- R-C10983
- Item
- [1963?]
Part of Dick and Ada Bird fonds
"Burns Country". View of a tower.
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Part of Dick and Ada Bird fonds
"Burns Country". View of a tower.
Business and Professional Women's Club tour of Britain and Europe
Photograph album of the Business and Professional Women's Club tour of Britain and Europe.
C.A. Dunning visiting Leicester, England
Premier of Saskatchewan, 1922-1926. Visiting employees of Wright and Havelock Foundry in Leicester, England, where he worked as a boy before coming to Canada.
Canada Carries On! Squadron 992
Part of Dick and Ada Bird fonds
Newsreel: A 2 part newsreel that follows the activities of Balloon Squadron 992 as it positions its balloons to guard the Firth River Bridge, near North Queensferry, Scotland, against German air strikes. These precautions are taken after a German air strike which took place on Monday, October 16, 1939, the first air strike of the war. The film shows the work of the men who handle the defensive weapon, how they maneuver the balloons and how mobile units are quickly moved to sites to defend against low flying airplanes. Includes air battle scenes as British Supermarine Spitfires clash with German Heinkel 111 bombers. Also describes Canada efforts, through the British Commonweath Air Training Programme, to train pilots to help Britain fight off the threat of invasion from Germany. Also included is a 2 minute item entitled BRITAIN FACES INVASION THREAT. Describes Britain's readness to fight off a German invasion and emphasizes the importance to Canadaians of purchasing war savings certificates.
National Film Board of Canada
Canadian Army Service Corps on horses on an English street
Canadian Army Service Corps on horses on an English street. Great War. Sandgate-Kent, Shorncliffe area.
Part of Photographs (Private) Collection
Images relating mainly to members of the Carson family of Estlin, Saskatchewan as follows:
1) Edward Thomas Carson and Kathleen Josephine Keogh on their wedding day, March 27, 1943, in Narbon Road, Hove, England. Edward Carson is wearing a military uniform.
2) A man and woman standing in front of a house at 1817 Robinson Street in Regina, Saskatchewan. The man and woman were friends of the Carson family.
3)Group of unidentified men standing outside with barn and automobile in background near Estlin.
4) Mrs. Dynka, Edward Carson, and Eileen Carson standing in front of a doorway. January 1946.
5) Edward Carson and Eileen Carson sitting on chairs outside with a dog on the table between them at the family home near Estlin. 1933.
6)Edward Carson and Eileen Carson standing outside in Estlin with a grain elevator in the background.
7) Edward Carson standing with his father, Isaac Carson, in Estlin, 1938 or 1939.
8) Family friends, Sally and Ike [surname not provided].
9) Edward Carson seated in front of Estlin General Store holding two kittens. 1930.
10) Edward Carson and his step-brother, Harry Sutton, standing on the railway tracks with grain elevators and the Estlin railway station in the background. [1920 or after].
11) Three unidentified men standing in front of an automobile.
12) Unidentified man and woman standing in front of a bush. 1937.
13) Edward Carson standing with his parents, Alice Maud Carson and Isaac Carson, in front of the Post Office sign in Estlin. Isaac Carson served as postmaster of Estlin for approximately 20 years (1920s to 1940s). 1939.
14) -(15) Grain elevator on fire in Estlin, likely on July 22, 1920, with railway station in foreground.
16) Canadian National train plowing snow.
17) Mr. and Mrs. Dynka, Edward Carson, and a woman named Irene [surname unknown] standing in front of a doorway. January 1946.
18)-(19) Unidentified bride and groom and members of the wedding party standing in front of the doors of a church.
20)-(21)Edward Carson standing with other individuals on the steps of a building. Possibly members of a choir. 1938.
22) Edward Carson in military uniform standing in front of a building holding a dog in his arms. ca. 1941.
23)-(24) Members of a wedding party. 1940.
25) Alice Maud Carson sitting outside in front of a bush with a house in the background.
26) Alice Maud Carson standing with her son, Edward Carson, in front of a building. ca. 1939.
27) Isaac Carson with Joan and Sally [surnames unknown] in Brighton, July 1953.
28) Reproduction of panoramic photograph of the members of the Canadian Postal Corps during World War II. Edward Thomas Carson is standing in the top row, 6th from left. Photographer based in Pirbright, Surrey, England, where there was a military base. [1941 or later].
"Castle from River Thames - Windsor Castle"
Part of Dick and Ada Bird fonds
"Castle from River Thames - Windsor Castle". Boaters and swimmers in the water (foreground).
News segments: (1) Streets scenes in Moscow, USSR (Russia). (2) Vita, Manitoba aftermath of storm? (3) Unidentified man and woman on murder in Mississippi. (4) Unidentified mass gathering in Buenos Aires. (5) Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip with two of their children in Scotland. (6) Queen Elizabeth II and family at Braemar games in Scotland. (7) Unidentified people arrive in Quebec. (8) Revolution in Argentina. (9) Speed boat racing. Bluebird boat sinks. (10) Unidentified footage in Ontario. (11) Greta Garbo at airport in Paris. (12) Marlene Dietrich performing in Las Vegas.
CFQC (Television station : Saskatoon, Sask.)
Charles Fortescue, as a young boy
Charles Fortescue, as a young boy, standing; and sitting in a chair. Photos taken while in England.