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Fonds Add. MSS. 58 - John Warden fonds
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John Warden fonds
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CA CVAN Add. MSS. 58
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1836-1942 (Creation)
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- Warden, John Weightman
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60 cm of textual records;ca. 50 photographs
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Warden, John Weightman
(1871-1942)
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John Warden was a native of Bayswater, New Brunswick. He served in the South African War and remained there as a member of the South African Mounted Police in Wakkerstroom, Transvaal. He came to Vancouver in 1907 as the representative of the Montellious Piano Company. In 1909 he entered the brokerage business. During this time he was active in the 6th Regiment, DCOR and saw service during the Nanaimo Strike of 1913-1914 and the Komagata Maru incident. In 1914 he was elected a councillor in West Vancouver. He served during World War I in the 7th Battalion, 1st B.C. Regiment and was wounded at Ypres. He was invalided home to Canada. He also served in Mesopotamia in 1918; took part in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (1918-1920) and commanded a Russian Officer's training school in Vladivostock (1919). From 1923 to 1928 he was the international representative of the West Coast Lumber Association. He served as the governor of the Essex County Gaol, Sandwich, Ontario from 1930 until his death.
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The fonds consists of personal papers and correspondence covering Warden's war service, the Russian Intervention and his post war activities with the West Coast Lumber Association, veterans groups and the Essex County Gaol. The fonds also contains a file of newspaper clippings. In addition, there are five notebooks (1905-1919), his army paybook, his rifle range notes, manuscripts based on his diary and notebook of rules he drew up for the Essex County Gaol. The photographs cover the period ca. 1883-ca. 1920 with the majority documenting his wartime service.
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- Alpha-numeric designations: BCAUL control number: CVAN-43
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- Warden, John Weightman (Creator)
