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Nova Scotia Archives Finding Aid - Harry and Rachel Morton fonds (2005-004 and 2010-022) Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) 2.3.1 Printed: October 05, 2017 Language of description: English Nova Scotia Archives 6016 University Ave. Halifax Nova Scotia B3H 1W4 Telephone: (902) 424-6060 Fax: (902) 424-0628 Email: [email protected] http://archives.novascotia.ca/ https://memoryns.ca/index.php/harry-and-rachel-morton-fonds Harry and Rachel Morton fonds Table of contents Summary information ...................................................................................................................................... 3 Administrative history / Biographical sketch .................................................................................................. 3 Scope and content ........................................................................................................................................... 4 Notes ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Series descriptions ........................................................................................................................................... 4 - Page 2 - 2005-004 and 2010-022 Harry and Rachel Morton fonds Summary information Repository: Nova Scotia Archives Title: Harry and Rachel Morton fonds ID: 2005-004 and 2010-022 Date: 1835-2009 (date of creation) Physical description: 1 m of textual records and other material Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Administrative history / Biographical sketch Note Harry Stafford Morton was born in Port Greville, Nova Scotia on 18 August 1905, the son of Charles Stewart (1876-1955) and Maie Howard (Stafford) Morton (1879-1931). He studied at St. Andrew's College in Toronto, Ontario, 1918-1921, Dalhousie University where he received his BA (1925) and M.Sc. (1927). He received his medical training at the University of London, graduating with an MB, BS in 1930. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, England, in 1935 and was added to the Medical Register of the College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 1937. In 1938 he joined the Canadian Navy, serving as a surgeon commander with the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve. He retired as a surgeon captain in 1945. Thereafter, he taught at McGill University Medical School and served as Chairman of the Surgical Fellow Training Program, 1946-1964; and as Examiner for the Medical Council of Canada and McGill University, 1946-1964. He was Chairman of the Cancer Committee of the Quebec Medical Society and was founder of the Quebec Tumor Registry. He was made a patron of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1999. He served as a director of the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Canada, 1962-1988, and the Board of Regents of Mount Allison University, 1964-1983. He authored 37 scientific publications and in 2000 published Canadian Medical Officers in the Royal Navy, World War II. He died on 8 December 2001 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was buried in the Morton family plot in Brookside Cemetery, Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Administrative history / Biographical sketch Note Rachel Perot Wainwright was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 25 November 1909, the daughter of Lumley Gregor (1863-1910) and Mary Haliburton (King) Wainwright (1866-1950). She was educated at the Halifax Ladies Academy and at St. Leonard's School in St. Andrew's, Scotland. Thereafter, she studied at King's College and the Halifax Conservatory of Music. She married Harry Stafford Morton on Nova Scotia Archives Page 3 2005-004 and 2010-022 Harry and Rachel Morton fonds 15 July 1937. She was an active volunteer and was a founding member of the first Montreal Meals on Wheels service, a former president of the Montreal Volunteer Bureau, and she served with the National Council of Women. She died on 6 March 2009 in Halifax, Nova Scotia and was buried in Brookside Cemetery in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Scope and content Fonds consists of textual records, photographs, postcards, a land survey plan and one object. The contents of the fonds document the history of the King, Lovett, Morton, Pallen, Stafford, Wainwright, and Wiswell families in Nova Scotia. It includes extensive correspondence, particularly during the Second World War while Harry Morton was serving in the Canadian Navy, as well as while he was studying medicine in London, England, in the 1930s. The correspondence also includes letters from Rachel Wainwright's time at St. Leonard's School in St. Andrew's, Scotland, with related documents and photographs. Another significant item in the fonds is the C.F. Longley scrapbook, which contains images of Halifax during the South African War and in