McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
James R. Lockhart Fonds
Fonds
30 cm glass slide negatives (146 items)
James R. Lockhart was born in Bristol, New Brunswick. He enrolled at McGill University around 1912, but left off his studies at the outbreak of the First World War. He was a Private in the original unit that staffed the No. 3 Canadian General Hospital formed by McGill University in France. There, he met his first wife, Nursing Sister Anne Elliot from Wingham, Ontario, whom he married in 1922. Lockhart returned to McGill as a medical student in 1918 and graduated in 1921. During his early career, he practiced in Edmundston, NB, and Wingham, ON. In the 1930s, Lockhart established a medical practice in Carleton County, New Brunswick, where he participated in founding a private hospital in the village of Bath. He remarried twice and died 1980.
Previously conserved by Alice Lockhart of Bath, New Brunswick, wife of James Lockhart’s son John. Donated to the Osler Library by Emily Lockhart (James Lockhart’s great grand-daughter) in 2013.
Fond contains solely glass slide negatives. Many slides depict the McGill campus between the years 1918-1921, including the Strathcona Medical Building, as well as the Royal Victoria Hospital. Other subjects include street scenes taken in Montreal after the end of the First World War and the Lockharts' family life during the early 1920s.
Complete inventory list available.