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Fonds consists of one small photo album with handwritten notes and fifteen small black and white photos taken during the Second World War. Includes two small newspaper clippings. These photos were collected by Iris Birtwistle and other female volunteers at the Catholic Soldiers Club in Aldershot, United Kingdom. Also includes five mounted photographs, some duplicates, of members of 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade Anti-Tank Coy., Canadian Active Service Force (C.A.S.F.) and Headquarters 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade.

Series consists of an edited transcript of an interview with Rear Admiral Walter Hose by Bill Herbert at some time during the 1950’s, regarding his service in the Royal Canadian Navy.

Fonds consists of material documenting Robert A. Logan's activities with the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1922 to investigate conditions effecting aircraft in the Arctic Islands. Includes correspondence re Logan's aerial photography training and aerial navigation training, the early history of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and the First World War operations, arctic flying and sovereignty questions in 1922. There is are various documents about the RCAF Ground Instructional Section and Photographic Section during the early 1920s.

Fonds consists of correspondence between Lloyd S. Breadner and his parents, and documenting his service and activities with the Royal Naval Air Force during the First World War in Great Britain and France. Subjects discussed include his training, flights, life with various squadrons, his receiving the Distinguished Service Cross, and family life. Also includes some post-war correspondence.

Fonds consists of selected correspondence relating to Ferry Command and No. 44 Group during 1942-1943 and to reports of Air Ministry production during 1940-1942 and documents concerning air operations and the analysis of bombing tactics and strategy. There are also British Cabinet and Allied Command papers relating to Operation "Overlord".

Fonds consists of a brief manuscript, entitled "Forty years after". The manuscript contains Ward's recollections of his experiences as a flying control officer in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. There is also a brief newspaper clipping announcing his promotion to Squadron Leader.

Collection consists of research material on Ernest Donat Therrien’s experience as a prisoner of war during the Second World War. Includes emails between Janie and Gary Therrien and Dr. Steve Harris listing the 22nd Armoured Regiment’s movements from mobilization until the end of the war. Also includes emails describing different sources of information that were consulted including Library and Archives Canada, The Red Cross, and The Memories Project. The research material contains an excerpt from the book “A Measure of Protest” written by A.H. LeReverend who was a POW at Stalag XIB with Ernest Therrien. Copies of the 22nd Armoured Regiment’s War Diary for 24 October 1944 to 29 Oct 1944, and Orders for 27 October 1944 are included in the research along with emails exchanged between Jakke Arnouts in Essen, Belgium and Janie and Gary Therrien in relation to the precise location Ernest Therrien was captured and a possible tour of the site.

Fonds consists of miscellaneous material from Commodore Frank Birch Caldwell’s naval career, from the period 1953-1973. Includes photographs of various ships and some crew. A few photographs have captions on the back. There are maps of Canada dated 1969-1973, as well as reproductions of historical maps of the world. The fonds also includes a citation for a Naval Medal awarded to Caldwell by the Portuguese navy, a caricature, and other memorabilia. There are reproductions of an account of Admiral Nelson’s victory over the French fleet at the battle of the Nile, on the Mediterranean coast of Egypt, originally published in The Times on 3 October 1798.

Le fonds est composé de 272 dossiers portant sur la vie privée et professionelle du Général Allard. Les documents textuels sont composés de correspondance, de télégrammes, de notes de service et de rapports. On retrouve de nombreux documents personnels d’Allard, y compris des renseignements généalogiques, des mémoires et des notes autobiographiques, des cahiers et des agendas. Il y a aussi de nombreux articles de journaux et de périodiques qu’Allard a rassemblés sur des sujets qui l’intéressaient, aussi bien que des articles à son sujet. De plus, le fonds comprend des transcriptions de nombreux discours qu’il a prononcés et d’entrevues à son sujet ou avec lui.
En plus des documents textuels, le fonds contient environ 450 photographies dont la majorité sont en noir et blanc. Plusieurs d’entre elles sont d’Allard à différents moments de sa vie. Parmi les autres sujets des photographies, notons sa famille et ses ancêtres, ainsi que de nombreuses cérémonies militaires. La plupart des photos sont sans notes explicatives. Le fonds contient aussi une dizaine de cartes géographiques, surtout de lieux européens où Allard a combatu durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, quelques dessins, des albums souvenirs, des drapeaux, des écussons, des cartes de souhaits et des certificats.
Chacune des étapes de la vie d’Allard est documenté; que ce soit son enfance, ses contributions personnelles à la Seconde Guerre mondiale et à la Guerre de Corée, l’implication plus générale du Canada dans ces conflits, les années d’Allard en Union soviétique et en Allemage de l’Ouest, ou encore son rôle dans l’unification des forces armées et son poste comme CEMD.

