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CA ON00093 82/196; 90/338 · Fonds · Series I (files 29-32) Photocopied in 2006 and Series III photocopied [198?] (originally created 1940-1994)

Fonds consists of Journals of Discussions and Decisions of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD) for meetings 1-99, 114-129, 142-172, & 184-193; minutes of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO’s) Canada-United States Regional Planning Committee for meetings 1-51 & 55-98; Minutes of the CANUS Planners’ Conference, 6th - 12th conferences; and of photocopies of material selected from RG 59 at the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C. and related to the work of the PJBD, including correspondence dealing with such topics as the Northwest River staging field, the Alaskan Highway, Canadian labour problems, etc. between the respective Canadian and American secretaries to the Board. Also includes 4 photo albums, a picture book and various loose photographs from PJBD meetings from 1940-1996. There are four series:
I. Journals of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence (82/196)
II. Materials from other Corporate Bodies (82/196)
III. U.S. National Archives RG 59 - Permanent Joint Board on Defence
IV. Photographs series

Canada-United States Permanent Joint Board on Defence
John H. Riley collection
CA ON00093 2012/25 · Collection · Transcribed in [20--] (originally created [19--]

Collection consists of a document entitled “Transcription of ‘History of 4th Battalion Canadian Railway Troops Since Organization’”. It traces the history of the CRT throughout the First World War. The author is unknown.

Riley, John H.
John W. Schmidt fonds
CA ON00093 2013/18 · Fonds · [19--]

Fonds consists of a manual written and published by John W. Schmidt, United States Navy, called “Ship Handling – Destroyers.” The date of publication is unknown. The manual consists of advice on how to steer and handle a destroyer in a variety of conditions. It includes illustrations of destroyers’ parts and movements, drawn by hand. Schmidt’s personal stories are also included in the book.

Schmidt, John W.
CA ON00093 2020/10 · Fonds · 2017

Fonds consists of 2 compact disks (CDs) containing music performed by the various bands of the Canadian Armed Forces. There is 1 series:

  1. The Central Band of the Canadian Armed Forces
Canada. Dept. of National Defence. Directorate of History and Heritage. Music
CA ON00093 2015/14 · Fonds · 2015

The fonds consists of a paper prepared by Richard Geoffrey St. John and entitled “The Creation of Operation Proteus (Task Force Jerusalem).” St. John provides a brief overview of the situation in Israel and Palestine, discussing Yassir Arafat, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Operation Proteus’ inception was pushed by St. John’s perception of a fraying relationship between the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and the US armed forces (Canadian-American bilateral military relationship). As of 2015, the Canadian Armed Force (CAF) continued to contribute to the United States Security Coordinator (USSC) in Jerusalem through Operation Proteus.

St. John, Richard Geoffrey
CA ON00093 2019/8 · Fonds · 2014

Fonds consists of the charge sheet the continuation sheets of Abd Al Hadi Al-Iraqi, a former al Qaeda leader who was charged with the alleged involvement in the killing of a Canadian soldier, Cpl Jamie Murphy on 27 January 2004. Also includes a CBC news article of the accused and his arraignment.

United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of Military Commissions
John Dicker fonds
CA ON00093 2016/2 · Fonds · 2014, 2016

Fonds consists of a publication prepared by John Dicker in 2014 and entitled “Canadian Army Pilot Training Courses: RCAF Station Centralia, CJATC [Canadian Joint Air Training Centre] Rivers 1959 to 1966.” There is also a “List of Canadian Army Aviators 1940-1970” compiled by Dicker and Brigadier-General J.K. Oakley in 2016.

Dicker, John
CA ON00093 2012/10 · Fonds · 2012

Fonds consists of a report titled “A Short History of Britain and Iran” that provides a concise overview of Iranian history and a chronological analysis of British military relations with Iran, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century with the Napoleonic Wars and ending with the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988. Fonds also includes a document, contained in the previous report, titled “The Tanker War and the Armilla Patrol,” which examines Britain’s naval response to Iranian and Iraqi tanker-hunting in the Persian Gulf in the 1980s.

Great Britain. Ministry of Defence. Corporate Memory (Analysis) Branch
CA ON00093 2012/9 · Fonds · 2012

Fonds consists of a report on the Canadian Forces (CF) mission to terminate Operation Mobile, the operational name given to Canada’s mission in Libya as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) Operation Unified Protector, from an operational and tactical perspective. The report is entitled “TDAT (Theatre Deactivation Team) Op Mobile Lessons Learned Report”. It is dated 5 January 2012. Fonds includes a summary of Canadian Operational Support Command (CANOSCOM) mission and orientation as well as the lessons learned during theatre deactivation of Op Mobile. Included in the lessons learned are two annexes that contain observations and recommendations for theatre deactivation.

Canada. Canadian Armed Forces. Canadian Operational Support Command
Julian Evan-Hart fonds
CA ON00093 2011/18 · Fonds · 2011

Fonds consists of material documenting the crash of the aircraft Heinkel He 177 A-3 in the United Kingdom on 19 April 1944. The aircraft was part of Operation “Steinbock”, or “The Baby Blitz”. It was shot down near Ashden/Little Walden in Essex, by an RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force) Mosquito aircraft. Includes extensive notes on the crash in 1944 and the crash site investigation in 2011.

