It is amazing what people use as bookmarks. I have been putting the cover back on Western Canada Law*, from 1921. As I spread the pages out fell a postcard, an RSVP really, from 1921. Yes, it has been inside that book all this time. And I will put it back. It was to be sent to P.E.C. Ecob, Secretary Graduates Association, Collegiate Institute, Saskatoon. As the city was only incorporated thirteen years before the simplicity of address is understandable. Mind you the nice white interlopers had been hanging around since 1883 on the general spot, and if my great granddad's buffalo hunting stories are anything to go by had been seen in the area a lot longer. But still, 1921, and no need for a house address, a street name, least of all, a postal code. And next year I will have to use the provincial area code just to phone next door! The really pleasing part was the back of the post card, the language of the response: Dear Sir, In reply to your invitation to the University of Saskatchewan Graduates' Reunion on May 6th next, I beg to say that......, Yours faithfully, .... What a delightful luxury of language. I think I'll go to the party.
*Full title just for fun: Western Canada law : a concise handbook of the laws of western Canada, as the same are applicable in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, together with other information of value to business men, farmers, secretaries, justices, police magistrates, and all other persons interested in the laws of western Canada / by Arthur E. Popple
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