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Horace Harvey fonds [textual record, philatelic record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1887-1949.

Reference:

R2424-0-2-E, MG30-E87

Type of material:

Textual material, Stamps and stamp products

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102709

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Horace Harvey fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1887-1949.

Place of creation:

Alberta

Extent:

4.4 m of textual records.
16 postal covers.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of personal correspondence, 1893-1949; official correspondence between between Harvey and the Supreme Court of Alberta, 1904-1949; legal memoranda and correspondence relating to Harvey's law firm in Calgary, 1887-1904. The fonds also contains postal covers bearing Calgary squared-circle postmarks and a variety of "Return To/Not Called For" instructional postal markings, 1894-1901.

Provenance:

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Harvey, Horace, 1863-1949

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Harvey, Horace, 1863-1949 : Horace Harvey was born in Elgin County, Ont. in 1863, the son of William Harvey, Liberal Member of Parliament (1872-1874) for Elgin East. He was educated at the University of Toronto and graduated with the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1886 and Bachelor of Laws in 1888. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1889 and practised in Toronto.

In 1893 Harvey moved to Western Canada where he was called to the Bar of the North West Territories and practised in Calgary. He was successively appointed registrar of land titles for Southern Alberta in 1896, deputy attorney general of the North West Territories in 1900, puisne judge of the Territorial Supreme Court in 1904, puisne judge of the newly created Supreme Court of Alberta in 1907 and Chief Justice in 1910. On the reorganization of the Alberta Courts in 1921, Harvey became Chief Justice of the Trial Division. Three years later he became Chief Justice of the Appellate Division and he held this position until his death. He served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the University of Alberta (1917-1940) and of the Mobilization Board for National Services (1940). He died at Edmonton in 1949.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid consists of a shelf list with an introductory paragraph to each series. MSS0209 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001212.pdf

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General note:

Postal covers were formerly in accession 1989-565; previously acquired by The National Postal Museum as accession 1981-037. Received in 1958 from his daughter-in-law, Mrs. A.B. Harvey of Ottawa, Ont.

Arrangement note:

Postal covers: Organized in file folders and arranged chronologically by postmark.
Subject heading:

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Horace Harvey - Finance, Personal, 1893-1949 Mobilization Board for National Services, 1940

Horace Harvey - Correspondence, 1893-1949

University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alta.) - Administration, 1893-1949

Supreme Court of Alberta - Records and correspondence, 1904-1949

Canada. Royal Canadian Mounted Police - Records and correspondence, 1904-1949

Dominion Building and Loan Company - Records and correspondence, 1887-1904

Canada. Permanent Loan and Savings Company - Records and correspondence, 1887-1904

Legal records - Canada, 1887-1949

Court records Canada

Alberta. Office of the Attorney General - Records and correspondence, 1893-1949

Postage stamps - Collectors and collecting - Canada, 1893-1949

Prisoners - Canada, 1904-1949

Judges - Alberta, [1907-1949]

Judicial appointment - Alberta, [1907-1949]
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1992-086 DAP
89-069

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E87
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 209] 29

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Philatelic records

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1992-086] C58

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Postal covers: No restrictions. Copyright unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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