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Description trouvée dans les archives

Titre

Structure du classement

Date(s)

1879

Lieu de création

Canada

étendue

2.5 cm of textual records.

Portée et contenu

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 d'accès

Documents textuels
90: Ouvert
Volume
1
90: Ouvert
Documents textuels
90: Ouvert
Volume
2
90: Ouvert
No de référence archivistique
Ancien no de référence archivistique

Instrument de recherche

Aucun instrument de recherche

Biographie / Histoire administrative

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.

Information additionnelle

Material transferred from the Marcus Smith fonds.

Note sur les autres formats physiques disponibles
Digitized images of the September 11-14, 1879 journal entries and pages 11 and 12 of the Cree/English dictionary are available.

Note sur la langue
A small portion of the material is in the Cree language.

Vedette-matière

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

Source

Privé

No de contrôle d'autres systèmes

No de contrôl reliés

2005-00291-7

No MIKAN

97805