Belcher family fonds. 1736-1874, 1966.

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Belcher family fonds. 1736-1874, 1966.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606460564

The fonds consists of correspondence, journals, legal documents, financial documents, printed drawings, watercolours, an order book, and personal and other documents created and/or accumulated by Edward Belcher and other members of the Belcher family.

40 cm of textual records.

University of British Columbia Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7781661

University of British Columbia Library

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Belcher, Edward, Sir, 1799-1877

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Belcher (family)

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Sir Edward Belcher was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Members of the Belcher family had moved to New England from England in the seventeenth century and then to Nova Scotia, where Belchers grandfather, Johnathan Belcher, became the first chief justice. In 1811, Edward Belcher and his family moved back to England, where he joined the Royal Navy the following year. Belcher gained recognition as a surveyor on a number of voyages, including the Beechey expedition in the mid 1820s, and in 1829 he was ...