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Provincial Library correspondence

  • GR-0300
  • Series
  • 1942-1945

The series consists of correspondence created by the Provincial Library between 1942 and 1945 and contains requests for information necessary to military intelligence.

British Columbia. Legislative Library

Correspondence and other material

The series consists of correspondence, memoranda, reports, clippings, photographs, and indexes created by Charles Norman Senior while private secretary to the Minister of National Defence, Ian MacKenzie; executive assistant to the Minister of Veteran's Affairs, Ian MacKenzie; and consular officer in the Department of External Affairs. The dates range from approximately 1900 to 1969.

R.C.N. Barracks, Esquimalt, B.C April 1936

R.C.N. Barracks, Esquimalt, B.C April 1936

Item consists of a mount of one group military portrait in front of an unidentified building at the R.C.N. Barracks at HMSC Naden. There are approximately five rows of unidentified men in uniform. "Robert Fort, Victoria, B.C. 8639/1" is captioned on the bottom left corner of photograph.

George R. Pearkes interview : [Burg, 1974]

RECORDED: Victoria (B.C.), 1974-04-19 SUMMARY: Background information. Service in World War I. Won Victoria Cross at the battle of Passchendaele, 1917. Comments on various duties in the interwar period, and type of training provided to soldiers (i;ncluding Kingston Military College). Service as Commanding General, Canadian Pacific Command: cooperation with the American armed forces; use of volunteers in the Canadian militia; training the soldiers; operations against Kiska. Conscription controversy. Service as M.P. for Nanaimo (later Esquimalt-Saanich) and as Canadian Minister of Defence: establishment of NORAD; use of Canadian troops in NATO; cooperation with officials of the Eisenhower Administration.;

[Endeavour Bark Samoa]

Footage. Samoans loading crates of green bananas onto naval vessel. View of out-rigger canoes and port city. Printing on banana crate: "Gift Nive from Samoa". Banana crates being stacked on deck. Children watching from dock. Views of loaded ship tied up at dock in Samoa.

Road log for the Alaska Highway

  • GR-1252
  • Series
  • 1945

This series contains a road log for the Alaska Highway issued by the office of the Special Commissioner for Defence Projects in North West Canada.

British Columbia. Forest Service

[Search and rescue -- Mother III]

News footage. A re-enactment of a Canadian Armed Forces search and rescue operation. On 15-Mar-1978, Doug Larden's fishing vessel, "Mother III", had an engine room fire en route from Vancouver Island to the herring fishery off Queen Charlottes. The crew was forced to escape by liferaft. Three days later, they were spotted by a Canadian Forces Argus aircraft and rescued by helicopter.

[MARCOM history]

Compilation. Guns [at Fort Rodd Hill?]. Combined fotage of naval combat, World War One and Two. Seaman wearing cap labelled "HMCS Bonaventure". Air and sea combat: aircraft carrier with planes taking off and helicopter hovering over deck. Submarine. Recent naval exercises with destroyers (one marked #282), helicopter, and missile launcher. Control room with officers, radar screen, etc.

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