Fonds 000.049.0001 - 0055 - William White Fonds

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William White Fonds

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000.049.0001 - 0055

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  • 1870-1902 (Creation)

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1 framed tin-plate photograph. -- 1.5 cm of textual and photographic records.

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White, William

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Scope and content

Fonds consists of documents relating to the professional life of William White including records of his service as ship’s steward’s boy starting in 1854 aboard HMS Lyra serving in East Africa and records of his service on HMS Scout from 1870 to 1875 while stationed in Esquimalt.

Also includes records pf his service on HMS Cumberland, Medusa, Agincourt, Revenge, Wizard, and Hibernia including letters of recommendations from captains, a shipping list from the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1872, a British Columbia license to sell and retail trader, a personal letter from a captain to White’s mother, and two certificates of De Lessepps’ Panama Canal dating to 1893.

Also includes several photographs of White, including one with his wife and 10 children in 1902.

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Donated by Lorna Calvert, November 2000.

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  • English

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Photocopies of many of the documents as well as additional biographical information and a family tree of the decedents of William White is located in the documentation file.

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All requests for use must be made through the MMBC Research Request program (http://mmbc.bc.ca/collections/library-and-archives/research/). Please note that fees may apply.

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RAD, July 2008 version. Canadian Council of Archives.

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14 March 2018

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