Whitehern Museum Archives - Search Results

Search - a searchable database of letters/essays/etc.

Genealogy - short biographical information of each family member

Photographs - various images pertaining to the McQuesten family

Thesis - essays on the McQuestens and lifewriting by Mary Anderson

Timelines - a chronological list of events in the McQuesten family and corresponding historical events

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Abbreviations

CMQPW	Calendar of McQuesten Papers at Whitehern: January 1973
BDKC	Biographical Dictionary of Knox College: 1845-1945
CBD	Chambers Biographical Dictionary
CE	The Canadian Encyclopedia
CBE	Chambers Biographical Encyclopedia
DHB	Dictionary of Hamilton Biography, 4 volumes
ECLT	Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theory
EHB	Encyclopedia of Human Behavior
FMC	Foreign Missions Committee
HPL	Hamilton Public Library, Special Collections
MCML	McMaster Library, Mills Reference and Special Collections
MCP	McQuesten Papers (on microfilm)
MDCB	Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography
MLA	Modern Language Association
OCCL	Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
OCEL	Oxford Companion to English Literature
OED	Oxford English Dictionary
PMLA	Publication of the Modern Language Association
POH	Presbytery of Hamilton: 1836-1967
VDCH	Vernon's Directory of the City of Hamilton
WFMS	Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
WHMS	Women's Home Missionary Society¹
WMS	Women's Missionary Society
WNCD	Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary

¹Note difference in spelling of woman's for WFMS and women's for the later organization WHMS.

Copyright 2002 Whitehern Historic House and Garden
The development of this website was directed by Mary Anderson, Ph.D. and Janelle Baldwin, M.A.
Please direct questions and comments to Mary Anderson, Ph.D.

This site was created in partnership with and is hosted by the Hamilton Public Library.

This digital collection was produced with financial assistance from Canada's Digital Collections initiative, Industry Canada.