Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
General material designation
- Textual record
- Graphic material
Parallel title
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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)
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1762-1781 (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
1 file of textual records
5 photographs : col. ; 45 x 32 cm
Publisher's series area
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Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Pierre Perret is semi-retired and operates a small memorabilia shop in Orbec, a city in Normandy, France.
Custodial history
Colonel Georges Rousseau received the original documents from Pierre Perret, a resident of Orbec, Normandy, France. Mr. Perret bought these documents on Ebay.
Scope and content
Collection consists of reproductions of late eighteenth-century documents that belonged to the heirs of Madame DesBoisrenard and related to the lands near the village of Vimy, France and the present-day Canadian National Vimy Memorial. Documents include a surveyor's map of the lands with a report, and legal documents listing the various pieces of land with their limits, names of tenants and rents in money and goods collected from the properties.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Collection received in 2006 from Colonel Georges Rousseau, the Defence Attaché to France.
Arrangement
Language of material
- English
- French
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
Unclassified
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
None
Finding aids
None
Associated materials
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
General note
The compact disk consisting of electronic images of the original documents has been withdrawn from circulation. Researchers must use the textual copies.
General note
The photographs are stored in the Oversize Documents section. Smaller reproductions are kept with the fonds.
General note
The documents were scanned in 2008.
General note
This is a bilingual fonds.