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Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps (Prince Rupert) fonds

  • CA PRC 989-14;989-15
  • Fonds
  • 1943-1945

The fonds consists of a record book of "firing guns competition" (1943-1945) and the night order book (1945) of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps in Prince Rupert, B.C.

Canada. Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps (Prince Rupert, B.C.)

John S. Wilson family fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1921-1957

The fonds consists of records from when E. John Wilson was Lieutenant for the Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps "Captain Cook" in Prince Rupert. It also includes photographs, correspondence, and ephemera from John S. Wilson. Included from the sea cadet corps is a record book of "firing guns competition" from 1943-1945, the 1945 night order book, strength reports, correspondence, parade and training schedules, division lists, nominal roll lists, a course outline for Rifle Coaching, the October 1946 issue of Wescoast Wardroom News, and the April 1946 issue of The Navy League of Canada Sea Cadet Log . The photographs are of family and friends, staff and students at Borden Street and Booth Schools, May Queen candidates, Carlisle and Claxton canneries, sea cadets, and the Wilson Home at 416 Dunsmuir Street.

John S. Wilson family fonds

Royal Canadian Navy HMCS Prince Rupert fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1944- 1985; predominant 1944- 1945

The fonds consists of records from the HMCS Prince Rupert. It includes a Master-At-Arms rough report book from 1944- 1945, a copy of "The Communication Weekly" from April 26, 1945, a booklet for the HMCS Prince Rupert reunion in 1985, a 22 lb. brass plaque of the ship's crest, and the HMCS Prince Rupert's red ensign and white ensign.

Royal Canadian Navy HMCS Prince Rupert

Clifford McInnis fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1934-1968

The fonds consists of documents, maps, and photographs related to the time Clifford McInnis spent in Prince Rupert and Port Edward employed by the United States Army during the Second World War.

McInnis, Clifford

Eugene E. Deiss collection

  • Collection
  • 1943- 1945

The fonds consists of photographs and textual records during the Second World War in Prince Rupert. It includes 73 photographs (1943-1945) of scenes in Port Edward, Prince Rupert, and the surrounding areas, Hagwilget Canyon, , Khatada Lake, and Chicamon Glacier. US Army scenes include an aerial view of Acropolis Hill, Eugene with a bear cub, post theatre, barracks, the day room, a Christmas Party (1944), the administration office, chapels at Port Edward and Prince Rupert, field house, reveille, mail call, U.S. Army Post Softball Team (1943-45), army PX, Military Personnel Office (1945), basketball games, dances, V-J Day parade and speeches at city hall, USO Shows, Ingrid Bergman at USO show. There is also a photograph of Eugene salmon fishing near Port Edward and typed lyrics to a song "Don't Ship Me Out" dedicated to the men of APO 997.

Deiss, Eugene E.

Stuart Carson collection

  • Collection
  • [194-]

The collection consists 76 negatives and 9 photographs from the 1940s. It includes scenes around Prince Rupert during the Second World War such as gun placements, artillery on boats, soldiers, ship building at the dry dock, Hays Creek, CN Park, downtown views, fish boats, family, and a concert.

Carson, Stuart

United States Army (Prince Rupert, B.C.) fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1943-1945

The fonds consists of records from the United States Army in Prince Rupert during the Second World War. It includes a souvenir booklet from 1945 entitled Prince Rupert Sub-Port of Embarkation, a 1945 American Officers' Roster, Muskeg News from the Corp of Engineers A.P.O. 997, The Daily Acropolis News, Port Post, a Telephone Directory for U.S. Army Prince Rupert and Port Edward, and ephemera.

United States Army (Prince Rupert, B.C.)

Arlene Ashcroft collection

  • Collection
  • 1937- 1945

The collection consists of a photo album that contains photographs of military personnel. Also included are postcards sent to Arlene Russell, newspaper clippings, and military artifacts such as badges, pins, and Second World War artifacts.

Ashcroft, Arlene

Ernest A. Woods collection

  • Collection
  • 1906-1924

The fonds consists of photographs of early Prince Rupert showing the building of the town site from the first pile driven to build the wharf in 1906, the first grade of the railway in 1908, the first GTP passenger train, and scenes of early Prince Rupert and the surrounding area up until to the 1920s. There are photographs of people in Prince Rupert, including family and colleagues, nurses during WWI, the drydock, planes, parades, boats, steamships, reservoirs, the Skeena River, Ocean Falls, the cold storage plant, football games, picnics, fire trucks, one photograph of native children in Metlakatla, and a logging camp at Alice Arm. It also includes a certificate of appointment from when Ernest was made a Notary Public on September 21, 1909 and a postcard received by Ernest in Prince Rupert in July 1907, mailed from England June 3, 1907.

Woods, Ernest A.

J. Kenneth Dopson fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1944, 1983

The fonds consists of photographs of the Prince Rupert Drydock. Seven of the photographs were taken during the war and the others were taken later in 1983 when it was demolished.

Dopson, J. Kenneth

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