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Alvin Lincoln Humphreys [multiple media]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1942-1958.

Reference:

R12368-0-6-E

BAN no.:

2007-00639-1

Type of material:

Photographs, Maps and cartographic material, Textual material, Objects (including medals and pins), Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3784701

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Alvin Lincoln Humphreys
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Fonds includes:

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

1942-1958.

Place of creation:

Canada

Extent:

1337 photographs : b&w and col.
1 film (23.5 min.) : col ; 8 mm.
86 maps : topographic some in col.
464 photographs : col slides ; 35 mm.
10 badges (city crests), colour fabrics.
1.2 m of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Alvin Lincoln Humphreys [multiple media]

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The Alvin Lincoln Humphreys fonds consists of photos, slides, maps, textual documents pertaining to his career in the RCAF as member of 414 Photo Squadron Air navigator. Mr. Humphrys' duties were to search and rescue aircrafts in Northern Quebec, Ontario, Yukon and North West Territories, ca. 1951-1958. He worked also for Kenting Aviation doing Weather Survey Flying and mapping operations for six years in the 1950s across Canada and North West Territories.

The material includes Operational Directives and photo survey reports, topographic maps, portraits and personal documents, correspondence with Kenting Aviation Limited, aerial photographs, colour slides, some published leaflets by RCAF, photos of various airports, airfields and aircrafts used by RCAF in his career. Photos of air shows in Eastern Canada, a slide collection of Canadian and American aircrafts from the 1950s; photos of various activities in various locations across Canada such as Arvida, Baie Comeau, Quebec City, Sept-Iles, Fort Chimo, Que.; Hamilton Falls, Oshawa, Ont.; Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, Fox, Melville Peninsula, Fort Churchill, Old Prince of Wales Fort, Sawmill Bay on Great Bear Lake, Port Radium, Fort Smith, N.W.T.; Whitehorse, Yukon; Grande Prairie, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Alta; Kamloops, Comox, Prince George, B.C.; Summerside, P.E.I.; Cabot Trail, Greenwood, Halifax, N.S.; N.B.; The Pas, Hudson Bay Post, Man.; Regina, Sask.

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Humphreys, Alvin Lincoln, 1925-2007

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(Paper) In Accession file (90: Open)

Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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2007-00639-1
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Graphic (photo)

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R12368]

[Consultation 90 Open]

1--3;

[Consultation 90 Open]

9;

[Consultation 90 Open]

Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R12368] 11--16

[Consultation 90 Open]

Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R12368] 4--8

[Consultation 90 Open]

Object

[Consultation90 Open]

Volume [R12368] 10

[Consultation 90 Open]

Moving images (film)

[Consultation90 Open]

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Date modified:: 2024-06-27