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Charles Walkem fonds
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Fonds
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1840-1876 (Creation)
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- Charles Walkem, Colonel
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0.03 m of textual records
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Colonel Charles Walkem was a royal surveyor with the Royal Engineers, and later part of the Militia Department in Upper Canada. In the middle of the 19th century, he set about enquiring as to what amount of property belonging to the British War Office still existed in Upper Canada. As part of his enquiry, he obtained statements and conducted interviews with elderly Kingston engineers on their recollections of structural details and costs of Kingston fortifications and buildings back in the 18th century.
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Correspondence, notes, structural information and account information on ordnance lands and Kingston fortifications from the late 18th century to the middle 19th century. Some of the fortifications discussed are the Murney Tower, Fort Henry, French Fort Frontenac, the Blockhouse and palisade defences, Market Battery, the battery near and within Lake Ontario Park, and the Royal Navy Yard. It also includes information on Sir Richard Bonnycastle of the Royal Engineers (RE), and a list of the Royal Engineers who served in Kingston from 1812-1860.
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Gift of Edwin Horsey, 1945
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- English
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3098
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Open
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Public domain