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Museum Assistance Programmes : [report]

Item is a typed document entitled "Museum Assistance Programmes" from the National Museums of Canada organization based in Ottawa. The report lists the different methods an institution can qualify to receive funding.

Photograph of a soccer match featuring Iran versus Cuba

Item is a photographic slide of a soccer match featuring Iran versus Cuba. It is played at the Lansdowne Park stadium in Ottawa. The photograph is taken from the stands, and both teams (wearing green and red, respectively) are present.

Photograph of the "Canadian Coronation Contingent" for King George the Sixth (with Donovan seated)

Item is a photograph of the "Canadian Coronation Contingent" for King George the Sixth, probably taken in Ottawa, Ontario. Most of the officers are in Canadian Army Medical Corps uniform, including Donovan, who is seated third from the left. Others are in regimental [Highlanders?] dress (kilts and sporran).

Scrapbook page with a portrait of T.H. Raddall, Sr. with his rifle division, the R.C.R.I. Rifle Team at the Coate's Match, Rockcliffe Range in Ottawa, Ontario, and photographs of Thomas Head Raddall around Nova Scotia

Item may have been a page in one of Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums. The photographs are either duplicates of or related to material in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. T.H. Raddall, Sr. can be found holding the telescope in the middle of the front row in the portrait of the rifle division. On the reverse side of the scrapbook page, the photographs on the left and right of Thomas Head Raddall are duplicates from the aforementioned album. The photograph on the left was taken in North Sydney in 1920, and the photograph on the right was taken in Point Pleasant Park in 1921. The photograph in the bottom middle may have been taken at Sable Island.

Correspondence between Henry Hicks, L.B. Macpherson, A.W.F. Banfield, and others, regarding Labrador duck specimens held at the Thomas McCulloch Museum

Item consists of correspondence between Dalhousie President Henry Hicks and several other stakeholders between 1964 and 1968, regarding the potential loaning of extinct Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum to the National Museum of Canada. Includes correspondence between President Hicks and L.B. Macpherson, Eric Mercer, A.W.F. Banfield, Waldemar Fries, Sylvia Fullerton, John E. McInerny, R.A. Cluney, T.A. Russell, J. Lynton Martin, Elisabeth A. Christian, D.H. McNeill, K.E. von Maltzhan, and W. Earl Godfrey.

Letter of appreciation from Patrick Kerwin

Item is a letter from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada thanking MacDonald for sending a copy of his lectures delivered at Osgoode Hall on legislative power and the Supreme Court in the fifties.

Photograph of Thomas Head Raddall chatting with Governor General Roland Michener and his wife, Norah Michener at Rideau Hall, Ottawa, Ontario

Item, a photograph, has a duplicate copy that can be found in MS-2-202, Box 54, Folder 32. The photograph was taken after Raddall was presented with the Medal of Service, Order of Canada. The former head of the C.B.C., Mr Arnold Davidson Dunton, is standing to the left of Raddall, and behind Mrs. Michener is the Secretary of the Order of Canada, Mr Esmond Butler.

Photograph of the staff of the "Canadian Coronation Contingent" for King George the Sixth (with Donovan standing)

Item is a photograph of the staff of the "Canadian Coronation Contingent" for King George the Sixth, probably taken in Ottawa, Ontario. Most of the officers are in Canadian Army Medical Corps uniform, including Donovan, who is standing in front, second from the left. Others are in regimental [Highlanders?] dress (kilts and sporran).

Photograph of a meeting of the Canadian commission to UNESCO

Item is a photograph of a meeting of the Canadian commission to the United Nations Ecenomic, Social and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. Henry Hicks, the vice-president of the commission, is seated at the far right and the president of the commission is speaking at a podium. Hicks was president of the commission from 1963 to 1967.

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Press release for the long-term loan acquisition of Labrador duck specimens by the National Museum of Natural History

Item consists of a press release issued by the National Museum of Canada regarding the long-term loan acquisition of extinct Labrador duck specimens from the Thomas McCulloch Museum at Dalhousie University to the National Museum of Natural History in Ottawa. Also includes correspondence between A.W.F. Banfield and Eric Mercer.