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Archival Sources and Photo Credits WAR MEMORIES ACROSS CANADA: SITES OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR ARCHIVAL SOURCES AND PHOTO CREDITS Going ashore during Operation JUBILEE, the raid on Dieppe, France, 19 August 1942. Photo credit: Capt. Frank Royal Library and Archives Canada - PA-113245 War Heritage Research Initiative Initiative de recherche du patrimoine de la guerre warheritage.royalroads.ca Table of Contents Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 3 Mobilizing for War - The Lincoln and Welland Regiment, St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the- Lake, Ontario ......................................................................................................................... 4 Aerodrome of Democracy - Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba .. 5 Coast Defence - Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites, Victoria, BC ..... 6 The Longest Battle - HMCS Sackville, Halifax, Nova Scotia & Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club, St. John’s Newfoundland ............................................................................................................ 7 Japanese Canadian Internment, Hastings Park, Pacific National Exhibition, Vancouver, BC...... 9 The Great Equalizer - Metis Veterans Memorial Monument, Batoche, Saskatchewan ........... 10 Canadian Women’s Army Corp. - Lougheed House, Calgary, Alberta ..................................... 11 Mennonite Conscientious Objectors, Rosthern and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan ..................... 12 One Name on a Memorial – The Story of Russell McConnell ................................................. 13 Where the Decisions were Made - Laurier House National Historic Site, Ottawa, Ontario ..... 14 German Prisoners of War - Whitewater Prisoner of War Camp, Riding Mountain National Park, Manitoba .................................................................................................................... 15 Next Steps to Win the War - Quebec Conference 1943, Quebec City, Quebec ....................... 16 April 28-29, 1944. HMCS Haida - HMCS Haida National Historic Site, Hamilton, Ontario ........ 17 Remembering the Holocaust - Jewish Cemetery, Victoria, BC ............................................... 18 Machines of the Air War -Bomber Command Museum of Canada, Nanton Alberta & Vintage Wings of Canada, Gatineau, Quebec .................................................................................... 19 Royal Canadian Legion - Calgary, Alberta & Prince Albert, Saskatchewan .............................. 20 2 Introduction Photo: Canadians advancing through German wire entanglements - Vimy Ridge. April, 1917. Source: Library and Archives Canada/MIKAN 3404765 Photo: Mud and barbed wire through which the Canadians advanced during the Battle of Passchendaele. November 1917. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Credit: William Rider-Rider/PA-002165 Photo: Bodies of Canadian soldiers lying among damaged landing craft and 'Churchill' tanks of the Calgary Regiment following Operation 'Jubilee'. August 1942 Source: Library and Archives Canada/C-014160 Film: Canadian Army Newsreel, No. 33 (1944) Source: Library and Archives Canada/IDC: 33109 Film: On Guard for Thee (1940) Source: Library and Archives Canada/National Film Board of Canada : 1982-1985 fonds, 1983-0063. IDC: 84830 Film: [CWACS On Parade] Source: Library and Archives Canada/Renée Haweis Chipman fonds, 1982-0016. IDC: 324376 Photo: [Lincoln and Welland Regiment returning to St. Catharines, 1946] Source: St. Catharines Museum/The Standard Collection/S1946.52.11.1 Photo: Oxford aircraft crash, September 1942 Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-064352 Photo: R.C.N. officer questioning Japanese-Canadian fishermen while confiscating their boat, December 9, 1941. Source: Library and Archives Canada/ PA-112539 Map used throughout War Memories across Canada Natural Resources Canada. (1915) Atlas of Canada (2nd edition). Territorial Divisions: http://geogratis.gc.ca/api/en/nrcan-rncan/ess-sst/1540748e-b0ac-5f39-b462-de82a21e8148.html 3 Mobilizing for War - The Lincoln and Welland Regiment, St. Catharines and Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Film footage of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment Courtesy of Lincoln and Welland Regiment Museum Photos of Lincoln and Welland Regiment Courtesy of St. Catharines Museum, The Standard Collection S1939.44.10.3 S1939.44.10.4 S1939.41.1.4 S1939.41.1.2 S1940.29.4.1 S1941.46.15.1 S1946.52.11.1 Recruiting poster: You are needed now for active service, Department of National Defence Canada. Source: The Flesherton Advance, Wednesday May 21, 1941 Photo: Infantrymen of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment aiming their Bren guns during a battle drill exercise, St. John's, Newfoundland, May 1943. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence/PA-197525 Film: Canadian Army Newsreel, No. 59 (1945) Source: Library and Archives Canada/ISN 33236. Photo: Soldiers of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment wearing winter camouflage clothing, Vught, Netherlands, 1 February 1945. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence/ PA-175530 Photo: Infantrymen of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment in a canoe training for the assault on Kapelsche Veer, Netherlands, 26 January 1945. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-142421 4 Aerodrome of Democracy - Commonwealth Air Training Plan Museum, Brandon, Manitoba Film: Canada Carries On = World in Action, Churchill's Island = La Forteresse de Churchill (1941) Source: Library and Archives Canada/National Film Board fonds/ISN 23690 Film: [Royal Air Force in Burma; RCAF : Stock Shots : Roffman Footage] (1942) Source: Library and Archives Canada/ISN 327781 Photo: North American NA-64 Yale. Source: Canada. Dept. of National Defence Photo: Fairey Battle Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence/PA-064642 Photo: Westland Lysander II Source: Canadian Aviation and Space Museum/10490 Photo: De Havilland DH-82 Tiger Moth Source: Canada. Dept. of National Defence Photo: Cessna 'Crane' IA aircraft 8807 of the R.C.A.F. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Credit: Robert A. Joss/PA-072305 Photo: Damaged Bristol Bolingbroke IVT aircraft of the R.C.A.F., May 1942 Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-064239 Photo Crash of Harvard, September 1942 Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-064351 Photo: Oxford aircraft crash, September 1942. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-064352 5 Coast Defence - Fort Rodd Hill and Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Sites, Victoria, BC Photo: BC FRH 090109-0118: Buxton kids on the Lower Battery 6-inch gun, circa 1927 Source: Parks Canada Photo: BC FRH 090123-0198 : Casenate Barracks (Lower Battery) interior, summer training camp circa 1937 Source: Parks Canada Photo: 5th BC Coast Regiment, Signal Hill, Esquimalt, BC Source: Parks Canada Photo: Canadian army field gun crew training at Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, BC. May 1944 Source B.C. Archives/I-51841 Photo: BC FRH 090220-0309 : Searchlight No 7 in camouflage, circa 1942 Source: Parks Canada Photo: BC-FRH-090217-0290: Gate Vessel in Esquimalt Habour Source: Parks Canada Bangor Entering Esquimalt Painted by Rowley Murphy in 1944 Beaverbrook Collection of War Art CWM 19710261-4261 http://www.warmuseum.ca/cwm/exhibitions/navy/objects_photos_search-e.aspx?section=4- E&id=55&page=2 Photo: Anti-aircraft gun on display at Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, BC. Source B.C. Archives/I-51844 Photo: Gunners at Black Rock during WWI (1915) Source: Parks Canada Photo: BC FRH 090114-0143 : 12 pounder 12cwt gun at Black Rock Battery, circa 1925 Source: Parks Canada Photo: BC FRH 090114-0164 : Twin-6 pounder shoot at Belmont Battery Source: Parks Canada 6 The Longest Battle - HMCS Sackville, Halifax, Nova Scotia & Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club, St. John’s Newfoundland Film: Canada Carries On = World in Action, Churchill's Island = La Forteresse de Churchill (1941) Source: Library and Archives Canada/National Film Board fonds/ISN 23690 Photo: Firing of a depth charge from the corvette H.M.C.S. PICTOU at sea, March 1942. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence fonds /PA-116838 Film: Royal Canadian Navy during The Second World War YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOHQHF34ORQ Film: [Colour footage of ship] Source: Courtesy of Lincoln and Welland Regiment Museum Photo: The CASTLE class corvette HMCS PETROLIA entering St. John's Harbour, in June of 1945. Victor Borushynski photo, courtesy of Don Bjordahl. The Canadian Navy of Yesterday & Today Photo Gallery http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/photarch3/ Photo: The revised FLOWER class corvette HMCS PETERBOROUGH. Victor Borushynski photo, courtesy of Don Bjordahl. The Canadian Navy of Yesterday & Today Photo Gallery http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/canada/photarch3/ Painting: [Ship on fire] Source: Crow’s Nest Officers’ Club, St. John’s Newfoundland Photo: Commander E.R. Mainguy, Commanding Officer, H.M.C.S. "Ottawa", off Botwood, Nfld. Source: Library and Archives Canada/PA-104029 Photo: [Young men at the Crow’s Nest] Source: Margaret Morris Photo: Lieutenant R.L. Hennessy, H.M.C.S. ASSINIBOINE, 1940. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-104253 Photo: Commander Clarence A. King, D.S.O., D.S.C., Commanding Officer of the frigate HMCS Swansea, on Swansea's bridge at sea. Source: Library and Archives Canada/Credit: Lt Gilbert A. Milne/Dept. of National
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