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Finding Aid - Oscar Orr collection (RBSC-ARC-1761)

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Table of contents

Summary information ...... 3 Administrative history / Biographical sketch ...... 3 Scope and content ...... 4 Arrangement ...... 4 Notes ...... 4 Access points ...... 5 Series descriptions ...... 5 , British Columbia records, 1903 - 1990 ...... 5 , American records, 1761 - 1985 ...... 9 , Canadian provinces and politics, 1806 - 1988 ...... 12 , Britain and , 1698 - 1974 ...... 18 , Books and miscellaneous records, 1760 - 1992 ...... 23

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Summary information

Repository: University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Title: Oscar Orr collection ID: RBSC-ARC-1761 Date: 1698-1992 (date of creation) Physical description: 59 cm of textual records and other materials Language: English Language: French Dates of creation, revision and deletion: Note [generalNote]: Photographs stored in box 5

Administrative history / Biographical sketch

Note James Oscar Fitzalan Harley McConnell Orr was born July 27, 1892, on the Red Pheasant Cree Reserve, which is south of North Battleford in Saskatchewan. He was the first son and fifth child born to Oscar Fitzallan Orr and Alvretta McConnell. At 10 years old, Oscar ran away for 3 years and joined the circus and rode the rails down to Galveston, Texas. In 1908 he joined his mother in Vancouver and would become a lifelong resident of the city. In 1914 Oscar married Marjorie McMillan with whom he had two sons, Oscar Jr. and Alexander. When war broke out Oscar enlisted in the but due to seasickness he was discharged. However shortly after he joined Tobin's Tigers, the 29th Battalion based out of Vancouver. In September 1915 The Battalion went to Belgium and on July 16, 1916, Oscar was hit by shrapnel and evacuated from Ypres, France, to . During this time he spent time at the King Edward VII Hospital in and also at the homes of the Duke of Norfolk and Mrs. Margaret Greville, the richest woman in England at the time. He had tea with King and Queen Mary at the palace. In October 1916 he returned to Canada and was called to the bar in November. What followed was an extensive career in law, becoming Vancouver's City Magistrate and serving on the Canadian War Crimes Commission in Japan in 1946. In 1945 Oscar became a King's Counsel and the next year was made a member of the . He retired in 1962, and Vancouver made him a Freeman of the City and Oscar served on the Oakalla Prison parole board for many years. In 1988, he became the second person to receive the Law Society Begbie Award from the Law Society of British Columbia and in 1990, he became a member of the Order of British Columbia.

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 3 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection Oscar was very interested in history, keeping an extensive library of historical documents and his family history. He lived until he was 101, and died November 1, 1992.

Custodial history The records were kept by Oscar Orr's daughter, who donated the collection to UBC Rare Books & Special Collections in September 2016.

Scope and content

The collection contains records related to Oscar Orr’s career in law, his professional and political affiliations, and records relating to his role as a prominent resident in the province of British Columbia. There are also historical records that Orr gathered as part of his collection. The collection consists of five series: British Columbia records; American records; Canadian provinces and politics records; Britain and Europe; and Books and miscellaneous records. The series contain correspondence, autographed clippings and notes, invitations and miscellaneous documents of prominent political individuals, businessmen, and royalty. The series British Columbia records contains Orr’s correspondence with prominent and political members in British Columbia in the early to late 1900s. The series includes the autographs of BC political members as well as prominent BC court officials. Also includes a letter from Dan Cranmer of Alert Bay regarding a possible potlatch. The series American records contains documents and autographs of prominent US political, literary, and war figures. Records in this series date back to the 18th century and were part of the collection Orr gathered as part of his interest in history. The series Canadian provinces and politics records include early 19th century documents relating to the Canadian political landscape as well as Orr’s own correspondence with Canadian politicians and court officials. The series Britain and Europe contains records and autographs of British and European political, literary, and military figures, dating back to 1698. Books and miscellaneous records include books, newspapers, photographs and other records from Orr’s collection that relate to his interest in history.

Notes

Title notes

Arrangement The records in this collection were arranged by the archivist but mostly follows the geographical arrangement that the records arrived with at RBSC. File names were created by the archivist.

Related material Books that arrived with this collection will be catalogued separately.

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 4 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection Orr also donated materials related to the 29th Vancouver Battalion CEF to the City of Vancouver Archives.

Accruals An accrual of one box was gifted to UBC in 2017.

Other notes • Publication status: published • Status description: Final • Physical description: Includes 15 photographs

Access points

• Cranmer, Dan (subject) • Alert Bay, B.C. (place)

Series descriptions

British Columbia records Date: 1903 - 1990 (date of creation) Scope and content: This series contains Oscar Orr’s correspondence with prominent members of British Columbia, including letters and invitations received by Orr and autographed clippings and notes. There are legal records from the early 1900s with the signatures of early BC Premiers and Ministers; Members of the Legislative Assembly and Members of Parliament; Mayors of Vancouver throughout the 1900s; the Lieutenant Governor and BC Attorneys General. The series also contains correspondence from and autographs of members from the Vancouver Police Department and RCMP; Vancouver Sun reporters and columnists; BC lawyers and judges; Orr’s 29th Battalion comrades, sergeants and officers. Notably, the series contains the records or autographs of Supreme Court Chief Justice Mr. Aulay Macaulay Morrison; early Mayors of Vancouver Louis D. Taylor and G.G. McGeer; Chief Justice of the BC Court of Appeal, Gordon M. Sloan; and Hon. Howard Green.

