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UVICSP SC193 · Collection · 1940 - 1941

The collection consists of two handwritten letters to Mrs. Vane-Tempest, in which he discusses the poems which she sent to him and thanks her for her praise of his own.

Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord, 1870-1945
Jack Butler Yeats collection
UVICSP SC129 · Collection · 1888 - 1942

The collection consists of letters written by Jack B. Yeats to Sarah Purser (1888-1889) and to a Mr. Quinn, humorous sketches, and a sketchbook for "La La Noo" (1942).

Yeats, Jack Butler, 1871-1957
CA VHEC RA045 · Collection · [192-]–[before 1942]

Collection is comprised of original photographs and photo postcards of Shoshana Fidelman’s grandparents, parents, uncles and aunts and siblings, none of whom survived the Holocaust. Photographs were taken in Poland prior to the Second World War and mailed by Shoshana Fidelman’s family living in Starachowice-Wierzbnik and Bodzentyn to family members in Canada and Israel.

Rees Rogers Collection
Collection · 1927-1942

The Collection of ephemera consists of itemized bills for construction and renovation materials from Tarbell’s Ltd., W.H. Gage, and Central Builders’ Supply Ltd. Utility bills from City of Courtenay and BC Telephone. E & N Railway tickets. Handbook of Courtenay High School. Poster/invitation to opening of Hurford and Shaw [Motors]. Ration Book Application Card Instructions.

UVICSP SC262 · Collection · 1942

The collection consists of a 1 page tls to “Dear Mr. [T. S.?] Eliot dated April 18th, 1942. “Thank you very much for your sensible and reasonable letter. It will be helpful to me if I decide to do another article.”

Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset), 1874-1965
Loewy postcard collection
CA VHEC RA043 · Collection · 1942–1943

Collection is comprised of twenty-eight postcards written by Sylvia Loewy, in Stockholm, Sweden, to her husband, Fritz, after his 1942 arrest and deportation. Not knowing where her husband was, Sylvia sent the postcards by registered mail to shtetls, ghettos and concentration camps throughout the Polish General Government territory. The postcards were sent in batches with similar messages, explaining that she lives in Sweden, that she is fine, and that she hopes to receive news from her husband as soon as possible.

Beryl Gray collection
CA WVAN 086 · Collection · 1938-1943

The collection consists of issues of women's magazines containing stories by Beryl Gray.

Gray, Beryl
William Soutar collection
UVICSP SC304 · Collection · 1932 - 1943

The collection consists of three handwritten letters to Helen B. Cruikshank. An enclosure of a quotation from Homer is included in the last letter. In the letters, he refers to Grieve (Christopher) [Hugh MacDiarmid], Eliot, Pound, and Joyce.

Soutar, William, 1898-1943
Jean Cocteau collection
UVICSP SC150 · Collection · 1943

The collection consists of Roy Alexander Fowler's copy of the shooting filmscript of L' Eternel Retour (1943). Fowler wrote The Film in France, London: Pendulum Pub. Ltd. (1946).

Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
UVICSP SC269 · Collection · 1931 - 1944

The collection consists of: a holograph postcard signed to George Bullock, Jan. 24, 1944; a 1 page tls to George Bullock, Feb. 1, 1944; a 2 page hls to Marjorie Pollard, Nov. 19, 1931; a 1 page hls to Marjorie Pollard, April 6, 1932, and a 1 page hls to Marjorie Pollard, Nov. 21, 1933.

Murry, John Middleton, 1889-1957
UVICSP SC365 · Collection · 1941 - 1944

The collection consists of photographs of cartoons of "A Day in Fort Henry" plus a few others, together with the negatives. Also included is a photocopy of "Das Deutsche Lied: Volkslieder, Heft 1" and a few pages of other photocopied material in German, including some pictures of Hitler.

Reginald Robinson collection
Collection · [ca. 1945]

The collection consist of photographs Robinson took of Aboriginal Australian peoples, small placards with descriptions of tribal items and customs, and two articles and a photograph regarding a Hobby Show Robinson participated in in 1947.

CA VHEC RA050 · Collection · [1945]

Collection is comprised of photographs taken by Canadian aircraftman and photographer Fred Thompson in locations in Germany, Belgium, England and the Netherlands in 1945, at the end of the Second World War. Photographs depict military personnel and aircraft, liberated slave labourers, street scenes, bombed buildings, shipwrecks, Bergen-Belsen atrocities and other scenes witnessed by the Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Air Force as part of military operations in northwest Europe.

