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Robert A. Logan fonds File
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Various forewords written by Robert A. Logan

Folder contains forewords for "Greenland"; "a glassless reading glass"; "treasure hunter's luck"; "woodless railroad"; "monkey tricks" "Rhodesian curves"; "Indian language syllabics not Cree" and "southern sirens".

Various articles about Flora MacDonald and her husband Allen MacDonald in North America / by Robert A. Logan : [typed draft manuscripts, correspondence, biographical and genealogical information and outline]

Articles included in the folder: Flora MacDonald's role in Nova Scotia's history; Flora and Allen MacDonald in America; Flora MacDonald: 1722-1790; Flora MacDonald's husband in North America; dates in the life of Flora MacDonald; highlanders from Skye, in North Carolina and in Nova Scotia: 1771, 1818.

The Lokhan System of speech-sound symbols for use in printing / by Robert A. Logan

File contains draft versions of the pamphlet by Robert Logan entitled The Lokhan System of speech-sound symbols for use in printing. The Lokhan system was created by Robert Logan and is similar to the Pitman style of shorthand. He named it the Lokhan as this would how the original Gaelic sounds of his clan surname could be best represented.

The Lindbergh expedition to Greenland and Iceland on board the S.S. Jelling : [notebook]

This notebook contains details of Robert Logan experience with the Lindbergh expedition to Greenland. According to the Pan Am Historical Foundation, this expedition, under the command of Canadian explorer/aviator Robert Logan (who had worked for Pan Am in South America) would shadow Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh while they flew their plane, the Sirius, providing fuel and support. The S.S. Jelling would also conduct a parallel research project by sea, observing weather conditions, making maps of possible airport sites, taking scientific measurements of ocean depths and currents, and mapping harbors too.

The Lindbergh expedition to Greenland and Iceland on board the S.S. Jelling

According to the Pan Am Historical Foundation, this expedition, under the command of Canadian explorer/aviator Robert Logan (who had worked for Pan Am in South America) would shadow Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow Lindbergh while they flew their plane, the Sirius, providing fuel and support. The S.S. Jelling would also conduct a parallel research project by sea, observing weather conditions, making maps of possible airport sites, taking scientific measurements of ocean depths and currents, and mapping harbors too.

The Cree Review

File includes a Cree calendar from 1952 and a government poster in Inuktitut.

South Seas voyage with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd : [notebooks]

This notebook contains details of Robert Logan experience with the American military when he was included in the special mission to the South Pacific in 1943 with Rear Admiral Richard Byrd. Their mission was to research potential airfield and fueling sites for the US military; they visited the Pitcairn Islands; the Marquesas Islands and the Easter Islands.

Short negatives Cree : made by others

Microfilm contains excerpts of books on the Cree language, including A grammar of the Cree language: With which is combined an analysis of the Chippeway [sic] dialect by Joseph Howse
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