Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1800-1899 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
45 boxes and items (6 metres)
Context area
Name of creator
Name of creator
Biographical history
Edmund Morris was a Canadian artist and descendant of the McLean and Morris families who settled in Elizabethtown (present day Brockville) in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Archival history
The collection arrived in the form of a scrapbook assembled by Canadian artist Edmund Morris who had added numerous notes and headings. For preservation reasons, the volume was disassembled and the documents were removed. A microfilm was made of the original scrapbook. The numbers penciled on each document refer to the page number in the scrapbooks.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Consists of various documents, maps, letters and bound volumes acquired by Louis Melzak. The majority of the items relate to the Morris and McLean families which had been collected in a scrapbook by Edmund Morris. The letters and documents had been arranged by Morris in two groups: those of the Alexander McLean family and those of the Alexander Morris family. He included a brief outline of the history of the McLean family and an index of those documents.
The bound volumes include an early printer's pay-book, the diary of a British soldier series in Upper Canada and material relating to the settlement of the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Material may be requested in person at the Fisher Library Reference Desk, or in advance using our online stack retrieval request form: https://aeon.library.utoronto.ca
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English