Correspondence (primarily personal), lecture notes, speech notes, and articles; binders and pamphlets containing information relevant to vital statistics. John Thornton Marshall, born on the 14th of May 1900 in Buckingham, England, immigrated to Canada with his parents in August 1913. Educated in England and Victoria, B.C., Marshall joined the British Columbia Provincial Police as a guard on the 14th of February 1916. He moved to the Provincial Board of Health in 1917 and rose from the position of junior clerk to Inspector of Vital Statistics (1929) and Director of Vital Statistics (1939). In September 1941, Marshall accepted the position of Chief of the Division of Vital Statistics of the Dominion Bureau of Statistics (DBS) . In 1946, he was appointed Chief Administrative Officer of the DBS; the following year, he was promoted to the post of Assistant Dominion Statistician. Prior to his retirement in 1963, Marshall was the Canadian representative on the Population Commission of the Economic and Social Council, United Nations, 1947-1950. In 1949, he was the Fourth Session Chairman of the Committee on Migration. In 1953, he was re-appointed as Canadian representative and in 1955 was Chairman of the Eighth Session. Additionally, Marshall was active in the World Health Organization, 1947-1948, and served as Co-secretary for the Export Committee for Sixth Revision of the International List of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death; in 1955, he was a member of a statistical panel, World Health Organization. An avid sportsman and philatelist, John T. Marshall was also an active member of the Masonic Lodge and served as Past Master of Victoria Columbia #1, British Columbia Registry. His publications include The History of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia, 1871-1970. The Marshall records consists of correspondence 1929-1963, which is primarily of a personal nature, lecture notes, speech notes and articles by Marshall as well as binders and pamphlets which contain material relevant to vital statistics. Three albums of photographs pertaining to the United Nations Population Commission, the World Health Organization, etc., can be found in Visual Records accession 197912-31. Photographs related to the publication The History of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia, 1871-1970 are in Visual Records accessions 198105-7 and 198201-54. John T. Marshall donated the records in 1972. Source: MS Finding Aids Presented by John Marshall, 1972. Finding aid: volume list