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Edith Chown Pierce fonds
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Edith Chown Pierce fonds

  • CA ON00239 F2509
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1955

The fonds is comprised of family papers. Mrs. Pierce gathered together correspondence and memorabilia of the whole family and have been arranged into the following series: correspondence (1909-1955); diary; research notes and memoranda; photographs; news clippings; and miscellaneous.

Pierce, Edith Chown

Correspondence

The correspondence contains many family letters: Lorne Pierce, Mrs. Harriet Pierce (L.P. 's mother), Mrs. Chester (L.P. 's sister Sara), Reverend Eldred Chester, Grandmother Conley, Charlotte Conley, Lucinda Pierce. Alice Chown, Edith Pierce's brother Gordon Chown, as well as her children, nieces, nephews and friends.

Diaries

Six notebooks describing a trip to Europe taken by Edith Chown and her aunt, Alice Chown, May 7, 1910 to August 11, 1910. During the trip they took part in a suffragette parade in London.

News Clippings

Clippings of family news , news of Kingston and Delta, Ont, and the various places where Mrs-. Chester (Sara Pierce) and her family lived. There are a great number of poems and columns clipped from newspapers, including a series entitled "Memories of Kingston" which mentions the Chown family, and an article on the Queen' s Medical Faculty.