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Andrew Thomas Drummond fonds [textual record]

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Fonds

Date:

1867-1894.

Reference:

R7565-0-1-E, MG29-D51

Type of material:

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98151

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Andrew Thomas Drummond fonds
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Date(s):

1867-1894.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2.5 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of letters to Andrew Thomas Drummond from Principal George Munro Grant of Queen's University relating to the financial affairs of Queen's and problems of curriculum, appointments and scholarships, n.d., 1887-1894; and two letters of introduction from Sir John A. Macdonald, 1867.

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Drummond, Andrew Thomas, 1843-1923
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Author: Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander), 1815-1891

Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.)

Macdonald, John A. (John Alexander), 1815-1891
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Drummond, Andrew Thomas, 1843-1923 : Andrew Thomas Drummond was born in Kingston, Ont. and educated at Queen's University. He pursued a career in law, practising in Kingston, London and Ottawa, and thereafter changing to a career in finance. In 1869 he went to Montreal to pursue commercial interests related to the development of the North-West. He was for many years a trustee of Queen's University. He was also a prolific writer of magazine and newspaper articles, and pamphlets on topics such as botany, geology and forestry. Drummond was one of the founders of American and Canadian forestry associations and a promoter of the Georgian Bay and Toronto Canal Scheme, 1905. Morgan, Henry. Canadian Men and Women of the Times, 1912, p. 344.

Rose, George Maclean. A Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography, 1888, Vol. 2, p. 311-12.

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General note:

Acquired in 1964.

Location of originals note:

Originals in the possession of Douglas Library, Queen's University.

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George Munro Grant, 1887-1894

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Private

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MG29-D51
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