Item 2024.2.2 - David Laing Dawson headshot

Identity area

Reference code

CA BWGPL LHC-Libr-LibraryLife-1990s-2024.2.2

Title

David Laing Dawson headshot

Date(s)

  • 1992 (Accumulation)

Level of description

Item

Extent and medium

One black and white photograph.

Context area

Name of creator

Biographical history

Name of creator

Name of creator

Biographical history

Archival history

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Transferred to the Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library Archives from the Library's records in February 2024.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Black and white photograph of author and professor David Laing Dawson. Includes a printed biography stamped with "Bradford Public Library" pasted onto the back. Likely included as part of an annual "Mystery Night" event at the Library held in 1992, which the subject participated in.

The back reads: "DAVID LAING DAWSON | David Laing Dawson was born in 1941 in Victoria, British Columbia. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Victoria, he hitch-hiked through Europe before entering the University of British Columbia Medical School. Mr. Dawson performed part of his residency in Canada and part in Cambridge, England. | He spent five years travelling through Northern Ontario as a consultant to mental health services, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. | He is the author of Last Rites (Macmillan, 1990) and, most recently, Double Blind (Macmillan, 1992). In addition to his fiction, he has written many academic articles on topics as schizophrenia, and is the owner of NIDUS, a microcomputer company. | Mr. Dawson lives with his wife and two children in a century-old farmhouse outside Hamilton, Ontario."

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

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Conditions governing access

Conditions governing reproduction

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

    Language and script notes

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    Finding aids

    Allied materials area

    Existence and location of originals

    Photos Box #1, AR 6.2

    Existence and location of copies

    Related units of description

    Other items from annual Mystery Nights included in the same transfer (2024.2.1 - 2024.2.11).

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    Name access points

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    Description identifier

    Institution identifier

    Bradford West Gwillimbury Public Library

    Rules and/or conventions used

    RAD, ISAD

    Status

    Final

    Level of detail

    Partial

    Dates of creation revision deletion

    April 5, 2024.

    Language(s)

    • English

    Script(s)

      Sources

      Bradford West Gwillimbury Times, August 26 1992, Page 17

      Accession area