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Mackenzie King biography collection
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1953-1954 (Creation)
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- Neatby, Herbert Blair
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1.05 m of textual records
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Biographical history
Following the death of Mackenzie King in July 1950, King's literary executors engaged a number of historians and researchers to undertake the task of compiling research and materials for the writing of the official biography. The two authors of the text were Robert MacGregor Dawson and H. Blair Neatby. Dawson was responsible for volume one. Neatby became the official biographer of Mr. King upon the death of Dawson in the summer of 1958. Neatby wrote volumes two and three of the King biography. They were published in 1963 and 1976 respectively.
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Scope and content
The material in the collection consists of twenty-one binders of material prepared for use by the official biographers of Mackenzie King. In addition to a chronological guide to King's career, two volumes of transcripts of Sir Robert Borden correspondence, there are eighteen binders of memoranda that were prepared by several well-known historians and researchers who were experts on the life and career of Mackenzie King, including James Eayrs, Frederick Gibson and A.W.A. Lane.
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The material was donated to Queen's University Archives by H. Blair Neatby.
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- English
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5146.1
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Open
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