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Ernest Norman Smith fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1906-1974.

Reference:

R4560-0-5-E, MG31-D106

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102959

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Ernest Norman Smith fonds
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Date(s):

1906-1974.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

20 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence with Prime Minister Robert L. Borden, Senator Arthur Charles Hardy and Hector Charlesworth, memoranda, pamphlets, and reports, which cover such subjects as Smith's purchase of the Ottawa Free Press and its merger with the Ottawa Journal, the Imperial Press Conference in South Africa in 1935, the formation of the Canadian Press and the Ottawa Civic Hospital Board.

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Smith, Ernest Norman, 1871-1957

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Smith, Ernest Norman, 1871-1957 : Ernest Norman Smith, born in 1871 at Manchester, Eng., received his early training as a journalist on Fleet Street. In 1893, he was sent to cover the Chicago World's Fair by the (British) National Press Agency. In 1894, he accepted a job as reporter with the Toronto World. He became editor of the Woodstock Weekly sentinal-review in 1895. He then joined the Toronto Mail and Empire as telegraph editor. In 1904, he moved to the Globe as special editor touring North America covering Laurier's 1904 election campaign.

In 1905, he was appointed Editor and Managing Director of the Ottawa Free Press, purchasing the paper in 1906. When the Ottawa Free Press merged with the Ottawa Journal in 1916, Smith was made Associate Editor and Vice President of the Ottawa Journal. He later became President of the Journal Publishing Co. of Ottawa Ltd., and Editor-in-Chief of the Ottawa Journal. E. Norman Smith was one of the driving forces behind the formation of the Canadian Press Ltd. in 1911 (now Canadian Press). He served as President of the Canadian Press from 1920 to 1925.

Smith was named to the Board of the Ottawa Civic Hospital in 1931, becoming Chairman in 1941, a post he held until 1947.

See also: The Canadian Who's Who, 1955-1957, and Encyclopedia Canadiana.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a file list and a list of notable correspondence. MSS1219 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002688.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1979 from I. Norman Smith of Rockcliffe, Ont.
Subject heading:

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Sir Robert Laird Borden - Correspondence, 1906-1974 Ottawa Free Press, 1906-1974

Ernest Norman Smith - Correspondence, 1906-1974 Ottawa Journal, 1906-1974

Publishers and publishing - Canada, 1906-1974 Imperial Press Conference (South Africa), 1935

Ottawa (Ont.) - Publishers and publishing, 1906-1974 Canadian Press, 1906-1974

Ottawa (Ont.) - Newspapers, 1906-1974 Ottawa Civic Hospital (Ottawa, Ont.), 1906-1974

Press - Canada, 1906-1974 Arthur Charles Hardy, 1906-1974

Conferences, Press, 1906-1974 Hector Charlesworth, 1906-1974

Newspapers - Ownership, 1906-1974

Ottawa (Ont.)
Source:

Private

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MG31-D106
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000548.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Volume [MG31 D 106] 1

[Consultation 18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 1219] 105

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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