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Robert Lionel Dunsmore fonds
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Fonds
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Date(s)
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1903-1980 (Production)
- Producteur
- Dunsmore, Robert Lionel
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Description matérielle
6 m of textual records, ca. 100 photographs
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Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
Robert Lionel Dunsmore was born on September 2, 1893, in Seaforth, Ontario. He graduated from Queen's University in 1915 with a B.SC. in Civil Engineering and went overseas with the 5th Field Company Canadian Engineers where he attained the rank of Major and was awarded the Military Cross. Upon his return to Canada in 1919 he went to Imperial Oil Company as an assistant engineer. Throughout his career in the petroleum industry he worked with a number of oil companies in various positions including President of Champlain Oil Products Limited (1949-1958) and Vice-Chairman and Director of the B.N.C (Canada) Limited (1962-1978). Upon his retirement from the petroleum industry he became Chairman of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation from 1958 to 1963. Mr. Dunsmore was also elected a member of the Queen's University Board of Trustees (1953), serving on the Board for twenty-one years.
In 1916 he married Rosabel Voaden and together they had one son. Mr. Dunsmore died in 1989.
Historique de la conservation
Portée et contenu
The fonds consists of correspondence, diaries and photographs from the period of Dunsmore's World War I service (1915-1919), and the WWI diaries of his brother-in-law Clarence Voaden (1917-1918). It also includes various writings, correspondence, lectures and addresses from his time of service on the Board of Trustees, and minutes and reports from the Queen's University Campus Planning committee as he also served on that committee for almost twenty years.
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Source immédiate d'acquisition
R.J.C. Dunsmore - 1989
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Langue des documents
- anglais
Écriture des documents
Localisation des originaux
5018
F5 D1
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Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication
Public domain
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Accroissements
No further accruals are expected