Dates: 1940-1974
Extent: Approx. 17 cm of textual records
Scope and Content
The memoir material consists of thirty-three essays, ranging in length from two to twenty-two pages; these are about people, places, and trips taken. The autobiographical material consists of a 552-page typescript "autobiography" which contains notes about his family history and typed excerpts from his diaries.
Access Restrictions
Box 7, Folders 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 and Box 8, Folder 1 are closed until 2019.
| 7.1 | "Raddall Family Note" - 1940s? - 17 pp. |
| "Indian Kitchen Middens in Queens County" - circa 1940 - 4 pp. | |
| "Journey to Prince Edward Island and the Isthmus" - July 1941 - 22 pp. | |
| "Notes of a Reserve Officer in War Time" - August 1942 - 20 pp. | |
| "Peter Jack" - circa 1945 - 44pp. | |
| "Halifax Revisited (A Memoir of James D. Gillis by Thomas H. Raddall)" - circa March 1945 - 11pp. With 5 pp. attached transcript letter and brief travel essay by J. D. Gillis, April 5, 1945 -- See also Research Notes series, Box 29, Folder 8 for another, presumably later, version | |
| "Return of the Piper" - circa 1945 - 5 pp. | |
| "The Musical Hobo" - circa 1945 - 5 pp. | |
| "Goose Hunting At Port Joli" - 1945 - 4 pp. | |
| "Tancook Island, 1946" - 19 pp. | |
| 7.2 | "My First And Last Public-Speaking Tour, November 13-December 4, 1946" - 1946, 1972 - 22 pp. |
| "A Visit to Virginia and Massachusetts by Air" - November 1949 - 20 pp. | |
| "Trip to Guysborough, July, 1950" - 14 pp. | |
| "A Day's Hunt" - November 1951 - 6 pp. | |
| "Portrait by Karsh" - 1952 - 6 pp. | |
| "A Timber Cruise on the St. Croix" - September 1952 - 6pp. | |
| "Quebec Journey, October, 1952" - 20 pp. | |
| "Journey to London, Ont. For an F.R.S.C." - circa June 1953 - 13 pp. | |
| "Journey to Toronto and Niagara, June, 1953" - 15 pp. | |
| "Journey to Quebec, 1954" - 17 pp. | |
| "Toronto Journey, March 1955" - 14 pp. | |
| "A Meeting of The Royal Society of Canada, at Montreal, 1956" - 15 pp. | |
| "Weskawenaak, 1957" - 4 pp.. | |
| "Port Herbert, 1957" - 2 pp. | |
| 7.3 | "The Affair at Six Mile" - 1953 - 3 pp. (Closed until 2019) |
| "The Last of Andy Merkel" - 1954 - 6 pp. (Closed until 2019) | |
| 7.4 | "European Trip" - 1958 - 201 pp. (with map of Amiens Battlefield, August 9, 1918) -- See also Photographs Series, Box 54, Folder 43 |
| 7.5 | "The Mystery of the Laing Boys" - circa.1959 - 14 pp. |
| "W.H.F. Girard" - c.1960 - 3 pp. (included are several documents pertaining to Girard) | |
| "Lou Parrot, 1876" - 1961 - 17 pp. | |
| "Journey to the Indian Lookout" - June 26, 1966 - 5 pp. | |
| "Journey to Rideau Hall, 1971" - 12 pp. -- See also Biographical Materials and Artifacts Series for Order of Canada Medal, Box 50, Folder 1 and Photograph Series, Box 54, Folder 32, p1474, p1475a, and p1475b | |
| "Miramichi Voyageurs, 1972" - 10 pp. | |
| "Groundwork and Guesswork" - 1974 - 10 pp. | |
| "Some Notes on the Raddall family in England" - 1978 - envelope containing 14 pp. plus map | |
| 7.6 | Section from folder on which THR has written "Memoirs of Thomas H. Raddall Original Typescript ..." (Closed until 2019) |
| Autobiography - n.d. - Section One, pp. 1-87 (Closed until 2019) | |
| Autobiography - n.d. - Section Two, pp. 88-137 (Closed until 2019) | |
| 7.7 | Autobiography - n.d. - Section Three, pp. 138-204 (Closed until 2019) |
| 7.8 | Autobiography - n.d. - Section Four, pp. 205-275 (Closed until 2019) |
| Autobiography - n.d. - Section Five, pp. 276-328 (Closed until 2019) | |
| 7.9 | Autobiography - n.d. - Section Six, pp. 329-381 (Closed until 2019) |
| Autobiography - n.d. - Section Seven, pp. 382-438 (Closed until 2019) | |
| 8.1 | Autobiography - n.d. - Section Eight, pp. 439-479 (Closed until 2019) |
| Autobiography - n.d. - Section Nine, pp. 480-552 (Closed until 2019) |