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Charles Belford fonds [textual record]
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Record information Charles Belford fonds [textual record]
Date:1825-1895.Reference:R7834-0-7-E, MG29-D98Type of material:Textual materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:101700Date(s):1825-1895.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:5 cm of textual records.Language of material:EnglishScope and content:Fonds consists of correspondence on political subjects from Canadian politicians including Sir John A. Macdonald, Charles Tupper, Wilfrid Laurier and Thomas D'Arcy McGee; correspondence from authors and journalists on various subjects; correspondence relating to family matters, 1825-1895; and correspondence from lecturers invited to address the Ontario Literary Society, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Charles Dickens, 1859-1861.Provenance:Additional name(s):Biography/Administrative history:Belford, Charles, 1837-1880 : Charles Belford, born and educated in Ireland, immigrated to Toronto, Ont. in 1857. Belford was corresponding secretary of the Ontario Literary Society between 1860 and 1861. In 1864 he married Jennie Thomas. Thereafter, he joined his great-uncle James Beaty's paper THE LEADER, where he was editor-in-chief from 1867 until 1871. The following year he was appointed chief editor of THE MAIL, and in 1876 he co-founded the publishing firm of Belford Brothers, which published a journal of literature and art, BELFORD'S MONTHLY MAGAZINE, as well as British and American reprints. He resigned from the Mail and Belford Brothers in 1878 due to ill-health. In 1879 he was appointed secretary to the Dominion Board of Appraisers and moved to Ottawa. Belford died in 1880. Dominion Annual Register and Review, 1880-1881, p. 392.Additional information:General note:Received in 1979 from C.H. Belford of Kanata, Ont.Subject heading:- Ontario Literary Society - Records and correspondence, 1859-1861 Ralph Waldo Emerson, [1825-1895]
- Lecturers - United States, [1825-1895] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, [1825-1895]
- Lecturers - Great Britain, [1825-1895] Charles Dickens, [1825-1895]
- Lecturers - Canada, [1825-1895]
- Lectures and lecturing - Ontario, [1825-1895]
- Hommes politiques Canada
- Politicians Canada
- Canada
Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG29-D98 -
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