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Sidney Williams fonds
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Fonds
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AM487
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0.01 m of textual records
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Biographical history
Sydney Williams was a partner in the firm Williams Brothers and Dawson, that included John T. C. Williams and George H. Dawson. The firm operated in Vancouver until 1896, as land surveyors and civil engineers. G. H. Dawson then continued in the same line of business as Dawson and Elliott.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of a notebook kept by Sidney Williams between 1887 and 1889. There are six pages of a diary describing a train trip made from Halifax to Tacoma, a two page game list for nine months of 1888 and notes and drawings of various surveys, especially for Brockton Point in Stanley Park.
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Folder formerly located at 565-E-03 fld 01.