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Title: John Douglas Hazen fonds

Dates: 1874-1936; predominant 1911-1917

Extent: 6.03 m of textual records; 121 watercolours; 57 photographs

Biographical Sketches:Elizabeth Beckwith was born into a prominent New Brunswick family in 1839 or 1840. A marriage was arranged for her in 1858 to James King Hazen. In 1860, she separated from Hazen and returned to the Beckwith family home in Fredericton (61 K) with her two children.

As an amateur artist, Elizabeth Beckwith Hazen worked in several media including watercolour, oil and crayon. By the 1870s she was winning recognition for her paintings and drawings at the Provincial Exhibition. She died in 1935, one of Fredericton's oldest and most distinguished citizens.

John Douglas Hazen was born June 5, 1860, the son of James King Hazen and Elizabeth Beckwith. Educated at the University of New Brunswick, he was called to the provincial bar in 1883. In 1884 he married Ada C. Tibbits of Fredericton. He practised law in Fredericton, 1883-1889, and in Saint John, 1889-1917. From 1888-1889 he was mayor of Fredericton.

Hazen was first elected in 1891 to the House of Commons as a Conservative representative for Saint John but was defeated in 1896 and turned to provincial politics. In 1899 he was elected for Sunbury County to the New Brunswick Legislature where he led his party in Opposition, 1899-1908. When the Conservative Party won the election of 1908, he formed a government in which he was Premier and Attorney General. He resigned in 1911.

In 1911 Hazen accepted the portfolio of Marine, Fisheries and Naval Affairs in Borden's Dominion cabinet and was elected by acclamation for Saint John. As the minister in charge of naval affairs, Hazen made a substantial contribution to the Canadian war effort. He was a member of the International Fisheries Commission, 1917-1918 and attended the Imperial War Conference of 1917. He resigned his portfolio in 1917 on his appointment as Chief Justice of New Brunswick, a position he held until his retirement in 1935. He died Dec. 27, 1937.

Scope and Content: This fonds consists largely of private correspondence of J. Douglas Hazen, mostly while he was Minister of Marine and Fisheries, 1911-1917. The fonds also contains photographs, scrapbooks, personal documentation and finding aids to the correspondence generated by the creator. More than one hundred wildflower watercolours painted by Elizabeth Beckwith Hazen are also found in this fonds. A small book collection was originally deposited with these papers but is now held separately as the J. Douglas Hazen Book Collection.

The correspondence files were removed from Ottawa in 1917 when Hazen resigned from his position in Marine and Fisheries. A fire in the mid 1950s destroyed many of the Hazen papers and left much of the remainder, which constitute this fonds, damaged.

Access: Open



Overview of holdings:

Boxes 1-20, 22, 25-26 -Correspondence
      21-  Imperial War Conference 1917 - Memoranda and minutes
      23 - Photographs and one personal scrapbook
      27 - Personal documentation for J. Douglas Hazen

    Inventory for file titles

Scrapbooks:

     1. Visit to Europe 1912. 2 vols.
     2. London 1917 [Imperial War Conference]
     3. UNB / Fredericton / Saint John, 1880-1896

Appointments Made [to Office], 1911-1917

Nominal Index to Correspondence; with reference to file location.

Correspondence Register. Private Secretary to Minister of Marine.
4 vols. (3 bound / 1 unbound)

Elizabeth Beckwith Hazen Watercolours 

    Item listing of watercolours


Correspondence. Private files from Office of the Minister of
Marine and Fisheries.


Box 1*File  5B   Saint John Agency

             5Bx  Dock Facilities for Overseas Shipping 1916-1917

             7    New Brunswick Elections, 1911

Box 2        9    Shipbuilding in Canada 1913-1916

             9    N-B Shipbuilding in N.B. 1917

Box 3        16   Recommendations to Senate

             20a  Thos. Bell Correspondence 1913-1914

Box 4        21a  Government Dredging at Bathurst, N.B.

