Fonds F602 - Calvin Company fonds

Bereich 'Titel und Anmerkung zur Verantwortlichkeit'

Haupttitel

Calvin Company fonds

Allgemeine Werkstoffbezeichnung

Paralleler Titel

Andere Titelinformation

Titelangaben zur Verantwortlichkeit

Anmerkungen zum Titel

Erschließungsstufe

Fonds

Bereich "Edition"

Edition statement

Edition statement of responsibility

Class of material specific details area

Angaben zum Maßstab (kartografisch)

Angaben zur Projektion (kartografisch)

Angaben zu Koordinaten (kartografisch)

Angaben zum Maßstab (architektonisch)

Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)

Bereich "Entstehungszeitraum"

Datum/Laufzeit

  • 1838-1923 (Anlage)
    Urheber/Bestandsbildner
    Calvin Company

Bereich 'Physische Beschreibung'

Physische Beschreibung

30 m of textual records, ca. 250 photographs

Publisher's series area

Haupttitel der Verlagsreihe

Parallel titles of publisher's series

Other title information of publisher's series

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Numbering within publisher's series

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Bereich "Archivische Beschreibung"

Name des Bestandsbildners

(1836-1914)

Verwaltungsgeschichte

The Calvin Company of Garden Island, which operated under a variety of names from 1836 to 1914, was a family business created by Delino Dexter Calvin. In 1826, Calvin discovered there was more money to be made in the timber export business than in farming when, with the help of a neighbour, he cut square timber from his property and rafted it to Quebec. He and his partner, Hiram Cook, began rafting from Quebec Head at the foot of Wolfe Island and, in 1836, from Garden Island. The first Garden Island partnership was well established by 1838 and the firm was called Calvin, Cook and Counter, the latter being John Counter. In 1843 Counter withdrew from the partnership and the company became Calvin, Cook and Company with a seperate branch at Quebec under the name D.D. Calvin and Company. In 1843, Timothy H. Dunn joined the partnership at Quebec and the firm there was then known as Dunn, Calvin and Company until 1850 when Dunn withdrew and the Quebec name again became D.D. Calvin and Company. A third branch was established in Hamilton, called Hiram Cook and Company but, in 1854, Cook withdrew from the company, seperating the Hamilton branch which continued under the same name but independent of the Garden Island firm. The company also had agencies in Liverpool and Glasgow, and along the St. Lawrence waterway as far west as Defiance, Ohio and Sault Ste. Marie. In 1855 the Island firm became Calvin and Breck with the addition of Calvin's brother-in-law. The name continued until 1880 when Breck retired and the firm became Calvin and Son (D.D. and his son Hiram). After Calvin's death in 1886 the last change was made with the company's name becoming Calvin Company, Limited. The Quebec branch remained D.D. Calvin until 1887 when it became a branch office of the Calvin Company.

Although rafting was always the mainstay of the company's activities, other activities grew out of the rafting business. As early as 1841 the company had a shipyard, smiths' shops, and a sail loft and a planing mill, picket machine and withe machine followed. The Island was a self-contained community with company houses for the employees, a company general store, a school house and a hall. In 1861 it had a population of 761 and became an incorporated village. Hiram Calvin was reeve of Garden Island from 1884 to 1892, and member of parliament for the Countyof Frontenac in 1892. He was re-elected in 1900 and retired from politics in 1904. He died in 1932.

Bestandsgeschichte

Eingrenzung und Inhalt

Fonds consists of ledgers, journals, lumber records, letter books, correspondence, contracts and agreements and miscellaneous material relating to the timber-making, rafting, forwarding, shipbuilding, towing and salvaging of the Calvin Company. There is also a collection of photographs relating to both family and business.

Bereich "Anmerkungen"

Physischer Zustand

Abgebende Stelle

Donated by Miss Hilda Calvin, Mr. J.D. Calvin and Miss Peggy Boyd - 1968.

Ordnung und Klassifikation

In der Verzeichnungseinheit enthaltene Sprache

  • Englisch

Schrift in den Unterlagen

Aufbewahrungsort der Originale

2248
2248.1
2248.2
2121.3 SE

Verfügbarkeit anderer Formate

Zugangsbeschränkungen

Open

Bestimmungen, die die Benutzung, Reproduktion und Veröffentlichung regeln

Public domain

Verbundene Materialien

Verwandte Materialien

Zuwächse

No further accruals are expected

Allgemeine Anmerkung

Partial

Alternative Identifikatoren/Signaturen

Bereich "Standardnummern"

Standardnummer

Zugriffspunkte

Zugriffspunkte (Thema)

Zugriffspunkte (Ort)

Zugriffspunkte (Name)

Zugriffspunkte (Genre)

Bereich "Kontrolle"

Beschreibungsdatensatzkennzahl

Archivcode

Regeln und/oder Konventionen

Status

Überarbeitet

Erschließungstiefe

Daten der Bestandsbildung, der Überprüfung und der Skartierung/Kassierung

Description created on 1999/08/27. Last updated 19/06/2017.
Archivist(s): Ken Willmott

Sprache der Beschreibung

  • Englisch

Schrift der Beschreibung

Quellen

Bereich Zugang

Verwandte Themen

Verwandte Personen und Organisationen

Verwandte Orte

Verwandte Genres

Aufbewahrung

  • Fach: 2248
  • Fach: 2248.1
  • Fach: 2248.2
  • Fach: 2121.3 SE
  • Planschrank: Map 1