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CA RMDC MS 75 A2022.000.004 · Collection · 1947-1951

Ranging from 1900 to 1917, the Rossland Winter Carnival Collection consists of
1) history
2) meeting minutes
3) correspondence
4) financial records
5) programmes
6) postcards/photographs
7) ephemera

Rossland Sno Sho Committee
Lemuel F. Robertson fonds
Fonds · 1915 - 1917

Fonds consists of incoming letters written to Robertson from former students who served overseas during World War I.

Robertson, Lemuel F.
Chilton Family fonds
Fonds · 1913-1917

The Chilton family photograph album contains photographs depicting family members, friends, community and family events, and military personnel and ships. Photographs show scenes of Steveston, North Vancouver, Peachland, Vancouver and various holiday locations. Steveston photographs include buildings, street scenes, boats, wharves, canneries, and individuals and community gatherings. Among the Steveston buildings depicted are the Post Office, Japanese Church, the Japanese Hospital and Japanese School.

Chilton (family)
CA WVAN 063 · Fonds · 1909-1914

The fonds consists of records relating to the business of the West Vancouver Transportation Company, which operated the first ferry system in West Vancouver. The records include general meeting minutes, board meeting minutes, a book of stock certificates, and two account books.

West Vancouver Transportation Company
CA BCA PR-0509 · Fonds · 1918-[197-]

The fonds consists of Frederick Davison Mulholland's manuscripts of addresses and articles, general correspondence, files on professional associations, clippings and notes, photographs of both professional and family activities, films and maps depicting forestry activity in B.C.

The fonds includes five series:

1.Forestry photographs

2.Family and personal photographs

3.Europe and USA trip 1937 photographs

4.Sweden and Finland trip 1949 photographs

5.Frederick Mulholland papers

Mulholland, Frederick Davison
Emeri Paré fonds
CA CCOQ F4 · Fonds · 1914-1918

The fonds consists of three police log books dated 1914, 1915, and 1918.

Paré, Emeri
CA OBA OBA PR 177 · Collection · post-1918

Hampshire Road Methodist Church
• First World War Honour Roll for the Hampshire Road Methodist Church, ca.1918

Collett family papers
• Emma Collett’s Hampshire Road Methodist Church Sunday School certificate for,
• Dora Collett’s school and first aid certificates
• 5 Collett family photographs
• several printed books incl a Bible
• personal artifacts

Oak Bay United Church (Victoria, B.C.)
Aylmer family fonds
UVICSP SC007 · Fonds · 1916 - 1918

The fonds consists of three scrapbooks, using the Official Telephone Directory Quebec for December 1915, June 1916, and July 1917. They document World War I, including clippings, honour rolls, correspondence, notes, obituaries, articles and columns relating to the progress of the war and, particularly, to news of men and women from Lennoxville, Quebec, and nearby areas who participated in the war.

James A. Brown fonds
Fonds · 1903- 1918

The fonds consists of correspondence. Included is a letter from Brown's mother, a cancelled cheque from the North Coast Commercial Co. Ltd., and letters from A.R. Williams Machining Co. Limited and Simon Leiser & Co.

Brown, James A.
Garfield O'Connor fonds
NWMA IH 1999.28 · Fonds · 1916, 1918

Fonds consists of thirty-three letters. Twenty-nine letters were written by Garfield O'Connor to his mother. The remaining letters are: Will O'Connor to Garfield O'Connor (letter 6); Garfield O'Connor to Will O'Connor (letter 11); Leo J. Stone to Nettie O'Connor (letter 13); and Garfield O'Connor to Dear Brother (letter 26). Most of the letters have their original envelopes. All of the letters were written in 1918 except for one that is dated 1916.

Garfield O'Connor
Charles McDowall Smyth fonds
UVICSP SC403 · Fonds · 1918

The fonds consists of a MS notebook (photocopy) and transcript of Major Charles McDowall Smyth's account of the end of WWI and the Armistice, dated Nov. 12, 1918. Smyth was in the Canadian Engineers in France and Belgium. Biographical materials include photocopies of photographs and obituary.

Smyth, Charles McDowall, 1890-1965
J. Allan Rutherford fonds
UVICSP SC108 · Fonds · 1918

The fonds consists principally of an album of photographs, taken while Rutherford served in Egypt and Palestine. The photographs are mostly scenic ones of Egypt, but also includes some pictures of the war zone in Palestine and a few pictures of WWI airplanes and his fellow Flying Corps members. Also included in the fonds are loose scenic postcards of Ismailia, Egypt.