Physical description: 11 cm of textual records

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container RBSC-ARC-1761-1-01 File - [ To Alexander Henderson / from 1903 Sir Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 5 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-1-02 File - [ To Alexander Henderson / from 13 Jun. 1917 John Duncan MacLean ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-03 File - [ To Alexander Henderson / from 1936 Sir , Baron of Tweedsmuir ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-04 File - [ E.J. Lemaire ] 1922 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-05 File - [ To F. G. Waddington / from Price 14 Jan. 1911 Ellison ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-06 File - [ To W.M. McKay / from W.J. 1913 Bowser ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-07 File - [ To W.M. McKay / from W.J. 20 Feb. 1917 Bowser ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-08 File - [ To H.J.S. Muskett / from Sir 4 Oct. 1915 Richard McBride ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-09 File - [ To Joseph Oliver, Esq. / from 19 Apr. 1918 John Oliver ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-10 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Harry 1918 Gardner ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-11 File - [ Oscar Orr appointment as notary 27 Jun. 1919 public for B.C. / from F.S. Barnard ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-12 File - [ To Mayor of Vancouver / from 29 Jun. 1931 William Alexander McKenzie ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-13 File - [ To John Bennett, Esq. / from 23 Nov. 1931 William Alexander McKenzie ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-14 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Dan 17 Jan. 1931 Cranmer ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-15 File - [ To Alderman John Bennett / from 1931 ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-16 File - [ To Mayor of Vancouver / from 1931 Robert Henry Pooley ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-17 File - [ To John Bennett Esq. / from 16 Sept. 1931 Robert Henry Pooley ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-18 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Robert Henry 1933 Pooley ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-19 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Louis 25 Nov. 1933 Denison Taylor ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-20 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Gordon 29 Dec. 1933 McGregor Sloan ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-21 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Gordon 7 Jan. 1936 McGregor Sloan ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-22 File - [ To John Shaw / from Gordon 15 Apr. 1935 McGregor Sloan ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-23 File - [ To Louis Denison Taylor / from 28 Sep. 1934 Gordon S. Wismer ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-24 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Gordon S. 1 Jun. 1951 Wismer ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-25 File - [ To L.D. Taylor / from Arthur 26 Nov. 1934 Wellesley Gray ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-26 File - [ To Mayor G.G. McGeer / from 19 Feb. 1935 Arthur Wellesley Gray ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-26 File - [ To Mayor G.G. McGeer / from 19 Feb. 1935 Arthur Wellesley Gray ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-27 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from J.F.S. 1934 - 1935 Victor ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 6 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-1-28 File - [ To Mayor G.G. McGeer / from 1935 Geo. S. Pearson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-29 File - [ To Miss R.A. Davidson / from 1935 Frank Mitchell MacPherson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-30 File - [ To Mayor G.G. McGeer / from 1935 George M. Weir ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-31 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from George M. 1941 Weir ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-32 File - [ To G.G. McGeer / from Wymond 1 Feb. 1935 Wolverton Walkem ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-33 File - [ To John Wilfred McAllister / 9 Aug. 1935 from Thomas Dufferin Pattullo ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-34 File - [ To G.G. McGeer / from Thomas 16 Nov. 1935 Dufferin Pattullo ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-35 File - [ To G.G. McGeer / from John S. 15 Oct. 1935 Hart ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-36 File - [ To J.G. Cooke / from G.G. 6 Jun. 1935 McGeer ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-37 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from G.G. 1935 McGeer ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-38 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from The Anglican [1936?] Theological College of B.C. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-39 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from J.S. Palmer ] 29 Sep. 1936 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-40 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Alice M. [19-- ] Carr ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-41 File - [ 29th Battalion comrades 16 Oct. 1937 signatures on napkin ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-42 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from 29th 23 Aug. 1946 Battalion comrades ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-43 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Lawrence 3 Feb. 1939 Tuck Sherman ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-44 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Eliza Milne ] 1939 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-45 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Denis 1939-1947 Clarke ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-46 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Ivan 14 Jan. 1939 Oshakoff ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-47 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from James Lyle 14 Jun. 1939 Telford ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-48 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Joe Wong ] 26 Apr. 1940 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-49 File - [ To Chan Lop Poy / from James 14 Oct. 1939 Yoeman ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-50 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from J.W. 22 May 1941 Cornett ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-51 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from J.B.? ] 10 Dec. 1948 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-52 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from W.C. 1942-1957 Ditmars ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-53 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from F/O 1942-1943 Archibald F. Plummer ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-54 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Major 1944-1947 General R.O. Alexander, DSO ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-55 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from General 1945-1978 George Randolph Pearkes ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-56 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John S. Tait ] 15 Jul. 1951

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 7 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-1-57 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Sherwood 20 Jul. 1951 Lett ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-58 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Elmore 16 Feb. 1953 Philpott ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-59 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Vaslav 20 Oct. 1954 Kudrock ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-60 File - [ W.A. McAdam, C.M.G. card of [1955?] introduction ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-61 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Ernest 28 Mar. 1955 Edward Winch ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-62 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Hugh Alan 15 Jan. 1957 Maclean ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-63 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Robert W. 11 Dec. 1961 Bonner ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-64 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Ada C. 12 Aug. 1964 Taylor ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-65 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Norman 19 Jan. 1965 William Whittaker ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-66 File - [ To / from W.T. 30 Jan. 1965 Money ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-67 File - [ To W.T. Money / from Vincent 12 Feb. 1965 Massey ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-68 File - [ The Captain's Table - Voyage No. 1963 6 Westbound July, 1963 ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-69 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from W.T. Money 9 Dec. 1962 26 re: George Weir ] Feb.1941 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-70 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Simma Holt ] 1971 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-71 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from W.R. 29 Aug. 1979 Bennett ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-72 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Clarence 25 Jun. 1980 Wallace ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-73 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Jack 10 Dec. 1980 Webster ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-74 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Joe Olsen ] 1986 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-75 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from William 1990 Vander Zalm ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-76 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from A.W. [n.d.] Harper ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-77 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from H. B. [n.d.] Knowles? ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-78 File - [ To Messrs, McKay & Orr / from 13 Dec. 1920 N? ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-79 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Archer 1927 - 1941 Martin? ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-80 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Inglis 5 Oct. 1933 Hosauz? ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-81 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from J.A. Clark ] 27 Apr. 1934 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-82 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Hon. Denis 13 Dec. 1935 Murphy ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-83 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Justice Aulay 1929 - 1939 Macaulay Morrison ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-84 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Herbert 14 Feb. 1938 Graham ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 8 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-1-85 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from David A. 1940 - 1942 McDonald ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-86 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Chas? ] 1948 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-87 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Justice Sir 7 Jul. 1951 James M. Coady ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-88 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Charles N. 28 Feb. 1954 Haney ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-89 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Alex M. 12 Oct. 1954 Manson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-90 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from A. Stewart 1954 - 1974 McMorran ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-91 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Thomas 1955 - 1964 Gratham Norris, QC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-92 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Ernest B. 17 Nov. 1964 Bull ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-93 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Thomas A. 1966 - 1967 Dohm ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-94 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Angelo 1966 Ernest Branca ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-95 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John Owen 18 Jan. 1974 Wilson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-96 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Mary 1985 Southin ] RBSC-ARC-1761-1-97 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Les Bweley ] 20 Mar. 1988 RBSC-ARC-1761-1-98 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Gary 8 May 1988 Coultas ] RBSC-ARC-1761-6-01 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Howard May 1950 Green ] RBSC-ARC-1761-6-02 File - Police Court Documents - 1931 Photocopies American records Date: 1761 - 1985 (date of creation) Scope and content: This series contains records that Orr gathered as part of his interest in history. It contains 18th and 19th century letters and documents of American politicians, army officers, secretaries of state and senators, and prominent individuals in the US. There are also autographed documents relating to the early Presidents of the and Vice Presidents, army generals, soldiers and war commanders; congressmen and senators; Governors of State; prominent businessmen; and literary figures Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Cary, and James Lothrop Motley, and John Kendrick Bangs. Notably, the series contains records with the autographs of Eleanor Roosevelt, Alfred A. Weinstein, Sidney Franklin, US Presidents John Quincy Adams, William Henry Harrison, and James Wilkinson.

