Subject: World War I
Army Recruiters at Cranbrook's City Hall, c. 1914
Cranbrook's City Hall was used as a Recruiting Office (part of sign visible at right) during WW I. This is a view of the building before the face was changed in 1935.
| Internal ID: | 0007.0002 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1914 |
WW I Recruits on Cranbrook's City Hall Steps
WW I recruits and mascot in front of Cranbrook's City Hall.
| Internal ID: | 0007.0003 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1914 |
WW I Recruiters and Recruits at City Hall
Cranbrook's City Hall was used as a Recruiting Office during WW I. The men on the steps are some of the recruits volunteering for service.
| Internal ID: | 0007.0004 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1914 |
Captain Walther Schweiger
Captain Walther Schweiger of German submarine U-20, the German submarian that sank the SS Hesperian and the SS Lusitania.
| Internal ID: | 0019.0045 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
German Submarine U-20
Submarine U-20, a WW I German submarine that sank both the SS Lusitania and SS Hesperian.
| Internal ID: | 0019.0046 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
SS Hesperian Sinking
SS Hesperian sinking September 6, 1915, after being torpedoed, Postcard front, linked to 0019.0048
| Internal ID: | 0019.0047 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | September 6th 1915 |
SS Hesperian Sinking
SS Hesperian sinking September 6, 1915, after being torpedoed, Postcard front, linked to 0019.0048
| Internal ID: | 0019.0048 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | September 6th 1915 |
SS Hesperian
SS Hesperian prior to its sinking in 1915 (dated September 3, 1915). Postcard front, linked to 0019.0050.
| Internal ID: | 0019.0049 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
SS Hesperian
SS Hesperian prior to its sinking in 1915 (dated September 3, 1915). Postcard front, linked to 0019.0050.
| Internal ID: | 0019.0050 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
WW I Soldiers Taking A Break
A group of WW I soldiers, possibly from Cranbrook, taking a break alongside a railway track. Written note on the back of postcard says "Cranbrook, B.C."
| Internal ID: | 0039.0083 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 0000 |
WW I Soldiers Taking A Break
A group of WW I soldiers, possibly from Cranbrook, taking a break alongside a railway track. Written note on the back of postcard says "Cranbrook, B.C."
| Internal ID: | 0039.0084 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 0000 |
Canadian Expeditionary Force, WW I
Postcard of the Duke of Connaught inspecting Canadian Mobilzation Camps for the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WW I.
| Internal ID: | 0040.0087 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Canadian Expeditionary Force, WW I
Postcard of the Duke of Connaught inspecting Canadian Mobilzation Camps for the Canadian Expeditionary Force in WW I.
| Internal ID: | 0040.0088 |
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| Medium: | Photograph |
| Date: | 1915 |
Women's Institute
Regular monthy meeting of Cranbrook Women's Institute making arrangements for the comfort and entertainment of upcoming Convention delegates.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0321 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 6th 1917 |
Women's Institute
Women's Institute conference started with auto tour to towns around Cranbrook, returning to a banquet and musical evening.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0352 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | October 4th 1917 |
Little & Atchison
Advertisement offering supplies and sales on items to send in parcels to the boys overseas at the front lines.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0372 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 1st 1917 |
Amateur Dramatic Company
Newspaper article Cranbrook Amateur Dramatic Company leaving for Creston to present "Green Stockings" before going on to Balfour to entertain returned soldiers at Military Sanatorium.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0385 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 27th 1917 |
Rex Theatre
Rex Theatre admission prices must be raised due to increased cost of Film Service.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0394 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 27th 1917 |
Creston Soldier's Colony
National Service Board urged to have government drain 25,000 acres and settle returned heroes on land in Creston district.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0396 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 16th 1917 |
Richardson Wounded
Officer Commanding 'B' Company, 225th Battalion who trained in Cranbrook was wounded in France.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0397 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 23rd 1917 |
War Food Regulations
Regulation for restricting use of beef, bacon and white bread in public eating places.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0398 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 23rd 1917 |
Soldier Rehab
Listing what every disabled soldier should know.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0399 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 23rd 1917 |
War Foods
Britian and her Allies need an extra 160,000,000 bushels of wheat more than Canada and United States are exporting.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0400 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | August 23rd 1917 |
Capt. Henshaw Lecture
Capt. Henshaw to give an illustrated lecture on "The Fields of France" including experience in convalescent hospitals.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0401 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 6th 1917 |
Fosmo War Letter
Copy of letter received by resident in Cranbrook from soldier fighting in France.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0402 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 6th 1917 |
