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Series 2: Unpublished Writings: Memoirs and Autobiography

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)