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Title
Fonds consists of
Arrangement structure
Date(s)
1792-1915
Place of creation
No place, unknown, or undetermined
Extent
ca. 2 photographs multiple processes, b&w.
11 postal covers.
Language of material
English
Scope and content
Fonds consists of documents representing the activities of the Irvine family: Acheson Godford Irvine, Matthew Bell Irvine, John George Irvine, James Irvine, and Katherine Irvine. The fonds includes personal and business correspondence written to and from family members. Subjects include the Red River Rebellion, the Crimean War, the Ashanti Expedition and letters from the Colony of Western Australia. Also included are military commissions, travel diaries, and a marriage contract of John, photographs, family history, and diaries kept by Katherine Irvine. Additionally, documents relating to the French Republic, Upper-Lower Canada arbitration as well as James' election candidacy to the Lower Canadian Legislative Assembly are included. Fonds contains photographs of Elmsley House, Toronto, Ont., during the period in which it served as Government House; officers of the 2nd Quebec Rifles Battalion; nineteenth century photographs dealing with Quebec City and the Irvine family. Also included are postal covers (1870-1874) mailed by Major Acheson Gosford Irvine and Matthew Bell Irvine to various correspondents.
Conditions of access
from 1 to 2
C57
C58
Terms of use
Photographs: No restrictions. Copyright expired. Credit: National Archives of Canada / PA- .
Postal covers: No restrictions. Copyright remains with the family. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Finding aid
Photographs: Item level descriptions are available in the MINISIS database. (Electronic)
Postal covers: Photocopy list in accession file. (Paper)
Creator / Provenance
Biography / Administrative history
Acheson Gosford Irvine. Colonel A.G. Irvine, (1837-1916) was born in Quebec. He was first commissioned in the Canadian Militia in 1864, and served in the Red River Expeditionary force in 1870 as a Major, 2nd Battalion, Quebec Rifles. He remained in Manitoba as Commanding Orricer of the Provisional Battalion of Rifles, and joined the N.W.M.P. in 1875 as a superintendant and inspector, later becoming Assistant Commissioner. In 1880 he was made Acting Commissioner of the force, and was confirmed as Commissioner in 1882, resigning in 1886. He was warden of Stony Mountain Penitentiary, 1892-1913 and of Kingston Penitentiary, 1913-1914. See: Encyclopedia Canadiana, Vol. 5, p. 330; Canadian Encyulopedia, 1985, p. 904.
Matthew Bell Irvine. Sir Matthew Bell Irvine C.B. (1832-1893) was born and educated in Quebec and joined the Commissariat Department of the British Army in 1848. During his career with the department, he served in many parts of the world, including as a combattant in the Crimean War and a soldier in Western Australia and British Guiana. His most notable campaigns were both under Major-General Garnet Joseph Wolseley: the Red River campaign of 1870, and the Ashanti campaign of 1874. He retired in 1881 with the honorary rank of Commissary-General. See: George Maclean Rose, A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography, Vol. 2, p. 337.
John George Irvine. Born in Quebec City, Irvine (1801-1871) was educated at the University of Edinburgh and was commissioned in the 31st Regiment of Foot, British Army. In Canada, he first worked for the business firm Irvine, McNaught and Company. During the 1837 rebellions, he served as a captain in the Royal Quebec Volunteers, he served as a captain in the Royal Quebec Volunteers and in 1838 was appointed Deputy Quartermaster in the Canadian militia holding the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In the same year, he was commissioned as a major in the Queen's Volunteers of the active militia of Canada. After 1851, he filled various Aide-de-Camp positions to the Governors of Canada. See: George Mclean Rose, A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography, Vol. 2, p. 337; Williams Notman, Portraits of British Americans, p. 325.
James Irvine. Born in England, James Irvine (1766-1829) emigrated to Canada in the late 1760's with his parents Adam Irvine and Elizabeth Johnston. James Irvine became a successful merchant in Quebec City with the firm of Irvine, McNaught & Co. He served on the Executive and Legislative Council of Lower Canada and in the militia, 1803-1822, retiring as a Lieutenant-Colonel. See: George Maclean Rose, A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography, Vol. 2, p. 337; Joseph Desjardins, Guide parlementaire historique de la province de Quebec.
Additional information
The postal covers were donated in 1984 by Brian McGreevy to the National Postal Museum. They were transferred to the archives as part of accession 1989-565.
Subject heading
1. Canada - Armed Forces - Officers, 1870
2. John Macdonald, n.d.
3. Red River Rebellion, 1869-1870
4. Katherine Irvine, 1857, 1871.
5. Indians of North America - Canada - Treaties, [1870-1871]
6. Isabella Cochran, n.d., 1796-1843.
7. Red River Expedition, 1870
8. Anna Winslow, n.d., 1796-1843.
9. Great Britain. Army - Canada, 1870
10. Margaret Lindsay, n.d., 1796-1843.
11. Great Britain. Army - India, 1870
12. Jean Leslie, n.d., 1796-1843.
13. Great Britain. Army - Officers, [1854-1874]
14. Mrs. James Irvine (née Anne Pyke), n.d., 1796-1843.
15. Crimean War, 1853-1856
16. Lord Dalhousie, [1792-1827]
17. Crimean War, 1853-1856 - Battlefields, [1853-1856]
18. Lower Canada. Legislative Assembly, [1792-1827]
19. Crimean War, 1853-1856 - Destruction and pillage, 1853-1856
20. Lower Canada. Militia, [1803-1822]
21. Allied operations (Military science), 1853-1856
22. James Irvine, [1792-1827.
23. Ashanti War, 1873-1874 - Campaigns, 1874
24. 1st French Republic, [1797-1814]
25. Great Britain - Armed Forces - Ghana, 1874
26. James Baby, 1823-1824.
27. Ghana - History - To 1957, 1874
28. Monsignor Joseph-Octave Plessis, [1805, 1810, 1922-1923]
29. Great Britain - Armed Forces - Australia, [1852-1855]
30. Sir Isaac Brock, [1805, 1810, 1822-1823]
31. Quebec (Québec) - Armies, 1838-1840
32. A.I. Howe, [1874-1886]
33. Great Britain - Description and travel, 1833-1834
34. Lord Lansdowne, [1874-1886]
35. Customs administration - Upper Canada, 1823-1824
36. Gold Coast Castle (Ghana), 1873-1874.
37. Customs administration - Lower Canada, 1823-1824
38. Australia, 1852-1855.
39. France - Politics and government - 1789-1815, [1797-1814]
40. Mathew Bell Irvine, 1852-1855.
41. Politicians - Lower Canada, 1809
42. Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1915.
43. Lower Canada - Politics and government, [1809-1827]
44. Acheson Gosford Irvine, [1870-1875, 1888, 1915]
45. Quebec (Québec) - Property, 1809
46. A. Vankoughnet, 1888.
47. Irvine family - Genealogy, n.d.
48. Lieutenant-Governor Archibald, [1870-1871]
49. Ottawa (Ont.) - Social life and customs, 1867, 1871
50. Lieutenant-Colonel Jarvis, [1870-1871]
51. Lieutenant-Colonel Casault, [1870-1871]
52. Lower Canada. Militia. 2nd Battalion. Quebec Rifles, 1870.
Source
Private
Other system control no.
Related control no.
1986-051 NPC
MIKAN no.
105683
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