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Mhairi de Castro fonds [textual records, philatelic record]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:3 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Textual records: (Paper) The Checklist of Parish Registers, 1986 and the thematic guide to parish registers (Finding Aid No. 1206, volume 1) provide summary descriptions of the baptisms, marriages, and burials in File 1. Volume 2 of the thematic guide contains a shelf list for reel H-1807. MSS1206(Electronic) The Chateauguay church register of Rev. John Bowles is available online. (90: Open)
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Record information Mhairi de Castro fonds [textual records, philatelic record]
Date:1845-1974.Reference:R7969-0-7-E, MG29-C119Type of material:Textual material, Stamps and stamp productsFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:101643Date(s):1845-1974.Place of creation:CanadaExtent:7.5 cm of textual records: some photocopies.
1 postal cover: 9 x 16-1/2 cm.
1 print: postcard, b&w; 9 x 14 cm.
3 maps: manuscript, printed.Language of material:EnglishAdded language of material:English, FrenchScope and content:The fonds consists of miscellaneous papers of Mhairi de Castro including the Chateauguay Congregational Church Register of Reverend John Bowles, 1845-1848; corresondence of Mrs. Casault, 1870-1871, describing her trip to Red Rvier to join her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Louis-Adolphe Casault, at Fort Garry; and correspondence, memoranda and diaries concerning the Eastern Arctic Patrol of 1937. The textual records have been divided into three series: Reverend John Bowles; Mrs. Joseph Bowles; and Mhairi A.M. de Castro (née Fenton).
In addition, fonds consists of a postally used cover on Hudson's Bay Company stationery, from Craig Harbour, N.W.T., addressed to C. Stuart McEwen Esq., M.D., Montréal, postmark dated 1937. The cover contains one example of Scott #237 (3+ - 1937 King George VI Coronation issue), tied by a "Craig Harbour, N.W.T.", circular date stamp dated "AU 26-37" besides which is located a second strike of the same postmark. The cover also bears the manuscript notation "The most Northerly post in the British Empire. 76-12'N. 80-10'W.".
Also included in the fonds is a Hudson's Bay Company photo postcard addressed to Dr. C. Stuart McEwan, Montréal, depicting the R.M.S. "Nascopie" in the Arctic, ca. 1938. The illustration includes the printed inscription "H.M.S. "Nascopie" of the Hudson's Bay Company, goes North each year with mail and supplies for Arctic posts." The correspondence/address side of the card also contains one example of Scott #232 (2+ - 1937 King George VI definitive issue), tied by a partial strike of a "Craig, Harbour, N.W.T." circular date stamp dated "AM-AU 26-38" (the point of mailing) beside which is located a second complete strike of the same postmark. The postcard and cover were carried by the "Nascopie" from Craig Harbour to Montréal.
Fonds also contains one manuscript map and two printed maps as follows: map of the Dominion of Canada, Eastern Arctic Patrol, 1936; map of the Dominion of Canada showing proposed itinerary for the Eastern Arctic Patrol; and map of the Dominion of Canada showing the establishments and transport routes of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1933.Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:de Castro, Mhairi Angela MacLeod (née Fenton), 1918- : Mhairi Angela MacLeod Fenton was born 30 November 1918 in St. Andrew's, Scotland. She was the daughter of Alexander Fenton of New York and his wife Gladys (née Huntington). After the death of her mother, Mhairi Fenton made her home with her mother's sister Janet Evelyn Huntington, who had married her first cousin, Dr. Charles Stuart McEuen (d. 1956). She grew up in Scotland but lived in Canada after Dr. McEuen, a specialist in cancer research, took a post at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal.
Interest in the incidence of cancer among Eskimos led to Dr. McEuen's visiting the Arctic in the summer of 1937 with the Eastern Arctic Patrol of that year, aboard the R.M.S. Nascopie. The Officer in Charge and Government Representative in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago was Major D.L. McKeand of the Lands, Parks and Forests Branch of the Department of Mines and Resources. Despite the reluctance of the Hudson's Bay Company to take women on the expedition that year, Dr. McEuen's insistence on taking his wife caused it to change its decision and Mhairi Fenton accompanied her aunt and uncle on the trip. In 1976, Miss Fenton married Henry M. de Castro of the U.S. Navy, with whom she made her home in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa.Additional information:General note:Presented in 1984 by Mrs. Henry M. de Castro, Ottawa, Ontario.Arrangement note:Three maps that were part of the donation were transferred to the Cartographic and Audio-Visual Archives Division at the time of acquisition.Location of originals note:Originals in the possession of the Federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs.Availability of other formats note:The Chateauguay church register in file 1 is also available on microfilm reel H-1807, from reel image 860 to 948 (end of reel).Varying form of title:Subject heading:- Quebec (Quebec)
- Fort Garry (Man.) - Description, 1870-1871 Charles Stuart McEuen, 1937
- Fort Garry (Man.) - Social life and customs, 1870-1871 Richard Finnie, 1937
- Arctic regions - Discovery and exploration, 1936-1938 Nascopie (Ship), 1937
- Inuit - Canada - Medical care, 1936-1938 John Bowles, 1845-1848
- Mhairi Fenton - Diaries, 1936-1938 Samuel Gale, 1845
- D.L. McKeand - Diaries, 1936-1938 Rev. J.J. Carruthers, 1845
- Church records and registers - Canada East, 1845-1848 Congregational Church (Châteauguay, Quebec), 1845-1848
- Marriage records - Canada East, 1845-1848 Colonial Missionary Society, 1845-1848
- Baptismal records - Canada East, 1845-1848 Mrs. Louis Aldolphe Casault, 1870
- Registers of births, etc., - Canada East, 1845-1848 Mrs. Joseph Bowles, 1870
- Congregationalists - Canada East, 1845-1848 Louis Adolphe Casault, 1870
- Women - Travel - Quebec (Province), 1870-1871 Toronto (Ont.), 1870
- Women - Travel - Manitoba, 1870-1871 Sarnia (Ont.), 1870
- Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870 St. Paul (Minn.), 1870
- Canada. Canadian Armed Forces - Manitoba, 1870-1871 Colonel Jarvis, 1870-1871
- Militia, 1870-1871 Montréal (Canada East), 1845
- Maps, 1935-1939 Sir Francis Leopald McClintoch, 1859
- Comgregational churches - Clergy, 1845-1848 Henry Wilkes, 1845
- Métis - Government relations, 1870-1871
- Women - Diaries, 1937
- Navies - Arctic regions, 1937
- Somerset Island (N.W.T.)
- Métis Manitoba
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