Fonds F436 - Daniel Fowler fonds

The Fowler material held at the Archives has predominantly come via transfer from the Agnes Etherington Art Centre over a 30 year period. The photocopy of Fowler's autobiography came to the archives in 1972, though the original was not transferred (or returned) from the Art Centre until 2010. In 1979, with assistance of the Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund, the Art Centre purchased the family legal papers, which were not transferred to the Archives until 2010. In 1992 the Art Centre acquired the collection of manuscripts along with a number of family portraits. The material was offered to the Art Centre by the owner of the Fowler homestead on Amherst Island as it was felt that the material should not be sold with the house. The portraits have remained with the Art Centre while the manuscripts were transferred to the Archives in 2010. In 1997, prior to renovations at the Art Centre, additional Fowler material was transferred, these are now the oversized items housed in F3 C9, this material appears to have never been accessioned. The accession in 2004 came from an antiquarian dealer who had come across three letters from the family and offered them to the Archives which acquired them. In 2009 the Art Gallery of Ontario donated to the Agnes Etherington Art Centre two certificates of award that were received by Fowler at the Philadelphia Exhibition in 1876, these were transferred to the Archives in 2010 with the other material donated at that time.