Ryan-Swain family fonds [multiple media]
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Ryan-Swain family fonds [multiple media]
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Finding aid Graphic material, textual material (Electronic) Photographic finding aid indicates location of image, date when available and media. Textual finding aid is a file list. (90: Open)Graphic material, philatelic record (Electronic) Finding aid is a partial file and item level list of volume 1. MSS2651 (90: Open)
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Record information Ryan-Swain family fonds [multiple media]
Date:ca. 1910-1968.Reference:R13144-0-2-EType of material:Art, Photographs, Textual material, Stamps and stamp productsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:3946720Date(s):ca. 1910-1968.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:688 photographs : 464 prints, 210 negatives and 14 postcards.
15.5 cm of textual records.
38 postcards.
3 postal stationary items : postcards.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Textual records include correspondence between Mickey and Anne about their divorce, newspaper clippings, financial information, manuscript and typescript material, memoirs of life in the North and journals.
Art material includes 1 ticket book from CP Hotels; 1 hand-tinted drawing of Sherbrooke, Qc, 1937; 10 colour postcards featuring Canadian scenes of the Rockies in Alberta, British Columbia, Sherbrooke, Quebec City and a government office in Edmonton; 1 b&w postcard of Centre Island, Toronto; 1 complete set of "Representative Canadian Railway Types, Set Number 2" by Kathleen Shackleton.
Photographs include the opening of the North; early photographic views of Fort McMurray, Fort Smith, Peace River, Fort Fitzgerald, boat building in Fort Smith, the construction of the Portage Road and Governor General Tweedsmuir's 1934 visit to the North, images from St. Paul's Residential School, Aklavik and Herschel Island, NWT.Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Ryan (family) : Marion "Mickey" Ryan was born in 1892, in Muncie (Indiana) in the United States. At the age of 18 he left home with his younger brother Patrick and moved to Edmonton where he boxed professionally and tended bar at the St. James Hotel.
In the spring of 1915 he and his brother went north to work as deck hands on a Hudson Bay Company steamboat operating between Fort McMurray and Fort Fitzgerald. The following year the brothers were awarded the mail contract between Athabasca Landing and Fort Smith and founded the Ryan Brothers Transportation Company. Eventually the brothers built a 16 km portage road between Fort Fitzgerald and Fort Smith.
After the death of his first wife, Mickey Ryan married Anne Swain in 1935. Swain, born in Altamont (Manitoba) in 1904, obtained her teaching certificate in Regina (Saskatchewan) in 1925. She taught at St. Paul's Indian Residential School in Cardston (Alberta) from 1927-1928; Buchanan (Saskatchewan) from 1928-1930; and the Indian School in Elkhorn (Manitoba) from 1930-1931. The following year she taught at the Arctic Mission in Aklavik (N.W.T.) which was under the supervision of Rev. A.L Fleming. During this period she visited Herschel Island. From 1933-1934, she taught at a mixed school of Slavey, Metis and white children at Fort Smith (N.W.T.). There she met and married Mickey Ryan.
The couple settled in Edmonton and had three children. In 1943 they were granted a judicial separation by judgement of the Supreme Court of Alberta. In 1944, defying a court order, Mickey took the children and left Alberta for the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Anne followed, alleging kidnapping and contesting custody. By 1946 the divorce was settled: Mickey was granted custody and Anne had visitation rights.
Mickey Ryan died in 1960 in Bromptonville, Quebec. Anne's date of death is unknown.Source:Private -
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