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• Title:Gilean Douglas fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Douglas, Gilean, 1900-1993.
  
• Published/Created:approximately 1880-1993
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:Temporarily shelved at RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    Box 44  c.1  Shelved at RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
    Box 45  c.1  Shelved at RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1168
    
  • Number of Items:46
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 3 Requested
    c.1 Box 4 Requested
    c.1 Box 14 Requested
    c.1 Box 15 Requested
    c.1 Box 30 Requested
    c.1 Box 34 Requested
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-45.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Douglas, Gilean, 1900-1993.
  Madison, Grant.
  
• Description:5. 59 m of textual records
  approximately 2000 photographs
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of manuscripts of poems, articles, short fiction and books; research files, subject files and other material generated and collected by Douglas during her involvement in writing and with various organizations such as the Women's Institute, the Anglican Church of Canada, Cortes Advisory Planning Commission and Environment Canada for whom she was a weather advisor for 33 years; an extensive professional and personal correspondence; financial records; legal records; journals; address books; and scrapbooks containing clippings of her published articles and poems; an extensive photograph collection documenting her life, including Channel Rock on Cortes Island, 1970s-1980s; as well as scrapbooks and correspondence dating back to the 1880s generated by her parents, prominent in Toronto social circles.
  
• Biography/history note:Gilean Douglas worked as a photo journalist for much of her life and her lifetime venue of more than 200 publications included 13 book publications of non-fiction and poetry. Born in 1900 into a wealthy and socially prominent Toronto family, she was orphaned at the age of 16 and began to turn away from her inherited lifestyle. After three collapsed marriages, much travel and continuing work as a photo journalist she moved to British Columbia in 1939 and wrote a book, River For My Sidewalk, under her pseudonym, Grant Madison, documenting her early life in B.C. In 1947 her cabin was destroyed by fire and two years later she moved to a 138 acre waterfront property on Cortes Island with her fourth husband where she remained until her death in 1993. In addition to her writing, she was very active in community affairs holding local, district, provincial and national office in the Women's Institute, edited a book on its history, and was awarded a Life Membership in 1989.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.