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Mary Howard Shearwood fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

[ca. 1879-1947].

Reference:

R7836-0-1-E, MG29-D101

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

101703

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Mary Howard Shearwood fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

[ca. 1879-1947].

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

40 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of drafts of manuscripts of books, pamphlets and essays by Mary Shearwood (neé Henderson), n.d., 1937-1947; and material relating to Bishop Jervois Arthur Newnham, Shearwood's brother-in-law, for whom she wrote a biography, n.d., 1879-1896.

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Shearwood, Mary Howard, 1869-1962

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Shearwood, Mary Howard, 1869-1962 : Mary Howard Shearwood, née Henderson, was a sister-in-law of Bishop Newnham, Anglican Bishop of Moosenee from 1893-1903. She obtained a B.A. from McGill University in the 1880s and was married to a prominent Montreal engineer, Frederick Percy Shearwood, in 1890. Frederick Shearwood was a designing engineer for the Dominion Bridge Company and a notable naval architect. Mary Shearwood published two books: a biography of Bishop Newnham entitled "By Water and the Word", 1943, and a history of the Dominion Bridge Company entitled "Whence Came This Dominion Bridge That Spans the Dominion of Canada," (ca. 1937). She also published many short stories and articles in various periodicals.

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive list of volumes 1 and 2 MSS1494 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000244.pdf

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General note:

Received in 1983 from Ken Wallace of Ottawa, Ont.

Citation/reference note:

Shearwood, F.P. "By Water and the Word: A Transcription of the Diary of the Right Reverend J. A. Newnham, While Plying the Waters and Ice Fields of Northern Canada in the Diocese of Moosonee," Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1943; Shearwood, F.P. "Whence Came this Dominion Bridge That Spans the Dominion of Canada," Montreal: Dominion Bridge Co., [1937].

Related material:

See also "Newnham, Jervois Arthur", MG29-D49.
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Manuscripts, Canadian, 1937-1947 By Water and the Word, [1937-1947]

Mary Howard Shearwood - Manuscripts, [1937-1947] Whence Came This Dominion Bridge that Spans the Dominion of Canada?, [1937-1947]

Books - Canada, [1937-1947] "A Cat on the Hearth", [1937-1947]

Pamphlets, [1937-1947] "Publicity of a Hold-Up Case", [1937-1947]

Essays, [1879-1947] "Journal of a Belgian Mining Engineer", [1937-1947]

Married women, [1937-1947] Prisoner's Aid Society, [1937-1947]

Women - Social conditions, [1937-1947] Southampton Island (N.W.T.), [1895]

Mining engineers, 1930-1931 "Psalm 39", [1937-1947]

Flin Flon (Man.)

Sermons, English, [1879-1896]

Church meetings, 1896

Bishop Jervois Arthur Newnham - Biography, 1879-1896

Inuit - Canada - Religion and mythology, [1879-1896]

Theology, [1879-1896]

Patriarchy, [1937-1947]

Women authors, Canadian

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Private

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MG29-D101
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