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Lewis Eric Reford [textual record; graphic material]

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Date:

1893-1996.

Reference:

R3089-14-1-E

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5113035

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Robert Reford Company fonds

Lewis Eric Reford
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Series includes:

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

1893-1996.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

0.5 m of textual records.
21 photographs : 12 prints; 9 negatives.

Language of material:

English

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This series documents Lewis Eric Reford (1900-1983), the son of Robert Wilson Reford and Elsie Reford. Although he played an important role in the family business, the majority of this series are personal files rather than business files.

Records in this series include subject files (photographs and 1.65 m. of textual records, 1893-1996, volumes 132, 168-169), chronological files (correspondence and clippings, 0.5 m., 1907-1982) and diaries, daybooks, notebooks, and cards (1.10 m., 1917-1982), correspondence, subject files and some family papers. The photographs in the series document art collection.

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Reford, Lewis Eric, 1900-1983

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Reford, Lewis Eric, 1900-1983 : Born in Montreal in 1900, Lewis Eric Reford was educated at Rugby School in England, Royal Military College, Kingston, McGill and Oxford. He joined the Robert Reford Company in 1924 and became vice-president in 1929. In 1937-1938 he was a member of the Council of the Montreal Board of Trade and from 1943 to 1945 was president of the Shipping Federation of Canada. He served on the Montreal City Council from 1944 to 1954. He is currently Chairman of the Board of the Robert Reford Investments Ltd.

See: Canadian Who's Who, 1982, p. 879.

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Lewis Eric Reford (1900-1983) was the second son of Robert W. Reford (1867-1950) and Elsie Reford (1872-1967). He was the younger brother of Brigadier Robert Bruce Stephen Reford (1895-1972).

Eric re-established the Robert Reford Company as an independent firm and revitalized Mount Royal Rice Mills. His leadership saved the Reford family enterprises from extinction.

His training in the shipping business began in August 1923 when he spent some months in Donaldson's Glasgow office. This was followed by time in with Cairns, Noble & Co. in Newcastle and the Cunard offices in Liverpool and London. His introduction to the British and European end of the shipping business was completed with an escorted business trip to Rotterdam, Hamburg and Copenhagen.

He travelled extensively. Many of these trips, which were primarily for business, took him to places not normally frequented by Canadian tourists or even businessmen, notably to Scandinavia in the 1930s, South America, and to South Africa in the 1950s. Reford took also an active interest in politics both on the federal and local level. He served as Class C councillor on Montréal city council (1944-1954).

Related material:

See also: Lewis Eric Reford collection (R4774 / MG 31 B 2).

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Private
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R3089]

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132;

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168--169;

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Graphic (photo)

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Volume [R3089] 169

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