Victory Bonds Ad
Newspaper advertisement urging all Canadian citizens to buy Canada's Victory Bonds to help support our soldiers.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0403 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 1st 1917 |
War Letter
Letter from soldier at the front describing uncertainty of life in war.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0404 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 22nd 1917 |
War Letter
Letter from soldier to his mother describing how there is no rest along the front no matter what the weather.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0406 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 13th 1917 |
War Letter
Letter from Major Reverend Canon Shatford to Senator Foster asking conditions of things politically in Canada, wanting to reassure soldiers that we are standing behind them.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0408 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 13th 1917 |
Military Con Men
Two invalided soldiers from Calgary were stopped in Cranbrook after trying to fleece residents.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0409 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 20th 1917 |
War Letter
Letter from army to Mrs. Bidder of Cranbrook, informing her of the death of her son.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0410 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 20th 1917 |
Appeal Tribunal
Hearing of appeals against decisions of Local Military Tribunal No. 26, Cranbrook, for locals who felt they should not enlist.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0411 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 20th 1917 |
Air Force
Telegram received by Dr. Green of Cranbrook asking for men of certain trades to apply for the Royal Flying Corps.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0413 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 20th 1917 |
War Letter
Letter from a Cranbrook man in the trenches of France.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0415 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 20th 1917 |
Appeals Tribunal
Cranbrook Military Exemption Tribunal have completed their sittings with list of exemptions granted or disallowed.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0416 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 20th 1917 |
Farmers' Exemptions
Final Court of Appeal declares it is essential that Agriculture Production not be diminished by farmers being sent to war.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0418 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 20th 1917 |
Balfour Sanitarium
Fort Steele private killed in action, and donations from Fort Steele citizens to soldiers, wives and children at Balfour.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0419 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 27th 1917 |
Waldo I.O.D.E.
Regular meeting of Waldo I.O.D.E. to discuss the possibility of investing in a Victory Bond.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0420 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 27th 1917 |
War Foods
Food Controller been given authority to license dealers in food supplies.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0421 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 27th 1917 |
Women's Institute Parcels
Thank you letters from boys on the front who received care parcels from Canbrook Women's Institute.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0422 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 27th 1917 |
Victory Bonds
One person out of every ten in Canada bought Victory Bonds.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0423 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 27th 1917 |
War Foods
Food Controller states Canada's supply of pork products for export to the Allied nations must be increased almost without limit.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0424 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 27th 1917 |
War Letters
Letter from soldier from the front describing hospital stay after being gassed.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0425 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | December 27th 1917 |
Michel Labour
Michel veterans draw up resolution against hiring natives of countries which fought against the allies in the Great War.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0595 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 13th 1930 |
Germany's Shame
Translated music hall ditty in Germany after the sinking of the Lusitania, showing the true feelings Germans had of the disaster, not the Kaisers statements.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0895 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 1st 1915 |
Hesperian Sinking
Hesperian hit by torpedo off Irish Coast, 26 passengers and crew supposed to have been lost.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0896 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 15th 1915 |
German Denial
Germany say to have proof that Hesperian was destroyed by a mine, not by one of their submarines.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0897 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 22nd 1915 |
Hesperian Sinking
Although Berlin persists none of their submarines were near Hesperian when she sunk, British presses say they have a fragment of a torpedo taken off the ship before it sunk.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0898 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | September 29th 1915 |
Final Tally
33 people out of 650 passengers and crew are missing after the sinking of the steamer Hesperian.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0899 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | October 13th 1915 |
Cranbrook First Flight
Cranbrook to go down in the annals of aviation history as first airplane landed there enroute to Calgary through towering Rocky Mountains.