Physical description: 9 cm of textual records

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container RBSC-ARC-1761-2-01 File - [ To Mr. Thomas Cutt / from 1761 Charles Chauncey ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-02 File - [ Marinus Willett ] 1788 University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 9 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-2-03 File - [ William Henry Harrison ] 1796 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-04 File - [ To Joseph Collins / from James 1799 Wilkinson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-05 File - [ John Tyler Jr. ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-06 File - [ Department of State - James [n.d.] Madison ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-07 File - [ To Mr. Burrall / from Henry 1806 Dearborn ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-08 File - [ To Henry Dearborn / from Roger 1832 Jones ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-09 File - [ Henry Alexander Dearborn ] 30 Sep. 1836 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-10 File - [ To Mary Moutton / from John 1812 Ellis Wool ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-11 File - [ To Captain John A. Rogers / from 1812 James Winchester ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-12 File - [ Palmer Cady ] 1812 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-13 File - [ Nathaniel L. Marsh / Colonel 1813 Long / M. Nott ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-14 File - [ W.W. Ripley, Major General ] 1816 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-15 File - [ James Monroe ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-16 File - [ John Quincy Adams ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-17 File - [ Andrew Jackson ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-18 File - [ To John D. Gardiner Esq. / from 1828 John Caldwell Calhoun ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-19 File - [ Peter Buell Porter ] [1830?] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-20 File - [ To Joel R. Poinsett / from Felix 1838 Grundy & Nathan Towson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-21 File - [ Richard Mentor Johnson ] 1836 - 1840 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-22 File - [ Letter regarding the church's 26 Jul. 1836 place in education and affirmation of support ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-23 File - [ To Miss Wormeley / from 1841 Catherine Maria Sedgwick ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-24 File - [ To P.R. Fendall / from Milliard 1852 Powers Fillmore ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-25 File - [ John C. Van Dyke ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-26 File - [ General Winfield Scott ] 1855 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-27 File - [ To. Hon. A.O.P Nicholson / from 1857 James Lawrence Orr ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-28 File - [ Lewis Cass ] 1859 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-29 File - [ James Lothrop Motley ] 1860 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-30 File - [ Mr. Bonnder / from Alice Cary ] 1864 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-31 File - [ To H.C. Anderson Esq. / from 1869 John Singleton Mosby ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-32 File - [ To Hon. F.A. Walker / from 1872 Schulyer Colfax ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-33 File - [ To John Andrew Jackson 1873 Creswell, Post-Master General / from James Abram Garfield ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-34 File - [ To Mr. Dwight / from George 26 Apr. 1881 Parsons Lathrop ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-35 File - [ To Mr. J. Mack Work / from John 20 Sep. 1890 James Ingalls ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 10 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-2-36 File - [ To Commander J.G. Eaton / from 1894 Adolphus Washington Greely ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-37 File - [ To Mr. Julius H. Bauer / from 1899 Adolphus Washington Greely ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-38 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Antoinette 1935 Greely ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-39 File - [ To Mr Congdon / from Juliet [1897?] Corson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-40 File - [ To Mrs. Griggs / from Garret 1897 Augustus Hobart ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-41 File - [ Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-42 File - [ To Hon. John L. Childs / from 3 Oct. 1898 Theodore Roosevelt ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-43 File - [ To Hon. Jesse W. Welk / from 1899 Charles Warren Fairbanks ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-44 File - [ John Kendrick Bangs ] 1899 - 1903 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-45 File - [Levi Parsons Morton - signature ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-46 File - [Woodrow Wilson - signature ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-47 File - [ J.H. Snook & A.J Mckelvie ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-48 File - [ To Maclay Hoyne / from Louis L. 21 Oct. 1920 Emmerson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-49 File - [ To Arthur J.B. Mellish / from 5 Jan. 1927 Thomas W. Lamont ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-50 File - [ Oscar Orr appointment as Special 28 Apr. 1929 Assistant to the Attorney General of the USA ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-51 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John A. 1931 Sherman Jr. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-52 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Ely E. 1931 Palmer ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-53 File - [ To Muriel J. Duer / from Charles 26 Oct. 1932 Curtis ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-54 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Walter 1934 - 1935 Romeyn Benjamin ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-55 File - [ To Mayor Gerald G. McGeer / 1935 from Charles L. Smith ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-56 File - [ To Mayor Gerald G. McGeer / 1935 from Fiorello Henry La Guardia ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-57 File - [ Song Recital by Lawrence 1935 Tibbett ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-58 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Herbert N. 9 Mar. 1936 Graham ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-59 File - [ John Edgar Hoover ] 1936 - 1960 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-60 File - [ Mr. Chas. B. Hill-Tout / from 16 Sep. 1936 W.D.? ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-61 File - [ Mr. Kerr / from Joe E. Brown ] 14 Feb. 1938 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-62 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Marus ] 1938 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-63 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Joseph Jenne 11 Jul. 1938 Cannon ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-64 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Howard 1938 Swiggett ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-65 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Frank 1939 - 1940 Murphy ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 11 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-2-66 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Alexander 9 Jun. 1940 Woolcott ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-67 File - [ Alva A. Carpenter ] 1946 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-68 File - [ To Major Perry / from Emily 31 Jan. 1946 Hahn (Boxer) ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-69 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Charles R. 1946 Boxer ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-70 File - [ To C.A. Sutherland / from 12 Sep. 1947 Eleanor Roosevelt ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-71 File - [ To Frances Lawson Reade / from 8 Jun. 1949 David E. Lilienthal ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-72 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Dr. Alfred A. 1950-1959 Weinsteinl ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-73 File - [ Eric A. Falconer, GNR ] 1950 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-74 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from I.M. 1951 Peckham ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-76 File - [ Sidney Franklin ] [n.d] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-77 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John Chave ] 1955 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-78 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Albert B. 1955 - 1967 Sabin, MD ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-79 File - [ Bert Webber ] 12 Jan. 1985 RBSC-ARC-1761-2-80 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from J. Stewill? ] [n.d.] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-81 File - [ J. Cuper? - Southboro Mass ] [n.d.] RBSC- File - [ To S. C.? / from H. Hamlin, [1865-1870?] ARC-1761-4-104 collector ] Canadian provinces and politics Date: 1806 - 1988 (date of creation) Scope and content: This series consists of correspondence Orr had with premiers of other provinces and mayors, as well as early 19th century records relating to the Canadian political landscape. There are records concerning the early Prime Ministers of Canada: John A. Macdonald, Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Sir Robert Laird Borden. Later records are documents of Orr’s with autographs of prominent MLAs and MPs, Canadian politicians and lawyers, businessmen, soldiers and officers.

