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William Henry Stuart fonds [textual record]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1939-1964.

Reference:

R1597-0-0-E, MG30-A29

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103885

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William Henry Stuart fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1939-1964.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2.1 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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W. H. Stuart collection [graphic material]

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Fonds consists of business and personal correspondence, 1939-1964, 0.1 m; reports, memoranda and notes relating to the construction of SAGE sites, Ontario highway contracts, and the Columbia River Project, 1940-1960, 0.2 m; newspaper and magazine clippings, 1960-1963, 0.1 m; and notebooks, 1918-1963, 1.7 m.

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Stuart, William Henry, 1884-1964

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Stuart, William Henry, 1884-1964 : W.H Stuart was born in Cheltenham, England on 2 August 1884. His family moved to Canada and he attended schools in Toronto and Winnipeg. He studied arts and engineering for a number of terms at the University of Minnesota 1905-08 and 1914-15 but did not obtain a degree. He worked his way up from rodman to resident engineer on the Grand Trunk Pacific's Edmonton to Prince Rupert railway line 1905-1914. Stuart served in the 2nd Canadian Tunnelling Company during the First World War. After the war, he returned to railway engineering with Canadian National Railways in Winnipeg. In 1926 he moved to Montreal to become superintendent of facilities for CNR Hotels and worked on projects such as Jasper Park Lodge and the Nova Scotia Hotel. In 1938-39 he was a contractor on construction work for national parks in PEI and Cape Breton. He joined the RCAF in 1940 as an engineer and became manager of the Stanley Flying Training School of the British Commonwealth Air Train Plan near Windsor NS.

After the war Stuart became deputy minister of Highway s and Public Works for the Nova Scotia government but soon transferred to Industry and Publicity. In 1947 he became an assistant manager for Fred Mannix Co., a prominent western Canadian contractor. In 1955 he investigated problems with highway contracts in the Fort William (Thunderbay) Ontario area. He was then a manager with the Foundation Co. of Canada working on the DEW (Distant Early Warning) Line on Baffin Island. Afterwards he was head of the New York office of A.D. Margison Co. for the construction of the North Bay ON underground headquarters for the SAGE continental defence project 1958-60. Stuart retired to Vancouver and he died in Victoria BC in 1964.

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General note:

Received in 1963-1964 from W.H. Stuart of Victoria, British Columbia.

Related material:

Additional material on Stuart is found in the Sidney Clarke Ells fonds, MG30-A14.
Subject heading:

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Engineers - Canada, 1939-1964 Stanley Field Flying School (Halifax, N.S.), 1941-1960

William Henry Stuart - Correspondence, 1939-1964 Columbia River Power Project, 1941-1960

Engineering - Canada, 1941-1960 John Fisher, 1962-1963

Roads - Ontario, 1941-1960

Road construction contracts - Ontario, 1941-1960

Fort William (Ont.) - Road construction contracts, 1941-1960

Canada - Relations - United States, 1918-1963

United States - Politics and government, 1918-1963

Nuclear energy, 1918-1963

Canada 1957-1963

Railroads Canada
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Private

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1967-021 PIC

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MG30-A29
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