Jane Abbott fonds
The fonds consists of Jane Abbott’s diary, dated 15 May 1914, to 17 September 1914. The diary is an account of the Abbotts’ visit to Europe, primarily Vienna. The highlights of the diary are the June 28 entry relating to the assassinations and t...
Abbott, Jane
John E.S. Taylor fonds
The fonds consists of two pocket diaries kept by Taylor in 1917 and 1919. There are also three bound typescripts of his autobiography, “Nothing but the Truth”, one of which has some photographs. The photographs include: two taken in Saskatchewan (...
Taylor, John E.S.
John Gilbert Browne fonds
The fonds consists of detailed first-hand personal records written by Browne at Boulogne as well as classified printed documents heavily annotated, by Browne’s hand, which had been produced in extremely limited numbers.
Browne, John Gilbert
John Hays fonds
The fonds consists of a portrait of Hays mounted in a memorial plaque with a poem which is written from the point-of-view of his parents. Three medals are also included: the 1914-1915 Star, the British War medal, 1914-1918, and the Victory medal, ...
Hays, John
John Innes Merrylees fonds
Fonds consists of a diary kept by Merrylees from 1914-1918. From 1914-1916 it exists in typescript form only. From January 1917 to November 1917 his diary exists in manuscript and typescript form. Diary entries from March to June 1918 are handwrit...
Merrylees, John Innes
John Shelley fonds
The fonds contains correspondence, photographs, printed materials, technical notebook and plan, and other materials.
Shelley, John
Julian Gould fonds
The fonds consists of 24 letters from Gould to his parents, 1915-1917, fifteen pencil sketches of scenes behind the British lines and a self-portrait, drawings and watercolours of landscapes (including juvenilia), Parisian architecture (1910), and...
Gould, Julian
Lloyd's Register War Record fonds
The fonds consists of shipping statistics and intelligence comprising reports, lists, letters, cablegrams and other documents.
Lloyd's Register
Maintenance Log Book for M-Class Destroyers in the British Royal Navy
Bound log book titled “Information concerning P.V. Gear in 13th Flotilla”. There is an index of the 26 ships listed in the log: Medway, Moresby, Narborough, Nepean, Nictator, Nereus, Norseman, Obdurate, Octavia, Oracle, Onslow, Oriana, Orpheus, Or...
Marion S. Simpson fonds
The fonds consists of fourteen letters written by soldiers in appreciation of the gifts sent to them as well as one b&w photograph.
Simpson, Marion S.
Michel Brisebois collection of World War I leaflets
- RC0399
- Collection
- 1915-1918
The collection consists of leaflets, postcards and bookmarks dropped by airplane and balloon by the French, British and Germans on France, Belgium and Germany during World War I. References to their listings in Klaus Kirchner’s Flugblatt-Propagand...
Military vehicles report
Report, prepared by a Lieutenant Colonel of the Royal Army Service Corps stationed in Baghdad, describing the performance and maintenance record of military vehicles in Mesopotamia and Persia. It is dated 20 March 1919 and was sent to A.D.T, M.T, ...
Morris Drury fonds
The fonds consists of letters written by Drury to his mother, grandmother, grandfather and aunt Fran. The letters discuss Drury's day to day activities, the people he has met and the places he has visited. In the last letter Drury describes his ex...
Drury, Morris
Mrs. Bromley collection
- RC0595
- Collection
- 1916-1917
The collection consists of the letter to Mrs. Bromley and well as two photgraphs of presumably Canadian troops. One is a postcard photograph. The other is identified as "C sub-section, A.S.C. Section, G.H.Q., 3rd Echelon" and was taken in Rouen, F...
Bromley, Mrs.
Myers Coplans collection
- RC0515
- Collection
- 1914-1921
This collection consists of water supply maps, notes, and plans detailing his work supplying good drinking and disposing of waste water generated by the army. Included are diagrams for building water chlorination/filtration systems in the field, d...
Coplans, Myers
Nash's Magazine World War I collection
This is a collection of fourteen letters, some addressed to the editor of Nash’s magazine, mostly written in August and September 1914, the beginning of World War I. One of the letters begins: “you have asked me for a message of encouragement to y...
Norman Allatt fonds
The first accrual consists of the following items: trench maps, picket diaries, paybooks, notebooks, postcards, photographs and other items.The second accrual consists of two commemorative items: a certificate of recognition and commemorative phot...
Allatt, Norman
Otto and Ada Hartmann fonds
The fonds consists of 26 letters, dated between March and October 1915 and five postal receipts. It has been arranged in chronological order, the letters in folders numbered 1-26 and the receipts in a separate folder. Four of the letters were sent...
Hartmann, Otto
Paper soldiers and battle scenes collection
- RC0899
- Collection
- c.1890-c.1925
Paper soldiers were a popular children’s entertainment or decoration beginning in the 1700s, rising to a height of popularity in the mid-19th century, before all but dying out after the Second World War. This small collection typifies the range of...
Pelham Webb collection
The fonds contains poem manuscripts and a single letter. The identity of Mrs. Russell, to whom the single letter in this collection was written and for whom the poems, addressed to "Lydia", were presumably composed, is unknown.
Webb, Arthur Pelham