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1895-1908 (Creation)
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- Cober, William
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6 linear cm of textual records
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William Cober was born May 16, 1869. His family was Mennonite and his father ran the sawmill in Moorefield. William worked as a farm labourer in 1896, threshing in the Southern Ontario region. He moved to Stratford and began to work for the Grand Trunk Railway (GTR). He was a fireman who appears to have passed examinations necessary to become a locomotive engineer. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen. On March 1, 1905, he married Mary Forrest and the couple had a daughter, Hazel, born June 25, 1907. They lived in Stratford before moving back to Moorefield, possibly circa 1910. William Cober died November 28, 1951.
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The archives were donated by Cober’s family to the Canada Science and Technology Museum in 2008.
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The fonds includes record books, an examination booklet, blank overtime forms and blank forms for “Engineer’s Report of Detention to Trains.” Record books show threshing work Cober performed and his payment circa 1896 and his trips as a fireman or engineer in the GTR southern region. The completed examination booklet is the ‘Examination A Paper. Grand Trunk Railway system. Examination of conductors, engineers and train despatchers in the rules.”
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Preliminary inventory available upon request.
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Related material: Most printed material was transferred to the CSTM Library Trade Literature Collection. This material includes, for example, GTR system schedules for engineers and firemen and the Catechism of the Standard Code of Train Rules 1910. Questions for Conductors, Engineers, and Train Dispatchers.
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Created by A. Torrance, 2019-07. French editing by Céline Mongeau, Larocque Linguistic Services, 2021-02.