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William Lawson Grant fonds
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1902-1935 (Creation)
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- Grant, William Lawson
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0.3 m of textual records
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William Lawson Grant, historian and educator, was born at Halifax, N.S., in 1872, the son of Rev. George Munro Grant. He was educated at Queen's University, Kingston and at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1898). He taught at Upper Canada College and St. Andrew's College, Toronto, 1898-1904. From 1904 to 1910 he was Beit Lecturer in colonial history at Oxford and from 1910 to 1915 taught at Queen's. In 1917, he became headmaster of Upper Canada College, remaining in the position until his death in 1935. During his career he wrote or edited several historical publications, including his father's biography. He was elected F.R.S.C in 1911. In 1911 Grant married Maude Parkin.
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The fonds consists of a small amount of correspondence, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings (subject based), loose news clippings pertaining to various colonial concerns, a synopsis of some of Principal George Munro Grant's activities, a hand-crafted sympathy message from the Alma Mater Society to Principal Grant on the death of his wife, a duplicate copy (by hand) of the Resolution passed by the University of Toronto Senate on the occasion of George Munro Grant's death, and a number of letters pertaining to William George McIntrye used by W.L. Grant in the preparation of a memorial message regarding his death.
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- English
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1056
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Open
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Public domain
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