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Maysie MacSporran Fonds
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CA MUA MG 4308
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.6 m of textual records
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(1903-2000)
Biographical history
Born in 1903, Maysie MacSporran was educated in Montreal at Miss Edgar’s private school and McGill University. She graduated with a B.A. in 1927 and an M.A. in 1930 with a thesis on James McGill. She did further graduate work at Columbia University from 1933-1934. She worked for the Library of Congress in Ottawa from 1930-1932 as the director of a Rockefeller funded microfilm project to copy sources for American history in foreign archives. Later, she worked as a teacher in Miss Edgar’s and Miss Cramp’s private school and became the headmistress. An Honorary Life member of the James McGill Society, this historical society established an annual lecture in her name after her death in 2000.
Custodial history
The fonds was acquired directly from Gail Johnson in 2007.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of notes, reports and a copy of Maysie MacSporran’s thesis on James McGill and reflects her research activities in Canadian archives for the Library of Congress as well as her student activities at both Columbia and McGill. There is very little material on her teaching career.
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Deposited by Gail L. Johnson, 29 November 2007
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- English
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Depositor's copyright to the records was transferred to the McGill University Archives.
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2009-0063
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Small
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Rachel Black 25/09/2018