Canada

Date: ca 1890-1950 (196-?)

By: Playford, Lorna Martin, 1887-1979

Reference: MS-Papers-3869

Description: Unpublished atobiography by L M Monckton; she describes her childhood in the Wairarapa, service with QMA Women's Auxiliary units during World War One, life in Canada in the 1920s and England in the 1930s and 1940s. Annotated in an unknown hand. Publication - Published in; Joblin, Dorothea. The colonial one ; Lorna Monckton of Newstead. Christchurch, 1975 Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 1 folder(s) (107 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations

Date: 05 Apr 2001

From: Women's Studies Association feminist oral history project

By: Ellis, Ellen, 1944-; Women's Studies Association (N.Z.)

Reference: OHInt-0556-02

Description: Ellen Ellis was born in Westport in 1944. Describes family life, her father (a diplomat), and a family posting to Canada in 1949. Recalls returning to Wellington and secondary school. Talks about her mother's health and treatment. Mentions university study. Describes teacher training college, and work at Victoria University Library, Wellington. Discusses sexuality and relationships. Talks about working at Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Library School, working for Alister Taylor, and the challenges of being a sole parent in full time work. Talks about co-ordinating music for Harry Seresin's The Settlement restaurant, Willis St, Wellington. Talks about the development of her feminist consciousness. Comments on her mother's life. Discusses encounter groups, Bert Potter and Centrepoint. Discusses housing and discriminatory attitudes towards women. Mentions the Domestic Purposes Benefit (DPB). Describes Wilderland Commune, Coromandel, New Zealand. Talks about her involvement in the Hecate Women's Health Collective and alternative health groups in Wellington. Describes National Archives work, the feminist librarians' group, teaching on the Women's Studies course, involvement with Women's Studies Association, working as a research consultant, and researching Sandra Coney's book 'Standing in the sunshine'. Talks about TV documentary research on abortion, and various writing projects. Mentions researching Boer War concentration camps. Reflects on feminism in her life, in relationships, housework, emotional equity, and feminist gains. Mentions that child care is still a critical issue. Other - Note: Part of interview was lost. During the recording, a completed tape was reused to record the next part of the interview by mistake. Interviewer(s) - Jill Abigail Accompanying material - CV, photo, biographical information form Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-8522 - OHC-8525 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 1 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 interview(s). 3 Hours Duration. Physical Description: Textual files - Microsoft word Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2650, OHDL-000999.

Date: 1992

From: Composers' Association of New Zealand : Records

Reference: MS-Papers-10101-21

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PAColl-4161-01-263

Description: Quantity: 1 container(s) (box).

Date: 1934

From: Chapman, Eichelbaum and Rosenberg families : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8670-111

Description: Papers from the Public Archives of Canada, sent to Frederick Revans Chapman, re Henry Samuel Chapman's activities there. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 196- or 197-]

By: Moody, Mary Davis, 1894-1987

Reference: MS-Papers-2619

Description: Mary Davis Moody's experiences in Alaska and the Yukon from 1922 to 1938 including marriage to an Anglican minister in 1926 and subsequent missionary work with First Nation people of Canada and America. Also includes an account of the author's return visit to Alaska and the Yukon in 1961 and a short story `Christmas day in Alaska'. Quantity: 2 folder(s) (185 leaves). 0.02 Linear Metres.

Date: [1939-1945]

Reference: PA1-q-1024

Description: Shows scenes in Waiouru, Empire air Training scheme in Canada, Gilbert & Ellice Islands, and Japan. Taken and collected by an unknown photographer. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1941-1943

From: Quartermain family : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-3870-1

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: ca 1960

From: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro 1910-1995 :Photographs

By: Robertson, Ronald Sinclair Munro, 1910-1995

Reference: PA1-q-599

Description: Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s).

Date: 1918-1939

From: Strewe, Friedrich Georg Theodor (Odo), 1910-1986 : Papers

Reference: MSI-Papers-5921-1

Description: Articles by Strewe on Canada and Fiji, and one in German (subject unknown); also includes map of Alberta Wapiti sheet (1918); map of Vancouver and vicinity (Imperial Oil Ltd) (1935); official road map, Peace River highway Edmonton to Fort St John, BC (Alberta Motor Assn, 1936); map, Canadian Pacific Lines and connections with US railways (1937); and map of Edmonton and district (1935) Language - Most of the articles are in German Relationship complexity - See also MSX-4602, fMS-Papers-5921-2 and fMS-Papers-5921-3 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Maps of Edmonton, Alberta, Wapiti Sheet, Canadian Pacific lines and Vancouver

Date: [1930-1982]

From: Perry, Charles Stuart, 1908-1982 : Further papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8211-11

Description: Correspondence, notes, articles, talks, reports etc relating to Perry's time as a Carnegie fellow studying libraries in the United States of America and Canada Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 14 Aug-24 Nov 1994

From: Ronnie, Mary Allan, 1926-2023 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-8254-1

Description: Postcards, brochures etc from diary kept by Ronnie from 14 Aug to 24 Nov 1994 while travelling in North America, England, Scotland and Europe Quantity: 1 volume(s) (loose items in case folder).

