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Harold Daly fonds [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1856-1969.

Reference:

R4661-0-1-E, MG27-IIIF9

Type of material:

Textual material, Sound recordings, Photographs, Art, Stamps and stamp products, Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

106902

Context of this record:

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Harold Daly fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1856-1969.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

Ontario

Extent:

30.3 cm of textual records.
ca. 560 prints lithographs, etchings, engravings, photograph.
152 photographs b&w.
3 objects metal plates on wood blocks, papier-maché.
1 postal cover.
1 audio disc (30 min).

Language of material:

English

Scope and content:

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Fonds consists of the personal papers of Harold Mayne Daly, largely concerned with Canadian politics and with Mr. Daly's military experience. Included are correspondence, predominantly 1896-1967; commissions, certificates, invitations, Christmas cards, memoirs, autobiographical notes, clippings, notes, short essays, quotations and short stories, and rhymes of A.T. Thompson.

The fonds consists of prints including portraits of a number of prominent Canadian, American, and British politicians, colonial governors, and others.

There are also 152 black and white photographs including portraits of John A. Macdonald, Charles Tupper, and others; depictions of Overseas Forestry Draft, Exhibition Camp, Toronto, Ontario; Brock Centenary; Niagara in winter, Niagara Falls, Ontario; Inter-Parliamentary Union's 23rd Conference, Ottawa, Ontario.

In addition, the fonds contains a relief papier-maché portrait of Sir John A. Macdonald; two printing plates for portraits of Sir John A. Macdonald and Arthur Meighen produced by the Union Engraving Company.

Philatelic material in the fonds consists of a first-day envelope, prepared especially for the installation ceremony commemorating the first general public operation of a coin letter box (the Mailomat) installed for official testing in Ottawa, Ontario, Postal Station B, 3 February, 1944.

The fonds also contains a sound recording of part of a speech by the Right Hon. Arthur Meighen, about Great Britains's war effort, and isolationism, delivered before the International Affiliation Sales and Advertising Club, Toronto, 1941.

Provenance:

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Daly, Harold, 1880-1969

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Daly, Harold, 1880-1969 : Harold Mayne Daly, lawyer, was born at Stratford, Ontario, the son of the Hon. Thomas Mayne Daly, who was Minister of the Interior, 1892-1896. He studied law at Brandon, Manitoba, became a lawyer in British Columbia, and later practiced for many years in Ottawa as a departmental and parliamentary agent. He served in the South African War, 1900-1901, and was a staff officer during World War I, retiring in 1919 with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel. He was private secretary to the Leader of the Opposition in 1925, and continued to be active in the Conservative Party. Mr. Daly was also a collector of material relating to political history.

Finding aid:

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Photographic material: (Paper) Finding aid is a list of photographs, including formats (for accession 1932-281). FA-395

Textual Records: (No finding aid) No finding aid

Sound recording: (Electronic) See MISACS for item level description.

Additional information:

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General note:

Received in 1966 from Mr. Harold Daly. Additional correspondence was received in 1975 and 1994 from the Progressive Conservative Party.

Location of originals note:

Sound recording: Original audio discs and master tapes are in possession of Don Wright.

Availability of other formats note:

Photographic material: copy negative number C-051657.

Subject heading:

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Daly, Thomas Mayne

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1973-05-22)
093-020000-4
121-020370-7
1932-281 NPC
1936-022 NPC
1936-023 NPC
1936-024 NPC
1936-025 NPC
1936-026 NPC
1950-026 NPC
1952-050 DAP
1969-0008 MISA
1969-027 PIC
1969-044 PIC
1969-075 NPC
1969-136 NPC
1971-279 NPC
1994-032 DAP
1994/062
94-231

Former archival reference no.:

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MG27-IIIF9
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Copy negative [R4661] C-051657

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1952-050] A256-01

[Consultation 90 Open]

2000811112 Item no. assigned by LAC 1

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [1969-044] A245-01

[Consultation 90 Open]

A681 Item no. assigned by LAC 1--2

[Consultation 90 Open]

Philatelic records

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [1994-032] C77

[Consultation 90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Terms of use:

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Prints: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired. Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.
Printing plates and papier-maché object: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Sound recording: No donor restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired.
Postal cover: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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