Rutherford, J. Allan
UVICSP SC325 · Collection · 1917 - 1918

The collection consists of 123 pen-and-ink drawings and watercolours titled: Sketches of the War : France/Belgium in 2 volumes and is dedicated in a pasted in letter: "To my Daughter Adele." The sketches vary from satirical cartoons to more detailed and naturalistic renditions. They are often accompanied by an ironic title and are often signed with the artist's initials, "J.M." The artist's satirical targets include the officers and high command of both combatant sides; the disjuncture between reported and actual events, and the death of civilians as a fact of modern warfare.

UVICSP SC369 · Collection · 1916 - 1918

The collection consists of a photograph album: "My Chronicle of the War," which contains photographs, clippings, pamphlets, cartoons and ephemera, concerning mainly the Canadian expeditionary army in World War I.

Westman, Florence M.
Keith Macgowan fonds
UVICSP SC074 · Fonds · 1916 - 1919

The fonds consists of holograph correspondence written primarily to his mother from the trenches and war front in Europe, together with a typescript transcription of the letters; a photograph of Macgowan with (apparently) two members of his battalion; programme for a Brussels Ball; clippings; and 11 maps used by Macgowan to direct his troops in battle. Also included are aerial photographs of three regions of north-west France together with a map of north-west France (Denain region). Some of the photographs have holograph additions to them, largely for the purpose of identification of towns or other significant features.

Macgowan, Keith C. (Keith Campbell), 1890-1934
Cyrus W. Peck fonds
UVICSP SC265 · Fonds · 1914 - 1919

The fonds consists of extracts from Cyrus Peck's personal diary kept while overseas in World War I.

Peck, Cyrus Wesley, 1871-1956
Rose Fyleman fonds
UVICSP SC209 · Fonds · 1919

The fonds consists of a handwritten letter to E. W. Naylor (father of Bernard Naylor).

Fyleman, Rose, 1877-1957
UVICSP SC223 · Fonds · 1914-1919

The fonds consists of regimental orders Feb. 14-Dec. 16, 1914; nominal roll 1914-1916. Also contains nominal roll of 16th Battalion 1915-1919; nominal roll on leaving Victoria with Cyrus Peck and William Duncan items.

Canada. Canadian Army. Regiment, 50th (Gordon Highlanders of Canada)
Frederick A. Carne fonds
UVICSP SC170 · Fonds · 1915 - 1919

The fonds consists of a photocopied transcript of a file of letters Carne sent home to his family. The transcription was done by Mrs. Agnes Tate (sister).

Carne, Frederick A. (Frederick Ancel), b. 1889
William W. Duncan fonds
UVICSP SC317 · Fonds · 1918 - 1919

The fonds consists of a sketch-book of Lt. W. Duncan, 16th Battn.

Duncan, William W.
UVICSP SC324 · Collection · 1914 - 1919

The collection consists of two volumes. The first volume is hardcover and contains clippings from Toronto newspapers. Some of the text extends into the 1930s but all of the photographs are from 1914-1919. The second volume is unbound. Its clippings are from an unknown source. Included with this volume are some loose clippings from the same sources, together with newspapers from Hamilton and Toronto.

Albert Henry Wheeler fonds
NWMA IH 1978.19 · Fonds · 1916-1919

Fonds consists of records pertaining Albert Wheeler's World War One military service. There is also photo album containing photos of the 104th Regiment. There are photos from training, in Victoria, boarding trains, on ship, in England, and finally in Europe.

Wheeler, Albert Henry
Destrube family fonds
UVICSP SC033 · Fonds · 1857 - 1919

The fonds consists of correspondence regarding World War I, 1915-1919, mostly letters and postcards from Georges Destrube in France, with a few from other family members and friends (some are in French). The subject of the letters is mostly about army life/war and the untimely deaths of Guy and Paul Destrube. Also included are clippings from "The Illustrated London News", from 1857 and 1870.

Destrube (family)
F. E. R. Wollaston fonds
Fonds · ca. 1920

The fonds consists of photographs likely taken by A.F.R. Wollaston in Uganda, the Congo, New Guinea, and Fiji. Also included are the envelope in which the photos were posted, and a note from M (Marjorie Halpin) to Audrey (Shane? Hawthorn?) regarding the donation of the photos to the Museum of Anthropology.

Wollaston, Francis Edmond Richard