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Margaret Dawson's scrapbook on the death of G.M. Dawson, 1901
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1 scrapbook
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1830, the daughter of a merchant, Margaret A. Y. Mercer married John William Dawson in March of 1847. The couple lived at 293 University Street, Montreal. One of her sons, George Mercer Dawson (1849–1901), became a well known and respected scientist and geologist like his father. She died in September of 1913.
File includes a scrapbook with obituary clippings from numerous North American newspapers, in addition to published tributes of the late George Mercer Dawson.