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William Fielding Hanna fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1946-1958.

Reference:

R4811-0-9-E, MG31-J3

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103574

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William Fielding Hanna fonds
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Date(s):

1946-1958.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

30 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence and memoranda relating to the Ninth International Botanical Congress, the U.S.S.R. Agricultural Exhibition in 1954, the Scientific Club of Winnipeg, the Commonwealth Mycological Institute, the Mycological Society of America, the Royal Society of Canada, Department staff reclassifications, and miscellaneous matters, volumes 1-2.

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Hanna, William Fielding, 1892-1972

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Hanna, William Fielding, 1892-1972 : Dr. William Fielding Hanna, plant pathologist, born in Nova Scotia, was educated at Dalhousie University, the universities of Alberta, Manitoba, and Minnesota, Imperial College, London, and at Yale. He served in W.W. I and W.W. II as an air officer, and during W.W. II was transferred to the Joint Canadian American Defense Board. From 1928 to 1939 Dr. Hanna was engaged as a research scientist at the Dominion Rust Research Laboratory, Canada Department of Agriculture, Winnipeg, and published over 50 scientific papers, mainly on the smut diseases of cereals.

Following his discharge from the R.C.A.F. Dr. Hanna returned to the Department and eventually became Chief of the Division of Botany and Plant Pathology, Science Service, Ottawa. He retired in 1958, but accepted a one-year F.A.O. assignment in 1966 to the Plant Breeding Station, Njoro, Kenya. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Agricultural Institute of Canada, appointed to the Order of Canada, 1968, and was an Honorary Member of the Canadian Phytopathological Society.

See: Canadian Who's Who, 1970-1972, p. 462.

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Transferred in 1972 from the Department of Agriculture; the papers are Dr. Hanna's "Personal" files which were kept at his office.
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Agriculture - Societies, etc., 1946-1958 Ninth International Botanical Congress, [1946-1958]

Agriculture - Research, 1946-1958 U.S.S.R. Agricultural Exhibition, 1954

Agriculturists - Canada, 1946-1958 Scientific Club of Winnipeg (Winnipeg, Man.), [1946-1958]

Science - Societies, etc., 1946-1958 Commonwealth Mycological Institute, [1946-1958]

Scientists - Canada, 1946-1958 Mycological Society of America, [1946-1958]

Canada. Dept. of Agriculture - Officials and employees, 1946-1958 Royal Society of Canada, [1946-1958]

Botany - Research, 1946-1958

Botanists - Canada, 1946-1958

Mycology, 1946-1958

Mycologists, 1946-1958

Scientists in government - Canada, 1946-1958
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Private

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MG31-J3
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Volume [MG31 J 3] 1--2

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