             23   Fort La Tour Monument

                  Interview with President Wilson

             32    New Brunswick Railway matters - taking over branch lines, etc.

Box 5        39   Fredericton & Grand Lake Coal and Ry. Co. 
 
                  Saint John Valley Railway

             46   Misc.-St. John Street Ry.
      
                  Matthews Stamp Vending Machine

                  St. George Granite, etc. etc.
 
                  Saint John Govt. Employee (See also File 113)

Box 6      52   J.K. Flemming Correspondence re N.B. Premiership

           52   J.K. Flemming Correspondence

                Charges Against - 1914

           56B  Ocean Mail Contracts

Box 7      58   Personal finances - St. John

           60a  St. John Orders - Patronage

           77   Standard difficulties

           79   York Cty. Nomination and Campaign, 1915

           80   N.B. Local Govt.

Box 8      80B  N.B. Elections 1914-1916

           80E  N.B. Elections 1917

           84   Proposals for L'Etang as a National Port

           87   Misc. Addresses

           91   Negro Point Breakwater 1911-1917

Box 9      93X  Naval Bill 1912-1913

           95   St. Martins Rt., Sailsbury - Albert Ry., etc.

Box 10     102  Ballast Wharf - St. John (Durant)

           112  Carleton Cty. Recommendation

           112a F.B. Smith Corres. 1911-16

Box 11     112B Carleton - Victoria

           113  Saint John Patronage and other matters

Box 12     113  Saint John Patronage, etc.

           113B Postal Mail Clerk Charges
        
           113C Saint John Militia Dept.

                Property.

           113D J.K. Scammell Dismissal

Box 13     113  Saint John Patronage etc.

Box 14     114a London Correspondence on 1912 visit. Unnumbered 
                file

                London visits - 1911 and 1912 - Social, etc.

           116  G.B. Lockhart's Dredging

Box 15     119  Grain Conveyor Installations, Saint John

           134  Saint John Harbour - Swan's report on

           138  Victoria-Madawaska Patronage 1913-1915, 1914-                 1917 

Box 16     143  Courtenay Bay 1911-1913

           143C Courtenay Bay Sub-Contract

           146  Veteran Pension Scale

           148C Soldiers Voting

Box 17     146  Anonymous Letters

           159  W.H. Thorne Correspondence

           167  War Supplies - Hay
            
           167  War Supplies - Albert

                Shale - Oil

Box 18     148B & 167B  Militia Matters 1914-16

           148B-E Misc. Eng. Corres. 1917

                  Unnumbered File

                  Drunkenness in Can. Army 1917

Box 19     185    Military Service Bill 1917

                  Sir Jas. Dunn Correspondence 1914-1915

                  W.M. Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook)

                       Correspondence

                       Files 147, 148b, 58 and unnumbered.

                  Baxter Letters 1911

                       re sale of stock in Eng.           

                       Grimmer, re, Albert Steele

Box 20            Congratulations on Appt. to Borden Cabinet 1911

                  Correspondence in England June and July 1911

                  Beauharnois Agrts.

Box 21            Imperial War Conference London 1917
                  Memoranda and Minutes

Box 22            McLeod-Tellier Comm. File  

                  Submarine Investigation   

                  File re Orr Lewis and Canadian Vickers - re

                  ship construction.

                  N.B. Election results 1917

                  Letter from Orr Lewis describing the sinking of
         
                  the Lusitania

Box 23            Photographs [mostly Borden] and Drawings

                  Personal Scrap book

                  Notes on Lectures (apparently of Sir Douglas

                  Hazen while at U.N.B.)

                  F.B. Hazen Journal

Box 24            Receipts for Personal Purchases, Income Tax,

                  etc., little or no historic value - not sorted.

Box 25            Resignation from Cabinet

                  1917 - Appt. Chief Justice and re Can.                        
                    Ministry.

                    Washington.

