🦉🐴✈️ A charming 1930s Canadian school notebook from W.J. Gage & Company, featuring the lithographed cover “A Happy Family,” with a St. Bernard and two puppies watched over by a young girl in white. Inside, blank lined pages carry the gentle warmth of aged paper, while the reverse reveals printed arithmetic tables and a full Gage product catalogue — a rare surviving detail. A lovely piece of pre-war stationery history, ideal for framing, vintage office display, or nostalgic paper collecting.
Items are in average vintage/UNUSED condition. Please see all of the photos. 🦉🐴✈️
*** Each Booklet Is Sold Individually. ***
⌛ History Behind the Piece ⌛ Founded in the 19th century, W.J. Gage & Company Limited became one of Canada’s foremost educational publishers and stationery manufacturers. By the 1930s, their Winnipeg division produced exercise books for schools nationwide, often illustrated with wholesome domestic scenes that reflected interwar family ideals. The “A Happy Family” cover is representative of Gage’s signature blend of art and learning — where arithmetic, literacy, and moral imagery shared a single page.
