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John Raffles Cox fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1913-1916.

Reference:

R6475-0-0-E, MG30-B173

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105805

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John Raffles Cox fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1913-1916.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

10.70 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of five diaries which contain detailed accounts of his exploration of the Fifth River, the MacKenzie River River Delta and the Arctic coast. Also included is a typescript transcript prepared on a word processor in 1991 by Dr. Stuart Jenness.

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Cox, John Raffles, 1887-1977

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Cox, John Raffles, 1887-1977 : J. Raffles Cox was born in 1887 in Cambridge, England, the son of Professor John Cox, McDonald Professor of Physics and subsequently Director of the Physics Department at McGill University. He attended McGill University from 1906 to 1911 graduating in Mining Engineering in 1910 and obtaining a M.Sc. Degree in 1911. From 1911 to 1913 he was a Topographer with the Geological Survey of Canada. He was Geographer with the Canadian Arctic Expedition from 1913 to March 1917. He explored the north coast of Canada from the Alaskan boundary to the Coronation Gulf and Bathurst Inlet with investigations of the Mackenzie river Delta and the Firth river. From 1917 to 1919 he served with the 6th Canadian Seige Battery, Canadian Expeditionary Forces on active service in France, Belgium and Germany as a Gunner, "Battery Commander's Assistant" on Fire Control. In 1919 to 1920 he returned to the Topographic Division to work on the Fraser river map sheet.

He worked as a geologist with Whitehall Petroleum Corporation in India exploring in Kashmir, Punch and Jammu States and on the West Coast of Burma from 1920 to 1922. After work in England and the western United States he went to Peru in 1924 to investigate possibilities of cotton exports. Next he and his family went to Kenya where he operated a General Motors franchise for five years for East Africa. He established a factory using Chevrolet chassis and aluminium sheeting to produce the car bodies, known as Kenya box-body and pick-up cars which were an outstanding success.

Malaria obliged him to return to Canada where he obtained a position in Ottawa at the Department of Mines. In the Second World War he worked with the Dominion Fuel Board on Coal Control. He took early retirement in 1946 to Arizona as his health required a warm dry climate. There he and his wife operated the Cave Creek Inn. Later he operated Tenax Realty outside of Phoenix.

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General note:

Received from Penelope Cox of Carefree, Arizona in 1991. A typed transcript of the diaries prepared by Stuart Jenness of Gloucester, Ontario was received at the same time courtesy of Dr Jenness.

Availability of other formats note:

Transcript of diaries included.
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Arctic regions - Discovery and exploration, 1913-1916

Arctic regions - Flora and fauna, 1913-1916

Firth River - Discovery and exploration, 1913-1916

Mackenzie River Delta - Discovery and exploration, 1913-1916

Bathurst Inlet - Discovery and exploration, 1913-1916

Coppper - Arctic regions, 1913-1916

John Raffles Cox - Diaries, 1913-1916

Arctic regions - Discovery and exploration - Canadian, 1913-1916
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Private

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119-020033-3

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MG30-B173
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