                    Ministerial Business - after resignation, 1917

                  Personal Family Letters

Box 26            West Indian Affairs

                  Returned Soldiers Comn.

                  International Agrt. on Non-ferrous metals 

                  N.B. Immigration Promotion 1911

                  Dominion Govt. Printing

                  Appropriations

Box 27 Personal, including documentation.

     File 1       Hazen Family Tree

     File 2       Certificates, Awards, and Commissions, 1874-1935

     1874 Nov.3   Certificate of J.D.H. as member of secret      
                  society. (see Pomeroy's biography of Roberts   
                  pp.15) 

     1875         Letter to Willy McInnes.

     1877 May.1   Second class certificate from School of Military
                  instruction.

     1877 Je.21   Certificate of standing, 1876/77, Freshman class
                  + honour certificate.

     1878 Je.20   Certificate of standing, 1877/78, Junior class
                  + honour certificate.

     1879 Je.25   Certificate of standing 1878-79, Senior class
                  + honour certificate.

     1880 Sept.21 Appointment as Second Lieutenant in No. 5      
                  company, 71st "York" Battalion of Infantry.

     1884 Sept.22 Certificate of marriage - J. Douglas Hazen
                  and Ada C. Tibbits.

     1894 Je.8    Commission appointing John Douglas Hazen, one
                  of Her Majesty's Counsel Learned in Law.

     1918 Je.1    Notice of appointment as Knight Commander of
                  the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael
                  and Saint George.

     1918 Je.3    Appointment as Knight Commander....     
      
     1918 Dec.6   Enclosed Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual &
                  the Seal of the Order. (2)

                  Statues of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint
                  Michael and Saint George 1911-1918.

     1921 Oct.31  Commission appointing Sir John Douglas Hazen a
                  commissioner to inquire into and report re     
                  claims for damages for destruction of life and
                  property and for breeches of contracts through
                  illegal warfare of the enemy.
     
     1930 Sept.11 Commission appointing ... administrator of the
                  Province of N.B.

     1931 Nov.2   same as above.

     1935 Jan.23  Letters Patent granting an annuity to Hon. Sir
                  John Douglas Hazen, KCMG.  
        
     File 3    Material on Lt. James Murray Hazen, son of Mr.
               and  Mrs. J.D. Hazen who died during World War I, 
               April 19, 1916. (6 items)


     File 4    Correspondence to Lady Hazen

      1891          J.D.H. to his wife re Sir John's death. (4 pp.)
     [1911]         James Dunn to Mrs. Hazen. (1 p.)       
      1916          Wilfred Laurier to Mrs. Hazen. (3 p.)
      1921          Geo. R. Parker to Mrs. Hazen. (8 p.)
      1923          Bliss Carman to Lady Hazen. (7 p.)
      1935          Grace T. L. to Sir Douglas Hazen. (3 p.)
      1937          Arthur Meighen to Lady Hazen. (3 p.)
      1938          Mackenzie King to Lady Hazen. (2 p.)
      1938          R.B. Bennett to Lady Hazen. (2 p.)

      File 5    Notebooks

               Books 1 - 4         Election results  
               Book 5              Pocket diary, 1917-1920.

      File 6   Speeches - drafts

      File 7   Additional correspondence, n.d., 1884-1936.
                     (15 items)

      File 8   Obituary of Sir J.D. Hazen. Daily Gleaner, 
                     December 27, 1937. 

      File 9   Misc. Newspapers (poor condition).          
                                                    
      
Box 28       Unsorted letters and papers.

Scrapbooks:
     1. Visit to Europe 1912 2 vols.
     2. London 1917. [Imperial War Conference]
     3. UNB / Fredericton / Saint John, 1880-1896

Appointments made [to Office], 1911-1917

Nominal Index to Correspondence. File location indicated..

