Some information regarding the Gourlay pianos
A 1906 promotional booklet issued by the Toronto piano firm Gourlay, Winter & Leeming, aimed at prospective customers of its Gourlay pianos. The photographs show large brick Victorian houses and an institutional building, apparently customer residences or installations offered as evidence of the instrument's reach. For a designer, they offer period architecture in bare winter settings, with gabled rooflines, bay windows, turrets and wrought iron fences, useful for nostalgic or early twentieth-century Canadian backgrounds.
