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Lgen Maurice A. Pope Collection Maurice Arthur Pope Collection AN 20030022-001 Page 1 of 71 Canadian War Museum Finding Aid Maurice Arthur Pope Collection Accession number 20030022-001 Dates: 1852-1969 Extent: 2000 letters in 3 boxes, or 96.0 cm. Biographical Sketch: Maurice Arthur Pope was born 29 August 1889 at his parents’ summer home at St. Patrick, Temiscquata County, Quebec. He was the third son of Joseph Pope (who, at the time, was the private secretary of Sir John A. Macdonald) and of Henriette, the eldest daughter of Sir Henri Thomas Taschereau. Maurice received his early education in Ottawa at both the Model school and the Ottawa Collegiate Institute. Keen on sports, he ran with the Ottawa Harriers while attending high school. During the summer of 1905 he worked in a hydrographic party, which was engaged in surveying the route for the prepared Georgian Bay ship canal. During the summers of 1906 and 1907 he was employed in the construction of docks on the Louis embankment in Quebec City. He entered McGill University in the fall of 1906 to begin his studies in civil engineering and was an enthusiastic member of a fraternity. After a difficult second year at McGill, he decided to take a year off, during which he worked at Frankford on the construction of the Trent valley canal. He returned to McGill in the fall of 1909, worked for a contractor on a building extension in Montreal in the summer of 1910, and graduated from McGill in 1911. He then joined the Engineering department of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in Montreal. Shortly after the outbreak of war in 1914, Maurice joined the Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC) contingent at McGill. The CPR sent him to Quebec City that fall where he continued his military training in the evenings. He returned to Montreal before the end of the year and was gazetted a Lieutenant in the 4th Field Company, Canadian Engineers (CE) (active militia). Maurice joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) in April 1915 and went overseas that August. He was stationed at the Canadian Engineers Training Depot at Shorncliffe for four months and proceeded to France on 1 January 1916 where he served with the 4th Field Company, CE. He became staff Captain (Intelligence) of the 11th Canadian Infantry Brigade (CIF) and, later Brigade Major of the 4th Brigade, CE. He returned to Canada in June 1919 and served under the District Engineer Officer of MD5 (Quebec City). In June 1920, Pope was sent to Belgium to serve with the Canadian Battlefields Memorial Commission. He married the Comtesse Simonne du Monceau de Bergendal of Chaumout-Gistoux, Belgium that September. Their first child, John Joseph was born in July 1921 and, in December of that year, Maurice Pope returned to Canada to serve under the District Engineer Office of MD2 (Toronto) and applied for admission to the staff Maurice Arthur Pope Collection AN 20030022-001 Page 2 of 71 college at Camberley. He was selected for the preliminary course for Canadian candidates, which was held at Kingston early in 1923. He passed first in the class and consequently was accepted for the two-year course at Camberley. Following his years at Camberley, Pope proceeded to Victoria, B.C. where he served as General Staff Officer of MD11. He filled the same post in MD5 from April 1928 to the spring of 1931 when he was sent back to England as interchange Staff Officer at the War Office. He returned to Canada in the spring of 1933 and was stationed at National Defence Headquarters for two and a half years, mostly in the Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence. He then attended the Imperial Defence College in London and, from1937 until early 1940 he was again at National Defence Headquarters and was Director of Military Operations and Intelligence during the latter part of this service. In May 1940, Pope proceeded to England where he served as Brigadier General Staff at Canadian Military Headquarters in London. He returned to Canada the following February and was Assistant Chief of the General Staff until March 1942 when he was appointed Chairman of the Canadian Joint Staff Mission in Washington. He returned to Ottawa as Military Secretary to the Cabinet War Committee and member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee. He was sent to Berlin as Chief of the Canadian Military Mission to the Allied Control Commission in October 1945 and, in June 1950, was appointed Canadian Ambassador to Belgium where he remained until late 1953 when he became Ambassador to Spain. Maurice Pope retired in March 1956, after which he edited his father’s memoirs, Public Servant (1960) and wrote Soldiers and Politicians: The Memoirs of Lt. Gen Maurice A. Pope (1962). He died in Ottawa in 1978. Language: textual material in the fond is in English and French. Scope and Content: In 1971 and 1973, the National Archives of Canada received from General Pope and his family the papers of Sir Joseph Pope as well as papers of General Pope. Although most of the correspondence