Fonds F0375 - Beer family fonds

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Beer family fonds

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F0375

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  • 1914-1919 (Creation)

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0.06 m of textual records
38 photographs

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(fl. 1810-1920)

Biographical history

The Beer family was established in Ontario by Christopher Beer, a retired commander in the British navy, who was granted several hundred acres of land in Metcalfe Township in the early 1800's. In the early 1900's, Jacob Beer, a descendent of Christopher Beer, lived in Strathroy, Ontario, and had five children: Christopher, Joan, Walter, Vivien and Winlow. Private Walter Beer was a soldier with the 48th Regiment (Highlanders) during World War I and was killed in action in France. Vivien Beer was engaged to Captain James R. Allan, who was also killed in action in France in 1916.

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(-1916)

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Custodial history

Mrs. Hazel Moses of Strathroy inherited the possessions of Joan Beer including documents relating to World War I which she (Moses) collected together and sent to Prof. Jack Granatstein in 1994 for deposit in the archives.

Scope and content

Fonds consists of correspondence between Captain James R. Allan and Vivien Beer of Strathroy, Ontario before Captain Allan, was killed; press clippings and photographs of Captain Allan and Private Walter Beer while serving in World War I and scenes of various members of the Beer family.

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Records received from Hazel Moses via Professor Jack Granatstein in September, 1994.

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No restrictions on access.

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The fonds comprises the following accession: 1994-031. No further accruals are expected.

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This fonds is featured in the "Letters Home: A selection of wartime correspondence" online exhibit which is available at http://archives.library.yorku.ca/exhibits/show/lettershome.

Selected photographs and letters available in "First World War Love Story," part of a virtual exhibit within ARCHEION, Ontario's Archival Information Network.http://archeion-aao.fis.utoronto.ca/ArcheionVirtualExhibit/love.html

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Final

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Partial

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

2002/04/03 Marie-JoseeLevesque:. WordPerfect (Creation)
2002/04/03 Awaiting review by the Data Collection Archivist
2002/11/20 Shannon MacDonald. Revised biographical sketch and scope and content, and updated accruals, access restrictions and finding aid wording.
2003/01/29 S. Dubeau. Added immediate source of acquisition information.
2003/05/01 Shannon MacDonald. Added URL for online finding aid.
2014/09/24 Anna St.Onge updated authority records, linked in additional information, published in AtoM.

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  • English

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