Evan-Hart, Julian
Robert C. White fonds
CA ON00093 2011/20 · Fonds · 2011

Fonds consists of an article written by Robert C. White commemorating the 10th anniversary of the creation of the National Military Cemetery at Beechwood Cemetery in Ottawa, Ontario. The article details how Beechwood became the home of Canada’s National Military Cemetery.

White, Robert C.
CA ON00093 2011/17 · Fonds · 2011-2013

Fonds consists of material pertaining to the 2011 change of command ceremony for the Commander Maritime Command (MARC). Command passed from Vice-Admiral Dean McFadden to Vice-Admiral Paul Maddison on 22 July 2011. Includes written speeches, a pamphlet, a newspaper clipping, printed photographs, copies of MARGENs (Maritime General Orders) 031-11 and 033-11, as well as a DVD entitled “Navy Dinner and Change of Command Ceremony, July 21-22, 2011”. Also consists of written material regarding the 2013 change of command ceremony for the Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy. Command passed from Vice-Admiral Paul Maddison to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman on 20 June 2013. Includes the Changed of Command Program (glossy publication), an administrative order dated 7 May 2013, the guest list, the master of ceremonies script, speaking notes for General Tom Lawson and Peter MacKay, correspondence, as well as the original file copy of the Change of Command Certificate. Also includes photographs of the Commanding Officers from the last mission in Kabul and a change of Command certificate between Major-general Michael Day and Major-General JR Feron in 2012.

Canada. Canadian Armed Forces. Maritime Command. Commander
Carl Gagnon fonds
CA ON00093 2015/2 · Fonds · 2010

Fonds consists of printouts of compilation of the commissioning and paying off dates of the Canadian Navy’s 60 Castle class trawlers and 100 Canadian-built Admiralty wood drifters built at the end of the First World War. The lists are arranged by the companies that built the Canadian Navy trawlers and wood drifters.

Gagnon, Carl
CA ON00093 2011/4 · Fonds · 2010

Fonds consists of documents concerning the Chief of Transformation Syndicate Exercise in 2010, which had the objective of eliminating layers from the CF (Canadian Forces), by doing a study of the organizational system. Ultimately the goal is to have a more integrated CF. Includes instructions, agenda, background information, reports, power-point presentations and other documents on the exercise.

Canada. Dept. of National Defence. Chief of Transformation
CA ON00093 2010/3 · Fonds · 2009

Fonds consists of a DVD entitled “Battle for a Barren Rock”. It was created to commemorate the battle of Hong Kong, December 1941. The film is a collection of photographs related to the Hong Kong campaign, which highlight the Canadian servicemen’s experience in the conflict. There are photographs of various aspects of the conflict such as prisoner of war camps, prisoners of war, soldiers in action, and war graves.

Hong Kong Ex Servicemen’s Association
3 Wing fonds
CA ON00093 2012/7 · Fonds · 2009

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.

Canada. Canadian Armed Forces. Wing, 3
CA ON00093 2008/26 · Fonds · 2008

Fonds consists of a report entitled “Canadian Forces Pension Project Qualitative Research Findings: A Report for Director of Pensions and Social Program”. The objective of this paper is to summarize the discussions held at focus groups in 2008 with Canadian Forces members across the country on how and if they receive information on pension plans. The report outlines the methodology used in the study. It also includes observations from the focus group sessions and solutions suggested by focus group participants related to communication about the Canadian Forces pension plans.

Canada. Dept. of National Defence. Directorate Military Personnel Operational Research and Analysis
Dennis J. Furlong fonds
CA ON00093 2014/4 · Fonds · 2007-2011

Fonds consists of two reports related to herbicide spraying at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Gagetown, New Brunswick, noting the 1966 – 1967 testing of Agent Orange, Agent Purple and Agent White. The document is a fact finding report written by Dr. Dennis Furlong on the spray programs from 1952 to 2004 at CFB Gagetown. The second document, a 2011 update report from Golder Associates LTD., was intended to review the use of herbicides at each Canadian Forces site and determine whether Agent Orange or Agent Purple were applied at any other sites. No direct evidence was found to indicate that those herbicides were used anywhere other than CFB Gagetown.

Furlong, Dennis J.
Earle G. Dolbel fonds
CA ON00093 2007/26 · Fonds · Photocopied 2007

Fonds consists of textual and pictorial items collected by Earle G. Dolbel during his stay at Marlag und Milag Nord prison camp from 1941 to 1945. There is a scrapbook and a personal journal. The scrapbook contains drawings, news clipping, label stickers, poems, photographs from home, and contributions from his fellow prisoners; it pays particular attention to the recreational activities and musical theatre productions in the camp. The journal, which covers the time between his capture and his return to Canada, explains more of Mr. Dolbel's routine in the camp. He writes about weather, rations, going to service, and hearing air raids outside. The highlights for Mr. Dolbel came whenever he received mail from his family and packages from the Red Cross. Fonds also contains a copy of the journal made in 1979 by one of his children, and an Imperial Oil magazine from 1988.

Dolbel, Earle G.
CA ON00093 2008/7 · Fonds · 2006-2015

Fonds consists of research papers written by various undergraduate university students during their CO-OP work terms at the Directorate of History and Heritage. The research papers are organized in chronological order by topic into the following periods:

  1. 1867-1913 [Pre-First World War period]
  2. 1914-1918 [First World War]
  3. 1919-1938 [Inter-War period]
  4. 1939-1945 [Second World War]
  5. 1946-1953 [Post Second World War to Korean War period]
  6. 1954 – [Peacekeeping period]
University of Ottawa. Co-operative Education Program