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Robert Barrie fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1819-1839.

Reference:

R4151-0-8-E, MG24-F66

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105348

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Robert Barrie fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1819-1839.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

10 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence with Lord Aylmer, 1830-1834, 130 pages (volume 1); correspondence, 1818-1834; letter from George Colls, Engineer at the Naval Yard, 26 September 1832, 2 pages (volume 1); photograph copies of correspondence relating to the duties of the acting commissioner and personal correspondence of Barrie to his mother, photocopies 2.5 cm (Volume 2); and a letterbook containing copies of orders and instructions issued by Barrie, 1819-1825 and by Captain H.D. Byng, who commanded in Barrie's absence, 1825-1827, 5 cm (Volume 3).

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Barrie, Robert, 1774-1840

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Barrie, Robert, 1774-1840 : Robert Barrie was born at Sanquhar, N.B., served in the navy during the Napoleonic Wars and in 1819 was appointed acting commissioner of the dockyard in Kingston. He was responsible for superintending all naval and victualling establishments on the Lakes. In 1827 he became commodore of that station, where he remained until the dissolution of the establishment in 1834. Barrie became a rear-admiral in 1837 and a K.C.B. in 1840.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a typed, chronological list providing date, author, subjects and page numbers. MSS0609 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001063.pdf

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Location of originals note:

Originals with Royal Military College, Kingston, Ont.

Related material:

Further papers of Robert Barrie as acting commissioner of H.M. Navy, Kingston are available in MG 24 B 1 Series IV, in RG 8 and in RG 1 E 3.
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Military Education

Great Britain. Royal Navy - Officers, 1818-1839 Matthew, 1830-1834

Cholera epidemics - Canada, 1832 Lord Aylmer, 1830-1834

Lower Canada - Politics and government, [1830-1834] George Colls, 1832

Toronto (Ont.) - History, [1830-1834] H.D. Byng, 1825-1827

Navy-yards and naval stations, British - Upper Canada, 1818 Isle-aux-Noix, [1819-1839]

Kingston (Ont.) - Navy-yards and naval stations, 1818-1839 Penetanguishene (Upper Canada), 1830

Navy-yards and naval stations - Employees, 1818-1839 Grand River (Upper Canada), n.d

Orders, Preparation of (Military science), 1819-1825 Royal Military College, Kingston (Ont.), 1818-1834

Navy-yards and naval stations, British - Great Lakes, 1819-1839

Universities and colleges - Employees, 1818-1839

Universities and colleges - Administration, 1818-1839
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Private

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MG24-F66
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG24 F 66] 1--3

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 609] 61

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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Date modified:: 2024-04-09