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Correspondence, Bernice Medberry Martin
- Date Range
- 1912-1914
- Collection
- BVM discrete item collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual record
- Scope and Content
- Letters offer significant information on life in railroad camps in northwestern British Columbia in the early 1900s. Martin describes the living conditions, railway progress, her husband's work, and the people she encountered.
- Collection
- BVM discrete item collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- textual record
- Creator
- Bernice Medberry Martin
- Fonds No.
- C1
- File No.
- File 43
- Accession No.
- 1983.67
- Physical Description
- 2.54 cm of textual records
- Date Range
- 1912-1914
- History / Biographical
- Bernice Medberry Martin, left for British Columbia with her husband, Leslie Martin, immediately after their marriage in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, in February 1912. Leslie Martin was a sub-contractor for the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad.
- Custodial History
- Letters were transcribed by Martin's daughter Leslie Anne Vaniman in 1979 and the typewritten copies were donated to the Archives in 1983.
- Scope and Content
- Letters offer significant information on life in railroad camps in northwestern British Columbia in the early 1900s. Martin describes the living conditions, railway progress, her husband's work, and the people she encountered.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
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