125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation medal.
- SCA212-GA191-3-30e
- File
- 1993
Information related to John Gartshore Martin receiving a 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation medal.
Martin, John Gartshore
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125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation medal.
Information related to John Gartshore Martin receiving a 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation medal.
Martin, John Gartshore
Group photographs of the Chicopee Tennis Club, probably at annual club events. John Alexander Martin is present in most of the photographs. Three of the photographs are incorporated in two Christmas cards. One photograph was taken at a 1928 Rotary Club picnic at Chicopee.
Martin, John Gartshore
Liberation anniversary certificates.
Material relating to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Holland (Bergen op Zoom) and Belgium in WWII. Includes certificates, a photograph of John Gartshore Martin shaking hands with the [Prime Minister of Belgium?], and a photocopied 1945 press clipping.
Martin, John Gartshore
Photographs of the Martin and Wilson families. Includes snapshots of John Alexander and Jessie Martin; their sons and daughters-in-law Wilson and Dorothy, Jamie, and John and Mary Ann; and their grandchildren. Includes snapshots of Jessie Martin's parents, Richard and Margaret Wilson, and her siblings; and of John Alexander's parents, Rev. William and Christena Martin, and other family members.
File also includes snapshots of other people, likely family friends. Most photographs are taken in Waterloo as well as other locations around Ontario.
Martin, John Gartshore
Martin, John Alexander : personal.
Material relating to John Alexander Martin. Includes a command from Buckingham Palace regarding a medal, a biography, a letter from the president of the Rubber Association of Canada, R.C. Bukinshaw, regarding Martin's resignation from the association, and a photograph of Martin and Buckinshaw.
Martin, John Gartshore
Martin, John Gartshore : portrait.
Portrait photograph of John Gartshore Martin.
Martin, John Gartshore
Martin, John Gartshore : portraits.
Seven portraits of John Gartshore Martin in uniform, and one portrait of him as a young boy.
Martin, John Gartshore
Martin, Wilson, Jamie, and John : portraits.
Portraits of Wilson, Jamie and John Martin. Two photographs (plus one duplicate) are of the brothers as young children, and one photograph shows them together in uniform.
Martin, John Gartshore
Passport for John Gartshore Martin for travel into the United States of America. Includes a photograph of Martin.
Martin, John Gartshore
Photograph album 1 : Martin family.
Album containing snapshots of Jessie and John Alexander Martin and their children, Wilson, Jamie, and John, as babies and young children. Other relative are included in some photographs. Album also includes later photographs of the three brothers in uniform, and a photograph of John Gartshore Martin and his father visiting Jamie's grave at Beny-sur-mer cemetery.
Also contained in the album are several press clippings relating to John's achievements in the war, John A. Wilson (cousin) who was killed in action, and the post-war careers of Wilson and John.
Martin, John Gartshore
Photograph album 2 : Martin family.
Album containing snapshots of members of the Martin family, including Wilson, Jamie and John in uniform posing alone and with other relatives and friends; Jamie with friends in Europe during the war; the three brothers as young children; and John Alexander and Jessie Martin. Album also includes photographs of Jamie's grave and the cemetery at Beny-sur-mer in France; John Alexander and Jessie visiting the grave; and other memorials and plaques dedicated to Jamie.
Album includes newspaper clippings mostly relating to the involvement of Wilson, Jamie and John in the war; Jamie's death and the memorial services for him; and Wilson's post-war career.
Martin, John Gartshore
Photograph album 3 : Martin family.
Album containing snapshots of John Alexander and Jessie Martin and their children as well as other relatives and family friends. Includes snapshots of Wilson in uniform posing with relatives, and of Jamie's grave at Beny-sur-mer, France.
Album also contains newspaper clippings and memorabilia, including the telegram from the Department of National Defence regarding Jamie's death and Jamie's last letter home. Clippings relate to Jamie's death, Wilson's wedding, John Alexander Martin's career (including his appointment to rubber controller for Canada), and news of relatives and friends.
Martin, John Gartshore
Photograph album 4 : Mary Ann Kabel.
Album belonging to Mary Ann Kabel (later Martin) containing snapshots of her and her friends, friends' wedding photographs, and snapshots of John Gartshore Martin at the military school in Vernon, BC. Album also contains newspaper clippings and memorabilia. Clippings relate to news and announcements about Mary Ann's friends and other men from Kitchener-Waterloo serving in World War II (including deaths, injuries, etc.) and the weddings of Mary Ann's friends.
Martin, John Gartshore
Four photographs and a letter to John Gartshore Martin from his niece Ann Martin. One photograph (modern copy) depicts John Alexander Martin with his sons in uniform. In the letter, Ann asks John to identify the men and woman in the other three portraits. The woman is possibly John's maternal grandmother, Margaret (Gartshore) Wilson. One man is probably John's paternal grandfather, Rev. William M. Martin, and the other is probably John's uncle Alexander Douglas Wilson.
Martin, John Gartshore
Wedding of Mary Ann Kabel and John Gartshore Martin.
Photographs taken at the wedding of Mary Ann Kabel and John Gartshore Martin, on February 22, 1946.
Martin, John Gartshore