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The Financial Post fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1907-1999.

Reference:

R3820-0-X-E, MG28-III121

Type of material:

Textual material, Architectural and technical drawings, Photographs, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

107196

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The Financial Post fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1907-1999.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

Mexico, United States, Zambia, Congo (Democratic Republic)

Extent:

12.88 m of textual records.
55 photographs : b&w.
33 maps.
4 technical drawings : 1 blueprint.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of The Financial Post's corporate research files.

The textual portion of the fonds has been divided into three series (Misc., Subject Files, and Historical Reports). Misc. and Subject Files series contain material collected from various sources including: The Post's own reporters, credit agencies, government regulators, private citizens, the corporations themselves, and newspapers in North America and Europe. these files may be comprised of: correspondence, memoranda, prospectuses, annual reports, financial statements, and press clippings. The textual files in these series essentially closes in 1965, with only scattered documentation included after that date. The other portion of the textual files are in the Historical Reports series. This includes Historical Reports (or yellow cards) on various companies trading in Canada from 1985 to 1999.

The fonds also includes photographs, cartographic material and architectural plans, which have been arranged into two separate series.

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The Financial Post

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The Financial Post : The Financial Post was first published on 12 January 1907 by J.B. Maclean. It was founded to serve the demand for reliable information on the rapidly expanding Canadian capital markets, particularly the Toronto Stock Exchange. By 1914, The Post had become Canada's leading financial newspaper, a position it still maintains. The paper is now part of the Maclean-Hunter conglomerate.

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Textual records, graphic material, cartographic material and technical drawings (Electronic) Finding aid is a file and item list of volumes 1 to 118 arranged in alphabetical order by corporation. MSS2037 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003387.pdf

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General note:

Received from The Financial Post Company in 1994 and 2005.

Arrangement note:

Researchers should note that files beginning with "A" were heavily culled by The Post in the early 1980's.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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121-020392-8
1994/0068
2017-00088-4
2017-00179-1

Former archival reference no.:

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MG28-III121
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Textual records

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 2037] 148

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

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