| Internal ID: | 0050.0978 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | July 6th 1973 |
Remembrance Essays
The Veterans announcing prize winners in Poppy Day Competion.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0193 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | November 18th 1921 |
Rotary Park Fountain
Ornamental fountain in Rotary Park that has been out of commission for a number of years, now demolished and new fountain being built.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0715 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | May 11th 1939 |
Elections
Cranbrook War Veterans Assocation elects new officers.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0977 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | February 7th 1918 |
Tea Cabaret
Article urging citizens to attend Cranbrook Hotel tea rooms with music, dancing and stunts with benefits going to help the prisoners of war.
| Internal ID: | 0051.0982 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | February 21st 1918 |
3rd Contingent Departure
3,000 Cranbrook citizens gather to bid farewell to the 47 members of the Cranbrook and district men who comprise Cranbrook's contribution to the 3rd Canadian Contingent as they leave for Victoria for training.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0076 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 4th 1915 |
B.C. Mounted Infantry
Twelve men recruited from Cranbrook area for B.C. Mounted Infantry, going through daily mounted drills.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0077 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 4th 1915 |
A.T. Underhill Dies
Sergeant Underhill from Cranbrooks first contingent dies, bringing the war closer to home for many of Cranbrooks citizens.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0079 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 4th 1915 |
Mounted Infantry Entertained
Local associations urge Cranbrook citizens to attend concert and dance to bid farewell to Cranbrook's Mounted Infantry men.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0080 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 11th 1915 |
Mounted Infantry Leave
Twenty-two Cranbrook men leaving to join the Mounted Infantry, now only a few single men in the city who could pass the military examination.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0081 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 11th 1915 |
3rd Contingent 2nd Detachment
With departure of the third contingent, Cranbook has now supplied 168 men to the war.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0082 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 18th 1915 |
Military Dance
Cranbrooks first dance given by the soldier boys.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0084 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 18th 1915 |
3rd Contingent City Gift
Cranbrook Mayor presents each volunteer soldier with a five dollar bill on behalf of the city.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0085 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 18th 1915 |
Liberty
An address from Frances' Premier, stating the war is not a war to conquer territory but a war to determine the fate of the world.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0086 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 18th 1915 |
107th Regiment Members
107th Regiment men from Cranbrook and area taking the officers' course return home.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0087 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 18th 1915 |
Harvey Handley
The parents and sister of Harvey Handley are in Cranbrook to see him and the third contingent off to war.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0088 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 18th 1915 |
Kenneth Spencer Dead
Cranbrook hears of their first soldier to die in battle.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0089 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 18th 1915 |
David Logan, KIA
Former Wardner constable killed in action.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0090 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 18th 1915 |
Marchant and Phillips
Two more local Cranbrook men off to fight the war.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0091 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 18th 1915 |
L.S. Mackersy
Former Cranbrook family return to Scotland to fight for their home country.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0093 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 25th 1915 |
Belgian Relief Committee
Store to open up for two weeks in Cranbrook to receive goods for the relief of Belgium.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0096 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 25th 1915 |
CPR Construction Corps
Canadian Pacific Railway company authorized to organize a railway construction corp for overseas service. Rate of pay and positions attached.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0097 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 25th 1915 |
Milroy Wounded
Cranbrook volunteer with first contingent wounded with gunshot wound to forearm.
| Internal ID: | 0052.0099 |
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| Medium: | Newspaper |
| Date: | March 25th 1915 |
