Fonds 988.038.0003, 988.180.0001-0013, 988.214.0001-0002, 988.214.0005 - Hammer Fonds

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Hammer Fonds

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988.038.0003, 988.180.0001-0013, 988.214.0001-0002, 988.214.0005

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  • 1937-1977 (Creation)

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2v. -- 2 albums. -- 17 photographs. -- 1 video reel. -- 1.5 cm of textual records.

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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.

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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.

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Donated by Mr. D. Wright c/o the estate of Eric Leslie Hammer in several instalments in 1988.

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  • English

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MMBC off-site storage.

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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.

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RAD, July 2008 version, Canadian Council of Archives.

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2 February 2018

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