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Crawford Jean Purvis Fonds
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CA MUA MG4133
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1918-1960 (Creation)
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- Purvis, Crawford Jean
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0.1 m of textual records
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Jean Purvis emigrated from Scotland to Montreal in the 1930s. Prior to coming to Montreal, Jean Purvis was employed temporarily as a cashier at Fifty Shilling Tailors in Glasgow in 1929. She was appointed a deputy registrar for polling division for the Montreal electoral district of St. Lawrence - St. George in 1940.
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The fonds comprises of files including letters to Jean Purvis in Montreal from her mother Jennie Purvis and father Henry Purvis in Paisley Scotland, and letters to her from relatives from the United Kingdom (1930-1944). Included is also one letter to Jean from Lalla Stanhope addressed to the Recruiting Office in Paisley in 1918. The fonds also contains the accounts of the execution of the will of the late John Purvis (1954), brother of Jean’s father Henry Purvis.
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Donated by UQAM on December 20, 1989
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Handwritten and typescript