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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2829 Collections and/or Records:

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(Untitled), 06 Dec 1921

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/120/61-62
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Typescript copy of CHAR 2/120/59-60.

Dates: 06 Dec 1921
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), 14 Jan 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/120/69-70
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Suggested draft [by Lionel Curtis] of a letter from WSC to Professor George Wrong suggesting that WSC's statement [that the title deeds of the British Empire were deposited at Westminster] was reported out of context in Canada but arguing that such a statement is fair as long as the Imperial Conference meets in London and could justifiably be adjusted if Ottawa ever became the seat of the Conference. Sent with CHAR 2/120/68. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/120/71-72.

Dates: 14 Jan 1922
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), 14 Jan 1922

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/120/71-72
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Carbon copy of CHAR 2/120/69-70.

Dates: 14 Jan 1922
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), [24] [Sep] [1922]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/125/18
Scope and Contents Extract from a letter from [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain to [Joseph] Austen Chamberlain, sent on to WSC. Writing in the train between Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat, Canada, Chamberlain comments on his surprise and delight at the strong pro-British feeling in Canada, and at the offers of service that had been pouring in since Britain had called on the Dominions for help. He states that Canada could raise tens of thousands of volunteers, and comments on criticism of [William] Mackenzie King [Prime...
Dates: [24] [Sep] [1922]
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), 31 Jul 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/16-17
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Letter from P H Kerr (York Club, Toronto, [Canada]) to Lionel Curtis on efforts in Canada to reach agreement on naval policy. Incomplete typescript copy.

Dates: 31 Jul 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 12 Aug 1912

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/20-22
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Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Aflfred Harmsworth] (The Times) to WSC explaining why he thinks WSC should visit Canada. Signed typescript.

Dates: 12 Aug 1912
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [1912]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/86
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Letter from Geoffrey Robinson (Printing House Square, [London]) to WSC commending the suggestion in the "Times" that Parliament be asked to endorse the proposal to include a regular Canadian representative on the Committee of Imperial Defence.

Dates: [1912]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Aug 1912]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/57/87
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Letter from Geoffrey Robinson (Printing House Square, [London]) to WSC on how WSC's memorandum [?on an emergency naval contribution by Canada] and the speech of Robert Borden [Prime Minister of Canada] are to be covered in the "Times".

Dates: [Aug 1912]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), [Aug 1912]

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/58/10-11
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Cutting from the "Daily Star" (Toronto, Canada): editorial praising the conduct of Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, in Britain and criticising British Unionist politicians who warn that Ulster will violently rebel against Home Rule for Ireland, contrasting this with more temperate reactions to similar problems in Canada. Annotated: "This is good stuff to pump into Bonar's [Andrew Bonar Law] face and the other Hell hounds. You are a brick Winston".

Dates: [Aug 1912]
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 31 Oct 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/35/62-63
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Letter from 1st Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (Hotel St Regis, Fifth Avenue and Fifty Fifth Street, New York, [United States]) to WSC urging him to go on a speaking tour of Canada and describing the prospects of that country retaining its links with Britain as "touch and go". Signed typescript. Illustration of hotel in letter head.

Dates: 31 Oct 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 17 Nov 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/36/17
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Letter from J Nash (10 Downing Street) to Edward Marsh on the nomination of chairmen of royal commissions and the refusal of Herbert Asquith [alter 1st Lord Oxford and Asquith] to see a deputation about Canadian cattle.

Dates: 17 Nov 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 20 Mar 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/22
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Letter from F W Giddens, private secretary to the Canadian Deputy Minsister of Labour (Queen Anne's Mansions, St James's Park, [London]) to Edward Marsh (Colonial Office) enclosing the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act and a related return to Parliament [see CHAR 2/38/23-24]. Signed typescript.

Dates: 20 Mar 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), Mar 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/23
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The Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act (6-7 Edward VII, chap. 20) Sent with CHAR 2/38/22 15,[1p].

Dates: Mar 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 1908

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/38/24
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Copy of return to Parliament relating to the [Canadian] Industrial Disputes Investigation Act, 1907, showing the proceedings under the Act from March 22, 1907, to January 15, 1908 Sent with CHAR 2/38/22 14p.

Dates: 1908
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 May 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/39/45
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Letter from Lord Northcliffe [earlier Sir Alfred Harmsworth] (The Daily Mail) to WSC advising him to meet Canadian journalists, especially Sir Hugh Graham of the Montreal Star.

Dates: 01 May 1909
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 01 Sep 1910

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/46/44
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Letter from G Wallace Carter, general secretary of the Free Trade Union (8 Victoria Street, Westminster, London) to WSC (Home Office) describing the inadequate British news service in Canadian newspapers and suggesting that a summary of each day's parliamentary debates be cabled to all the Dominions free of charge. Signed typescript. Annotated with instruction by WSC to show the letter to Colonel [John Seely, late Lord Mottistone].

Dates: 01 Sep 1910
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 08 Jan 1911

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/51/7-13
Scope and Contents Letter from W H Shaw, port steward of the British Yukon Navigation Company (White Horse, Yukon Territory, Canada) to WSC praising him, David Lloyd-George and the Government generally for their measures "for the benefit of the struggling masses." He describes: the poor living conditions he experienced in Huddersfield [Yorkshire] before leaving about 27 years earlier and their bad effects on morality and on the fitness of men enlisting for the Army; his approval of the Government's land reform...
Dates: 08 Jan 1911
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open
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(Untitled), 28 Apr 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/216/141-142
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Telegram from Prime Minister, WSC, to the Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] in which he expresses regret that [King] does not feel that proposals for the award of campaign stars would be suitable for Canada; discusses the decision not to award the 1939-45 star for service by overseas forces in the United Kingdom, proposals for a new Defence medal, and the service qualification for one of the new stars. Typescript.

Dates: 28 Apr 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open (opened on instructions of Cabinet Office, March 2001)
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(Untitled), 08 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/218/66
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Telegram from Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] (San Francisco [United States]) to WSC thanking him for his message to the "armed forces and people of Canada"; and paying tribute to WSC and the role of Britain [in the defeat of Germany].

Dates: 08 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 08 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/218/42
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Telegram from WSC to Acting Prime Minister of Canada congratulating him on Canada's role in the defeat of Germany; and anticipating victory over Japan.

Dates: 08 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: From the File: Open.
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(Untitled), 05 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/220/93
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Telegram from Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] to WSC marked "Secret" on the limited transport available for repatriating Canadian troops.

Dates: 05 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 18 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/219/94
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Telegram from WSC to Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] marked "Secret" stating that he will be publishing the proposals for Campaign Stars [medals] in the form already communicated to him, but indicating that there is scope for modification in particular areas if anomalies occur.

Dates: 18 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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(Untitled), 25 May 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/219/128
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Telegram from WSC to British High Commissioner in Canada [Malcolm MacDonald] marked "Secret and Personal" thanking him for his telegram and hoping he will continue in his post.

Dates: 25 May 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
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(Untitled), 16 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/45
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Telegram from WSC to Mackenzie King [Prime Minister of Canada] marked "Personal and Private" congratulating him on his election victory.

Dates: 16 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open
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(Untitled), 16 Jun 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 20/221/47
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Telegram from WSC to Prime Minister of Canada [Mackenzie King] marked "Top Secret and Personal" appealing to him for Canada to contribute at least 2,500 constructional troops for participation in the strategic bombing of Japan.

Dates: 16 Jun 1945
Conditions Governing Access: Open