Physical description: 15.5 cm of textual records

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container RBSC-ARC-1761-2-82 File - [ To Mayor L.D. Taylor / from 1931 John Edward Brownlee ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-83 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from 1937 William Aberhart ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-84 File - [ To Mayor G.G. McGeer / from 1935 Andrew Davison ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-85 File - [ To Mayor G.G. McGeer / from 1935 Joseph Andrew Clarke ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-86 File - [ To Magistrate Oscar Orr / from 1953 Harry Veiner ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 12 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-2-87 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Grant 1974 MacEwan, O.C., B.S.A., M.S., LL.D. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-88 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq / from 1939 Brigadier General John Fletcher Leopold Embury C.B., C.M.G. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-89 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq / from John 1938 Percival “Price” Montague ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-90 File - [ To Orr / from John Percival [19-?] “Price” Montague ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-91 File - [ To H.S. Wood, Esq. KC / from 1947 James Osborne McLenaghen ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-92 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Harry 1943 Nixon ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-93 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Harry Nixon, 1956 MPP ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-94 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Robert F. 1967 Nixon ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-95 File - [ To Dear Mr. Orr / from Dorothy 1970 C. Nixon ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-96 File - [ To Mayor Gerald G. McGeer, 1935 Esq., KC, MLA / from James "Jimmy" Simpson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-97 File - [ To Mayor Gerald G. McGeer, 1935 Esq., KC, MLA / from James "Jimmy" Simpson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-98 File - [ To Mayor Gerald G. McGeer / 1935 from Thomas H. King ] RBSC-ARC-1761-2-99 File - [ To Hon. G.G. McGeer, KC, 1935 MLA / from Bradford William Lepage ] RBSC- File - [ To Mess. LeRoy, Bayard & 1806 ARC-1761-2-100 McEvers, Merchants / from Alexander MacDonell ] RBSC- File - [ To Richard Alexander Tucker, 1811 ARC-1761-2-101 Deputy Pay-Master General / from Sir George Prévost, 1st ] RBSC- File - [ To John Lewis Maltete? Esq, 1821 ARC-1761-2-102 Secretary / from Lieutenant-Governor Sir Benjamin d'Urban ] RBSC- File - [ To Gentlemen / from Joseph [18-?] ARC-1761-2-103 Bouchette ] RBSC- File - [ To My Dear Sir / from Charles [1826?] ARC-1761-2-104 Edward Poulett Thomson, Baron Sydenham ] RBSC- File - [ To Alexander McKelvie / from 1853 ARC-1761-2-105 J.M. Badeaux ] RBSC- File - [ To My dear Colonel / from Sir 1857 ARC-1761-2-106 William F. Williams, KCB ] RBSC- File - [ To Archibald Cameron / from Sir 1866 ARC-1761-2-107 William F. Williams, KCB ] RBSC- File - [ To D. McMillan, Esquire / from 1863 ARC-1761-2-108 Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC ] RBSC- File - [ To Dear Duncan (McMillan, 1872 ARC-1761-2-109 Esquire) / from Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC ] University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 13 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC- File - [ To Dear Sir (Duncan McMillan, 1890 ARC-1761-2-110 Esquire) / from Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott, PC, KCMG, QC ] RBSC- File - [ To Mr. Geo. R. Lockwood / from 1881 ARC-1761-2-111 Henry George Vennor ] RBSC- File - [ To My dear Rykert / from Sir [1882?] ARC-1761-2-112 John A Macdonald ] RBSC- File - [Earnscliffe] [18-?] ARC-1761-2-113 Note: RBSC-ARC-1761-PH-01

