SCOTTISH COLLECTIONS IN CANADIAN LIBRARIES Available to Purchase

SINCE every second Canadian one meets, be his name Taraschenko or Bobarovich, claims at least one Scottish ancestor, it might be expected that there would be some notable collections of Scottish literature or history to be found in Canadian libraries. These collections are, however, in fact relatively few in number, as I discovered when engaged recently in editing, on behalf of the Research Libraries Section of the Canadian Library Association, a Directory of Special Collections in Canadian Libraries. Only five librarians of the several hundred who kindly replied to my detailed and no doubt troublesome questionnaire mentioned in their replies any significant amount of specifically Scottish material.