Ian W. Brown fonds

Start Date: 
1854
GMD: 
multiple media
Geographic Access: 
Algoma (Ont. : District)
Access Restriction: 

No restrictions on access. Researchers must sign an “Access and Use form”. Privacy legislation applies to access requests. For access, please contact the Library Director, Arthur A. Wishart Library for more information.

Description Level: 
Fonds
Subject Access: 
Algoma University College (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.)
Name Access: 
Brown, Ian W., 1932-2015
Language: 
All material is in English.
End Date: 
2008
Date Range: 
1854-2012; predominant 1950-2012
Repro Restriction: 

Permission of the donor is required for reproduction. Archives staff must make reproductions. Reproductions are dependent on the fragility of the originals. Researchers must adhere to applicable copyright law and privacy legislation and permission of the copyright holder is required to publish from the fonds. Contact the Library Director, Arthur A. Wishart Library for more information.

Creator: 

Brown, Ian W., 1932-2015

Conservation: 

Basic conservation performed.

Physical Description: 

.40 m of textual records; 12 photographs

Arrangement: 
Fonds is arranged in subject files.
History Biographical: 

Ian Wilson Brown (1932-2015) was born on January 29, 1932 in Montreal, Quebec. He took his first two degrees, BA (Hist), 1953 and MA (Hist), 1959, at McGill University and his PhD (History) at Lehigh University in 1965. Brown taught History at Prince of Wales College, Prince Edward Island (now the University of Prince Edward Island) and served as its Chair of the Social Sciences Division until 1968. Brown served as Acting Principal at Algoma University College (AUC) for five years (1968-1973) and taught History at AUC until his retirement in 1990.

Brown was instrumental in moving AUC from its first site at Sault College (then known as Cambrian College) to its current site on Queen Street East. He sent countless letters to the Provincial Government and the ministry agitating for the former Shingwauk Indian Residential School site, after the residential school closed its doors in 1970. In 1971, thanks in part to his efforts, Algoma University College secured the location.

During his tenure as Principal of AUC, Dr. Brown also helped create the tradition of Homecoming. In its earliest years, Homecoming was scheduled between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The first Homecoming was held on December 28, 1969, coinciding with the beginning of his time as Principal. His tenure also coincided with the first-ever graduating class. Brown also was instrumental in securing second- and third-year programming for Algoma University College in May of 1971, which allowed Algoma University College to become a degree-granting institution in Bachelor of Arts programming. He also helped secure revenues for the construction of the East Wing, where the Wishart Library was once located.

Beloved by his peers and especially by his many students from Prince of Wales College and Algoma University College for both his administrative and teaching skills, "Doc Brown" has a classroom (East Wing 205) dedicated in his honour at Algoma University. Ian Brown passed away on Wednesday, October 7, 2015, at Prince County Hospital, Summerside, Prince Edward Island,.

Scope Content: 

Fonds comprises records that document Brown's activities as a graduate student and as a member of Algoma University's faculty. Includes research materials and some drafts for various book length projects including "The Ermatinger Family of Sault Ste. Marie," "50 Years of Labour in Algoma," a "History of Science in Relation to the Development of Western Society", as well as his 1965 Lehigh University dissertation, "The Anglican Evangelicals in British Poltics, 1780-1833;" correspondence, course syllabi, quizzes, tests and exams, documentation for Brown's 1988 OCUFA Teaching Award, information concerning the closure of Prince of Wales College and its amalgamation into UPEI, as well as Brown's report to Frontier College on teaching English to displaced European war refugees in the early 1950s.

Repository: 
aua

Local History: Newspaper Clippings

Language: 
All material is in English.
GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1960
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1979
Date Range: 
[196-?]-[197-?]
Physical Description: 

2 cm of textual records

Notes: 

- Folder appears to have been split into two 

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Facts About Sault Ste. Marie

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1982
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1982
Date Range: 
1982
Physical Description: 

.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Research Notes on Transportation for Labour History

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1854
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1969
Date Range: 
1854-1969
Physical Description: 

.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Historical Society Bibliography

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1982
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1982
Date Range: 
1982
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Dr. Brown: Sault Ste. Marie-Women of Yesteryears

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1970
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1979
Date Range: 
[197-?]
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Brochures

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1970
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1979
Date Range: 
[197-?]
Physical Description: 

.8 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Atomic Energy Control Board

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1945
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1955
Date Range: 
1945-1955
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Desbarats Cemetary Book