RBSC- File - [To Edward Prince, Manager 1883 ARC-1761-2-114 of Diamond Match Company / from Reverend Sister Rosalie Demers ] RBSC- File - [To Ben. W. Austin, Esq. / from 1888 ARC-1761-2-115 Louis Joseph Rene Steckel ] RBSC- File - [To Prof. Le Métayer de 1890 ARC-1761-2-116 Guichainville / from James Fletcher ] RBSC- File - [To Prof. Le Guichainville / from 1890 ARC-1761-2-117 James Fletcher ] RBSC- File - [To B.W. Austin Esq. / from Dr. 1892 ARC-1761-2-118 John Travers Lewis ] RBSC- File - [To My Dear Kimball / from Sir 1895 ARC-1761-2-119 Charles G. D. Roberts ] RBSC- File - [To Dear Mrs Carr / from Sir 1898 ARC-1761-2-120 Charles G. D. Roberts ] RBSC- File - [To Mr. Keel? / from ? ] 1895 ARC-1761-2-121 RBSC- File - [To Mr Edwards / from Ishbel 1898 ARC-1761-2-122 Aberdeen ] RBSC- File - [To Dear Mrs. Campbell Johnston / 1936 ARC-1761-2-123 from Ishbel Aberdeen ] RBSC- File - [To Mr and Mrs Le??cus?? / from 1897 ARC-1761-2-124 Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal ] RBSC- File - [To John T. Mellish Esquire / from 1911 ARC-1761-2-125 Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal ] RBSC- File - [To Walter Chesterton, Esq. / from 1899 ARC-1761-2-126 Sir , 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC ] RBSC- File - [To D.A. Monroe, Esq / from John 1903 ARC-1761-2-127 M. Charlton ] RBSC- File - [To Ritchie Bell Esq. / from 1904 ARC-1761-2-128 George C. Drummond ] RBSC- File - [To Ronald C. Campbell-Johnston 1908 ARC-1761-2-129 Esq. / from Reginald Walter Brock ] RBSC- File - [To Reginald Hibbert Tupper / 1911 ARC-1761-2-130 from Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, GCMG, KC ] RBSC- File - [To Sir Richard McBride, MPP / 1914 ARC-1761-2-131 from Sir Robert Laird Borden, PC, GCMG, KC ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 14 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC- File - [To Messrs. McKay & Orr / from 1920 ARC-1761-2-132 P. Thomas Ahern ] RBSC- File - [To Mr. Ditmars / from Sir George 1927 ARC-1761-2-133 Eulas Foster ] RBSC- File - [To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from W.C. 1940 ARC-1761-2-134 Ditmars ] RBSC- File - [To Hon. Sir Charles Hibbert 1922 ARC-1761-2-135 Tupper, KCMG, LLB, KC / from William Lyon Mackenzie King ] RBSC- File - [From William Lyon Mackenzie 1924-1925 ARC-1761-2-136 King ] RBSC- File - [ To Mayor W.H. Malkin, Esq. / 1930 ARC-1761-2-137 from Sir ] RBSC- File - [ To Mayor W.H. Malkin / from 1930 ARC-1761-2-138 Gideon Decker Robertson ] RBSC- File - [ To Mayor Louis D. Taylor, Esq. / 1931 ARC-1761-2-139 from Gideon Decker Robertson ] RBSC- File - [ To Mayor Louis D. Taylor, Esq. / 1931 ARC-1761-2-140 from Gideon Decker Robertson ] RBSC- File - [ To W.H. Malkin, Esq. / from 1930 ARC-1761-2-141 , PC , MD ] RBSC- File - [ To W.H. Malkin / from Richard 1930 ARC-1761-2-142 Bedford Bennett PC, KC ] RBSC- File - [ To W.C. Ditmars, Esq / from 1930 ARC-1761-2-143 Richard Bedford Bennett PC, KC ] RBSC- File - [ To Honourable R.B. Bennett / 1931 ARC-1761-2-144 from L.D. Taylor ] RBSC- File - [ To L.D. Taylor, Esq / from 1931 ARC-1761-2-145 Richard Bedford Bennett PC, KC ] RBSC- File - [ To Gerald G. McGeer, Esq., KC, 1935 ARC-1761-2-146 MLA / from Richard Bedford Bennett PC, KC ] RBSC- File - [ To W.H. Malkin, Esq. / from 1930 ARC-1761-2-147 Charles Stewart, PC ] RBSC- File - [ To Mayor W.H. Malkin / from 1930 ARC-1761-2-148 Alexander Duncan McRae, C.B. ] RBSC- File - [ To Mr. Muir? / from E.? 1899 ARC-1761-2-149 Osbourne ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-01 File - [ To His Worship Mayor W.H. 1930 Malkin / from Ian Alistair MacKenzie ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-02 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Ian Alistair 1932 MacKenzie ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-03 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Ian Alistair 1937 Mackenzie, P.C. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-04 File - [ To Mayor G.C. Miller / from Ian 1938 Alistair Mackenzie, P.C. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-05 File - [ To Mayor George C. Miller / 1938 from Ian Alistair Mackenzie, P.C. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-06 File - [ To Mayor George C. Miller / 1938 from Ian Alistair Mackenzie, P.C. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-07 File - [ To Mayor George C. Miller / 1938 from Ian Alistair Mackenzie, P.C. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-08 File - [ To Mayor George C. Miller / 1938 from Ian Alistair Mackenzie, P.C. ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 15 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-3-09 File - [ To Dear ? Kerr / from Martha 1931 Ostenso ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-10 File - [ To Louis D. Taylor / from Hugh 1931 Alexander Stewart ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-11 File - [ To C.B. Hill-Tout, Esq. / from 1931 Murray MacLaren ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-12 File - [ To ? / from ] 1933 RBSC-ARC-1761-3-13 File - [ To General J.A. Clark, KC / from 1934 Arthur Meighen ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-14 File - [ To Mr. Justice Aulay Morrison / 1936 from Arthur Meighen ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-15 File - [ To Mr. Reginald H. Tupper, KC / 1949 from Arthur Meighen ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-16 File - [ To Mayor Louis D. Taylor, Esq. / 1933 from Samuel James Hungerford ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-17 File - [ To Mayor Louis D. Taylor / from 1934 , PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-18 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Henry 1967 Herbert Stevens ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-19 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from Hugh 1934 Guthrie, PC KC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-20 File - [ To Mayor G.G. McGeer / from 1935 Pierre Joseph ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-21 File - [ To His Worship Louis D. Taylor / 1934 from , PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-22 File - [ To His Worship Gerald G. 1935 McGeer KC, LLD, MLA / from Grote Stirling, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-23 File - [ To Gerald G. McGeer / from John 1935 Campbell Elliott, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-24 File - [ To G.G. McGeer, KC MP / from 1935 , PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-25 File - [ To Mr. G.G. McGeer / from 1935 , PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-26 File - [ To His Worship Gerald G. 1935 McGeer, KC MP / from Louis Édouard ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-27 File - [ To Mayor G.G. McGeer / from 1935 Clarence Decatur "C. D." Howe, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-28 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from Ernest 1935-1936 Lapointe, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-29 File - [ To His Worship G.G. McGeer / 1935 from Sir George Halsey Perley, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-30 File - [ To Mayor G.G. McGeer, KC, 1935 MLA / from Martha Louise Black, OBE ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-31 File - [ To Orr / from George Black ] 1939 RBSC-ARC-1761-3-32 File - [ To Mr. J.J. Kerr / from H. Napier 1937 Moore ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-33 File - [ From Oliva Dionne ] 1937 RBSC-ARC-1761-3-34 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Reginald 1938 Hibbert Tupper ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-35 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Sir Richard 1939 Ernest William Turner, KCMG, VC, DSO ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 16 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-3-36 File - [ To H.S. Wood, Senior 1939 Magistrate / from Norman Alexander McLarty ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-37 File - [ To My Dear Major / from George [19-?] Lynch-Staunton, KC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-38 File - [ To C.A. Sutherland, Esq. / from 1939 Sir Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles GCB GCVO CMG MC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-39 File - [ To Dear Mr. Orr / from Edwin C. 1939 Guillet ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-40 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from James 1940 Layton Ralston, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-41 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Howard 1940-1962 Charles Green ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-42 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John Gordon 1940 Ross ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-43 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from James 1940, 1942 Lorimer Ilsley, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-44 File - [ To Captain Oscar J.H. Orr / from 1940 Colin William George Gibson, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-45 File - [ From Sir Alexander Augustus 1940 Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge, Prince Alexander of Teck ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-46 File - [ To Waddington / from Major 1945, 1947 General HDB Ketchen ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-47 File - [ To Mr Waddington / from Alistair 1959 Ketchen ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-48 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Lt. Col. John 1946 N. Crawford ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-49 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Leonard 1946, 1966 Joseph Birchall, CM, OBE, DFC, O.Ont, CD DMSc LLD. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-50 File - [ From E. Herbert Norman ] 1947 RBSC-ARC-1761-3-51 File - [ To Colonel Oscar Orr, QC / from 1959 Edward M. Almond ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-52 File - [ To Dear Mr. Orr / from Peter 1986, 1987 Worthington ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-53 File - [ To Mrs. F.F. Taylor / from Louis 1948 Stephen St-Laurent, PC, CC, QC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-54 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from W.H.S. 1949 Macklin ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-55 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from Major- 1950 General W.H.S. Macklin Adjutant General ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-56 File - [ To Lieutenant-Colonel Oscar 1950 Orr / from W.H.S. Macklin ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-57 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John Horace 1949 Dickey, KSG QC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-58 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq., QC / from 1954 John Horace Dickey, KSG QC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-59 File - [ To Mr. O. Orr / from James 1953 Sinclair ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-60 File - [ To Colonel Oscar Orr / from 1953 Hughes Lapointe, PC, OC, CD ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 17 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-3-61 File - [ To Lt. Colonel Oscar Orr MBE / 1954 from Hughes Lapointe, PC, OC, CD ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-62 File - [ To Lt. Col. Oscar Orr MBE / 1956 from Hughes Lapointe, PC, OC, CD ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-63 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Stuart 1955 Sinclair Garson, PC, CC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-64 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. QC / from The 1956 Honourable Mr. Justice Henry Grattan Nolan ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-65 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Merton 1957 Yarwood Williams ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-66 File - [ To Magistrate Oscar Orr / from 1957, 1961 S.N.F. Chant ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-67 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from Harvey 1958 Reginald ("H.R.") MacMillan, CC, CBE ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-68 File - [ To Magistrate Oscar Orr / from 1960 Earle Alfred Birney, OC , Ph.D , FRSC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-69 File - [ To Colonel and Mrs. Orr / from [1960?] Colonel Reardon ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-70 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Gordon 1964 Churchill, MP, Colonel ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-71 File - [ To Ernest Winch, MLA / from [19-?] Colin Cameron ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-72 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John R. 1964-1969 Nicholson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-73 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Mitchell W. 1967, 1973 Sharp, PC CC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-74 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John N. 1970 Turner ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-75 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from George J. 1970 McIlraith ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-76 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Robert L. 1974 Stanfield PC, QC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-77 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Flora Isabel 1976 MacDonald, PC, CC, O.Ont, ONS ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-78 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from ] 1980 RBSC-ARC-1761-3-79 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from The 1981 Honourable Ronald Huntington, PC MP for Capilano ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-80 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Roy 1983 DeMarsh ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-81 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Michael H. 1984 Wilson PC OC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-82 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from 1984, 1985 DFC QC PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-83 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John C. 1986 Crosbie PC OC QC ONL ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-84 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Hon. George 1988 Hees, MP OC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-85 File - [ From John Hamilton-Gordon ] [19-?] Britain and Europe Date: 1698 - 1974 (date of creation)

