World War, 1914-1918

Scrapbook page with photographs of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in military uniform and standing with other officers in his rifle division

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 8
Item
[191-]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item may have been a page in one of Thomas Head Raddall's photograph albums. The photographs are an assortment from T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s military career. The top photograph appears to be related to MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 16, Item 2 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs, and was likely taken at the Reach Field shooting range in Hythe, Kent, England. The photograph on the bottom left is a duplicate of MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 20, Item 2 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs, and was taken at Valcartier Camp, Quebec.

Thomas Cantley fonds

MS-2-755
Fonds
1794 - 2005

Fonds consists of Thomas Cantley's materials accumulated and sometimes annotated by Catherine Campbell in the course of her research on Cantley's life, including correspondence regarding his political and professional activities; correspondence with family members; manuscripts and typescripts; speeches; photographs; financial statements; and other textual records. Fonds also contains records originating with Cantley's family, including correspondence between his children Charles L. Cantley and Marian Cantley, and a letter from Donald F. Cantley to E.W. Sutherland.

Cantley, Thomas

Oscar Glennie Donovan fonds

MS-13-11
Fonds
1805-1972

Fonds consists of Oscar Donovan's photographs, newspaper clippings, mementos, and correspondence from World War One, including materials related to the Dalhousie No. 7 Overseas Stationary Hospital, with which his wife served.

Donovan, Oscar Glennie

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.

William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

MS-2-762
Fonds
1831 - 2005

Fonds comprises the records of William Edward Maclellan and his family's records, including those of including William Edward and Margaret Jane (Mackenzie) Maclellan; Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan; Robert (Bob) William and Delphine Caroline (Wallace) Maclellan; Jean Stewart Maclellan; Robert William Maclellan; and David Kirkpatrick Stewart Maclellan. Record types include correspondence, photographs, films, newspaper clippings, poems, certificates, booklets, periodicals, notebooks and genealogical charts.

Maclellan, William Edward

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s personal records

Series
1861 - [ca. 2005]

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his personal life, including memorabilia, biographical notes, awards, and photographs.

Ronald St. John Macdonald’s memorabilia

Subseries
1877 - 2004

Part of Ronald St. John Macdonald fonds

Subseries consists of Ronald St. John Macdonald's items of interest collected throughout his life, including biographical materials, art pieces, newspaper clippings, periodicals, books, and other materials.

Creelman Family fonds

MS-2-775
Fonds
1887-1999

This accession contains photographs, correspondence, postcards and other memorabilia from various members of the Creelman family.

Creelman Family

William Rhoades fonds

MS-2-598, SF Boxes 80-82
Fonds
1898-1954

Fonds consists of diaries and notebooks; printed programmes, books, and newspaper clippings regarding Col. William Rhoades or the regiments with which he served, including the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles. Fonds also contains miscellaneous papers related to his career.

The diaries and notebooks document Rhoades’ activities while posted in the Yukon, South Africa, and Europe during World War I. Some of the notebooks also contain hand drawn maps of battle fields.

Rhoades, William, 1874-1955

William Stanley Croft fonds

MS-2-496, SF Box 27, Folder 22
Fonds
1902, 1916

Fonds comprises two letters written to William Croft. The first refers to work in the gold mines, while the second is a request for Croft's permission to allow his sixteen-year-old son to go overseas with the Canadian Forces. There is also a note from James Heyson to John Croft containing a medicinal recipe.

Croft, William Stanley, 1867-1944

Edward Kirkpatrick and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan's records

Series
1904 - 1968

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Series consists of Edward Kirkpatrick Maclellan and Helen Stewart (Mackay) Maclellan's correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, periodicals, booklets, a marriage certificate and a cookbook.

Maclellan, Edward Kirkpatrick

Edward Kirkpatrick Maclellan's records

Subseries
1906 - 1968

Part of William Edward Maclellan and family fonds

Subseries consists of Edward Kirkpatrick Maclellan's correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, periodicals, and other textual records.

Postcard of British and French warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia

MS-2-315, PB Box 2, Folder 84
Item
1906

Part of Gass Family Postcard Collection

Item is a postcard sent from W. Ervin in Sydney, Nova Scotia to Cyril Gass in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. The image on the front of the postcard is of British and French warships in the harbour at Sydney, Nova Scotia.

Robert A. Logan fonds

MS-2-580
Fonds
Bulk, 1907-1995

Fonds consists of materials related to Logan’s career (1912-1985), fiction and philosophy manuscripts (1925-1983), published articles (1922-1969), his wide-ranging correspondence (1942-1991), his studies concerning Cree and other languages (1932-1969), autobiographical and biographical works (1929-1982), genealogical studies of his family and others (1955-1984), certificates he received throughout his life (1906-1992), the indices he created for his documents (1949-1986), , his diaries (1930-1980), the journals, fieldbooks, and logbooks he wrote (1907-1960), images he took or collected (1909-1992), and other miscellaneous materials(1934-1983). All textual materials relate to his life, his far-reaching research studies, or his writings.

