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  1. Ville de Montréal. Section des archives
  2. Fonds Olivar Asselin. - 24 juin 1887 - 14 mars 1940, 20 avril 1962
  3. Correspondance. - [ca 1890], 2 février 1890 - 14 mars 1940, 20 avril 1962
  4. Correspondance. - 15 juin 1916 - 27 décembre 1916

Correspondance. - 15 juin 1916 - 27 décembre 1916

file15 juin 1916 - 27 décembre 1916BM055-2-D022

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Ville de Montréal. Section des archives via Archives de Montréal (Ville de Montréal)
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15 juin 1916 - 27 décembre 1916 (indexed as 1916)
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49 documents textuels ; 1,5 cm.
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Dossier portant principalement sur ses activités militaires en tant que major du 163e bataillon séjournant successivement au camp Prospect aux Bermudes et au camp Bramshott en Angleterre, ainsi que sur ses relations amicales. Dossier contenant principalement des lettres échangées avec Jules Fournier, Hormisdas Laporte, Robert Laird Borden; des lettres reçues de Robert Rogers, Louvigny de Montigny, Anne-Marie Gleason-Huguenin (Madeleine), Wilfrid Huguenin, Ferdinand Paradis, Aram Pothier; et des copies de lettres envoyées à Samuel Hughes, Pierre-Edouard Blondin. Titre basé sur le contenu des documents. Documents en français et en anglais.
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CANADIAN NORTHERN RAILWAYTORONTOOFFICE OF THE PRESIDENTToronto, June 15, 1915.Oliver Asselin, Esq.,Major, 16th Battalion, C.E.F.,Prospect Camp, Bermuda.My dear Major Asselin:Toronto, June 15, 1916.Olivar Asselin, Esq.,Major, 163rd Battalion, C.E.F.,I have your letter of the 5th inst., written from Bermuda, and take this opportunity of congratulating you upon your success. I had hoped to see you before you left Canada, and discuss some of the questions we were talking about when last we met.I suppose that you have been too busy to have observed my efforts to secure fair-play for the French language in the Province of Ontario. I am very much interested in this subject, and would like to have discussed it, among other things, with you before you left.I wish you and your men the greatest of success and a safe return.Yours very truly,Read automatically; may contain mistakes.
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