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Dorothy Blakey Smith fonds
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27 photographs. -- 0.01 m of textual records
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Dorothy Blakey Smith was born in Leeds, England and immigrated with her family to Canada in 1913. In 1919, during the summer following her second year at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbia, she taught at Pine View School District No. 1857, west of Olds, Alberta. In 1921 graduated in the University of British Columbia's first graduating class of Honours English and earned two Masters degrees, one from the University of British Columbia in 1922, and the other from the University of Toronto, in Ontario, in 1926. She obtained a doctorate from the University of London in 1933 and was appointed to the Department of English at the University of British Columbia. In 1957 she began working for the British Columbia Archives in Victoria, British Columbia, as a researcher and editor, remaining with the Archives until her retirement in 1968. She received an honorary Doctor in Letters degree from the University of British Columbia in 1978.
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Fonds consists of a personal reminiscence by Dorothy Blakey Smith about the summer she taught at Pine View School in Alberta, and a number of photographs taken during that time which depict the Pine View School and students, log buildings, horse, carriages, the Calgary Stampede, as well as Dorothy Blakey Smith and other individuals.
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Ms. Dorothy Blakey Smith deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1981.
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Some photographs in poor condition were disposed of.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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Other records pertaining to Dorothy Blakey Smith can be found in the Dorothy Blakey Smith fonds located at the University of British Columbia Archives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and in the Dorothy Blakey Smith fonds located at the British Columbia Archives located in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the records and from the biographical sketch of Dorothy Blakey Smith provided by the University of British Columbia Archives for the Dorothy Blakey Smith fonds.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1981.0181<br><br>
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- Smith, Dorothy Blakey (Subject)