Correspondence and papers, 1825-1839
- CA RBD MSG 406-2
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- 1825-1839
Part of John McDonald of Garth
Collection of business and personal, incoming and outgoing correspondence. Includes loose ledger pages, financial invoices, and credit receipts.
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Correspondence and papers, 1825-1839
Part of John McDonald of Garth
Collection of business and personal, incoming and outgoing correspondence. Includes loose ledger pages, financial invoices, and credit receipts.
Part of John McDonald of Garth
A mixed collection of personal and business papers. Mostly consisting of incoming and outgoing correspondence, the file also includes the indenture contract of a 'Donald Macdonell and Elizabeth his wife' and a receipt for payment by James Hughes to a Muir.
Autobiographical notes, volume II
Part of John McDonald of Garth
File contains one bound notebook whereon John McDonald has written notes and a brief history about his life and work. This volume comprises pages 113-226 covering the years 1806-1816.
McDonald, John, 1771 or 1772-1866
Autobiographical notes, volume I
Part of John McDonald of Garth
File contains one bound notebook whereon John McDonald has written notes and a brief history about his life and work. This volume comprises 113 pages covering the years 1791-1805.
McDonald, John, 1771 or 1772-1866
Autobiographical notes and typed extracts
Part of John McDonald of Garth
File contains typed transcripts from the two volume John McDonald autobiographical notes.
Correspondence and paper, 1850-1859
Part of John McDonald of Garth
Collection of incoming correspondence and one financial receipt.
Correspondence and typed transcritps
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:
McDonald's correspondence, 1791-1860, mostly concerns business and property matters, but also includes personal correspondence. There are statements of account with McTavish, Frobisher & Co., 1799; with McTavish, Fraser & Co., 1803-1804; with McTavish, McGillivray & Co., 1808-1809. There are two volumes of autobiographical notes assembled in 1859 and covering the period 1791-1816.
There is a second copy of the autobiography, probably transcribed in the late 19th century. Written on the front fly leaf is the name: A.E. MacDonald. It has 63 leaves, and there are minor textual variants.
McDonald, John, 1771 or 1772-1866
Correspondence and papers, 1860-1866
Part of John McDonald of Garth
Collection of incoming and outgoing, personal and business correspondence.
Autobiographical notes, volume III
Part of John McDonald of Garth
File contains a third notebook with autobiographical notes and a news clipping. The content is not in chronological order and consists of handwritten copies of the content found in the first two volumes. News clipping is of the death notice for a Capt. Macdonald taken from the Cobourg Sentinel, 16th March 1872.