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Eric Flesher fonds
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78 cm of textual records
73 photographs
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Eric Herbert Gregory Flesher, son of Frederick Charles Flesher and Helen Gregory MacGill, was born in Santa Clara, California, in 1891. Frederick Flesher died in 1901, and Helen Gregory later married James Henry MacGill. The family was in Vancouver, BC, by the end of 1901. Helen and James MacGill had two daughters, Elsie Gregory MacGill and Helen (Jr.) Gregory MacGill. Eric Flesher began working in the BC logging industry in 1912, and his career spanned six decades. During that time he met and married his wife, Olga Ann Reed (1891-1973), and had children. Eric Flesher passed away in Vancouver, BC, in 1972.
Custodial history
The fonds was acquired by Public Archives Canada (predecessor of Library and Archives Canada) as part of the Elsie Gregory MacGill fonds in 1983. The contents of the Eric Flesher fonds was determined by Public Archives Canada archivists to be local rather than national documentation, and their donor, Eric Flesher's son, agreed to the transfer to UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections. The fonds was transferred to UBC Library Rare Books and Special Collections between September 1983 and January 1984.
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The fonds consists of Flesher's unpublished memoirs entitled "Timber: The Log of a Western Logger" (alternately “A Western Logger’s Log”) with revised drafts by Elsie Gregory MacGill. The manuscript provides an account of the British Columbia logging industry from 1912 to 1965. The fonds also includes five daily journals (1934-1969), correspondence (1945-1972), legal documents (1904-1912), photographs of Flesher's family and early logging career, and printed material (newspaper clippings and periodicals). Most of the records relate to his activities in the Phillips Arm, BC, area.
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- Flesher (family) (Subject)
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Revised by Malcolm Fish, June 2024.