Fonds 86 - Militia Memories / by Colonel Walter W. White

Title proper

Militia Memories / by Colonel Walter W. White

General material designation

  • Textual record

Parallel title

Other title information

Title statements of responsibility

Title notes

  • Source of title proper: Title based on contents.

Level of description

Fonds

Reference code

CA MNBM 86

Edition statement

Edition statement of responsibility

Statement of scale (cartographic)

Statement of projection (cartographic)

Statement of coordinates (cartographic)

Statement of scale (architectural)

Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)

Date(s)

Physical description

2 cm of textual records

Title proper of publisher's series

Parallel titles of publisher's series

Other title information of publisher's series

Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series

Numbering within publisher's series

Note on publisher's series

Name of creator

(1862-1952)

Biographical history

Walter Woodworth White was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, in 1862, son of Vincent S. (1818-1892) and Charlotte (Douglas) White. He was educated at Saint John High School, University of New Brunswick, McGill University, and the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow.

He was a surgeon in the General public Hospital, 1890-1912; surgeon Lancaster Hospital, 1919-1930; president of the Saint John Medical Society, New Brunswick Medical Association, Canadian Medical Association, Medical Council of Canada; member of the Senate of U.N.B.; chairman of the Boy's Industrial Home; governor of the Wiggins Male Orphanage; director of the Bank of Nova Scotia; member of the Saint John Board of School Trustees; Alderman, Saint John, 1891, 1893 and 1907; warden Saint John City and County, 1901 and 1930; mayor of Saint John, 1902-1906, 1926-1931; president of the board of Commissioners, Saint John General Hospital, 1942-1952.

Walter White was commissioned in 1887 and served until 1908; when he was placed on the reserve of officers. During the First World War he was transferred to active duty to the Canadian Army Medical Corps with the rank of lieutenant colonel serving as a consulting surgeon until the end of the war at which time he was promoted to colonel and placed on the Artillery Reserve. He was serving as Medical Officer in Halifax at the time of the Halifax Explosion of 1917 and was mentioned in dispatches for his work during and after the disaster.

He married Nellie G. Troop in 1893 and had one son and three daughters: Douglas Vincent (b. 1895); Mary Woodworth (b. 1897), who married Donald F. Angus of Montreal; Edith DeSoyres (b. 1898), who married H. Atwood Bridges; Constance St. John (b. 1904), who married H.G. Harvey Smith. Walter White died in 1952 in Saint John.

Sources:
Prominent People of New Brunswick, 1937;
New Brunswick Political Biography

Custodial history

Information about the custody of these records prior to acquisition is incomplete.

Scope and content

This fonds consists of a manuscript book by Walter White about his militia memories from 1884 to 1942. It makes reference to the contingent sent to the Boer War from Saint John and describes White's experiences during the Halifax Explosion.

Physical condition

Immediate source of acquisition

Acquired from Mary Angus, White's daughter (Montreal), 1982

Arrangement

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

Location of originals

Availability of other formats

Restrictions on access

No restrictions

Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication

Finding aids

Associated materials

Related materials

Accruals

Alternative identifier(s)

Standard number

Name access points

Genre access points

Description record identifier

Institution identifier

Rules or conventions

Status

Level of detail

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

Language of description

Script of description

Sources

Accession area

Related people and organizations

Related genres