Fonds F0587 - Ada Costigan fonds

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CA ACU GBA F0587

Title

Ada Costigan fonds

Date(s)

  • 1860-1954, predominant 1880-1943 (Creation)

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Fonds

Extent and medium

10 cm of textual records. -- 3 photographs

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Name of creator

(1858-1954)

Biographical history

Ada Philomene Dowling, 1858-1954, was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The daughter of Major Thomas Dowling, ?-1899, of the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP), she moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1886. In 1888 she married John Ryan Costigan, 1855-1903, and they had three children, Gerald Albert, 1895-1973, John Francis, 1889- , and Marie Josephine (Gawthrop), 1893-1965. When her husband, a lawyer, died she became the music instructor at St. Hilda's College and Western Canada College. Later she managed Emerald Lake Chalet for eight years. She retired to Vancouver in the early 1930s.

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Gift of Frank Costigan, 1972, 1988.

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Scope and content

The fonds consists of scrapbook about the Dowling and Costigan families, and her musical career (1883-1943), personal correspondence (1939-1950), letters from her father (1880), and miscellaneous programs (including funeral program for Donald A. Smith, Lord Strathcona, 1914) and newsclippings.

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Accruals

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No restrictions on access.

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      The material is in English.

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      Title based on contents of records.

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      Mr. Costigan has not signed a gift agreement, so the status of these records is uncertain.

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      The MEC is under "Costigan, Frank".

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      Dates of creation revision deletion

      Tuesday, August 28, 2018

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