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John J. Hume (1913-1976) [textual record]

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Date:

1917-1971.

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R10119-12-0-E

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Item ID number:

207239

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Robert Hume and family fonds

John J. Hume (1913-1976)
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Series includes:

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Date(s):

1917-1971.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

1.34 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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The series consists of the personal diaries, correspondence, and memorabilia of John J. Hume which document his life, from a privileged childhood and youth in Port Hope, Ontario, to the disruption of the Great Depression and service in the Canadian Army in the Second World War, through to his relative economic decline and difficulty in post-war Canadian society.

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Hume, John J, 1913-1976

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Hume, John J, 1913-1976 : John Joseph Hume was born 4 May 1913 in Edmonton, Alberta, the son of Robert Hume and Mona Barclay Hogg. He was raised in Edmonton and Port Hope, Ontario and attended Trinity College School, a private school in the latter town. The collapse of his father's fortune in the depression of the 1930s scuttled thoughts of further education. By 1932 he was working for the Bank of Toronto in Montreal and continued in that position until the summer of 1940 when he enlisted as a private in the Victoria Rifles of Canada. He served with the Victoria Rifles in Newfoundland, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia, before transferring out of the regiment in September 1942 to go overseas for active service. After training at the Canadian Army centre at Aldershot, England between October 1942 and June 1943, he was drafted to the West Nova Scotia Regiment for service in the Mediterranean theatre. The West Nova Scotia Regiment went first to North Africa and then took part in the invasions of Sicily and Italy. Hume received a bullet wound on 13 December 1943 at the Battle of Ortona. After several months convalescence in England, he was assigned in the summer of 1944 to the army's Chief Treasury Office in London. He was promoted to corporal in 1945, returned to Canada in December of that year and was discharged from the army in January 1946.

After the war John J. Hume returned to the Bank of Toronto in Montreal but in 1948 went to Fort William (Thunder Bay) to work at a hotel and find space to pursue his dream of being a playwright. Later he moved back south and for many years worked for both the federal government and the YMCA in Ottawa.

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