Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Association Toronto Branch fonds
General material designation
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Fonds
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
Physical description area
Physical description
10 cm of textual records
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Service Club of Toronto was organized during World War I to provide personal assistance to families and widows of PPCLI combatants and returned soldiers. It was incorporated in 1919 and began organizing annual reunion dinners in 1920. Following the Second World War, on 18 May 1946, Hamilton Gault organized the first meeting of the PPCLI Association which unified the local Patricia Clubs and included soldiers still serving with the Regiment. After the Korean War, on 13 September 1953, the PPCLI Association was incorporated and the PPCLI Service Club of Toronto became the Toronto Branch of the PPCLI Association.
Custodial history
The records were in the possession of James Reid, President of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Association, Toronto Branch.
Scope and content
The fonds contains correspondence, newsclippings, speeches, programmes, meeting minutes, notices and service records relating to Toronto Branch members and activities. Included are letters and the President's Report from A. Hamilton Gault, obituaries of past members including the will of David James Pearce, a photograph of the Third Battalion Carrier Platton, 1951, the service records of Adam Wolfe and Harold Morden, articles and letters relating to the Dumbells, the London Mother, the Sicily Memorial and Cousins Lake. Also included are materials relating to the University Company Memorial Plaque unveiling with nominal rolls and stats, Patricias buried in Sicily and Italy Cemeteries and the 35th anniversary ceremonies in Amsterdam in 1980.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Gifts of Charles Nixon, Vince Kennedy, Thomas F. Christian, James Malcolm Reid, and PPCLI Association, Toronto Branch, 1995-2014.
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
There are no restrictions on the records.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
A file list is available.
Associated materials
Collection 20 consists of the James Malcolm Reid collection
Accruals
Further accruals are expected.
General note
Record No. 98.51(.02-.04), 20.37, 01.18.01, A2015.40
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Reid, James Malcolm (Subject)
Genre access points
Control area
Description record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules or conventions
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Language of description
- English