Collection search - Robert James Campbell Stead fonds [textual record, graphic material]

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Robert James Campbell Stead fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1880-1959.

Reference:

R2032-0-X-E, MG30-D74

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

104682

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Robert James Campbell Stead fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1880-1959.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.3 m of textual records.
60 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of textual records, 1880-1959, including correspondence, diaries, travel journals, literary works (novels, short stories, poems), articles, and addresses. Also included are newspaper clippings, memorabilia, and a holographic manuscript of page 1, chapter 1 of Stead's book, Grain.

Fonds also contains photographs of Robert J.C. Stead's life and family, n.d., and a portrait of Robert J.C. Stead, Ottawa, Ont., ca. 1946.

Provenance:

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Stead, Robert J. C., 1880-1959

Biography/Administrative history:

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Stead, Robert J. C., 1880-1959 : Robert Stead, author, was born in Middleville, Lanark Co., Ontario, but moved with his family in 1882 to Manitoba. When he was 18, he founded and edited the Cartwright Southern Manitoba Review and by 1908 he was publishing the Crystal City Courier as well. He sold both weeklies in 1909 and worked on the editorial staff of the Calgary Albertan in 1912. In 1913, he joined the CPR's colonization department and in 1919 the federal department of Immigration and Colonization. In 1936, he was made superintendent of publicity for national parks and resources.

See: Encyclopedia Canadiana, Vol 9, p. 400.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive list of volumes 1-8. MSS0476 (90: Open)
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000938.pdf

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General note:

Textual records received in 1963 from Robert A. Stead of Ottawa, Ontario.
Subject heading:

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Authors, Canadian, 1880-1959 Earl Grey, 1911-1948

Authors, Canadian - Diaries, 1919-1958 Ralph Connor, 1911-1948

Authors, Canadian - Manuscripts, 1893-1950

Authors, English - Canada, 1880-1959

Manuscripts - Canada, 1893-1950

Robert James Campbell Stead - Manuscripts, 1911-1950

Robert James Campbell Stead - Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc., 1880-1959

Literary agents - Canada, 1911-1948

Speeches, addresses, etc., Canadian
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1946-095 NPC
1963-026 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D74
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Access restriction document

http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/r000000477.pdf

Textual records

[Consultation18 Restricted]

Finding aid box [FA 476] 49

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [STEAD, ROBERT J.C. 1946-095] 4149

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [STEAD, ROBERT J.C. 1963-026] 4943

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [STEAD, ROBERT J. C. 1963-026] SC 0483

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyright. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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