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- 1860-1954, predominant 1880-1943 (Creation)
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10 cm of textual records. -- 3 photographs
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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.
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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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No restrictions on access.
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The material is in English.
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No finding aid
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Digital content is available: https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/Package/2R3BF1S3M9YIF
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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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Tuesday, August 28, 2018