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Canada in a Box, Cigar Containers that Store Our Past 1883-1935
 CANADA IN A BOX 
 Quick View    Canadian, Eh?    "The Mother Country"    Our American Cousins 
 Romanticized, Belittled, Demonized    Punchlines?    From Sea to Sea    Win, Lose, or Draw 
 Lives of  Men and Boys    Women Plain and Fanciful    Index 

 From Dea to Sea

Like sports, the sea evoked a colourful, manly life for male cigar buyers.

THE ATLANTIC THE ATLANTIC
Trimmed nailed wood box (50)
Factory 14 IRD 32 Series of 1883
Fraser & Stirton, London, Ont.
CMC 2001.185.32 Tony Hyman Collection

HYSLOP'S FAVORITE HYSLOP'S FAVORITE
Trimmed nailed wood box (50)
Factory 4 IRD 30 Series of 1883
Hyslop and Garroch, Ancaster, Ont.
CMC 2003.46.28

OCEAN SIGNALS OCEAN SIGNALS
Trimmed nailed wood box (100)
Factory 1 IRD 33 Series of 1897
Geo. Levett, Stratford, Ont.
CMC D-13560

MARITIMA
MARITIMA
Trimmed nailed wood box (50)
Factory 30 IRD 17 Series of 1897
Possibly S. Hirshenhoren, Montreal, Que.
CMC 2001.185.28 Tony Hyman Collection

The Maritima's cross-dressed sailor lass with the cigar in a dainty holder foreshadows 1920s images of modern young women defiantly dangling cigarettes in their lips. The label is German, customized for a North American market.


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