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Elgin Ross Simpson Hall fonds
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Fonds
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1930-1980 (Creation)
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- Hall, Elgin Ross Simpson
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1.20 m of textual records, ca. 1,000 photographs, ca. 1,000 postcards
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Elgin Ross Simpson Hall was a Queen's University graduate (Arts '28). He also graduated with an MSc in zoology from the University of Michigan in 1929. By profession, he was a high school teacher in Kenora, Ontario from 1931-1955and then taught at Lively High School until his retirement in 1965. Upon retirement Mr. Hall undertook to travel the world, and circled the globe three times before his death in 1980.
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Fonds consists primarily of correspondence to Hall's sister-in-law Vera Pyke, along with photographs, diaries and postcards from his various travels after his retirement. There is some correspondence and a number of diaries from his early life.
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Stephen Surman and E. W. Strain - 1989
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- English
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5058
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Open
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