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Harold William Jones collection [graphic material]

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Collection

Date:

1922-1931.

Reference:

R11227-0-7-E

Type of material:

Photographs

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Item ID number:

213223

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Harold William Jones collection
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Date(s):

1922-1931.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

355 photgraphs : b&w glass plates.
131 photographs : b&w nitrate negatives.
54 lantern slides : b&w,colour.
17 photographs : b&w prints.
Negatives - glass

Language of material:

English

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Harold William Jones collection [graphic material]

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The collection consists of some 540 items documenting largely his work to the Lake Melville Expedition, Labrador in 1921 for the Hydrographic Branch of the Dept. of Naval Service and by the Tidal and Current Survey of the Dept. of Marine; also, some views of the Hamilton Inlet Expedition, Labrador, 1923; Jones covered largely his living time in Cape Breton, specially in Badeck and the Big Bras d'Or area, St. Paul Island, N.S.; he travelled across Canada and took photos from the West Coast, Quebec and Maritimes between 1923-1931. A photo item list is available for the content of the collection (see attached).

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Jones, H.W, 1880-1950

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Jones, H.W, 1880-1950 : Harold William Jones was born in Ottawa in 1880, son of the late Capt. William Morgan Jones, and his wife Mary Robertson Rowatt. He received his education in local public schools and at Lisgar Collegiate and obtained his science degree in civil engineering from McGill University in 1903.
He was married at Baddeck (Nova Scotia), to the former Lena Margaret Campbell, who died in 1968. He has one son, Lt. Col. C. W. Jones, deputy director, mechanical engineering, Army Headquarters, and three daughters, Mrs. A. C. Mactaggart, Aurora, Mrs. J. W. Anderson, Hamilton, and Mrs. N. K. Young, Goderich.
He was a surveyor with the Grand Trunk Railway for several years before joining the staff of the Current and Tidal Surveys of the Dominion Government.
Mr. Jones was in charge of the survey party which travelled to Hamilton Inlet at the time of the Quebec-Labrador dispute. His hydrographic survey photographs were used as part as Canadian evidence in the Labrador Boundary decision in 1927.
In later years he did extensive work in conducting surveys for current charts of the Lower St. Lawrence river. He retired in 1946. He died in 1950. Mr. Jones took an active interest in the Audubon society and the Property Owner's Association.

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7 : glass plates from R/E 2005-1664
8 : glass plates from R/E 2005-1664
9 : nitrate negatives from R/E 2005-1664

Source:

Private

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2006-00523-5
R11227-0-7-E
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Volume [R11227] 1--9

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