the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, as well as many buildings, homes, and public spaces in Halifax and Nova Scotia in general. Notes Title notes Immediate source of acquisition Donated to the Archives by the executor of the estates of Mr. and Mrs. Morton, David Stewart, in 2010. Finding aids "File list available.":https://novascotia.ca/archives/lists/harry-and-rachel-morton-fonds.pdf Other notes • Publication status: Published Series descriptions Ref code Title Dates Access status Container 2005-004/001-001 Item - General correspondence: Alling, before 1944 ("A" Folder) Elizabeth H. (Bloomfield, New Jersey) 2005-004/001-001 Item - General correspondence: 1943-1944 ("A" Folder) American Board of Surgery (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Nova Scotia Archives Page 4 2005-004 and 2010-022 Harry and Rachel Morton fonds 2005-004/001-001 Item - General correspondence: 1943 ("A" Folder) Anderson, Roger (Seattle, Washington) 2005-004/001-001 Item - General correspondence: Army 1943 ("A" Folder) Medical Library (Washington, D.C.) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Babkin, 1935-1943 ("B" folder) B.P. (McGill University - Montreal, Quebec) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: 1944 ("B" folder) Baird, W.S. (Shaughnessy Hospital, (Vancouver, British Columbia)) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Baker, 1943 ("B" folder) Gordon (Baltimore, Maryland) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Bates, 1935 ("B" folder) John S. (Price & Pierce Ltd. - London, England) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Boyd, 1937 ("B" folder) C.E. and Genevieve (Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Boyd, 1936 ("B" folder) Mary Oakes (Bloomfield, New Jersey) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Bradley, 1941 ("B" folder) Sgt. E. (No. 6 Casualty Clearing Station) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Brain, 1937 ("B" folder) Russell (London Hospital - London, England) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Brews, 1940-1946 ("B" folder) Alan (London, England) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Browne, 1936-1952 ("B" folder) Capt. Thomas G. and Sue (England) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Burrows, 1946 ("B" folder) Sina (Brentwood, Essex, England) 2005-004/001-002 Item - General correspondence: Butler, 1939-1996 ("B" folder) E.C.B. "Clive" and Nancy (London, England) 2005-004/001-003 Item - General correspondence: 1987 ("C" folder) Cameron, Don and Margaret (Sackville, New Brunswick) 2005-004/001-003 Item - General correspondence: Canadian 1944 ("C" folder) Aircraft Instruments & Accessories Ltd (Leaside, Ontario) 2005-004/001-003 Item - General correspondence: Chiene, 1990 ("C" folder) Muriel (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2005-004/001-003 Item - General correspondence: Cowan, 1947 ("C" folder) Minna G. (Edinburgh, Scotland) 2005-004/001-003 Item - General correspondence: Cox, ("C" folder) Ursula L. (London, England) 2005-004/001-003 Item - General correspondence: Curry, 1942 ("C" folder) W. Alan (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 2005-004/001-004 Item - General correspondence: 1950 ("D" folder) Dauphinee, Effie (Queensland, Nova Scotia) 2005-004/001-004 Item - General correspondence: 1935 ("D" folder) Davidson, Sam (Leicester, England) Nova Scotia Archives Page 5 2005-004 and 2010-022 Harry and Rachel Morton fonds 2005-004/001-004 Item - General correspondence: Wm 1943 ("D" folder) Dawson Subscription Service Limited (Toronto, Ontario) 2005-004/001-004 Item - General correspondence: Deay, 1933 ("D" folder) L.L. (Aberdeen, (Scotland?)) 2005-004/001-004 Item - General correspondence: Dodwell, 1945 ("D" folder) Harold W. (Washington, D.C.) 2005-004/001-004 Item - General correspondence: 1935 ("D" folder) Dickinson, Violet H. (Sunfield, Streatley, Berkshire, England) 2005-004/001-004 Item - General correspondence: ("D" folder) Duncanson, A.L. (Hastings, Barbados) 2005-004/001-004 Item - General correspondence: 1950-1952 ("D" folder) Dunscombe, M.J.M. and Lyn (Halifax, Nova Scotia and Somerset, England) 2005-004/001-005 ("E- Item - General correspondence: 1946 F" folder ) Fairbairn, Sheila (Watertown, Massachusetts) 2005-004/001-005 ("E- Item - General correspondence: 1942-1943 F" folder ) Fairweather, Margaret (New Brunswick) 2005-004/001-005 ("E- Item - General correspondence: Feilman, F" folder ) G.A. 2005-004/001-005 ("E- Item - General correspondence: Fenn, 1943 F" folder ) Wallace O. (University of Rochester - Rochester, New York) 2005-004/001-005 ("E- Item - General correspondence: 1952 F" folder ) Ferguson, Hannah and Ian (England) 2005-004/001-005 ("E- Item - General correspondence: 1940 F" folder ) Fitzgerald, R.R. (Montreal, Quebec) 2005-004/001-005 ("E- Item - General correspondence: Foote, 1942-1954 F" folder