Fonds 589 Donald Gordon Morrison fonds

70 photographs

11 postcards

Date: 1915-1929 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of Gordon’s war records and correspondence, including two pay books from the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, with notes on the back of one by Major R. Turner to say that Gordon is entitled to wear one Wounded Stripe; his berth card for the SS Baltic; a notebook that contains training notes on rifles, grenades and fuses; a dispersal certificate and a discharge certificates; an application for travel expenses for dental treatment (1921); and correspondence from the Soldiers Settlement Board. There are also homestead filing papers from the Dominions Land Office in Grande Prairie. The homestead application is for Section 26, Township 87, Range 9, West of the 6th Meridian in the Worsley area.

The correspondence is from school friend Norah R. Pigg; sister Katie Lawrence; another friend, Glenna; his sister Melvina; mother Katherine Morrison, friend Archie, and sweetheart Millie. There are also a number of postcards from friends in the service, dating from 1915-1917, and three Christmas greeting cards. The letters date from October 1918 to January 1919, and the main topics are friends in war service, the Spanish influenza epidemic at Pipestone and the Indian Reserve, and news of family and friends at Pipestone, Manitoba.

Physical description: 2 cm textual records

1 photograph

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

A photograph of Norah R. Pigg inside the yard of her home at Reston, Manitoba. It was enclosed in a letter written to Gordon Morrison on November 17, 1918.

Date: 1926-1935 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of correspondence from family and friends after Gordon had moved to Grande Prairie, Alberta. The correspondents include his father and mother, John & Katherine Morrison; sisters Katie and Jessie; his sister-in-law Anna (Alex) Morrison from Mearns, Alberta; brother Stuart; and several friends such as Dorothy and Margaret. A letter dated July 20, 1930 includes a program from the unveiling of the memorial tablet in Pipestone, Manitoba commemorating the hometown boys who died in World War I. Later letters include the programs for Armistice Memorial Services on November 9, 1930, November 8, 1931, and November 13, 1932. There is also a 1932 membership card for the Lake Saskatoon Agricultural Society, and a number of undated cards and letters.

Physical description: 6 cm textual records

1 photograph

11 postcards

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

•                Graphic material (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Robert Morrison, Gordon Morrison’s nephew, at the age of 11 months, standing by an old shoe box that he liked to pretend was his pony. The photograph was taken in Mearns, Alberta, and was included in a letter written by Anna Morrison on July 8, 1929.

Date: 1916-1934 (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of financial records from the affairs of Gordon Morrison, including life insurance receipts and invoices, tax records from the Morrison brothers Morinville farm, cancelled cheques from the Morrison Brothers, a Royal Bank of Canada bankbook from Grande Prairie, and general financial correspondence.

Physical description: 3 cm textual records

Access points:

•                Textual record (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Date: [1914-1932] (date of creation)

Scope and content:

The series consists of photographs collected by Gordon Morrison. A number of them are of unidentified soldiers during World War I, the rest of family and friends.

Physical description: 68 photographs

Access points:

•                Graphic material – photograph (documentary form)

Publication status:

Published

Portrait of Donald Gordon Morrison in military uniform.

Card containing a portrait of Gordon’s nephews and inscribed with “Wishing Uncle Gordon a Happy New Year from Alvin, Stuart and Kenneth, 1917.” They were the sons of Gordon’s sister Katie and Charles Lawrence, who lived in Pipestone, Manitoba.

A Canadian soldier in the First World War standing next to a seated woman.

A couple on their wedding day, possibly one of Gordon’s siblings.

A portrait of a women wearing glasses.

Portrait of a young lady inscribed with “Lovingly Yours, Dorothy.” Dorothy lived in Morinville.

Donald Gordon Morrison during the First World War.

Portrait of an unidentified World War I soldier.

Portrait of Melvina Morrison, sister to Gordon Morrison. “Lovingly, Melvina” is written on the portrait.

Two portraits of World War I soldiers.

A men’s baseball team, possibly in Pipestone, Manitoba.

Portrait of an unidentified couple. The man is in military uniform.

Eight World War I soldiers at rest with their saddles, with buildings in the background.

Three unidentified World War I soldiers.

A group picture of World War I soldiers identified as 1st CCD Graduation Class “C” Brailsford 877.

A group picture of six soldiers, Gordon Morrison may be one of them.

A family photograph of parents with three children – two sons and one daughter. A card on the facing page reads: Josef De Ceulenaer, Steenweg van Groendael 29, Hoeilaart, Belgie.

Unidentified World War I soldier.

Portrait of a soldier seated holding a photograph. A woman’s face is superimposed on the upper corner of the photograph.

Photographs of various people, likely John D. Morrison and Katherine (McKenzie) Morrison at Pipestone, Manitoba, and some of Gordon’s sisters.

This photograph is likely of Gordon Morrison with his parents on the farm in Pipestone. The young man in the photograph is wearing a kilt.

This is likely a photograph of Gordon Morrison with his sister Katie Lawrence and her two sons on the farm in Pipestone.

Unidentified photographs of friends and family of Gordon Morrison.

Stuart, Kathleen, and Alvin Lawrence who were the children of Katie (Morrison) and Charles Lawrence. Probably taken on their farm in Pipestone, Manitoba.

Alvin, Stuart, and Kenneth Lawrence, children of Gordon’s sister Katie.

Various unidentified photographs of friends and family of Gordon Morrison.