Archives Catalogue

Correspondence and notes about Charles Bruce's World War Two London-Arnhem flight

MS-2-297, Box 3, Folder 33
File
1944-1969

File consists of correspondence pertaining to Bruce's experiences during World War Two with the Royal Air Force and getting shot down, newspaper clippings about the event, and notes from friends about his survival.

Correspondence between Charles Bruce and Norman A.M. MacKenzie regarding the possibility of Bruce working at UBC

MS-2-297, Box 2, Folder 41
File
1962

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

File includes a list of Canadian correspondents killed overseas during World War Two.

Correspondence between Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 48, Folder 2
File
1943 - 1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.

Data on German guns and artillery

MS-13-25, SF Box 65, Folder 7
File
[ca. 1941-1945]

Part of Lloyd Macpherson fonds

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's manuscript describing his trajectory experience in the Canadian army

MS-2-762, Box 2, Folder 10
File
1940 - 1945

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

File also included official army documentation.

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's World War Two newspaper clipping

MS-2-762, Box 2, Folder 8
File
1942 - 1944

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

File also contains two 1943 issues of a weekly magazine and two brochures about Italy.

David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan's written account of his overseas experiences in World War Two

MS-2-762, SF Box 39, Folder 6
File
1943 - 1945

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

File also contains the story of an unnamed soldier.

Directory, notes, handwritten and typed manuscript drafts of Home at Last

MS-2-838, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1996 - 1997

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Eulogy for Georges P. Vanier written by Hugh Kemp

MS-2-615, Box 130, Folder 19
File
1967

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Four compilations of Canadian Press dispatches from World War Two

MS-2-297, Box 4, Folder 11
File
[19-]

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

Gene Sogioka's paintings of the Poston Japanese Internment Camp

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 1
File
[1942 - 1945?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains reproductions of Gene Sogioka's paintings of life in the Poston Japanese Internment Camp during the Second World War. Also includes a list of titles for the paintings.

Henry Davies Hicks' Royal Canadian Artillery insignia and buttons

MS-2-511, Box 37, Folder 15
File
[ca. 1941-1945]

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File includes two West Nova Scotia Regiment Canada flashes (badges); two West Nova Scotia Regiment bronze collar dogs; one Royal Canadian Artillery cap badge; two rank epaulet sleeves (slip-ons) with felt rank badges for captain; six loose felt rank badges, enough for the rank of captain; six loose metal rank badges, enough for the rank of captain; nine 2.5 cm (1 inch) Royal Canadian Artillery buttons; two 1.75 cm (3/4 inch) Royal Canadian Artillery buttons; ten 1.5 cm (5/8 inch) Royal Canadian Artillery buttons; 1 bronze flaming grenade pin; two ribbons for medals (War medal, 1939-1945, and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal with bar); two 1 cm maple leaves for Canadian Volunteer Service Medal augmentation; three red felt patches used as pads for cap badges; two Canada flashes (badges); two black RCA flashes (badges); four blue RCA flashes (badges): and, one 9 x 18 cm cotton bag used to hold all of the military insignia.

Henry Hicks' Canadian Army officer's record of service pamphlet

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 2
File
1941-1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

File also contains pamphlets: Message Writing and RT (1944), Voluntary Blood Donor Service Enrolment Book, and Veterans' Booklet, No. 6 District Depot, CA; a receipt from the Quartermaster's Store for a pistol; and a poem: "Psalm of the Zombies."

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing interviews

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 10
File
1943 - 1946

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of interview transcriptions. Subjects are Japanese civilians recounting their experience of the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

In remembrance : a program of commemorative music and readings : [poster]

MS-5-15.2018-027, OS Box 20, Folder 14
File
November 13, 1999

Part of Halifax Camerata Singers fonds

File contains two copies of a poster for a concert by the Halifax Camerata Singers at St. Matthew's United Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The concert accompanied a special exhibition of drawings by prisoners of the Terezin Concentration Camp.

Itinerary and notes for Brigadier G.C. Gray, CBE, Director of Radar, The War Office, London, on his visit to North America

MS-2-511, Box 35, Folder 13
File
June 1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a printed pamphlet with pages at the beginning containing Hicks' notes.

Letter from Hop to Charles Bruce concerning a friend who went to fight in the war

MS-2-297, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1941

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

Lot 1540 : photographs of a Side dump-ballast car for United States War Department, Newfoundland Railway

MS-4-106, Box 2, Folder 31
File
May 1942

Part of Trenton Works Ltd. Fonds

File contains 13 photographs of a Side dump-ballast car for United States War Department, Newfoundland Railway manufactured by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company

Manuscript drafts and notes for In the Silence Before Sleep, by Christopher Heide with the writings of Mary Heide

MS-2-838, Box 9, Folder 6
File
[1997?]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Material relating to Robert A. Logan's military service mapping an arctic route during World War II : [reports, correspondence and an address]

MS-2-580, Box 9, Folder 8
File
1920 - 1964

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Included in the folder material relating to his arctic trip in 1922.

Material relating to Robert A. Logan's work during the Lindbergh expedition to Greenland and Iceland on board the S.S. Jelling : [reports, correspondence and newspaper clippings]

MS-2-580, Box 9, Folder 9
File
1933 - 1938

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Military lists, notes, and correspondence

MS-13-25, SF Box 63, Folder 1
File
1941-1945

Part of Lloyd Macpherson fonds

Minute books of the Dalhousie Co-vettes

UA-60, SF Box 112 , Folder 1
File
1946 - 1963

File contains five notebooks containing meeting minutes and financial records of the Dalhousie Co-vettes. A sixth is labeled "Refreshment Book" and doubled as an address book, containing members' contact information as well a spreadsheet indicating the names of those who provided sweets, sandwiches, squares, cookies etc. each month in 1957 and 1958.

