File 25 - Scrapbook album.

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Scrapbook album.

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SCA396-GA461-4-25

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13 photographs : b&w, some sepia toned ; 17 x 24 cm or smaller

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(1873-1955)

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James Horace King was born on January 18, 1873, in Chipman (Queens Co., New Brunswick) to George Gerald and Esther King (nee Briggs). He attended McGill University and earned a medical degree in 1895. He practiced in New Brunswick until 1898, when he moved to the Kootenays (British Columbia). In 1907, he married Nellie Mae Sadler (1876-1949). And, in 1951, King married Flora May Johnson (1881-1967).
In 1903, James Horace King was elected as a member of the Liberal party in British Columbia and served in the Legislative Assembly for Cranbrook riding. In 1916 he won a provincial seat, becoming a representative of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. In 1922, King joined the federal government with Prime Minister Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King as the Minister of Public Works (1922-1926), later becoming acting Minister of Labour (1925-1926), Minister of Soldiers’ Civil Re-establishment (1926-1928), Minister of Health (1926-1928), and Minister of Pensions and National Health (1928-1930). In 1942, King became Minister without Portfolio (1942-1945) and Senator until his death on July 14, 1955.

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Scrapbook album with correspondence written and received by Hon. Dr. James Horace King, photographs, invitations to events, and newspaper clippings related to King. Includes a copy of The King cabinet of 1929 at a glance by Gustave Lacasse, M.D.
Includes loose photographs (one of the persons in a photograph could be Hance James Logan). One of the photographs contains an annotation that reads: “Canadian Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembly 1924.”

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Pages are separated and are very fragile.

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Donated by Lorne Shields in 2021.

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  • English

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Described by CGD in 2021.

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  • English

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