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James Francis Kenney fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1831-1949.

Reference:

R2736-0-2-E, MG30-C176

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101652

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James Francis Kenney fonds
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Record information – Details
Fonds includes:

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

1831-1949.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1.70 m of textual records.
42 photographs b&w.
2 paintings oil.

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of addresses, 1934-1945; book reviews, 1918-1939; correspondence, 1901-1945; publications, 1831-1949; manuscripts, 1906-1945; research notes, 1820-1945; diaries, 1903-1914, 1927.

Fonds contains photographs of staff and events at the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.; Fort Prince of Wales, Man.; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; models of cities and towns in the Holy Land; photos of Dr. Kenney; the return of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, March 1919, Ottawa, Ont.; unveiling of statue of Queen Victoria on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ont, 1901; banquet of the American Archivists, Mayflower Hotel, Washington. D.C., 18 June 1937; a view of the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Ont. 1901-1937.

Fonds also contains one painting by Homer Ransford Watson entitled "Ice Jam at Doon, Ontario"; and a painting entitled "Galt"[Ontario].

Provenance:

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Kenney, James Francis, 1884-1946

Biography/Administrative history:

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Kenney, James Francis, 1884-1946 : James Francis Kenney, archivist, author, and historian, was born in 1884 at Marysville, Ont. and educated in the Belleville, Ontario public school system. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in 1907 and from the University of Wisconsin with an M.A. in 1908. He obtained a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1929 after completion of the thesis The Sources for the Early History of Ireland. Dr. Kenney came on staff at the Public Archives in 1912. In 1926 he became Director of Historical Research and Publicity at the Archives and he served as Acting Dominion Archivist from 1935 to 1937.

Dr. Kenney died at his home in Ottawa on 4 June 1946. A further source of biographical information is an obituary written by A.L. Burt on Dr. Kenney for the Canadian Historical Review XXVII (December, 1946), p. 463.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a list of file titles with brief descriptions of contents. MSS1231 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002696.pdf

Additional information:

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General note:

Received in 1964, 1979 and 1982 from the Jesuit Fathers of Upper Canada through E.J. Dowling, s.j. of Toronto, Ont.

Container note(s):

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10 : Ice Jam at Doon
11 : Galt
Subject heading:

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Speeches, addresses, etc, Canadian, 1934-1945 Irish Historical Society (Canada), 1934-1945

Irish - Canada, 1903-1945 Senator Charles Murphy, 1901-1945

Catholic Church - Canada, 1903-1945 "The Decline of the Celtic Church in Ireland 1795-1152", 1908

Catholic Church - Ireland, 1903-1945 Sources for the Early History of Ireland, 1930

Celtic Church, 947-1152 Grosse Isle (Quebec), 1847

Canada - Emigration and immigration, 1820-1945

Cholera - Canada, 1847

Kennedy family, 1903-1935
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1937-139 PIC
1937-140 PIC
1937-151 NPC
1937-152 NPC
1937-155 NPC
1937-158 NPC
1937-161 NPC
1937-273 NPC
1980-138 NPC
1984-256 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-C176
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 C 176] 8--9

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1231] 106

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [KENNEY, JAMES FRANCIS 1937-151] 3398

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [KENNEY, JAMES FRANCIS 1937-152] 3398

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [KENNEY, JAMES FRANCIS 1937-158] 3398

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [KENNEY, JAMES FRANCIS 1937-155] 4194

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [KENNY, JAMES FRANCIS 1980-138] 5835

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [KENNEDY, JAMES FRANCIS 1984-256] SC 0553

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [KENNY, JAMES FRANCIS 1937-273] SC 2034

[Consultation 90 Open]

Copy negative [R2736]

[Consultation 90 Open]

C-102581--C-102582;

[Consultation 90 Open]

PA-66691;

[Consultation 90 Open]

PA-99796;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R2736] 10--11

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions except on photo of Simcoe where access is to be determined. Various copyright. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no. Paintings: No restrictions. Copyright expired; Crown copyright on reproductions. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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