De Hart, John Edward (Jack)
Jack de Hart fonds. – 1935-1985. – 3 cm of textual records.
– 2,122 photographs.
Box 1
Album 1 – “Coronation Trip, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth
… 25 April 1927 to 1 August 1937”. The b&w photographs
depicts a group of young men in their trip across Canada from Lethbridge
to Montreal, the voyage across the Atlantic on board the S.S. Montcalm,
landing at Le Havre, King George’s House in Stockwell where the
group stayed in London, various London scenes, coronation day, Canterbury,
Herstmonceux and Pevensey Castles in Sussex., Sir Paul Latham, M.P.,
Oxford, Bumping Race on the Thames, Windsor Castle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Alnwick Castle, Durham Cathedral, Dunbar and Glasgow; Kew Gardens, their
return on the Empress of Britain. Jack de Hart was one of the group,
a school boy representing the Lethbridge schools. A news clipping article
by de Hart about the trip is included in the album. 208 photographs.
Album 2 – b&w photographs taken in Lethbridge, Banff, Calgary,
Edmonton and other places in Alberta from the summer of 1939 to 1942.
There are photographs of Sarcee Camp (a military training camp) in 1941
and 1942, as well as the University of Alberta from which Jack graduated.
There is one photograph taken on board the S.S. Montcalm in 1937. 199
photographs
Album 3 – b&w photographs of military training taken in 1943.
There is portrait of “13 Platoon “C” Company, O.S.A.C.
(W.C.), 1 June 1943”. There are a few col. photographs taken in
1944 followed by b&w photographs taken in Pembroke, Ont., as well
as portraits of Jack in his military uniform.
Album 4 – b&w photographs taken from 1944 to 1946. Many of
these photographs presumably have captions on the verso but they have
not been examined. Near the front of the album is a photograph of Jack
and others at Petawawa Military Camp in October 1944. Near the end are
the ruins of Tintern Abbey in Wales and HMS Vanguard in Portsmouth harbor
in 1946. 110 photographs.
Album 5 – b&w photographs taken in 1949 in Edmonton, Calgary,
Vancouver, Victoria. Includes a photograph of Jack with fellow gunnery
officers. It ends with photographs of the Alaska Highway and the Donjek
River camp. 124 photographs.
Box 2
Album 6 – b&w photographs, col. postcards of the Alaska
Highway, 1949-1950. Includes Whitehorse, Donjek River camp, Kluane Lake
camp, O’Hara Transit Camp, trip from Whitehouse to Skagway in March
1950 by train. The album also contains photographs taken in Victoria
at the Work Point Barracks followed by vacation photographs. 236 photographs
Album 7 – Korean War, b&w photographs. The album begins with
departure from Seattle on U.S.N.S. James O’Hara on 15 Jan. 1953
with stops in the Aleutian Islands and Yokohama. There are photographs
of Pusan, Korea, the U.N. cemetery, the Dutch Battalion (Hill 131),
Samichon Valley, Rest Centre on Miya Jima, Hill 123 with the Van Doos
regiment, Hill 207, and Christmas in 1953. The album is fully captioned.
Two postcards and a photograph of a skeleton are in the album but were
not pasted into it. 215 photographs.
Album 8 – “Presented to Major J.E. de Hart on the occasion
of your visit to Fort Knox, Kentucky, February 1960”. The album
contains stock b&w photographs; it does not appear to contain any
of de Hart at Fort Knox. With the album were 13 loose photographs documenting
the visit. De Hart is is one of them. 14 photographs.
Box 3
The remainder of the albums are compilations, put together at a
later date, and containing photographs from various time periods. They
have not been captioned and are placed in sticky sheet albums; captions
may/may not be written on the verso of these photographs. Some text
does appear in the photographs themselves.
Album 9 – Begins with b&w photographs from the 1940s; there
are photographs of the de Hart’s father. There is col. post card
of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Lethbridge, Alberta. Later on there
are col. photographs of de Hart as an older man. There is a b&w
photograph of “3 RCHA Basic Boffin 40 mm Air Defence Course , 22
Jul.-3 Aug 74”; de Hart is in civilian dress in this group. There
are col. photographs of a commemorative military service, possibly in
Japan. Note: It is not the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea.
