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The Canadian preference for the French term fonds to define the records of one creator originated with Towards Archival Descriptive Standards, which purposefully chose it in order 'to avoid certain terminological confusion which has grown around the terms

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p. 56
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The Canadian preference for the French term fonds to define the records of one creator originated with Towards Archival Descriptive Standards, which purposefully chose it in order 'to avoid certain terminological confusion which has grown around the terms 'record group,' 'manuscript group,' 'collections,' and so on, in North American practices.

Citation Source: 
Hayworth 1993

A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology