Fonds 01-016 - Marjorie McLean Oliver fonds. 2001 additions

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Marjorie McLean Oliver fonds. 2001 additions

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    Trent University Archives

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    01-016

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    • 1912-1986 (Creation)
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      Oliver, Marjorie McLean

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    30 cm of textual records
    1 map
    ca. 250 photographs

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    Oliver, Marjorie McLean
    (1909-2003)

    Biographical history

    Miss Marjorie McLean Oliver was born 8 October 1909 and lived in Bobcaygeon, Ontario. Her parents were James McLean Oliver and Margaret Chase. Oliver attended the Normal School in Peterborough and received her BA from Queen's University. She became a school teacher and taught in Whitby and Peterborough. In October 1998, Oliver donated the Bobcaygeon property which her family had operated as a tourist resort, to Trent University in memory of her father, James McLean Oliver. This 270-acre property is now known as the James McLean Oliver Ecological Centre. Marjorie McLean Oliver died 28 November 2003.

    Custodial history

    This fonds was created by and in the custody of Marjorie McLean Oliver before it was donated to Trent University Archives.

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    Fonds consists of photographs and post cards relating to the Oliver family and their friends, and their home at Lakeview Farm, Bobcaygeon, Ontario. Family members referred to include Marjorie McLean Oliver, Margaret Elizabeth Oliver, Margaret Chase Oliver, and James McLean Oliver. The fonds also consists of a collection of Time Books for 1935-1948, The Clan Oliver Magazine and The Oliver Society Magazine 1969-1986, a family scrapbook of birth and death notices, newspaper clippings, letters and certificates, and two Tourist Registers for Lakeview Farm 1926-1961. Also included are family property documents including a map issued by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 1955, entitled Terrestrial Ecozones and Ecoregions of Canada, with handwritten notation indicating the location of the Oliver Property which was donated to Trent University by Marjorie McLean Oliver in 1998.

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    This fonds was donated by Marjorie McLean Oliver.

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        This fonds is an addition to 01-010.

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        Box 1

        Items 1-197 are photographs and cards which were originally in a photograph album. They have been removed for preservation purposes.

        1. School Photograph, Class of Mrs. Ethel Thomas; with student names

        2. School Photograph, "To Margaret and Marjorie/ M. Gillogly/ Aug. 1919"

        3. School Photograph

        4. School Photograph, Jan. 1917

        5. Post Card, Nacey's Creek School, 1918

        6. Aunt Dugan, Marg

        7. Margaret Vianide

        8. Margaret, Verna

        9. J. M. Oliver, Bobcaygeon, 1938; "James McLean Oliver removes the blankets from the horses in front of the 'Orr House' for the drive down from Pigeon Lake to Lakeview from Bobcaygeon across to home"

        10. Farm Photograph

        11. Marg, Doris Parker

        12. "Buffalo on Big Island (Boyds)"

        13. Eleanor Fernie, [1930]

        14. "Silo and Cattle"

        15. Farm Property

        16. Farm Photograph

        17. Annie Mark

        18. Three Unidentified Women, June 27, 1943

        19. Two Unidentified Men

        20. Post Card, Mamma [Margaret Chase Oliver] and Margaret

        21. Post Card, Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver], Marg, Edith

        22. Farm Photograph

        23. Farm Property

        24. Oliver Home, 1989

        25. Oliver Property, Lakeview

        26. Oliver Home

        27. Oliver Home

        28. Oliver Property, Lakeview

        29. Farm Property

        30. "Leaves at Lakeview Farm"

        31. Lakeview Farm

        32. "Winter at Lakeview"

        33. "View from the Window"

        34. Oliver Home

        35. Lakeview Property

        36. Marjorie; Margaret, Lakeview Farm, Aug. 1914

        37. Oliver/ Mic Aktison/ Marg, Marji Oliver/ and the Cumberlands, Bobcaygeon, July 1913

        38. Margaret, Marjorie, 1912

        39. Margaret

        40. "Child at the Well"; "For Peggy Jr."

