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Authority record- CA QUA00452
- Person
- 18---1876
Emma Naomi Crawford was born in Dublin, the child of Dr. Stephen Dennis Crawford and Sidney Scott Crawford and sister to Isabella Valancy Crawford. The family emigrated to Canada and settled in Paisley, Ontario, in 1857, where her father became the settlement's family doctor. Crawford uprooted his family again in 1861 and moved to Lakefield in the Kawarthas, northeast of Toronto, and finally to Peterborough in 1869. In 1876, at age 21, Emma Naomi died of consumption.
- CA QUA00453
- Person
- 1850-1886
Isabella Valancy Crawford was born in Dublin in 1850 (according to conjecture, on Dec. 25), the sixth child of Dr. Stephen Dennis Crawford and Sidney Scott Crawford. The family emigrated to Canada and settled in Paisley, Ontario, in 1857, where her father became the settlement's family doctor. Crawford uprooted his family again in 1861 and moved to Lakefield in the Kawarthas, northeast of Toronto, and finally to Peterborough in 1869. Her father died in 1875, leaving Isabella to be the principal earner of her family's income. She had been encouraged in this by Catherine Parr Traill during the Lakefield years and started publishing in Toronto newspapers, The Evening Telegram and The Globe, and in American journals. She and her mother moved to Toronto and lived in boarding houses on Shuter Street, St. Andrew's Ward, and Adelaide West until in the winter of 1885 they moved into a third-floor flat at 57 John St. at the corner of King. The year before Isabella had James Bain and Son publish her only book, Old Spookses' Pass, which was reviewed well in both British and Canadian papers but got her little fame or money. She died suddenly at her flat on Feb. 12, 1886.
- CA QUA00733
- Person
- 1904-1970
Professor Crawford was born in Great Village, Nova Scotia in 1904. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a B.A. in 1924 and an M.A. in 1926 in Political Science. From 1926 to 1934 he was assistant city clerk of London and city clerk from 1934 to 1944 when he came to Queen's University as director of the Institute of Local Government. For two years (1956-1958) he was on loan to the Ontario Government as Deputy Minister of the Department of Municipal Affairs and in 1962 Premiere John Robarts appointed him to a three-member commission set up to prepare a complete redistribution of Ontario's electoral districts. Professor Crawford was elected alderman of the City of Kingston in 1946 and held the post for ten years. He was also a member of the Kingston Planning Board. He was widely known as the author of a leading reference book Canadian Municipal Government. He died July 6, 1970.
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