ian@sq.UUCP (07/25/87)
My mother was born in Halifax, N.S., in 1917, just in time to have a very narrow brush with death in The Halifax Explosion (if you don't know what that is, check your Canadian history books!). In closing out my Grandmother's estate, we found a stack about 8 inches thick of newspapers from the days following the disaster. The first day's headline is "Halifax in Ruins". They are in reasonably good condition (although folded in half), considering that they will be 70 years old this year (trivia q: what day+month? don't answer by followup!) and have had no special treatment other than being kept in a suitcase. Well, we don't have any good way of looking after them, so they are up for grabs. We will consider donating them to an established Canadian archive, library, University collection or History department that asks for them and has the means to preserve them and make them available to researchers. Please don't flame me for using can.general; there is no can.history and no can.forsale. -- The moon (and beyond) can't wait: | Ian Darwin, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto we have all our eggs in one basket. | utzoo!sq!ian or ian@sq.com