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McGillivray, Elizabeth, 1776-?
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Correspondence and typed transcritps
Correspondence and typed transcritps
CA RBD MSG 406-7 · File · 1842-1865; undated
Part of John McDonald of Garth

Typed transcripts of incoming and outgoing correspondence and one news paper article. Majority of the letters are on the topic of westward expansion/protection, Canadian confederation, interaction with and displacement of Indigenous groups, and life and politics in the mid 19th century. Correspondence with such figures as:

  • Elizabeth Reid (nee McGillivray)
  • J. G. Vansittart
  • Edward Ellice
  • R. W. Harwood
  • John Sandfield Macdonald
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