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Part of Roland Pivert fonds
The series consists of the itinerary the Prairie Command Display Team followed on its tour, several attraction passes, a news clipping, and 33 photographs of the team members and the display in parades, in parks and amphibious portions on beaches. The series includes a photo of Roland beside the poster advertising the display, and one of his aunt and uncle in Sedley, Saskatchewan, one of the towns they passed through.
Part of Roland Pivert fonds
Life in the camp of a Peace-keeping mission in Korea showing a recreation area.
Rifle drills at a peace-keeping camp in Korea.
Part of Roland Pivert fonds
Life in the camp of a Peace-keeping mission in Korea showing soldiers doing rifle drills
Rifle drills at a peace-keeping camp in Korea.
Part of Roland Pivert fonds
Life in the camp of a Peace-keeping mission in Korea showing soldiers participating in rifle drills.
Roland Pivert at Rockefeller Center
Part of Roland Pivert fonds
Roland Pivert beside a sign for the Rockefeller Center. In the summer of 1952, Roland Pivert accompanied the Prairie Command Display, a collection of military technology and equipment, through Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
The fonds consists of personal and military papers and photographs belonging to Roland Pivert. The records include photographs and documents from his time as a Boy Scout and student at St. Joseph High School; information and photographs about Exercise Sweetbriar, a joint Canadian and U.S. training exercise in the Yukon and Alaska; information and photographs of the Prairie Command Display taken from community to community in Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan; slides, photographs and paper artifacts from Roland’s tour of peace-keeping duty in Korea in 1953-1954; military service records and publications; information on Veterans' benefits claims; documents and images of projects from his post-military electrical career; correspondence and related records on his land holdings; and personal records and photographs of family, friends, and community life.
The fonds is divided into nine series: Early Life, Exercise Sweetbriar, Prairie Command Display, Korean Service, Military Service, Veterans' Benefits, Work and Business, Land, and Personal Life and Family.
The records have been arranged in primarily chronological order by the Archivist.
Pivert, Roland
Roland Pivert in Exercise Sweetbriar, Yukon
Part of Roland Pivert fonds
Roland Pivert stands by a truck in Exercise Sweetbriar. Exercise Sweetbriar involved 5,300 Canadian and American soldiers and airmen. The scenario was that an enemy had seized Alaska and the combat team was assigned to secure the Alaska highway and its airfields from Whitehorse to Northway in Alaska.
Soldiers at the Recreation Centre, Korea.
Part of Roland Pivert fonds
Life in the camp of a Peace-keeping mission in Korea showing Roland Pivert and another soldier outside the Recreation Centre.
Soldiers from the Prairie Command Display
Part of Roland Pivert fonds
A group of five soldiers, including Roland Pivert, from the Prairie Command Display. In the summer of 1952, Roland Pivert accompanied the Prairie Command Display, a collection of military technology and equipment, through Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Soldiers in bunks, Prairie Command Display.
Part of Roland Pivert fonds
Soldiers with the Prairie Command Display in their bunks. In the summer of 1952, Roland Pivert accompanied the Prairie Command Display, a collection of military technology and equipment, through Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
