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Fonds consists of graphic and textual material produced by Joint Task Force Afghanistan and collected by DHH 5 Museums as part of the repatriation materials from the operation theatre in Kandahar. Also includes nomination forms entitled “Combat Action Insignia Proforma” for those Canadian Forces personnel who were involved in intense fighting in Afghanistan. There are two series:
I. Combat Action Insignia Proforma Nomination Forms
II. Joint Task Force Afghanistan and International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan)

Fonds consists of 2nd Canadian Corps intelligence summaries from the Second World War dated 1944-1945. Includes descriptions of enemy dispositions, weapons and Allied operational progress. A number of sketch drawings of German tanks, grenades and other weaponry are present. Also includes many tracer maps which detail various Allied and enemy positions in Northwest Europe.

Fonds consists of a photocopy of the war diary of the Canadian Radar Detachment on Loan to Australian Military Forces. It was compiled by Officer Commanding Canadian Radar Detachment Major H.F. Graham from correspondence and documents filed with the Directorate of Armament Development (Radar) at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa and from personal diaries. The diary gives a daily breakdown of the unit’s activities and news during 15 June 1944-14 February 1946 non-inclusively. The diary also includes a list of members of the unit who received decorations during that period.

Series consists of documentation books documenting the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) during 1993-1994. Includes the “Dual Status Documentation Books” consisting of 16 books and 32 tabs, and the “United Nations Documentation Books” consisting of 17 books and 40 tabs. Both groups of books have an index and a chronological listing of documents, and each file includes photocopied pages from the Indexes. The documentation includes faxes, agreements, briefing notes, instructions, memos, messages, reports, press releases, rules of engagements, statements and a variety of other documents. The UN documentation books also includes transcripts of radio broadcasts. In addition, there are also General Dallaire’s Documentation Books consisting of a diary and a notebook and detailing his activities during July 1993 to May 1994.

Series consists of material that duplicates some of the material in Series 1 and documents the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) during the early 1990s. It consists of a wide variety of documents, including faxes, agreements, briefing notes, instructions, memos, messages, various kinds of reports, press releases, rules of engagements, statements, radio broadcasts, and Dallaire’s diary and notebook. The series is divided up into the following sub-groups:

1. JNT Files (JNT 3901-8326)
2. MIS Files (MIS 1-6402)
3. PER files (PER 1-25)
4. UND Files (UND 2668-7877)
   The documents in each group are arranged in numerical order. The JNT and MIS files include yellow sheets indicating the material that is Classified. However, these documents are missing and are not included in the series. The UND files includes Classified material which has been severed and placed in Box 12. There is also a 1999 report by the Secretary-General entitled “Srebrenica Report”, which includes an assessment on the events dating from the establishment of the safe area of Srebrenica on 16 April 1993 until 15 December 1995.

Fonds consists of Canadian Forces situation reports. They were messages that came to the Directorate of History (later the Directorate of History and Heritage (DHH)) through the chain of command. They provide an overview of what was happening that week in the Canadian Forces (CF) and on Canadian domestic, United Nations and NATO operations. Some of the major operations include:

Americas and Caribbean
Operation CAULDRON (Haiti; October 1993)
Operation FORWARD ACTION (Haiti; Oct 1993 to Sep 1994)
Operation MATCH (El Salvador; 1991 to 1994)
Operation VISION (Guatemala; 1997)

Africa
Operation CONSONANCE (Mozambique; 1992-1995)
Operation DELIVERANCE (Somalia; 1991-1993)
Operation ECLIPSE (Ethiopia and Eritrea; Nov 2000 to Jun 2001)
Operation LANCE (Uganda-Rwanda; 1993-1994)
Operation PASTEL (Angola; 1991-1995)
Operation PRUDENCE (Central African Republic; 1998-1999)
Operation PYTHON (Western Sahara; 1991-1994)

Europe, Balkan and the Mediterranean
Operation ALLIANCE (Bosnia & Herzegovina; 1995-1996)
Operation CAVALIER (Bosnia and Herzegovina; 1994)
Operation HARMONY (Croatia; 1995)
Operation KINETIC (Kosovo and the Republic of Macedonia; Jun 1999 to Jun 2000)
Operation PALLADIUM (Bosnia-Herzegovina; Dec 1995 to Dec 2004)
Operation Sharpguard (Naval blockade in Adriatic Sea ;1993-1996)

Southeast Asia
Operation Toucan (East Timor; Oct 1999 to Apr 2001

Southwest Asia and Middle East
Operation AUGMENTATION (Iraq in the Persian Gulf; 1999 to 2001)
Operation DANACA (Golan Heights; 1974 to 2006)

Domestic (Canada)
Operation ABACUS (Y2K preparation; 1999)
Operation ASSISTANCE (Red River Flood; 1997)
Operation PERSISTENCE (Swissair Flight 111; 1998)
Operation RECUPERATION (Ice Storm of 1998)

The reports also covered military exercises (national and international), assistance to the RCMP, emergencies (floods, forest fires, snowstorms, etc.) and maritime search and rescue operations. There are some folders pertaining to Operation Scotch (the Rwanda airlift) and Operation Delivereance (427 Squadron in Somalia and ALCE Nairobi).

