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1912- 1913 Chatham - Calcutta 30.9.12 (Nagasaki) to 6.11.12 (XB), Shikar KOTRI 12.4.13-30.4.13 XI

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Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 6, Sept. 1912-Apr. 1913 India Personal diary accounting boat trip to Shanghai, rickshaw trip , travels within Shanghai and interactions and observations with locals, weather, homesickness, boat trip to Singapore, l…

Date Range: 1912-1913

Reference Code: M169 / 6

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Accession Number: 7773

Reference Code: M169 / 6

Date Range: 1912-1913

Physical Description: 1 vol. textual record

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 6, Sept. 1912-Apr. 1913 India; Personal diary accounting boat trip to Shanghai, rickshaw trip , travels within Shanghai and interactions and observations with locals, weather, homesickness, boat trip to Singapore, leisure, Calcutta, train travel; Lists of expenses Glasgow to Calcutta; Two week long Kotdwara exploration, elephants, tigers, various other animals, shooting; list of expenses, packing list, Xmas 1913 expenses list

Subject Access: Travel; Shooting; Leisure

Title Source: Title taken from source

Processing Status: Processed

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1915 - 1916 WAR. 11.11.15 -7.5.16 DIARY No XV

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Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 9, Nov. 1915-May 1916 Mesopotamia Personal diary. Front cover indicates it should be mailed to Mrs. A. O. Wheeler in Sidney, BC, book is a Field Message Book, with graph paper and tear out pages, written in pencil …

Date Range: 1915-1916

Reference Code: M169 / 9

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Accession Number: 7773

Reference Code: M169 / 9

Date Range: 1915-1916

Physical Description: 1 vol. textual record

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 9, Nov. 1915-May 1916 Mesopotamia; Personal diary. Front cover indicates it should be mailed to Mrs. A. O. Wheeler in Sidney, BC, book is a Field Message Book, with graph paper and tear out pages, written in pencil; Weather descriptions, drills, Auchy-au-Boris, Marseilles, canal trip, Red Sea, first Christmas at sea, Magil, man shot himself in shoulder during march, Qalat Saleh, digging "Corps Trench", 'Orah, monitoring trench digging; Page with drawings of boats pinned to page near middle, drawing of skyline, drawings of mahaila and ballam, diagrams of mullah, map Persia and Turkey in Asia, diagram of British trench, main camp,Turk Line, drawing of British flag on back inside cover

Subject Access: WWI; Trenches

Title Source: Title taken from source

Processing Status: Processed

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1916 - 1917 - 1918 No XVI A WAR 8.5.16 - 6.8.16 No XVI B Sick Leave OOTY 7.8.16 - 19.10.16 XVII Shikar (Benaik) 22.5.17 - 20.6.17 XVIII WAR 18.10.17 - 23.3.18

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Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 10, 1916, 1917, 1918 Mesopotamia & India Personal diary. Front cover indicates it should be mailed to Mrs. A. O. Wheeler in Sidney, BC, book is a Field Message Book, with graph paper and tear out pages, written in …

Date Range: 1916-1918

Reference Code: M169 / 10

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Accession Number: 7773

Reference Code: M169 / 10

Date Range: 1916-1918

Physical Description: 1 vol. textual record

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 10, 1916, 1917, 1918 Mesopotamia & India; Personal diary. Front cover indicates it should be mailed to Mrs. A. O. Wheeler in Sidney, BC, book is a Field Message Book, with graph paper and tear out pages, written in pencil.; Diagrams for trench digging, platform diagram; Weather conditions, daily routines, Sannaujuah, mentions of cholera, typhoid, diarrhea, fever, documentation of gradual onset of illness, sick leave in Amara, discussion of day to day illness and diet, leisure: golf, hockey, and dances, visit to St Mary's (1680) oldest British church in India; Leave in May 1917 for 30 days, leisure, travel, mountaineering, hunting,; Insert of list of the days in June and July with numbers, and average calculated. Temperature?; Expenses Travelling list, Wages, Food; Return to Mesopotamia 1917, travel, boat trip, preparation for leaving Busra, Amara, Kur, One Tree Camp Amara, thieves in Amara, Bagdad right bank, description of Kadhimain mosque, last pages at Fufa regarding a murder, pages following are ripped out.

