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Correspondence
- Fonds / Collection
- Thomas E. Ladner and family fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual record
- Date Range
- 1892 - 1896 [photocopied 1985]
- Accession Number
- 1985-171
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence between Thomas Ladner in Delta and San Francisco with Robert Rithet his agent and business partner in Victoria. The correspondence totals 293 pages and covers the period between April 28, 1892 to November 11, 1896. The letters exchange news with Rithets about cannery…
- Fonds / Collection
- Thomas E. Ladner and family fonds
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual record
- Date Range
- 1892 - 1896 [photocopied 1985]
- Fonds Number
- CR-64
- Accession Number
- 1985-171
- Physical Description
- 4 cm textual records
- Scope and Content
- File consists of correspondence between Thomas Ladner in Delta and San Francisco with Robert Rithet his agent and business partner in Victoria. The correspondence totals 293 pages and covers the period between April 28, 1892 to November 11, 1896. The letters exchange news with Rithets about cannery operations, including instructions to Rithets regarding legal and business matters, statistics about fish runs, comments about current labour and market conditions and problems, and news about other cannerymen, their operations and competition with them. The letters also refer to the question of fish offal, to Ladner's farming activities, and to news about family members and mutual friends.
- Notes
- Title based on contents of file
- Acquisition Source
- Photocopies acquired form the University of British Columbia Libraries, Special Collections.
- Category
- CR
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