{"id":285,"date":"2013-03-05T19:25:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/?p=285"},"modified":"2013-03-06T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T22:33:52","slug":"its-still-ski-season-in-rare-books-and-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/its-still-ski-season-in-rare-books-and-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Still Ski Season in Rare Books and Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_293\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2013\/03\/poster_ski_fun_quebec1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\" wp-image-293   \" alt=\"Ski Fun. Lithograph. Issued by the Province of Quebec tourist Bureau.\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2013\/03\/poster_ski_fun_quebec1-203x300.jpg\" width=\"183\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2013\/03\/poster_ski_fun_quebec1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/files\/2013\/03\/poster_ski_fun_quebec1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ski Fun<\/em>. \u00a0<em id=\"__mceDel\">Lithograph. Issued by the Province of Quebec Tourist Bureau.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This ski poster\u00a0represents just one of more than a hundred posters promoting Canadian tourism dating back to the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Posters such as these were issued by various provincial agencies or by shipping and railroad companies; all are\u00a0undoubtedly vibrant works of graphic design.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a recent project initiated by the BAnQ, we now know more about the poster holdings in Rare Books and Special Collections. In fact, McGill Library reported 1,600 Canadian posters in total, 900 of which have Quebec content. McGill Library was just one of eighty-three institutional repositories that participated in this collaborative project to record posters printed and published in Quebec or having content relating to Quebec. The result was an online inventory launched in October 2012, produced by the BANQ : <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.banq.qc.ca\/documents\/a_propos_banq\/nos_publications\/repertoire_affiches\/Repertoire_collections_affiches.pdf\">R\u00e9pertoire des collections institutionnelles d&#8217;affiches d&#8217;int\u00e9r\u00eat qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois<\/a>.<\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.banq.qc.ca\/documents\/a_propos_banq\/nos_publications\/repertoire_affiches\/Repertoire_collections_affiches.pdf\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in learning more, Professor Marc H. Choko of the Ecole de Design de l\u2019UQAM, is the principal scholar dealing with the content and design of the Canadian poster and author of several publications, two of which are : <i>L\u2019affi<\/i><i>che au Qu\u00e9bec<\/i> (2002);\u00a0<em>Posters of the<\/em> <i>Canadian Pacific<\/i> (2004 with David L. Jones).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ski poster\u00a0represents just one of more than a hundred posters promoting Canadian tourism dating back to the early 20th century. Posters such as these were issued by various provincial agencies or by shipping and railroad companies; all are\u00a0undoubtedly vibrant &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/its-still-ski-season-in-rare-books-and-special-collections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}