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Title

Thomas Rhys Brock Smith fonds [textual record]. 

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Accession

Thomas Rhys Brock Smith fonds [textual record] (2005-00291-7)

Date(s)

1879

Place of creation

Canada

Extent

2.5 cm of textual records.

Scope and content

Fonds consists of a diary kept by T.R.B. Smith for the period 6 June to 18 November 1879, while working for the Canadian Pacific Railway in the Prince Albert region, which also contains a Cree and English dictionary.

Conditions of access

Textual records
90: Open
Volume
1
90: Open
Textual records
90: Open
Volume
2
90: Open
Archival reference no.
R6992-0-0-E
Former archival reference no.
MG29-B7

Finding aid

No finding aid

Creator / Provenance

Smith, Thomas Rhys Brock , 1857-1929.

Biography / Administrative history

Thomas Rhys Brock Smith, the son of the railway engineer Marcus Smith, was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1857. Smith became a surveyor and worked on the Canadian Pacific Railway c.1879-1885. In 1891 he married Mayne E. Thompson in New York. Four years later he moved to Cos Cob, north of New York City, to work on various railway projects and to supervise construction projects. Smith died at Cos Cob after a long illness in 1929.

Additional information

Material transferred from the Marcus Smith fonds.

Availability of other formats note
Digitized images of the September 11-14, 1879 journal entries and pages 11 and 12 of the Cree/English dictionary are available.

Language note
A small portion of the material is in the Cree language.

Subject heading

1. Indians of North America - Canada - Languages, 1879
2. Canadian Pacific Railway Company, 1879.
3. Surveyors - Canada, 1879.
4. Cree language, 1879.

Source

Private

Other system control no.

MAINS15470

Related control no.

2005-00291-7

MIKAN no.

97805