Robert Ward Shepherd and family fonds [multiple media]

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Robert Ward Shepherd and family fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1796-1962.

Reference:

R7300-0-8-E, MG29-A55

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Moving images, Stamps and stamp products

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

98193

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Robert Ward Shepherd and family fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1796-1962.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

England, France, Belgium

Extent:

1.12 m of textual records.
ca. 1498 photographs : b&w and col., multiple processes.
31 film reels (5 h, 18 min) ; 16 mm.
1 postal stationary item : postcard.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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Fonds documents the personal lives and business activities of three generations of the Shepherd family. Included are numerous records relating to the family business, the Ottawa River Navigation Company and the family interest in steamers and steam navigation. There are extensive records documenting their involvement in the First World War, as well as records pertaining to the family farm in Como Quebec, and the Delesderniers family, who were related to the Shepherd's by marriage. Included in the correspondence is a postcard.

Fonds also consists of photographs of various steamship vessels on the Ottawa, St. Lawrence and Great Lake waterways including those owned by the Ottawa River Navigation Company and the Tree Line Navigation Company; officers and crews of various vessels; views of Montreal, Iroquois, Hudson, Como, Oka and Chambly, Quebec; World War I in Europe; and the R-100 airship.

Fonds also consists of amateur footage shot in Canada, the United States and Central America by Robert Ward Shepherd III.

Provenance:

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Shepherd, Robert Ward, 1819-1895
Additional name(s):

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Shepherd familly

Shepherd (Famille)

Delesderniers family

Delesderniers(Famille)
Biography/Administrative history:

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Shepherd, Robert Ward, 1819-1895 : Robert Ward Shepherd (1819-1895), a business and ship's captain was born in Norfolk England, immigrated to Canada in 1830 and settled in Montreal. Shepherd was associated with the steam navigation on the Ottawa-Montreal route, first as Captain of a number of steamers and from 1864 as President of the Ottawa River Navigation Company. He was also Vice-President and a Director of Molson's Bank. His son, Robert Ward Shepherd, Jr. (1848-1912) followed his father in the operation of the navigation company, and was proprietor of the Greenwood apple orchards at Como. The youngest of a family of six children, Robert Ward Shepherd III (1891-1962), followed the family interest in steamships. After serving in the First World War, first as an artillery gunner in the Canadian Expedition Force, then as as an officer in the Royal Navy, Shepherd returned to his work as a purser with Canada Steamship Lines. He married Kathleen Baker in 1921 and changed careers, becoming a purchasing agent for several steamship lines.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Paper) The finding aid is an item-by-item description of the major correspondence series, and a file list of the remaining material. MSS1242 (90: Open)

Textual records (Electronic) Finding aid is a file list of volumes 1 to 6. MSS1242 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000190.pdf

Photographs (Paper) See "Photographic inventories, indexes, and caption lists arranged by accession number". FA-500 (Restrictions not set)

Photographs (Electronic) Some item level descriptions are available in the MINISIS database. (90: Open)

Moving images (film) (Electronic) See MISACS database for item-level descriptions. (90: Open)

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General Note:

Photographs were acquired in 1949 from Robert Ward Shepherd and in 1974 from Mrs. Robert Ward Shepherd, both of Como, Quebec. Textual records and some photographs were acquired in 1978, 1980 and 2000 from Mrs. Margaret A. Peyton of Como, Quebec. A photocopy of biographical notes relating to Robert Ward Shepherd was acquired in 1962 from Mr. R.W. Shepherd III. This was formerly MG 24 I 36 and is now in volume one of this unit., R7300 vol. 1 file. 1 is now stored in R7300 vol. 7

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1949-029 NPC
1949-030 NPC
1949-031 NPC
1949-032 NPC
1949-033 NPC
1949-034 NPC
1949-035 NPC
1949-036 NPC
1949-037 NPC
1949-038 NPC
1949-039 NPC
1974-473 NPC
1974-474 NPC
1975-403 NPC
1978-215 NPC
1980-059 NPC
1984-321 NPC
1999-0030 VSA
2000-00917-4
2001-00207-6

Former archival reference no.:

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MG29-A55
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1242] 106

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

Philatelic records

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Copyright expired. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative number.

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Date modified:: 2023-07-20

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Robert Ward Shepherd and family fonds [multiple media]

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