Object Title
Dedication of Memorial Hall 1921
Object Name
Book
Artist/Maker
British Whig Job Department
Date Made
1921
Materials
paper --string
Catalogue Number
2014.024.001
Dimensions

Length: 26.7 cm x Width: 17.5 cm x Height: 0.4 cm

Description

A booklet commemorating the dedication of Memorial Hall. The cover of the booklet has black text that reads "Dedication of Memorial Hall, December fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-one Memorial Hall dedication programme 1921". There are handwritten notes of a Mrs. Harold Lamb of Stoney Creek Ontario. At the bottom of the page the handwritten notes read, "The great war / 1914-1918/ my father's name is in this book. / Sonie S Lamb / (nee - Curran)". The back cover is plain barring black text at the middle bottom that reads, "BRITISH WHIG JOB DEPARTMENT / KINGSTON, ONT." The book is bound by blue yarn. The book has a ticket for the "Next of Kin of Curran, John T. / To the Opening of the / Memorial Hall and Unveiling of the Memorial Tablet". Beside the ticket is a pen note that reads "Wed, Dec 14/21 / 3.30 o'clock / Onie - age 19 years". The book contains a program, as well as images and information on the windows and tablet in Memorial Hall. On the middle page, with the photo of the tablet, there are some notes in pen on the left page that read "This plaque is in the Parliament Building in Ottawa, Ontario / at the top of the building / Also in the Memorial Hall in Kingston Ont.-" There are also two names marked out in pen on the photo of the plaque, Edward Connelly's and John T. Curran. Beside the plaque photo is a pen note that reads "John Timothy Curran". At the back of the book there is a handwritten copy of the poem In Flander's Fields.

History

A reproduction copy was made of another copy of this programme in 1981 by City of Kingston Parks and Recreation Department.