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Ted Harrison fonds
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126 pgs. of textual records
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Ted Harrison is an artist with a distinctive colourful, painting style which illustrates his love of the land and the people of Yukon. He is also an internationally recognized author and illustrator of children's books and has spent much of his career teaching art to children of all ages. Edward (Ted) Hardy Harrison was born August 28th, 1926 in the village of Wingate in County Durham, England. In 1943, he enrolled in the West Hartlepool College of Art and began to study art and design in earnest, but like other young men at the time, his education was interrupted by National Service. After the war, he returned to art school and in 1950, received a Diploma of Design. The following year he received a teaching certificate from the University of Durham and began a twenty-eight year career in Education. He taught school in England, Malaysia, New Zealand and finally went to the Yukon in 1967 where he received a job to teach in "the land of the mighty Moose - where weaklings need not apply". He settled in Carcross and in 1970 moved to Whitehorse where he taught art to secondary school students and adults until 1979. After that time, he began to work as an artist full time. In 1993, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia where he currently lives and works.
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The fonds consists of 2 drafts for the book written by Ted Harrison, "The Last Horizon: Paintings and Stories of an Artist's Life in the Yukon". The first draft, composed October-November 1979, is a 94 page copy of the handwritten manuscript. The second is an original typed draft with corrections that was typed by Carol Cawley in early 1980.
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- Cawley, Carol (Subject)