The Globe and Mail's Ian Brown has profiled another of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library's unique collections. Brown writes about private collector Larry Sherk's donation of 3,000 vintage Canadian beer labels collected over 40 years and dating to the late 1800s, to the Fisher Library:

"The library immediately declared the labels of "outstanding significance" and made them part of its paper-ephemera collection - the sets of report cards, theatre bills, train schedules, subway transfers, cigar bands, menus, patent-medicine ads, funeral announcements and other daily litter of our lives that might one day tell us who we were."

Read the full article in the Globe and Mail

View the collection on Flickr:

Vintage Canadian Beer Labels: Oldest Items in the Collection

Vintage Canadian Beer Labels: Quebec and Northern Ontario

Vintage Canadian Beer Labels: Ontario