Browse Fur Trade Fonds

Reference code

CA RBD MSG 399

Source of title

Title based on content of fonds.

Level of description

Fonds

Repository

Rare Books and Special Collections

Physical description

14 cm of textual records.

Provenance

From Samuel Mathewson Baylis estate.

Content summary

Correspondence 1921-1931 concerning Simon McTavish; official copies of legal documents including estate inventories, lawsuits over the McTavish estate, and Simon McTavish's will; notes for Baylis' study of McTavish; numerous petitions and newspaper clippings on the state of the McTavish monument and tomb (Peel St., Montreal), and a typescript of his text concerning Simon McTavish. Also two letters from Ignatius Donnelly, 1899, and a letter 1895, from J. Middleton to John Doyle about 19th century gardening in Montreal and the funeral of Judge James Reid.

Language

English | French

Subject access points

Gardening -- Québec (Province) -- Montréal. | Fur traders.

Place access points

Chiswick Parish Church (London, England)

Name access points

McTavish, Simon, 1750-1804. | Donnelly, Ignatius, 1831-1901 | St. James Literary Society | Gazette (Montréal, Québec) | McGillivray, Elizabeth | Reid, James, 1769-1848 | Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal | McGillivray, William, 1764-1825.

Genre

Correspondence. | Legal documents. | Clippings. | Lecture notes.

Date

1895, 1899, 1921-1941