Ministry of
Government and Consumer Services
Fonds C 92
110 film reels
Fonds consists of personal home movies of G. Norman Irwin and family. Subjects include home and family activities and holiday celebrations; aviators' club and church gatherings at Stonehaven; activities related to the R.C.A.F. training program during the Second World War; local parades and public events; leisure and vacation times in Muskoka; farm activities at Stonehaven; and trips to Great Britain, California, Florida, Hawaii, and other parts of Canada. Also includes a Dunlop Canada Ltd. film, entitled "Go Dunnies Go" on the Whitby Dunlops' world hockey championship at Oslo, Norway in 1958.
Fonds includes film footage of trips to Europe, California, Florida, Hawaii, Niagara Falls and across Canada.
Fonds also includes footage of the 1958 World Cup victory of the Whitby Dunlops hockey team in Oslo, Norway.
G. Norman Irwin (1903-1983) was a pilot, owner of a small commercial airline, and apple grower who lived in Whitby, Ontario between 1927 and 1983.
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Accession number 16545.
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