Museum / Archive

Elgin County Archives

Part Of

Elgin County Audio-Visual Collection

Description Level

Item

Item Number

AV 77

Storage Room

Archives Storage Rm. 110

Storage Location

W6 B5

GMD

moving images

Date Range

1942

Physical Description

1 videocassette ; col.

Scope and Content

Interfiles read: I.G.'s Inspection [Service Flying Training School, Aylmer]; Martin house [birds]; [R.C.A.F. aircraft]; The Earl of Athlone, Governor-General, and Princess Alice visit No. 14 S.F.T.S., June 13, 1942 [brief footage of the G.G.'s party exiting Mess Hall & group pose]; Wings Parade, Course 49, and Muskoka [on dock]; [Baseball, base buildings, officers' quarters, playing cards]; No. 14 S.F.T.S. Aylmer; A.V.M. G.O. Johnston visits Aylmer [handing out commissions]; [Base from air]; Kay and Norm borrow John David Eaton's Beechcraft for its last flight before gas rationing. Refuelling at Sunnyside Isle en route to Memquisit Lodge, Sept. 13, 1942 [Indian children, large fish caught, shoreline & fauna, sawmill]; Aylmer snow [snowblower on base]

Name Access

Aylmer (Ont.)

Subject Access

Military

Repro Restriction

This film is more than 50 years old and is in the public domain. Please credit the Archives of Ontario as the source of these films using the citation information provided.

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