Date: 1939-1945

From: New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency

Reference: PA1-q-294

Description: Photographs of New Zealand military personnel serving in Greece, Crete, the Middle East and Egypt during World War 2, 1939-1945, taken by various photographers and compiled for official use. This album includes a number of official photographs taken for the British official records. Many of the personnel identified are listed above, but group portraits in which individuals are identified are not listed above. Many views show aspects of military training in the desert, including machine guns, rifles, manoeuvres, Bren guns, range practice, and anti-tank guns. New Zealand Divisional Cavalry. In England military training and preparation includes scenes of the New Zealand High Commissioner in London, William Joseph Jordan, watching New Zealand lumberjacks from the New Zealand Forestry Corps in a Gloucester forest felling trees for war purposes. Also related to England are scenes of the Duke of Gloucester inspecting troops, and King George VI at an investiture at Buckingham Palace investing Flight-Sergeant Williams with his Distinguished Flying Medal for gallantry in air operations. Long Range Desert patrols and expeditions into enemy territory showing the difficult terrain they had to negotiate. Views of a formation of five American-built Lockheed Hudson aircraft of the RAF Coastal Command carrying out an action patrol near Borkum, Heligoland and the Danish Coast. They are the first released photographs taken while under fire from German anti-aircraft ships, flying only 200 ft above the sea because of the weather (p 15-21). One image shows a wireless operator checking one of H.M. the King's homing pigeons, presented to the RAF to carry messages in case of a forced landing & breakdown of wireless. Arrival of NZ airmen & pilots for duty with the RAF in 1941. Gift of fruit and vegetables presented to NZ troops stationed in Fiji, transported 60 miles by boat from Kandavu, formally accepted by Brigadier Cunningham. (A number of images of Cunningham are dotted throughout the album). Views of the sinking of the Italian raider Ramb I, by HMS Leander in February 1941 (p 33-37). Scenes of a huge field bakery run by Egyptian bakers which can supply 3500 loaves each day. Also the "Waiwera Hotel - the 'ouse on the 'ill" cookhouse in the desert; and other scenes of food preparation. Relaxation organised by the YMCA, and the opening of the Lowry Hut run by the YMCA. Shipboard life on a transport ship, including games, relaxation and officers censoring mail. Floods after heavy rain in the Western Desert along the Mediterranean fringe (p 61-64). The Oranje leaving Amsterdam on her maiden voyage; used as hospital ship for Australian and New Zealand forces. Groups at the Royal Canadian Air Force Bombing and Gunnery School, all of whom are named (p 67-69). Prime Minister Peter Fraser's visit to the Middle East (p 69-72), his visit to Greece (p 93-105), and inspecting the hospital ship Maunganui (p110-111).) The No. 1 General Hospital in Greece. War damage to New Zealand House in London (p 105-106). Italian prisoners of war in a soccer match "NZ vs Italy" in Egypt (p 79-81); German parachute troops wounded and taken prisoner in Crete; captured swastikas used to hoodwink the enemy into dropping supplies. Fighting and evacuation of Crete. Evacuation of the Greek Royal party by a bodyguard of New Zealand soldiers, with views of a reception given by His Majesty the King of Greece, showing Lieutenant W H Ryan, Princess Marie, lady Palairet, Prince George, Prince Peter, and British military attache Colonel J S Blunt. Group portrait of New Zealanders in Britain training for the Fleet Air Arm (members named). Members of the New Zealand Bomber Squadron of the RAF who have been part of the raids on Germany, particularly on Berlin. (Several group portraits, some of which are named). Several photographs of unidentified men who escaped from Crete in barges. Arrangement: Images in album form single numerical sequence, 398-791 Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with faded blue cover, black corners and spine; 34.5 x 22.0 cm

Date: 1943-1944

From: Boot, Leonard Murray, 1921-2014 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-1591-1

Description: Maps used (1) at no 7 Air Navigation School (ANS), RAF, Bishopscourt near Ardglass, County Down, Northern Ireland (1943-1944); (2) Maps used at no 8 Bombing and Gunnery School (B & G), Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada (1943-1944); and (3) Maps used at no 7 AOS (Navigation), Portage La Prairier, Manitoba, Canada (1943-1944). The maps are Midlands and Wales, the border, the Highlands and Ireland; British Columbia, Alberta, Alberta/Saskatchewan, Manitoba/Ontario, Canada/US border, Saskatchewan/Manitoba and are ordnance, topographical, air navigation or aeronautical maps. Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres.

