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Correspondence and records related to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society MacDonell, Father Andrew

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Correspondence and other textual material relating to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society, received and assembled by Rev. Andrew MacDonell, and arranged chronologically as a file perhaps by Clare Lawrence. Includes correspondence regarding the activities of the Society, especially regarding financing and settlement planning for the Society's settlement scheme in Alberta, Canada, minutes of 1925 meetings, printed reports for the years 1933 and 1939, and a 1926 field supervisor's report regarding Clandonald, Alberta. Includes an informal retrospective report by MacDonell in 1952, pamphlets, broadsides and other promotional material for the Clandonald settlement scheme, specifications from 1923 for farm workers' housing construction and settlers' cottages, copies of memoranda and requests for funds by MacDonell, correspondence with and copies of lectures in 1933 by Dr. Coady of the Extension Department of St. Francis Xavier University, and four indentures made in 1939 and the early 1940s by MacDonell with his relative Arthur Lawrence regarding property in Clandonald.

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Title
Correspondence and records related to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society
Creator
MacDonell, Father Andrew
Date Created
1925-1940
Description
Correspondence and other textual material relating to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society, received and assembled by Rev. Andrew MacDonell, and arranged chronologically as a file perhaps by Clare Lawrence. Includes correspondence regarding the activities of the Society, especially regarding financing and settlement planning for the Society's settlement scheme in Alberta, Canada, minutes of 1925 meetings, printed reports for the years 1933 and 1939, and a 1926 field supervisor's report regarding Clandonald, Alberta. Includes an informal retrospective report by MacDonell in 1952, pamphlets, broadsides and other promotional material for the Clandonald settlement scheme, specifications from 1923 for farm workers' housing construction and settlers' cottages, copies of memoranda and requests for funds by MacDonell, correspondence with and copies of lectures in 1933 by Dr. Coady of the Extension Department of St. Francis Xavier University, and four indentures made in 1939 and the early 1940s by MacDonell with his relative Arthur Lawrence regarding property in Clandonald.
Subject
Canada--Emigration and immigration; Colonists; Scots; Land settlement
Person Or Corporation
Clandonald
Genre
Correspondence
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
English
Identifier
CC_TX_187_006
Collection
Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
Source
Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection
Date Available
2015-10
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/
DOI
10.14288/1.0132447
Category
Clandonald and Scottish immigration to Canada
RBSCLocation
Box 187
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Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/