Margaret Creswick Newman collection
MG L27b
This finding aid was funded by a grant under theCanadian Council of Archives Control of Holdings Program
Archives & Special CollectionsHarriet Irving LibraryUniversity of New BrunswickP.O. Box 7500Fredericton, NB E3B 5H5
March 1999
Margaret Creswick Newman collection [textual record]. -- 1931-[19-?]. -- 0.5 cm of textual records
Biographical sketch: Margaret Elizabeth Creswick was born in 1906 in Brighton, Ontario. Her parents were Rev. Walter and Mary Elizabeth Porter Creswick. She had four brothers and two sisters. She was known in the family as "Peggy," although in later life she insisted on being called Margaret. In 1941 Margaret Creswick married Archibald Hamilton Newman, who at the time of the marriage had two sons from a previous marriage, Ronald Edward Newman and John Hamilton Newman. Margaret and Archibald Newman resided in Ottawa for many years, and were both active in politics. Archibald Newman died in 1985 and Margaret Newman died on November 30, 1998, in Nepean, Ontario.
Scope and content: This collection contains two items -- 1 typescript and 1 holograph poem by Charles G. D. Roberts.
Title based on the name of the collector
Date of deposit is unknown
File:
1. Poems, 1931,
A mystic / by Charles G. D. Roberts, 7 November 1931. - typescript
and autographed with an inscription to Margaret Creswick
Spirit of beauty / by Charles G. D. Roberts, [19-?]. - holograph and autographed
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