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David Roberts fonds
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1895-2004 (Creation)
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77 cm textual records
4 col. photographic prints
28 b&w photographic prints
82 b&w photographic negatives
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David Roberts was born in 1949 and raised in the village of Westport on Upper Rideau Lake in Eastern Ontario. He is a former Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography at the University of Toronto, for which he also wrote many biographies of individuals connected to Canadian business history. He previously worked as an historian for the Government of Ontario, and is the author of two monographs: In the Shadow of Detroit: Gordon M. McGregor, Ford of Canada, and Motoropolis (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006) and Boosters and Barkers: Financing Canada's Involvement in the First World War (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023).
Sources: Personal correspondence between Archivist Sarah Glassford and David Roberts, 2019-2020.
Scope and content
This fonds consists of research notes, manuscript drafts, photocopies of primary sources, correspondence, and a few original documents and photographs acquired by David Roberts in the course of his research for a book about Gordon M. McGregor and the Ford Motor Company of Canada in Windsor, Ontario. The fonds is organized into two series, reflecting the two accessions through which the material was received and arranged. Series I primarily contains draft manuscripts, research correspondence, and research notes relating to McGregor’s personal and professional life, the automobile industry, and McGregor’s contemporaries. Series II principally contains research correspondence, images, and research notes from Windsor newspapers and the Ford of Canada Archives.
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- English
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Copyright retained by creators. Canadian copyright law and principles of fair dealing apply.
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Associated materials
F 0045 (Ford Motor Company of Canada collection)
F 0077 (American Motors Corporation (AMC) collection)
F 0078 (James Mays collection)
Ford of Canada Archives, Oakville, Ontario
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- McGregor, Gordon Morton (Subject)
- Ford Motor Company of Canada (Subject)