Collection search - Martin Joseph Griffin and family fonds [textual record, textual record (microform)]

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Martin Joseph Griffin and family fonds [textual record, textual record (microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1852-1984.

Reference:

R4739-0-4-E, MG30-D37

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102293

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Martin Joseph Griffin and family fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1852-1984.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3.4 m of textual records.
2 microfilm reels : negative and positive.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of personal and family papers; correspondence; journals kept by Griffin concerning his personal life and work in the Library of Parliament; poetry; prose notes and clippings for articles and lectures by Griffin; scapbooks containing clippings from various newspapers. Also included are Griffin family papers, microfilm reel M-289; and extracts of general interest, 1905-1916 from the diaries of Martin Joseph Griffin, Joint-Librarian of Parliament. There are also microfilmed notes, verses and correspondence of Mary E. Griffin, Brian Meredith, Philip Griffin and Martin Joseph Griffin, 1894-1921, n.d., microfilm reel A-1086.

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Griffin, Martin Joseph, 1847-1921 (family)
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Correspondent: Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander), 1815-1891

Tupper, Charles, Sir, 1821-1915

Tupper, Charles Hibbert, Sir, 1855-1927

Parliament Buildings (Ottawa, Ont.)

Édifices du Parlement (Ottawa, Ont.)

Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander), 1815-1891
Biography/Administrative history:

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Griffin, Martin Joseph, 1847-1921 (family) : Martin Joseph Griffin was born in St. John's, Nfld. and attended St. Mary's College in Halifax, N.S. He was called to the Bar of Nova Scotia in 1868. From 1868 to 1874, he served as editor of the Halifax Express and in 1874 he was an unsuccessful Conservative candidate for the Nova Scotia provincial legislature. He was editor of the Halifax Herald, 1874-1878, and of the Toronto Mail, 1881-1885, and he served as secretary of the Civil Service Commission, 1880-1885. He was appointed Parliamentary Librarian in 1885 and held this position until his retirement in 1920. Griffin's daughter, Mrs. C.P. Meredith, collected copies of his letters in preparation for a biography.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive list. MSS0080 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001312.pdf

Textual records (Microform) Microfiche : 1 fiche (1 copy) MSS0076 (90: Open)

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General note:

Correspondence, volumes 1-3, received in 1947 from Colonel C.P. Meredith. Journals, articles and miscellaneous papers, volumes 3-8, received in 1968 from Mrs. A. Garneau of Ottawa, Ont. Scrapbooks, volume 9-20, transferred in 1970 from the Library of Parliament. Volumes 21-23 received in 1986 from Brian Meredith. Microfilm of family papers, reel A-1086, received in 1979 through the London office. Microfilm of diaries from Mrs. C.P. Meredith, Ottawa, 1957.

Citation/reference note:

See: Encyclopedia Canadiana, vol. 5, p. 41.

Availability of other formats note:

Extracts from the journal series, 1905-1919, are also available on microfilm, reel M-289.

Associated material note:

The June 21 issue of the "Santamarian", the year book of St. Mary's College in Halifax, transferred to the National Archives Library.

Related material:

Photographs of Martin Joseph Griffin and family can be located in the C.P. Meredith fonds, MG 29 E 62.
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Scrapbooks Canada

Journalists - Canada, [1852-1984] Philip G. Griffin, [1894-1921]

Librarians - Canada, [1852-1984] Canadian Pacific Railway, [1894-1921]

Martin Joseph Griffin - Family, [1863-1984] "The History of Canada", [1894-1921]

Martin Joseph Griffin - Correspondence, [1852-1923] "The Harwarden Horace", [1894-1921]

Martin Joseph Griffin - Career, [1863-1984] Mary Eulalie Griffin, [1894-1921]

Colonel C. P. Meredith - Correspondence, [1852-1923] Lady Eastlake, [1894-1921]

Mrs. C. P. Meredith - Correspondence, [1852-1923] Fanny Burney, [1894-1921]

Martine Joseph Griffin - Diaries, [1905-1919] Toronto Mail, 1880-1885

Poets, Canadian - Manuscripts, [1866-1900] Canada. Library of Parliament, [1905-1919]

Martin Joseph Griffin - Manuscripts, [1871-1921]

Authors, Canadian - Manuscripts, [1871-1921] Senator L. G. Power, [1852-1923]

Lectures and lecturing - Canada, [1871-1921]]

Toronto (Ont.) - Newspapers, [1880-1912] Goldwin Smith, [1852-1923]

Montreal (Quebec) - Newspapers, [1880-1912] Charles Grey, Earl Grey, [1852-1923]

Griffin family, [1894-1921]

Mary E. Griffin - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc., [1894-1921]

Brian Meredith - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc., [1894-1921]

Ottawa (Ont.) - Photographs, [1894-1921]

Poetry
Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D37
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 D 37] 1--23

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 80] 12

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Microfilm reel

[Consultation 90 Open]

A-1086;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-289;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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