Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Hammer Fonds
General material designation
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
Level of description
Fonds
Repository
Reference code
988.038.0003, 988.180.0001-0013, 988.214.0001-0002, 988.214.0005
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)
-
1937-1977 (Creation)
Physical description area
Physical description
2v. -- 2 albums. -- 17 photographs. -- 1 video reel. -- 1.5 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
Hammer, Eric Leslie
(b. 1917)
Biographical history
Major Eric Leslie Hammer was a wireless telegraph operator in Canada's merchant marines, shipping out of Vancouver and Victoria. He worked predominantly for Canadian Pacific foreign-going Empress liners and served on the R.M.S. Empress of Japan when she was a troop ship.
Custodial history
Scope and content
Fonds consists of personal and professional documents and memorabilia related to Eric Leslie Hammer, wireless operator. Dating primarily from the 1930s and 1940s but also including a certificate of marriage between Eric Leslie Hammer and Yuiko Kato, married 29 June 1977.
Includes a screenplay written by Hammer, postcards, newspaper clippings, certificates, citation of valour, and travel photographs including some photographs of a Mr. and Mrs. Rogers and a reel of film taken of RMS Empress of Russia. Also includes several issues of "Serial Waves" dating to 1940 and some drawings and cartoons.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by Mr. D. Wright c/o the estate of Eric Leslie Hammer in several instalments in 1988.
Arrangement
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Location of originals
MMBC off-site storage.
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
All requests for use must be made through the MMBC Research Request program (http://mmbc.bc.ca/collections/library-and-archives/research/). Please note that fees may apply.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Associated materials
Related materials
Accruals
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Hammer, Eric Leslie (Creator)
- RMS Empress of Russia (ship) (Subject)
- RMS Empress of Scotland (ship) (Subject)
- RMS Empress of Japan (ship) (Subject)
- TEV Princess Marguerite II (ship) (Subject)
- Department of Transportation (Subject)
- Royal Canadian Navy (Subject)
- Canadian Pacific Railway Company (Subject)
- Canadian Pacific Steamship Lines (Subject)
Genre access points
Control area
Description record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules or conventions
RAD, July 2008 version, Canadian Council of Archives.
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
2 February 2018