[Andrew Merrilees collection of works on transportation]

The Merrilees Transportation Collection contains about 5,000 publications of several types including books, trade literature, technical manuals, timetables, broadsides, periodicals and pamphlets. While the collection consists primarily of publications concerned with railways and shipping, a wide range of other subjects is also represented. Included are works dealing with agricultural, logging and mining technology; iron and steel industries and their products; early automobiles; bicycles; fire engines and saw mill machinery. Travel and tourism are also a significant component and there are many miscellaneous items. Canadian companies are well represented, as well as a large number of American and other foreign organizations and individuals.