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C.F. Moore fonds

  • PR-2321
  • Fonds
  • 1860-1907

Fonds consists primarily of photographs and a small selection of textual material documenting the professional and personal life of Charles Frederick Moore. The photographs predominantly concern Moore’s activities as an English colonial officer in late nineteenth century China. As a paymaster for General Charles Gordon’s forces in China, Moore witnessed and documented important events in the Nanking Rebellion. This is the most closely documented period of Moore’s life and the predominant amount of photographic records in the fonds concern this period. Following the rebellion, he remained a colonial official in Peking, starting a young family.

He decided to move his family to Victoria, British Columbia in 1885, and most of the textual records in the fonds date to this time period. The textual records comprise of certificates, biographical notes on Judge Mathew Baillie Begbie, for whom Moore served as secretary, and lecture notes for Moore's lecture on China in the time of General Gordon.

Moore, Charles Frederick