Browse Items (524 total)

Pandemic: Can you save humanity?

Players: 2-4
Playing time: 45 minutes
Age: 8+

Game Overview: In Pandemic, you and your fellow players are members of a disease control team. You must work together to develop cures and prevent disease outbreaks, before 4 deadly diseases (Blue,…

Palm Leaf Sandwich-type Manuscript [original]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/11002/archive/files/6decc859a9d22ba482deb9ca16704a1e.jpg
Binding: good ; wooden boards and leaves have two holes through which they would have been bound with string or cord

Protective case: wrapped in paper and kept in a case

Leaves: good ; palm leaves ; fragile (brittle) ; text on both sides ;…

Outside Over There

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/11002/archive/files/0f720a7e1eef4cf78b79fe2a19a48127.jpg
This book follows Ida who plays her horn for baby sister every night to get her to sleep while her father is away at sea. One night while she is playing her horn and not paying attention to the baby, goblins sneak in and steal the baby. When Ida…

Our Own Third World Give us a Jolt

Desbarats recounts a journalism conference at Western’s Graduate School of Journalism, during which the issue of how well Canadian aboriginal news stories were covered was raised by Dan David, the first Canadian Indian journalist to work…

Our Doctors Need a Public Watchdog

Ottawa, Ontario

Desbarats discusses the issue of doctors being the ones who investigate other doctors. In the case he describes, a man who was both a member of the public and a doctor himself was leading the inquiry into the case of his son’s…

Ottawa's Antidote to U.S. Surcharge Ready in 10 days

Ottawa, Ontario

The Employment Support Act was being debated in House of Commons for a second time. Its purpose was to counteract a newly imposed 10% US “import surcharge.” It would see the Canadian government covering 2/3 of this cost on behalf…

Oraison Funebre de Tres-Haut et Puissant Seigneur Messire Michel Le Tellier Chevalier [original]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/11002/archive/files/b967efb7f86c4972deb07507ef2cbadd.jpg
Binding: good to very good ; insert that reads "G. HUSER BINDING" ; deep red leather binding ; 5 raised bands on spine ; gold tooling on edges and inside covers ; "G. HUSER" in gilded print on inside front cover border detail ; marbled endpaper ;…

One-year Lease of Property [original]

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/11002/archive/files/828aa120902327ad9288289971162c24.jpg
Binding: protected ; loosely sewn into protective paper folder housed between two sheets of Bristol board

Leaves: very good to near fine ; appears to be vellum ; one corner has some damage (tear) ; the terms of the lease are handwritten ;…

One Year Later: Little Sign of Separatism's Growth

Montreal, Quebec

The same article as The War Measures Act didn’t help Quebec separatism after all, published just one day earlier in the Toronto Daily Star.

One Is Hardly Ever Alone In Crowded Japan

Montreal, Quebec

In part one of a six part co-series with cartonist Ed McNally Desbarats reports on his experience of spending three weeks in Japan. He briefly discusses economic relations between Canada and Japan. He found that Canadians…