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Veterans Volunteer Reserve of Eaglesham and District fonds

  • GPR gpr-2960
  • Fonds
  • 1940-1943

The fonds consists of copies of correspondence (and transcripts of the copies) between the Veterans Volunteer Reserve (VVR) of Eagleham and District and headquarters in Edmonton. The correspondence includes Unit Commanders reports regarding parades, intelligence work and miscellaneous information; letters about fundraising and recruitment to the VVR; and reports on investigations by members in cooperation with the RCMP: a N.A.R. cook molesting children, pro-Nazi sympathisers, subversive talk and activities such as discouraging young men from joining the army, farm boys unfairly claiming exemptions, people cheating on income tax, abuse of the rationing system, non-cooperation with VVR activities, and Jehovah's Witness activities. A good deal of effort to obtain convictions appears to have been expended by at least one active member with the encouragement of the provincial headquarters, and entrapment is openly discussed as a means of getting convictions. Correspondence from the platoon commander indicates a strong anti-French sentiment, and there are reports naming young French men who have applied for farming exemptions but are not actively farming their land, resulting in their exemptions being withdrawn. The collection also includes a letter registering disatisfaction with the leadership of the platoon commander and a patriotic poem written by Rita J. Powers about the work of the Veterans Volunteer Reserve.

Veterans Volunteer Reserve of Eaglesham and District

Percy Romkey fonds

  • GPR gpr-2590
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1955

The fonds consists of a soldier's service book and pay book for the Canadian Army for 1944-1945; and one account book, relating to homesteading and agriculture, with 15 pages of records of accounts payable and receivable. The homestead records date from 1926 to 1955.

Romkey, Percy

Marie Henning fonds

  • GPR gpr-2788
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1947

The fonds consists of copies of news articles related to family members, clubs that Marie was involved in, sports news, and news of the local boys during WWII; the obituary and copy of the tribute at her funeral; and photographs and booklets related to her involvement in the Stagettes Club.

Henning, Marie

Martha Jensen, RCAF, WD

  • GPR gpr-2806
  • Fonds
  • Copied 2006 [1942]

The fonds consists of Martha's story and copies of ten photographs relating to Martha Jensen's career in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division. They include two of her in uniform, six taken at Linton Air Base, and two of the work of demobilization.

Head, Martha

Roland Pivert fonds

  • GPR gpr-2765
  • Fonds
  • 1947-1961

The fonds consists of personal and military papers and photographs belonging to Roland Pivert; military publications; information and photographs about Exercise Sweetbriar, a joint Canadian and U.S. training exercise in the Yukon and Alaska; information and photographs of the Prairie Command Display taken from community to community in Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan; slides, photographs and paper artifacts from Roland's tour of peace-keeping duty in Korea in 1953-1954; and some miscellaneous photographs and cards pertaining to travel while he was in the service and his post-military electrical career.

Pivert, Roland

Royal Canadian Legion Sauve Branch 235, Eaglesham fonds

  • GPR gpr-2849
  • Fonds
  • 1947-2003

The fonds consists of legal documents and the written history of the organization, meeting minutes, membership records, activity files, financial records, correspondence and material relating to associated organizations. There is one photograph of Lieutenant J.P. Sauve M.M., after whom this branch of the Royal Canadian Legion is named.

Royal Canadian Legion. Sauve Branch 235, Eaglesham

Lee Pooler fonds

  • GPR gpr-2841
  • Fonds
  • 1942-2008

The fonds consists of Lee's oral history of the time he spent as a weatherman for the U.S. Army Air Force at Little Smoky and Valleyview during World War II, a hand-drawn map of the buildings located near Little Smoky between Valleyview and High Prairie, and 22 photographs. There are 3 photos of Lee Pooler himself, 5 of the Royal Canadian Signal Corps station at Little Smoky where the first temporary weather station was located, 8 of the Weather Station on the hill north of Valleyview, and 6 of people or locations in the area.

Pooler, Lee

Leo Pantel fonds

  • GPR gpr-2585
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1947

The fonds consists of one Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot's Log Book recording training, duty and teaching activities from 1942-1945 and containing documents such as a Pilot's Responsibility form and Certificate of Proficiency; a Statement of War Service Gratuity from the Department of National Defense, War Service Badge permission card; Personnel Counseling Report from the Air Force; and an Honorable Release Certificate from the Air Force.

Pantel, Leo

Jack & Dorothy Potts fonds

  • GPR gpr-2646
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1947

The fonds consists of photographs including snapshots of the corps at the railway station and with the all-terrrain vehicles used in the "Muskox" Expedition; group photos of the corps' hockey and baseball teams, and one of them with their families on an outing at Lake Saskatoon; views of the town of Grande Prairie; and personal photographs of Mrs. Potts and their first home above the beauty parlour.

Potts, Jack

Bob Kennedy fonds

  • GPR gpr-2833
  • Fonds
  • 1928-2005

The fonds consists of records documenting the history of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 54, including a scrapbook of newsclippings and photographs of veterans, a leadership manual, programs from conventions and other events, the proposed by-laws for Branch #54, certificate of title for the Legion Campsite, materials used for interviews and Remembrance Day presentations, and a copy of the Grande Prairie Regional College's Student Awards booklet, 1992-93; Ladies Auxiliary publications, "Diamond Jublilee Convention" and "50 Golden Years", and a history of the Alberta-Northwest Territories Command Ladies' Auxiliaries; and some WWII publications and personal memories: a copy of a letter from Bob Kennedy to his mother, Mrs. Alex Craig, from Sicily in 1944, a Program Commemoration of Liberation, 1945, an order of Service and Thanksgiving conducted at Laren 1945, a copy of a German propaganda leaflet, 2 booklets "The Common-Sense of Re-Establishment" and "D-Day", a newspaper "Operation Overload", and a newsclipping "Germany Quits".

Kennedy, Bob

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