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Archibald William Currie fonds
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1931-1983 (Creation)
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- Currie, Archibald William
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3.07 m of textual records, 5 photographs : b&w
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Archibald William Currie was born February 22, 1908, the son of Archibald and Minnie (Mosure) Currie. He attended Queen's from 1925 to 1930 and received both the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (1929) and Bachelor 0f Commerce (1930). He graduated with a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard in 1938 and received the Doctor of Commercial Science degree one year later from Harvard.
In 1931 he was appointed Director of Extension at Queen's, a position he held until 1938. From 1938 to 1945 he lectured in the Department of Commerce and Department of Economics at the University of British Columbia and in 1946 was appointed to the University of Toronto as a Professor in the Department of Economics, where he stayed until 1969. In 1963 he was appointed advisor to the Ministry of Transport in Nigeria and was a Senior Advisor to the Government of Fiji from 1970-1971.
He married Madeline McNeely and they had two children. Professor Currie died at Parkhill, Ontario, in 1989.
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The fonds consists of correspondence, diaries, writings and subject files documenting the career of Professor Currie as historian and university professor. The files of his writing show his broad interests in the field of Canadian economic history, Canadian transportation history and the Grand Trunk Railway.
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Donated by Duncan John Currie.
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- English
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2287.2
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3186.4
2999 (Currie)
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