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 18 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection Scope and content: This series includes several 18th and 19th century legal documents with the autographs of British and other European political, military, and literary figures. There are indentures, letters, envelopes with addresses and signatures, introduction cards, news clippings, and records signed by royal figures. Also included are records relating to the First and Second World Wars, and the signatures of (1837-1901), Lady Nancy Astor, and Sir Winston Churchill.

Physical description: 12 cm of textual records

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container RBSC-ARC-1761-3-86 File - [ From Thomas Boadle ] 1698 RBSC-ARC-1761-3-87 File - [ To James Stewart, Gent. / from 1760 George III and William Pitt the Elder ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-88 File - [ Receipt for ordance stones to 1767 Royal Artillery signed by James Nash ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-89 File - [ To Benj. Robertson Esq. / from 1779 Sam Osborn ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-90 File - [ Serie 3271] 1793 RBSC-ARC-1761-3-91 File - [ From Commander Desgueras ] 1794 RBSC-ARC-1761-3-92 File - [ To Citizen Mayor of the 1800 Commune of and at Kemmel / from J.A.C. Delobel ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-93 File - [ To Dear Madam (Mrs. Murray) / 1806 from Allan Cunningham ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-94 File - [ To Alex. Farquhar, Esq. / from 1812 Lieutenant General Colin Campbell ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-95 File - [ To Sir / from John Scott, 1st Earl [1818?] of Eldon ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-96 File - [ To Dear Sir / from Robert Peel ] [18-?] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-97 File - [ To Mr dear Mr. Murray [18-?] (Publisher) / from Henry Hallam ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-98 File - [ To Dear Sir, G. ? / from George 1827 W. Canning ] RBSC-ARC-1761-3-99 File - [ From Thomas Hardy ] [before 1832] RBSC- File - [ From Major Henry Craig ] 1827 ARC-1761-3-100 RBSC- File - [ From Joseph Morgan, David 1834 ARC-1761-3-101 Brown ] RBSC- File - [ To John Hodgson, Esq / 1834 ARC-1761-3-102 from James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez ] RBSC- File - [ To Mr dear Sir / from Thomas 1837 ARC-1761-3-103 Babington Macaulay, 1st Earl Macaulay ] RBSC- File - [ To My Dear ? / from John 1839 ARC-1761-3-104 William Colenso ] RBSC- File - [ Front sheet of brief for the 1844 ARC-1761-3-105 prosecution of Joseph Penn ] RBSC- File - [ To Geo P. Putnam Esq / from 1844 ARC-1761-3-106 Joseph Hume ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 19 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC- File - [ To My dear Hillier (Captain) / 1846 ARC-1761-3-107 from Edward Law, Earl of Ellenborough ] RBSC- File - [ To My dear Auckland / from Lord 1847 ARC-1761-3-108 John Russell ] RBSC- File - [ To Sir / from Lord John Russell ] 1856 ARC-1761-3-109 RBSC- File - [ To H.J. Murray, Esq. / from Lord 1860 ARC-1761-3-110 John Russell ] RBSC- File - [ To À monsieur M. Lette d'Orsay / 1848 ARC-1761-3-111 from Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux ] RBSC- File - [ To J. Watkins Esq. / from Henry 1852 ARC-1761-3-112 Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux ] RBSC- File - [ To My dear William / from Henry 1848 ARC-1761-3-113 John Temple, Lord Palmerston ] RBSC- File - [ Palmerston signature ] [18-?] ARC-1761-3-114 RBSC- File - [ To Major Drummond? / from [18-?] ARC-1761-3-115 Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston ] RBSC- File - [ To Coutts / from Arthur 1847 ARC-1761-3-116 Wellesley, Duke of Wellington ] RBSC- File - [ To Coutts / from Arthur 1850 ARC-1761-3-117 Wellesley, Duke of Wellington ] RBSC- File - [ From Field Marshal FitzRoy [18-?] ARC-1761-3-118 James Henry Somerset, 1st , GCB, PC ] RBSC- File - [ To My Dear Thomson / from [18-?] ARC-1761-3-119 Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey ] RBSC- File - [ To My dear Sir / from Sir Francis 1857 ARC-1761-3-120 Palgrave ] RBSC- File - [ To Mr. H. Cooke, Esq., 1859 ARC-1761-3-121 Newcastle Tyne / from John Bright ] RBSC- File - [ To My dear Mac / from Charles 1864 ARC-1761-3-122 Lever ] RBSC- File - [ To Dear Madam / from Caroline 1841 ARC-1761-3-123 Norton ] RBSC- File - [ To Dear Sir / from Caroline 1877 ARC-1761-3-124 Norton ] RBSC- File - [ Vanity Fair cartoon sign by Mr. 1878 ARC-1761-3-125 Edward Jenkins, M.P. ] RBSC- File - [ To My dear Simp? / from James [1865?] ARC-1761-3-126 Anthony Froude ] RBSC- File - [ To My Dear Cowper-Temple / 1876 ARC-1761-3-127 from William E. Gladstone ] RBSC- File - [ To Sir David Solomons / from 1869-1873 ARC-1761-3-128 William E. Gladstone ] Note: RBSC-ARC-1761-PH-02

