Fonds SCA3-WA2 - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay fonds.

Title and statement of responsibility area

Title proper

Isabel Ecclestone Mackay fonds.

Level of description

Fonds

Reference code

SCA3-WA2

Dates of creation area

Date(s)

Physical description area

Physical description

39 cm of textual records

Archival description area

Name of creator

(1875-1928)

Biographical history

Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (nee Macpherson), author, was born in Woodstock, Ontario on November 25, 1875. Isabel was educated at the Woodstock Collegiate Institute and began writing for the Woodstock Daily Express at the age of 15. In 1895 Isabel married ... »

Scope and content

Fonds consists of materials relating to the personal and professional life of Isabel Ecclestone Mackay. Includes primarily prose and poetry by Mackay, as well as photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks and ephemera.

Notes area

Physical condition

Extent is measured in linear metres of shelf space as occupied by the fonds.

Immediate source of acquisition

Donated by Phyllis Mackay and D.W. Benedict in 1970, Ronald Grantham in 1985 and Isabel Benedict in 1994.

Arrangement

Arranged in four series as follows:

  • 1. Personal and Biographical;
  • 2. Scrapbooks;
  • 3. Poetry and Prose;
  • 4. Photographs.

Associated materials

Isabel Mackay's published works can be located using the catalogue. A bibliography of her works has also been published.

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Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Added to database by Jessica Blackwell, 2015.