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Dalhousie University Archives Samuel R. Balcom fonds English
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Samuel R. Balcom fonds

  • MS-2-128
  • Fonds
  • 1830-1980
Fonds contains records documenting the activities, organizations and associations in which Balcom was involved, including the Red Cap Snowshoe Club and the No. 7 Stationary Hospital. Record types include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia and parliamentary papers.

Balcom, Samuel R., Col.

Some of the Members of Parliament from Atlantic Canada, 1956

Standing up from Left to Right: Thomas Andrew Murray Kirk (Yarmouth); William Murdoch (Bill) Buchanan (Cape Breton); Jack Lusky (Halifax Herald Reporter); Wesley Stuart (St. Andrews, N.B.); John Dickey (Halifax); James Augustine (Jim) Power (St. John's, NFLD); Azel Randolph Lusby (Cumberland); Samuel R. Balcom (Halifax)
Sitting: J. Ralph Kirk (Antigonish); Henry Byron McCulloch (Pictou); Gordon Purdy (Colchester)

Port Dufferin Wharf

File contains the original petition for new wharf in Port Dufferin, and correspondence on the project.

Red Cap Snow Shoe Club Minutes

File contains minutes of the 85th, 87th, and 90th annual meetings of the Red Cap Snow Shoe Club, captained by S.R. Balcom (and later H.A. Barnes).

Correspondence - Central Medical Supplies

File contains correspondence from Balcom's time as Officer Commanding, Medical Stores, and Chief Medical Stores Inspection Officer during World War II. Original file split between files 2-19 and 2-20.

Photograph of tent hospital at Arques, France

Item is a photograph of the tent hospital at Arques, France, ca. 1917. A canal is in the background and officer tents can be seen through the trees. The hospital was later replaced by nissen huts.

Rev. Mitchell

1 b/w print. On back of print: "Rev Mitchell who came over with us as a private - received his Commission in Eng. Came to France as Padre to our Unit."

Nursing Sisters in front of tent

Nursing Sisters have been identified from left to right: Sadie McLeod; J. A. Davidson; M. M. E. Chisholm; Laura May Hubley; J. M.Mitchell; rest of the women are unidentified.
Note on back of photograph " Outside my office having morning lunch. I am cutting the bread, Sisters nearly all have their gowns on."
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