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Hamilton Mack Laing papers
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- cartographic material
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1900-1982 (Creation)
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3.1 m of textual records, photographs and cartographic material
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The series contains correspondence relating to natural history, correspondence with publishers, with C.J. Guiguet, Allan Brooks, P.A. Taverner, and various museums and naturalists, botanists and zoologists. Also includes personal correspondence with Ethel M. Hart Laing, (his wife), Mrs. W.O. Laing (his mother), and other family members. There are records relating to house building, property at Comox and Baybrook Nut Ranch and tax and financial records. In 2023, the map accession was described and added to the finding aid. There are 37 maps consisting of predominantly North America dating from around 1893 to 1958.
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Received from the BC Provincial Museum, 1982.
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Photographs were removed and transferred to the Visual Records Dept. and reaccessioned as 198310-001.
Cartographic material was removed and transferred to the Map Division and reaccessioned as M889016. The cartographic material was reunited back with MS-1309 in 2023.
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Accession number(s): 82-072, 198310-001, M889016
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- Brooks, Allan, 1869-1946 (Subject)
- Cowan, Ian McTaggart, 1910- (Subject)
- Guiguet, Charles Joseph, 1916- (Subject)
- Laing, Ethel May (Subject)
- Laing, William Oswald (Subject)
- Munday, Phyllis Beatrice (James) (Subject)
- Walker, Marion Isobel (Bullock-Webster) (Subject)
- Walker, Thomas A. (Subject)