Apologies for cross-postings.


This message is posted on behalf of Cheryl Woods. Please respond to her 
at the below-noted e-mail address.


As you may recall, I was co-author of /_Catalogue of Canadian Fire 
Insurance Plans 1875-1975,_/ Dubreuil, Lorraine and Woods, Cheryl A., 
Ottawa: Association of Canadian Map Libraries and Archives, Occasional 
Paper Number 6. 2002. That 500-page publication is now out-of-print and 
I have been approached by Library and Archives Canada (LAC) to make 
these records of original plans (approximately 5700) available to them 
for adding into AMICUS, Canadian National Catalogue. What I’d like to 
ask of the 122 institutions who initially contributed their information 
to us for that publication, and to invite any institutions that would 
like to have their plan records added, that you send me any 
edits/additions so that the entries that I provide to LAC will be as 
accurate and up-to-date as possible. If you could please send me 
([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) any changes to the information 
about your Canadian fire insurance plans holdings by November 15, 2007, 
I would be very grateful. I will be on an 8-week study leave in early 
2008 to work through changes that will need to be made to the 2002 
entries. It is my hope that researchers will eventually be able to 
search a specialized AMICUS site for fire insurance plans where they 
will see a complete description (similar to that in the initial 
publication) and identify the updated list of collections that hold 
these plans throughout Canada.

Many thanks,

Cheryl Woods
University of Western Ontario
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