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1859-1973 (Creation)
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- Roe, Frank Gilbert
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6 m of textual records and other material
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Frank Gilbert Roe was born in Sheffield, England. He and his family emigrated to Canada in 1894, settling in Alberta. Roe continued to live and work on his parents' homestead until the age of 30, when he joined the Canadian National Railway as a locomotive engineer. Roe later researched the North American buffalo, publishing the influential book "The North American Buffalo: A Critical Study of the Species in Its Wild State" (1951). That was followed by "The Indian and the Horse" (1955). Roe also wrote many articles on scientific and antiquarian subjects; he was awarded an LL.D. by the University of Alberta in 1951 and elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1960. Roe retired from the CNR in 1944 and moved to Victoria. His autobiography "Getting the Know-How" was published in 1982.
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The fonds consists of records documenting Roe's life and work, including CPR time books and railroad operating booklets; drafts of chapters of "The North American Buffalo" and "The Canadian Buffalo Today", articles, newsclippings; unpublished transcripts and holographs of articles, drafts of essays, novels and short fiction, and transcripts of poetry by Roe; photographs of prairie scenes and locations in England and Wales; incoming and outgoing correspondence; reference files; personal documents of Roe and his wife, including birth certificate, marriage certificate and financial records; publishing contracts and agreements; ephemera; two copies of "The North American Buffalo", with annotations, and articles written by Roe on the buffalo, agriculture, Shakespeare and Marlowe, and variant drafts of "Getting the Know-How"; collected material including journals, brochures, and pamphlets; maps, some drawn by Roe, of Western Canada and the Northern United States, showing actual and proposed railway lines, the buffalo range, Indian trails and the extermination of the American bison; microfilm of the original manuscript of "The North American Buffalo"; and audio tape of interview with Roe by Naomi Radford.
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BCAUL control number: UVICARCH-103