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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2829 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 20 Sep 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/18/1
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Draft Admiralty memorandum on the naval defence of the Empire for presentation to the Canadian Parliament. [Printed].

Dates: 20 Sep 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Aug 1912 - 27 Nov 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/18/2
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Admiralty memorandum with prints of the correspondence between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, on the naval defence of the Empire, including Canada's contribution. [Printed].

Dates: 26 Aug 1912 - 27 Nov 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 Dec 1912 - 24 Jan 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/18/3
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Admiralty memorandum with prints of the correspondence between WSC, First Lord of the Admiralty and Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, on the naval defence of the Empire, particularly the Canadian emergency contribution to the Royal Navy. [Printed].

Dates: 18 Dec 1912 - 24 Jan 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Jan 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/18/7
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Extract from speech by Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] to the Canadian House of Commons on the Canadian Naval Aid Bill. [Printed].

Dates: 19 Jan 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 26 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/18/9
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Secret memorandum on the general naval situation relating to Britain and Germany, prepared by the Admiralty for the information of Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada]. [White Paper, published August 1914].

Dates: 26 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 28 May 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/19/124
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Letter from Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the political situation in Canada.

Dates: 28 May 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 May 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/19/125-128
Scope and Contents Letter from Sir Francis Hopwood [Additional Lord of the Admiralty, later 1st Lord Southborough] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the political situation in Canada, where the Naval Bill and the Supply Bill would probably be defeated, forcing Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] to call a General Election. Hopwood also comments on the oil supply question, on possible contracts with the Shell Oil Company, Anglo-Persian Oil Company [later the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company] and Mexican...
Dates: 29 May 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Aug 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/18-21
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Note by [Hamar Greenwood] on the political situation in Canada, particularly concerning Britain's naval policy. [Typescript copy on Admiralty notepaper; see CHAR 13/20/26-35 for original.].

Dates: 06 Aug 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 06 Aug 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/26-35
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Letter from Hamar Greenwood to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Canadian naval and political situation.

Dates: 06 Aug 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 14 Aug 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/36-37
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Letter from Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] (Ottawa) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on his intention to provide Britain with 3 capital ships, which was facing political difficulties. [Typescript marked "secret and personal".].

Dates: 14 Aug 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 05 Sep 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/52
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Letter from Lewis Harcourt [Secretary of State for the Colonies] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on Canada's emergency contribution of three Dreadnoughts to the Royal Navy.

Dates: 05 Sep 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Sep 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/65
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Letter from 1st Lord Haldane [Lord Chancellor, former Secretary of State for War] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] reporting his meeting with Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] on the naval question.

Dates: 09 Sep 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Oct 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/76-78
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Letter from John Norton-Griffiths (Chateau Frontenac, Quebec [Canada]) to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] reporting on the naval situation in Canada; includes note from Edward Marsh [Private Secretary to WSC]. [Copy at CHAR 13/20/147].

Dates: 24 Oct 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [Nov] [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/96
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Press-cutting from the Vancouver Advertiser on the naval situation in Canada.

Dates: [Nov] [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Dec 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/105
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Letter from Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the shipbuilding programme, and the Canadian contribution to the Royal Navy. [Typescript copy at CHAR 13/20/141].

Dates: 17 Dec 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Dec 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/141
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Letter from Herbert Asquith [Prime Minister, later 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the shipbuilding programme, and the Canadian contribution to the Royal Navy. [Typescript copy of CHAR 13/20/105].

Dates: 17 Dec 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 24 Oct 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/147
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Letter from John Norton-Griffiths [(Chateau Frontenac, Quebec, Canada)] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] reporting on the naval situation in Canada. [copy of CHAR 13/20/76-78].

Dates: 24 Oct 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Nov 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/20/150-151
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Letter from Sir Richard M'Bride, Prime Minister of British Columbia [Canada] to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] on the Canadian contribution to the Royal Navy.

Dates: 19 Nov 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 21 May 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/22A/81-82
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Letter from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to [Sir Francis Hopwood, Additional Civil Lord of the Admiralty, later 1st Lord Southborough] on the Canadian contribution of 3 battleships to the Royal Navy, described as the "key to the Anglo-German naval situation". [Carbon copy].

Dates: 21 May 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), [19] [Oct] [1913]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/22B/235
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Telegram from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Prime Minister of Canada [Robert Borden] on the Canadian contribution of three battleships for the Royal Navy. [Carbon copy].

Dates: [19] [Oct] [1913]
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 19 Mar 1913 - 23 Mar 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/23/24
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Correspondence between WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] and Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] on Imperial naval defence, proposing the formation of an Imperial Squadron of five ships: three Canadian ships with the capital ships New Zealand and Malaya [later part of Malaysia]. [Printed for circulation to the Cabinet].

Dates: 19 Mar 1913 - 23 Mar 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 29 Nov 1912 - Jun 1913

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/23/25
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Memorandum from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to the Cabinet, on the Canadian gift of three ships for the Royal Navy. Includes appendix on British naval requirements for 1915. [Printed].

Dates: 29 Nov 1912 - Jun 1913
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 03 Jan 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/29/8-11
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Minute from WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty] to James Masterton Smith [Private Secretary to WSC] on difficulties with Canada's contribution of battleships to the Royal Navy. [Carbon].

Dates: 03 Jan 1914
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 09 Jul 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/134/15-16
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Letter from Walter Grant Morden ("The People", 49 Wellington Street, Strand, London) to WSC on: Dr Black, former Deputy Minister of Emigration in Canada, and Mervyn Brown, founder of the Canada Colonisation Association, who will be dining with WSC and Morden to discuss the scheme to form a private corporation to aid the transfer of "our surplus unproductive population from here to other parts of the Empire; the Government's attitude to the scheme.

Dates: 09 Jul 1924
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
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(Untitled), 02 Jul 1924

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/134/17-18
Scope and Contents Letter from Walter Grant Morden ("The People", 49 Wellington Street, Strand, London) to WSC on the support of Sir Newton Moore, the Agent General for Nova Scotia [Canada] and others from Canada and other Dominions for the scheme of a private corporation to promote settlement in the Empire, and the meeting to promote the scheme, at which Morden hopes WSC and 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] will speak. Adds that he has instructed the writers on "The People" to back WSC "in every...
Dates: 02 Jul 1924
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers. This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.