Canada
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:
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Correspondence with foreign observatories, 1964 - 1968
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/779
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with various overseas observatories, A-R, including the following items:Australia: papers concerning the 150-inch telescope proposal, the use of the Isaac Newton Telescope at the Mount Stromlo Observatory, and other observatories.Egypt: correspondence concerned mainly with the Helwan Observatory, including observing trips, maintenance and students studying at the Royal Greenwich Observatory.Africa: correspondence with various African observatories,...
Dates:
1964 - 1968
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence with overseas institutions, 1965-04-14 - 1966-06-27
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/567
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Canadian, New Zealand and other overseas observatories and universities, including J.F. Heard, Director of the David Dunlap Observatory, Richmond Hill, Ontario, and R.T. Wallace, Dean of Administration at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.
Dates:
1965-04-14 - 1966-06-27
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Correspondence with overseas observatories, 1969-11-27 - 1972-03-22
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 10/575
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with Canadian, New Zealand and other overseas observatories, including B.I. Olson of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver; J.H. Hodgson of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Ottawa; D.J. Cameron of the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand; W.H. Wehlan of the University of Western Ontario, regarding a position as Visiting Professor at the University; B.K. Mukherjee of the Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario; S.R. Sreenivasan of the University of...
Dates:
1969-11-27 - 1972-03-22
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Sub-Series
Dame Edith Lyttelton née Balfour: writings, 1884 - 1943
Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/6/1-12
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Political and personal correspondence and other papers.
CHAN 1, contains mainly papers of Hon Alfred Lyttelton and Dame Edith Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of material of Oliver Lyttelton
CHAN II, consist mainly of papers of Oliver Lyttelton, with a smaller quantity of papers of Alfred and Edith Lyttelton
Dates:
1884 - 1943
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Fonds
David Binnie: World tour diaries and photographs
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8558-8560
Dates:
1873-1874
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Diary, 1941-01-14 - 1941-12-26
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/PEAK/1/1
Scope and Contents
Diary covering Charles Peake’s time as Lord Halifax’s Personal Assistant from 14 January to 26 December 1941. Subjects covered for January include: travelling across America; attending church; Halifax’s love of corduroy trousers; drafting Halifax’s speeches; meeting US President [Franklin Roosevelt] on the destroyer; reflections on the use of oil and electricity in the ship’s kitchen; reviewing a delegation of American admirals; travelling to the US Embassy; Peake’s concern about...
Dates:
1941-01-14 - 1941-12-26
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary of a journey to Japan, China, Korea and Canada, 1929
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAN I/6/5
Scope and Contents
Including references to the National Archives of Canada.
Dates:
1929
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary of RSC's visit to Canada and the United States, 1929-08 - 1929-11
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/RDCH 11/24
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of RSC's diary of his tour of Canada and the United States with Winston Churchill, his uncle John S Churchill and cousin John G Churchill, marked up with notes for publication.
Dates:
1929-08 - 1929-11
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. The catalogue includes details of some material in the collection which is currently too fragile to be produced and researchers should seek advice from Archives Centre staff about accessing this material.
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Economic files: Canadian currency, 1932-02 - 1941-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/5/20
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence on linking the Canadian dollar to sterling, with correspondents including: Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer; Lord Cranborne, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs [later 5th Lord Salisbury]; Arthur Greenwood [Minister without Portfolio]; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada (3); Henry Clay [Economic Adviser to the Bank of England]; James Ralston, Canadian Minister of Finance; Montagu Norman [Governor, Bank of England] (2); John...
Dates:
1932-02 - 1941-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Empire Parliamentary Association: correspondence, 1938-07 - 1942-12
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/7/7
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly with Sir T Drummond Shiels, Acting Secretary of the Association, and Sir Howard d'Egville [organiser and first secretary of the Association]. Other correspondents include: Malcolm MacDonald, British High Commissioner in Canada, on the value of d'Egville's work in Canada as an unofficial link with the American Congress; Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] advising leaving d'Egville to carry on his work in Canada...
Dates:
1938-07 - 1942-12
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Empire Tour: correspondence and invitations, 1926-01 - 1927-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/4/19
Scope and Contents
Correspondents on arrangements and invitations for LSA's tour include: R Laing, Manager of the Passenger Department, the Union Castle Mail Steamship Company Limited (4); representatives of the Mercantile Marine Department, Board of Trade, on travel and accommodation (6); 1st Lord Stonehaven, Governor-General of Australia [earlier John Baird] (3); the Governor of New South Wales [Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair]; [Arthur] Cosmo Parkinson [Assistant Secretary, Colonial Office]; 14th Lord Lovat...
Dates:
1926-01 - 1927-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Empire Tour: Empire Parliamentary Association notes, 1926-10 - 1927-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/4/24
Scope and Contents
Notes on the Empire Parliamentary Association made in connection with LSA's Empire Tour, including: letters from Sir Howard d'Egville and [Ernest] Owen Clough, Secretary of the Association's South Africa branch; notes by d'Egville on the work of the Association in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; extracts from the journal of the Parliaments of the Empire on the Imperial Conference; reports of Parliamentary conferences in Australia, 1926;...
