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William Nisbet Ponton fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1830-[ca.1950].

Reference:

R4886-0-2-E, MG30-E96

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102712

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William Nisbet Ponton fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1830-[ca.1950].

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

4.6 m of textual records.
69 photographs b&w.
8 maps.
1 technical drawing

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence, n.d., 1830-1939; subject files, n.d., 1865-1939; letterbooks, diaries, and notebooks, ca. 1851-1929; speeches and notes, n.d., 1899-1923; souvenirs and memorabilia, n.d., 1845-1921.

The fonds also contains photographs depicting Ponton family life; C.E.F. camps in Canada and England; and the Queen's Canadian Military Hospital, England, postcards of Toronto, [ca. 1860-1950].

The fonds also contains maps of Manitoba, Alberta, 1905-1907; the township of Thurlow, [after 1912]; the North West, 1878; the Balkan states and central Europe, [ca. 1900]; a map of Hastings and Prince Edward counties, 1898; plans relating to land Ponton owned, along with two letters related to this land and six letters about the land and the railway's right of way, [ca. 1910]; maps of the Belleville area, 1966, 1968; and drawings of oil well rigs, patented 1879.

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Ponton, William Nisbet, 1856-1939

Biography/Administrative history:

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Ponton, William Nisbet, 1856-1939 : Colonel William Nisbet Ponton, born in 1856 at Belleville, Ont., was educated at Upper Canada College, the University of Toronto, B.A. 1877, M.A. 1878, and Osgoode Hall. He practised law in Belleville where he apparently specialized in the administration of property and estates, and served for 27 years on the Belleville Board of Education in addition to acting as Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce.

Colonel Ponton was an executive of the Associated Boards of Trade of Ontario. Registrar of the Canadian Bar Association, President of the Ontario Bar Association, a member of the Council of the Canadian Red Cross, Grand First Principal of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Canada A.F. & A.M., a Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Empire Society, a Senator of the University of Toronto, Vice-President of the Old Boys' Association of Upper Canada College, and a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He commanded the 15th Battalion, Argyll Light Infantry, from 1892 to 1901.

See also: Morgan, "Canadian Men and Women of the Time", 1912, and "The Canadian Who's Who", 1938-1939.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a list of correspondence by author and a list of subject file titles. MSS0373 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001445.pdf

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General note:

Most of the papers were received in 1966 from Mrs. G.B. Zimmerle of Belleville, Ont., and in 1967 from Mrs. Robert Hyndman. Some correspondence was received in 1961, other files in 1979 and the two letterbooks in 1972.
Subject heading:

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Ponton family, 1857-1939 Belleville Chamber of Commerce (Belleville, Ont.), [1865-1938]

Hutton family, 1830-1886 West Indies, [1865-1938]

Estates - Canada, [1830-1939] Newfoundland, [1865-1938]

Property - Canada, [1830-1939] University of Toronto, [1865-1938]

William Nisbet Ponton - Correspondence, [1865-1938] Upper Canada College (Toronto, Ont.), [1865-1938]

Legal documents - Canada, [1865-1938]

Associations, institutions, etc., [1865-1938]

Investments - Canada, [1865-1938]

William Nisbet Ponton - Diaries, [ca. 1851-1929]

Freemasonry - Canada, [1856-1939]

William Nisbet Ponton - Oratory, 1899-1923

Military paraphenalia - Canada, 1845-1921

Newfoundland - History - Confederation, 1949, 1899-1923

Canada Confederation, 1867

Confederation - Newfoundland

Speeches, addresses, etc., Canadian

Ambassadors Canada

Lawyers Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1976-111 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E96

Other accession no.:

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81202/265-266 CA
767-1001 CA
767-1002 CA
767-1003 CA
767-1004 CA
767-1009 CA
767-1010 CA
767/1005 CA
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 373] 41

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [PONTON, WILLIAM NISBET 1976-111] 5326

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [PONTON, W.N. 1974-111] RV4 160

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyright 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.

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