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1928-1968 (Creation)
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91 cm of textual records 20 photographs
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Blodwen Davies (1897-1966) was born in Longueuil, Quebec. She was educated in Montreal and started her writing career in Fort William, Ontario, as a newspaper reporter. She moved to Toronto in 1921 to meet with the Group of Seven painters and went on to write a study of Tom Thomson in 1935. She was a prolific writer, mostly of history. She lived in the United States for a short time but returned to Canada in 1946 and lived in Markham, Ontario. She lived in Cedar Grove for the last fifteen years of her life and studied and wrote about Mennonite history and folklore.
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Fonds consists of research material, manuscripts, published articles and correspondence of Blodwen Davies.
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Fonds acquired from Pat McClelland in 1991.
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www.trentu.ca/library/archives/91-001.htm