Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, November 1954. 1954 Nov. 2 - Nov. 29.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Canada, Individual, R.A. Tweedie : Correspondence with Lord Beaverbrook regarding various New Brunswick projects, November 1954. 1954 Nov. 2 - Nov. 29.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270526001

Correspondence concerning: the publication of a photographic history of New Brunswick; arrangements for Lord Beaverbrook to dine with Premier Hugh John Flemming in Toronto; a pension fund for retired Presbyterian ministers and widows; the donation of a spire and organ to St. John's Presbyterian Church in Tabusintac; a photograph of the musical notation and words to the Miramichi folksong "The Jones Boys"; a piano gift for the school at Beaverbrook; a gramophone gift for the UNB. Art Centre; Beaverbrook's proposal to provide a band director for the Newcastle and UNB bands; Old Manse Library heating repairs; parking lot for the Lady Beaverbrook Rink at Fredericton; an art exhibition at Bonar Law-Bennett Library including a CFNB broadcast transcript.

Correspondence : 98 (118 leaves)Photograph : 1 : b&w.

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7183542

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Harriet Irving Library

Related Entities

There are 11 Entities related to this resource.

Bean, E. H., Rev.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b06gqd (person)

Mackay, Colin B., 1920-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fr77bg (person)

Purnell, F. G. (Frank G.), Rev.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68d77x3 (person)

Manny, Louise

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6988whw (person)

Louise Manny, 1890-1970, provided Beaverbrook's ongoing contact with his native Newcastle. Their correspondence spans from 1946 to his death in 1964. Beaverbrook supported her in her historical research on the Miramichi, her folk song collecting, and her work in the development of the historic burial ground at Wilson's (Beaubair's) Point into a park named The Enclosure. In the early 1950s he appointed her in charge of the Old Manse Library, his boyhood home, where she continued until her death. ...

Tweedie, Robert A. (Robert Allison), 1908-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz0s3s (person)

R.A. Tweedie acted variously as Agent for Lord Beaverbrook, Secretary of the Beaverbrook Foundations, Secretary to the Board of Governors of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Director of the New Brunswick Travel Bureau. All letters are interfiled chronologically, regardless of the capacity in which Tweedie was corresponding. In late 1959, early 1960 Tweedie also became secretary of the Sir James Dunn Foundation. Letters written in this capacity are interfiled with other correspondence. ...

Tunis, Albert A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nm0rsb (person)

LeRoux, Le R. S. (Le Roux Smith)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v19gnn (person)

McCallum, John (John W.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6258w73 (person)

Presbyterian Pension Plan.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wt5vcb (corporateBody)

Phillips, Fred H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65500ht (person)

St. John's Presbyterian Church (Tabusintac, N.B.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p34068 (corporateBody)