Fonds SC245 - Burton O. Kurth fonds

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Burton O. Kurth fonds

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CA UVICARCH SC245

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  • 1920 - 1977 (Creation)

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3 cm of textual records
2 photographs

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Biographical history

Burton O. Kurth was an English professor at the University of Victoria. His father, Burton Lowell Kurth (d. 1977), was an organist and choirmaster in Winnipeg, and the Supervisor of Music for Vancouver schools 1938-1955. Burton L. Kurth was also a collector of books and had an abiding interest in modernist English and American writing. Among his Winnipeg friends was the Canadian writer William Arthur Deacon.

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Scope and content

The fonds consists of biographical material on Burton L. Kurth, music programmes, ephemera, and a holograph MS book by William Arthur Deacon (1890-1977) titled My Shelves and Immortality with a dedicatory page to Burton Lowell Kurth dated 1920.

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burton-o-kurth-fonds

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Final

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Full

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Revised by JF, June 20, 2013.

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  • English

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