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Fonds consists of

9 lower level description(s)

Arrangement structure

Accession

1. John Campbell Gordon, Marquis of Aberdeen and Temair collection [graphic material]
2. GORDON, John Campbell LORD ABERDEEN see GORDON, John Campbell

Date(s)

1883-1939

Place of creation

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent

Language of material

English

Scope and content

Fonds consists of correspondence, journals, notebook, scrapbooks; subject files, including material on the Aberdeen Association and the National Council of Women; related material; petition; pamphlet entitled: Where Dwells our Lady of the Sunshine and Haddo House Collection, microfilm reels A-823 to A-827. The Haddo House collection, 1883-1898 consists of routine correspondence and other papers relating to Lord Aberdeen's term of office as Governor General. Photographs depict Lord Aberdeen and other dignitaries attending an unidentified funeral, probably in England, 1914. The sound recording consists of a recording of Lord Aberdeen singing Will Ye No Come Back Again on a privately made record, 1929.

Conditions of access

Terms of use

Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright expired.
Sound recording: Restrictions on use and/or reproduction are available from the Manuscript Division.

Finding aid

Textual records The finding aid contains a list of correspondents in volumes 1 to 5, a shelf list for volumes 1 to 31 and a list of contents of microfilm reels. MSS0001 90 (Electronic)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001835.pdf

Sound recording: See MISACS for item level description. (Electronic)

Creator / Provenance

Aberdeen and Temair, John Campbell Gordon, 1847-1934. Marquis of,

Additional name(s)

King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950.
Laurier, Wilfrid, Sir, 1841-1919.

Biography / Administrative history

John Campbell Hamilton Gordon, Governor General, the seventh Earl of Aberdeen and later first Marquess, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and educated at St. Andrews University and Oxford. He entered the House of Lords as a Liberal, and was Lord Lieutenant of Aberdeenshire, 1880, and Ireland, 1886, 1905-1915. He was Governor General of Canada, 18 September 1893 - 11 November 1898.

Lady Aberdeen, Ishbell Maria Gordon (1857-1939) founded the Victorian Order of Nurses, the Aberdeen Association, and was the first president of the Canadian National Council of Women.

See: Canadian Encyclopedia, 1985, p. 2; Encyclopedia Canadiana, Vol. 1, p. 34.

Additional information

Subject heading

1. Lady Aberdeen - Diaries, 1890-1899
2. Aberdeen Association, 1893-1905.
3. Lady Aberdeen - Notebooks, Sketchbooks, etc., 1890-1899
4. Lady Aberdeen, 1890-1939.
5. Women - Canada, 1890-1925
6. Rideau Hall (Ottawa, Ont.), 1894-1927.
7. Women's organizations - Canada, 1893-1925
8. W.J. Tapley, 1923.
9. Literature - Societies, etc., 1899-1905
10. Yacht Club of Vancouver (B.C.), 1896.
11. Speeches, addresses, etc., Canadian, 1897-1925
12. Marquis of Lansdown, 1883-1888.
13. Canada - Emigration and immigration, 1894-1927
14. Valentine Shortis, 1895-1896.
15. Immigrants - Canada, 1894-1927.
16. Associations, institutions, etc., - Canada, 1893-1925.
17. Canada - Officials and employees - Dismissal of, 1894-1927.
18. Labour - Canada, 1894-1927.
19. Missions - Manitoba, 1892-1912.
20. Missionaries - Manitoba, 1892-1923.
21. Metis - Manitoba, 1892-1923.
22. Petitions - British Columbia, 1896.
23. Manitoba School Question, [1892-1912]
24. Capital punishment - Canada, 1895-1896.
25. Separate School Question - Canada, [1892-1912]
26. Prime ministers
27. Canada.
28. Premiers ministres
29. Politicians
30. Hommes politiques
31. King, William Lyon Mackenzie,
32. Laurier, Wilfrid,
33. Governors general
34. Gouverneures générales
35. Canada .
36. Politique et gouvernement .
37. Canada
38. Politics and government.
39. National Council of Women.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

MAINS23393

Related control no.

1. 1968-0032 MISA
2. 1984-210 NPC

MIKAN no.

104793