Manuscript Collection MS COLL 00217 - Hunter, Rose & Co. Papers

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Reference code

CA OTUTF MS COLL 00217

Title

Hunter, Rose & Co. Papers

Date(s)

  • [ca.1874]-1977 (Creation)

Level of description

Manuscript Collection

Extent and medium

17 boxes and items (2.74 metres)

Context area

Name of creator

(1861-1983)

Administrative history

Hunter, Rose & Co., originally a partnership of Robert Hunter, George Maclean Rose and Francois Lemieux, was established in 1861. It took over the five-year contract as legislative printer to the Province of Canada in Quebec City when Samuel Thompson withdrew from the business of Thompson, Hunter & Co. It successfully bid in its own name on a new five-year contract with the Province of Canada in 1865, eventually moving its printing office to Ottawa when the capital was transferred. Following the completion of the federal contract, it closed the Ottawa office and consolidated its business in Toronto in 1871, where it remained for the next 112 years, until it eventually went into receivership under the name of the Hunter Rose Company in 1983.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of the Hunter Rose Company, Sept. 1983.

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Scope and content

Collection contains letters patent, minute books, stock certificates, balance sheets, correspondence and miscellaneous material relating to the Hunter, Rose & Company and its associated companies.

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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://fisher.library.utoronto.ca/stack-retrieval-request

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Language of material

  • English

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Description identifier

CA OTUTF MS COLL00217

Institution identifier

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

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