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D. H. MacKinnon fonds

  • CA PAA paa-7011
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1916]

Fonds consists of photographs depicting the local hockey team and militia at the Strathcona Composite High School during World War I.

MacKinnon, D. H.

D. Herbert fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9380
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1940] - 1951

The fonds consists material acquired by D. Herbert including eight maps featuring the Railway Station at Dortmund, Germany dating from 1944 and one map of each of Townships 9, 10, 12, 13 of Manitoba produced by the Department of National Defense Army Survey Establishment gathered from aerial views and compiled in 1951; one map of England, one map of Paris, one map of Bremen, one map of Brussels, one map of Leipzig, one map of Midlark and Wales, and one map of England produced by the Royal Air Force during the 1940s.

Herbert, D.

Darlene Skaer collection

  • CA PAA paa-7957
  • Collection
  • 1943

The collection consists of 18 prints of Second World War cartoons by Stew Cameron, two of which have been signed by Cameron. The cartoon appeared in Cameron's book <em>Basic Training Daze</em>.

Skaer, Darlene

David Lynch Scott fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9125
  • Fonds
  • 1866 - 1871

The fonds consists of a Second Class certificate for David Lynch Scott from the School of Military Instruction, Toronto, 1866 and a First Class certificate for David Lynch Scott from the Volunteer Militia, Niagara, 1871.

Scott, David Lynch

Dent family fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9661
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1994

The fonds consists of records created and acquired by Leslie, Kathleen, and Ralph Dent in the course of their work and private lives. Leslie's records include photographs, training notes, and correspondence from his service during the First World War, correspondence and records related to his union activities and work for CNR, and a significant amount of material from his amateur performance career. This latter material includes annotated and non-annotated song sheets, programs, and song lyrics. Kathleen's records include a self-created cookbook, certificates received on significant dates such as birthdays and anniversaries, and photographs related to her personal life and performances with Leslie. Ralph's records consist of photographs from his service in the Second World War, training notebooks and other military-related textual material, scrapbooks, personal correspondence, and war-time publications related to flight education and training.

Dent (family)

Donald Carson fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9709
  • Fonds
  • 1915, 1939-1945

<p>The fonds consists of photographs taken by a friend of Carson's and some textual material related to Carson's military service. The photographs depict Carson and men he served with from 1939 to 1945. The scrapbook contains a near-complete visual record of activities undertaken by Carson's unit from the summer of 1944 to winter of 1945, including images of the invasion of Walcheren Island; the Alligator tank that hit a mine and caused Carson's injuries; various sites visited by Carson during the war, including England, Normandy, Ghent, Bruges, Antwerp, and Walcheren Island; identified images of various servicemen; images of civilians in liberated areas; social activities; Christmas celebrations in 1944; German prisoners of war; and Allied service members, including women.</p>;<p>The scrapbook also contains some textual material including obituaries of Carson's father and brother; currency notes from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany; the telegram sent to Thelma Carson informing her of Donald's injury; Carson's discharge paper; a leaflet given to Donald's father, James, during the First World War that specifies behaviour expected of British personnel in France; and letters drafted by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Canadian commander, Lt. Gen. H.D.G. Crerar, that were distributed to Allied personnel on the eve of the D-Day invasion.</p>;<p>The remaining textual material consists of Carson's military paybooks.</p>

Carson, Donald

Donald Munro Williamson fonds

  • CA PAA paa-7049
  • Fonds
  • 1932-1984

The fonds consists of photographs of family, friends and Navy ships, maneuvers, events, people and Alberta Legislature ceremonies, financial records, original and copied birth certificates, invitations, records related to Munro's university degree and his career in the Navy, newspapers clippings, photocopied reminiscences of growing up in Edmonton by Munro Williamson, slides of hunting trips (Beaverlodge), Imperial Oil staff, an arctic trip, Jasper area, Edmonton homes, streets, the Legislative building and the river valley, and maps of the North American East Coast, the Nova Scotia South East coast, and Peace River.

Williamson, Donald Munro

Dorothy Tetley fonds

  • CA PAA paa-7969
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1988

The fonds consists of images, originally dating circa (ca.) 1940 to 1943, of a rifle practice at a local range for members of the Veterans Guard of Canada for Red Deer and District; identifiable members in the images include Rex Tetley and Jack Drever.

Tetley, Dorothy

Doug Brown fonds

  • CA PAA paa-8546
  • Fonds
  • 1992

The fonds consists of 2 photographs and 1 negative documenting the 100th Anniversary of the City of Edmonton Police Force taken by Doug Brown in 1992.

Brown, Doug

Doug R. Babcock fonds

  • CA PAA paa-7352
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1974

Fonds consists of copied photographs that date from circa (ca.) 1848-1922, predominantly 1901-1922, that depict various people, buildings, and views in Chipewyn, Sawridge, Slave Lake, Fort Vermilion, Athabasca Landing, and Fort McMurray, Alberta including a Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) officer, paddle steamers, Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) boats, a government telegraph office, log cabins, street views, a sawmill, a cemetery, school teachers, and missionaries.

Babcock, Doug R.

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