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William Templeton Papers
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5.75 cm textual records, 2 photographs, 3 negatives
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William Loftus Templeton was born in Tipperary, Ireland, in 1889 to parents James Bradley Templeton and Kathleen Anne Denroche Templeton. He emigrated to Canada some time in 1912 and already had one child with wife Frances Smart by 1915. Templeton had five children: daughters Kathleen, Doris (who went by “Mickey”), and Norah, and sons Charles and William. The family moved from Toronto to Regina in early 1916, where they stayed for eleven years, then back to Toronto in 1927. Templeton left the family to find work (he was a department store manager) and moved alone from Montreal to Saskatoon to Edmonton, settling finally in Vancouver sometime before 1940. He worked as a manager for the Vancouver Better Business Bureau from 1940 to 1963. He and his former wife, Dorothy Burt, were friends of the Lowrys at Dollarton. Templeton died at Vancouver General Hospital on 19 April 1972.
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The sous-fonds is predominantly composed of a partial manuscript of Under the Volcano, including annotated chapters and notes. Correspondence is from Lowry and people in the publishing industry whose employers either helped to publish or rejected Under the Volcano.
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The contents of 01-27 have been moved to Photograph Boxes 3, 4, and 7. Contents are described in the Photographs sous-fonds' William Templeton Photographs series.
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Some files in the William Templeton Papers will only be circulated one at a time. Circulation restriction is indicated in the series and file level description.