A. Alexis Alvey fonds. 1940-1985.

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A. Alexis Alvey fonds. 1940-1985.

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The fonds consists of scrapbooks, correspondence, logs, photographs and subject files relating to her career in particular, and to the activities of the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service in general. She created contemporary files on the stations and on women officers in the W.R.C.N.S. ("WRENS") and also gathered subsequent information about them, usually from reunions. Much of the war correspondence pertains to the life and activities of the WRENS. The fonds also includes the scrapbooks of Grace Brodie (a fellow WREN) and letters written to her.

3.15 m of textual records.1,316 photographs.

University of British Columbia Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7781597

University of British Columbia Library

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Alvey, A. Alexis, [1904?]-1996.

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A. Alexis Alvey was born in Seattle, Washington and later attended McMaster University in Hamilton (1932-33). She was employed as a special technician in charge of photography at the University of Toronto's School of Medicine. Alvey helped organise the business women's company of the Toronto Red Cross Transport Corps and commanded it for two years. She was also lecturer to the entire Transport Corps for Military Law, Map Reading, and Military and Naval insignia. She was chosen as one of the firs...

Canada. Royal Canadian Navy. Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service

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Brodie, Grace.

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