Item consists of a photograph of fifteen officers from the 5th Infantry Division, Artillery, attending a reunion in Halifax, likely in 1950. Those identified include Richard Roome, Brigade Major Faulkner, George Rogers, as well as another in the front row identified as "Laing". Eleven remain unidentified.
Item is group picture with Oscar Donovan in the centre, between two men in regimental Highlander dress (kilts and sporran) and other officers wearing Canadian Army Medical Corps uniform.
Item consists of a photograph of a dinner in the Officers' Mess of Royal Artillery Park, Halifax, likely in 1950. Pictured include Richard Roome, Rollo Mainguy, George Foster, and seven others (names mentioned include Kinley, Simmonds, and King; four others remain unidentified).
Item consists of a penciled study sketch by D.C. Mackay made in the early 1940s showing a group of Canadian sailors carrying duffel bags on their shoulders, boarding an unidentified naval vessel.
Item consists of a small pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, showing sailors standing on the deck of an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a pencil study sketch drawn by D.C. Mackay in the early 1940s showing one sailor laying on a bench resting while another sits writing at a desk.
Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from 1945, showing two sailors pulling up signal flags on an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, from the early-1940s, showing the beginnings of a wartime harbour town scene from a hillside perspective.
Item consists of a pencil study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from the early-1940s, of circular composition placement lines and outlines of a naval officer performing navigational observations on an unidentified Canadian naval ship.
Item consists of a pencil drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely in the early 1940s, showing four sailors (two in front and two behind) moving a heavily laden cart.
Item consists of a series of pencil silhouette sketches by D.C. Mackay, likely in the early 1940s. Sketch includes HMCS Saskatoon, USS Kaweah [misidentified as Keweah], and Fort Amherst, as well as four other unidentified ships, in convoy formation.
Item consists of a pencil drawing by D.C. Mackay, likely made in October or November of 1939, showing a group of Canadian sailors carrying duffel bags over their shoulders while exiting a covered gangway.
Item consists of a pencil and watercolour painting by D.C. Mackay in the early 1940s showing two sailors in cold-weather gear performing rope and winch work on an unidentified naval vessel.
Item consists of a pencil and ink study sketch by D.C. Mackay, likely from 1945, showing signal flags on an unidentified Canadian naval ship, spelling out "VICTORY".
Item consists of seven small pencil and ink silhouette ship drawings by D.C. Mackay on India paper in the early 1940s. Ships depicted include RMS Aquitania, RMS Monarch of Bermuda/Queen of Bermuda, RMS Empress of Britain, RMS Empress of Australia, HMS Malaya, HMS Valiant, and HMS Enterprise. Includes tonnage and dimensions information.
Item consists of a pencil and ink drawing by D.C. Mackay on November 3, 1943, of the destroyer HMCS Iroquois, docked at the Dartmouth Marine Slips. This drawing shows the ship's starboard side.
Item consists of a pencil and ink drawing by D.C. Mackay on November 3, 1943, showing the destroyer HMCS Iroquois docked at the Dartmouth Marine Slips. Drawing shows the ship's port side.
File contains two copies of a transcript of General Paton's speech to the Third Army on the eve of the Allied Invasion of France. The source is not provided—Paton's speeches were extemporaneous and there were several versions based on reports at the time.
File contains a preliminary outline of the History of the Canadian Seamen's Union from 1936-1950 and a letter from Charles Macdonald to Tom McGrath, Bud Doucette, and Stan Wingfield.
Fonds consists of Oscar Donovan's photographs, newspaper clippings, mementos, and correspondence from World War One and World War Two, including records related to Dalhousie No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital, with which his wife served.
Fonds consists of various personal records, including correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, slides, negatives, an artifact, and legal and financial records. Some business records from Oland and Son Limited and its affiliated companies are also included.
File contains newspaper clippings regarding Bruce's disappearance after the crash of the Arnhem flight; a clipping from The Canadian Press News that contains that story and a description of the Battle of Boulogne; censored papers about Bruce's story, Supply in the Sky; Bruce's Air Ministry Pass as a Canadian Press representative; a list of killed or missing RCAF officers; and two small books on the history of the Hotel Cour St-Georges in Ghent, Belgium, and the history and origin of the Manneken-Pis statue in Belgium.
File includes newspaper clippings regarding McDonald's appointment as Acting Assistant Deputy Minister of Labor, chairman of the Nova Scotia Wartime Labor Relations Board, and chairman of the Nova Scotia Regional War Labor Board.