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• Title:Gordon Elliott fonds
  
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• Author/Creator:Elliott, Gordon R., 1920-
  
• Published/Created:1939-2004
  

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  • Location:UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES ASRS storageWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number:No call number available 
  • Number of Items:6
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Elliott, Gordon R., 1920-
  
• Description:1. 6 m of textual records
  1 audio cassette
  
• Summary:Fonds consists almost entirely of materials created or acquired by Gordon Elliott over the course of his life and career and includes the manuscripts for his historical writing, research materials, personal correspondence, university notes and lectures, newspaper clippings, public lectures, and an audio recording.
  
• Biography/history note:Gordon Raymond Elliott was born in Vancouver in 1920 but spent his childhood in Pemberton, Williams Lake, and Revelstoke. In 1942, Elliott joined the Canadian Army following the attack in Pearl Harbor. He later transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force and served as a navigator on Lancaster bombers based in England. In 1945, Elliott was injured during a plane crash and was sent home to a hospital in Vancouver. Upon his release, he attended UBC from 1947-54 and earned a B.A. and M.A. in History. He taught in Williams Lake briefly before he enrolled at Harvard University earning a second M.A. in History. From 1957-65, Elliott taught in the English Department at UBC, and, during this time, he encouraged novelist Margaret Laurence to publish her first books. In 1965, he joined the faculty in the Department of English at SFU and taught courses in Canadian Literature until 1985 when he retired as Professor Emeritus. Over the years, he edited Canadian texts such as British Columbia: A History by Margaret Ormsby (1958) and wrote several books of his own. Elliott was also a leading member of the Vancouver Historical Society serving as Vice-President (1968) and President (1970-1972). He introduced ethnic history as a field of study for the Society with a speakers' series on local ethnic groups. Later, he launched a publication program with the production of three local histories, the Occasional Papers Series. Elliott died in 2006.
  
• Indexes and finding aids:File list available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.