Beret, Armband- Warden, 2 Gas mask with pack, 2 Photograph Emergency Preparedness exercise
Public Description
Gas mask with pack and warden’s armband used by Civil Defence, Kitimat Auxiliary Police in Kitimat. As representatives of Canada's emergency planning, Civil Defence volunteers mobilized to protect Kitimat against invasion, nuclear attack, and other disasters. A municipal civil defence plan was put in place, and volunteers received training in search and rescue, survival, bomb shelters, and emergency feeding. Donated by Emergency Preparedness, District of Kitimat.
Group photograph of senior army cadets and their leaders at the Vernon Cadet Camp, summer 1956. Several senior members of the Kitimat Cadet Corps, including Arvid Hardin, Fred Taylor (fifth from right in back row), and Lee Dennell (second from right in second row), travelled to Vernon to attend this event.
Fair - long horizontal crease along bottom half of photo. Yellow/brown stains and tape residue on front and back.
Custodial History
Donated to the Kitimat Museum & Archives by Arvid Hardin on May 10th 2022.
Scope and Content
Group photograph of senior army cadets and their leaders at the Vernon Cadet Camp, summer 1956. Several senior members of the Kitimat Cadet Corps, including Arvid Hardin, Fred Taylor (fifth from right in back row), and Lee Dennell (second from right in second row), travelled to Vernon to attend this event.
Notes
Caption on front: "'A' Coy - #1 P.U. (?) Senior Leaders - Vernon Cadet Camp - 1956."
Signed by officers, sergeants, and cadets on back. Names include: Lieut. H.E. Hughes, ? Campbell, Capt. McKeller, Sgt. [Vertel?], Doug Puce, Bill Heron, Harvey [Dubur?], George Thomson, Robin Archibald, Ron Duff, L.F. Mazurenko, [Fesseman AM?], [Doug Menham?], G. Sailer, Al Weiss, Fred E. Temoffee, Wayne Bohne, [L. O. Whitford?], Roger Ellis, R. A. Taylor, Lyle Langer, Jack Shirtwell, E.J. Patterson, [W. Duttcheson?], [F.W. Damant?], and A. R. Larsen. Unknown which of these people were from Kitimat.
Donated to the Kitimat Museum & Archives by Arvid Hardin on May 10th 2022.
Scope and Content
Group photograph of senior leaders at the Vernon Cadet Camp. Unknown if any representatives of the Kitimat Cadets were at this event (see Notes).
Notes
Caption says either 1955 or 1958. If 1955, the photo was taken before the official founding of the Kitimat Cadets in October of that year; therefore the only known member of the future Kitimat Corps present would be Cadet Lance Corporal J.G. Turgeon, who moved to Kitimat and joined the Cadets later that year.
Group photograph of training officers at the Vernon Cadet Camp. Standing at the far right is Lieutenant Emile 'Bill' Duyvewaardt, who worked as a teacher and army cadet leader in Kitimat from 1955 to 1958.
Donated to the Kitimat Museum & Archives by Arvid Hardin on May 10th 2022.
Scope and Content
Group photograph of training officers at the Vernon Cadet Camp. Standing at the far right is Lieutenant Emile 'Bill' Duyvewaardt, who worked as a teacher and army cadet leader in Kitimat from 1955 to 1958.
