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[photocopied 1967 (originally created 1767-1874, 1950, 1967)] (Creation)
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- Ermatinger family
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4 cm of textual records
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The Ermatinger family is well-known in the history of pre-Confederation Canada; members of several generations of the Ermatinger family were involved with the fur trade, and others achieved notoriety as politicians, lawyers, and public servants.
The first Ermatinger known to have settled in North America was Lawrence Ermatinger (b. ca. 1736 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland), a merchant who settled in Montreal in the early 1760s. Ermatinger supplied goods to North American and British buyers, including fur traders and the British army. Lawrence Ermatinger married Jemima Oakes and had eight children.
Two of the Ermatinger sons were particularly prominent in North America. Frederick William Ermatinger (1769-1827) served as Sheriff of Montreal and was one of the Bank of Montreal's first directors. Charles Oakes Ermatinger (1776-1833) was a fur trader, initially working for the North West Company and then independently. Another Ermatinger son, Lawrence Edward Ermatinger, moved from Montreal to Italy, Spain, and England. Lawrence Edward Ermatinger is the father of Edward and Francis Ermatinger, brothers who came to North America as clerks for the Hudson's Bay Company.
Records from many members of the Ermatinger family survive in libraries and archives throughout Canada. The Ermatinger Old Stone House in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario (built 1814) and the Francis Ermatinger House in Oregon City, Oregon (built 1845) are today museums dedicated to providing insight into North American pioneer life.
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This series contains added material relating to the Ermatinger family's history and personal papers. Narratives, notes, and clippings regarding the Ermatinger family in Montreal and Sault Ste. Marie, as well as correspondence concerning the copying and donation of the family's papers, are included.
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- The Gladys H. McNeice fonds at Algoma University's Arthur A. Wishart Library (fonds number F2000) document her extensive research on the Ermatinger family, particularly on the family members in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
- A copy of Gladys McNeice's book, The Ermatinger Family of Sault Ste. Marie (call number CS90.E694 1984) is available in the Western Archives reading room.; Correspondence addressed to Dr. James H. Coyne, Elgin County Registrar and local historian, from the Public Archives of Canada and the Oregon Historical Society concerning the Ermatinger family papers, is available at Western Archives in box B4026.