| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0025 | | TITLE: | James Allen Fletcher fonds | | CREATOR: | James Allen Fletcher | | DATE RANGE: | 1914-1916 | | EXTENT: | 247 photographs. - 0.03 m of textual material. | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | James Allan Fletcher was born March 26, 1889 in the Tilbury East township of Kent County, Ontario. He graduated from the Chatham Collegiate Institute and from the University of Toronto in 1909 with a degree in civil engineering. After graduation, Allan worked for the Dominion Land Surveyor General's Office in Ottawa, Ontario until 1916. From 1911 until 1916, he was a Dominion Land Surveyor in Alberta, primarily in the northeast. He then served as an officer during the First World War. Following the war, Allan returned to Ontario and took up farming. In 1941 he became the county engineer for Grey County, Ontario; this marked his return to civil engineering. In 1946 he became the engineer for Peterborough County. Allan retired in 1949 to Rodney, Ontario. He spent his last years at Veterans Hospital in London, Ontario and died there April 18, 1969. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | The fonds was donated to the Provincial Archives in January 2004 by Jane L. Fletcher. James Allan Fletcher was Jane Fletcher's great uncle and took possession of the records after the death of James Allan Fletcher. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | The fonds consists of three photograph albums and three diaries chronicling James Allan Fletcher's work as a Dominion Land Surveyor in Alberta dating from 1914-1916. | | RELATED RECORDS: | Dominion Land Survey notebooks created by James Allan Fletcher in his role as a Dominion Land Surveyor are held at the Provincial Archives of Alberta and accessible as GR1985.0031 items 1259, 1455, 1567, 1655, 1656, 1716, 1717, and 1718 |
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