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  • Agnes Deans Cameron Collection

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    1Collections
    1Works
    Description:
    The collection consists of two photograph albums comprised of photographs taken during Cameron's travels up the Mackenzie River with her niece, Jessie Cameron Brown, May to September, 1908, and photographs taken during Cameron's trip to Britain, 1909-1911. There...
    Subject
    Voyages and travels and Authors
    Location
    Great Britain, England, United Kingdom and Canada, , Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photograph albums and photographs

  • E.M. Forster Collection

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    1Collections
    18Works
    Description:
    E. M. Forster (1879-1970), British novelist and essayist, is perhaps best known for his novels, which include Howards End (1910), A Room With A View (1911), and A Passage To India (1924). He attended King's College, Cambridge (1897–1901) and was a member of the...
    Subject
    Authors, Literature, Arts and Culture, and Voyages and travels
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence

  • Herbert Geddes

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    1Collections
    100Works
    Description:
    Herbert Geddes was a manager for G.R. Gregg and Company, importers and exporters, in Vancouver and Winnipeg. He was sent to Japan and was based in Yokohama between 1908 and 1918. Geddes was manager for Gregg and Company in Vancouver until the mid 1950s. He willed the...
    Subject
    Voyages and travels
    Location
    Japan, , Japan
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs

  • Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

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    1Collections
    497Works
    Description:
    Ian McTaggart Cowan (1910–2010) is often referred to as the “father of Canadian ecology.” From his formative years roaming the mountains around Vancouver collecting museum specimens of mammals and birds to his last years as a major contributor to the voluminous and...
    Subject
    Voyages and travels, Environmental Studies, and Local History
    Location
    Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada and British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    diaries, video recordings (physical artifacts), and photographs

  • St. John Family Collection

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    1Collections
    4Works
    Description:
    The St. John family includes the surgeon Valentine St. John (1883-1964) and his mother Aglae de Jora St. John. Aglae de Jora St. John was Romanian. Her husband, Dr. St. John's father, was a British diplomat and cousin of the 4th Viscount Bolingbroke. The surgeon...
    Subject
    Voyages and travels, Families, Politics and government, and Military history
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    diaries and manuscripts (documents)