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Alfred Hamlyn Todd fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[ca. 1885-1925].

Reference:

R7720-0-0-E, MG29-E41

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101376

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Alfred Hamlyn Todd fonds
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Date(s):

[ca. 1885-1925].

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

0.7 cm of textual records (29 p.).

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of recollections of the Northwest Rebellion written 40 years after and based upon Todd's diary for the period from 28 March to 19 July, 1885, 23 pages; and addresses to Captain Todd and the Sharpshooters from the City of Ottawa, County of Carleton, and the Soldier's Aid Association, 1885, 6 pages.

This fonds also contains several records in horizontal storage. Containers 2 and 3 contain various congratulatory addresses to Captain Todd and the Sharpshooters.

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Todd, Alfred Hamlyn, b. 1851

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Soldiers Aid Society

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Todd, Alfred Hamlyn, b. 1851 : Captain Alfred Hamlyn Todd was born in Toronto in 1851. In 1869 he entered the service of the Library of Parliament as assistant to his father, Dr. Alpheus Todd, the Government in England Parliamentary Government in England Librarian. After long service in the militia, Todd commanded both the Governor General's Foot Guards from 1890 to 1892, and a company of sharpshooters in the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. He edited and published new editions of his father's works, Parliamentary Government in England (London: 1887), and Parliamentary Government in the British Colonies (London: 1894). Morgan, Henry James. Canadian Men and Women of the Time. Toronto: W. Briggs, p. 1104.

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General note:

Recollections of the Northwest Rebellion received in 1960 from the Department of National Defence Library.
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County of Carleton (Ont.), 1885

Ottawa (Ont.)

Riel Rebellion, 1885

Rébellion de Riel, 1885

Diaries

Journaux intimes

Sharpshooters
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Private

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MG29-E41
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[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG29 E 41] 1--3

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