Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Damaris Isabella Smith fonds.
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title from content of fonds.
Level of description
Fonds
Reference code
SCA14-WA8
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Physical description area
Physical description
12.5 cm of textual records
Archival description area
Name of creator
(1831-1913)
Biographical history
Damaris Isabella McGee Smith was an author and teacher. She was born Sept. 27, 1831 at Somerville, New Brunswick. She moved to Ontario when she was 18 and taught school in the Lee neighborhood [of Hamilton?]. She married Sylvester Smith, son of a United ... »
Scope and content
Two scrapbooks, the first compiled by Damaris Smith containing clippings, engravings, stamps and seals, obituaries and biographies of prominent suffragists, literary, political and social women, some British. The second, compiled by her daughter Gertrude,... »
Notes area
Immediate source of acquisition
Received as part of the Lady Aberdeen Collection which was donated by the National Council of Women of Canada in 1967.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Re-described by Anita Streicher (April 2010).