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Edward Wolfe Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 68
  • Fonds
  • 1754-1761

This is the pay ledger for Wolfe's Regiment of Marines.

Wolfe, Edward, 1685-1759

Edward Wentworth Beatty Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 746
  • Fonds
  • 1930

Fonds consists of manuscript of "The City of Business and How it was Built"

Beatty, Edward Wentworth, Sir, 1878-1943

Edward Murphy Irish Manuscripts Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 88
  • Collection
  • between approximately 1650 and 1812

The collection consists of four early Irish manuscripts assembled by the Montreal collector Edward Murphy as part of his private library. The manuscripts include a copy of The Midnight Court (Cúirt an mheán oíche) by Brian Merriman, the Life of St. Patrick by John Chambers, Tri Biorghaoithe an Bhais (Three shafts of death) by Geoffrey Keating, and a fragment of an Irish vocabulary (Nuadhfoclóir bogcruaideach).

Edward Jerningham Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 159
  • Fonds
  • approximately 1770

"Yarico to Inkle", with Marlay's" Prologue to the Begger's Opera" and Father Francis' "Prayer to Saint Agnes" comprise Jerningham's papers.

Jerningham, Edward, 1727-1812

Edmund James Peck Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 259
  • Fonds
  • 1916

An Inuit grammar was compiled by Peck during his stay at Wakeham Bay in 1916.

Peck, Edmund James, 1850-1924

Edgar Jepson Fonds

  • CA RBD M258.Bd Box VII
  • Fonds
  • 1895-1908

"The Real Ernest Dowson", by Edgar Jepson (ca 1908; later recast as pp.245-248 of Memoirs of a Victorian) is accompanied by a few items of correspondence and some verses by Plarr on journalism.

Jepson, Edgar, 1863-1938

Earl of Selkirk Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 403
  • Collection
  • 1816-1818

The thirteen documents are depositions taken by Lord Selkirk concerning the conflict with the North West Company at the Red River Settlement in Manitoba and at Fort William. On 11 June 1815, representatives of the North West Company attacked and fired upon the colonists, and demanded the surrender of Governor MacDonell, who, to avoid the loss of blood, gave himself up voluntarily. He was taken to Montreal as a prisoner, and charges were laid against him by his enemies, but his case was not tried. These depositions concern this case.

Duncan Cameron Fonds

  • CA RBD MSG 1025
  • Fonds
  • 1804-1805

Cameron's papers comprise a journal kept in the Nipigon region from July 1804 to May 1805, together with a separate volume of extracts from the 1804 journal.

Cameron, Duncan, active 1804-1805

Duke of York and Albany Frederick Augustus Collection

  • CA RBD MSG 195
  • Collection
  • 1778-1821

This collection consists of translations from Terence, begun in 1778, and correspondence on military, political and private matters, 1787-1821, mostly addressed to Thomas Coutts, banker.

Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827

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