Fonds 88-011 & 75-1024 & 75-1025 & 97-1013 - Boyd family fonds

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Boyd family fonds

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    CA ON00333 88-011 & 75-1024 & 75-1025 & 97-1013

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    • 1857-1982 (Creation)

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    20 m of textual records and other material 200 photographs

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    The Boyd family of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, were involved in various commercial ventures, including lumbering, cattle, railway and steamship interests. The Boyd family in Canada originated with Mossom Boyd (1814-1883) who was born in India. A member of the Anglo-Irish gentry, he emigrated to the Sturgeon Lake region of Upper Canada in 1834. In 1844 Mossom Boyd married Caroline Dunsford. He became assistant to Thomas Need, owner of the Bobcaygeon sawmill and eventually took over the mill. By the 1870's he had the largest enterprise in the region. After his death the business was run by his son, Mossom Rater Boyd, who extended the venture into Quebec and Vancouver as well as moving into steamboating, stock raising and railway development. The Boyds were involved with the Lindsay, Bobcaygeon and Pontypool Railroad and the Trent Valley Navigation Steamship Company. Mossom Martin Boyd (1855-1914) and his half-brother William Thornton Cust Boyd were active partners, along with their cousin John MacDonald of Albany, New York, in the firm of Boyd & Company. When Mossie's death the next generation gradually disbanded the huge operation. The third generation had its own interests and professions, though all members were involved intermittently in lumbering and stock.

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    Fonds consists of records encompasing three generations of the Boyd family of Bobcaygeon. Fonds includes approximately 20,000 pieces of correspondence, in addition to grocery lists, laundry lists, staff salary books, furniture receipts, party and wedding invitations, school report cards, ship and railway timetables, diaries. Fonds consists of the following series: Photographs and glass negatives Reverend Henry C. Avant Mossam Boyd Mossam Martin Boyd (Mossie) Lillian de Grassi Boyd Dr. Alex de Grassis Gardiner Cust Boyd Winnett Boyd (Brownie) Mildred Boyd Sheila Boyd Laurence Chadwick Boyd Mossam de Grassi Boyd Agricultural Papers Business Papers

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    Fonds acquired from creator in 1987.

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        www.trentu.ca/library/archives/88-011.htm

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        Other Boyd material can be found in 75-1024, 75-1025 and 97-1013.

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