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Title

Samuel Leonard Tilley fonds [textual record, graphic material, cartographic material]. 

Fonds consists of

Arrangement structure

Date(s)

1802-1902

Place of creation

New Brunswick

Extent

3.302 m of textual records.
5 photographs b&w, carte-de-visite.
3 maps.

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Fonds consists of correspondence; letterbooks; legal documents; memoranda and petitions; financial records, receipts and accounts; printed material. Fonds also contains photographs, ca. 1860-ca. 1870, are portraits of Alex W. Graham and of James Miller Lyle. There is a map of the Metropolitan Railway (Southern Connecting Lines), London, England, ca. 1860s; a map of the Quebec City to Lac St. Jean Railway Line, ca. 1880; and a surveyor's plan of downtown St. John New Brunswick, ca. 1860s, showing streets, property and frontal footage of the various lots in St. John. Fonds consists of three maps, one of the Metropolitan Railway, London, England; a map of the Lac St. Jean Railway Lines, Quebec; and a surveyor's plan of downtown St. John, New Brunswick.

Conditions of access

Cartographic material
90: Open
Graphic (photo)
90: Open
Box
04815
90: Open
Archival reference no.
Former archival reference no.
Other accession no.
756/4298 CA
756/4299 CA
756/4190 CA

Terms of use

Photographs: No donor restrictions. Copyright: Expired. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.
Cartographic material: No donor restrictions. Copyright Expired = Domain public. Credit: Library and Archives Canada.

Finding aid

Textual records The finding aid consists of a nominal index of the correspondence, giving subject and date, as well as a conversion list from the dates of the letters to the volume number. Letterbooks: There is also a shelf list for the letterbooks. MSS0366 90 (Electronic)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001441.pdf

Cartographic material Please consult lower level item descriptions. 90 (No finding aid)

Biography / Administrative history

Samuel Leonard Tilley, Member of Parliament, public official, druggist, was born in Gagetown, N.B. Initially a druggist, he became a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, 1850 and served as Provincial Secretary and Premier of several provincial ministries prior to Confederation. A Temperance advocate and a promoter of railway development as well as of Confederation, he was a delegate to the Charlottetown and Quebec conferences.

In 1867 he was elected to the House of Commons and held several Cabinet posts in Sir John A. Macdonald's ministries. He was Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick twice, 1873-1878 and 1885-1893.

See: Canadian Encyclopedia, p. 1824; Encylopedia Canadiana, vol. 10, p. 80.

Additional information

Received in 1968 and 1976. Copies of two telegrams and a letter from Sir John A. Macdonald copied in 1964 from the original held by the Bonar-Law Bennett Library, University of New Brunswick.

Location of originals note
Textual records: Originals with the Bonar-Bennet Library, University of New Brunswick.

Associated material note
Published materials (pamphlets): Transferred to the Public Archives Library.

Subject heading

1. Legislators - Canada, [After 1864]
2. J. Wilkinson, 1864-1865.
3. New Brunswick - Politics and government, 1864-1865
4. European and North American Railway Company, 1864-1865.
5. Patronage, Political - New Brunswick, 1864-1865
6. Intercolonial Railway, 1864-1865.
7. New Brunswick - Economic conditions, 1864-1865
8. Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, [After 1867]
9. Political development, 1864-1865.
10. Commerce, 1864-1865.
11. Canada - History - Confederation, 1867.
12. Samuel Leonard Tilley - Family, 1864-1865.
13. New Brunswick - Maps, 1864-1865.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

Related control no.

1975-246 NPC

MIKAN no.

103872