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Ronald Finch fonds
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1901-1956 (inclusive); 1933-1956 (predominant) (Vervaardig)
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10 cm textual materials; 40 black and white photos ; 51 negatives.
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Ronald Finch of Billingshurst, West Sussex once resided in Canada as a young man. He collected these letters, most written by individuals with connections to his uncle’s family in Lanigan, Saskatchewan from 1933-1946.
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Fred Finch, uncle of Robert Finch, owned the highly successful Hyemal Poultry Farm in Lanigan before moving to British Columbia. Fred Finch was born September 25, 1881 in Birlingham, Worcestershire, England, and married Mabel Harriet Shaw in 1904. While in Worcester, he worked as a corn warehouseman and carter. The Finches immigrated to Canada in 1913 and settled in the Lanigan area. Fred Finch retired to Vancouver in 1940, where he died in 1967.
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Henry Unger was a Canadian Pacific Railway man who helped with the Fred Finch farm near Lanigan, Saskatchewan.
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These materials were purchased from Benjamin Katz of Toronto in 2016.
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Correspondence from British emigrants describing their lives in Canada and concern over the war. The collection includes letters, photographs, negatives, manuscript drawings, maps, greeting cards, news clippings, and one small watercolor.
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