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Title page notes by Casey Wood

Small paper mounted on centre of page with black ink cursive writing that reads, "Drawings by Lady Gwillim wife of Chief Justice of Madras in 1801/2 [?] - 5." Blue ink stamp below writing reads, "Dr. Casey Wood, Author's Club, 2. Whitehall Court, London, England."

Snapshots of Newfoundland and Labrador

The album contains black and white and sepia photographs and other ephemera of the compiler's voyage to St. Anthony and stay at the Grenfell Mission. In particular, there are a number of photographs of Indian Harbour, Labrador, as well as one including Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell on a boat. The bulk of the photographs are dated between June and November 1923, with some from 1924 and many undated. A series of photographs depict the compiler's travels around the Labrador and Newfoundland region by boat during August and September of 1923, with a map of the route followed. Overall. the photographs depict many scenes of landscapes, coastlines, boats, and local scenes in places such as St. Anthony and Orange Bay. Dog sleds are the subject of many of photographs. Staff members at the Grenfell Mission feature frequently and are named in captions, including Miss McPherson, Miss Klein, Major Phillips, Ruth Major, the Grenfells, and Dr. Curtis (possibly Dr. Charles Samuel Curtis, 1887-1963). In addition to photographs, there are clippings tipped in related to the mission, some postcards (including five colour postcards featuring Inuit and Innu people), and one refund cheque from the Bank of Montreal for a codfish.

Natural History Society of Montreal fonds

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  • 1827-1925, with gaps

The fonds reflects the scientific and literary outreach activities of the Montreal Natural History Society over the course of its existence and contains correspondence, minutes, financial records, council and committee reports, membership lists, donation lists, catalogues of holdings, newspaper clippings, lecture advertisements and weather maps. In addition, the fonds includes reference material to other societies and information regarding the publication and creation of the Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science, Canadian Naturalist and Geologist and the Canadian Record of Science.

The fonds is composed of the following series: 1) Accounting Records (1860-1917); 2) Administrative Records (1833-1887); 3) Catalogues (ca.1829-ca.1925); 4) Correspondence (1871-1896 with gaps); 5) Essays and Lectures (1829-1852); 6) Minutes (1827-1832,1844-1923); 7) Montreal Microscopical Society (1884-1906); 8) Reports (1828-1881 with gaps); 9) Weather Maps (1895-1897).

Natural History Society of Montreal

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