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• Title:Garnett Sedgewick fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Sedgewick, G. G. (Garnett Gladwin), 1882-1949.
  
• Published/Created:1880-1954
  

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  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:6
    
  • Status:c.1 Box 3 Requested
    
  • Location Has:Box 1-5.
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Sedgewick, G. G. (Garnett Gladwin), 1882-1949.
  
• Description:71 cm of textual records
  135 photographs
  
• Summary:The fonds consists of correspondence, photographs, clippings, artifacts, publications legal documents, notes, transcripts of lectures and broadcasts, examinations, certificates and other miscellaneous items. Most of the material was created and collected by Sedgewick himself and the rest was collected by friends including Robert Roberts after Sedgewick's death.
  
• Biography/history note:Garnett Sedgewick was born May 20, 1882 in Middle Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia to Henry A. and Bessie Woollery (nee Gladwin) Sedgewick. He attended high school while living with relatives in Oxford, Nova Scotia and then taught grade school (1900-1901) in Oyster Pond, Jeddare, Nova Scotia. He then attended Dalhousie University in Halifax, graduating with a B.A. in 1903 (Honours in Classics and English). Sedgewick served as prinicpal of schools in Oxford, Nova Scotia (1903-1905) and Nanaimo High School (1905-1907), History Master at St. Andrew's College in Toronto (1907-1908) and a high school teacher in Vancouver (1908-1910). Sedgewick received his MA from Harvard University in 1911 and PhD from Harvard in 1913. He was instructor and assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis from 1913 to 1918 when he became an associate professor and acting head of the Department of English at UBC. In 1920, he was made a professor and first head of the Department. In 1934, he was the Alexander Lecturer at the University of Toronto (these lectures were later published) and in 1946 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He retired from UBC in 1948 and the same year received an honourary LLD from Dalhousie. Sedgewick died in Vancouver in 1949. Sedgewick was known for his lectures on Shakespeare and Chaucer; he also wrote scholarly articles, radio broadcasts, and a weekly column, "More heat than light" for the Vancouver Sun. He served on the UBC Senate and was involved with the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Symphony, and Vancouver Little Theatre as well as the Civil Liberties Union.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.