The Wawa Shorthand Instructor or The Duployan Stenography Adapted to English, First Edition.
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| Database ID | 28160 | |
| Institution | University of Saskatchewan Libraries Special Collections | |
| Fonds/Collection | Father J.M.R. LeJeune | |
| Series | Wawa-2 | |
| File/Item Reference | Wawa-2-Wawa -S2-13 | |
| Date of creation | 1896 | |
| Physical description/extent | 28 pages; Photoengraved with blue paper cover. | |
| Number of images | 28 | |
| Scope and content | First page describes ease of learning this system: "a hundred times easier than the old writing" with "Two million people...throughout the world already practising this system of phonography." The Phonetic Alphabet(front cover, inset). Introduction notes that "Our Indians in British Columbia, as soon as they can read the Chinook and their own language in shorthand, are also able to read English, Latin, or any other language figured in shorthand." Duployan Phonography -English Method: Elements of Phonograpy (includes 17 lessons); Remarks describing a series of tables which are "intended to show the correct manner of connecting the elements of shorthand with each other." Shorthand Exercises: I. Grace's Servants; II. The Plays of Animals. Shorthand vs. Longhand (back cover, inset). Back cover features ads for "The Wawa Shorthand Exercise Book" and "The Kamloops Wawa." | |
| Copyright holder | Public domain | |
| Copyright expiry date | Public domain | |
| Type | Archival | |
| Primary Media | Textual documents | |
| Provenance Access Point | LeJeune, Jean Marie Raphael | |
| Other notes | Title page notes "By the Editor of the Kamloops 'Wawa.'" | |
| Treaty boundaries | No treaty | |
| Cultural region | Northwest Coast Plateau | |
| Subject | Languages and Linguistics Missions and Missionaries Language and Linguistics - Chinook Jargon Linguistics | |
| Date Range(s) | 1890-1899 | |
| Permanent Link | https://digital.scaa.sk.ca/ourlegacy/permalink/28160
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