Kenneth Patchen collection
UVICSP SC278 · Collection · 1945

The collection consists of a hand-printed statement of Patchen's pacifistic beliefs, which served as a preface to the Waldport Pamphlet “An Astonished Eye Looks Out Of The Air” (1945).

Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972
UVICSP SC387 · Collection · 1940 - 1945

The collection consists of Gordon Head Special W/T Station (Y Station) photographs. The photographs depict daily operation at the Listening station. The photographs have been identified in the Peter Smith fonds. Y Station attached to HMCS Givenchy at HMC Dockyard, Esquimalt, a shore facility. Copyright expired. Please credit DND/National Archives of Canada, using specific photograph number.

Arlene Ashcroft collection
Collection · 1937- 1945

The collection consists of a photo album that contains photographs of military personnel. Also included are postcards sent to Arlene Russell, newspaper clippings, and military artifacts such as badges, pins, and Second World War artifacts.

Ashcroft, Arlene
Collection · 1912- 1945

The collection consists of photographs and postcards. Included are postcards sent to James and Margaret from their son Tom.

Black, James (family)
CA VHEC RA032 · Collection · [between 1939 and 1945]

Scope and content: Collection is comprised of memorabilia received or collected by Maurice Smith while performing military service in Italy and the Netherlands. Collection is divided into three series: Artefacts [between 1939 and 1945], Correspondence, photograph (1945) and Publications and ephemera (1944–1945).

Smith, Maurice
Preston family collection
UVICSP SC072 · Collection · 1857 - 1945

The collection consists of two manuscripts:-- "The Fathers' Indian Mutiny Letters, 1857 - 1859" which consists of Xeroxed, typed transcripts of letters from J. H. Wyatt, writing from India, to his wife, Jane, "Jeanie" in Aberdeen. There are 77 letters plus a note: "Maude's Battery at the Relief of Lucknow 25 Set. 1857. By Lt. Col. M.E.S. Laws. OBE. M.C. R.A. (ret'd.) Taken from the R.A. Journal, July, 1953", 6 pp. The second is "Military Memories: Part I. First World War,1914-19; Part II. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Turkey, 1919-23; Part III. Royal Air Force, 1923-28; Part IV, Second World War 1938-1945 by W. F. A. Preston, Major late Royal Artillery, Newmarket, Ontario, 1965." 137 pp.

Preston family
Karl Preuss collection
UVICSP SC435 · Collection · ca. 1941-1945

The collection consists of two World War II-era colour-stencilled Soviet military posters. 1) German soldiers before and after the siege on Stalingrad. Slogan translates as: "Quality and Quantity/Before these tried to take Moscow and Stalingrad/and/After they tried to take Stalingrad!", 83 X 143 cm. 2) German soldier being crushed beneath a Soviet tank. Slogan translates as: "Death to the German Finnish bandits", 96 X 162 cm

Preuss, Karl
Edward Meyerstein collection
UVICSP SC264 · Collection · 1937 - 1945

The collection consists of a 2 page hls, May 26, 1937, from Henry Simpson to Meyerstein re: Meyerstein's Briancourt; a 1 page hls, Jan. 13, 1945, from Meyerstein to Henry Simpson; a 1 page, Jan. 29, 1945, incomplete draft typed letter reply to Meyerstein from Henry Simpson about Meyerstein's Azure.

Meyerstein, Edward Harry William, 1889-1952
William K. Esling Collection
CA RMDC MS 20 A2022.000.018 · Collection · 1919-1946

The William K. Esling collection contains documents from 1919-1946, with the collection arranged in the following order:

  1. Biography
  2. Correspondence
  3. Poetry
  4. Personal Writing
  5. Research Materials
Harold Laski collection
UVICSP SC249 · Collection · 1946

The collection consists of a 2 page letter, and typescript copy, to [Percy] Rayment of the Victoria [BC] Labour Council giving Laski's opinions on disarmament and on what actions are necessary to secure world peace.

Laski, Harold Joseph, 1893-1950
CA CCOQ C3 · Collection · [ca. 1912]-[ca. 1946]

The collection consists of photographs collected by the City of Coquitlam Archives that are not part of a specific fonds or collection.

Linda Price collection
CA CCOQ C15 · Collection · 09-Jun-48

The collection consists of three photographs of the 1948 flood at Fraser Mills.

Price (family)