Gilean Douglas fonds. ca. 1880-1993.

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Gilean Douglas fonds. ca. 1880-1993.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/606461787

The fonds consists of manuscripts of poems, articles, short fiction and books; research files, subject files and other material generated and collected by Douglas during her involvement in writing and with various organizations such as the Women's Institute, the Anglican Church of Canada, Cortes Advisory Planning Commission and Environment Canada for whom she was a weather advisor for 33 years; an extensive professional and personal correspondence; financial records; legal records; journals; address books; and scrapbooks containing clippings of her published articles and poems; an extensive photograph collection documenting her life, including Channel Rock on Cortes Island, 1970s-1980s; as well as scrapbooks and correspondence dating back to the 1880s generated by her parents, prominent in Toronto social circles.

5.59 m of textual records.ca. 2000 photographs.

University of British Columbia Library

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University of British Columbia Library

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Douglas, Gilean, 1900-1993.

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Gilean Douglas worked as a photo journalist for much of her life and her lifetime venue of more than 200 publications included 13 book publications of non-fiction and poetry. Born in 1900 into a wealthy and socially prominent Toronto family, she was orphaned at the age of 16 and began to turn away from her inherited lifestyle. After three collapsed marriages, much travel and continuing work as a photo journalist she moved to British Columbia in 1939 and wrote a book, River For My Sidewalk, under...

Madison, Grant

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