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Alexander Colin Campbell fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1880-1944.

Reference:

R4566-0-9-E, MG27-II4

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

103110

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Alexander Colin Campbell fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1880-1944.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

20 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence, speeches and addresses, n.d., 1882-1943; articles by A.C. Campbell, n.d.; publications, n.d., 1880-1939; printed material, n.d., 1908, 1924; clippings, n.d., 1921-1943; and memorabilia, n.d., 1909-1944. Correspondents include: J.W. Dafoe, James M. Macoun, B.R. Morton, Leon Gérin, Goldwin Smith and John Lewis. There is an article from The Canadian Unionist.

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Campbell, Alexander Colin, 1857-1943

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Campbell, Alexander Colin, 1857-1943 : Alexander C. Campbell, born in Shannonville, Ont., (Canada West), received his early education in Toronto and Montreal. He entered newspaper work as a reporter on the Montreal Gazette in 1878, and joined the Toronto Globe in 1880, serving as its Press Gallery representative until 1891. Between 1891 and 1894 he represented the Toronto Mail, the Toronto World and the Winnipeg Free Press in the Gallery. In 1894 he was appointed to the staff of official reporters of Debates in the House of Commons, becoming associate editor of Debates in 1917, editor in 1919. He retired in 1926.

Mr. Campbell was married to Jerusha Leggo, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Christopher Leggo, Ottawa. He was one of the founders of the Civil Service Association and served as its president. He was also a president of the Arts, and Letters Club, the Canadian Authors' Association, Ottawa Branch and the Horticultural Society.

See: Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of the Time, 1912, p. 188.

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Received in 1985 from Mrs. H.E. Kidd, daughter of Mrs. H.G. Barber, Ottawa, through the courtesy of Audrey Gill, of the Liberal Party of Canada; 13 pages received in 1951 from Mrs. H.G. Barber, daughter of A.C. Campbell, through the Library of Parliament.
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Edward Blake - Correspondence, [188-] "Churchill, Northern Metropolis", The Canadian Unionist, n.d

J.G. Brown - Correspondence, [188-] "This World of Plenty", The Canadian Unionist, n.d

Toronto (Ont.) - Letters of reference, [188-] Report of the Peace River Region, 1904

J.W. Dafoe - Correspondence, [1930, 1943] The Care of the Woodlot, 1920

Alexander Colin Campbell - Authorship, n.d. A Spring of Mountain Heather, 1914

Geological Survey of Canada - Publishing, 1904 "Fifty Years of Confederation", Proceedings of the Canadian Club, Toronto, Ont. : 1916-1917

James M. (James Melville) Macoun - Authorship, 1904 The Hurons of Lorette", Transactions, Ottawa Literary and Scientific Society : 1900

Canada. Dept. of the Interior - Publishing, 1920 The Problem of Popular Government, 1901

B.R. Morton - Authorship, 1917 University of Toronto (Toronto, Ont.), 1901

Toronto (Ont.) - Lectures and lecturing, 1901 Canadian Sentiment for Canada, The Republic, and Great Britain, 1905

Leon Gérin - Authorship, 1900 The Intercolonial Club of Boston (Boston, Mass.), 1905

W.D. Leseur - Oratory, 1901 Progress or Revolution, Toronto : 1906

E.W. Thomson - Oratory, 1905 Grip, 1880, 1888

Speeches, addresses, etc., 1905 "Advertising in Some of Its Phases", Munsey's Magazine, n.d

Goldwin Smith - Authorship, 1906 "Candida, House of Commons Debates", 1924

Obituaries - Ontario, 1888 Journal (Ottawa, Ont.), 1943

George Brown - Death and burial, 1888

Children's stories, n.d

Civil Service Association - History, [1921-1943]

Globe (Toronto, Ont.) - History, [1921-1943]

Ottawa (Ont.) - Obituaries, 1943

Alexander Colin Campbell - Death and burial, 1943

Canadian Authors Association - Membership, [1909-1944]

Professional Institute of the Civil Service of Canada - Membership, [1909-1944]

John W. Dafoe - Oratory, 1930, 1940

John Lewis - Authorship, 1917

Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
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Private

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MG27-II4
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