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.
File contains materials pertaining to the Royal School of Artillery in Larkhill and the Royal Artillery Museum and includes photocopies of the Journal of the Royal Regiment of Artillery looking at R. C. Reynolds, A. H. Hornby, and R. B. Pargiter.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Joe Castello, and Andre Kirouac as well as photocopies of radar photographs.
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.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Alan Brock.
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.
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
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Ernest Beno as well as various documents relating to the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery, the RCA Heritage Campaign, and the Colonel Commandant's Communique.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Terry Copp and Roger Sarty of WLU as well as articles like "Counter-Mortar Operational Research in 21 Army Group" by Terry Copp and "Research Enterprises Ltd. and the Wartime Emergence of Radar by Frank Pounsett.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Jack Granatstein, David Zimmerman, Terry Copp, and Don Morecroft.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Murray Johnson of the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME) as well as various documents such as "The Materials Technician Trade" by R. P. Murphy and various issues of the EME Journal
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Harry Rice and Terry Hanes.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Richard Evaire as well as various newspaper articles and photographs.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Doug Morden.
File contains correspondence, research notes, and photographs relating to the role of women radar operators during the Second World War Auxiliary Territorial Service). Included are biographical notes on Mary K. Wilson, Margaret (nee Smith) Marshall, Marian R. Wakeling (nee Mills), Millicent E. G. Law (nee Stevens), Jane Hard (nee Stanley), Elizabeth Halstead (nee Morris), Esther M. Girdlestone (nee Maughan), Lillian M. Clark (nee Lloyd), Moria Brown (nee Parkin), John C. Aldridge (nee Delamont), Elsie M. Boulsbee (nee Holley).
File contains correspondence and research notes relating to the Spurn Head Anti-Aircraft Gun Emplacements from the Second World War, including "Enemy Air Action and the Canadian Army in the United Kingdom 1939-43."
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Jim Humphries as well as Filming on HAA sites during WWII and information on Arthur James Humphries, who joined the HAA TA unity in 1939, and wartime memories of the Humphries family, which also includes copies of photographs.
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.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Terry Hanes.
File contains correspondence between Brian Mendes and Brian Boxter as well as information pertaining to the School of Artillery Handbook.