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Harry Hawthorn Foundation fonds
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- Textual record
- Photographic material
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- Source of title proper: The title is based on the contents of the fonds
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20 cm of textual records
94 photographs
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Administrative history
The Harry Hawthorn Foundation was established in 1953 by eight academics from the University of British Columbia. The Foundation began during a 1953 fishing expedition to Vancouver Island, at which time a mock court was staged. The judges presiding over the affair, N.A.M. MacKenzie and Roderick Haig-Brown, fined Harry Hawthorn for a fishing violation and, thus, the Harry Hawthorn Foundation "for the inculcation and propagation of the principles and ethics of fly-fishing" came into existence. Money raised by the Foundation was turned over to the Library to establish a unique collection of fishing books. Members of the Foundation continue to meet for fishing trips and dinners and contribute funds for expanding the collection.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of correspondence, financial records, invitations, minutes, notices, clippings and photographs relating to the Foundation from 1953 to 1986.
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Because significant series were not evident in the collection, the records have been arranged in chronological order.
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Photographs have been digitized and are available in UBC Library Open Collections series 9.1.
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- Hawthorn, Harry (Subject)