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Mendes Fonds
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1 · Series · 1939-2017
Part of Mendes Fonds

The Mendes Fonds contain various printed and media material related to the research into the development and manufacture of Canadian Army Type Anti-Aircraft Radars from 1939-1946. The Fonds also contain correspondence, research notes, and articles relating to the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME), the Auxiliary Territorial Service, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the War Diary of No. 1 Canadian Radio Location Unit, various Anti-Aircraft and Radar histories, and various issues of "Radar Reflections," the newsletter of the Canadian Army Radar Association.

Jack Scrimgeour
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-1-2 · File · 2012
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains various newspaper articles from the Ottawa Citizen and the Globe and Mail about Bob Linden, Gordon Byers, Frank Pounsett, Willian Brown, Henry (Hank) Rugg, No Day Long Enough, George Lindsey, and Earl Dudgeon, and other names relating to Canadian Radar Equipment. It also includes correspondence between Brian Mendes and Jack Scimeour.

CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-1-3 · File · 2009-2015
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains various correspondence between Brian Mendes and Phil Jenkins, as well as various articles such as "Making Vision into Power: Power Struggles and Personality Clashes in British Radar, 1935-1941

Joe Castello
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-1-10 · File · 2009-2015
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Joe Castello, and Andre Kirouac as well as photocopies of radar photographs.

CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-1-11 · File · 2006-2015
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Peter McKay, Alan Moore, Ernie Beno, Serge Dernier, Pierre Coulombe, Robert Walker, Andrew Leslie, Wayne Steward, James Whitham, Jack Granatstein, and Terry Copp.

Doug Morden
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-2-1 · File · 2006-2007
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Doug Morden.

Lorne Phillips
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-2-2 · File · 2006-2012
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Lorne Phillips as well as various articles and photographs pertaining to Canadian GL MKIII Equipment from the Second World War.

J. Terry Hanes
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-2-3 · File · 2006-2013
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Terry Hanes.

Gaston Desommes
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-2-5 · File · 2015-2016
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Gaston Desommes

Bruce VanLane - IEEE
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-3-3 · File · 2012-2013
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Bruce VanLane of the IEEE. Included also is an article entitled "Last One" by Brian Mendes.

DND Borden Beverford etc
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-3-5 · File · 2003-2011
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Anthony Beresford of CFB Borden Military Museum.

CFB Personnel
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-3-6 · File · 2008-2009
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence, research notes, photographs, and articles pertaining to CFB Personnel, especially correspondence from the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery School.

Counter Mortar Radar
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-4-5 · File · 1986-2012
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains correspondence, research notes, and photographs about a Counter Mortar Radar, including "A History of Radar Set An/MPQ-501, 1944-1965"

Reprints 1
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-5-1 · File · N/A
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains various reprints of articles and website pages, including "Enemy Air Action and the Canadian Army in the United Kingdom, 1939-41," "Enemy Air Attack and the Canadian Army in the United Kingdom, 1943-45: The V-Weapons," "Army Participation in Measures taken by the Three Services for the Security of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Lower River during the Period of German Submarine Activity, 1942-45," "Historical and Contemporary Issues of Homeland Defense - Counter Terrorism: A Ground-Based Air Defence Perspective" by Lieut-Col Christopher Kilford, "Wartime Training of RCAF Radar Technicians in Canada," by J. R. Robinson, "Some Personal Recollections of Army Operational Researh on Radar in World War II," by George Lindsey, "The Roles of Radar: Factors Governing the Characteristics of Sets for Various Operations" by C. R. Lindsey, "Starlight, Southern Radar and RAF Sopley," "British Radar in WWII" by Attila Gulyas, "A Survey of Army Research and Development 1939-45," "The Signal Corps: The Test (1941-1943)," by George Thompson, and "Social Studies Exit Project and 'The Battle of the Beams'," by Hart Deese.

Radar Equipment
CA ON00411 MG-0024-1-5-6 · File · 2008
Part of Mendes Fonds

File contains photographs, research, and articles on various types of radar equipment.