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Canada’s First National Book Collecting Contest

The National Book-Collecting Contest was created by the Bibliographical Society of Canada, with the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of Canada (ABAC) and the Alcuin Society, to encourage young Canadians to collect books and study the discipline of researching and writing bibliographies. The prizes were awarded to the winning entrants at the Annual General Meeting held in Toronto on Wednesday June 24th. The first prize ($2500) went to Charlotte Ashley for her collection The Works (and Quirks) of Alexandre Dumas pere. The second prize ($1000) winner was Vanessa Brown for her collection The L.M. Montgomery Collection in the Forest City. The third prize ($300) winner was Naseem Hrab for her collection The Complexities of Ordinary Life: Autobiographical Comics and Graphic Novels.

The Bulletin

The Bulletin is published in the spring and fall each year, as the newsletter of the Bibliographical Society of Canada and is distributed to members together with the Papers/Cahiers. Each new issue of the Bulletin will now be made available on the website upon publication. Past issues will be digitized as time permits.

Members wishing to continue to receive the Bulletin in paper form should indicate this on their 2009 membership renewal form.

Tremaine Medal 2007

The Marie Tremaine Medal Committee is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Driver has received the Tremaine Medal for 2007. Elizabeth Driver is one of the world's foremost experts on culinary history. She is unequalled as a bibliographer in this field. Her two primary works are bibliographies: volume two of A Bibliography of Cookery Books Published in Britain, 1875-1914 (London: Prospect Books in association with Mansell Publishing, 1989); and Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949 (forthcoming 2007, University of Toronto Press). She has also written articles and delivered lectures in this area of study. Culinary Landmarks is a labour of love, a life's work that took ten years to complete. The book is indeed a landmark that chronicles and combines bibliographical description and history (author biographies and corporate histories) of 2,200 Canadian cookbooks published between 1825 and 1950. The work also contains introductions for each province, highlighting regional differences in cooking, four indexes, and a chronology. The Committee extends its warmest congratulations to Elizabeth Driver.