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CA EMA V992.8 · Fonds · [Copied 1992]

The fonds consists of photographs of Hugh Peters depicting the Peters family and home and photographs of military vessels, buildings and activities in the Esquimalt area. Fonds includes Peters' reference and research files relating to Esquimalt history, the Royal Canadian Navy in Esquimalt, and other aspects of family and community life.

Peters, Hugh
Cooper family fonds
CA EMA V992.31;V992.32 · Fonds · 1940-1962

The fonds consists of photographs depicting the Cooper family, scenes of Esquimalt, and various naval and military groups.

Cooper (family)
Albert March fonds
CA EMA V990.8;990.13;M991.2 · Fonds · 1896, [ca. 1920-1942]

The fonds consists of photographs of the Pioneer Street village (Esquimalt, B.C.) and of the Point Ellice Bridge disaster. Fonds includes a map relating to the expropriation of Esquimalt Village during World War II.

March, Albert
Don Taylor fonds
CA EMA V990.7 · Fonds · [ca. 1973]-1975

The fonds consists of Taylor's photographs of scenes and buildings in Esquimalt, B.C. and at CFB Esquimalt.

Taylor, Don
CA EMA V990.18 · Fonds · 1989

The fonds consists of photographs of Esquimalt memorial cairn ceremony, Apr. 19, 1989.

HMCS Esquimalt Memorial Association
Reed D. Robertson fonds
CA EMA V988.14 · Fonds · 1932-1935, [ca. 1939]

The fonds consists of photographs of Lampson Street School and military personnel on parade in Esquimalt, B.C.

Robertson, Reed D., 1958-
Elsie Josephine Briggs fonds
CA EMA V986.2;V988.7 · Fonds · 1887-1924

The fonds consists of photographs of general scenes in Esquimalt (1887-1924) and photographs of Australian, Canadian and British ships and naval men at Esquimalt.

Briggs, Elsie Josephine, 1907-
Dogwood Veterans' Group
CA CCOQ F9-S06-SS02 · Subseries · 2005-2017
Part of Russell Hellard fonds

The subseries consists of a number of Veterans' Stories booklets from 2005 to 2007, as well as news clippings, minutes, and reports from the Dogwood Veterans' Group. The subseries also contains photographs of members of the Dogwood Veterans' Group that were included in the booklets, as well as photographs of various events attended by members.

Dogwood Veterans' Group
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.

Stanley Winfield fonds
CA VHEC RA044 · Fonds · 1939–1994, predominant 1945

Fonds consists of photographs, publications, reports and correspondence created or collected by Stanley Winfield while he was a sergeant with the Royal Canadian Air Force, related to the time he spent at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after its liberation. Fonds consists of a copy of a scrapbook created by Winfield on the subjects of Bergen-Belsen and Ted Aplin; passports belonging to the Lichtensterns, who were a Jewish couple related to Winfield’s mother and who fled Austria for the United States in 1939; and the program for and copies of speeches delivered at the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Fonds is arranged into three series: Photographs (1945), Belsen and Ted Aplin scrapbook (ca. 1977) and Collected textual records (1939–1995).

Winfield, Stanley H.
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
CA VHEC RA020 · Collection · 1770–1981, predominant 1930-1945

Collection consists of records gathered or purchased by Peter N. Moogk as a result of his interest in Second World War history. Records document the Holocaust era in Europe, in particular the Netherlands under the German occupation government. Collection has been divided into the following series: Photographs ([193-]–194-]; 1981); Posters (1940–1946); Postcards ([193-]–[194-]); Correspondence (1934–1987); Clippings and ephemera (1933–1945), Publications (1933–1945), Personal and military records series (1935–1945), Artefacts (1935–[1945]), Currency (1922–1945) and Declaratory documents (1770, 1772).

