John Smith Stewart fonds MG30-E249 Finding aid no MSS1021 vol. 1 R2503 Instrument de recherche no MSS1021

Former Media arch. ref. no Title Vol. Dates Support Ancien no Titre réf. arch. John Smith Stewart fonds South African War - material relating to John Smith Stewart and Lord Textual MG30-E249 1 Strathcona's Horse. Includes a speech by Gordon Churchill, Minister of 1900-1901, 1962 Carto Veterans Affairs about the war Textual South African War - newspaper clippings and an annotated map of the MG30-E249 1 1900-1962 Carto Transvaal and the Orange Free State Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) - correspondence about a Textual MG30-E249 1 memorial radio series about Canadian participation in the First World War 1963 and plans to interview J.S. Stewart Canadian Legion - correspondence, programmes. Notes and newspaper clippings referring to No 4 Canadian Legion Branch, Lethbridge, , Textual MG30-E249 1 1951-1969 which changed its name to the General Stewart Branch on 18 June 1951. Also the Alberta Legion Provincial Convention handbook for 1957. Textual MG30-E249 1 Brigadier-General J.S. Stewart - personal correspondence 1936-1969 Textual MG30-E249 1 Brigadier-General J.S. Stewart - congratulatory correspondence 1917-1918 Brigadier-General J.S. Stewart - military documentation - discharge papers, Textual MG30-E249 1 1908-1919 military instruction certificate and other related material Honorary degree - article in The New Trial about the presentation of an Textual MG30-E249 1 1957 honorary degree to J.S. Stewart by the Correspondence with Georges Licope, the creator and curator of the Mons War Museum, Belgium. Contains details about the museum, the war and Textual MG30-E249 1 1961-1969 Canadian participation, and newspaper clippings about the death of Victor Maistriau, the Belgian State Minister Correspondence with Victor Maistriau, state minister and former Textual MG30-E249 1 Burgomaster of Mons, Belgium about the First World War and the Mons 1961 War Museum

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Former Media arch. ref. no Title Vol. Dates Support Ancien no Titre réf. arch. Textual Brigadier-General J.S. Stewart's maps of Belgium and France (Valenciennes, MG30-E249 1 [ca. 1914-1918] Carto Cambrai and Vimy) Notes from Brigadier-General J.S. Stewart's book about the capture of Textual MG30-E249 1 [ca. 1914-1918] Mons Material relating to the 1968 pilgrimage to Mons, Belgium to celebrate the Textual MG30-E249 1 1968 50th anniversary of the Armistice of the First World War

A handbook of the Hotel de Ville de Mons, signed by local dignitaries on 11 November 1918; a pamphlet entitled 'La bataille de Mons et la délivrance' Textual MG30-E249 1 1918; a copy of memorial written by the 3rd Canadian Division and 1905, 1918, 1949 presented to Mons and Cambrai in 1918; and a 1949 edition of L'Hotel de ville de Mons handbook signed by Georges Licope.

Pamphlets, newspaper clippings and notes relating to the history of the 20th and 25th batteries of the Canadian Field Artillery and Brigadier- n.d., 1916, 1930, 1938, Textual MG30-E249 1 General J.S. Stewart's role as commanding officer. Includes a programme of 1958, 1966 the Royal Canadian Artillery reunion in May 1930 Contemporary data, routine and special orders, reports and Textual MG30-E249 1 correspondence collected while Brigadier-General J.S. Stewart was n.d., 1914-1915, 1918 overseas. Includes notes on 18-pounder ammunition Data and transcripts of original documents collected after the war which Textual MG30-E249 1 contain information on the relief of Mons in 1918, Canadian participation n.d., 1955-1968 in the First World War and the 25th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery

Brigadier-General J.S. Stewart's notes about Maréchal Foche's memoirs, Textual MG30-E249 1 [ca. 1920-1930] Field-Marshal Haig's memoirs, Passchendaele and Vimy Ridge Textual MG30-E249 1 Newspaper clippings about the First World War 1918-1957

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Former Media arch. ref. no Title Vol. Dates Support Ancien no Titre réf. arch. Personal accounts of the First World War by Georges Licope, curator of the Mons War Museum; The Curé de Wallers; J.C.K. Mackay, 20th Battery, Textual MG30-E249 1 Canadian Field Artillery; Major William B. Taggart DSO; Lieutenant-Colonel [ca. 1919-1969] Fred Coghlan DSO; and 2nd Lieutenant I.B.N. Hamilton, Gordon Highlanders, Special Reserve

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