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John Stephen Willison fonds [textual record (microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1866-1935.

Reference:

R10010-0-X-E, MG30-D29

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

135567

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John Stephen Willison fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1866-1935.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

6.2 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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The fonds consists of documents created or accumulated by J.S. Willison during his career as a journalist and an author. The fonds also contains documents accumulated by A.H.U. Colquhoun in connection with his biography of Willison.

Provenance:

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Willison, John, Sir, 1856-1927

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Willison, John, Sir, 1856-1927 : Born in Huron County, Canada West, J.S. Willison worked for the London "Advertiser", 1881-1883, before joining the Toronto "Globe", which he edited from 1890 until 1902, when he became editor of the Toronto "News". From 1910 until his death, he was Canadian correspondent for "The Times" and in 1925 he founded "Willison's Monthly". He was knighted in 1913. Throughout his life, Willison gave numerous lectures and addresses on political subjects, some of which were published in pamphlet form. Important among his publications is the biography, "Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Liberal Party: A Political History".

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a shelf list of the papers and a list of the correspondents in the correspondence series. MSS0158 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001171.pdf

Textual records (Microform) Microfiche : 1 fiche (1 copy) MSS0158 (90: Open)

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General note:

This fonds is a legacy fonds. No accession or inventory were entered in MINISIS.

Source:

Private

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-D29
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 D 29] 1--62

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 158] 23

[Consultation 10 Closed]

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