in this collection was written between 1883 and 1924, there are a few pieces related to the Pope family on Prince Edward Island, 1852 and 1876 (Box 1, file 1). Others, written between 1937 and 1969 relate to General Pope’s later career and to his life after his retirement (Box 4, files 32 and 33). The greater part however, consists of letters, which he wrote to his parents. They reflect life in a relatively prosperous and well-connected family living in the Sandy Hill district in Ottawa. Perhaps the most interesting are the numerous letters written by his Sir Joseph and Lady Pope. Sir Joseph’s correspondence clearly demonstrates great affection for his son and contains good advice on financial matters and on career advancement. They also reveal how valuable were the connections enjoyed by senior civil servants and military officers in the Ottawa of the time. Maurice Arthur Pope Collection AN 20030022-001 Page 3 of 71 Lady Pope, writing in French, kept her son abreast of the news of members of the Pope and Taschereau families and of happenings in Ottawa’s social life. Her wartime letters provide news of her patriotic activities and of such events as the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. She also clearly expresses her opinion of the anti-war views expressed by Armand Lavergne and others in his native Quebec. In 1996, Joseph Pope, the eldest son of Maurice Pope, published a collection of the letters written by his father during the First World War (Letters From the Front 1914-1919). An asterisk with an entry below indicates whether a letter from this collection was printed in the book. Arrangement: This finding aid has been arranged numerically by box and file number. Where logical, the dates covered by the letters contained within each file are noted. In addition, biographical details about pertinent individuals, where known, are included before the list of each file’s contents. All letters can be found under fonds number 58A 1 177-58A 1 179. Detailed Listing: BOX 1 File number Contents Letters written to William Henry Pope, father of Joseph Pope. WH Pope was a Charlottetown lawyer who, in 1873, became a county court judge in Dalston, Cumberland. 1 • Charlottetown, 25 November 1852, Eric Windres to Pope. • Charlottetown, 28 July 1876, Daniel Davies to Pope. • 19 September 1876, TW Haviland to Pope [no location noted]. 1893-1899. Joseph Pope was frequently absent from Ottawa on Government business. • 4 May 1893, Edward Pope to his father Joseph Pope [no location noted]. • Ottawa, 3 August 1895, Joseph Pope to his son, Maurice. • Government house (Ottawa), 9 March 1896, David Erskine 2 (Lord Aberdeen’s secretary) to Maurice. • Government house, 21 May 1896, Erskine to Maurice. • Ottawa, 3 May 1897, Maurice, Harold and Alfred Pope, to their aunt, Georgina Pope. • Ottawa, 12 January 1898, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 7 April 1898, Maurice to his mother, Henriette Pope. • Ottawa, 4 September 1898, Maurice to Henriette Pope. • Ottawa, 28 September 1898, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 13 November1898, Maurice to Joseph Pope Maurice Arthur Pope Collection AN 20030022-001 Page 4 of 71 File number Contents • Ottawa, 22 November1898, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 28 November1898, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 2 December 1898, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 8 December 1898, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 13 December 1898, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 2 January 1899, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 6 January 1899, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 21 January 1899, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 5 February 1899, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 6 February 1899, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 8 February 1899, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • St. Patrick, 9 July 1899, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • St. Patrick, 11 July 1899, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • September 1899, Maurice to Joseph Pope [no date or location noted]. • 25 September 1899 Maurice to Joseph [no location noted]. 1900-1904. Maurice was a pupil at the Ottawa model school until September 1902 when he entered Ottawa Collegiate. Georgina Pope was a nurse with the Canadian contingent in South Africa. • Ottawa, 31 January 1900. Maurice to Georgina Pope. • Ottawa, 5 March 1900. Maurice to Georgina Pope. • Ottawa, 12 June 1900. Maurice to Georgina Pope. • St. Patrick, 9 July 1900, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Smith Falls, 29 November 1901, Maurice to Joseph Pope. 3 • Smith Falls, 28 December 1902, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 25 March 1903, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 4 April 1903, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 15 April 1903, Maurice to Joseph Pope. • Ottawa, 26 April 1903, Maurice to Joseph Pope.
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