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Title

Sir John Abbott fonds [textual record]. 

Fonds consists of

4 lower level description(s)

Arrangement structure

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Accession

J.J.C. Abbott collection [graphic material]

Bilingual equivalent

Fonds Sir John Abbott [document textuel]

Date(s)

1884-1892, 1936

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

35 cm of textual records.

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Fonds consist of correspondence, 1891-1892, 0.225m; memoranda and notes, 1884-1892, 0.075m; printed material, 1891-1892, 0.025m; additional papers, 1891-1892, 1936, 0.025m. Unfortunately the Abbott Papers are far from complete.

Conditions of access

Former archival reference no.
MG26-C

Finding aid

Textual records The finding aid is an author and subject index to the correspondence. There is also a file list for the Memoranda and Notes. MSS0183 90 (Paper)

Textual records The finding aid is an alphabetical list of correspondents which includes dates, subjects, volume and page numbers. There is also a description of the memoranda and notes. 90 (Electronic)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000000042.pdf

Creator / Provenance

Abbott, J. J. C. (John Joseph Caldwell), 1821-1893. Sir,

Additional name(s)

Thompson, John S. D. (John Sparrow David), Sir, 1844-1894.

Biography / Administrative history

Prime Minister of Canada

The Hon. John Abbott was born at Saint-André-d'Argenteuil, Quebec, attended McGill University and was admitted to the bar in 1847. In 1849, he married Mary Bethune and was survived by four sons and four daughters. Early in his career Abbott became an authority on commercial law and served McGill's faculty of law as dean, 1855-1880. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1857 and remained a member of that body until Confederation. He was a Member of the House of Commons from 1867 to 1874 and from 1881 to 1887. In 1887, he was appointed to the Senate. Upon the death of Sir John A. Macdonald, Abbott was asked to form a ministry which he led from his seat in the Senate, June 1891 - November 1892.

Additional information

Most of the Abbott Papers (vols. 1-5) were discovered in 1950 among records of the Privy Council. They were in despatch cases labelled "Hon. Sir John Abbott's papers, 1891-1892. Sent for to Montreal by order of the Hon. Sir John S.D. Thompson". The additional papers (vol. 6) were received in 1974 from Abbott's grandson, Mr. Arthur C. Abbott of Beaconsfield, Quebec.

Subject heading

1. Prime ministers - Canada - Staff, 1891-1892
2. Arthur A. Browne, 1892.
3. Prime ministers - Canada - Funeral service, 1891-1892
4. R.W. Powell, 1892.
5. Prime ministers - Canada - Transition period, 1891-1892
6. W.C. Van Horne, 1892.
7. Newfoundland - Relations - Canada, 1891-1892
8. North West Territories. Legislative Assembly, 1891-1892.
9. Canada - Relations - Newfoundland, 1891-1892
10. Lord Stanley, 1892.
11. Steamships - Australia, 1884-1889.
12. Steamboats - Australia, 1884-1889.
13. Canada. Parliament. Senate Legislators - Canada, 1884-1892.
14. Canada - Commerce, 1884-1892.
15. Sealing - Canada, 1891-1892.
16. Sealing - Bering Strait, 1891-1892.
17. Copyright - Canada, 1889.
18. Tariff - Canada, 1888-1891.
19. St. John's (Nfld.) - Fires, 1893.
20. Bering Sea controversy, 1891-1892.
21. Prime ministers
22. Canada.
23. Canadian Copyright Act.
24. Thompson, John S. D. (John Sparrow David),
25. Politicians
26. Australia.
27. Politics and government
28. Canada
29. Legislators

Source

Private

Other system control no.

MAINS22655

Related control no.

1951-093 NPC

MIKAN no.

104079