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Leslie Upton fonds
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4.69 m of textual records and other material
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Leslie Upton was educated at Oxford University (B.A., 1954) and the University of Minnesota (Ph.D., 1957). From 1957 to 1964, he served as assistant professor of history at St. John's College, Winnipeg. Upton joined the Department of History at the University of British Columbia in 1971. His main areas of study included United Empire Loyalists and the relationship of Amerindians and whites in pre-Confederation Atlantic Canada.
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The fonds consists of student notebooks (1948-1957), which include student notebooks and essays; teaching notes (1957-1980), which consist of lecture notes on various subjects as well as files related to other academic activities; correspondence; writings, which contain drafts of both articles and books - published and unpublished; research materials, which include notes arranged in subject files, copies of historical documents as well as scrapbooks of newspaper clippings on Indians (1970-1978) and numerous articles by W.H. Siebert; and a miscellaneous series which includes reviews of Upton's work as well as files on Loyalist studies in Canada.
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Includes: published materials, 19 scrapbooks, 24 microfilm reels, 1 audio cassette.