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Title

Fonds consists of

3 lower level description(s)

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

1873-1921

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Fonds consists of correspondence, 1881-1903, 1916, 1921; literary files containing letters, notes and addresses, 1888, 1896-1901, 1904; and miscellaneous, 1873, 1898, 1901.

Conditions of access

Finding aid

Textual records The finding aid is a chronological list of correspondence for volume 1 and a file list for volume 2. MSS0374 90 (Electronic)

Creator / Provenance

Bourinot, 1837-1902. Sir John George,

Biography / Administrative history

John George Bourinot, born in Sydney, N.S., was educated at Trinity College, Toronto where he received his B.A., 1857. He was the official reporter of the Nova Scotia Legislative Assembly, 1860-1867, and founder and editor of the Halifax Herald. In Ottawa, he served as shorthand writer to the Senate, 1868-1873, assistant clerk of the House of Commons, 1873-1880, and chief clerk of the House of Commons, 1880-1902.

He was secretary of the Royal Society of Canada, 1881, the honourary secretary therafter, and the president, 1892. He was the editor of the Makers of Canada series and the author of several books and articles, notably The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People: a Historical Review, 1881, Parliamentary Procedure and Practice in the Dominion of Canada, 1884, and A Manual of the Constitutional History of Canada from the earliest Period to 1901.

See: Encyclopedia Canadiana, vol. 2, p. 37; Canadian Encyclopedia, p. 211.

Additional information

Subject heading

1. Sir John George Bourinot - Correspondence, 1881-1921
2. Royal Society of Canada, 1888-1904.
3. Lady Bourinot - Correspondence, 1891-1921
4. Victorian Order of Nurses, 1898.
5. Prime ministers - Canada - Correspondence, 1881-1921.
6. Governors general - Canada - Correspondence, 1881-1921.
7. Canada - Constitutional law, 1881-1921.
8. Society to the Clerk of the House of Commons - Records and correspondence, 1904.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

MAINS21928

MIKAN no.

103386