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Ellanore June Parker fonds
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Ellanore June Parker fonds

  • PR-0398
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1919-1965]

The fonds consists of manuscripts, correspondence and photographs.

Parker, Ellanore June

Personal papers of Ellanore Parker and Murney Pugh

The series consists of records created by Ellanore Parker and Murney Pugh, mostly between 1915 and 1955. Series includes copies of manuscripts of articles (many of which were published in the Los Angeles Times), short stories, poems and novels; scrapbook of published articles; photocopies of reviews and clippings; newspaper cuttings relating to Miss Parker; epigrams; correspondence with various people including Manette (a French woman who Miss Parker and Miss Pugh met during World War I), Sir Anthony Eden, Charles de Gaulle, Cristobel Pankhurst, T.A. Gerar etc. Papers of her companion Miss Murney M. Pugh, consisting of "Background of the Thomas Pugh Family" (Nova Scotia); and C.E.F. certificate of service.

Photo album

The series consists of a home-made photo album made of cardboard, surgical tape and string. The album contains 18 b&w photographs of nursing sisters Ellanore Parker and M. Pugh in Canadian hospitals in France and at a convalescence home in Hastings, England. The album also includes a Canadian Medical Corps Christmas card from 1918. The album has been annotated in pen sometime between its creation after 1918 and ca. 1965 when it was donated to the Archives.

Xmas 1915

Showing [hospital] interior with convalescent soldiers. Banner at rear reads: A Merry Xmas / Peace and Goodwill to All / Canada Forever.