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1901
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1967
Date Range: 
[Copied 197-? (Originally Created 1901-1967)]
Physical Description: 

.4 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Collected Literatures

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1948
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1963
Date Range: 
1948-1963
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Sault Ste. Marie: The Soo's of Today-American & Canadian

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1970
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1979
Date Range: 
[197-?]
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Bruce Mines Reports

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1850
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1850
Date Range: 
[Copied 197-? (Originally Created 1850)]
Physical Description: 

.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

International Gateway: Sault Ste. Marie- 1668-1968

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1968
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1968
Date Range: 
1968
Physical Description: 

.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

The Great Lakes Forestry Research Centre

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1976
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1976
Date Range: 
1976
Physical Description: 

.7 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Zam-Buk: School Registrar

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1930
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1949
Date Range: 
[193-]-[194-]
Physical Description: 

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Sault Ste. Marie: Years of Practice 1892-1952

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1952
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1952
Date Range: 
1952
Physical Description: 

.7 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

A History of the Separate Schools of the City of Sault Ste. Marie

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1967
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1967
Date Range: 
1967
Physical Description: 

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

The Old Mrs. Plummer Stories for Little Ones

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1960
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1969
Date Range: 
[196-?]
Physical Description: 

.3 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Fred J. Falkner: Sault Ste. Marie

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1921
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1921
Date Range: 
[Copied 197-? (Originally created June 20, 1921)]
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Ontario Heritage Foundation

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1983
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1983
Date Range: 
1983
Physical Description: 

.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Maps & Diagrams

GMD: 
technical drawing
textual record
Start Date: 
1964
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1984
Date Range: 
1964-1984
Physical Description: 

.3 cm of textual record and technical drawing

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Planting of the tree at Central School in memory of Edith Cavell

Publication: 
Volume: 
Scan Resolution: 
Issue: 
Standard No: 
Scan Date: 
Scale: 
Language: 
English
Master scans folder location: 
GMD: 
graphic material
Responsibility: 
Custodial History: 
Start Date: 
1919
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1919
Style or Pattern: 
Process: 
Date Range: 
1919 May 15
Marks: 
Language: 
Physical Description: 

0.2 cm of graphic material. - 2 photographs : b&w ; 16 x 24.2 cm

rec_shelfloc: 
2007-049-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001
Conclusions: 
Storage Method: 

Frontier College Report, 1953-1954, H. E. P. C. Camp #2, Whirlpool, Ontario

Subject Access: 
Frontier College
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1953
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1954
Date Range: 
[1954]
Physical Description: 

.2 cm

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

PhD Course Research Paper: the Statesmanship of Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford

Subject Access: 
Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of, 1593-1641
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1958
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1958
Date Range: 
[1958]
rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Correspondence related to PhD programme at Lehigh University with Professor Raymond G. Cowherd, Dissertation Supervisor

Name Access: 
Cowherd, Raymond Gibson, 1910-
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown and Raymond G. Cowherd
Start Date: 
1958
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1873
Date Range: 
1958-1973
rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Prince of Wales College File

Subject Access: 
Prince of Wales College (Charlottetown, P.E.I.)
GMD: 
multiple media
Start Date: 
1962
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
2006
Date Range: 
1962-1968, 1973, 2006
Physical Description: 

.5 cm of textual records|1 photograph : b&w

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Speech to the University Women's Club

GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1968
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1968
Date Range: 
1968 November
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

I. W. B. introduction of President Monahan, Spring Convocation 1973

Name Access: 
Monahan, Edward J. 1928-
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1973
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1973
Date Range: 
[1973]
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Letter from J. M. S. Careless to Ian Brown

Name Access: 
Careless, J. M. S. 1919-
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
J. M. S. Careless
Start Date: 
1974
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1974
Date Range: 
1974 May 18
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Course outlines for courses given at A. U. C.

Subject Access: 
Algoma University College (Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.)
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1974
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1989
Date Range: 
1974-1989
Physical Description: 

2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

50 Years of Labour correspondence and other material

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1978
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1982
Date Range: 
1978-1982
Physical Description: 

2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Parks Canada commemorative booklet re: Nicholas Perrot and address given by Ian W. Brown

Name Access: 
Parks Canada
Subject Access: 
Perrot, Nicholas, 1644?-1717
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown and Parks Canada
Start Date: 
1981
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1981
Date Range: 
1981
Physical Description: 

.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Nomination of Brown for a 1988 OCUFA Teaching Award and confirmation letter

Subject Access: 
Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations
GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1988
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1989
Date Range: 
1988-1989
Physical Description: 

1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

History of Science in Relation to the Development of Western Society: Part One, From Greek Science in Antiquity through the Scientific Revolution of the Seventeenth Century

Subject Access: 
Science -- History
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1980
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1989
Date Range: 
[198-?]
Physical Description: 

2 cm of textual records

Notes: 

Student evaluation copy. Early draft.

