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Albert Edward Kemp fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1856-1942.

Reference:

R4276-0-X-E, MG27-IID9

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

104152

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Albert Edward Kemp fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1856-1942.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

21.5 m of textual records.
103 photographs b&w.
3 maps

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of files as Minister without Portfolio, 1911-1916, 5.1 m; general correspondence, 1916-1917, 2.5 m; War Purchasing Commission, 1915-1918, 2.6 m; Military Hospitals Commission, 1915-1919, 0.7 m; acting Minister of Militia and Defence, 1916, 0.6 m; Minister of Militia and Defence, 1916-1917, 1.2 m; Minister of Overseas Military Forces, 1917-1920, 5.8 m; printed material, 0.6 m; business, political, family and personal, 1856-1942, 1.1 m.

Fonds also contains albums of photographs of buildings under construction and erected by Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. There are also photographs of Forces of Military Council, Overseas Military Forces of Canada, London, England, ca. 1917; photo by Elliott & Fry; portraits of Kemp and Gipsy Smith; photos by Kennedy, Lancefield Abell, Harris & Ewing; British immigrants outside British Welcome League Headquarters, Toronto, Ont.; photo by Pringle & Booth; portrait of Sir Edward Kemp.

Fonds consists of a map of the First World War Western European front and a map of Ontario indicating which western and European cities are in the same latitude.

Provenance:

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Kemp, A. E. (Albert Edward), 1858-1929

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Kemp, A. E. (Albert Edward), 1858-1929

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Kemp, A. E. (Albert Edward), 1858-1929 : Albert Edward Kemp was born in Clarenceville, Canada East. He was a representative for Prowse Brothers, in Montreal around 1879. He moved to Toronto in 1885 and entered in partnership with Herbert O. Edy in Kemp, Edy and Company. In 1886, Kemp joined with Thomas McDonald to form McDonald, Kemp and Company, later the Dominion Tin and Stamping Company. Eventually as the A.E. Kemp Manufacturing Company, the firm extended operations to Winnipeg and Montreal.

A.E. Kemp served as president of the Canadian Manufacturers Association, 1895-1896, and of the Toronto Board of Trade, 1899-1900. He served as a conservative member of Parliament for Toronto East from 1900 to 1921, and as a senator from 1921 until 1929. He served as minister without Portfolio, 1911-1916, minister of Militia and Defence, 1916-1917, minister of Overseas Forces of Canada in the United Kingdom, 1917-1920, and minister without Portfolio, 1920-1921. He was chairman of the War Purchasing Committee, 1915-1917, a member of the Imperial War Cabinet, 1918, and Canadian Commissioner and Plenipotentiary at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid consists of a file list to the entire collection. The related card index is available to researchers in the Card index series. MSS0235 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001237.pdf

Cartographic material (Other) Please consult lower level descriptions. (90: Open)

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General note:

Volumes 1-190 of the Kemp papers were received in 1958 from the Executors of the Kemp estate. Volumes 191-196 were received in 1980 from D'Arcy Proctor of Pontypool, Ontario.

Arrangement note:

Papers are organized by Kemp's various portfolios and responsibilities, roughly in chronological order although there is some overlapping between series.
Subject heading:

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Politicians Canada

Hommes politiques Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1980-133 NPC
1981-146 NPC
1983-142 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG27-IID9
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 235] 31

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [KEMP, ALBERT EDWARD 1980-133] 3932

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [KEMP, ALBERT EDWARD 1983-142] 4899

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [KEMP, ALBERT EDWARD 1981-146] 6220

[Consultation 90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use. Copyright expired. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative number.
Cartographic material: Please consult lower level descriptions.

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