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- 1896-1931, predominant 1909-1928 (Creation)
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7 cm of textual records
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Biographical history
Renzilla E. Smith, 1880-1953, was born in Picton, Ontario. From about 1909 to 1917 she was a traveller in the USA for the France-American Hygienic Company and perhaps other firms. Her family moved from Ontario to Calgary, Alberta ca. 1913. Some time before 1924 she married William Perry Aylesworth, 1873-1934, who worked variously as an artist, accountant, and decorator in the 1920s and early 1930s. Renzilla was the proprietor of The Picton, a boarding house in Calgary, ca. 1926-1930. Renzilla and Perry returned to her family in Ontario about 1935.
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These records were left in the Aylesworth house and discovered by a subsequent owner.
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Gift of Mrs. H.J. Hutchison, 1975.
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The fonds consists of Renzilla's business correspondence, account book from her sales, advertiques, invoices and sales routes (1909-1917); boarding house account book (1926-1928); letters from her sister and father (1913, 1930); her autograph book (1897); and school work book (1897). Includes greeting cards handpainted by Perry (1931), and miscellany.
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The material is in English.
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Files 9-11 and o.s. are not in guide.
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Thursday, September 06, 2018