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Hamilton Laing fonds
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- textual record
- graphic material
- multiple media
- cartographic material
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- Source of title proper: Title based on the contents of the fonds.
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1870-1982 (Creation)
- Creator
- Laing, Hamilton Mack, 1883-1982
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Physical description
6.9 m of textual records, 7904 photographs and cartographic material
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Hamilton Laing was a naturalist, photographer and journalist from Comox, B.C.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of correspondence, notes and manuscripts of articles and books concerning birds, mammals and plants, and notes and correspondence concerning pioneering in rural Manitoba and Comox, B.C. Personal correspondence includes that with his mother, his wife, and other family members. Fonds includes photographs, miscellaneous tax and financial records, maps of North America, and records relating to house construction. In 2024, Laing's field notebooks, journals and diaries were added to the fonds, having been transferred from Natural History at the Royal BC Museum.
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Archives code(s): MS-1309; MS-1900; MS-3593
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Accession number(s): 83-052; 198310-002; 18492A; 82-072; 198310-001; M889016; 198501-015; 199002-002; 2024.015
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- Laing, Hamilton Mack, 1883-1982 (Subject)
- Laing, Ethel May (Subject)
- British Columbia Provincial Museum (Subject)