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1860-2014 (Creation)
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78 cm of textual material
14 photographs and slides
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Jennifer Brown (1940-) is the great-granddaughter of Rev. Egerton Ryerson Young and the daughter of Harcourt Brown. She is a published author, and professor emeritus of history at the University of Winnipeg where she worked from 1988-2011. In 1997 she became the Director of the Centre for Rupert's Land Studies, and in 2004 was the Canada Research Chair for Aboriginal Peoples and Histories. She has done extensive research on her ancestry and has published extensively on Indigenous history in Canada and the United States; particularly the fur trade, Indigenous culture, women's history and oral history.
Harcourt Brown (1900-1990) was the maternal grandson of Rev. Egerton Ryerson Young and nephew to E. Ryerson Young (Egerton Ryerson Young Jr.) He was Professor Emeritus of Brown University, where he taught in French Language and literature from 1937-1969, and he conducted extensive research on his ancestry.
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Fonds contains writings and research conducted by Jennifer Brown and Harcourt Brown on their ancestor Rev. Egerton Ryerson Young and relations 1960-2014.
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Donor has placed no restrictions but asks that she be put in touch with any interested researchers or anyone wishing to publish or circulate the records.
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See also Jennifer S.H. Brown fonds (Fonds MSS 336) at the University of Manitoba & Special Collections; the Jennifer S.H. Brown fonds at the Hudson's Bay Company Archives; the Jennifer S.H. Brown fonds at the University of Winnipeg and the Jennifer Brown fonds (19-002) at Trent University Library and Archives.
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Created November 2020, AZ