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Title Brook, Sidney: Diaries and Notebooks, 1917-1918
Author Brook, Sydney (1871-1957)
Date Jan 1918 - 1919
Document Type Personal Account
Reference M-9076-3
Library / Archive Glenbow Museum
Collection Name Brook Family Fonds
Description Day by day diary for 1918-1919. Diary records mess orderlies, daily tasks, social events and accounts. Entry for 8 Feb states: "In orderly room again this morning signing my application to return to Canada to stay there". Describes movements between camps in England, the mood within them and visiting family in Brighton. Notes letters received from, and written to, his family back in Canada.
Series Description From Series 1 – Sidney’s diaries and notebooks, 1883-1954. 15cm of textual records. The series is broken down into seven sections consisting of small volumes in which Sidney recorded daily events, notes to himself and, occasionally, accounts. The first volume was written when he was 12 and the last when he was 83. The entries are very brief and he did not write every day.
Biographical Note / History Sidney Brook (1871-1957) was born in Brighton, England. He came to Canada in 1891 and settled for several years near Morden, Manitoba. In 1907 he married Christena Isabelle McFadden (1886-1966) of Manitou, Manitoba. They had seven children: Gordon S. (1908-?); Arnott (1910-1917); Lorne V. (c.1912-); Glen L. (c.1914 or 1915-); Alice May (Carmichael) (1916 -); Mabel (Lewis) (1920 -); and Roy Eustace (1924-). The Brooks moved to Alberta in 1910 and farmed at Craigmyle. Sidney served during the First World War and was wounded in France. The Brooks retired from farming in 1939 and moved into Craigmyle, where Sidney worked as the Alberta Treasury Branch agent for 15 years. In 1963 Isabelle moved into Calgary.
Theme(s) Permanent Settlement and Successive Generations
Country (from) Great Britain
Country (to) Canada
Places Brighton, England
Keywords First World War, emigration
Additional Information Please note: Some of the metadata for this document has been taken from the Glenbow Museum catalogue.
Language English
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