Fonds consists of reference files compiled by the Naval Historical Section during the 1950s and kept up-to-date until 1965-1966. Documents added after 1966 were added by staff at the Directorate of History, or later by the Directorate of History and Heritage, and, therefore, were not part of the original collection. Most of the documents cover the period of E.C. Russell's tenure as Naval Historian during 1952-1966, and also includes material collected by the first Naval Historian, Dr. Gilbert Norman Tucker, during the Second World War. The material documents the history of the Royal Canadian Navy from the First World War up to the 1960s, with the Second World War being the most covered.
In addition to individual files, there are also 38 series of files with finding aids. These include:

1. 1000 General Information - Subject Files
2. 1000-5 History and Activities of the Canadian Naval Service
3. 1000-100/2 Naval Board
4. 1000-100/3 Naval Staff
5. 1000-973 Torpedo Anti-Submarines
6. 1250 Combined Operations
7. 1320 Communications - Signals, Telegrams and Cables
8. 1440-5 Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) History (General)
9. 1440-6 Halifax, Nova Scotia
10. 1440-7 Esquimalt, British Columbia
11. 1440-166/25 Newfoundland
12. 1440-186 University Naval Training Division
13. 1480 Naval Intelligence - Soviet Union
14. 1480-157/100 Great Britain. Admiralty Naval Intelligence Division
15. 1612 Hydrography - Oceanography
16. 1650 Operations and Plans (Royal Canadian Navy)
17. 1650 U-boats (General)
18. 1650 U-boats (German)
19. 1650 U-boats (German) - Personnel (Prisoners of War)
20. 1650-DS U-boats - Daily States: HMC, HM and Allied Ships
21. 1650-1 U-boats - Naval lans and Policies
22. 1650-1 U-boats - Operations ans Plans (NATO)
23. 1650-239/187 Korean Operations
24. 1700-100/78-78A Naval Historical Section Administrative Files
25. 1700-100/219 Air Sqaudrons and Groups
26. 1700-905 Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
27. 1886 Current History Books
28. 4000-100/14 Service Personnel
29. 4531 Personnel Selection
30. 8000 Ships and Shipping
31. 8000-160 Canadian Minesweeping Squadrons
32. 8000-260 Canadian Escort Squadrons
33. 8280 Sydney Files
34. 8280 Convoys and Convoy Organization
35. 8280 Convoys Naval Messages
36. 8440 Escort Groups and Forces
37. 8700 Movements and Programmes - Warships
38. 8885 Staff Requirements

Series consists of material related to warships during the Second World War. The majority of the files are name files for each Canadian naval vessel (H.M.C.S.) or government vessel (C.G.S.) from 1910. There are also name files for British and foreign ships that were attached to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), as well as name files for auxiliary vessels, flat scows, gate vessels and harbour craft. Also includes general reference files divided by the ship type, and material related to the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve (RCNR) and the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve (RCNVR), H.M.C.S. Shore establishments, the various commands of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, and historical files for Canadian warships. The series is divided into 11 subseries:
I. Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) ships files
II. Foreign Ships and General Ships files
III. Reserve Division files
IV. Shore Establishments files
V. Flag Officer, Commander and Dockyard files
VI. Auxiliary Vessels
VII. Local Craft
VIII. Flat Scows
IX. Gate Vessels
X. Harbour Craft
XI. Ships' Drawings

Series consists of biographies on various military personnel from the early Canadian Militia through till the Korean War. The majority of the files, however, concern military personnel active during the First and Second World Wars. Most biographies are single-page sketches or timelines, produced by the Directorate of Public Relations (DPR) as press releases. The DPR press releases and biographies are usually in relation decoration announcements or staffing changes. Most biographies focus on the person’s military career, but some include minor sketches of their personal lives. Some files contain newspaper clippings, photographs, or extracts from manuscripts.

