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Gordon Mealey Dallyn fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[1862]-1971.

Reference:

R2381-0-0-E, MG30-A59

Type of material:

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

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

97947

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Gordon Mealey Dallyn fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

[1862]-1971.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

50 cm of textual records.
2,019 photographs b&w and col.
35 maps.
6 medals.
2 pins.
1 object.
12 diagrams : blueprints, blackline prints 68 x 60 cm or smaller.
3 technical drawings : blackline prints 26 x 58 cm.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of textual records, 1909-1938, 1963-1971: essays, speeches, and articles dealing with forestry issues; survey reports for the Department of the Interior and Ontario Forest Service; miscellaneous material; handbooks and pamphlets; clippings and tear-sheets including articles by Grey Owl, Dallyn and other conservationalists; and scrapbooks of war momentoes and clippings dealing with forest conservation policy.

Fonds also contains photographs, ca. 1915-1957, depicting various tourist attractions in Canada; forestry operations in Canada; career of Gordon Mealey Dallyn.

Fonds also contains maps; 14 maps, 12 diagrames and 3 technical drawings 1862-1930, relate to the career of Gordon M. Dallyn, as assistant manager and associate editor of the Canadian Forestry Association; 21 maps, 1903-1918, consist (primarily) of maps pertaining to World War I, including maps of France and Belgium; and of an ordnance survey map of England and Wales, Folkestone and Dover District, dated 1903.

Fonds also contains medals, pins, and an object, 1909-1953, predominant 1909-1920, won by, accumulated by or awarded to Gordon Dallyn during his lifetime.

Provenance:

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Dallyn, Gordon Mealey, 1891-1973

Biography/Administrative history:

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Dallyn, Gordon Mealey, 1891-1973 : Gordon Dallyn, forester, editor, was educated in Hamilton and Toronto, graduating from the University of Toronto in 1916 with a degree in Forestry Science. From 1915 to 1916 he served in the Canadian Officer Training Corps, and as an infantry Officer in France for which he was awarded the Military Cross.

As a forestry student, Dallyn conducted summer surveys in British Columbia and Saskatchewan. In 1919 he joined the Ontario Forest Service, acting as District Forester at Tweed from 1922 to 1926. He was then employed for nearly a decade as assistant manager and associate editor by the Canadian Forestry Association. From 1936 to 1959 he was executive secretary and editor of publications for the Canadian Geographical Society, renamed the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, in 1957.

Photographer.

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Cartographic material: (Other) Please consult lower level descriptions. (90: Open)

Medals, pins, object (fob): (Paper) Assigned medal inventory numbers: 5316 to 5324.

Architectural, technical drawings (Other) Please consult lower level descriptions. (90: Open)

Additional information:

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General note:

Acquired in 1973 from Gordon Dallyn Jr. of Ottawa, Ont.

Availability of other formats note:

Medals, pins, object (fob): Copy negatives available: C-011422, C-011423.

Related material:

There are more photos by G.M. Dallyn in the Karen Weiss Collection, Acc. 1994-402.
Subject heading:

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Forests and forestry - Canada, [1914-1971] Canada. Dept. of the Interior, 1915-1925

Forest conservation, 1926-1934 Grey Owl, [1926-1934]

Forest surveys - Canada, 1915-1925 Ontario Forest Service, 1915-1925
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1973-045 PIC
1973-126 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-A59

Other accession no.:

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745/36904-36969 CA
745/36942 CA
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [DALLYN, GORDON MEALEY 1973-126]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1841--1842;

[Consultation 90 Open]

3180;

[Consultation 90 Open]

5047;

[Consultation 90 Open]

5798;

[Consultation 90 Open]

C 0533;

[Consultation 90 Open]

SC 0217;

[Consultation 90 Open]

SC 2034;

[Consultation 90 Open]

TCS 01082;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Photographs: No donor restrictions. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.
Cartographic material: No donor restrictions.
Medals, pins, object (fob): No donor restrictions on use for research, reproduction, or publication. Copyright: Various copyrights. Credit: National Archives of Canada / accession number.
Architectural, technical drawings : No donor restrictions.

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