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Ernest W. Stedman fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1915-1979.

Reference:

R2508-0-4-E, MG30-E322

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102263

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Ernest W. Stedman fonds
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Fonds includes:

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

1915-1979.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

6.5 cm of textual records (317 p.).
627 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of a general scrapbook containing newspaper clippings and miscellaneous manuscript items which provide information on aspects of Stedman's career; a scrapbook on U.S. atomic bombs tests containing clippings; articles by Stedman concerning airships and high altitute flight and one article by J.H. Parkin concerning Wallace Rupert Turnbull; correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes and commemorative items. Photographic material depicts aircraft and personnel of the Royal Naval Air Service in England and France, 1915-1917; aspects of planned trans-Atlantic flight of Handley Page V/ 1500 aircraft "Atlantic", Harbour Grace, Newfoundland; Parssboro, Nova Scotia, 1919; visit to Canada of H.M. Airship R-100, St. Hubert, Québec, 1930; career of Air Vice-Marshall E.W. Stedman in the C.A.F. and the R.C.A.F., 1920-1946; portraits of Stedman and C.D. Howe.

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Stedman, Ernest Walter, 1888-1957

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Stedman, Ernest W. (Ernest Walter), 1887-1957

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Stedman, Ernest Walter, 1888-1957 : Ernest W. Stedman, Air Force officer, was born at Malling, Kent, England and received his primary education at Maidstone, Kent. Following four years at a combined workshop and technical school, he attended the Royal College of Science and later the City Guilds College in London. In 1913 he was appointed scientific assistant in aeronautics at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, and on the outbreak of World War I he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, attached to the Royal Naval Air Service. He transferred to the Royal Air Force upon its formation in 1918.

Demobilized in 1919, Stedman joined the staff of the Handley Page aircraft company and was sent to Newfoundland in charge of the firm's attempt to gain the 10,000 pound Daily Mail prize for the first trans-Atlantic flight by a heavier than air aircraft.

In 1920 Stedman came to Canada and served as chief technical officer of the Air Board and later the Canadian Air Force, 1920-1924. In April 1924, he joined the newly formed R.C.A.F. and held a succession of senior engineering positions in the service until his retirement in 1946. He represented the Canadian government at the Bikini atomic bomb tests in 1946 and from 1946 to 1955 was a professor of mechanical engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa.

His memoirs were publish posthumously.

See: Canadian Encyclopedia, p. 1757; Canadian Who's Who, 1948.

Finding aid:

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Photographs: (Paper) see "Photographic inventories, indexes and caption lists arranged by accession number." FA-500

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General note:

Received in 1979 from Mr. Robert W. Stedman of Ottawa, Ont.
Subject heading:

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Air pilots Canada

Pilotes d'aéronef Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1979-154 NPC

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MG30-E322
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Photographs: no restrictions on use or reproduction.Various copyrights on items less than 50 years old. Copyright expired on items more than 50 years old.Credit: name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / copy negative number.

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