Correspondence Register. Private Secretary to Minister of
Marine.  4 vols. (3 bound / 1 unbound)



Elizabeth Beckwith Hazen. Watercolours of Wildflowers No. Title Height Width 1. Tilia The Linden or Lime 12 2/8 16 Tree May 1873 2. Iris Vericolor Blue Flag 16 11 1/8 June 1873 3. Linnaea Borealis Twin Flower 11 16 June 1873 4. Sarracenia Purpurea Indian 18 1/2 13 1/2 Cup August 1873 5. Asclipias Syriaca Milk Weed 16 1/4 14 October 1873 6. Vitus Raparia Wild Grape Vine 12 3/8 15 3/8 Frost Grape River Grape October 1873 7. Oxalidacea(oxalis acetosella) 10 7 Wood Sorrel (with grasses) July 1873 8. Rhodora Canadense Canadian 14 7/8 10 6/8 Rhodora May 1873 9. Grossulariaceae Ribes Americanum 16 10 Wild Currants Flower - June 1873 Fruit - September 1873 10. Malius Common Apple June 1873 12 3/4 10 1/4 11. Acer Tasqcarpunn White Maple 16 1/2 12 1/4 September 1873 12. Lilium Canadense Tiger Lily 16 1/4 13 1/4 (actually the Canadian Lily) July 1873 13. Fargus Beech September 13 1/4 12 14. Quercus Oak September 14 1/8 13 1/8 15. No Title - appears to be 14 10 Pussy Willows 16. Acer Saccharinum - titled Rock 15 3/4 11 1/4 or Sugar Maple (apparently Silver Maple) September 1873 17. Kalmia Glauca Pale Laurel 10 7 (Bog Laurel) June 1873 18. Ornithogalum Star of Bethlehem 10 17 actually Trientalis Borealis - Star Flower May 1873 19. Officinate Scop - Hedge Mustard 16 1/8 11 June 1873 20. Cypripedium AcauleLadies Slipper 15 7/8 11 2/8 June 1873 21. C.Lanceolatum Common Thistle 15 7/8 10 1/2 August 1873 22. Arisaema Triphyllum Jack in the 14 1/2 10 1/2 Pulpit June 1873 23. Vaccinium Blueberry from nature 16 11 1/8 May 1873 24. Polygonatum Solomons Seal 14 7/8 9 1/4 June 1873 25. Apocynum Androsaemifolium Indian 14 3/4 11 Hemp Dogbone August 1873 26. Cratages Hawthorn Blossom 16 1/8 11 1/8 June 1873 27. Amelanchier Laevis Star Flower 14 1/2 10 5/8 (Shadbush or service berry) May 28, 1873 28. Tierella Cordifolia False 13 2/8 10 1/2 Mitrewort May 29. Cassandra Caliculata 15 1/8 10 7/8 (chamaedaphne Calyculata) leather leaf May 1873 30. Pyrola Rotundiflora Round Leaved 15 7/8 10 7/8 Pyrola July 1873 31. in error, Arbutifolia (mistake 16 1/4 11 1/8 for Aronia Arbutifolia Black Chokeberry ?) actually Prunus Virginiana - Choke Cherry June 1873 32. Lilicoceae Lily Wort June 1873 15 7/8 11 1/4 33. Viburnum Trilobum High bush 15 1/4 10 3/4 Cranberry (fruit) and V. Lantanoides Hobble Bush (flower) flower - June 1873 fruit 1873 August 34. Variablis Sagittaria 16 1/8 11 6/8 Arrow Head August 1873 35. Erythronium Americanum Adders 15 11 Tongue May 1873(24 K) 36. Ranunculus Acris Crowfoot 16 1/4 11 1/8 Buttercup and Erigeron Philadeliphicus Wild Daisy (actually Fleabane) July 1873 37. No title (Platanthera Blepharoglottis - White Fringed 16 1/4 11 1/4 Orchis and Scutellaria Galericulata - Skullcap 38. Convallaria Wild Lily of the 10 6/8 10 Valley (actually Smilacina Trifolia Three Leaved Solomons Seal June 1873 39. ? 