Browsing 208 items in the Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Item 1
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Correspondence, 1912-1923.
Creator: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Date: 1912-1923
Subject: Scots--Organizations ; Correspondence ; Settlements
Description: Correspondence and other textual material, received and assembled by Rev. Andrew MacDonell, and arranged as a file in chronological order perhaps by Clare Lawrence. Material relates to settlement schemes for Scottish immigrants to Canada and particularly to the settlement in 1926 of the Clandonald Colony in Alberta. The file includes correspondence retained by MacDonell beginning with letters of introduction in 1912 from British Benedictines to the Archbishop of Vancouver, some early 1920s letters related to MacDonell's efforts to bring Scottish settlers to farm in Ontario and 1920s letters regarding potential for Hebrideans to settle in the Atlantic provinces of Canada, correspondence regarding the industrial farm established in 1923 at Ard-Moire, Alberta, and other concerns of the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society.
Item 2
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Correspondence, 1925.
Creator: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Date: 1925
Subject: Scots--Organizations ; Settlements
Description: Correspondence and other textual material, including manuscript drafts of promotional texts by MacDonell, accounts received by MacDonell of Hebridean settlers travelling expenses, and memoranda by MacDonell regarding requirements for settlers. Also includes specifications for cottages constructed for settlers and farm workers in Alberta by the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society, a Scottish newspaper cartoon depicting Scots answering 'The Call of the West', a pamphlet copy of the Immigration Act and Regulations. Additionally, 'Months diary May 1925' is included along with other draft monthly and yearly reports to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society prepared in 1925 by MacDonell, as well as minutes of Society meetings, and a copy of an agreement in 1925 between the Society and the Department of Immigration and Colonization.
Item 3
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Correspondence and records related to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society.
Creator: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Date: 1925-1940
Subject: Scots--Organizations ; Correspondence
Description: Correspondence and other textual material relating to the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society, received and assembled by Rev. Andrew MacDonell, and arranged chronologically as a file perhaps by Clare Lawrence. Includes correspondence regarding the activities of the Society, especially regarding financing and settlement planning for the Society's settlement scheme in Alberta, Canada, minutes of 1925 meetings, printed reports for the years 1933 and 1939, and a 1926 field supervisor's report regarding Clandonald, Alberta. Includes an informal retrospective report by MacDonell in 1952, pamphlets, broadsides and other promotional material for the Clandonald settlement scheme, specifications from 1923 for farm workers' housing construction and settlers' cottages, copies of memoranda and requests for funds by MacDonell, correspondence with and copies of lectures in 1933 by Dr. Coady of the Extension Department of St. Francis Xavier University, and four indentures made in 1939 and the early 1940s by MacDonell with his relative Arthur Lawrence regarding property in Clandonald.
Item 4
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Duplicate of Scottish Immigrant Aid Society printed materials.
Creator: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Date: 1939-1940
Subject: Scots--Organizations
Description: Includes memoranda and progress reports.
Item 5
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Clandonald: a Rural Catholic Community'.
Creator: Unknown
Date: 1979
Subject: Scots--History ; Settlements
Description: A university graduate level history paper written in 1979 and entitled 'Clandonald : a Rural Catholic Community'.
Item 6
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Clippings book of newspaper articles relating to the Clandonald settlement.
Creator: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Date: 1915-1944
Subject: Newspapers ; Clippings ; Settlements
Description: Clippings book consists of newspaper articles predominantly from the Edmonton Bulletin and the Edmonton Journal during the period leading up to the settlement of Clandonald and during its settlement--between 1923 and 1925. Also includes one issue of The Western Scot, the newspaper of the 67th Battalion 'The Western Scots', based in Willows Camp, Victoria.
Item 7
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Diary 1922
Creator: MacDonell, Andrew
Date: 1922
Subject: Diaries ; Priests
Item 8
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Diary.
Creator: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Date: 1923
Subject: Diaries ; Priests
Description: MacDonell's 'Daily Journal for 1923' was infrequently used. MacDonell spent the beginning of the year in Ontario; he arrived in Winnipeg on April 8 and in Red Deer on May 11. Includes cash accounts at back of book.
Item 9
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Diary.
Creator: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Date: 1942
Subject: Diaries ; Priests
Description: MacDonell kept his 1942 diary consistantly while he lived in Ottawa. Includes data about religious demoninations in the Canadian Army in 1941. Cash accounts at back of book. Also includes Major Rev. Roderick Andrew MacDonell's bookplate.
Item 10
Collection: Chung Collection - Scottish Canadian materials
Title: Diary.
Creator: MacDonell, Father Andrew
Date: 1948
Subject: Diaries ; Priests
Description: MacDonell kept his 1948 diary consistantly while he lived in Vermilion and Clandonald. Left for Montreal on October 15 and got off the train at Ottawa on October 19, 1948.
