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Joseph Whiteside Boyle fonds [textual record (chiefly microform)]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1917-1929, 1985.

Reference:

R2593-0-1-E, MG30-E428

Type of material:

Textual material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103969

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Joseph Whiteside Boyle fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1917-1929, 1985.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

5.4 cm of textual records.
2 microfilm reels negative and positive.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of documents, original, 1914-1919, 1929, 1985, 5 cm, and photocopy, 1983, 0.5 cm. There are also microfilmed records relating to the conversion of the 2nd Motor Machine Gun Brigade into a brigade for transportation and famine relief. These Northern Ireland documents provide information on Boyle's work for transportation and famine relief in Rumania and Russia, 1917-1919, microfilm reel A-1608.

The fonds also contains business documents of the Klondyke Mining Company and correspondence and other documents relating to the Boyle family, microfilm reel A-1723. This material includes business letters, cablegrams, letters, agreement between Canadian Klondyke Mining Company and Yukon Gold Company, legal papers of the Klondyke Mining Company, papers relating to the work of the mining company, accounts payable, memorandum of agreement, maps and plans, photograph album, press clippings, etc.

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Boyle, Joe, 1867-1923
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Boyle, Joe, 1867-1923

Canada. Canadian Army. Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, 2nd

Canada. Armée canadienne. Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade, 2nd

Klondyke Mining Company
Biography/Administrative history:

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Boyle, Joe, 1867-1923 : Joseph Whiteside Boyle, known as "Klondike Joe", was born in 1867 at Toronto and was raised in Woodstork, Ont. He worked as a prospector and an entrepreneur in the Yukon, where he amassed a significant fortune and reputation. During the First World War, he formed and financed a fifty-man machine gun contingent, which he offered to the Canadian Government. The contingent arrived in England in 1916 and was renamed the Yukon Motor Machine Gun Battery. It did not proceed to the front until 1918 and then did so as part of the Second Machine Gun Brigade in the Fourth Division.

In 1916, Boyle went to England to act as a consultant to the Russian Government which was experiencing severe problems in its railway network. The following year, he was in Russia as a member of the Commission international de Ravitaillement. He thereafter proceeded to Rumania to survey the state of communications between Russia and her Balkan ally. After the war, he served with the Canadian Mission in Rumania.

See also: The Canadian Annual Review, 1923, and The Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985.

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Textual records: (Paper) The microfilm shelf lists for the "A" microfilm reels provides a detailed description of the contents of the two microfilm reels. MSS2001

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General note:

Volume 1 was received in 1983 from Mr. Chris Taylor of Ottawa, Ont. and Mr. Ed Bennett of Woodstock, Ont. Volume 2 was received in 1985. Microfilm was received in 1985 and in 1987 from the Public Office of Northern Ireland.

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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118-020027-6
1990-0095 MSS
1990/0095
MG30-E428

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MG30-E428
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [MG30 E 428] 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 2001] 527--530

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Textual records: microform

[Consultation96 Restrictions vary]

Microfilm reel

[Consultation 90 Open]

A-1608;

[Consultation 90 Open]

A-1723;

[Consultation 90 Open]

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