Manuscript Collection MS COLL 00193 - Royal Canadian Institute Records (Downsview Offsite)

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Reference code

CA OTUTF MS COLL 00193

Title

Royal Canadian Institute Records (Downsview Offsite)

Date(s)

  • 1849-ongoing (Creation)

Level of description

Manuscript Collection

Extent and medium

219 boxes and items (28 metres)

Context area

Name of creator

(1849-)

Administrative history

Founded in Toronto in 1849 as the Canadian Institute by a group of engineers, surveyors, and civil engineers as a professional society that would include all architects, surveyors, and engineers in Ontario. It 1850 it was agreed to include all "whose pursuits or studies were of a kindred character". Incorporated in 1851, became the Royal Canadian Institute by Royal charter in 1914.

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Scope and content

Consists of minute books, membership lists, financial records, final typescripts of lectures, correspondence, committee minutes and reports, scrapbooks, clippings and printed materials.

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Accruals

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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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  • English

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Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

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