I will try to answer all
of the above questions, though the response may be somewhat disjointed. My sources may have been inaccurate on some points as I was borrowing from previous research by archivists at LAC and the former Canadian Postal Archives.
From what I can tell, Baril's work is found on the following:
- UN
Stamps: #69/#70, #73/#74, #75/#76, #106, #131/#132 (or 5 engravings for 9 issues; however I am not sure how involved Baril was on #75/#76 as the lettering was done by Donald Mitchell and I don't personally think the image looks like Baril's work -- so it could be 4 engravings for 7 issues). [Main source for this is the recently-deceased Jacques Nolet's "Yves Baril, le dernier de nos graveurs," found in Opus V from the Académie québécoise d'études philatéliques]. Nolet's work is very good if you can read French, but its listing is not complete as Baril was not yet retired when it was written. Interestingly Nolet does not list #105, but that could along with #75/#76 make 6 total engravings).
- US
Stamps: #2185 (Thomas Jefferson), #2186 (Dennis Chavez), #2592 (Washington and Jackson), #2704? (Cabrillo), #2755 (Dean Acheson), engravings for #2756-#2759 (Sporting horses), #2816? (Dr. Allison Davis), #2818? (Buffalo Soldiers) -- so up to 11 engravings.
- Canadian Tire money: I believe that the engraving pictured was either done by Baril or heavily based on his work. We do not have much information on Canadian Tire here at LAC; however there is a very good Canadian Tire archival collection at the University
of Western Ontario archives in London, Ontario (see:
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/archives/acc...ection.html) and they may be able to furnish information on the engravings
of the Canadian Tire Money coupons.
- Complete list
of Baril's work will probably never be done by us (considering his bank notes, company coupons, labels and stocks and bonds engravings), but I imagine it could be possible for someone with an unreasonable level
of persistence.
- Complete scans
of the notebooks do not exist (yet), but for a cost you may be able to request reproductions
of them as Baril assigned copyright to LAC when he donated them. To see the archival description
of the notebooks, click
here then click on "31 lower levels
of description" to see each individual notebook. All but two
of the notebooks are daily log books that list the date, job number or a description
of the job and the number
of hours worked. In conversation, Baril told me that he kept these logs to cover his own butt in case the boss thought he wasn't producing enough (he was always a quality over quantity sort
of guy). The other two notebooks (called "Cash" and "Timbres") are commentaries on his own work, one
of which was kept at the
office while the other was kept at home (guess which one shares a more candid view
of Baril's opinion on some
of the stamp issues he worked on). You can request reproductions here:
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/reprod...equests.aspx- As for the rescued philatelic treasures found in the album, Baril told me that CBN was doing a clean-up and was tossing out a lot
of reference photographs, collages and essays and that some
of it was given to him by John Mash and some
of it he personally rescued. As such, most
of the philatelic material in the album pre-dates Baril's time at CBN but he also added to the album over time with some
of his own work and other things related to CBN.
- Some
of the album and other pages
of the commentary notebooks were digitized previously for purposes
of monetary appraisal and certification
of cultural property. You can view these images in this
Google Drive folder but please do not reproduce these images for publication without contacting me first for copyright and citation information.
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