A Z5
Date of the items: 1941-1942
Physical description: 1.5 cm
Title: Gunshots Newsletter Fonds
Creator: Canadian General Electric Gun Carriage Division
Repository: Trent Valley Archives
Reference number: TVA Fonds 705
Scope and contents: Issues of Gunshots from 1941 and 1942 produced by the Canadian General Electric Gun Carriage Division.
Access Conditions: No Restrictions
Finding aid: See separate file listing in Excel
Accruals: No further accruals are expected
Custodial history: The newsletters were collected by Wilf Sexmith, an employee of CGE from the 1940s to the 1980s. They were donated, together with a number of issues of CGE Plant News (see F78) by Mr. Sexmith’s daughter, Anne Marie Armstrong on January 9, 2018.
Administrative history: Gunshots was a newsletter produced by the Canadian General Electric Gun Carriage Division in Peterborough, Ontario from 1941-1942. It was edited by Arthur Kittson. Regular contributors tended to be anonymous and included “The Sergeant-Major” and “The Old Sod.” It was followed by the CGE Peterborough Works News which began publication in 1943 to inform the large population of employees of plant activities related to both work and social life.
Related fonds at TVA: See F78 CGE Plant News for issues of the CGE Peterborough Works News, including the issues donated by Anne Marie Armstrong.
Access Points:
Canadian General Electric
The Second World War
Military