40. Residacea Wild Mignonette - 9 7/8 6 7/8 actually Maianthemum Canadense Wild Lily of the Valley June 1873 41. Viola Septentrionalis Wild 10 6 7/8 Violets June 1873(52 K) 42. Trifolium Repens (white) T. 10 7 Pratense (red) Whiteand Pink Clover July 1873 43. Untitled (Goldenrods) 12 3/4 7 3/4 44. Fragaria Vesca Strawberry flower 14 1/4 9 1/2 - June 1873(24 K) 45. Rosa Lucida Wild Rose (probably 14 3/8 9 1/2 Rosa Virginiana) July 24, 1873(27 K) 46. Epigaea Repens May Flowers from 10 2/8 14 7/8 nature 47. Water Lily from nature 13 1/2 10 1/4 August 1873 48. Vicia The Vetch (probably Vicia 11 1/4 15 2/8 Cracca) July 1873 49. Campanula Rotundifolia Hare Bell 16 10 3/8 July 1873 50. Trillium Erectum Purple Trillium 15 3/8 12 1/2 May 1873 51. Trillium Erythrocarpum Painted 15 1/4 12 7/8 Trillium June 1873 52. Calystegia Sepium Hedge Bindweed 14 3/4 20 1/8 or Convolvulus July 1873 Nos. 53 - 121 are bound into a book. 53. Oak Leaf October 1867 8 7/8 11 1/2 54. Epigaea Gepeus New Brunswick 15 3/8 12 1/2 May Flower from Nature May 1867 55. Linnea Borealis Twin Flower from 10 12 1/4 Nature June 1867 56. Wild Cherry from Nature 14 9 June 8, 1868 57. Rhodora Canadensis Canadian 11 3/4 9 Rhodora Aqatia from Nature June 1867 58. Detetria from Nature Dielytra 11 9 spectabilis Bleeding Heart May 1867 59. Golden Crab Apple Blossom from 12 1/4 10 1/2 Nature June 1868 60. Acer Spicatum-Mountain Maple 12 3/4 10 Maple from Nature July 1867 61. Epigaea Repus May Flower from 9 3/4 12 3/8 Nature 1867 62. Trillium Erythrocarpum Painted 11 3/4 9 1/8 Trillium Trilliaceae from Nature 1867 63. Untitled from Nature (yellow) 10 7 July 1868 64. Anemone Nemorosa "Wind Flower - 10 7 Wood Anemone" 65. Trillium Erectum Purple Trillium 13 10 1/4 from Nature May 1870 66. Hepatica Triboba Liverwort from 7 9 Nature 1867 67. Star Flower From Nature 6 7/8 9 June 1863 68. Rosa Lucida Wild Rose Sweet Briar 11 1/4 9 5/8 from Nature July 1st, 1868 69. Wild Violet from Nature June 1868 10 7 69a. Pidgeon Berry 70. Calla Palustris Swamp Calla 15 1/8 12 June 20, 1870 71. Wild Currants from Nature 12 1/4 8 5/8 June 1868 72. Fragaria Vesca Strawberries from 11 7/8 9 1/2 Nature July 1868 73. (Syrinia) from Nature July 1868 12 9 3/4 74. Primrose from Nature gathered on 11 3/8 7 1/2 a rock at the Tobique, Grand Falls, Primula Misstasinica June 1, 1868 75. Calystegia Sepium (hedge Bindweed) 12 15 5/8 or Bindweed from Nature July 1867 76. Lilium Canadiase Tiger Lily from 13 1/2 11 3/8 Nature August 1868 77. no title from Nature (yellow) 12 7 5/8 July 1868 78. Lily of the Valley from Nature 15 1/8 12 June 16, 1868 78a. Agrostemma Mullin Pink from 14 10 5/8 Nature August 1867 79. Calopogon (. Ntchillus Purple 10 1/4 7 5/8 Orchid from Nature July 1867 80. Lysmachia Citiate Loosestrife 10 1/4 7 3/4 81. Campanula