receipt
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact17841
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- HV978.17.10
- Description
- Canadian Patriotic Fund - Receipt -- [1916]. Receipt for Thos S McNair from the Canadian Patriotic Fund, Vancouver Branch. Mr. McNair had contributed $5.00 to the organization on January 27, 1916.
- Object History
- The Canadian Patriotic Fund was an organization that operated during the First World War that fund-raised to provide grants to wives and dependents of soldiers. The organization provided pensions to widows and fallen soldier dependents until pensions were assumed by the Federal Government in 1916. Receipt belonging to Thomas Seaborn McNair, who was born on May 15 1888 to Francis McNair and Elizabeth Taylor. He worked as an accountant and estate agent. He married Mary Vida McMillan in 1917. Thomas ran Edwards, McNair and Russell in Vancouver (presumably an accounting firm). Thomas McNair died in 1982.