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Frederick A. Dixon fonds [textual record, graphic material, technical drawing]
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Record information Frederick A. Dixon fonds [textual record, graphic material, technical drawing]
Date:1873-1959.Reference:R5473-0-6-E, MG30-B151Type of material:Textual material, Photographs, Architectural and technical drawingsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:102831Date(s):1873-1959.Place of creation:OntarioExtent:10 m of textual records.
217 photographs b&w.
6 technical drawings.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of letters patent, specifications and correspondence relating to the patenting and subsequent evaluation and attempts to market the Dixon Boltless Key Rail Joint, 1896-1959. In addition there is a small amount of material on the Ottawa Steel Casting Company which used the Hunter Process; Dufferin and Dixon family correspondence, n.d., 1873-1959; miscellaneous correspondence with Sir Charles Tupper, Princess Louise and the Marquis de Lorne, n.d., 1885-1895.
Fonds also contains photographs, ca. 1875-1950, consisting of Dixon family portraits, rural and bathing scenes, with the photographs by F.A. Dixon and his son, John Dixon.
Fonds also contains drawings, n.d., of the Dixon Boltless Key Rail Joint, patented 1901 by Frederick A. Dixon.Biography/Administrative history:Dixon, Frederick A. (Frederick Augustus), 1843-1919 : Frederick A. Dixon, inventor, public servant, tutor, born in 1843 in England, came to Canada during the 1870s. His first employment was with the Toronto Mail as a journalist. Later, he was appointed tutor to the Dufferin children while Lord Dufferin was Governor-General of Canada, 1872-1878, and then entered the public service of Canada in 1878 with the Department of Railways and Canals.
In 1901 Frederick Dixon, an employee of the Department of Railways and Canals in Ottawa, received letters patent for his invention of improvements in rail joint fasteners which he called the Dixon Boltless Key Rail Joint. Canadian Patent number 71603, United States Patent number 689,388.
See also: The MacMillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 1963, and Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912.Additional information:General note:Letters patent, specifications and correspondence, 1896-1959, received in 1983 from Raymund Gryszczyk of Ottawa, Ont. Family correspondence received in 1972.Arrangement note:Drawings: Reduced size photocopies of the drawings are included in the textual records.Associated material note:Five piece wooden working model of the rail joint: Transferred to the National Museum of Science and Technology.Subject heading:- Inventors - Canada, 1873-1959 Sir Charles Tupper, 1885-1895
- Patents - Canada, 1896-1959 John George Edward Henry Douglass Sutherland Campbell, Marquis de Lorne, 1885-1895
- Ottawa (Ont.) - Businees enterprises, 1873-1959 Ottawa Steel Casting Company, 1896-1959
- Dufferin family, 1873-1959 Dixon Boltless Key Rail Joint, 1896-1959
- Dixon family, 1873-1959
- Inventors - Canada, 1896-1959
Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG30-B151Other accession no.:83403/25 CA -
Ordering and viewing options Conditions of access:Textual records[Consultation Open]Volume [MG30 B 151] 1[Consultation Open]Graphic (photo)[Consultation Open]Box [DIXON, FREDERICK A. 1972-326][Consultation Open]196;[Consultation Open]5764;[Consultation Open]Box [DIXON, F.A. 1972-326] RV3 151[Consultation Open]Architectural: technical drawings[Consultation Closed pending processing]Terms of use:Photographs: No donor restrictions. Various copyrights 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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