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Overview of the Stanley Thompson Society Collection

 

Stanley Thompson views new course design with club presidentThe Stanley Thompson Society Collection consists of Stanley Thompson's working drawings, papers, photographs, articles, correspondence, nursery orders, contracts and agreements, reports, handwritten notes, and a few oversize blueprints and drawings collected by the Society, which actively seeks outs information and materials related to his career. The Society's web site includes membership information and links to the history of golf in Canada.

Included in the collection are recollections of Stanley Thompson by various people, and feature articles about him in Liberty, Ontario Golf Magazine, Maclean's, Saturday Evening Post, and Toronto Star Weekly.

Original photographs, copied materials, pamphlets, and research notes used in the creation of the book The Toronto Terror by James Barclay (published in 2002) are also available for consultation.

 

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