Rottundifolia Harebell 13 10 from Nature July 1867 82. Epilobium Angustifolium Fire-weed 14 1/4 11 from Nature July 1867 83. Kalmia Angustifolia Lambkill 15 1/8 10 1/4 from Nature July 1867 84. Uvularia Sessilifolia Bellwort 9 7 1/8 Equisetum Sylvaticum Horsetail 85. Spiraea Salicifolia (Latifolia) 12 1/4 10 Queen of the Meadow from Nature July 1867 86. Potentilla Anserina Silverweed 12 1/4 9 3/4 Cinque-foil from Nature July 1867 87. The Lime from Nature July 1868 12 1/2 10 88. Sagittaria Variabilis or 15 3/4 11 1/2 Arrowhead from Nature July 1867 89. Asclepias Cornuti Purple milkweed 14 11 1/4 from Nature 90. Nuphar Advena Yellow Pond Lily 12 1/2 10 1/4 from Nature August 1867 91. Prunella Vulgaris Self-Heal or 11 1/4 8 3/8 Heal-all from Nature July 1867 92. Pontederia Cordata Pickerel Weed 15 12 1/8 from Nature August 1870 93. Cotton Plant from Nature Verbascum 16 11 5/8 Thapsus the Common Mullein August 1867 94. White Water Lily from Nature 15 1/2 13 August 19, 1870 95. Prickly Thistle from Nature 12 1/4 9 5/8 August 1867 C. Acanthoides 96. Pyrola Rotundiflora Round-leaved Pyrola July 1867 97. (T. )Cordifolia False Miterwort 10 3/4 7 5/8 from Nature 98. from Nature July 1869 10 7 99. (Aster) from Nature August 1867 12 1/4 10 100. Chelone Glabra Turtlehead 13 5/8 9 3/8 September 1867 101. Clematis Virginiana Virgin's - 13 5/8 11 1/8 bower from Nature August 1867 102. Spiraea Tormentosa Hardback / 13 1/8 9 3/4 Steeple - Bush August 1867 103. Lysimachia Stricta Loosestrife 12 7/8 8 5/8 from Nature August 1867 104. Pale Laurel from Nature 9 7/8 7 1/8 June 1868 105. Borago Officinalis Common Borage 13 1/2 10 from Nature August 1867 106. Sedum Telephium Cudweed 14 3/4 10 3/4 Everlasting from Nature August 1867 107. Rubus Odoratus (purple-) 10 13 1/2 Flowering Raspberry August 1867 108. Persicaire Madder Mumbia Linetorum 16 12 3/8 from Nature September 1869 109. Sarracenia Purpurea Indian Cup 14 1/2 12 from Nature September 1867 110. Cornus Stolonfera (Red Osier 16 1/4 12 1/4 Dogwood) September 1867 111. Scutellaria Galericulala Scull 8 1/2 12 1/2 Cap from Nature September 1867 112. Gaultheria Procumbens Wintergreen 8 1/2 12 1/2 August 16, 1870 113. Gaultheria Procumbens from Nature 12 1/4 8 5/8 Wintergreen June 3, 1867 114. Aceraceae White Maple from Nature 16 12 1/4 September 1867 115. Betula Alba Birch from Nature 15 3/4 12 1/4 September 1867 116. Viburnum Mooseberry from Nature 17 12 1/4 September 23, 1869 117. Wild Moose Tree from Nature 11 10 June 1868 118. Cedar from Nature September 14 1/2 11 3/4 1867 119. from Nature July 1868 10 5/8 11 3/4 120. Apocynum Androsaemifolium 12 1/2 10 Indian Hemp Dogbane from Nature 121. Cassandra Caliculata from Nature 10 1/4 9 Cassandra or Leather Leaf June 1868 (Book Ends) State Normal Art School, Boston for Diploma A Elementary Drawing

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