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Mail Box Before E-commerce: A History of Canadian 
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The mail order business was complicated and not without controversy. What was involved in taking an order through to delivery?

Custom-made to Ready-made: 
Women's Clothing in the Eaton's Catalogue 1884 to 1930
Custom-made to Ready-made:
Women's Clothing in the Eaton's Catalogue, 1884 to 1930

Christina Bates

Pauline Boutal, Eaton's 
Catalogue Fashion Illustrator, 1918-1941
Pauline Boutal,
Eaton's Catalogue Fashion Illustrator, 1918-1941

Louise Duguay

Read the Fine Print: How the Postal 
Service Served the Mail-order Industry
Read the Fine Print: How the Postal Service Served the Mail-order Industry

Gaëtanne Blais

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Processing Orders in the Mail-order Industry
John Willis

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This Round to the Union: The 
Conflict between Dupuis Frères and Its Workers, 1952
This Round to the
Union: The Conflict
between Dupuis
Frères and Its
Workers, 1952

John Willis

The Retail Merchants of Canada 
versus the Mail-order Catalogue
The Retail
Merchants of
Canada versus
the Mail-order
Catalogue

John Willis

Humble Origins of the Union at Dupuis Frères
Humble Origins
of the Union
at Dupuis Frères

Sylvie Marier


 

   
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