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Article: Pen and paper. (Currents).(McCord Museum, Montreal)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Unaccountably, part of James Wolfe's journal--the part relating to that watershed moment in Canadian history, the 1759 Battle of the Plains of Abraham--ended up in the nineteenth century with some guy living in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. But that passionate collector of Canadiana, David Ross McCord, tracked it down in 1914 and whisked it back to Montreal where it joined the thousands and thousands of other cultural artifacts the scion of Montreal's anglophone bourgeoisie had assembled, and which in 1919 formed the foundation of the McCord Museum.
Of course, with such abundance, a treasure like Wolfe's journal doesn't often surface from its climate-controlled ...