Finding Aid - C.H.L. Jones fonds ( )

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1 Nova Scotia Archives Finding Aid - C.H.L. Jones fonds ( ) Generated by Access to Memory (AtoM) Printed: August 18, 2016 Language of description: English Nova Scotia Archives 6016 University Ave. Halifax Nova Scotia B3H 1W4 Telephone: (902) Fax: (902) archives@novascotia.ca

2 C.H.L. Jones fonds Table of contents Summary information... 3 Administrative history / Biographical sketch... 3 Scope and content... 3 Notes... 4 Physical condition... 4 Series descriptions Page 2 -

3 Summary information Repository: Title: Nova Scotia Archives C.H.L. Jones fonds ID: Date: Physical description: Dates of creation, revision and deletion: , 1992 (date of creation) * 13 cm of textual records * 1 folder of graphic material Administrative history / Biographical sketch Note Charles Hugh Lepailleur Jones was born in Montreal, Quebec on 1 May 1876, the son of Charles Goode and Maria (Barker) Jones. He was educated in public schools in the city and attended McGill University. He married Elisabeth Kennedy in He served in the Canadian Militia with the Sault-Ste-Marie Regiment and during the First World War was commander of the 227th Battalion and was promoted to a full colonel in He was awarded the Order of the British Empire on 28 September Upon his return to Canada he became an industrialist working with various paper production and power companies as well as the Canadian Pacific Railway. He served as the first president and general manager of the Mersey Paper Company, Limited in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, beginning in He died in Quebec City in Scope and content Fonds consists of records documenting Col. Jones' career in the military and work as an industrialist. Includes correspondence, addresses, scrapbooks, clippings, certificates and items relating to the history of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia Archives Page 3

4 Notes Title notes Physical condition There is degradation to a wax seal on one of the certificates. It has started to disintegrate so has been placed in a separate folder. Immediate source of acquisition Donated by Phyllis Tozer in Finding aids "Item list available.": Other notes Publication status: Published Series descriptions Ref code Title Dates Access status Container / File - Copy of a letter from Douglas 10 May 1949 Jones, Secretary-Engineer, Canadian Pulp and Paper Association to Col CHL Jones / File - Address by Col CHL Jones, 1 July 1936 OBE, VD at the unveiling of cairn to privateerism from Liverpool Harbour, Liverpool, NS / File - Address for boys and girls adapted from the Edward Everett Hale short story entitled "The man without a country" / File - Certificate no 59 confirming 1 March 1897 completion of the 3rd Battalion Victoria Rifles of Canada, Regimental class of instruction for non-commissioned officers issued to Sgt. CHL Jones / File - Certificate of discharge no 570 for 4 March 1899 Sgt. CHL Jones from the 3rd Battalion Victoria Rifles of Canada / File - Certified true copy no 923 of an Active militia certificate of discharge no 570 for CHL Jones from the 3rd Battalion Victoria Rifles of Canada 4 March 1899 Nova Scotia Archives Page 4

5 / File - Certificates of military qualification: officers, service branch, infantry for Provisional Major CHL Jones, 51st Soo Rifles nos and / File - Certificates of military qualification: officers, service branch, infantry for Provisional Major CHL Jones, 51st Regiment no / File - Certificate of military instruction: equitation for Major CHLeP Jones, 51st regiment no / File - Note from the Major-General of Canada along with a certificate for gallant and distinguished service of T/ LtCol CH le P Jones, Forestry Corps, Canadian Force from Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig on April 7, / File - Note from the Major-General accompanying the certificate of appointment as an officer of the Order of the British Empire / File - Certificate of appreciation issued to Colonel CHL Jones, OBE from the "Tante Bob" Mess, a few officers of the staff of headquarters, Canadian Forestry Corps Note: There are some issues with the seal on this item It is beginning to disintegrate It has been placed in a folder separately from the other items as a result. 4-7 March May May 1915 [reproduced 196-?] 3 June September / File - Canadian Expeditionary Force: certificate of service 13 September / File - Grand Lodge of AF& AM of 17 January 1933 Canada: Province of Ontario, certificate concerning Charles HL Jones as a life member of the Keystone Lodge no 412 in Sault-Ste-Marie, Ontario / File - Certificate of obligation from the 13 July 1933 ritual of the calling of an engineer for Charles Hugh LePailleur Jones / File - Certificate from Buckingham 6 May 1935 Palace awarding him their Majesties' Silver Jubilee Medal / File - Scrapbook B / File - Loose items removed from scrapbook B / File - Loose items removed from scrapbook C Nova Scotia Archives Page 5

6 / File - 5th Annual Conference and President's Banquet of the Spanish River Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd / File - Exhibit presented by the Department of Zoology of Dalhousie University at the Science Exhibit of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science / File - Order of service for presentation and dedication of memorial flags and tablet to Trinity Church, Liverpool, Nova Scotia / File - Programme for the unveiling of a monument to Captain Sylvanus Cobb / File - Copy of the Camp Big Chief Quebec Conference of the British chiefs of Army, Navy, Air Force and Combined Operations / File - Order of service for the Battle of the Atlantic with an insert about the history of the Lunenburg Regiment / File - Photograph of CHL Jones at the helm of Awenishe / File - Photograph of the colours of the 227th (Overseas) Battalion deposited at St Luke's Pro- Cathedral, Sault-Ste- Marie, Ontario 8 January December July August May 1992 [194-?] [ca. 1952] / File - Scrapbook A 1916-[ca. 1929] / File - Scrapbook C / File - Certificate of admission to the 2 July 1903 Grand Lodge of Ontario: Keystone Lodge no. 412, Sault-Ste-Marie, Ontario at Hamilton, Ontario / File - Certificate of admission to the Royal Arch Masons Algonquin Chapter no. 102 in Toronto, Ontario 23 February / File - Certificate as a 33rd degree Mason of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite for Charles Hugh Lepailleur Jones Note: This item had to be placed in a separate tube because it is too wide for the box. 19 September / File - Certificate no appointing Charles Hugh Lepailleur Jones with the rank of Major of the 51st Regiment (Soo Rifles) on 19 May / File - Bachelor of law degree for Jacob Ross Byrne from Dalhousie University Note: 18 September May 1926 Nova Scotia Archives Page 6

7 Mr Byrne was the son-in-law of Col CHL Jones / File - Certificate no appointing Charles Hugh Lepailleur Jones with the rank of Honorary Colonel of the Sault- Ste-Marie Regiment on 26 July July 1929 Nova Scotia Archives Page 7