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John Ritchie MacNicol fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1814, 1893-1959, 1990-1991.

Reference:

R4109-0-5-E, MG27-IIIC31

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103411

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John Ritchie MacNicol fonds
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Fonds includes:

19 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1814, 1893-1959, 1990-1991.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

3.68 m of textual records.
703 photographs b&w, col., slides.
3 buttons.
1 drawing pen.
1 print offset lithograph.
8 pennants cloth.
1 badge enamel and brass with cloth.

Language of material:

English
Accession:

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John Ritchie MacNicol collection [graphic material]

John R. MacNicol Art and Photography collection [graphic material]

John Ritchie MacNicol fonds [textual record]
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Fonds consists of files relating to MacNicol's work with the Conservative Party, 1920-1949; material accumulated during his career as member of Parliament, 1930-1949, including subject files on electoral reform, coal, iron and steel, petroleum, the Great Lakes waterway, water resources and flood control, post-war reconstruction, Indian affairs, and other topics; papers of MacKenzie Bowell, 1893-1896.

The fonds also consists of numerous photographic materials. Photographs pertain to various aspects of the career of John Ritchie MacNicol (1878-1949); glass slides used by MacNicol for his lectures.

The fonds includes National Conservative Convention, 1927, lapel buttons with ribbons featuring image of Sir John A. Macdonald.

Also included in the fonds is a cartoon drawing showing J.R. MacNicol as a Tory in Mount Forest, Ontario in 1900, on his way to buy a Tory newspaper, while the Grit newspaper editor, James Fisher, looks on.

The fonds consists of print of Thomas Vien, House of Commons Speaker, 1943, from original oil painting hanging in the House of Commons.

The fonds contains flag pennants, one decorated with maple leaves, the other seven spelling out "welcome".

In addition, the fonds contains one badge with fringed red and black ribbons of the British Imperial Association, worn on the occasion of the 1911 meeting at Earls Court, London, England.

Provenance:

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MacNicol, John Ritchie, 1878-1950

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Co-operative Commonwealth Federation

Biography/Administrative history:

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MacNicol, John Ritchie, 1878-1950 : John Ritchie MacNicol was born at Beaverton, Onatrio, Auguust 31, 1878. He attended public school and collegiates, and Bryant and Stratton College, Buffalo, New York. MacNicol taught school in Algoma and Grey Counties, Ontario.

He was president of the South York Liberal-Conservative Association 1917-1920, and president of the Ward 6 Toronto Association, 1921-1922. He was secretary of the Liberal-Conservative Association of Ontairo, 1921-1923, and president, 1923-1930. He served as president of the federal Conservative Party, 1925-1943, in which capacity he was jointly responsible for the organization of the Conservative leadership conventions of 1927 and 1938.

MacNicol became Member of Parliament for Toronto-Davenport in 1930, a seat he retained until 1949, when he was defeated by Paul Hellyer. As an M.P., he pursued a wide variety of interests, including Great Lakes shipping, the Athabaska tar sands, irrigation and water conservation, flood control, electoral reform (which he opposed) and Native Indian questions.

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Paper) Finding Aid No. 1796 is a file list. MSS1796

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1796
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000389.pdf

Photographs: (Paper) Detailed description of the photographs in the accession file.

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General note:

Volumes 1-12 and 15-18 were received from Mattie M.I. Clark, Toronto, Ontario, in 1989, 1990 and 1991; volumes 13-14 were received from E. Ritchie Clark, Montreal, Quebec, in 1991. Additional material was received from Mr. Clark in 1994. Additional material was donated by John R. MacNicol's niece, Mattie Clark, in 1995.
Subject heading:

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Communism Harriet Clark

Mackenzie King

R.B. Bennett
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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118-020076-4
118-080268-3
119-020086-4
119-020112-7
121-020301-4
123-020040-1
1990-072 DAP
1990-589 DAP
1991-069 DAP
1991-357 DAP
1992-436 DAP
1994/0041
1995/0154
1996-087 DAP
379-89
381-89
91-024
91-370
92-010
95-273

Former archival reference no.:

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MG27-IIIC31
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG27 III C 31]

[Consultation 90 Open]

10--12;

[Consultation 90 Open]

14;

[Consultation 90 Open]

18;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1796] 136

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [MACNICOL, JOHN RITCHARD 1991-069] 2000895483

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [MACNICOL, JOHN RITCHIE 1991-069]

[Consultation 90 Open]

4117;

[Consultation 90 Open]

2M DAP-19A-16--2M DAP-19A-18;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R4109] 22

[Consultation 90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Medals 14097--14099

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Date modified:: 2024-04-09