Dalhousie Co-vettes

Miscellaneous material relating to Robert A. Logan's time as a prisoner of war : [notebooks, map, documents and postcards]

MS-2-580, Box 10, Folder 1
File
1917 - 1919

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Miscellaneous material relating to Robert A. Logan's work in the military : [reports, correspondence, documents and articles]

MS-2-580, Box 9, Folder 10
File
1916 - 1977

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Miscellaneous photographs taken during World War Two

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 8
File
1940-1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Newspaper clippings

MS-2-171, Box 1, Folder 79
File
2 September 1942 to 28 December 1944

Part of Vincent C. MacDonald fonds

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.

Newspaper clippings on Japanese relocation

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 7
File
[1943?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of newspaper clippings highlighting the experiences of Japanese-Americans forced to relocate during the Second World War.

Newspaper clippings re. World War II collected and/or written by Charles Bruce during his time in London, 1944-1945

MS-2-297, Box 9, Folder 4
File
1944-1945

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

Newspaper clippings re. World War II collected and/or written by Charles Bruce during his time in London, 1944-1945

MS-2-297, Box 9, Folder 5
File
1944-1945

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

Newspaper clippings, notes and souvenirs regarding Charles Bruce's London-Arnhem flight during World War Two

MS-2-297, Box 3, Folder 34
File
[19-]

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

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.

Newspaper obituaries of Robert (Bob) William Maclellan

MS-2-762, SF Box 111, Folder 5
File
1941

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Notebook kept by Charles Bruce containing notes on language, events (including D-Day), and expressions

MS-2-297, Box 1, Folder 2
File
[1944?]

Part of Charles Bruce fonds

Outline of the history of the Canadian Seamen's Union / Charles Macdonald

MS-9-15, SF Box 52, Folder 27
File
July 29, 1977

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.

Macdonald, Charles

Painting by Roy Takahashi

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 2
File
[1942 - 1945?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a watercolour painting of 6 people at the Poston Japanese Internment Camp by Roy S. Takahashi.

Patton's speech to the Third Army before invasion : [transcript]

MS-2-326, Box 1, Folder 23
File
[ca. 1940s]

Part of Andrew Merkel fonds

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.

Photograph of the Princess Louise Fusiliers

MS-2-762, Box 2, Folder 9
File
ca. 1940s

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Photographs of Helen Wilson Beveridge and Inspecting Officer Ernie Rhuda inspecting Royal Canadian Air Force #299 Auxillary

MS-2-831.2022-016, PB Box 29, Folder 34
File
[ca. 1950]

Part of Helen Wilson Beveridge fonds

Photographs of Japan

MS-13-86, Box 129, Folders 4 and 5
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of Japan taken in 1945.

Photographs of VE-Day in Halifax, Nova Scotia

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22
File
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

File contains 38 photographs taken in downtown Halifax during and after riots that took place on VE Day in 1945. Photographs show servicemen and women as well as civilians, street celebrations and ransacked stores. Item 25 was taken by Roy Tidman and Item 37 is a Royal Canadian Navy photograph.

Photographs relating to Robert A. Logan's military service mapping an arctic route

MS-2-580, Box 4, Folder 14
File
1922

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Included in the folder material relating to his arctic trip in 1922.

Photographs relating to Robert A. Logan's work during the Lindbergh expedition to Greenland and Iceland on board the S.S. Jelling

MS-2-580, Box 4, Folder 6
File
1933 - 1938

Part of Robert A. Logan fonds

Photos from the Strategic Bombing Survey

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 3
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of Japan after the1945 bombings.

Photos of Hiroshima after the atomic bomb

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 4
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of Hiroshima after the 1945 bombing.

Poston Internment Camp pencil drawings

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 5
File
1942

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of 12 pencil drawings of scenes from the Poston Japanese Internment Camp.

Radar reports, radar officers' address and gradation lists, travel accounts and memos

MS-2-511, Box 31, Folder 14
File
1944-1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Reports on radar trials and investigations

MS-2-511, Box 34, Folder 4
File
1945

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Research material for "Battle fatigue"

MS-2-806, Box 1, Folder 2
File
[ca. 1939-1990]

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains research material collected by Jenny Munday while writing the play "Battle Fatigue." The research material includes a pamphlet for a lecture series about World War II; a tourism pamphlet about Dieppe, France; a pamphlet called "L'apport des Canadiennes en temps de guerre: une tradition ancienne"; a booklet called "How the saw us: The Women's Archival Film Study Package" with handwritten notes; photocopies of photographs of women in uniform and other scenes from WWII; and other photocopies research material.

Research material for "Battle fatigue"

MS-2-806, Box 1, Folder 1
File
[ca. 1939-1990]

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains research material collected by Jenny Munday while writing the play "Battle Fatigue." The research material includes a typed ad looking for female veterans of World War II to interview; photographs of Canadian women serving in World War II; and photocopies of excerpts and drawings from the diary of Molly Lamb.

Research material for "Battle fatigue"

MS-2-806, Box 1, Folder 3
File
[ca. 1944-1985]

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains research material collected by Jenny Munday while writing the play "Battle Fatigue." The research material includes a reunion newsletter and bulletin from the Canadian Women's Army Corps; and photocopies of handwritten notes about the military.

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