W. Kaye Lamb fonds [multiple media] Archives / Collections and Fonds
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W. Kaye Lamb fonds [multiple media]
Hierarchical level:FondsContext of this record:Fonds includes:511 lower level description(s)View lower level description(s) -
Finding aid Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive file list. MSS1644 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000287.pdfSound recordings: (Paper) See AV collection file for item level descriptions.Cartographic material, architectural, technical (microform): (Paper) Finding aid is available in the main reference room. Finding aid consists of an item listing. Lamb, W.K. 86703/5. (90: Open) -
Record information W. Kaye Lamb fonds [multiple media]
Date:1886-1998.Reference:R9380-0-3-E, MG31-D8Type of material:Textual material, Photographs, Sound recordings, Art, Architectural and technical drawings, Maps and cartographic materialFound in:Archives / Collections and FondsItem ID number:99199Date(s):1886-1998.Place of creation:No place, unknown, or undeterminedExtent:10.34 m of textual records.
8 photographs b&w.
4 audio reels (1 h, 39 min).
2 maps col., ms. annotations 45 x 38 cm and 45 x 56 cm.
1 microfilm reel (14 frames) negative, ill. 35 mm.
16 glass platesLanguage of material:EnglishScope and content:The fonds documents Dr. Lamb's career as a librarian and his dual role as the Dominion archivist and the national librarian of Canada. His activities with professional organizations and his private work as an historian and editor are also documented.
Fonds consists of a 16 glass plates and microfilm reel of fourteen floor plans and elevations of the National Library of Canada, originally drawin in 1954 by Mather and Halenby, architects. Also included are two maps, one of land recording districts in British Columbia and the other of Methoy Portage in La Loche, Saskatchewan showing roads, trails and marshes.Provenance:Biography/Administrative history:Lamb, W. Kaye (William Kaye), 1904-1999 : Dominion Archivist, National Librarian.
Dr. W. Kaye Lamb was born on 11 May 1904 in New Westminster, British Columbia and lived in that province until 1927, when he completed undergraduate studies in history at the University of British Columbia. From 1928 to 1932, Lamb studied in Paris under a Nichol Scholarship. The interruption of this work for the completion of an M.A. in history, 1930, from his alma mater set Lamb on a new path of research which led to his completion of a doctoral degree in economics and history from the University of London, England in 1933.
Despite the Depression, the young scholar found employment in 1934 in Victoria as the provincial librarian and archivist of British Columbia. From 1936 to 1940 Lamb was also the superintendent of the province's Public Library Commission. He returned to Vancouver in 1940 to become the librarian of the University of British Columbia.
During this stage of his career Lamb was active on numerous boards and societies, contributed to historical, library and marine periodicals, and was editor of the 'British Columbia historical quarterly', 1937-1946. Building on these foundations over the years, a list grew which included executive membership on the Canadian Historical Association, the Champlain Society, the Canadian Library Association, the Society of American Archivists, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Bibliographical Society of Canada. Dr. Lamb was also engaged in activity in historical and archival organizations as an official part of his duties as Dominion archivist and as national librarian. Examples include the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and the Canadian Board on Geographical Names.
Dr. Lamb's appointment as Dominion archivist of Canada in 1948 signalled a new era of expansion, modernization and change for the Public Archives of Canada. By 1950 archival holdings had been reorganized into manuscript and record groups and publication of preliminary inventories was underway. The use of microfilm was introduced in 1950, a technological change which made obsolete the program of transcription of records held in the United Kingdom and France.
Dr. Lamb was appointed as Canada's first national librarian in 1953. He had officially campaigned for the establishment of this institution since 1946 when he was elected as vice-president of the Canadian Library Association.
In 1967, a new building to house the National Library and the Public Archives of Canada was opened. Dr. Lamb retired as national librarian in 1968 and as Dominion archivist in January 1969. His career did not end at this point, as he continued to write and publish history and to edit other significant historical works. He died on 24 August 1999 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He was predeceased by his wife Wessie M. Tipping Lamb and is survived by his daughter, Elizabeth Hawkins and her family.Additional information:General note:Dr. W. Kaye Lamb donated his papers to the Public Archives of Canada in 1984 with the exception of a few items which he presented in 1965, and a letter from explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson which was obtained by the Public Archives in 1974. Additional material was obtained from Dr. Lamb's daughter, Elizabeth Hawkins, in 1988, 1998, and 2000.Associated material note:There are oral history interviews of Kaye Lamb in the Basil Stuart-Stubbs fonds at the University of British Columbia.Accruals:No further accruals are expected.Subject heading:Source:PrivateFormer archival reference no.:MG31-D8 -
Ordering and viewing options Conditions of access:Access restriction documentTextual records[Consultation Restrictions vary]Finding aid box [FA 1644] 127[Consultation Closed]Graphic (photo)[Consultation Restrictions vary]Volume [R9380] 52[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1973-010] 04135.1[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1966-015] 1681[Consultation Closed]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1966-073] 1681[Consultation Closed]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1967-046] 1681[Consultation Closed]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1967-053] 1681[Consultation Closed]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1968-200] 3798[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1952-064] 3924[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAY 1957-033] 3925[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1969-151] 4817[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1962-089] 4961[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1968-102] 5334[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1968-165] 5334[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1963-097][Consultation Open]5661;[Consultation Open]ENC 0037;[Consultation Open]Box [PUBLIC ARCHIVES OF CANADA. MANUSCRIPT DIVISION 1965-092] 5697[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1964-138] 5761[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1968-014] 5845[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1968-022] 5845[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1968-033] 5845[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1966-078][Consultation Open]6400;[Consultation Open]PF 0027;[Consultation Open]SC 0428;[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1967-059] SC 0315[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1968-174] SC 0536[Consultation Open]Sound recordings[Consultation Open]Graphic (art)[Consultation Open]Box [1951-009] 20386[Consultation Open]Box [1965-046][Consultation Open]A300-03 Item no. assigned by LAC 1--2[Consultation Open]Architectural,technical: microform[Consultation Open]Box [LAMB, WILLIAM KAYE 1966-005] 6402[Consultation Open]Cartographic material[Consultation Open]Terms of use:Photographs: There are no restrictions on the consultation of the photographs. However, copying of them is governed by copyright law.
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