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

History of Science (HIST 2245 EZ) (1 of 2)

Subject Access: 
Science -- History
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1994
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1994
Date Range: 
1994
Physical Description: 

2.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

History of Science (HIST 2245 EZ) (2 of 2)

Subject Access: 
Science -- History
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1994
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1994
Date Range: 
1994
Physical Description: 

2.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

I. W. B. Convocation Address given in the year of his retirement

GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1990
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1990
Date Range: 
1990
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Thirty-Five Years After: Personal Recollections of the Prince of Wales College Closure

Subject Access: 
Prince of Wales College (Charlottetown, P.E.I.)
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
2003
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
2005
Date Range: 
2003-2005
Physical Description: 

.2 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Prof. Ian R. Robertson's open letter to Prof. Alan MacEachern regarding his book: "Utopia U: The Founding of UPEI, 1968-1970"

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
2005
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
2008
Date Range: 
2005-2008
Physical Description: 

.5 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

The Ermatinger Family of Sault Ste. Marie

Geographic Access: 
Sault Ste. Marie (Ont.)
Publication: 
[Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.] : Sault Ste. Marie and 49th Field Regiment RCA Historical Society
Name Access: 
Ermatinger family
Subject Access: 
Fur trade -- Ontario -- Sault Ste. Marie Region -- History
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Gladys McNeice [edited by Ian W. Brown and Frances M. Heath]
Start Date: 
1984
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1984
Date Range: 
1984
Physical Description: 

1 cm of textual records|78, [56] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Notes: 

Ian Brown's copy.

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-002
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
002

50 Years of Labour in Algoma: Essays on Aspects of Algoma's Working-Class History

Geographic Access: 
Algoma (Ont. : District) -- Social conditions
Publication: 
Algoma University College, Shingwauk Hall
Subject Access: 
Labor and laboring classes -- Ontario -- Algoma (Ont. : District) -- History
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Project Director John Ferris
Start Date: 
1978
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1978
Date Range: 
1978
Physical Description: 

1.3 cm of textual records|178 p. : ill.

Notes: 

Prepared with the assistance of a Canada Works Grant under the sponsorship of Algoma University College. Dedicated to Ian W. Brown.

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-002
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
002

The Anglican Evangelicals in British Politics, 1780-1833

Subject Access: 
Lehigh University, Ph.D., 1965
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Ian W. Brown
Start Date: 
1965
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1965
Date Range: 
1965
Physical Description: 

3 cm of textual records|[viii], 376 p.

Notes: 

Lehigh University, Ph.D., 1965.

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-002
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
002

A century of excellence : Prince of Wales College, 1860-1969

Publication: 
Charlottetown, PE : Island Studies Press
Name Access: 
Bruce, Marian (Marian C.)
Subject Access: 
Prince of Wales College (Charlottetown, P.E.I.) -- History
GMD: 
textual record
Responsibility: 
Marian Bruce
Start Date: 
2005
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
2005
Date Range: 
2005
Physical Description: 

2.5 cm of textual records|xii, 279 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Notes: 

Hand-written dedication by Marian Bruce to Ian W. Brown for his assistance.

rec_shelfloc: 
2008-025-002
Repository: 
Algoma University
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
002

Principal Ian Brown's report to students of Algoma University College

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
1970 February
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
1970 February
Date Range: 
1970 February
Physical Description: 

0.2 cm of textual record

rec_shelfloc: 
2012-029-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

Farewell address in honour of Ian Brown by Jim Gibson

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
[1990 September]
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
[1990 September]
Date Range: 
[1990 September]
Physical Description: 

0.2 cm of textual record

rec_shelfloc: 
2012-029-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001

My thirty-nine years in academia by Ian Brown

GMD: 
textual record
Start Date: 
2012 March
Description Level: 
File
End Date: 
2012 March
Date Range: 
2012 March
Physical Description: 

0.5 cm of textual record

rec_shelfloc: 
2012-029-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Ian W. Brown fonds
Container Number: 
001