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Joseph A. Heenan fonds [textual record, graphic material, sound recording]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1902-1985.

Reference:

R4975-0-6-E, MG30-E435

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs, Sound recordings, Art

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

105397

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Joseph A. Heenan fonds
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Fonds includes:

13 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1902-1985.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

2.5 m of textual records.
412 photographs b&w, col.
4 audio cassettes (2 h, 40 min).
1 print.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of naval and marine career; Department of Trade and Commerce, and the Maritime Commission; Royal Commission on Pilotage; personal correspondence, associations and memberships; Higgs Automatic Life Line and Salvage Buoy; daily journal; scrapbooks, memorabilia, and newspaper clippings; articles written by Joseph Heenan, and others; memoirs: Both Feet on the Table; Park Steamship Company Limited.

Fonds also consists of photographs of Heenan as an officer in the Merchant Navy, Royal Navy, Royal Canadian Navy, and as a public servant with the Government of Canada, as well as the Heenan family and friends.

The fonds also contains sound recordings of oral history interviews of Joseph Heenan for use in local and national Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio programs.

Also included is a print depicting Naval Assembly Atlantic, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 1967, and showing ships from countries bordering the Atlantic.

Provenance:

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Heenan, Joseph A., 1892-1985

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Heenan, Joseph A., 1892-1985

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Heenan, Joseph A., 1892-1985 : Joseph A. Heenan, seafarer civil servant, was born on 25 June 1891 at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, and began his marine and naval career at the age of fifteen when, as an apprentice on the four-masted barque Lynton, he went to sea for the first time. During his four years as apprentice, then mate, on the Lynton, Heenan rounded Cape Horn six times. In 1911, he was appointed a Midshipman in the Royal Naval Reserve (R.N.R.). He served throughout World War I in the Royal Navy aboard the Cruiser Fox, 1914-1918, and the Battle Cruiser Repulse, 1918, and was involved with the Revolt of Arabia and Colonel T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). During the inter-war years he joined the White Star Line, 1919, was appointed Navigating Officer with the Canadian National Steamships, 1929, and continued to pursue Royal Navy Courses.

In 1937, Heenan resigned from Canadian National Steamships and was appointed to the position of Inspector of Subsidized Steamship Services with the Department of Trade and Commerce. That same year, he transferred from the R.N.R. to the Royal Canadian Naval Reserve (R.C.N.R.) and it was with the R.C.N.R. that he served during World War II. He was appointed to the staff of Naval Service Headquarters in 1939 and as an Honourary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor General, the Earl of Athlone, in 1940 and served in both capacities until 1942 when he was promoted to Captain, R.C.N.R., and appointed to H.M.C.S. Provider. Heenan was Captain Coastal Forces until he was appointed Naval Officer in Charge, Saint John, N.B., in 1945. In 1945, he was made an Officer of the Military Division, Order of the British Empire.

After his demobilization, Heenan returned to the Department of Trade and Commerce. He was Director of Subsidized Steamship Services with that latter department until 1947, when the whole section was transferred to the newly created Canadian Maritime Commission. Heenan remained with that organization until he retired in 1958. Subsequently, from 1963 to 1970, he acted as Technical Research Consultant for the Royal Commission on Pilotage. After his retirement, Heenan travelled and wrote extensively and one result was his autobiography, Both Feet on the Table.

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Textual record (Electronic) The finding aid describes volumes 1 to 13 at the file level. MSS1598 (90: Open)
http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/p000003596.pdf

Sound recording (Electronic) See MISACS for item-level descriptions. (99: Closed pending processing)
Subject heading:

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Navies

Officiers de marine
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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(1985-09-15)
1985-0413 MISA
1985-204 PIC
1985-264 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E435
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Finding aid box [FA 1598] 124

[Consultation 10 Closed]

Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Sound recordings

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (art)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Photographs: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old; copyright expired on items greater than 50 years old.
Sound recordings: Reproduction and use of any form requires the written permission of copyright owner and the written permission of the CBC. In some cases the written permission of the donor may also be requires; please see item-level descriptions for details.
Print: No restrictions on use or reproduction. Copyright unknown. Credit: National Archives of Canada.

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Date modified:: 2024-06-12