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Katherine Ferrie fonds
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1 volume of textual records
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Katherine Ferrie (nee Katherine Fergus Turner) was the wife of Walter B. Ferrie.
The couple were married in 1893, then later moved from Hamilton, Ontario to Vancouver, where Walter Ferrie served as the B.C. manager of the Canada Life Assurance Company.
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Fonds consists of one notebook entitled Visiting List. The volume contains an alphabetical listing of individuals. Some entries also contain notations indicating what appear to be 'at home days,' or the days women chose to remain at home to receive visitors.
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Fonds was donated to the Archives in 1953 by Alexander T. Ferrie, a son of Walter and Katherine Ferrie.
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See also the subject file regarding W.B. Ferrie in the Major Matthews collection (Add. MSS. 54).