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Diary No I, 1902

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Edward Oliver Wheeler fonds
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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 1, Jul. -Oct. 1902 Roger's Pass July - October 1902 Personal diary containing travel notes, including rising times, sleep patterns, train delays and trips, hunting, travel around Glacier, Cascade, chores, Revelstok…
Date Range
1902
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M169 / 1
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7773
Reference Code
M169 / 1
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1902
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1 vol. textual record
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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 1, Jul. -Oct. 1902 Roger's Pass
July - October 1902
Personal diary containing travel notes, including rising times, sleep patterns, train delays and trips, hunting, travel around Glacier, Cascade, chores, Revelstoke, mentions of Mrs. Schaffer, Mr. Vaux
Nine page story "Hiawatha", One page poem "The Cowboy on the Wheel"
From back: campsite diagram, three drawings of CPR trains, "The God-darned wheel" story, 2 drawings of CPR trains
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Hunting
Mountaineering
Camping
Daily routines
Fictional entries
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Diary No II, 1903

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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 2, Jan. -Aug. 1903 Calgary, Lake Louise Personal diary with list of letters written and recieved day by day from January to June, mentions of Laggan trip, Lake Louise, Glacier, Pulpit Peak, Mt. Gordon, Peyto Lake, …
Date Range
1903
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M169 / 2
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7773
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M169 / 2
Date Range
1903
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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 2, Jan. -Aug. 1903 Calgary, Lake Louise
Personal diary with list of letters written and recieved day by day from January to June, mentions of Laggan trip, Lake Louise, Glacier, Pulpit Peak, Mt. Gordon, Peyto Lake, Calgary.
Pressed leaf in middle of book
11 pages of numbers at back of book, list of places numbered 1-145, 6 pages of numbers, "Pullmans" numbered 1-44
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Hiking
Mountaineering
Camping
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Diary No III, 1905

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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 3, Jan. -Dec. 1905 Ontario. Personal diary. First entry "Didn't keep a diary for '04", daily routines, interactions with Grandma Wheeler, weather conditions, return to school, school work, documented classmates' il…
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1905
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M169 / 3
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M169 / 3
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1905
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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 3, Jan. -Dec. 1905 Ontario.
Personal diary. First entry "Didn't keep a diary for '04", daily routines, interactions with Grandma Wheeler, weather conditions, return to school, school work, documented classmates' illnesses, playing hockey, dancing class, interactions with Pinkie, swimming
Christmas List, significant dates: weather and school, hockey matches and scores, list of addresses, cash account by month
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School
Leisure
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Diary No IV, 1906

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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 4, Jan. -Aug. 1906 Ontario, Alberta. Personal diary accounting leisure activities, at home in Alberta until return to school in January, hockey, descriptions of some meals and snacks, Glee Club, dancing class, temp…
Date Range
1906
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M169 / 4
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M169 / 4
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1906
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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 4, Jan. -Aug. 1906 Ontario, Alberta.
Personal diary accounting leisure activities, at home in Alberta until return to school in January, hockey, descriptions of some meals and snacks, Glee Club, dancing class, temperature notations, trip to Moose Jaw, Field, camping, photography
List of significant dates, hockey games and scores, weather record, Treats I owe and Treats I am owed, Cash Account
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School
Leisure
Camping
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Diary No V A AND VIIIC, 1910

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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 5, 1910 Trip: U.S.A. Trip: Sidney, B.C. to London, ENG. Personal diary accounting Easter trip to NY 24/3/10-29/3/10, travel and train details, Washington, DC Sidney, BC, Seattle, to London, Eng. September 5-23, tra…
Date Range
1910
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M169 / 5
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M169 / 5
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1910
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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 5, 1910 Trip: U.S.A. Trip: Sidney, B.C. to London, ENG.
Personal diary accounting Easter trip to NY 24/3/10-29/3/10, travel and train details, Washington, DC
Sidney, BC, Seattle, to London, Eng. September 5-23, travel specifics, tourist activities
Back pages: prices and train times
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Travel
New York
Sidney, BC
Seattle
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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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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…
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1912-1913
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M169 / 6
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M169 / 6
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1912-1913
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1 vol. textual record
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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
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Travel
Shooting
Leisure
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1914 Gangotn 14.4.14 - 28.5.14. Diary No XII

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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 7, Apr. -May 1914 India Personal diary containing kit list, travel, extensive discussion of "coolies", hiking, mountaineering, dehydration, discussion of altitudes, several sketches of mountains, descriptions of nu…
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1914
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M169 / 7
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M169 / 7
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1914
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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 7, Apr. -May 1914 India
Personal diary containing kit list, travel, extensive discussion of "coolies", hiking, mountaineering, dehydration, discussion of altitudes, several sketches of mountains, descriptions of numbered photos not present
Peaks include: NagTibba ridge, Dharassu, Dounda, Kedarganga, Glacier No.1, Batwari
Several pages stuck together throughout
Summary and notes including weather, routes, kit, food, topography, costs, wages, remarks
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Travel
Mountaineering
India
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1915 WAR. 1.4.15 -10.11.15 DIARY No XIV

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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 8, Jan.-Oct. 1915 war diary: France 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 penci…
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1915
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M169 / 8
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M169 / 8
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1915
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Label supplied by Provincial Archives of British Columbia: 314 Wheeler, Oliver, Vol. 8, Jan.-Oct. 1915 war diary: France
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
Opens with discussion of leave, making shelters in front trench, daily routines of leave, trench maintenance, weather changes, discussion of orders for attacks, specific tasks if successful, postponing of attacks, "gave some water and chocolate to one wounded German", description of attacks, "yarn" about Canadian Div man regarding spies, second leave description, leisure, diagrams of dugouts, Dead Man's Trench
Diagrams at back of sick, wounded, killed- significant casualties on March 14.
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WWI
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1915 - 1916 WAR. 11.11.15 -7.5.16 DIARY No XV

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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 …
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1915-1916
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M169 / 9
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7773
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M169 / 9
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1915-1916
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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
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WWI
Trenches
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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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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 …
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1916-1918
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M169 / 10
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7773
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M169 / 10
Date Range
1916-1918
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1 vol. textual record
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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.
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WWI
Travel
India
Mesopotamia
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