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Frank Atkinson Roberts fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1907-1908, 1956.

Reference:

R6479-0-X-E, MG30-C233

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

97668

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Frank Atkinson Roberts fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1907-1908, 1956.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

3 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of two of Atkinson's diaries which describe his life in England and his relocation to Canada in search of work.

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Roberts, Frank Atkinson, 1886-1958

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Roberts, Frank Atkinson, 1886-1958 : Frank Roberts was one of eight children born to a Methodist minister in England. Poverty forced him to leave school at the age of 14 and come to Western Canada to work on farms and as a mule driver on railway construction in 1903. He returned home in 1907, but with no job prospects, returned to Canada to work as a shopclerk in Eaton's in Toronto. Seeing no hope of advancement he took stenographic courses to work as an office clerk. He left Toronto in 1908 for the O'Brien Mine at Cobalt in 1908, staying there until 1913. He spent the years 1913 and 1914 at the Taft Oil fields in California. In the Great War he returned to Edmonton to enlist in the 3rd Canadian Mounted Rifles and had a distinguished war record. He returned to Canada in 1920 to join the Income Tax Department where he stayed until his retirement in 1951 in Lethbridge.

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General note:

Donated by Peter Roberts in 1987.
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Toronto (Ont.) - Description, 1907-1908 Toronto (Ont.), 1907-1908

Toronto (Ont.) - Employment, 1907-1908

Toronto (Ont.) - Manners and customs, 1907-1908

Toronto (Ont.) - Methodist Church, 1907-1908
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Private

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1987/0306 MSS

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MG30-C233
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