        41. School Photograph, Entrance Exam, 1920; with student names

        42. Eleanor (Lernie) Tripp

        43. The Burley's, Marg, Bertha

        44. Post Card, Unidentified Women at the Lake

        45. Sterling, Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver], Mr. [Jeremy], Marg, Kathleen

        46. Post Card, "Guest at Lakeview"

        47. Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver], Florence Woodcock

        48. Betty Cumberland, Marg Oliver, Spt. 1913; "On the stoney shore of the lake"

        49. Unidentified Male Portrait

        50. Two Unidentified Men

        51. Dad [James McLean Oliver]

        52. Eva, Margaret

        53. Edna, Margaret

        54. Bertha, Marg

        55. Edith, Marg

        56. Mr. [Jeremy], Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver] (2)

        57. Mr. [Jeremy], Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver], Marjorie, Margaret

        58. Mrs. Steele, James Oliver, Mom, [Margaret Chase Oliver], Joe Oliver, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Beatty

        59. Lilly [Browning]; "At the old kitchen door"

        60. Marjorie, 1911

        61. Margaret, Marjorie [1911] (2)

        62. Marjorie, 1911

        63. Margaret, Marjorie, 1911

        64. Margaret, Marjorie, [1911]

        65. Margaret, Marjorie, 1911

        66. Margaret, Marjorie, 1911

        67. Post Card, Margaret, Marjorie [1911]

        68. Marjorie, 1911

        69. Marjorie, 1911

        70. Dad [James McLean Oliver], Margaret, Marjorie

        71. Spalding Black, Margaret Oliver; "Spalding and Black and Margaret Oliver got cold water from the well", [1908]

        72. Margaret and Spalding, 1908

        73. Marjorie, 1910; "At Lakeview"

        74. Marjorie, [1910]

        75. Margaret, Marjorie; "On the veranda of [the] house" (2)

        76. Marjorie and Puppy

        77. Marjorie

        78. Post Card, Margaret, Marjorie

        79. Margaret, Marjorie (2)

        80. The Olivers

        81. The Olivers

        82. The Olivers, Mrs. [Boeckh], June 27, 1943

        83. Dad [James McLean Oliver], Marjorie

        84. Margaret

        85. Dad [James McLean Oliver]

        86. Margaret

        87. Margaret

        88. Margaret

        89. Margaret and Dog

        90. Margaret

        91. Marjorie

        92. Edith, Margaret, Marjorie

        93. Margaret

        94. Dad [James McLean Oliver]

        95. Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver], Dad [James McLean Oliver]

        96. Marjorie, Edith, Margaret

        97. [Mary], Marg

        98. Unidentified Woman, Heather; "Summer, Heather is nearly three"

        99. Post Card, "Lakeside Village Scene" [1909]

        100. Post Card "Working at the Lakeside" [1909]

        101. Unidentified Group

        102. Unidentified Group

        103. Unidentified Group

        104. Post Card, "Canoe Scene"

        105. Post Card, "Girl at Lakeview Farm, Pigeon Lake"

        106. Farm Property

        107. Farm Property

        108. Mom, [Margaret Chase Oliver], Edith

        109. Margaret

        110. Unidentified Woman

        111. Margaret

        112. Farm Property, May 24, 1918; "The beach along Lakeview Farm"

        113. Three Unidentified Girls, Killarney Bay, August 1932

        114. Unidentified Group of Children in a Wagon

        115. "At Dinner", Aug. 1913; Lakeview Farm

        116. Marg, Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver], Mary

        117. Edith Oliver

        118. Marjorie, Margaret

        119. Margaret

        120. "Mike and the Team"

        121. Lorne Davis, Guests, 1946; "Resort Owner and Guide on Pigeon Lake with a load of guests at Bobcaygeon"

        122. Two Unidentified Men with a Horse and Wagon

        123. Dad [James McLean Oliver]

        124. Dad [James Mclean Oliver] (2)

        125. Dad [James McLean Oliver]

        126. Unidentified Group

        127. Unidentified Group

        128. Unidentified Group

        129. Mrs. [Boeckh], Mr., Mrs. Beatty, E. Bourne

        130. Fern, Ethel, Vera, Mary

        131. Marjorie, Margaret, Edith

        132. Mary, Ed[ith], Marg

        133. Marjorie, Margaret, Edith

        134. Marjorie Parker, Bertha Dewdney

        135. Farm Property

        136. Alberta Trotter, Mr. Dorman

        137. Margaret

        138. Margaret

        139. Margaret Oliver, Mary [Boeckh], May 24, 1918

        140. Mary, Marg

        141. Marg, Mary

        142. Margaret, Edith, Marjorie

        143. Marg, Mary

        144. Mrs. Mark, Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver]

        145. Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver]

        146. Mrs. Ritchardson, May 24, 1918; "My Nurse"

        147. Mrs. Ritchardson

        148. Dad [James McLean Oliver] Marjorie

        149. Unidentified Man

        150. Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver]; "Sept. 6 At Age 94"

        151. Margaret, Marjorie

        152. Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver] Dad [James McLean Oliver]

        153. Dad [James McLean Oliver] Dianne, Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver]

        154. Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver]