Subject Access: WWI; Travel; India; Mesopotamia

Title Source: Title taken from source

Processing Status: Processed

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General Diary, 1.1.11 - 12.4.11, 5.5.11 - 3.4.12, 13.4.12 - 4.7.12, 7.11.12 - 13.4.13, 2.5.13 - 16.7.14, WAR, 9.12.19 - 9.4.20, 25.10.20 - 3.4.21, 20.10.21 - 14.4.22, 4.1.24 - 19.3.25, 24.3.26 - 16.3.32.

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Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 20, General Diary: 1911-1932. Daily diary sentences, with location and highlights of days, including church events, sports, dinners, surveying, war, mountaineering, golf, documentation of weather and wind speeds, t…

Date Range: 1911-1932

Reference Code: M169 / 20

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Accession Number: 7773

Reference Code: M169 / 20

Date Range: 1911-1932

Physical Description: 1 vol. textual record

Scope & Content: Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 20, General Diary: 1911-1932.; Daily diary sentences, with location and highlights of days, including church events, sports, dinners, surveying, war, mountaineering, golf, documentation of weather and wind speeds, travel within India, list of shooting with location and item, from 1931-1932. Leave trips in previous diaries, which he directs the reader to. After 1921 diary entries are longer, and spread out.; Chatham, Beaulieu, Dover, Scotland, Meerut, Delhi, Mussoorie, Nagal, Dehra Dun, Bombay, Raipur, Quetta, Kalat.; Glued in photographs of "C" Construction Low, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Palmer, Bude Haven and Breakwater from Compass Point.

Subject Access: Daily routines; Travel; Leisure; England; Canada; India

Title Source: Title taken from source

Processing Status: Processed

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William S. Vaux Jr. Memorial Fireplace

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Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Scope & Content: Caption reads, "Memorial Fire-place - William S. Vaux Jr. in Club House of Alpine Club of Canada, Banff, Alberta." Plaque above fire-place reads, "This Fireplace in Memory of William S. Vaux Jr. A.C.C. Student of Glaciers 1887-1908. Born 1872 - Died 1908." Handwritten in penicil on verso, "(To be f…

Date Range: ca. 1909

Reference Code: V653 / I / U / 2 / PA-3

Description Level: 6 / Item

Part Of: Vaux family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: M107/V557

Series: I. Photography

Sous-Fonds: V557

Accession Number: 7792

Reference Code: V653 / I / U / 2 / PA-3

Date Range: ca. 1909

Physical Description: 1 photographs : print, b&w, approx. 5.5 x 4"

Scope & Content: Caption reads, "Memorial Fire-place - William S. Vaux Jr. in Club House of Alpine Club of Canada, Banff, Alberta." Plaque above fire-place reads, "This Fireplace in Memory of William S. Vaux Jr. A.C.C. Student of Glaciers 1887-1908. Born 1872 - Died 1908." Handwritten in penicil on verso, "(To be framed)."

Language: English

Title Source: Title based on contents of file

Processing Status: Processed

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[Chicken coop in Mini Thni]

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Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Scope & Content: Item consists of b&w photograph negative depicting an unidentified individual standing by a chicken coop with chicken and a goose [in Mini Thni] [Morley]

Date Range: [1904-1950]

Reference Code: LUX / I / D5 / NA - 21

Description Level: 6 / Item

GMD: Photograph; Negative

1 image

Part Of: Luxton family fonds

Description Level: 6 / Item

Fonds Number: LUX

Series: LUX / I / D : Personal and professional

Sous-Fonds: LUX / I : Norman Luxton sous-fonds

Sub-Series: LUX / I / D / 5 : Native issues and advocacy

Accession Number: LUX

Reference Code: LUX / I / D5 / NA - 21

GMD: Photograph; Negative

Date Range: [1904-1950]

Physical Description: 1 photograph: b&w negative ; 12 x 17 cm

Scope & Content: Item consists of b&w photograph negative depicting an unidentified individual standing by a chicken coop with chicken and a goose [in Mini Thni] [Morley]