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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