RBSC- File - [ To My dear Mr ? / from William 1883 ARC-1761-3-129 Gladstone ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 20 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC- File - [ To My Dear Sir / from Edward [187-?] ARC-1761-3-130 Bouverie Pusey ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-01 File - [ To General (Adam) Badeau / 1871 from John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne and Duke of Argyll, KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-02 File - [ To Dear Mr Campbell Johnston / 1907 from John Campbell, Marquess of Lorne and Duke of Argyll, KG, KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-03 File - [ To Dear Mr. Mocatta (A. de M.) / 1874 from Sir Moses Haim Montefiore ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-04 File - [ To Mr., Mrs. Cummings, Sophie / 1877-1884 from Dinah Marie Craik ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-05 File - [ To Dr. William Marston / from 1884 Dinah Marie Craik ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-06 File - [ To Dear Lady Watersby / from 1884 Angela Burdett-Coutts ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-07 File - [ To Mr Dear Sir / from Marie 1885 Louise de la Ramee (Ouida) ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-08 File - [ To Mr. Knowles / from Robert [18-?] Cornelius Napier GCB GCSI CIE FRS Ist Baron Napier of Magdala ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-09 File - [ To My Dear Mr. Young / from [18-?] Frances Hodgson Burnett ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-10 File - [ To Dear Mrs. Humphrey / from 1891 Marie Corelli ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-11 File - [ To Mon et Mme G? / from E. 1891 D.? ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-12 File - [ To My dear Hichens / from Field 1895 Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-13 File - [ To Mr. Munro / from Goldwin 1899 Smith ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-14 File - [ From Queen Victoria ] [19-?] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-15 File - [ To Mrs. Blanche Carey / from 1903 Charles William de la Poer Beresford, Baron of Beresford ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-16 File - [ To George Pritchard ? / from Sir 1907 John W. Fortescue ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-17 File - [ To Pooh Bale / from Robert 1911 Standish Sieirer ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-18 File - [ To S.M. Ellis, Esq. / from Sir 1913 Edmund William Gosse C.B. ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-19 File - [ To Dear Mr. Wright / from [19-?] Jerome Klapha Jerorme ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-20 File - [ To Sir Richard McBride, KCMG, 1915 of BC / from Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood PC, KC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-21 File - [ To The Hon. Sir R. McBride / 1915 from Thomas Power O'Connor ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-22 File - [ To My Dear Sir / from Louis 1910 Alexander Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven ] University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 21 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-4-23 File - [ To Dear Sir / from Louis 1917 Alexander Mountbatten, Marquess of Milford Haven ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-24 File - [ To John T. Mellish Esq. / from 1921 Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-25 File - [ To Norman Cohen / from Lt Col [19-?] Robert Loraine, RAF DSO, MC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-26 File - [ To R. Glestrup, Esqr / from Peter 1916 Nelson ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-27 File - [ To Dear Mr Ellis / from Henry 1917 Havelock Ellis ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-28 File - [ To Dear Mr. Ellis? / from Henry 1925 Havelock Ellis ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-29 File - [ From A. Hoyau ] 1918 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-30 File - [ To Sir Charles Tupper / from 1922 Neville Chamberlain ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-31 File - [ To Sir / [19-?] from Sir Thomas Henry ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-32 File - [ Russian paper bank note $5? ] [19-?] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-33 File - [ From Umberto Nobile ] 1926 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-34 File - [ From Gilbert Keith Chesterton ] [1926] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-35 File - [ To Chas. B. Hill-Tout, Esq. / from 1927 Francis Rolleston ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-36 File - [ To A.E. Bull, Esq. / from 1927 William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-37 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from 1936 Seymour Hicks ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-38 File - [ To Dear Oscar / from Eric 1944 Hichens ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-39 File - [ From Clarence Hatry ] [19-?] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-40 File - [ From Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl [19-?] Baldwin of Bewdley, KG, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-41 File - [ To Mrs. Frances Cornwall / from 1940 Rosita Forbes ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-42 File - [ To F.G. Waddington, Esq / 1940-1941 from Albert Victor Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, KG, CH, PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-43 File - [ To John Waddington, Esq. / from 1941 B. Sendall ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-44 File - [ To My dear Waddington / from 1943 Sir Archibald Page ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-45 File - [ To Dear Mr. Hichens / from 1944 Andrew Block ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-46 File - [ To Dear Mr. Hichens / from F.W. 1944 Forge ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-47 File - [ To F.G. Waddington, Esq / from 1944 Sir John Murray KCVO,DSO ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-48 File - [ To F.G. Waddington, Esq. / from 1946 Sir Alexander S.A.B. Macdonald of Sleat ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-49 File - [ To Captain John Waddington / 1947 from F.G. Waddington ]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 22 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-4-50 File - [ To F. G. Waddington / from 1947 George Bernard Shaw ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-51 File - [ To My Dear Hichens / from 1948 William Collin Brooks ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-52 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from Sir Alvary 1951 Gascoigne, GBE, KCMG ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-53 File - [ From Lady Nancy Astor ] [19-?] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-54 File - [ To Dear Lord Herbre? / from [19-?] Lady Nancy Astor ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-55 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from 1953 Lieutenant Colonel P.G. Parker, MBE ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-56 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from John Ian 1961 Robert Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-57 File - [ To John Waddington, Esq / from 1966 Hubert Lister Parker, Baron Parker of Waddington PC ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-58 File - [ To Oscar Orr, Esq. / from 1969 Appeals Secretary: Air Chief Marshal Sir Edmund Hudleston, GCB ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-59 File - [ To Mr. Oscar Orr / from Michel 1974 Velghe & Maurits Goudezeune ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-60 File - [ From Sir John Moore? ] [19-?] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-61 File - [ From Prince George, Duke of [19-?] Cambridge ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-62 File - [ From Sir Winston Churchill and [19-?] A. Leslie Coote ] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-63 File - [ From Peter Agnew, Lieut [19-?] Commander RN MP ] Books and miscellaneous records Date: 1760 - 1992 (date of creation) Scope and content: This series contains books, newspapers, photographs and other records from Orr’s collection that relate to his interest in history. The news clippings relate to the two world wars, and several records relate to the military in Canada and in Vancouver. The series also contains two pieces of Japanese paper fire and bomb balloon that landed in BC during the Second World War.

