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Gordon H. Allison collection [graphic material]

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Date:

[ca. 1860-1920].

Reference:

R8175-0-3-E

Type of material:

Photographs

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Item ID number:

185539

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Gordon H. Allison collection
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Date(s):

[ca. 1860-1920].

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

19 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Collection consists of photographs depicting workers at the stone quarry, Kelso, Ont., ca. 1891; Sunday school class at the parsonage, Hamilton, Ont., ca. 1899; and portraits of Sir John Alexander Macdonald, and the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. Photos by Eldridge Stanton, F.H. Sharky, Morgan and Mann, J.C. Walker, H.E. Hammond, Butler, Thompson and Son, D.M. Reid, Cockburn, R.G. Harkness, S. King, and Royal Studios.

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Allison, Gordon H. (Gordon Henry), 1918-

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Allison, Gordon H. (Gordon Henry), 1918- : Gordon Henry Allison (1914-1993), was born the youngest of two children on a dairy farm in Hamilton, Ontario. He was educated at SS #1 Glanford and Caledonia High School and, thereafter, qualified as a teach at Hamilton Normal School. He taught elementary school in Amherstburg while taking extension course degrees from the University of Toronto and McMaster University. He returned to Hamilton in 1953 to teach English at Delta Secondary School. During his 20-year career, he rose to department head and authored two grammar texts. He also studied French and spent several summers taking courses in France. After retiring from Delta, he turned his energies to searching local archives and records. At his church, Barton Stone United, he compiled extensive archives on church members going back to 1811, assembled pictures and biographies on every minister the church ever had, and researched every person buried in the cemetery. He worked as an editor on several historical publications and compiled histories of dozens of the earliest Mountain families and all of the Ryckman's Corners pioneers. For the last seven years of his life Allison read every edition of The Hamilton Spectator from 1846 to 1893, and transcribed every birth notice, marriage announcement, death account and obituary. In addition to his aforementioned accomplishments, Allison was also a musician, quilt maker, Francophile, traveller, caregiver, and artist. He died 3 February 1993 in his Ryckman's Corners home at the age of 79. Allison never married and had no survivors. Elliott, James. "Allison left us historical legacy: Retired Delta teacher compiled exhaustive 1846-1893 archive." The Hamilton Spectator Online Edition. 3 March 1998. 21 August 2001. . 1128

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Photographs: (Electronic) Some item level descriptions available on-line in MINISIS.

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General note:

Material acquired in 1975 from Gordon H. Allison, Hamilton, Ontario.

Source:

Private

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1975-073 NPC
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Photographs: No restrictions on use. Copyright expired. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.

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