Series MS-1309 - Hamilton Mack Laing papers

Title and statement of responsibility area

Title proper

Hamilton Mack Laing papers

General material designation

  • textual record
  • graphic material
  • cartographic material

Parallel title

Other title information

Title statements of responsibility

Title notes

  • Source of title proper: Title based on the content of the series.

Level of description

Series

Reference code

MS-1309

Edition area

Edition statement

Edition statement of responsibility

Class of material specific details area

Statement of scale (cartographic)

Statement of projection (cartographic)

Statement of coordinates (cartographic)

Statement of scale (architectural)

Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)

Dates of creation area

Date(s)

  • 1900-1982 (Creation)

Physical description area

Physical description

3.1 m of textual records, photographs and cartographic material

Publisher's series area

Title proper of publisher's series

Parallel titles of publisher's series

Other title information of publisher's series

Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series

Numbering within publisher's series

Note on publisher's series

Archival description area

Custodial history

Scope and content

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.

Notes area

Physical condition

Immediate source of acquisition

Received from the BC Provincial Museum, 1982.

Arrangement

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.

Language of material

Script of material

Location of originals

Availability of other formats

Restrictions on access

Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication

Associated materials

Related materials

Accruals

General note

Accession number(s): 82-072, 198310-001, M889016

Alternative identifier(s)

Standard number area

Standard number

Access points

Place access points

Genre access points

Control area

Description record identifier

Accession area