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Lewis family fonds
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1.38 m of textual records
2 scrapbooks
4 photographs
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Hunter Campbell Lewis was born in Tamworth, Ontario, in 1897 and graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.A. (1923) and M.A. (1928) in English. He joined the Department of English in 1929 and remained on staff until his retirement in 1962. Lewis was well known to generations of students for his course in contemporary English literature. In addition to his teaching duties, Lewis was also recognized for his activities in the art world, serving as president of the Federation of Canadian Artists. Lewis was also one of the organizers of the Vancouver branch of the Civil Liberties Union and a former chairman of the Committee on Indian Citizenship.
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The fonds consists of correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks and photographs pertaining to Hunter Lewis and other members of his family including Stella Lewis (wife), Bertha Lewis (mother) and Dr. George Albert McGuire (father-in-law) who served as a Conservative MLA for Vancouver about the time of World War I. The fonds also includes four Bertha Lewis' diaries (1934-1957). Included in this family material is a large assortment of records from the Federation of Canadian Artists, which Hunter Lewis collected in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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- Lewis, Hunter Campbell (Subject)
- Lewis, Bertha (Subject)
- McGuire, George Albert (Subject)
- Lewis, Stella (Subject)
- Civil Liberties Union (Montreal, Quebec) (Subject)
- Federation of Canadian Artists (Subject)