Logan, Robert A., 1892-1992

Correspondence and business documentation collected by G.H. Morrison re. F.B. McCurdy & Co.

MS-2-624
Series
1911 - 1915

Part of George H. Morrison fonds

Series includes business correspondence, newsletters, bulletins, a pamphlet, a book, and a biography of F.B. McCurdy relating to F.B. McCurdy & Co. stockbrokers.

Scrapbook page with photographs from T.H. Raddall, Sr.'s leave in England

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 9
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item may have been a page in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album. The photographs are related to material found in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927, to MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 19, Items 5-6, and to MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 5421 Item 17 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs. The photographs on the left and right were likely taken at the W.E. Firmstone residence in England.

Photograph of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in uniform while on leave in England with a non-uniformed man

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 21, Item 17
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is a duplicate of MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 19, Item 6, and related to MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 19, Item 5 and MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 20, Item 9 in subseries Thomas Head Raddall's loose photographs and is related to materials in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927.

Photograph of the Mausoleum of Umar Suhrawardi

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 1
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the Mausoleum of Umar Suhrawardi. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 4
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people on horseback crossing a bridge

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 6
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people on horseback crossing a bridge. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers and people

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 9
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers and people. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers crossing bridge with cart and donkeys

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 14
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers crossing a bridge with a cart and donkeys. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people outside of a home

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 19
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people outside of a home. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers and an artillery tractor

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 21
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers and an artillery tractor. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers raising flag

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 26
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers raising a flag. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 28
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers. Soldiers on horseback appear to be pulling rope while other soldiers look on. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of Maude Bridge

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 34
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of Maude Bridge named after British army officer Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Stanley Maude. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a section of the Ishtar Gate

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 36
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a section of the Ishtar Gate at its original site in Babylon. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of three pelicans on a building

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Item 43
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of three pelicans on a building. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a group of people

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 46
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a group of people in a rowboat

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 47
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people in a rowboat. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people in a field

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 52
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people in a field. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people in a field

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 54
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people in a field. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of people with horses

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 55
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of people with horses. The horses appear to be pulling farming equipment. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of camels crossing a bridge

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 61
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of camels crossing a bridge. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of the Turkish Ottoman Memorial

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 78
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the Turkish Ottoman Memorial erected following the Siege of Kut. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Business correspondence to William McMillan, Lockeport, regarding confirmation to ship goods, and receipt of shipments

MS-4-177, Box 29, Folder 3
File
1914

Part of Lockeport Historical Collection

File contains business correspondence addressed to (and a few written by) William McMillan, Lockeport, between June 1914 and October 1914, regarding receipt of shipment of goods to be sold in his general store, or confirmation of goods to be sent overseas. File contains both typed and handwritten correspondence. File also contains the beginnings of some merchants' concerns regarding shortages stemming from the outbreak of the Great War.

File contains correspondence regarding wartime concerns from the following receivers and brokers: W.R. Brock Company (Montreal; regarding French-made #80 DMC in cordenette white), Boston Varnish Company (regarding war-time price uncertainty), Brandram-Henderson (Halifax, regarding "import[ing certain goods] from countries where it is now impossible to obtain further supplies"), Chronicle Publishing Co. (Halifax, regarding the sale of "a history of the great conflict now raging in Europe" for two months at this stage), Greenshields Limited (Montreal, regarding a "good season for dress goods" despite the "war-time dullness of many lines" and the fact that "French goods are cut off entirely [and that some] raw materials such as dyestuffs come from Germany and Austria exclusively"), Holzapfels Limited (Newcastle-on-Tyne, reassuring clients that their company is "absolutely and entirely British"), J.L. Lovitt (Yarmouth, regarding the "feverish state of the wheat market" and reduced supplies), J.E. Morse & Co. (Halifax, about wartime demands having "completely exhausted [the supplies of] the popular selling teas"), Nova Scotia Belgian Relief Fund (Halifax; from Arthur Barnstead), Patterson Candy Company (Toronto, reassuring that they "have been strongly opposed to making any advance in price unless positively forced to it", and slamming those "who would delight in getting more for his product on account of the abnormal condition"), Oxford Manufacturing Company (Oxford, NS, "we are facing a famine in dyestuffs"), Quaker Oats Company (Peterborough, re: "extreme scarcity of cash oats [...compelling] us to put further advances into effect), W.H. Schwartz & Sons (Halifax, about the withdrawal of a printed list of supplies based on "the very uncertain conditions surrounding the spice business brought about by the war"), R.B. Seeton (Halifax, "we do not know from one day to another what the price will be"), E.K. Spinney (Yarmouth, regarding "the [appalling] effect of this horrible war on commercial conditions throughout the world"), Wm. Stairs, Son & Morrow (Halifax, assuring customers that "all prices will be based on ruling market price ONLY"), W.H. Thorne (Saint John, regarding the purchase of "patriotic selections" of records), Willett Martin (New York, anticipating that "stove coal will be very scarce during the Fall and Winter months"), Warwick Bros & Rutter (Toronto, about installing "patriotic windows").

