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Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers collection [textual record (microform)] LI-RA-MA collection

Hierarchical level:

Collection

Date:

1898-1922.

Reference:

R2685-0-7-E, MG30-E406

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105717

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Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers collection
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Collection includes:

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

1898-1922.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

89 microfilm reels negative and positive.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, Russian

Scope and content:

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Collection consists of documents primarily in Russian, with another half dozen east-European languages frequently used. The collection contains a variety of administrative documents one would found in a consular office. Most of the documents are handwritten, or have a significant portion of their contents in handwritten form. The collection includes a large number of passports, approximately 4,000 in total, representing a wide variety of Russian internal and external passport applications and supporting documents such as verification of identity, citizenship, birth and baptismal records (approximately 11,400 files). There are military documents relating to military service in Russian or Canadian/British forces by Russian subjects. Other official documents include work permits, the correspondence of consular officers with other diplomatic officials in North America, Russia and elsewhere, including cables in cypher. Of particular interest are documents dealing with immigration, deportation and trade matters. Photographs are attached to most of the passports and to other documents in the collection (approx. 10,000).

The collection was microfilmed on 16 mm film and listed as reels M-7591 to M-7672, M-8270 and M-8271 (84 reels).

Provenance:

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Likacheff, A.S
Additional name(s):

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Ragosine, K

Mathers, H.I
Biography/Administrative history:

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Likacheff, A.S : From the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century - years of massive immigration to Canada and the United States - the Imperial Russian Government, which included eastern Poland and Finland, as well as most of the former USSR, maintained consulates throughout North America. With the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the consulates were closed, and their records subsequently passed from one temporary storage to another, many being lost, damaged, or destroyed in the process. Some had been given to the Hoover Institute for War, Peace and Revolution (United States). Eventually the remainder were placed in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States Government. The collection is organized into American and Canadian sections.

The Canadian section is a collection of documents created in the Imperial Russian Consular offices in Montreal, Vancouver, and Halifax by consuls, the last of whom were A.S. Likacheff, K. Ragosine, and H.I. Mathers (LI-RA-MA). In 1917, with the fall of the Czarist government in Russia, the Canadian Government offered to pay the salaries of these consuls because it highly valued and needed their expertise, and skills in dealing with the sizeable number of Slavic immigrants who had by that time, settled in Canada. One could, in fact, construe that these officials were then in Canadian Government service. Their activity came to an end in the early 1920's, at which time their papers were entrusted to other senior Russian diplomats opposed to the new Soviet regime, who were stationed in Washington, D.C., United States.

Finding aid:

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Textual records: (Electronic) A finding aid was produced in 1983 which lists the archival material of the collection by volume. The nominal list is a card catatogue in the Reference Room of the National Archives, and is also available on 16 mm reels H-1971 to H-1975. MSS1441

(Electronic) All or some of the documents described have been digitized and are available at the following address: (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105717

(Electronic) Les documents décrits ont été complètement ou en partie numérisés et sont disponibles à l'adresse suivante : (90: Open)
http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_mikan_105717?usrlang=fr

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Custodial history:

Material was loaned to the National Archives of Canada in 1979 for organization and microfilming. The original material was returned to Washington, D.C., and later sent to the Soviet Union by the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States.

Location of originals note:

The originals are in the Russian Archives.
Subject heading:

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Canada 20th century

Russians - Canada, 1898-1922 Murmansk-Arkangelsk Railroad, [1898-1922]

Russia - Emigration and immigration, 1898-1922 Port of Vancouver, [1903-1920]

Canada. Canadian Armed Forces - Recruiting, enlistment, etc, 1900-1922 Vancouver Board of Trade, [1903-1920]

Russian Canadians, 1898-1922

Draft - Canada, [191-]

Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905

Slavs - Evacuation and relocation - Canada, [191-]

World War, 1914-1918 - Canada - Security, [191-]

Russia - Commerce, 1900-1920

Siberia (Russia)

Shipwrecks, [1900-1920]

Refugees, Political, [1904-1920]

Russia - Politics and government, [1903-1920]

Diplomatic and consular service, Russian - Canada, [1898-1922]

Canada Russia

Russia - Relations - Canada, [1903-1920]

World War, 1914-1918
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1989/0294

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E406
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Textual records: microform

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Finding aid box [FA 1441]

[Consultation 10 Closed]

114;

[Consultation 10 Closed]

237--240;

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Microfilm reel

[Consultation 90 Open]

H-1971--H-1975;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-7591--M-7672;

[Consultation 90 Open]

M-8270--M-8271;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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