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Wilkinson family fonds
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1 cm of textual records. -- 1 cm of technical drawings
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Jesse Wilkinson, an industrial blacksmith by trade, immigrated from England and settled in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the 1900s. He worked in the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) shops in Winnipeg, where he invented a more efficient furnace for blacksmithing, the Wilmow Oil Burner. His son Gordon Wilkinson, 1905-1973, worked as a machinist in the railway industry in Winnipeg and Vancouver, eventually becoming an organizer for the International Association of Machinists and an executive of the Canadian Labour Congress. Gordon's son Barry Wilkinson worked as a technician for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and was an active member of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians (NABET).
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The fonds consists of correspondence and mechanical drawings concerning Jesse Wilkinson's Wilmow Oil Burner; correspondence concerning Gordon Wilkinson's book-length typescript "Canadian Union Conflicts"; and a poem by Gordon.
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Gift of Barry Wilkinson, 2006-2007.
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- The material is in English.
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The typescript "Canadian Union Conflicts" has been transferred to the Glenbow Library.
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Record No. M-9195<br><br>
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- Wilkinson (family) (Subject)