Collection search - Gerald William Lingen Nicholson fonds [textual record, graphic material, cartographic material]

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Gerald William Lingen Nicholson fonds [textual record, graphic material, cartographic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1915-1980.

Reference:

R4226-0-9-E, MG31-G19

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Art, Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

103850

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Gerald William Lingen Nicholson fonds
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Fonds includes:

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Date(s):

1915-1980.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.275 m of textual records.
111 photographs : 109 b&w.
3 prints : 2 lithographs and 1 poster.
1 drawing : pen and ink.
39 maps : chiefly mss. ; 56 x 81 cm. or smaller.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of correspondence, 1903-1979; speeches, 1951-1979; personal material, 1943-1977; and Red Pine camp of the Ottawa Y.M.C.A., 1926-1980.

The fonds also contains military photographs relating to Nicholson's books including "The Fighting Newfoundlander", "Three Nations", "The Gunners of Canada", and "The Whilte Cross in Canada". Subjects include various battlefields and war memorials in France, as well as Canadian troops serving in Europe during WWII.

Also included are camera-ready sketches of Canadian army, navy, and air force badges, [before 1953].

Fonds consists of layout maps that were included in various books relating to Canadian military history written by Gerald William Lingen Nicholson. Also included are single sheet war maps related to the Korean War and to the Second World War in Europe and the Aleutian Islands.

Provenance:

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Nicholson, G.W.L. (Gerald William Lingen), 1902-1980
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Nicholson, G. W. L. (Gerald William Lingen), 1902-1980

Red Pine Camp
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Nicholson, G.W.L. (Gerald William Lingen), 1902-1980 : Colonel Gerald William Lingen Nicholson born in 1902 in England, came to Canada in 1919. He received his education from Queen's University, B.A. 1931, and the University of Toronto, Bachelor's in Pedagogy 1935. Before the Second World War he was a high school principal in Saskatchewan.

After serving with the Prince Albert Volunteers in the early part of the war, Nicholson joined the Historical Section, General Staff, as narrator for Pacific Command in 1943. He successively held the appointments of Officer in Charge of the Historical Section at Canadian Military Headquarters, London; and Deputy Director and Director Historical Section, Army Headquarters, Ottawa. Upon retiring from the Army in 1961, he returned to teaching for one year then continued with his writing career.

He is the author of Marlborough and the War of the Spanish Succession (1955), The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945 (1957), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 (1962), Three Nations (1962), The Fighting Newfoundlander (1964), The White Cross in Canada: A History of St. John Ambulance (1967), The Gunners of Canada Vol. I (1967), More Fighting Newfoundlanders (1969), The Gunners of Canada Vol. II (1972), Canada's Nursing Sisters (1975), Seventy Years of Service: A History of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (1977), and keep Your Forks, on Fifty Years at Red Pine Camp, (1979).

See also: Canadian Who's Who, 1987.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Electronic) The finding aid is a descriptive list arranged chronologically by series for volumes 1 to 7 MSS1353 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000002562.pdf

Cartographic material (Paper) Finding aid consists of a hand-written preliminary listing. 82302/450. (90: Open)

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General note:

Received in 1982 from Mrs. G.W.L. Nicholson of Ottawa, Ont.

Restrictions on access note:

Cartographic material: There are no restrictions on access. Reproduction is subject to Canadian Copyright Act restrictions.
Subject heading:

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Soldiers' writings, Canadian

Soldiers Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1982-109 PIC
1982-185 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG31-G19
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1353] 111

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Box [NICHOLSON, GERALD W. L. 1982-185] SC 0547

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [NICHOLSON, GERALD W.L. 1982-185] SC 2082

[Consultation 90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright is expired on items more than 50 years old.
Art: No restrictions. Copyright is unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada.
Cartographic material: Credit Library and Archives Canada.

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