Archives Catalogue

Annie Belle Hollett and Graham Roome correspondence

MS-2-771
Collection
1915-1919

Collection primarily comprises letters from Captain Graham Roome to his future wife Annie Belle Hollett, written during his overseas service in World War One. There is also a series of letters written to Annie Belle Hollett by various friends and family members.

Roome (née Hollett), Annie Belle

Robert (Bob) William Maclellan's correspondence with his parents and sister

MS-2-762, SF Box 111, Folder 7
File
1925 - 1940

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Facsimile of correspondence sent to Richard Roome from former colleagues stationed in Halifax

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 8, Item 3
Item
November 24 1941

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item consists of correspondence, reproduced from microfilm, sent to Richard Roome on November 24, 1941, from members of the "Roome Group" stationed in Halifax, sending "Season's Greetings" and mentioning shenanigans on the home front.

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

Robert (Bob) William Maclellan's birth certificate, death notice, and rose petals from his grave

MS-2-762, SF Box 111, Folder 6
File
1915 - 1941

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

File also contains letters written to his mother and sister.

Robert (Bob) William Maclellan's records

Subseries
1915 - 1941

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Subseries consists of Robert (Bob) William Maclellan's correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, birth certificate and death notice.

Photograph of four unidentified soldiers cooking during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 9
Item
1942

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of four unidentified soldiers cooking during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 10
Item
1942

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Training in Debert, Nova Scotia and Tracadie, New Brunswick

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 9
File
1942-1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

File includes black and white photographs depicting training and camp activities of the 7th Division Artillery (RCA) at Tracadie, New Brunswick in 1943. One photo is of training at Debert, Nova Scotia. File also contains newspaper clippings.

Photograph of an unidentified soldier, with skis, conducting winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 2
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of an unidentified soldier carrying a bayonet outside a small cabin during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 7
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Pencil and ink drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of HMCS Iroquois, port side, docked at the Dartmouth Marine Slip

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 46
Item
November 3, 1943

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

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.

Pencil and ink drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of HMCS Iroquois, starboard side, docked at the Dartmouth Marine Slip

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 47
Item
November 3, 1943

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

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.

Photograph of an unidentified soldier packing up camp during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 12
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Helen Wilson Beveridge in Royal Canadian Air Force (Women's Division) uniform

MS-2-831.2022-016, PB Box 29, Folder 33
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Helen Wilson Beveridge fonds

Photograph of Richard Roome, an unidentified officer, and three unidentified Halifax-based cadets examining surveying equipment

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 8, Item 6
Item
1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of an unidentified soldier, with skis, pointing a rifle during winter infantry training in Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 4
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of two unidentified soldiers engaging in winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 5
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Winter training in Debert, Nova Scotia

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11
File
1942-1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of three unidentified soldiers conducting sledge training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 1
Item
1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of Corporal G.F. Morton engaging in winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 3
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of two unidentified soldiers sheltering in a small cabin during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 6
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of four unidentified soldiers sleeping rough during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 8
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of four unidentified Canadian Seaforth Highlanders cooking during winter infantry training at Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 11, Item 11
Item
1942 or 1943

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Charcoal and pencil drawing by Donald Cameron Mackay of a sailor on sentry duty on the Halifax waterfront

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 63
Item
December 15, 1943

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a pencil and charcoal drawing by D.C. Mackay dated December 15, 1943, showing a Canadian sailor performing sentry duty on Jetty #4 on the Halifax waterfront.

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.

Photograph of Richard Roome and three unidentified officers of the No. 7 Operational Training Unit, Debert

MS-2-252, Box 2, Folder 9, Item 3
Item
[1943 or 1944]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Photograph of looters and bystanders outside Offman's Jewellers on Barrington Street during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 2
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of crowds outside of Keith's Brewery on Lower Water Street during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 3
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of dispersing crowds and detritus on Hollis Street after the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 8
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a serviceman and an older women with military decorations on her lapel dancing on Barrington Street during VE-Day in Halifax

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 12
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of a ransacked shop after the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 27
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Item is a photograph showing a man picking up a broken drawer from a looted shop.

Photograph of civilian looters carrying stacks of clothing past the smashed shop windows during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 29
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of crowds behind Keith's Brewery during the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 30
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Photograph of serviceman and civilians walking past looted shops on Barrington Street in the aftermath of the Halifax VE-Day riots

PC1, Box 35, Folder 22, Item 36
Item
1945

Part of Dalhousie University Photograph Collection

Facsimile of a pencil sketch by Donald Cameron Mackay of an officer angered by a sailor

MS-2-280, Box 81, Folder 13, Item 39
Item
[194-]

Part of D.C. Mackay fonds

Item consists of a facsimile of a pencil sketch by D.C. Mackay from the early 1940s of an officer dressing down an insubordinate sailor. The perspective appears to be from the corner of George Street and Brunswick Street in Halifax. An accompanying caption reads: "Like he said -- / 'Never salute an officer / with a cig in your mouth"

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.

Photograph of the German submarine U-889 shortly after its surrender to Canadian naval forces near Shelburne, Nova Scotia

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 5, Item 3
Item
13 May 1945

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album [between 1940 and 1959] and to MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 22, Item 8 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photograph has a stamp marking it copyright to the Royal Canadian Navy on the reverse side.