Antique book – Handbook on British Colonies c.1906 Ref: 888-096

Handbooks on British Colonies
issued by the Emigrants’ Information Office, 1906

A bound collection of 12 handbooks to assist persons planning to emigrate from Britain to one of its colonies. Each handbook consists of about 45 pages of text and a large folding map. The Canadian handbook has twice as many pages of text.

The handbooks in this volume are: Canada, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, Orange River.

Each handbook has similar information – information about towns, prices, industries, primary production, wages, employment opportunities, etc.

There is a 207 page section to guide professionals such as architects & engineers, barristers & solicitors, civil servants, commercial travellers, dentists, notaries pubic, nurses, police, physicians & surgeons, surveyors and teachers.

Octavo. Burgundy cloth covers. Tight copy in very good condition.