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Fonds consists of one DVD copy of “The Alouette at War”, produced by the Visual Education Centre for the Department of National Defence in 1971. The film uses archival film footage from the Second World War to present a brief summary of the Alouette Squadron’s, or 425 Squadron’s activities during the Second World War. The film is about 18 minutes in length.

Fonds consists of documents dealing with flying exercises and operations in Scotland by 3146 Training Station Depot of the RCAF, including Exercise Tartan Task, Exercise Sa Siesta and Operation Western Weal. Also includes files concerning the disposal of surplus Sabre 5 aircraft equipment and the movement of Sabre 6 aircraft from Prestwick, Scotland to Canada. Includes operation orders, correspondence, messages and various other documents.

Fonds consists of short overviews of the 39th, news clippings, Howie Osterer programming and a David Kardish’s boy scout sweater with a “39th Ottawa” patch.

Fonds consists of four reports on Summer Concentration of 3 CIBG for the years 1961, 1963, 1964, and 1965.

Fonds consists of documents printed from 16 computer disks and includes all the staff work done to prepare and deploy the units of 4 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group [CMBG] for the mission to UNPROFOR [United Nations Protection Force] and Operation Harmony in Croatia. Includes the following on Operation Harmony: a draft establishment; a guide to tactical organization; briefing outlines and assignments, training guidelines for tasked units; and joining instructions. Also includes documents re 4 CMBG staff inspection, and operations and training.

Fonds consists of issues of the magazine “Schwarzwald-Flieger” (Black Forest Flyer) published by 4 Fighter Wing of the Royal Canadian Air Force in Baden-Soellingen, Germany during 1954-1959. The magazines contain military and non-military related information, including commercial advertisements, reports, photos of Air Force members, upcoming attractions, miscellaneous articles, trivia, Canadian news, birth notices, comics, crossword puzzles, standings for sports teams, poetry, climatological summaries, etc. Flight lieutenants edited the magazine, and Air Force members wrote the majority of the articles. Some years are incomplete.

Fonds consists of supporting documents for Parts 3 and 4 of the published work “408 (Goose) Squadron The Rockcliffe Years 1949-1964”. The work was compiled by Morris Gates, Clifton Kinney, Ron Cleminson, Alex Saunders, Noel Funge, Paul Nyznik, Wally Kaspar, Grant Pennington and Morris Konick. Includes e-mail correspondence, personal memoirs, maps, data, articles, reports, photos, and flight logs. Also includes 1 file “The Photo Survey Years 1945 to 1955 Memories of the Photographic Survey Camera Operators Royal Canadian Air Force.” Fonds is organized in ten files based on references within the Rockcliffe Years book

Fonds consists of flight log, range chart, information sheet and a large map regarding Trip 599, the last flight for 426 Squadron from Shemya, Alaska to Haneda, Japan on 2 June 1954 during the Korean War.

Fonds consists of a scrapbook compiled during the Second World War. It includes a great range of Canadian newspaper clippings concerning airmen in South East Asia, notably in Burma, India, Saudi Arabia, Ceylon, Japan, etc. Arranged in chronological order, the clippings include examples of victories, defeats and historical accounts of events concerning Canadian airmen in South East Asia. Also, it includes photographs of airmen regarding their stories, medals, uniforms, customs, etc.

Fonds consists of 11 volumes of Squadron records during 1944 to 1945. Volumes 1-2 include operational reports (opreps) consisting of daily reports from 441 Squadron to various headquarters, including the Royal Air Force (RAF), Allied Expeditionary Air Force, and 144 Airfield. Also includes volumes regarding flight logs, honours and awards, flying accidents, casualties, the Squadron unit badge and monthly training and flying returns. Volume 4 includes the returns of the pilots’ flying times and is classified.

Fonds consists of files dealing only with the period when No. 442 Squadron was overseas during the Second World War. It includes a list of flying accidents along with a list of officers and/or aircrafts that went missing or died during the Squadron's overseas operations. Also included in are daily operational reports "Opreps", combat reports, weekly changes in strength of operational aircrafts, monthly flying times and monthly returns of officer and airmen pilots.

Fonds consists of the weekly newspaper “The Mercury” published by the 4th Canadian Armoured Divisional Signals in 1945. 13 issues of the publication are included from Sept. to Dec. 1945. The newspaper was published by the unit while it was in Almelo and Hilversum, Netherlands. Articles concern topics in unit life such as entertainment, sports, recruitments and departures, unit personnel, opinions and upcoming events. The pages also include photographs and satirical cartoons.

Fonds consists of files regarding the organization and administration of 664 Squadron during the Second World War. Progress reports, squadron routine orders (parades, details of duties, guards, disciplines, recreation, etc.), monthly security reports, air ministry return serials, personnel occurrence reports [for officers and airmen], and strength return RCAF personnel reports are all included in the fonds. The fonds also includes Squadron routine orders and reports regarding monthly flying times and flying accidents.

Fonds consists of files regarding a court of inquiry, activities, progress reports, transport work tickets, delivery returns, photographs, injury reports, as well as both flying and road accidents of 666 Squadron during 1945. The fonds also contains a file on the final disbandment of the Squadron.

Fonds consists of records of the Board of Directors/Board of Management, 1985-2015; records of committees, 1979-2001; legal and property records, 1986-1988, 2011; financial records, 1991-2015; and grant files, 2012-2017.

Fonds consists of files concerning Canada’s participation in the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991. Includes a wide variety of communication signals and messages that were transmitted and received from late January to March 1991. Also includes Central Registry files covering a wide variety of military subjects, including air tasking orders, military intelligence and Operation Desert Shield. There are also some miscellaneous files, including incoming and outgoing messages from the Canadian Liaison Officer, U.S. Central Command. There are three series:
I. Communications Signals and Messages
II. Central Registry Files
III. General Files

Collection consists of a scrapbook of the 9th Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the British Empire in Toronto. Scrapbook contains: correspondence; delegates' passes; invitations and programmes for various entertainment events, including the official delegates' welcome, a theatre party, a banquet, a sailing party, an automobile tour of Toronto, and other events; menus from the dining cars of the Canadian National Railway; newspaper clippings regarding the Congress from the Globe, the Mail and Empire, and the Star; a programme of the Congress, containing rules, resolutions, and lists of delegates; and a copy of the official report of the Congress.

Contents: autobiography of Irene Brown. The first fifteen pages are computer output typescript, the remaining 459 pages are ms.