Collection search - Arthur George Doughty fonds [textual record (some microform), graphic material, object]

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Arthur George Doughty fonds [textual record (some microform), graphic material, object]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1810-1956, 1984.

Reference:

R2466-0-X-E, MG30-D26

Type of material:

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

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

104469

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Arthur George Doughty fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1810-1956, 1984.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.225 m of textual records.
1 microfilm reel : negative & positive.
901 photographs b&w.
2 albums (60 photographs) b&w.
57 watercolours.
16 prints engraved, collotype, silkscreen, hand-coloured lithographs, hand-coloured half-tones.
3 drawings pen and ink, charcoal on wove paper.
38 medals gold, silver, bronze, iron.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of specific correspondence relating to National Archives, Champlain Society, National Battlefields Commission, Wolfe Memorial and Quebec Centenary; general correspondence arranged chronologically; subject files; autograph album; index and address book; diaries; "Correspondance de Bougainville"; additional correspondence, documents and printed matter; Athenaeum Club, London, England: invoices and invitations; copy of "Golden Dog"; manuscript; appointment as KC; and correspondence on microfilm, reel M-2244. The microfilmed material consists of a collection of autograph letters signed by prominent persons active in Canadian affairs and addressed to Doughty, 1902-1913.

Photographic material consists of photographs acquired or taken by Sir Arthur Doughty during his lifetime.

Artistic material consists of watercolours, prints and drawings of historical events and figures in Canadian history including the first sale of furs at Garraway's Coffee House, the Taking of Quebec, the Hudson's Bay Company, François Laval de Montmorency, and the 3rd Earl of Bathurst.

Medallic items consists of 38 medals such as German propoganda medals, the Royal Society of Canada Flavelle medal, as well as Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire medal.

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Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1860-1936

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Photographer: Jarvis, Samuel J., 1863-1952

Biography/Administrative history:

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Doughty, Arthur G. (Arthur George), Sir, 1860-1936 : Sir Arthur Doughty, archivist and historian, was born on March 22, 1860 in Maidenhead, England. He was educated in England, and came to Canada in 1886. After a number of years spent in journalism and in the Quebec public service as joint librarian of the Legislative Library, he became Dominion Archivist in 1904, succeeding Douglas Brymner. He retired in 1935 and was created K.C.M.G. the same year. He authored and edited numerous works of prose and verse and of Canadian history. He collaborated with Adam Shortt to produce the sourcebook, "Documents Relating to the Constitutional History of Canada: 1759-1791" in 1907, and "Canada and Its Provinces" in 23 volumes, 1913-1917. He died in Ottawa on December 1, 1936.

See: Encyclopedia Canadiana, Vol. 3, p. 295; and The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985, p. 506.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a detailed list, with partial list of the general correspondence and a complete list of the microfilmed correspondence. MSS0372 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001444.pdf

(Paper) Medal inventory numbers 1825, 2331, 2289, 4330, 4376, 5012-5014, 5025, 5035, 5081, 5291-5294, 5296-5301, 5305-5309, 6626-6629, 6868, 6873-6875, 7915, 7943-7945.

(Electronic) Medal item-level description available on-line in Minisis.

(Paper) Photographs: Finding aid is a list of photographs (for accession 1937-102, Royal Tour of 1919 collection). FA-382

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General note:

Textual material received in 1938, 1950, 1976 and 1978. The awards and cards in volume 14 were received from the Canadian War Museum in 1986. The manuscript of "Helen and Aphrodite" were acquired in 1987. Two letters from R. de Kerallain to Arthur G. Doughty, 1 February 1901, 2 February 1901, were acquired in 1989. Medallic items acquired in 1950 from Mrs. Paul Mathieu, Arthur George Doughty's daughter. Art reproductions received in 1934 from Arthur George Doughty. Art prints received in 1934 from the estate of Arthur George Doughty and in 1984 from Black Valley Productions, Ottawa, Ontario. Photographs received from 1921-1938 from Arthur George Doughty or the Estate of Arthur George Doughty. Three photographs were probably acquired during this same time period but accessioned in 1952, 1984 and 1987.
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Archivists - Canada, [19-] Tour of the Prince of Wales in Canada, 1919

Historians - Canada, [19-] Athenaeum Club (London, England), 1923

Quebec (Province) - Anniversaries, etc., 1908-1922 "Correspondence de Bougainville," ca.1901

Report on Canadian Archives, 1904

Canada. National Archives of Canada - Acquisitions, 1911, 1928 Quebec of Yesterday, 1915

United Empire loyalists, 1909 Journals of John Knox, 1915

Brazil - Anniversaries, etc., 1922 Daughter of New France, 1915

Canadian Coat of Arms, 1905 Quebec Tercentenary, 1908

Archives - Canada, [19-] May Court, 1906-1908

Autographs, 1907-1933 George Parker, [between 1899 and 1942]

Sir Arthur George Doughty - Diaries, 1904, 1916-1917. 1923 George Durnford, 1838

Titles of honour and nobility - Canada, 1956 Lieutenant J.W. Webber, 1918

Heraldry - Canada, 1905 Germany, [After 1918]

Wolfe Memorial, 1908-1922

Canada. National Battlefields Commission, 1908-1922

Champlain Society, 1908-1922

Sir Edmund Walker, 1908-1922

Canada. National Archives of Canada, 1908-1922

France

World War, 1914-1918
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Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D26
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 372] 41

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Microfilm reel M-2244

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

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Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: poster for the Chicago Allied Bazaar, January 1917, and war trophies exhibition at Baltimore, Maryland are permanently closed. Copyright does not apply. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada. For war trophies photograph, consult the Documentary Art Acquisition and Research, Visual and Sound Archives Division for information concerning restrictions on use and copyright. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada.
Photographs: no restrictions on use or reproduction on remaining photographs. Copyright: expired. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Prints: no restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights. Credit: National Archives of Canada. Art material must be consulted under close supervision for conservation reasons.
Reproductions: no restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright: expired. Crown copyright on reproduction. credit: National Archives of Canada.
Medallic objects: no restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights. Credit: National Archives of Canada. Objects must be consulted under close supervision for conservation reasons.

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