The Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Communion Tokens. 2nd ed.

Alain Létourneau is a librarian in the J.N. Desmarais Library at
Laurentian University.

For years the Charlton Standard Catalogues series has been a reference
for collectors of Canadian stamps, coins, banknotes, medals, and so
forth. This second edition of The Charlton Standard Catalogue of
Canadian Communion Tokens describes communion tokens—type of medals
that members of a congregation use to identify themselves—used from
the 1770s to the early 1900s in Canada West (Ontario), Canada East
(Quebec), and Atlantic Canada, including stock tokens and communion
tokens from Canadian mission churches.

The catalogue includes legends, tables, an index, and a brief
introduction that gives a short history of the use of communion tokens
in Canada. Each section is organized by province and then by name of the
church. Each entry includes a black-and-white illustration of both the
obverse and reverse of the token and data on, among other things,
composition (copper, brass, pewter, etc.), method (struck, cast, or
incused), and edge (plain or with design), as well as cross-references
to other catalogues. Some newly discovered pieces, along with a section
featuring recently issued commemorative tokens, are also included in
this edition.