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Autograph book [textual record]

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Series

Date:

1916-1979.

Reference:

R3895-9-X-E, MG27-IID12

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

121725

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George Halsey Perley fonds

Autograph book
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Date(s):

1916-1979.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Series consists of autograph book of autographs, most dating from 1916 to the 1940s, of the Royal family, Winston Churchill, Nancy Astor, R.L. Borden, Charles Lindberg, and many other politicians, celebrities, royalty and armed forces people of that period. Includes a few later ones, after Lady Perley's death, including those of Jules and Gabrielle Leger and the last one by John G. Diefenbaker in 1979. Occasional comments, drawings and musical notations by artists, musicians and politicians. Contains approximately 750 names.

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Green, Anson, b. 1893 (family)

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Green, Anson, b. 1893 (family) : Henry Anson Green, business manager and soldier, was born in Ottawa, April 4, 1893, the son of Reverend William Henry Green and Annie Johnston Green, née White. He attended Trinity College School, Port Hope, and Eganville High School. Upon graduation in 1909, he was employed by the Merchant's Bank of Canada at the Eganville branch. Following several moves with the Bank, Green was working in the Toronto main office at the outbreak of World War I.

In November 1915, he joined the army as a private in the Fifth Universities Company Reinforcements. Sent overseas in April 1916, he was commissioned a Lieutenant in England and transported to France later that year with the Royal Canadian Regiment. Green was severely wounded soon after his arrival in France and recuperated in England before returning to Canada where he was medically discharged in 1917.

He returned to the Merchant's Bank employ for a short period before joining M.J. O'Brien Limited in Renfrew, a holding company headed by Senator M.J. O'Brien. Beginning as a bookeeper, Green eventually became Managing Director and was at one time Secretary Treasurer or Vice President of fourteen different companies, including The Canada Gulf Terminal Railway, The Renfrew Woollen Mills, and Delora Mining and Smelting. He continued his military association by joining the active militia, becoming a Major in the Governor General's Foot Guards in the early 1930s. H. Anson Green married Mary Monica O'Halloran on October 4, 1922. They had three children, Mary Monica, George Henry Anson (Harry), and Thomas Melbourne Anson.

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Custodial history:

This autograph book originally belonged to Lady Perley (née Emily Colby White and second wife to George Perley). Lady Perley was Harry Green's great aunt (the sister of his father's mother) and daughter of the Hon.Thomas White. She died at a young age.

Ethel Perley - Robertson (daughter of George Perley's first wife - née Annie Hespler Bowlby) gave the autograph book to Harry Green in the late 1970's. He put the autograph book in his father's (Anson Green) papers before donating them to the National Archives in 1983.

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Private

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MG27-IID12
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Volume [MG27 II D 12] 15

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