Archival Collections Catalogue

Simon McTavish estate records

CA RBD MSG 472-2-56
File
20 October 1824-23 August 1828

Part of Masson Collection

File contains court documents relating to the vacant estate of the late Simon McTavish (File 1).

Simon McTavish estate records

CA RBD MSG 472-2-58
File
6 August 1830-26 November 1831

Part of Masson Collection

File contains court documents relating to the vacant estate of the late Simon McTavish (File 3).

Simon McTavish estate records

CA RBD MSG 472-2-55
File
27 August 1813

Part of Masson Collection

File includes document sent to the executors of Simon McTavish's estate.

Simon McTavish estate records

CA RBD MSG 472-2-57
File
29 August 1828-24 September 1830

Part of Masson Collection

File contains court documents relating to the vacant estate of the late Simon McTavish (File 2).

Simon McTavish estate records

CA RBD MSG 472-2-59
File
26 November 1831-21 March 1839

Part of Masson Collection

File contains court documents relating to the vacant estate of the late Simon McTavish (File 4).

Samuel Mathewson Baylis Fonds

CA RBD MSG 399
Fonds
1895, 1899, 1921-1941

Correspondence 1921-1931 concerning Simon McTavish; official copies of legal documents including estate inventories, lawsuits over the McTavish estate, and Simon McTavish’s will; notes for Baylis’ study of McTavish; numerous petitions and newspaper clippings on the state of the McTavish monument and tomb (Peel St., Montreal), and a typescript of his text concerning Simon McTavish. Also two letters from Ignatius Donnelly, 1899, and a letter 1895, from J. Middleton to John Doyle about 19th century gardening in Montreal and the funeral of Judge James Reid.

Baylis, Samuel Mathewson, 1845-1941

McTavish, Frobisher & Company, and McTavish, McGillivrays & Company Collection

CA RBD MSG 1243
Collection
1805-1822

These are various business papers of Simon McTavish and include partnership agreements with William and Duncan McGillivray, William Hallowell, Roderick McKenzie, Angus Shaw and James Hallowell, 1806 and drafts of agreement for seven years between McTavish, Frobisher and Company and John Fraser of London, Simon McGillivray and John Tullon, 1805.

Letterbook

CA RBD MSG 433-1
File
1787-1788

Part of Joseph Frobisher Collection

File contains 1 bound volume consisting of copies of correspondence written by Joseph Frobisher while he held an important role in the North West Co. from 15th April 1787 to 20th October 1788. All letters written from Montreal and sent to various business relations.