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William Harrison Cook fonds [textual record, graphic material, architectural drawing]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1927-1981.

Reference:

R5099-0-X-E, MG31-J32

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Architectural and technical drawings

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

104319

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William Harrison Cook fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1927-1981.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3.1 m of textual records.
10 photographs b&w.
2 architectural drawings

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of articles and lectures on biological and general scientific topics including food preservation, agricultural topics, complex macromolecular structures, etc.; correspondence as director of Applied Biology Division, NRC, covering biological research, administration, regional laboratories and post doctoral fellow training; National Research Council progress reports on scientific work including emergency ship, refrigeration, Prairie Regional Laboratory role of NRC in Canadian science and foreign scientific exchanges; international work, material related international, studies and conferences; Canadian Committee for the International Biological Programme, correspondence subject files; reference files.

The fonds also contains photographs of International Symposium: Algae and the Environment, and the International Workshop on Lipoproteins, attended by W.H. Cook with photos accompanying Laboratory Investigations Report on frost formation-refrigeration units, assembling NRC's wartime emergency refrigeration units.

Fond consists of two architectural drawings: one item pertaining to the air distribution ducts for emergency refrigeration on ships, prepared by the National Research Council, Ottawa, 1941; and an item about ventilation for an entomological building in Belleville Ont, prepared by Sheldon's Ltd., Galt, Ont., 1935.

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Cook, William Harrison, 1903-

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Cook, William Harrison, 1903- : W.H. Cook, food technologist and biochemist, was born in Alnwick, England and immigrated to Canada in 1912. He graduated from the Claresholm (Alberta) School of Agriculture, the University of Alberta and from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Chemistry, 1931. He joined the newly established Applied Biology Division of the National Research Council (NRC) working on the transport of perishable foods and refrigerated storage. In 1941 Cook became the Director of the division. During the Second World War he oversaw research on the preservation and transportation of bacon, poultry and eggs. Cook also designed an emergency system of refrigerating ship holds to transport perishable foods.

Cook was involved in the formation of the NRC Prairie Regional Laboratory in Saskatoon which functioned as a branch of the Applied Biology Division from 1948 to 1952. With the swing towards pure research in the 1950s, Cook was able to renew his interest in complex macromolecules especially those found in egg yolks. Cook retired as Director of the Bioscience Division in 1968 and was made NRC's first Executive Director. From 1970 to 1974 he was the Director General of the Canadian Committee for the International Biological Programme. In 1977 NRC published Cook's memoirs "My Fifty Years with NRC, 1924-1974".

Cook participated in international studies in Europe, South and Central America. He represented the NRC at a number of UNESCO and Commonwealth Human Ecology foundation Conferences as well as at numerous scientific meetings. He was a long time member of the Royal Society of Canada, serving as its secretary 1950-1953 an its president 1962-1963.

See: Canadian Encyclopedia, p. 421-422.

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Textual records: (Paper) The finding aid is a file list. MSS1684

Textual records: (Electronic) Finding aid. MSS1684
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000310.pdf

Architectural, technical drawings (Paper) Please consult lower level descriptions. 86703/36. (90: Open)

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General note:

Received in 1986 from W.H. Cook of Ottawa, Ontario
Subject heading:

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Biochemists - Canada, n.d., 1927-1981 Robert Newton, n.d., 1934-1975

Food engineers - Canada, n.d., 1927-1981 Central America, n.d., 1934-1975

Agriculture - Experimentation, n.d., 1927-1971 South America, n.d., 1934-1975

Food - Preservation, n.d., 1927-1971 Canadian Biochemical Society, n.d., 1934-1975

Biology - Research, 1946-1970 Canadian Committee for the International Biological Programme, [between 1964 and 1981]

William Harrison Cook - Correspondence, 1946-1970 Commonwealth Human Ecology Foundation, 1970-1972

Refrigeration and refrigerating machinery, n.d., 1933-1971 National Research Council Canada. Applied Biology Division, 1946-1969

Food - Research, 1927-1981

Biosphere, 1968
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1987-026 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-J32
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1684] 130

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [COOK, WILLIAM HARRISON 1987-026] 5683

[Consultation 90 Open]

Architectural: technical drawings

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright is expired on items greater than 50 years old. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.
Architectural, technical drawings: No restictions on access or reproduction. Credit Library and Archives Canada.

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