This is a 1948 publication called World Geography Readers- CANADA, published for U.S. schools in that era. Its a little 8" x 5" paper cover booklet of 32 pages with photos or maps on most every page. A way more practical tool than my fourth grade class had to use.
On the first page is a title - Giant in Size - A Midget in Population giving the immediate perspective of the country or land mass we call Canada. During that time 77 years ago Canada was the world's third largest country, with only China and Russia being larger in land mass.
The old school book says that Canada's size, 3,843,144 square miles is about the size of the United States and Mexico combined. And, that the population is less than the state of New York.
And, that almost all Canadians, 90% live within 150 miles of the US Border with most cities within 60 miles of the border. I haven't even turned the first little page yet. Just in a single paragraph I have gained a clear picture.
I learned more in this little useful resource in just 15 minutes than by researching online for 25 minutes.
The resource title says CANADA, and that was all that it contained, in simple easy to understand pages.
If we go online and type in the single word CANADA we might spend our time filtering as much as finding useful information.
Going through page after page og yhe old book is a learning experienc, page after page on the internet is a patience experience of filtering out useless data.
Even the Wikipedia source was challenging compared to this little book.
For example, if I was age ten and I didn't know that demographics was where to look for the population of a place I wouldn't have found it. Sure, you can drill down and type in "population of Canada". But a table of contents and a flip of a page is really must faster and far more efficient.
Just like the huge encyclopedic geography text book I had in fourth grade, the internet is too large heavy and overwhelming for any age.
Another pleasurable source is an old book for home and schools published in 1893. Such a wealth of information and now, 130 years on, we get insight into history and geography, culture, weather and more, A sampling of the pages will give a feeling for the ease and enjoyment of reading its chapters,
