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9.88 m of textual records and other material
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Biographical history
John Walter Grant MacEwan, 1902-2000, was born in Brandon, Manitoba. He received agricultural degrees from the University of Toronto and Iowa State College, USA. He married Phyllis Cline in 1946 and they had one daughter, Heather. He was a professor at the University of Saskatchewan, 1928-1946, and Dean of Agriculture at the University of Manitoba, 1946-1951. He moved to Calgary in 1952 and became involved in politics. He was a city alderman, 1953-1958, and mayor, 1963-1965. He sat as a Liberal in the Alberta Legislature, 1955-1959, and served as Alberta's Lieutenant-Governor, 1966-1974. A well-known author, he has written over forty books about western Canadian history, and from 1956 to 1992 wrote a column for the Calgary Herald. Grant MacEwan School in Calgary and Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton are named in his honour. He received the Order of Canada in 1975. Canadian author, historian, educator, politician and Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, 1966-1974, John Walter Grant MacEwan was born on August 12, 1902 near Brandon, Manitoba. Died in Calgary, Alberta, on June 15, 2000. Biographical information available in The Canadian who's who, 1992, p. 655.
Archival history
Donated by G. MacEwan in several accessions between 1974 and 1991. Accession 770/04.20 donated by Max Foran in 2004. MsC 306, consisting of a letter from G. MacEwan to Jean Tollefson, August 24, 1977, donated by J. Tollefson in 2004. MsC 358 consisting of an audio recording (CD) of a speech given by Grant MacEwan to the Cochrane Environmental Action Committee in Cochrane, Alberta, June 1990, donated by Alex Baradoy in 2010. Filed with Acc 770/04.20, Box 14. Accession 891/12.8 donated by Max Foran in 2012.
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Scope and content
Fonds consists of business and personal correspondence, research material, book manuscripts (most published between 1975 and 1990), appointment diaries, photographs and speeches. Also includes articles on G. MacEwan, book reviews, material honouring G. MacEwan and other miscellaneous material. Accession 891/12.8 includes various media that relate to the personal life of G. MacEwan: 2 photograph albums of 'Pioneer Agricultural Scenes' and 'Canadian Livestock'; 3 diaries kep by G. MacEwan, 1902-1931, 1931-1950, 1958-1968; 3 scrapbooks and 3 files containing research, notes and clippings relating to various issues of interest to MacEwan; the diary of Phyllis Cline, 1932-1953.
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No restrictions on access.
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Text in English.
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Related units of description
Additional archival material located at Glenbow Archives, Calgary, Alberta.
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Includes ca. 500 photographs, 2 drawings and 1 audio recording.
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Further accruals expected.