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Catharine Parr Traill fonds
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1891 (Creation)
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1 album (ca. 51 pages of specimens)
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Custodial history
The album was created by Catharine Parr Traill for her son, William, in 1891. The inside cover contains a handwritten note bordered with fern branches, that reads: "With your mothers affectionate love to Dear Willie Traill Lakefield / Duoro [sic] 1891/ Ferns Flowers and Mosses from Duoro Woods of Stony [sic] Lake". This album has always remained in the Traill family. After William Traill's death, it was acquired by his grandson, Thomas Rennie McCloy. In 1996, Mr McCloy died and the album was acquired by the donor (Mr McCloy's niece), who then offered it to the City Archives in December 1998. In December 1999 this album was certified as Canadian cultural property of "outstanding significance and national importance" by the Cultural Property Review Board, Department of Canadian Heritage, Ottawa.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of an original album (or herbarium) with a leather cover, containing 51 pages of mounted ferns, grasses, moss and flower specimens, collected from the Douro township and Stoney Lake area in 1891, by Canadian botanist and author, Catharine Parr Traill. Each specimen has a hand-written note identifying it. Some also contain additional notes recording where it was collected, date collected and other characteristics. It is extraordinarily rare to find an intact Traill album containing as many as 50 or more pages of mounted specimens.
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Some preservation restrictions apply.
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Finding aids
An inventory of plant specimens is available in the City Archives.
Associated materials
See also the PCMA Museum collection for a maple flower press once owned by Catharine Parr Traill. The Museum also holds a writing desk, clothing and other material owned by Traill and other members of her family.
Accruals
Accruals are not expected.
General note
The album will remain intact with interleaves of acid free tissue.
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- Traill, William (Subject)