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George Murray fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1814-1815.

Reference:

R2340-0-0-E, MG24-A11

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98648

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George Murray fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1814-1815.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2 cm of textual records (79 p.) : transcripts and photocopies.

Language of material:

English

Accession:

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Sir George Murray [textual record (microform)]

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Fonds consists of military and administrative papers relating to Sir George Murray's administration of Upper Canada, emigration, the choice of a capital, land grants, and military and naval establishments, transcript, 1814-1815, 78 pages. Also included is a map of the St. Lawrence, photocopy, 1814, 1 page.

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Murray, Sir George, 1772-1846

Biography/Administrative history:

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Murray, Sir George, 1772-1846 : Lieutenant-General Sir George Murray was sent to Canada in 1815 with orders for the recall of Sir George Prevost. In 1815, he became provisional Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada. He was succeeded in office on 1 July, 1815, by Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid consists of a descriptive list of the transcripts found here and a description of War Office records (MG 13, War Office 80), of which selections are to be found on microfilm reel B-2320. MSS0222 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001228.pdf

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Location of originals note:

Copied in 1933 from the original held in the Advocate's Library, now in the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh.

Related material:

For other papers concerning Sir George Murray, see W.O. 80, MG 13.
Subject heading:

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Naval establishments - Upper Canada, [1814-1815] Thomas Rideout, 1815

Military establishments - Upper Canada, [1814-1815] H.W. Ryland, 1814

Canada - Emigration and immigration, [1814-1815] Brief Review of the Political State of the Province of Lower Canada During the Last Seven Years, 1814

Land grants - Upper Canada, 1815

St. Lawrence River - Maps, 1814

Canada. Militia - Records and correspondence, [1814-1815]

Colonial Administrators - Upper Canada, [1814-1815]
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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112-020000-8
MG24-A11

Former archival reference no.:

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MG24-A11
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