Date: October 1976

From: Kendrick, John Lisle, 1922-2013: Interviews, recordings, photographs primarily relating to natural sound recording

Reference: PA12-6492

Description: Views of Toronto, Canada. These include the city and it's buildings, and autumn colours in the parks. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies in cardboard and plastic mounts.

Date: [ca 1954]

By: Taylor, Athol Bertram, 1901-1985

Reference: MS-Papers-10346

Description: Includes passport; photographs re his trip to Canada in 1946 with Rt Hon Walter Nash and others to deal with the lend-lease operations; and `Murupara, the story of NZ newsprint industry' (1954) Source of title - Supplied Relationship complexity - See also 89-064 Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript, printed matter and photographs Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by Mrs E Taylor, Wollanstonecraft, NSW, Australia, Jan 1989

Date: 1970-1978

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6398

Description: Miscellaneous slides include, ballet dancers. A shadow puppet. Fallen statue at memphis. Window shuttered with lattice screens. Ruined building, England. Roman mosaics. Sculpture group in a park, England. Naval Hospital Grenwich, London. View of sculpture and obelisk, Paris. People dressed up for a carnival. Views of the Canadian countryside and Inuit. Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 2002

By: Scott, Thomas Joseph, 1947-; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: H-674-066/087

Description: Cartoons on political and social issues. Obituary to the Queen Mother. The two methods of applying pressure in the Middle East crisis, awesome fire power and suicide bombers. Helen Clark welcomes Jim Anderton back into the fold of the Labour party. The New Zealand cricket team manage to pull a rabbit from the hat to draw a test series. Jim Anderton leads his followers to another promised land shown as a high wire that's going nowhere. As President George W Bush calls for Israel to withdraw from Palestine, a dog (Ariel Sharon) urinates on his leg. President Bush tries to mediate peace negotiations betweem Arafat and Sharon. A septic tank is on daily call to clean up the mess in the Alliance Party caucus. Two coffins are carried by pallbearers. The first contains the body of the Queen Mother, the second, the remains of Helen Clark's plans for a Republic. Bill English hears the news that Helen Clark has enough support to rule for life. Comment on Helen Clark's involement in signing art works that she didn't paint. Graham Murries coaching career is resurected following the Hurricanes win over the Brumbies. Lawyers discuss the reasons not to sever links with the Privy Council; many of the reasons are led by self interest. The United States congratulates itself while Israel and Palestine come closer and closer to annihilation. New Zealand's arm is severed by an axe as they reach out to hold the Rugby World Cup host status. The axeman is Australian. Baby Kahu Drurie is returned to her family by a New Zealand police officer following being kidnapped. Winston Peters wonders whats happening to New Zealand when he exposes the Treaty grievance industry and Helen Clark is shown to be a forger, the result is her popularity soars and his doesn't move. Comment on the Catholic church's lax approach to priests having sex with their congregation. Shows the positive effect on the New Zeland Police the progress of two high profile cases have had. The NZRFU offer the two executives who negotiated the World Cup Host contracts a gun and two bullets to end their misery. Israeli tanks crush the Palestinian Refugee Camp in an effort to end the cycle of hate. Derek Fox accuses jounalists of Maori-bashing when they ask for accountability over the appointment of conman John Davy as CEO of the Maori Television Service. Quantity: 22 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: B5 size bromides.

Date: 27 Aug-18 Dec 1931

From: Sutch, William Ball (Dr), 1907-1975 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-6766-1

Description: Letters and postcards written by Bill Sutch to his mother while sailing to North America on the RMS `Niagara', from International House, New York, and while travelling on the Canadian Pacific Railway through Canada Sutch wrote these letters to his mother while studying for his PhD at Columbia University Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1948

From: Pollock, Nancy, fl 2001 : Papers relating to Micronesia and the Pacific

Reference: fMS-Papers-7196-2

Description: Two issues of `The Native voice', the official organ of the Native Brotherhood of British Columbia (v2, n8-9, Jul, Aug-Sep 1948) which have parts two and three of a series of articles by John M Sinclair on Maori Quantity: 1 folder(s).