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(GUIDEBOOK/ONTARIO). A Thousand And One Vacations. Toronto Star Holiday Guide.
(Toronto: Want Ad Department of The Toronto Daily Star, 1944). Tall 8vo., orig. colour pictorial wrappers designed by Aileen Tyrrell Richardson, 40pp. With illustrations from photographs. Some light rubbing o/w a near fine copy of this booklet with a colourful cover.
This publication provides information about accommodations and activities for vacations in various areas of Ontario--including Algonquin Park, Haliburton, Georgian Bay, Kawarthas, Manitoulin Island, Ottawa River, Thousand Islands, Temagami, to name a few. Aileen Tyrrell Richardson [1915-2005] Canadian illustrator. When in her teens Tyrrell Richardson sang in Rockefeller Centre, New York, and on tour with Rudy Vallee and his famed orchestra. Despite her success she returned to Canada to study at OCA. ‘Tyrrell became the leading painter of illustrations in Canada, appearing in all national magazines, editorially and in advertising. Nominated by Harold Town and Jack Bush, she was the first woman to be an Associate of the Art Directors Club. The subject of the first full colour painting to be done for Chatelaine Magazine is now Lady Thomson. She won several international awards. Tyrrell painted illustrations for one hundred books for leading publishers such as Rinehart and Winston, McMillans etc. as well as cover art for pulp paperbacks, and became the first lady member of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. A past president of the Toronto Heliconian Club, she is in charge of fund-raising and on program committee for the University Women's Club of Toronto.