        155. The [Jermyns]

        156. Unidentified Group

        157. Marjorie McLean Oliver; "Daughter of James McLean Oliver"

        158. Margaret Elizabeth Oliver; "Daughter of James McLean Oliver"

        159. Margaret

        160. Marjorie

        161. Marjorie; "At the Boeckh's Home in Toronto

        162. Margaret, Helen, Grace

        163. Marjorie, Queens

        164. Marjorie, Kingston, April 25, 1942; "At the Train Station"

        165. Susan Van Camp, Marjorie

        166. Unidentified Woman, 1971

        167. Margaret

        168. Marjorie, Edith

        169. Two Unidentified Women

        170. Marjorie, Marg

        171. Marjorie Oliver, Bobcaygeon, April 25, 1942; "On the Train"

        172. Marjorie (2)

        173. Margaret, Bertha

        174. Norma Ritchie, Marjorie Oliver

        175. Gladys, Normie [Norma?], Marjorie, Unidentified Woman

        176. Mary, Helen, Grace

        177. Two Unidentified Women

        178. Marjorie, Gladys McGregor

        179. Marjorie, [Oliver Chick] ; [Chick] "who married Gladys"

        180. Mom [Margaret Chase Oliver], Margaret

        181. Unidentified Man and Woman

        182. Farm Property

        183. Lakeview Farm (2)

        184. Farm Property

        185. Farm Property, Aug. 3 1978

        186. Farm Property; "The Old Home"

        187. Farm Property (2)

        188. Farm Property; "lawns at Lakeview"

        189. Farm Property

        190. Unidentified Man and Woman with Fish, 1983

        191. Unidentified Man, with Fish, 1983

        192. Farm Property

        193. Farm Property; "The Lawn at Pigeon Lake"

        194. Farm Property

        195. Unidentified Woman

        196. Farm Property

        197. Farm Property

        198. Loose Miscellaneous Photographs; includes larger reprints of images 9, 12, 104

        Also

        1. Scrap Book of Photographs

        2. Scrap Book of Photographs

        3. Time Book, 1935-1936

        4. Time Book, 1937-1939

        5. Time Book, 1939-1940

        6. Time Book, 1940

        7. Time Book, 1941

        8. Time Book, 1941

        9. Time Book, 1942-1943

        10. Time Book, 1943

        11. Time Book, 1944

        12. Time Book, 1944

        13. Time Book, 1945

        14. Time Book, 1946

        15. Time Book, 1947

        16. Time Book, 1948

        17. The Oliver Surname on the Scottish Border; by Colonel W. H. Oliver/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1982

        18. The Clan Oliver Magazine; Issue 1/ Scotland: The Clan Oliver Society, 1969

        19. The Clan Oliver Magazine; Issue 2/ Scotland: The Clan Oliver Society, 1970

        20. The Oliver Magazine; Issue 3/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1971

        21. The Oliver Magazine; Issue 4/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1972

        22. The Oliver Magazine; Issue 5/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1973

        23. The Oliver Society; Issue 6/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1974

        24. The Oliver Society; Issue 7/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1975

        25. The Oliver Society; Issue 8/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1976

        26. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 9/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1977

        27. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 10/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1978

        28. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 11/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1979

        29. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 12/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1980

        30. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 13/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1981

        31. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 14/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1982

        32. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 15/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1983

        33. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 16/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1984

        34. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 17/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1985

        35. The Oliver Society Magazine; Issue 18/ Scotland: The Oliver Society, 1986

        36. Scrapbook Pages; including marriage certificate, correspondence, birth and death notices, certificates of achievement, newspaper clippings; as collected by Marjorie Oliver.

        37. Farm Property Documents; including Property Registration Document for Lot 17 in 16th Concession, 1825-1934; Map of Terrestrial Ecozones and Ecoregions of Canada, 1995; Letter to Mr. Jas. McLean Oliver from Ruby E. Cairnduff, June 10, 1937

        38. Tourist Register for Lakeview Farm, 1926-1950

        39. Tourist Register for Lakeview Farm, 1951-1961

        Additional material added 10 June 2002 (received February 12, 2002, via Development Office, Trent University):

        40: Rachel Middleton last will and testament (1941), and estate documents (1947-1950)

        41: James McLean Oliver estate documents, 1952-1954

        42: Miscellaneous property and estate documents, 1911-1937

        43: Property insurance documents, 1934, 1946; municipal water & sewage connection, 1983

        44: Mackay Funeral Home, Lindsay, receipts, etc. re deaths of James Oliver, 1952, and Mrs. Margaret Oliver, 1972

        45: Receipts related to properties and buildings, 1895-1985

        46: Medical receipts, 1929-1939

        47: Bank books, house expenses ledger, ration coupon books, Scribner's Log & Lumber Book [187-?], envelopes

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