Collection search - Frederick Newton Gisborne fonds [textual record, graphic material]

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Frederick Newton Gisborne fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1859-1892

Reference:

R14120-0-7-E, MG55/24-No41

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105056

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Frederick Newton Gisborne fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1859-1892

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United States

Extent:

0.1 cm of textual records.
1 album (102 photographs) : b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of a British passport issued to Gisborne, 25 June 1859. Original, 1 page. Album of photographs compiled by Frederick Gisborne or a member of his family documenting his career as a businessman involved in telegraphic communication, as a mining engineer, and as an inventor.

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Gisborne, Frederick Newton, 1824-1892

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Gisborne, Frederick Newton, 1824-1892 : Inventor

Frederick Newton Gisborne (1824-1892) was born at Broughton in England. He emigrated to Canada in 1845 and farmed for two years near Eustache, Lower Canada. He became a telegraph operator in the Montreal Telegraph Company and was a pioneer in the development of telegraphy in North America. In 1879 he was appointed superintendent of the Canadian government telegraph and signal service. He was the inventor of many electrical and signalling devices.

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Graphic material (photo) (Electronic) Finding aid describes photographs in the album, acc. 1988-075 FA-500 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002341.pdf

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General note:

Transferred from Miscellaneous Documents, 33/5.
Documents created in: Montreal, Que.
Subject heading:

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Inventors - Canada, 1859

Passports - Great Britain, 1859
Source:

Private

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MG55/24-No41
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG55/24 No 41] 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Graphic (photo): Copyright: Expired ; Restriction of use: nil.

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