Dates:
1926-10 - 1927-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Empire Tour speeches: Canada, 1928-01 - 1928-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/4/17
Scope and Contents
Annotated texts of LSA's Empire Tour speeches from Canada on subjects including: nationhood, and rights and responsibilities for the Dominions; the development of the Empire; Imperial defence strategy, including cuts in the Army and possible future trouble with the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the success of air power in Iraq and the case for a separate air strategy, the shifting of naval power from the North Sea, the establishment of the Singapore naval base and the break-down of naval...
Dates:
1928-01 - 1928-02
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Family photograph album, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 10/28
Scope and Contents
Including scenes of Hudson Bay [Canada].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Family photograph album, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 10/29
Scope and Contents
Including scenes of Hudson Bay [Canada].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Family photograph album, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 10/30
Scope and Contents
Including scenes of Hudson Bay [Canada].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Family photograph album, 1910
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 10/31
Scope and Contents
Including scenes of Hudson Bay [Canada].
Dates:
1910
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Foreign affairs: Canada, 1980-12 - 1982-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 1/10/32
Scope and Contents
Background papers and correspondence on the Canada Bill, the role of the British Parliament in returning the Canadian constitution to Canadian control, and protests from Canadian civil rights groups, with correspondents including Gilles Loiselle, Agent General for Quebec in London, Sir Bernard Braine and Jean Casselman Wadds, Canadian High Commissioner to Britain.
Dates:
1980-12 - 1982-03
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The majority of the papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, though the constituency papers and some of the correspondence and political papers remain closed.
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General articles, 1905-01 - 1908-05
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/4
Scope and Contents
Cuttings, prints, proofs and manuscripts of articles written by LSA, mainly for the Times and National Review, on subjects including: mountaineering; north-western Canada; the Imperial Conference (1907); the East African empire; the Education Bill (1906); British trade figures; the military geography of the empire; reorganizing the Conservative Party; policy on tariff reform, defence, Ireland and social issues.
Dates:
1905-01 - 1908-05
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General articles, 1906-02 - 1911-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/2/5
Scope and Contents
Cuttings and prints of articles and papers written by LSA on subjects including: military tactical policy; defence from the imperial standpoint; the Australian tariff; South Africa and Imperial Preference; some practical steps towards an Imperial Constitution; cavalry equipment and training; Hudson Bay [Canada] and its coasts.
Dates:
1906-02 - 1911-09
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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General correspondence, 1980-12 - 1981-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/104
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Jonathan Aitken, Chairman of the All Party Group on the Canadian Constitution, on the Government's misguided policy on Canada, enclosing a memorandum by [Henry] William Wade [Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge] on Parliament's role in the amendment of the Canadian constitution; Robert Atkins (2); 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Vernon Willey] commenting on Sir Walter Walker's book "The Next Domino" (2) and a speech by JA to the...
Dates:
1980-12 - 1981-01
Conditions Governing Access:
Some folios closed and filed separately for data protection as they contain sensitive personal information on a potentially living individual.
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General correspondence, 1981-01 - 1981-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEJ 2/1/105
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Andrew Alexander, Daily Mail, on a speech by JA on Northern Ireland; Humphrey Atkins, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [later Lord Colnbrook]; [Maurice] Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton]; Kenneth Baker on asking Macmillan to take part in a conference at Ditchley Park [Oxfordshire] on the state of politics in the West; 1st Lord Balfour of Inchrye; 2nd Lord Barnby [earlier Francis Vernon Willey] on Sir Walter Walker's book "The Next Domino" and...
Dates:
1981-01 - 1981-03
Conditions Governing Access:
Some folios closed and filed separately for data protection as they contain sensitive personal information on a potentially living individual.
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Georgian Bay Canal, Canada: correspondence, 1922-07 - 1934-06
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/4/36
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, mainly with Sir Robert Perks, Chairman of the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal (British Claims) Trust Limited, on the case for compensation put forward by the trust against the Canadian Government, following the forfeiture of the trust's charter to construct the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal. Other correspondents include: [William] Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (4); Frederick Goodenough; 1st Lord Willingdon [Governor-General of Canada, earlier...
Dates:
1922-07 - 1934-06
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Georgian Bay Canal, Canada: memoranda, 1923-10 - 1933-07
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/4/37
Scope and Contents
Papers on the case for compensation put forward by the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal (British Claims) Trust Limited, against the Canadian Government, following the forfeiture of the trust's charter to construct the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal. Includes: notes on the case and its chronology by LSA; legal opinions; memoranda by the canal company on the history of negotiations with the Canadian Government; memoranda and memorials by the shareholders submitted to the...
Dates:
1923-10 - 1933-07
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Georgian Bay Canal: Canadian House of Commons records, 1913-05 - 1927-04
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/AMEL 1/4/38
Scope and Contents
Papers on the case for compensation put forward by the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal (British Claims) Trust Limited, against the Canadian Government, following the forfeiture of the trust's charter to construct the Montreal, Ottawa and Georgian Bay Canal. Includes: copies of acts relating to the canal; annotated extracts from the official record of debates in the Canadian House of Commons; plan of the canal route; interim report and statistical examination on the canal; minutes...
Dates:
1913-05 - 1927-04
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The papers are open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.