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1. James Francis Kenney collection [graphic material]
2. James Francis Kenney collection [graphic material]
3. James Francis Kenney collection [graphic material]
4. James Francis Kenney collection [graphic material]
5. James Francis Kenney collection [graphic material]
6. James Francis Kenney collection [graphic material]
7. James Francis Kenney collection [graphic material]
8. James Francis Kenney collection [graphic material]
9. James Francis Kenney collection [graphic material]
10. Dr. Kenney collection [graphic material]

Date(s)

1831-1949

Lieu de création

Ontario

étendue

1.70 m of textual records.
42 photographs b&w.
2 paintings oil.

Langue du document

Anglais

Portée et contenu

Fonds consists of addresses, 1934-1945; book reviews, 1918-1939; correspondence, 1901-1945; publications, 1831-1949; manuscripts, 1906-1945; research notes, 1820-1945; diaries, 1903-1914, 1927. Fonds contains photographs of staff and events at the Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.; Fort Prince of Wales, Man.; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; models of cities and towns in the Holy Land; photos of Dr. Kenney; the return of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, March 1919, Ottawa, Ont.; unveiling of statue of Queen Victoria on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, Ont, 1901; banquet of the American Archivists, Mayflower Hotel, Washington. D.C., 18 June 1937; a view of the Victoria Memorial Museum, Ottawa, Ont. 1901-1937. Fonds also contains one painting by Homer Ransford Watson entitled "Ice Jam at Doon, Ontario"; and a painting entitled "Galt"[Ontario].

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Modalités d'utilisation

Photographs: No restrictions except on photo of Simcoe where access is to be determined. Various copyright. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no. Paintings: No restrictions. Copyright expired; Crown copyright on reproductions. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

Instrument de recherche

Textual records The finding aid is a list of file titles with brief descriptions of contents. MSS1231 90 (Électronique)

Créateur / Provenance

Kenney, James Francis, 1884-1946.

Biographie / Histoire administrative

James Francis Kenney, archivist, author, and historian, was born in 1884 at Marysville, Ont. and educated in the Belleville, Ontario public school system. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. in 1907 and from the University of Wisconsin with an M.A. in 1908. He obtained a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1929 after completion of the thesis The Sources for the Early History of Ireland. Dr. Kenney came on staff at the Public Archives in 1912. In 1926 he became Director of Historical Research and Publicity at the Archives and he served as Acting Dominion Archivist from 1935 to 1937.

Dr. Kenney died at his home in Ottawa on 4 June 1946. A further source of biographical information is an obituary written by A.L. Burt on Dr. Kenney for the Canadian Historical Review XXVII (December, 1946), p. 463.

Information additionnelle

Vedette-matière

1. Speeches, addresses, etc, Canadian, 1934-1945
2. Irish Historical Society (Canada), 1934-1945.
3. Irish - Canada, 1903-1945
4. Senator Charles Murphy, 1901-1945.
5. Catholic Church - Canada, 1903-1945
6. "The Decline of the Celtic Church in Ireland 1795-1152", 1908.
7. Catholic Church - Ireland, 1903-1945
8. Sources for the Early History of Ireland, 1930.
9. Celtic Church, 947-1152
10. Grosse Isle (Quebec), 1847.
11. Canada - Emigration and immigration, 1820-1945.
12. Cholera - Canada, 1847.
13. Kennedy family, 1903-1935.

Source

Privé

No de contrôle d'autres systèmes

MAINS20020

No de contrôl reliés

1. 1937-139 PIC
2. 1937-140 PIC
3. 1937-151 NPC
4. 1937-152 NPC
5. 1937-155 NPC
6. 1937-158 NPC
7. 1937-161 NPC
8. 1937-273 NPC
9. 1980-138 NPC
10. 1984-256 NPC

No MIKAN

101652