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Robert Magill fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1895-1936.

Reference:

R2507-0-7-E, MG30-E299

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102616

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Robert Magill fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1895-1936.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

18 cm of textual records.
6 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of personal and biographical materials; material related to Magill's career as student, university professor and Presbyterian minister; labour questions; the Western Canadian grain industry and Magill's involvement with various grain regulatory agencies.

The fonds also contains photograph of the church and manse at Maghera, Northern Ireland, ca. 1900; "Thornmount", Northern Ireland; portraits of Robert Magill as Chief Commissioner, Board of Grain Commissioners, ca. 1912, Banff, Alberta and of Rev. William Magill in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1930.

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Magill, Robert, 1871-1930

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Magill, Robert, 1871-1930 : Robert Magill, public servant, minister and professor, was born at Drumlee, Northern Ireland, and educated in Belfast and at the University of Jena, from which he obtained a doctorate in Philosophy in 1899. Ordained in 1899, he served a Presbyterian congregation at Maghera, 1900-1903. He became a professor and subsequently principal at the Presbyterian College, Halifax, 1903-1909, and a professor of philosophy at Dalhousie University, 1909-1912.

He was appointed Chairman of the Nova Scotia Commission on Hours of Labour in 1908, Chairman of the Saskatchewan Elevator Commission in 1910, and Chairman of a conciliation board investigating a strike at the North Atlantic Collieries in Port Morien, N.S., in 1911. He served as the first Chief Commissioner of the Board of Grain Commissioners for Canada, 1912-1916, Chairman of the Board of Grain Superivsors for Canada, 1917-1918, and Secretary of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange, 1916-1929.

See: Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of The Time, 1912, p. 724.

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General note:

Received in 1977 from Mrs. Andrew Cowan of Ottawa, Ont.
Subject heading:

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Winnipeg Grain Exchange

Presbyterian Church - Clergy, 1895-1936 Saskatchewan Elevator Commission, 1910-1929

Universities and colleges - Teachers, 1895-1936 William Lyon Mackenzie King, 1895-1914

Grain - Canada, 1910-1929 Port Morien Labour Dispute, 1911

Freemasons - Canada, 1895-1936 Nova Scotia . Commission on the Hours of Labour, 1909

Trade-unions - Strikes, 1911 Dalhousie University, 1895-1914

University of Jena, 1895-1914

Henry Sedgwick, 1895-1914

Sir James McGill, 1895-1914

Board of Grain Supervisors, 1910-1929

George Perley, 1910-1929

Sir George E. Foster, 1910-1929

Walter Scott, 1910-1929

Board of Grain Commissioners, 1910-1929
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1978-148 NPC

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MG30-E299
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 E 299] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.

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