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Ellen Agnes Bilbrough fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1896-1900.

Reference:

R4239-0-9-E, MG29-C106

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

104463

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Ellen Agnes Bilbrough fonds
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Date(s):

1896-1900.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3.6 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of a diary describing Ellen Bilbrough's and Robert Wallace's travels through the Canadian West, and across the Pacific to Japan, China, Australia and New Zealand. Written by Ellen Bilbrough, the diary describes the sights visited, missionaries encountered, the spread of Christianity and living conditions, (volume 1), also a diary describing two voyages to Great Britain and the continent made by Ellen Bilbrough and her husband the Reverend Robert Wallace in 1899-1900, (volume 2). The diary is a photocopy of a typewritten transcript.

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Bilbrough, Ellen Agnes, 1841-1900

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Bilbrough, Ellen Agnes, 1841-1900 : Ellen Agnes Bilbrough married the Reverend Robert Wallace in 1887. Mrs. Wallace organized child immigration from Great Britain to Canada. Her book, British Children in Canadian Homes, published in Scotland in 1878, describes her work. A devout Christian, she accompanied her husband on a missionary voyage to the Orient.

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General note:

Received in 1978 from Mrs. Ruth Ann Newton of Enniskillen, Ont., the diary describing the travels through the Canadian West. (volume 1), through the Government Archives Division. The diary describing the two voyages to Great Britain (volume 2) was received in 1980 from Mrs. E.P. Macklin of Peterborough, Ont.

Related material:

Parallel information about Robert Wallace's voyage through the Canadian West, can be found in the Robert Wallace Papers (MG 29 C 107).
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Ellen Bilbrough - Travel diaries, 1896-1900 Reverend Robert Wallace, 1896-1900

Canada, Western - Description and travel, 1896-1900

Japan - Description and travel, 1896-1900

China - Description and travel, 1896-1900

Australia - Description and travel, 1896-1900

New Zealand

Missionaries , 1896-1900

Christianity, 1896-1900

Great Britain - Description and travel, 1896-1900
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Private

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MG29-C106
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Volume [MG29 C 106] 1--2

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