsequently came to the attention of editors in the office, and a commercial edition was ordered. The first, “Author's Edition” was 500 copies, but with so many orders even before the date of publication, a second edition of 750 was immediately printed.

This first edition copy, contributed by The Thomas Fisher Library is an excellent example of Canadiana, detailing the landscapes of the Northwest and memorable characters involved with the Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory.

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A dictionary of the English language By Samuel Johnson(details | pdf)
A dictionary of the English language in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers : to which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar (1785)
  • A general history of all voyages and travels throughout the old and new world (1708) (details | read it)
  • The history of the devil, as well ancient as modern (1727) (details | read it)
  • Pastorals, epistles, odes, and other original poems, with translations from Pindar, Anacreon, and Sappho (1748) (details | read it)
  • Esprit, maximes et principes de m. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, de Geneve (1764) (details | read it)
  • Twenty stories from Grimm (1896) (details | read it)
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  • Se-ke and the beaver (1920) (details | read it)
  • Grimsby Park, historical and descriptive; with biographical sketches of the late president Noah Phelps and others (1900) (details | read it)
  • Canada's scenic grandeur : four thousand miles across Canada ... (1901) (details | read it)
  • Eaton's Fall and Winter Catalogue 1899-1900 (1899) (details | read it)
  • English for new-Canadians (1919) (details | read it)
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  • The garden of the soul (1775) (details | pdf)
  • A short essay on the Christian religion (1795) (details | read it)
  • The antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon church (1810) (details | read it)
  • The Christian year : thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year (1827) (details | read it)
Medical Texts
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  • Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health (1765) (details | read it)
  • Gilbertus Anglicus, medicine, of the thirteenth century (1918) (details | pdf)
  • Notes on nursing : what it is, and what it is not (1860) (details | pdf)
  • Old-time makers of medicine : the story of the students and teachers of the sciences related to medicine during the Middle Ages (1911) (details | read it)
  • Stretcher bearers... at the double! (1937) (details | read it)
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