Collection - Harry T. Titus collection

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Harry T. Titus collection

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0.5 cm of textual records
46 photographs

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Harry Troop Titus was born in St. John, New Brunswick in 1888. He enlisted in the American Army During the First World war. He married Rachel (Dudsie) Dunn in San Francisco in 1922. The two had met in Prince Rupert, where Rachel's family was living and Harry had worked as a clerk for Patullo & Radford in 1910 and as an engineer for the Public Works Department in 1911. Rachel's father, Thomas Dunn, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He lived in Toronto and Calgary before moving to Vancouver where he started Thomas Dunn Hardware Company, a year in advance of the Canadian Pacific Railway. He also served on Vancouver's first city council. Thomas and his wife Isabella (Miller) had eight children. Thomas moved to Prince Rupert in 1906, bringing his wife and most of his children to join him in the spring of 1908. He managed the Prince Rupert Hardware & Supply Company, served on the Board of Trade, and briefly entered politics, running for the Conservative party. The Dunns left Prince Rupert in December 1912 because of Isabella's health and moved to San Diego, California where Thomas died on December 23, 1915 at age 63. Isabella died on March 18, 1920. Harry and Rachel had two sons: Donald Stuart Titus, born August 25, 1925 in Hollywood and Michael Graham Titus, born May 11, 1928 in Los Angeles. The two brothers died in 2005.

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The records were donated to the archives in July 1998 by Mike Titus, son of Harry T. and Rachel Titus.

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The collection consists of 49 photographs of Prince Rupert between 1906 and 1912 that belonged to Harry T. Titus. It includes local scenes including the waterfront, the town under construction, fishing boats, Grand Trunk Pacific Railway officials, and blasting. It also includes a letter from Frank Morse, Vice-President and General Manager of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, regarding Harry T. Titus's search for employment with the GTP.

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1998.034

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Created on January 15, 2014

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