Caption
Queen's Printer Bookstore on St. Catherine Street, Montreal. Other government bookshops are in Toronto and Ottawa, with two more opening in Vancouver and Winnipeg.
Date
February 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-1036
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Bookstore, above, is just one retail outlet where Canadians can choose from among 20,000 titles.
Date
February 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-1038
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
At publications planning meeting, from left, are Alcide Beauchamp, Gerald Boulay, Roma Gilbert, John Shaw (production-publication manager) and Ian Young.
Date
February 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-876
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Rhéaume Roy works over light-table during layout work for new publication.
Date
February 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-749
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Printer studies proof from off-set press at National Printing Bureau in Hull, Quebec. The importance of printing and publishing to government, as to business and commerce, is steadily growing.
Date
February 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-744
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Caption
Vickie Hodgins, left, and Linda Barks browse through Ottawa's Rideau Street government bookstore.
Date
February 1, 1964
Accession Number
NFB64-862
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Collection
CMCP collection
Credit Line
© National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Photostory #361: Government Publications Grow in National Importance: Book-Buying Canadians Bring Business Boom
Photographers
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Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
April 7, 1964
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
Competition for the reading time of Canadians is the most intense in the world, but at the Queen's Printer business is booming. Every 30 seconds a customer enters one of the government book stores across Canada. Every day 3,000 orders come to the Queen's Printer, Ottawa. Among 20,000 titles in print is authoritative literature on subjects ranging from how to fly an airplane to destroying the purple-backed cabbage worm, from art to mining, figure skating to salmon fishing. Production of 5,000 new titles a year for an annual printing bill of $15,000,000 requires a 500-page catalogue to describe current publications. A peerless source of information on Canada, the Queen's Printer sets out in black and white the why-where-what and how of government activities, policies, decisions and results in the fields of politics, science, culture and social-economic development. Among best sellers are the 5BX-XBX physical fitness booklets (6,000,000 copies), The Canadian Mother and Child (1,000,000), Native Trees of Canada (500,000), How to Run a Business and a recent book, The Development of Canadian Art.
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