File contains other standard business correspondence from: Acadia Gas Engine Co. (Bridgewater), Edward M. Alden (Boston), Edward Allen (Yarmouth), G.E. Barbour (Saint John), Sidney R. Baxter (Boston), A.M. Bell & Co. (Halifax), Geo. C. Boudreau (Meteghan Station, NS), Brookfield Bros. (Halifax), Burrell-Johnson Iron Company (Yarmouth), Canadian Cereal and Flour Mills (Galt, ON), Canadian Consolidated Rubber Co. (Halifax), Canadian Drug Co. (Saint John), Canadian Oil Companies (Toronto), Canadian Poster Company (Montreal, regarding a Stanfields promotion), Clayton & Sons (Halifax), Cochran, Burns & Farnsworth (Boston), McCormick & Stronach (Clementsport, NS), Davis & Fraser (Halifax), Davis & Lawrence (Montreal), Eagle Oil & Supply Co. (Boston), Eastern Shirts Limited (Truro), Emerson & Fisher (Saint John), Enterprise Foundry (Sackville, NB), Frank Fales (Saint John), Flintkote Manufacturing Company (Boston), Arthur Fordham (Halifax), John Forsyth Company (Berlin, ON), Gourock Ropework Export Co. (Montreal, via Glasgow), Gunns Limited (West Toronto), G.J. Hamilton & Sons (Halifax), Ida Harlow (Sable River West), Hawboldt & Evans (Chester), Hilford Fur Farm (Port Hilford, NS), N. Hingley & Sons (Dudley, UK), Ideal Bedding (Toronto), T. McAvity & Sons (Saint John), A. & W. MacKinlay (Halifax), Manchester Robertson Allison (Saint John), Maple Leaf Milling Co. (Saint John), Maritime Cap Limited (Moncton), Meeker & Company (New York), G.P. Mitchell & Sons (Halifax), J.L. Morton (Lower Argyle), J. & M. Murphy (Halifax), Neville Canneries (Port Mouton, NS), M.A. Nickerson (Clark's Harbour), Northern-Electric (Halifax), Parrish, Phillips & Co. (New York), Payzant & King (Halifax), Redmond Company Limited (Montreal), W.G. Robertson (Halifax), Salada Ceylon Tea (Montreal), W.E. Sanford (Hamilton, ON), Scovil Bros. (Saint John), I.B. Shaffner (Halifax), Shives Lumber Company (Campbellton, NB), Southern Salvage Company (Liverpool), H.D. Starratt (Paradise, NS), John Tobin & Co. (Halifax), Trojan Waist Co. (Philadelphia), Viscol Company (Boston), Waldron Drouin Co. (Montreal), Welsford L. Watt (Halifax), Wolverton Milling Co. (Saint John), Thomas Wood & Company (Boston), among others.

Portrait of T.H. Raddall, Sr. in uniform printed on a postcard

MS-2-202, Box 51, Folder 20, Item 3
Item
December 1914

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item is a duplicate of a photograph in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. A message on the reverse side is addressed from Raddall, Sr. to his brother, written at Salisbury Plain.

Photograph of George V at the grave of a soldier on the front lines of the Great War printed on a postcard

MS-2-202, Box 55, Folder 17, Item 1
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Thomas Head Raddall fonds

Item, a photograph, is related to materials in Thomas Head Raddall's photograph album, 1917-1927. The photograph comes a collection of official photographs produced by the Daily Mail during the Great War. The Prince of Wales stands to the left of King George. Generals William Norris Congreve and Sir Henry Seymour Rawlinson are standing in the foreground on the right. General Congreve is identified with an x over his head, though the the identification may be erroneous.

Photograph of the Al-Kadhimiya Mosque

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 3
Item
[between 1914 and 1915]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the Al-Kadhimiya Mosque. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1915.

Photograph of the desert

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Item 10
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the desert. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of fallen soldiers

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 11
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of fallen soldiers. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified soldiers with carts in the desert

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 25
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified soldiers with carts in the desert. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a group of people

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 31
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people. Three of the people are each holding a card with a large number 2 on it. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of the Lion of Babylon statue

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 35
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of the Lion of Babylon statue. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a street with people

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 38
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a street with people. The photograph was taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of unidentified buildings and water

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 42
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of unidentified buildings and water. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.

Photograph of a group of people in a field with horses

MS-2-252, PB Box 6, Folder 53
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Richard Edward Graham Roome fonds

Item is a glass plate lantern slide of a group of people in a field with horses. The photograph was likely taken in present-day Iraq between 1914 and 1918.