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Card Covers. First Edition, First Printing. pp. 68. 4to., measuring 28 cm. Pictorial, twice-stapled, card covers with red, and green lettering and illustration. Replete with many black-and-white period photographs, portraits, group portraits, illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Many period advertisements by a variety of local, and national businesses, merchants, firms, etc. Prefaced with a number of congratulatory messages from a variety of political, and religious officials. Gathers together a formal and anecdotal history of the Church, and the Hungarian-Canadian community which it served. Sections include: Church Officials to Date, Schools in Bekevar, Pictorial History of Bekevar, Story of Calvary Baptist Church, An Incomplete List of Descendants of the Pioneers Who Entered Into Professions, et al. A rich and rare history of this Western-Canadian Hungarian community. Accompanied with some related ephemera including a hand-drawn pencil drawing of the Parish, and three original photographs of the church, and of a commemorative plaque. Neat ink name and some light wear and very faint spotting to the covers, contents uniformly without blemish; very good+. Rare to be offered in commerce. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Saskatchewan Archives. See OCLC #816741059 which records only one holding located at the Saskatchewan Legislative Library. Rare indeed. Text in English, and Hungarian. Cover Subtitle: "75 years of Dedicated Service, 1900-1975.".…