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Thomas Rhys Brock Smith fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1879.

Reference:

R6992-0-0-E, MG29-B7

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

97805

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Thomas Rhys Brock Smith fonds
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Date(s):

1879.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

2.5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Cree

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Thomas Rhys Brock Smith fonds [textual record]

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Fonds consists of a diary kept by T.R.B. Smith for the period 6 June to 18 November 1879, while working for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Prince Albert region, which also contains a Cree and English dictionary.

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Smith, Thomas Rhys Brock, 1857-1929

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Canadian Pacific Railway Company

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Smith, Thomas Rhys Brock, 1857-1929 : Thomas Rhys Brock Smith, the son of the railway engineer Marcus Smith, was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1857. Smith became a surveyor and worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway c.1879-1885. In 1891 he married Mayne E. Thompson in New York. Four years later he moved to Cos Cob, north of New York City, to work on various railway projects and to supervise construction projects. Smith died at Cos Cob after a long illness in 1929.

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General note:

Material transferred from the Marcus Smith fonds. Please note that five black and white photographs relating to Thomas Rhys Brock Smith are located within a file in the Marcus Smith fonds.

Language note:

A small portion of the material is in the Cree language.

Availability of other formats note:

Digitized images of the September 11-14, 1879 journal entries and pages 11 and 12 of the Cree/English dictionary are available.
Subject heading:

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Surveyors - Canada, 1879

Cree language

Cri (Langue)

Indians of North America
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2005-00291-7

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MG29-B7
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