Architectural drawings, odd sketches, 6 school writing books, 3 drawing books, 2 school papers (grammar and poetry), and 33 letters of W. Frye Colwill; also diaries, 1891-1931, of his mother Fanny Calvert. 1870- 1931.

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Colwill and Calvert Collection. Architectural drawings, odd sketches, 6 school writing books, 3 drawing books, 2 school papers (grammar and poetry), and 33 letters of W. Frye Colwill; also diaries, 1891-1931, of his mother Fanny Calvert.

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Architectural drawings, odd sketches, 6 school writing books, 3 drawing books, 2 school papers (grammar and poetry), and 33 letters of W. Frye Colwill; also diaries, 1891-1931, of his mother Fanny Calvert. 1870- 1931.

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Box 1 also includes a book of bylaws and rules for the Priory Club of Guelph, 1893, an 1887 Latin course text and a photograph of the Royal Templar's Dramatic Club, May 1, 1893; articles and newspaper clippings on W. Frye Colwill and Fanny Colwill Calvert, 1987-2009. Oversize files contain a larger drawing book; 11 large plans of Guelph Collegiate; 3 large plans of Dominion Linen Manufacturing Company Factory; drawings of Rev. P. Jensen's cottage on Acton Island, Muskoka; Stratford Public Library front elevation; drawing of the verandah on the Colwill home, 86 Liverpool St., Guelph, 1908; 4 18 x 23 PMT's of the Holliday house in Guelph and list of tenders received.

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3 boxes, 3 oversize files.

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University of Guelph. McLaughlin Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7820099

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W. Frye Colwill was the architect of many buildings and residences in Guelph including Torrance Public School (St. James Ward School), the city's Carnegie Library, renovations to the Trader's Bank, and also designed the ornamental exterior parts of the Galt Carnegie Library. He gave up architecture in his late 40's to become an innkeeper on Bala Park Island in the Muskokas. He died in 1928. Fanny Colwill Calvert was a very active businesswoman in Guelph around the turn of the century. She also w...