FOLKLORE OF CANADA by Fowke, Edith (editor) - 1976

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1976. 349 pp. Orange boards lettered in brown on the spine; brown endpapers; illustrated with drawings by Laszlo Gal. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. This collection contains: THE NATIVE PEOPLES: The Shaking Tent by Alexander Henry; The Last Sun Dance by Richard Hardisty; Tahltan Tales by James A. Teit; Ojibwa Tales by Diamond Jenness; Micmac Tales by Silas T. Rand; Blood Indian Tales by Kenneth Peacock; Eskimo Tales by Franz Boas. CANADIENS: The Blind Singer by C. Marius Barbeau; Contes Poulaires; Legendes; La Complainte de Cadieux by Jean-Charles Tache; Chansons d'Acadie; Chansons Franco-Ontarien by Germain Lemieux; Tall Tales of Dalbec by William P. Greenough; Parlour Games on Ile Verte by Maurice Tremblay; The Early Development of French-Canadian Foodways by Jay A. Anderson. ANGLO-CANADIANS: The Quest of the Ballad by W. Roy Mackenzie; Superstitions and the Supernatural in Nova Scotia by Mary L. Fraser; Celtic Tales from Cape Breton by MacEdward Leach; Newfoundland Riddles by Elisabeth B. Greenleaf; Newfie Jokes by Gerald Thomas; A Mummers' Play from Newfoundland by Barney Moss; Larry Gorman and the Cante Fable by Edward D. Ives; Jokes and Anecdotes: Pat and Mike Jokes from Nova Scotia by Arthur H. Fauset; Ontarios Yarns from Joe Thibadeau by Edith Fowke; Tall Tales and Other Yarns from Calgary by Herbert Halpert; How Dave McDougall Hunted Wild Geese by R. D. Johnson; The Baldoon Mystery by Neil T. McDonald; Songs of the Great Lakes by Ivan H. Walton; Square Dance Calls by J. D. Robins; Folkways: Building Our House; and Making Maple Sugar by Cunningham Geikie; A Winter in a Lumber Camp by George S. Thompson; The Cattle Round-up by John O. McHugh; Autograph Verses from Saskatchewan by Edith Fowke; Western Vernacular by John D. Higinbotham; Monsters of the West: The Sasquatch and the Ogopogo by M. Carole Henderson; Urban Tales by Susan Smith. CANADIAN MOSAIC: Superstitions and Popular Beliefs in Waterloo County by W. J. Wintemberg; Local Anecdotes from Lunenburg by Helen Creighton; Ukrainian Canadian Folktales by Robert B. Klymasz; Icelandic Pular by Magnus Einarsson; and Yiddish Tales for Children by Ruth Rubin; followed by: Sources Notes and References; A Selective Bibliography; Index of Tale Types; Index of Motifs; Index of Contributors; Index of Informants; and General Index.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Laszlo Gal;. 8vo.