Physical description: 11 cm of textual records and other materials

Physical description: Includes 10 photographs

File / item list Ref code Title Dates Access status Container RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - NWMP 1897 Battleford 1897 PH-03 Note: Stored in Box 5

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 23 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - NWMP 1897 Battleford 1897 PH-04 Note: Stored in Box 5

RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - 29th marching in Vancouver - PH-05 review by General Wainwright Note: Stored in Box 5

RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - 1st Depot Battalion at Hastings 1916-1917 PH-06 Park, Vancouver 1916-17 Note: Stored in Box 5

RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - Military Institute & US Guests, 1926 PH-07 March 17, 1926, Vancouver BC Note: Stored in Box 5

RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - County court Judges of British 1989 PH-08 Columbia, 1989 - with names, including A. Stewart McMorran Note: Stored in Box 5

RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - King Edward VIII, in Canada 1989 PH-09 Note: Stored in Box 5

RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - Colonel Hugh Alan, Pacific PH-10 Command, WWII Note: Stored in Box 5

RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - Three Soldiers, WWI PH-11 Note: Stored in Box 5

RBSC-ARC-1761-4-64 File - Deadman's Hill Verdun RBSC-ARC-1761- Item - [Portrait of unidentified man] PH-12 Note: Stored in Box 5

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RBSC-ARC-1761-4-66 File - The Daily Globe , 1867 Vol.XXIV, No.156, July 1, 1867 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-67 File - Canadian Illustrated News, August 1872 3, 1872, Vol. VI. No.5 Note: RBSC-ARC-1761-PH-14 - Stored in Box 5

RBSC-ARC-1761-4-68 File - Canadian Illustrated News, April 1873 12, 1873, Vol. VII. No.15 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-69 File - [Newspaper in Hebrew], May 9 1943 1943 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-70 File - Albatross, January 19, 1942 1942 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-71 File - feldzeitung der armeeabteilung, 1918 June 2, 1918 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-72 File - The Legionary, February, 1956, 1956 No. 9 Vol. XXX RBSC-ARC-1761-4-73 File - The Listening Post, June 17, 1916 1916 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-74 File - The Upper Canada Gazette [19-?] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-75 File - The Vancouver Daily Province, 1942 March 21, 1942 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-76 File - The Vancouver Daily Sun, 1918 November 1918, Extra RBSC-ARC-1761-4-77 File - The Vancouver Herald, June 15, 1957 1957 Closing Edition RBSC-ARC-1761-4-78 File - The Vancouver Sun, May 7, 1945, 1945 Extra RBSC-ARC-1761-4-79 File - The Honolulu Advertiser, March 1959 12, 1959 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-80 File - [Map of the battlefields near Ypres [between 1914 & Lille from The Times History of the and 1920] War] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-81 File - Prisoners going to the rear [between 1914 and 1920] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-82 File - Transvaal Souvenir booklet of New 1900 Brunswick Contingent RBSC-ARC-1761-4-83 File - [ledger page from 1786-1793 - both 1786-1793 sides used] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-84 File - [Pages 222-243 from The Every- 1830 day Book and Table Book by William Hone] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-85 File - Republique Francaise [18-?] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-86 File - [Two newspaper clippings removed [19-?] from book] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-87 File - [Magazine clipping and 1896 letter 1896 removed from book]

University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections Page 25 RBSC-ARC-1761 Oscar Orr collection RBSC-ARC-1761-4-88 File - [Newspaper clipping removed from 1939 book] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-89 File - [ To Oscar Orr / from M. Y. 1951 Williams] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-90 File - [Pieces of Japanese paper fire [between 1939 & bomb balloon landed in BC during and 1945] WWII] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-91 File - [Clippings: Globe extra and The 1855, 1896 Illustrated London News] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-92 File - The Right Hon. John Morley, M.P. 1896 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-93 File - The Right Hon. John Morley, M.P., 1886 Chief Secretary for RBSC-ARC-1761-4-94 File - Home Rule 1879 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-95 File - [Lithograph by Charles Praetorius] [18-?] RBSC-ARC-1761-4-96 File - Mr. Gladstone explaining to the 1886 House of Commons his scheme for the government of Ireland, Thursday, April 8. RBSC-ARC-1761-4-97 File - The Sunday Times, February 14, 1960 1960 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-98 File - [ To My dear Eric ] 1936 RBSC-ARC-1761-4-99 File - Maj: General Monck [18-?] RBSC- File - Sr. Henry Vane [18-?] ARC-1761-4-100 RBSC- File - Thomas Scot, of Bucks 1809 ARC-1761-4-101 RBSC- File - History made easy [18-?] ARC-1761-4-102 RBSC- File - [ Facsimile of a Dutch bill or 1713 and 1715 ARC-1761-4-103 receipt with the names Philippe vLamynk and A.L. Vooren den Kendant? ] RBSC-ARC-1761- File - [ Portrait of unidentified man ] [1830-1871?] PH-15 Note: Stored in Box 5

RBSC- File - [ From Yours faithfully W. n.d. ARC-1761-4-105 Lalonchey? ] RBSC-ARC-1761-6-03 File - Personal Diaries 1938-1940 RBSC-ARC-1761-6-04 File - Personal Diaries 1936-1937 RBSC-ARC-1761-6-05 File - Scrapbook - Press Clippings 1931-1992 RBSC-ARC-1761-6-06 File - Scrapbook - Press Clippings 1930s

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