Excerpt from A Guide to the Documents in the Manuscript Room at the Public Archives of Canada, Vol. 1The task of preparing A Guide to the Documents in the Manuscript Room at the Public Archives of Canada has been entrusted to Mr. David Parker. M.a who was first brought into touch with our collections through compiling for the Carnegie Institute of Washington a volume entitled a Guide to the Materials for United States History in Canadian Archives. Mr. Parker has since been placed in charge of the Manusa'ipt Division of this Department. It is hoped that his work will prove of material assistance to students in the field of Canadian and, to some extent, of general history.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.