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Henry Eustace MacFutter fonds
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1830-1880 (Produção)
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- MacFutter, Henry Eustace
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História biográfica
The Honourable Henry E. MacFutter, born in 1817, was the son of a wealthy Montreal distiller, who, in 1837, was banished by his father to Kingston to article in the law office of a young lawyer by the name of John A. Macdonald. However, he soon reverted to his former life as a rake -- drinking, gambling, and womanizing. His trail of misdeeds became tracherous after crossing paths with Edward Barker, Pirate Bill and his daughter Kate, and a murdeous officer in the Fort Henry Guard. He also fell out early on with his legal mentor.
After Macdonald became Prime Minister in 1867, he set about expunging his former student's name from the documentary record, both before and after Confederation. Hence the reason his name, his very existence, is missing from the hisorical record, or as one commentator has noted, "its almost as if Henry Eustace MacFutter is a man who never lived."
MacFutter received Honorary Degrees from McGill, Dalhousie, Oxford, and Queen's. During his day, he was one of the wealthiest, most influential and high-profile men in the British Empire. His accomplishments were legion. He was a celebrated explorer, a hurdy-gurdy virtuoso, a renowned phrenologist, statesman, and author. A close friend was President Theodore Roosevelt, with whom MacFutter hunted big game in Africa.
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Prior to being transferred to Queen's University Archives the papers were housed, for many years, in a wall safe of MacFutter's erstwhile mansion, located in Montreal. The safe was discovered as the house, which had been an opium den and brothel in the 1920s, was being demolished in 2011. As neither his surving kin (the children of his eight illegimate offspring), nor the mansions' new owner (a Chinese investor), had any intereset in MacFutter's papers, the demolition company donated them to Queen's University and its Archives.
Âmbito e conteúdo
Fonds consists of correspondence; photographs; and his long lost memoirs largely relating to his involvement in the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion; and his interactions with such notables as William Lyon Mackenzie, Sir John A. Macdonald, Edward Barker, Pirate Bill and his daughter Kate, and a murderous Captain of the Fort Henry Guard.
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Donated by an anonymous source.
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