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James Walton Groves fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1896-1972, 1981.

Reference:

R4189-0-0-E, MG31-J14

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Objects (including medals and pins), Architectural and technical drawings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103579

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James Walton Groves fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1896-1972, 1981.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Added country of publication:

Canada

Extent:

2.1 m of textual records.
3440 photographs : 1197 col. slides; 486 b&w negatives; 1627 b&w prints; 115 postcards; 9 tintypes; and 6 Dufaycolor col. transparencies.
1 badge : metal, shield shaped.
8 photographs : postcards, b&w.
1 technical drawing : blueprint.
1 map

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French, Danish, Spanish
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James Walton Groves additional records [textual record; graphic material]

James Walton Groves university certificates [textual record]
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Fonds consists of bird-sighting records for Ottawa, 1919-1969; scattered diaries and incoming correspondence for J. Walton Groves, 1926-1972; letters to and from his second wife Naomi Jackson Groves, 1957-1970 and her father H.A.C. Jackson, 1937-1960; Groves' university notebooks and subject files on mycology, plant pathology, natural history, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club, 1928-1969; scattered diaries, correspondence and notebooks containing poetry, native genealogy and legends from his first wife Elsie Weir Groves, 1905-1957; as well as files on Bear Island and Lake Temagami, Ontario; a Department of Agriculture Inspector's badge pertaining to destructive insect control, issued to J. Walton Groves (after 1936). The fonds also contains photographs relating to Bear Island; Groves' career in Ottawa; Groves' travels in Europe in the late 1940s and early 1950s; and Groves travels in North America.

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Groves, J. Walton, 1906-1970

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Groves, J. Walton, 1906-1970 : J. Walton Groves was born in Kinburn (Ont.), and grew up in Ottawa. He graduated from Ottawa Normal School and taught school for a number of years before going to Queen's University to get a BA in Biology and Chemistry in 1930. He then went to the University of Toronto to study plant pathology, specializing in mycology (fungi). He received his MA in 1932 and his PhD in 1935. In 1936 he joined the plant pathology section at the Central Experimental Farm, Federal Department of Agriculture in Ottawa. During the Second World War, Groves worked on the mycological problems associated with the seed production program. In 1951 mycology became a separate division and Groves was named as its head. He worked diligently to develop the expertise of the section. One area he specialized in was mushrooms and he was an expert on mushroom identification, first in the Ottawa area and then, throughout North America. After producing a number of short popular articles on mushrooms, he published "Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms in Canada" (1962). He was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1951. Groves retired from the government in 1967 due to health problems.

In 1936 Groves married Elsie M. Reah Weir (1897-1956). She was born in Sunderland UK and as Mrs. Weir, she operated a store and taught native children in the winter on Bear Island in Lake Temagami ON. Groves met her at the University of Toronto's field laboratory on Bear Island. In Ottawa they were active members of the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. Walton Groves was on the OFNC executive 1941-1967 and was president in 1951. After the death of Elsie Groves in 1956, Walton Groves married Naomi Jackson (1910-2001). She was the daughter of Henry Alexander Carmichael (H.A.C.) Jackson, the naturalist and painter of mushrooms, as well as being the niece of A.Y. Jackson, a founding member of the Group of Seven. J. Walton Groves died 6 May 1970.

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Textual record, graphic material and Architectural material (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list of volume 1 to 7. MSS2336 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003400.pdf

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General note:

Original received in 1981 from Naomi Jackson Groves and D.F. Brunton. Additional material received from the estate of Naomi Jackson Groves in 2002.

Related material:

See the Naomi Jackson Groves fonds (R7316), the wife of James Walton Groves. See also the Robert Walton Scott fonds (R10907), the uncle of James Walton Groves.

Container note(s):

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9 : Album of Bear Island photographs.
Subject heading:

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Ottawa (Ont.) - Bird watching, 1943-1970 Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, [1945-1969]

Ottawa (Ont.) - Birds, 1943-1970

Birds - Ontario - Behavior, 1943-1970

Ottawa (Ont.) - Bird populations, 1943-1970

Bird watching - Records, 1943-1970

Birds - Ontario - Research, 1943-1970

Ornithologists - Ontario, 1943-1970

Ornithology - Studying and teaching - Ontario, 1943-1970

Daniel F. (Daniel Francis) Brunton - Authorship, [1981]

James Walton Groves - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc., 1943-1970

Ottawa (Ont.) - Bird watchers, 1943-1970
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2003-00108-5
2015-00558-7
2015-00559-5
MG31-J12

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-J14
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R4189] 10--12

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [MG31 J 14] 1--7

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 2336] 512

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R4189] 9

[Consultation 90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]
Record must be consulted under the supervision of an art archivist.

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: Copyright varies. Credit: Name of photograper / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number

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