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Reginald Richard Dixon fonds
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1966-2000 (Creation)
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- Dixon, Reginald Richard
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0.26 m of textual records and other material
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Major Reginald Richard Dixon (Retd), former Co-ordinator of Interpretive Projects, National Parks and Historic Sites, Parks Canada was Superintendent of Bellevue House National Historic Site during restoration in 1966-67. Bellevue House, a Tuscan villa built in the 1840's by Kingston merchant Charles Hales, was the home of Sir John A. Macdonald and his wife Isabella,1848-1849. The house was restored to the period as a project of Parks Canada. Bellevue House was officially opened 24 May, 1967 and was visited by Queen Elizabeth the following July.
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This fonds consists of correspondence, reports, research notes, drawings, plans, sketches, photographs and slides, and clippings relating to the the restoration and interpretation, under the Directorship of Reginald R. Dixon, of the National Historic Site known as Bellevue House, Sir John A. Macdonald's home located in Kingston, Ontario; files relating to his time as a senior bureaucrat in the National Historic Sites Service of Parks Canada; a section of his autobiography entitled, 'I was Forged on the Anvil of War, Chapter 9 - The Bellevue Years' (1998); and 'Bellevue House: An extract from the autobiography of R.R. Dixon' (2000).
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Donated by Reginald R. Dixon
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- English
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2318.6
5011.12 SE
F3 B2.1 001
F5 C1
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