183 photographs (18 col; 165 b&w)
Album 10 – Begins with b&w photographs from the 1940s; col.
photographs are interspersed. Although there are some military photographs,
including recruitment photographs and an army airplane, many are of
family and places. There are two photographs of a “Farewell party
for Gosta Isaakson” taken in the Airport Restaurant, Damascus,
18 Nov. 1962; de Hart is in both of them. The album ends with col. family
photographs and military social events, followed by yet more b&w
photographs. Postcards: col. postcard from Korea; col. postcards of
Israel and Malta (Hotel Phoenicia); b&w postcards of Cairo and the
Pyramids, S.S. Homeric. 141 photographs (53 col; 88 b&w)
Album 11 – St. John Ambulance / Order of St. John. Prince Richard,
Duke of Gloucester (1944-) at an event in 1984 (if all the photographs
in the album are from the same year). B&w photographs. Gloucester
holds the Service Medal of the Order of St. John; there is a man in
medieval dress on a horse in some of the photographs. Following are
col. photographs of the 75th Anniversary (1909-1984). The
first St. John Ambulance Brigade division for men was formed in London,
Ontario, in 1909. De Hart is shown speaking at a podium in the Chimo
Inn, Ottawa”. De Hart appears in photographs throughout the album,
including some with the Duke of Gloucester. 109 photographs (78 col;
31 b&w)
Box 4
Album 12 – St. John Ambulance. The album begins with col photographs
of de Hart presenting the Royal Canadian Mounted Police with an award
on 13 July 1983; the text of the de Hart’s remarks are also in
the album. These are followed by two photographs of de Hart being recognized
for his work by Governor General Jeanne Sauvé in her role as Dame of
Justice of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of
Jerusalem. Some family photographs follow as well as a b&w photograph
of de Hart in his St. John Ambulance uniform. At the end are b&w
photographs: de Hart in his military uniform; a signed photograph of
H.A.Merklinger playing the organ in Shilo, Manitoba on 13 March 1949;
“CASC [Royal Canadian Army Service Corps] – 3rd
Syndicate 1955”, includes de Hart; army recruiting photograph in
1940s. 21 photographs (14 col; 7 b&w)
File folder 1: St. John Ambulance; 8 col photographs were found on album
pages that had been cut out of an album. De Hart is in his military
uniform.
Album 13 – B&w photographs, military social events, de Hart
appears in uniform and civilian clothes; on board a navy ship; military
camp and in the field; portrait of de Hart with his parents; entertainment
in the Mess. A few col. photographs are interspersed. 76 photographs
(3 col; 73 b&w)
Album 14 – Album begins with 2 b&w post cards of S.S. Samaria
nd S.S. Empress of Britain. Album contains a pictures of b&w and
col. photographs, military and family. There are some photographs of
the Wrights in 1985. Near the end is a formal military portrait of de
Hart from the 1940s. 118 photographs (102 col; 16 b&w)
Album 15 –There are several pages of family pictures, de Hart is
not in them. They are followed by photographs of de Harte with Governor
General Jeanne Sauvé at Rideau Hall. They are both in civilian dress
so this occasion appears not to be connected to the one depicted in
Album 12. The album ends with military social events and then family
photographs. 98 photographs (96 col; 2 b&w)
Photographs removed from 2 albums that were not full in order to save
space and placed in file folders.
File 2: Formal b&w portraits of de Hart and others. Includes wedding
pictures taken by C.B. Elliott; it a double wedding and one of the bridegrooms
is de Hart. 12 photographs
File 3: Military social occasions. There is also a photograph of Perrin
Beatty who was Minister of Defence, 1986-1989; the other photograph
is presumably of Paul Davison Manson who was Chief of the Defence Staff,
1986-89. 18 col. photographs
File 4: Family photographs, 16 photographs (15 col; 1 b&w)
File5: Letter from the German Ambassador to Canada to de Hart, 1958
File 6: Printed mimeograph of lyrics for “underneath the Moosehead
or The Fort Osborne Swoon Song” by Matron Betty Pense, RCAMC, 1947
Clippings:
Files 7 to 9. Clippings about de Hart, his parents, Royal Canadian Horse
Artillery, the Wrights, and others. File 7 contains a photocopy of a
column written by de Hart as editor of The Observer for the people
of Shilo.
File 10: General news clippings.
Oversize:
Royal School of Music. piano certificate, 1935
Two degrees, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws, from the University
of Alberta, text entirely in Latin, 1943? They are signed by Frank Ford
who was the Chancellor from 1942 to 1946.
Appointment as an officer (2nd Lieutenant, Royal Canadian
Artillery), 28 Feb. 1944
Certificate of Service in the Canadian Armed Forces, 24 May 1943-18
Dec. 1971. Signed by General Frederick Ralph Sharp, Chief of the Defence
Staff.
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