CA PMA PMA 12 · Item · 1939, 1942-1944

The fonds is organized into three series. The first series consists of an inventory of articles held by the Company as well as a list of members, a roll call, a Certificate of Discharge (W.E. Banks), and a Purchase of Firearms Document (W.E Banks). The second series consists of a manual entitled “King’s Regulations and Orders for the Canadian Militia, 1939.” The third series is one map of government, logging and trail roads.

Pacific Coast Militia Rangers, 32nd. Company
C.H. Brown fonds
CA MMB P985.1101-15;985.28.1-2 · Fonds · 1917-1943

The fonds consists of Brown's certificates of service and photographs of ships, officers, parties, skills, and presentation to Brown of his O.B.E.

Brown, Charles Henry
John Harper fonds
CA MMB P957-962;L115a-b · Fonds · 1883-1915

The fonds consists of photographs of Royal Navy Artillery Volunteers, HM ships, field gun drill, Esquimalt (1914), and Lt. John Harper. Fonds includes letter (1915) from Admiral John Parry recommending Harper to Admiral Inglefield.

Harper, John
William C. Shaw fonds
CA MMB P4725 · Fonds · 1955-1959

The fonds consists of photographs of the activities of ships of the Royal Canadian Navy Pacific Command, 1955-1959.

Shaw, William C.
C.P. Clarke fonds
CA MMB P44 · Fonds · 1910-[ca. 1915]

The fonds consists of photographs primarily of the HMCS Niobe, Halifax dockyards, the crew, the officers, and "before" and "after" photographs of new recruits.

Clarke, C.P.
Charles B. Hill-Tout fonds
CA MMB P1250 · Fonds · 1913-1914

The fonds consists of photographs of the Victoria and Esquimalt area with an emphasis on naval ships and merchant shipping.

Hill-Tout, Charles Buckland
Walter E. Woodward fonds
CA MMB P1033 · Fonds · 1896-1899

The fonds consists of photographs taken of Royal Navy activities, ships and group portraits surrounding the HMS Imperieuse while in Esquimalt Harbour (1896-1899).

Woodward, Walter E.
James McKie (McKee) fonds
CA LCM MSS 44 · Fonds · 1860-1871

The fonds consists of a Royal Navy Service Certificate of James McKie (McKee) detailing service aboard HMS Nile and HMS Challenger between 1860 and 1871.

McKie, James
CA LCM MSS 1 · Fonds · 1919-1970

The collection consists of programmes for civic functions held for veterans in Langley, B.C., in 1919, 1968, and 1970, and guestbooks with signatures of the veterans attending the 1968 and 1970 functions. Collection also includes a programme from the Langley Annual Memorial Day (1924).

Bert Leaning fonds
CA LMA MS 54 · Fonds · 1910-1960

Fonds consists of 5 albums. Includes photographs of many of the job sites that Bert surveyed for the railway, 1910 and 1911. Also includes photographs of self and friend, J.B. Brown, another surveyor; surveyor crews, Lytton old-timers, and World War I veterans.

Leaning, Bert
CA BOW MS 36 · Fonds · 1947 - 2000

The fonds consists of administrative, operational, and financial records created and accumulated by the Royal Canadian Legion's Bowen Island Branch, RCL Branch 150. Textual records consist predominantly of minutes (1947-1989) and correspondence (1968-2000), and also include memoranda, reports, the visitor’s register, and various published materials. Photographs are of RLC Branch 150 and Ladies Auxiliary RCL Branch 150 members at various functions.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 150
Smythe family fonds
CA OSOY MS 10 · Fonds · 1916-1921, 1942-[after 1948]

Fonds consists of the textual records of Smythe family, Edward Sr. (Ted) and Edward Jr., from 1916-[after 1948]. Includes correspondence, certificates, logbook, map, historical calendar, publication, clippings, ephemera, and photographs.

Smythe (family)
E.S. Tait fonds
CA KSM MG32 · Fonds · 1916-1954

The fonds consists of personal files of Dr. E.S. Tait including mortgage note, share certificates, and army papers relating to his service as a dental officer in World War I.

Tait, Edwin S.