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An Inventory of her papers at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
Inventory prepared by Lewis St. George Stubbs
University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
331 Dafoe LibraryWinnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2
(April 2005)
Finding aid encoded by Lewis St. George Stubbs (April 2005)
Finding aid converted by Justin Fuhr (July 2016)
Finding aid written in English.
Table of Contents
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Detailed Description of the Collection
Suzanne Muir was born in Glascow, Scotland on June 26, 1891. She was the eldest daughter and the second of five children of Matthew McLeod Muir and Sarah Muir (nee Frayer). Susanne and her widowed mother emigrated to Canada in 1921 or 1922. A sister Emma Kathryn emigrated at a later date. Sarah Muir died in Winnipeg in January 1930. She and her sister sold the family home on Lindsay St. in 1932 and moved into Fairmont Apartments at 52 Edmonton. The sister both worked as legal secretaries. She and Kathryn had become active in the Spiritualist Church following the death of their mother. In 1937 they met the Reverend William Robertson Wood a United Church minister. For ten years Rev. Wood and his wife sat weekly at the Muir sisters apartment in a rescue circle. The purpose of a rescue circle was to release earth bound spirits to leave the mortal realm. Suzanne was a bi-monthly lecturer at the Winnipeg Spiritualist Church/ Winnipeg Psychic Society from 1962-1990. In 1997 Ms. Muir died at the age of 105.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The fonds is divided into three series. A single article about Muir, her sister and Reverand Wood comprises the biographical series. The second series contains lectures that Muir gave at the Spiritualist Church that congregated at the International Odd Fellows Hall. The third series is comprised of newspaper clippings and published articles that Muir used for research purposes.
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The fonds was donated by Susanne's nephew Matthew Muir of Glascow Scotland in 1997. The material had been stored at the farm of his sister-in-law Kathleen Forrester in Emerson, Manitoba. The initial donation consisted of 240 books that have been destributed throughout the library. Any duplicates were given to the Survival Research Institute.
Detailed Description of the Collection
| Box | Folder | |
| 1 | 1 | Helen Burgess lecture on Muir & the Reverand William Wood ca. 1981 |
| Box | Folder | |
| 1 | 2 | Lectures on Thanksgiving & Remembrance Day 1962-1987 |
| 3 | Easter lectures 1965-1986 | |
| 4 | Lectures 1966-1969 | |
| 5 | Lectures 1970-1974 | |
| 6 | Lectures 1975-1979 | |
| 7 | Lectures 1980-1989 |
| Box | Folder | |
| 1 | 8 | Research material used in lectures 1953-1980 |
| 9 | "Psychic Research The Winnipeg Group, Western Home Monthly 1931 | |
| 10 | W.R. Wood correspondence Re: Review of T.G. Hamilton's Intention & Survival 1943 | |
| 11 | "Out of Old Books" Helen Sawyer Hogg ca.1952 | |
| 12 | House of Commons Debate on the Practising of Witchcraft 1954 | |
| 13 | Urantian Research 1972-1975 | |
| 14 | Essex Healers' Association 1981 |
| Box | Folder | |
| 2 | 1 | Lectures on healing 1967-1968 |
| 2 | Auric colours ca. 1970 | |
| 3 | Lecture on the after life 1971-1976 | |
| 4 | Lectures on mediumship 1971 | |
| 5 | Poetry invocations 1971-1984 |
| Box | Folder | |
| 2 | 6 | "The Story of William E. Hart" in Communication 1920 |
| 7 | Articles on Demon Powers from Hibbert Journal ca.1930 | |
| 8 | Spiritual healing information ca.1950 | |
| 9 | Muir's research material for lectures 1970-1980 | |
| 10 | Two articles by Rev. Wood in the New Outlook 1933 | |
| 11 | Lectures by the Reverand W.R. Wood [1930s] | |
| 12 | Pamphlet: "The Mary M. Teleplasm" T.G. Hamilton 1929 | |
| 13 | "Research Shows many Functions for Teleplasm" T.G. Hamilton in Winnipeg Free Press, 1933 | |
| 14 | Pamphlet: "Phrenology" ca.1930 | |
| 15 | The International Psychic Gazette 1931-1932 | |
| 16 | The Two Worlds 1932-1959 | |
| 17 | Light: A Journal of Spiritualism, Psychical, Occult and Mystical Research 1934-1943 | |
| 18 | The Greater World 1938 | |
| 19 | New York Spiritual Leader 1941-1942 | |
| 20 | The Psychic Observer 1943-1952 | |
| 21 | The Psychic Observer 1964 | |
| 22 | Newspaper & magazine articles of interest 1937-1972 | |
| 23 | Program: 46th Annual Session Lady Brady Spiritualist Camp Association Brady Lake, Ohio, 1937 | |
| 24 | Institute of Noetic Sciences Research Bulletin ca. 1979 | |
| 25 | The Alliance Review 1986 | |
| 26 | Allan Kardec newsletter 1987 | |
| 27 | Breden Lodge Spiritualism first home for elderly workers Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, 1990 |