Fonds P065 - Charles Stewart fonds

Title and statement of responsibility area

Title proper

Charles Stewart fonds

General material designation

    Parallel title

    Other title information

    Title statements of responsibility

    Title notes

    • Source of title proper:

    Level of description

    Fonds

    Reference code

    CA ETRC P065

    Edition area

    Edition statement

    Edition statement of responsibility

    Class of material specific details area

    Statement of scale (cartographic)

    Statement of projection (cartographic)

    Statement of coordinates (cartographic)

    Statement of scale (architectural)

    Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)

    Dates of creation area

    Date(s)

    • 1823-1850 (Creation)

    Physical description area

    Physical description

    0,02 m of textual records.

    Publisher's series area

    Title proper of publisher's series

    Parallel titles of publisher's series

    Other title information of publisher's series

    Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series

    Numbering within publisher's series

    Note on publisher's series

    Archival description area

    Name of creator

    Biographical history

    Charles Stewart was born in Scotland on 13 April 1775. He studied at All Souls College, Corpus Christi College, and Oxford, obtaining a B.A. in 1795 and an M.A. in 1799. Oxford also awarded him the honorary degree of D.D. in 1816. Stewart was ordained a deacon in the United Church of England and Ireland in 1798 and a priest in 1799. From 1798 and 1807, he was the rector of the parish of Orton. In 1807, he came to Canada as a missionary, working in the County of Saint-Armand, Quebec until 1815, when he returned to England. He came back to Canada in 1817, however, continuing his missionary work in Charleston in the Eastern Townships from 1817 to 1819. The first travelling missionary in the Townships, from 1819 to 1825 Stewart worked in Ontario and Quebec (Diocese of Quebec) for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG). In 1826, he was consecrated Bishop of the Diocese and named to the Executive Council of Lower Canada. Reverend George Jehoshaphat Mountain succeeded to him as Bishop in 1836, and he returned to England, where he died the following year.

    Custodial history

    Scope and content

    The fonds contains source material on the activities of Charles Stewart from 1815 to 1829, a time span that covers his work in England and Charleston (Hatley, Quebec), and for the SPG and part of his tenure as Bishop of the Diocese of Quebec. It consists of transcripts made by the Reverend James Reid, pastor of Trinity Church in Frelighsburg, in 1850 of ninety-one letters (ninety of which were written between 1815 and 1829) from Stewart to Reid. The transcripts bear comments made by the transcriber.

    Notes area

    Physical condition

    Immediate source of acquisition

    Arrangement

    Language of material

      Script of material

        Location of originals

        The original letters are kept in the Quebec Diocesan Archives, also housed at Bishop's University.

        Availability of other formats

        Restrictions on access

        Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication

        Finding aids

        Associated materials

        Researchers may also consult the Quebec Diocesan Archives, which hold documents related to Charles Stewart.

        Researchers may also consult the Louis-Philippe Demers Collection (P030), which includes two photographs of a monument erected to the memory of Charles Stewart in Charleston.

        Related materials

        Accruals

        No more accruals are expected.

        General note

        Title based on contents of fonds.
        The fonds was donated in 1940 by Miss A.F.W. Davidson, a descendant of the Reverend James Burrow Davidson, who succeeded Reverend James Reid in the parish of Saint-Armand.
        The documents are in English.

        Alternative identifier(s)

        Standard number

        Standard number

        Access points

        Subject access points

        Name access points

        Genre access points

        Control area

        Description record identifier

        Institution identifier

        Rules or conventions

        Finding aid prepared using Rules for Archival Description (RAD).

        Status

        Level of detail

        Dates of creation, revision and deletion

        28 janvier, 2016

        Language of description

          Script of description

            Sources

            Accession area