City of Vancouver Archives

AM1400
Fonds
1921, 1938, 1941-1945, [2000 or 2001]

Fonds contains records pertaining to the Women's Ambulance Corps, including photographs, issues of the Corps' newsletter, newsclippings and a WAC broach. Fonds also includes an album of photographs taken on a trail ride to Tweedsmuir Park in 1938, two photographs of Stanley Park (1921), biographical information on Amy Leigh, and other materials.

Leigh, Amy

[Biographical information on Amy Leigh]

AM1400--
File
[19-- - 2000 or 2001]

Part of Amy Leigh fonds

File includes biographical information compiled by Madlyn G. Wills plus a copy of a time certificate for firefighting in the Bella Coola Valley.

[Civil defence certificate]

AM1400--
File
Sept. 5, 1945

Part of Amy Leigh fonds

File contains certificate issued to Amy Leigh by the Provincial Civil Defence Committee.

Earl of Athlone - Princess Alice

AM1400--
File
1943

Part of Amy Leigh fonds

File consists of two photographs of an inspection of the Women's Ambulance Corps by the Earl of Athlone.

First trail ride to Tweedsmuir Park

AM1400--
File
July 28 - Aug. 4, 1938

Part of Amy Leigh fonds

File is an album of photographs of a trail ride in Tweedsmuir Park in which Amy Leigh was a participant.

[Group photograph - Women's Ambulance Corps]

AM1400--
File
[194-]

Part of Amy Leigh fonds

File is group portrait which includes Amy Leigh in the centre, second row from front, and Eileen Penny seated to her right. File contains two vintage prints of the portrait.

Group photographs

AM1400--
File
1939, 1941-1942

Part of Amy Leigh fonds

File contains two group photographs of the Women's Ambulance Corps, one of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, Vancouver Corps, and one of the Social Agencies Annual Banquet on February 27, 1939. Two of the photographs were taken by Stuart Thomson.

[Internment of Japanese Canadians during Second World War - report and article]