Subseries consists of name files for British and foreign ships, many of which have a connection with the RCN. Foreign ships includes Australian, French, German Italian, Japanese and American. These files for British ships contain general notes, photographs, a history of the name, Admiralty Damage Control summaries, newspaper and magazine clippings, signals and messages. The files for foreign ships do not contain a great deal of information. Also includes general reference files divided mainly by the ship type, including aircraft carriers, auxiliary vessels, corvettes, destroyers, frigates, minesweepers, motor launches, sailing vessels, submarines, trawlers and drifters. These files contain narratives, signals and messages, newspaper and magazine clippings, press releases and historical data. The subseries is divided into the following parts:
Part A: Ships, Foreign
Part B: Ships, General

La collection consiste en reproductions de documents de la dix-huitième siècle qui ont appartenus aux héritiers de Madame DesBoisrenard et qui ont affaire aux terres près du village de Vimy en France et le Monument commémoratif du Canada à Vimy d’aujourd’hui. Les documents incluent une carte d’arpenteur avec un rapport, et des actes notariés qui listent plusieurs parcelles de terre avec les limites, les noms des locataires, et les loyers payés en argent et en biens.

Fonds consists of files containing forms, messages and correspondence between chart depots at various locations in the world and the Hydrographic Services Office in Halifax, N.S. Includes files regarding dispersal of hydrographic supplies, dangers and aids to navigation, chart and map procurement, admiralty publications and the administration of the Hydrographic Services Office. Also, fonds contains various lists and logs, such as Chart Correction Logs and Folio Indexes, Consecutive Lists of Admiralty Charts and Candydrolants, and the HSO log for 1942-1945, as well as 26 compact disks of miscellaneous naval images from the Hydrographic Services Offices in Halifax. Includes eight published volumes of maps, including an ice atlas of Canada and an incomplete set of the US Navy Marine Climatic Atlases. Also includes There are five series:

1. Reference Numbered Files
2. Central Registry Files
3. Lists, Logs, etc.
4. Published Maps
5. Miscellaneous Electronic Images

Series consists of 26 computer disks from the Hydrographic services office in Halifax, N.S. The disks include images of charts, maps, plans, photographs and other documents dated from 1776 to 2006. The files are arranged in numerical order according to the number on the disk.

Fonds consists of 16 folders containing 89 files in total, a few of which are in two parts. Files deal with the organization, methods of operation and approach of the 1 Canadian Division Intelligence Company and the 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group during the Oka crisis. Fonds contains post-operation reports, conference minutes and operation instructions for Operation Salon. A wide range of intelligence collected from Kahnawake, Oka and the Warrior Society in the early 1990s is also included. It is comprised of reconnaissance (the geography of the area, layout of buildings and other structures, and resources available to the Warriors to resist the military) and the personalities, aims and activities of the influential members of the Mohawk community, as well as some non-natives who took the Warrior side. Fonds also contains a book on traditional Native Teachings from 1984, the 1916 Constitution of the Iroquois, and background information regarding plans, proposals, RCMP logs and other memoranda, as well as legal and quasi-legal documents from the Six Nations, the Assembly of First Nations and the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation in the 1780s.

Fonds consist of correspondence with the Secretary of War from November 1800- September 4 1863, including the War of 1812. Correspondence covers operations of the army, administration of the War Dept., appropriations, military commissions, military posts and establishments, general courts martial and annual reports, appointments, militia lists, promotions, pay lists, accounts, and rolls. Signed persons include the President of the United States James Madison, Secretaries of War John Armstrong and James Munroe, Chief Clerk Daniel Parker, Adjutant General Charles Nourse and US Marshall to the District of Columbia Tench Ringgold.

Series consists of historical files on Halifax, Nova Scotia and covering a very broad range of topics, especially the city's military and naval heritage since its founding in 1749. The files are of a very general nature, although some subjects, such as the Commanders in Chiefs at Halifax, are quite extensive. Includes Naval Historians' notes, narratives, drafts and articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings and charts There are 21 volumes and the list of contents for each volume is partial only.

Subseries 1 consists of four files of articles, notes and maps about ships, astrolabe and other naval subjects. Included in these files are notes : from the journal of Jeffrey Amherst; on transportation and naval defense in the old northwest, 1760-1796; on the siege of Fort Saint John; on the journey of colonel Landman in Canada 1798-1802; on Cartier’s La Grande Hermine, La Salle’s Le Griffon, and d’Iberville’s Le Pelican; and on the schooner Nancy. Also includes : notes and illustrations of sailing cargo vessel called Chalon; maps of some parts of the Great Lakes; photos and drawings of colonial bateau; notes and extracts describing a bateau.