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   This includes books in the collection which, in some way, are important landmarks as works published about or in Canada.  Francois Du Creux's Historiae Canadensis is believed to be one of the first volumes ever to be published on the subject of "Canadian" history.  James Young Alexander's Wonders of the West represents the first book of verse printed in Upper Canada, while Règlement de la Confrèrie . . . was the first book published in Montreal.

François Du Creux.  Historiæ Canadensis, sev Novæ-Franciæ libri decem Ad Annum usque Christi MDCLVI.  Paris: Sebastien Cramoisy et Sebast. Mabre Cramoisy, 1664.
Règlement de la Confrèrie de l’Adoration Perpetuelle du S. Sacrament et de la Bonne Mort.  Montreal: [F. Mesplet, 1776].
James Young Alexander].  Wonders of the West. or a day at the Falls of Niagara, in 1825, a poem, by a Canadian.  [[York: James Fathergill], 1825.
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