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W. A. Lock fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 63
  • Fonds
  • 1951-1952

The fonds contains one photograph album containing 145 photographs of the First Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in Korea and in Japan, 1951-1952.

Lock, W. A.

Roland Pivert fonds

  • CA GPR 0165
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1935]-2005

The fonds consists of personal and military papers and photographs belonging to Roland Pivert. The records include photographs and documents from his time as a Boy Scout and student at St. Joseph High School; information and photographs about Exercise Sweetbriar, a joint Canadian and U.S. training exercise in the Yukon and Alaska; information and photographs of the Prairie Command Display taken from community to community in Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan; slides, photographs and paper artifacts from Roland’s tour of peace-keeping duty in Korea in 1953-1954; military service records and publications; information on Veterans' benefits claims; documents and images of projects from his post-military electrical career; correspondence and related records on his land holdings; and personal records and photographs of family, friends, and community life.

The fonds is divided into nine series: Early Life, Exercise Sweetbriar, Prairie Command Display, Korean Service, Military Service, Veterans' Benefits, Work and Business, Land, and Personal Life and Family.

The records have been arranged in primarily chronological order by the Archivist.

Pivert, Roland

Korean War research collection

  • PPCLI Collection 135
  • Collection
  • 1951, [ca. 1995-ca. 2006]

The collection consists mostly of articles found online. Includes "Korea Vet News" including stories about Roy Rushton, Rod Middleton, and Mike Levy (2006). Includes articles produced for CBC series "The Forgotten War" (1999). Includes articles "Korean War : weapons" (1999-2001). Includes a chronology of the war, an analysis by Harry G. Summers Jr., and an article from American Military History. Includes articles by embedded journalist Pierre Berton (1951) including a profile of L/Cpl Karry (Kerry) Dunphy.

David J. Robertson, Capt. (Ret'd), fonds

  • CA GPR 0109
  • Fonds
  • 1936-1987

The fonds consists of a listing of personal history for Capt Robertson’s family; certificates showing his activities and training from a child of eight to his career in retirement; his Canadian Armed Forces Pay Books; souvenirs of the trip to Korea and the Ebisu Hotel in Tokyo. Photographs are of the Robertson family, Dave’s career in the military and his service at an Advance Dressing Station in Korea. The audio tape is a Dave Robertson recording regarding his family’s military history.

Robertson, David J.

Clarence & Nora Shields Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0627
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1895]-2003

The fonds consists of records relating to the Shields family. The records include Nora Shields’ personal and financial papers, the Shields family tree, early and later photographs from the Shields’ as well as the Dionne family, Jack Shields’ military papers and photographs from his experience as a soldier before and during the Korean War, and some military publications that he collected.

The records have been arranged by the Archivists by content and chronology into the various series and files. The Archivists imposed the order now shown by the records.

The records are divided into six series: Nora Shields Personal Papers, Nora Shields’ Financial Records, Shields’ Family Photographs, Jack Shields Korean War Records, Korean War Publications.

Shields family

Al Stangowitz fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 68
  • Fonds
  • 1951-1952

The fonds contains one 18 page scrapbook which includes postcards, newsclippings, a safe conduct pass, propaganda leaflets, and banknotes. Includes a "Crown News" newsletter from 21 January 1951; a "Letter Home" newsletter from October 1951; and a "Sanjom/Ni Nightly Revue" newsletter from 26 November 1951. Also included are 8 photographs of Korea and Korean peasants and a photograph of the U.S. naval ship Marine Adder.

Stangowitz, Al

3PPCLI in Korea photo collection

  • PPCLI P150
  • Collection
  • 1950-1955

This collection consists of photographs of the 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (3PPCLI) during the conflict on the Korean Peninsula from its formation on November 30, 1950 to its deactivation on January 8, 1954.