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R. David Hume (1925-1996) [textual record]

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Date:

1926-1983.

Reference:

R10119-16-8-E

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Item ID number:

207250

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Robert Hume and family fonds

R. David Hume (1925-1996)
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Series includes:

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Date(s):

1926-1983.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

0.16 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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The series holds correspondence to Robert David Hume from his family and friends, arranged nominally and chronologically, and memorabilia from his youth and early adult life. Most of the correspondence dates from wartime while he was training under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, with his most frequent correspondents being Nancy Bierwirth (12 letters), Reginald Christian (16 letters), Mary Galt (7 letters), Barbara Hume (4 letters), John J. Hume (14 letters), and his mother Mona Hume (17 letters). The memorabilia primarily relates to his boyhood interest in aviation, his service with the Royal Canadian Air Force Intelligence Unit in the 1950s, and his education at McGill University in the late 1940s.

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Hume, R. David, 1925-1996

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Hume, R. David, 1925-1996 : Robert David Hume was born 4 February 1925 in Port Hope, the son of Robert and Mona Barclay (Hogg) Hume. He was educated at Trinity College School and McGill University. During the Second World War, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and trained as a bomb aimer at No. 1 Initial Training School, Toronto; No. 1 Bombing and Gunnery School, Jarvis, Ontario; and No. 9 Air Observer School, St. Jean, Quebec. He went overseas to England in the last weeks of the war to serve briefly in the European theatre. After completing his education at McGill in the late 1940s, he worked for the Department of National Defence before transferring in 1965 to the National Archives of Canada. He married Mary Agnes Dewdney of Newcastle and died 15 April 1996 in Ottawa.

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