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  • Spatial Coverage is exactly "Québec"

PRidingRH21040002.jpg
A group of 31 airmen arranged in three rows. Ron is marked with a post-it. A second post-it states 'Here are the photos of grandads training in Canada in 1942 age 21 Some places are Quebec, Montreal and Rivers'.

PRidingRH21040015.jpg
Four aerial photographs from an album.
#1 is a city with a river.
#2 is looking south along the Richelieu River, to the right is Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada.
#3 is a city with a regular grid street pattern and a river under the wing…

PRidingRH21040013.jpg
Four oblique aerial photographs from an album. #1 is a city with a bridge crossing a frozen river and another bridge leading to a small island. #2 is two bridges, Honor Mercier, crossing the St Lawrence river. #3 is the Jacques Cartier bridge leading…

PRidingRH21040022.jpg
Four photographs from an album.
#1 is four trainee airmen at the top of an escape slide.
#2 is the four trainees sliding down the slide.
Both are captioned 'AVR 1942'.
#3 is three trainee airmen in khaki at St Flavie the St Lawrence
#4 is two…

SValentineJRM1251404v10077.jpg
Article 1. Headlines: all Sicily conquered, German resistance at end, Messina captured by seventh army, Italian mainland shelled. Mentions operation by B-17 on southern France and by B-24s destroying 43 axis fighters during battle in southern Italy.…

PArrowsmithHL1605.jpg
A low oblique aerial photograph of a church. There is snow in gardens and parks. On the reverse 'Ancienne Lorette Church P.Q. Each spire has a permanently lighted cross.'

An00509's autobiography. Seventeen chapters and an epilogue. Chapters 1-4 deal with early life and schooling. Chapter 5-14 the war years and 15-17 after the war.

This item is available only at the International Bomber Command Centre / University…

YGeachDG1394781v4.pdf
Third of David Geach's diaries describing his service & personal life training as an Air Bomber in Canada. He describes his ground & flying training experiences, social life both in camp and in local Canadian towns and New York. He details train…

PPerryWRP17050014.jpg
Top left - view down a valley of a distant inlet. Captioned 'Port Arthur, Lake Superior, Canada, 42'.
Top right - an airman wearing tunic standing in front of a railway track with train behind. Other figures in the distance right. Captioned 'Phil at…

PRidingRH21050030.jpg
Four photographs from an album.
#1 and 4 are of Heather Lodge, a large two storey building with a verandah. In the gardens is a large flagpole.
#2 is a river flowing through a forest.
#3 is Christ Church on the corner of 3E Avenue and Metcalfe…

PRidingRH21040025.jpg
Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a view across a small river.
#2 is a two span bridge across a river.
#3 and 4 are houses and the Catholic Church at Saint Flavie, Quebec taken from the jetty/pier looking across the shore line of the St…

PRidingRH21050031.jpg
Three photographs from an album.
#1 is a river with a house set in a wood.
#2 is riveiere rouge flowing under the Chemin (Path) Saint Alphonse bridge.
#3 is a river flowing over a waterfall.

PRidingRH21050036.jpg
Three photographs from an album.
#1 and 2 are a river in a forest.
#3 is the weir of the riveiere rouge flowing under the Chemin (Path) Saint Alphonse bridge.

PRidingRH21040027.jpg
Four photographs from an album.
#1 is an area of cut down trees.
#2 is a sawmill processing the cut down trees.
#3 is three houses at Ste Flavie on the St Lawrence.
#4 is a dinghy with two houses behind at St Flavie, St Lawrence.

PRidingRH21050037.jpg
Three photographs from an album.
#1 is a house at the edge of a river but covered in snow.
#2 is the church entrance to the United church of Canada, on the corner of 4th Avenue and Queen Street, surrounded by snow.
#3 is a forest with a rocky…

PRidingRH21050008.jpg
Four photographs from an album.
#1 is a view across a river to a city.
#2 is a view across a river.
#3 is a statue of a soldier in front of a Palladian building. It is Les Braves, War memorial in Mercille Parke, Saint-Lambert, Quebec.
#4 is a…

PFordTA17110044.pdf
Two photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is a view of a large building seen from the river, captioned 'Chateau Frontenac, Quebec'.
Photo 2 is looking past fields to a village with the river behind, captioned 'A village by the St Lawrence'.

PNorthWA23040005.jpg
Two coloured views of Quebec.

PRidingRH21050002.jpg
30 airmen arranged in three rows in front of an Anson. Ron is marked with a post-it, bottom row, extreme right.
It is annotated with 'Course 45 No 9 Air Observer's School St Johns PQ Canada June 1942'.
There is a second copy, almost identical, but…

PRidingRH2115.jpg
13 airmen in two rows in front of a Fairey Battle. Each man is named on the front. On the reverse each man has signed his name and 'A/C Fairey Battle Course 45A Observers No 9 Bombing and Gunnery School Mont-Joli PQ July 1942 Back Row RCAF Front RAF…
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