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  • J.M.'s World War One Sketchbooks

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    Description:
    The images presented in this collection are from a set of two World War One sketchbooks archived in the University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives. They contain water-colour and pen and ink images which were produced by a British soldier based in...
    Subject
    Military History
    Location
    France, , France and Belgium, , Belgium
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    sketchbooks and drawings (visual works)

  • Victoria to Vimy First World War Collection

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    Description:
    Victoria to Vimy, sponsored by a World War Commemorations Community Fund grant from the Department of Canadian Heritage, is a digital collection of First World War materials held at the University of Victoria Libraries, Special Collections and Archives. For this...
    Subject
    Military History and Local History
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada and Western Europe,
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs and scrapbooks

  • W.O.H. Dodds World War One Photographs and Scrapbook

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    186Works
    Description:
    Photographs and a scrapbook of newspaper cuttings and other records relating to the life and service of Brigadier General W.O.H. Dodds, CMG, DSO, in the Great War of 1914-1918 and extending to his death on 25 August 1934. Brigadier General Dodds joined the Canadian...
    Subject
    Military History
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs and scrapbooks

  • World War One Photographs and Journals

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    Description:
    World War One photographs and journals selected primarily from the Archie Wills fonds. Archie H. Wills (Henry Archibald Wills) was born in Victoria, British Columbia on 11 September 1892. His parents, Frank Henry Wills (1864-1953) and Sarah Ann Porter (1861-1946)...
    Subject
    Military History
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photographs and diaries

  • World War One Photographs by J. A. Millar

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    Description:
    This collection is made up of photographs by J. A. Millar depicting scenes of the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Valcartier Camp, at Quebec, and at Gaspe Harbour immediately prior to sailing to Britain in 1914. Also included are a few loose photos by unknown...
    Subject
    Military History
    Location
    Canada, , Canada and United Kingdom, , United Kingdom
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    photograph albums, photographs, and diaries

  • World of Mary's Wedding Reminiscences of World War One

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    85Works
    Description:
    In 2008, <a href="https://pacificopera.ca/">Pacific Opera Victoria</a> commissioned an opera from the play, Mary's Wedding. The play tells a story of love and remembrance set in the Prairies, the trenches of France, and the Battle of Moreuil Wood...
    Subject
    Military History, Performing Arts, Local History, and Arts and Culture
    Location
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
    Resource Type
    Collection
    Genre
    correspondence and photographs