Le fond est composé de 106 dossiers de correspondance, annotations, rapports, transcriptions, procès verbaux, jugements des tribunaux et d'ébauches de travail.

Collection consists of material collected, selected and used by the Directorate of History and Heritage (DHH) Naval History Team in the writing of the official history of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) (Volume 3). The records pertain to the activities of the RCN after the Second World War to the early 1960s. Includes photocopies of the Dept. of National Defence RG 24 records at Library and Archives Canada (LAC). There is 1 series:

1. Photocopies of Library and Archives Canada RG 24 Records

Fonds consists of the working files of the Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War. Includes bulletins, newsletters of other associations, minutes to meetings, constitution, correspondence, financial reports and statements, and membership information sheets. There are also various documents regarding the conferences held in Waterloo in 1991, Victoria and Quebec City in 1992, and in Winnipeg in 1995. The documents include papers, drafts of papers, memoranda, correspondence and financial records. Arranged in alphabetical order by file title.

Fonds consists of a memorandum, dated 20 February 1978, regarding the costs of security activities. Includes a summary, attached as Annex A, of military operations in support of various law enforcement agencies, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).

Fonds consists of a RCN Staff Officer (Wrens) file, dated 1959 to 1965, regarding employment in the Women’s Royal Canadian Naval Service (WRCNS). Issues addressed include rank and trade structure, uniform instructions, trade specifications, personnel rate, responsibilities and duties of Staff Officer (Wrens), as well as weight standards. Also includes two occupational information monographs prepared by Naval Headquarters, Ottawa.

Fonds consists of copies of two articles on Exercise “Musk Ox”, taken from the June 1946 issue of The Beaver and the 23 February 1946 issue of Saturday Night. Also includes message forms, memoranda, diary notes and exercise logs for January 1946, as well as the War Diary for Exercise “Kelsey” (21 to 23 January 1946), the Moving Force War Diary for Exercise “Musk Ox” (includes appendices for March 1946), several volumes of Capt. Vaughan Stewart’s “The Diary of an Ice-Worm” and a map of Churchill, Manitoba.

Fonds consists of material collected by DHH on the Unknown Soldier millennium project. Includes six volumes of Millennium Project files detailing the repatriation of the Unknown Soldier during 1997-2000, and consisting of minutes to meetings, memoranda, correspondence, briefing notes, emails, reports, agenda and various other documents. Also includes 2 volumes of personnel information sheets of the participants in the project, an information kit in French, draft issue of instructions and a draft issue entitled “Operation Memoria The Repatriation of Canada’s Unknown Soldier 23-28 May 2000.” There are also four videocassettes regarding Operation Memoria and the ceremony of 28 May 2000.

Collection consists of research material on the Avro Arrow and the FHE 400 Hydrofoil Ship. Includes papers regarding the escape system and the pilots’ cockpit in the Avro aircraft in the late 1950s, as well as files on human engineering and problems associated with low speed low level air navigation in the early 1960s. There are also two files dealing with hydrofoils and regarding the human engineering of Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) ships during 1962-1963 and including a 1965 design report for the RCN.

Fonds consists of correspondence with the former director of the Directorate of History and Heritage, W.A.B. Douglas, re Donald C. Bowie’s personal papers. In these letters the two discuss Bowie’s personal account which he published as, “Captive Surgeon in Hong Kong: The Story of the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong, 1942-1945” and his plans for his personal papers. Please note that the fonds does not include a copy of the personal account.

Fonds consists of transcriptions of letters and copies of photographs sent home by Lionel Austen-Leigh from his time on HMSC CC-1. The letters date from the beginning of Austen-Leigh’s time on HMSC CC-1 in 1914 to his discharge in 1915. There are two black and white photographs included with the letters. One photograph is of the submarine CC-1. The other photograph is of the submarine’s crew. Finally there is a photocopy of one of the original letters which contains a hand-drawn image of the submarine.

Fonds consists of John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir)’s personal account of the beginning of the Sicily campaign, specifically the battle of Assoro. The record begins in June 1943 when Buchan was informed that he was second-in-command of the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment of the Canadian Army. The record then follows Buchan and the regiment as they begin the Sicily campaign. The record ends on 23 July 1943 at the end of the battle of Assoro. Buchan included the accounts of Farley Mowat and Angus B. Duffy in his narrative to flesh out his narrative on the campaign. Also includes a newspaper clipping dated 1989 on the Sicilian campaign and the Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment.

Fonds consists of 1 published volume regarding the early volunteer militia of Brant County, Ontario during 1856- 1866. Includes information on the roots of the militia in Brant County; significant experiences of the militia, including the Fenian invasion of 1866; descriptions of the units of service, including rifle, infantry, truck and railway companies; and the creation of the 38th Brant Battalion of Infantry. Also includes illustrations and personal recollections of former reserves. Fonds provides officer lists of companies within the county including those awarded medals, militia acts, general orders, memoranda, weapons, and uniforms at this time. There is also a photocopy of the July 1944 issue of the "Brantford Skyline". The issue was published by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) No. 5 Service Flying Training School.

Series consists of brochures, yearbooks, examinations, correspondence, workbooks, précis of lectures, and rank specifications. Records are arranged in the order they were found which was a rough chronological order. Most date to 1952.

Series consists of one file containing Brodeur’s report of service in HMCS Kootenay.