c. 1906 Valentine & Sons Postcard No. 101,850 - General Inspection, Aldershot, Nova Scotia
c. 1906 Valentine & Sons Postcard No. 101,850 - General Inspection, Aldershot, Nova Scotia
(20 April 1905) - LINK to a newspaper article - The New Aldershot Camp at Kentville - www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-mail-the-new-alder...
(31 August 1905) - LINK to a newspaper article - Officers For Opening of the Aldershot Camp - www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-mail-officers-for-...
The photo for this postcard was taken on Sunday - 17 September 1905 - the opening of the Aldershot camp...here is a newspaper article on this event...
(20 September 1905) - The Camp was never - So Clean or So Healthy and Bids Fair to Be a Record One. Sunday opened with splendid weather at Aldershot camp the threatening clouds disappeared before a west wind which died away to, a calm before 10 a. m., when the camp was all energy and movement getting ready for divine service parade. Already the public began to arrive in carriages and on foot, presenting a moving panorama of color effects, novel and dazzling. Amid the lively music of several bands, regiment after regiment formed into a hollow square, the centre of which was occupied by the division staff In front of whom were five chaplains, choir and the massed bands of the 13th battalion. Photographers and others took snap-shots here and there probably remembering the proverb: "The better the day, the better the deed" and no doubt many an officers' and private's face will be printed and toned without their consent. At 10:20 the service began under the direction of the senior chaplain, W. G. Lane, of the 93rd Cumberland regiment; Chaplains Wallis, of the 75th Lunenburg regiment, and McQueen, of the 94th Cape Breton regiment, took part, .and Chaplain E. B. Moore, of the 69th regiment, preached in a forcible manner on "Duty," the whole service being much enjoyed by both military and civilians. The inspection at the close of the service by Lord Aylmer and staff gave satisfaction as did the march back to the tents by men hungry and expectant. The march was very creditable, especially the diagonal movement of the 92rd Cumberland regiment, which was done with the steadiness of veterans. The 75th showed marked improvement over former years on the drill ground - in fact all show a decided advance and a more intelligent grasp of what is required of them than heretofore, which must be pleasing to the officers in command. So far the conduct of the troops is excellent. It is to be expected that with such a large body of men assembled, mistakes will be made - there are a few who need to reform for their own sake and the honor of their regiments - yet we must not complain in view of the general Improvements.
The camp Itself was never so clean as now, the men never so healthy, sickness being practically nil, disorder in Kentville not as it used to be. This is due to the vigilance of commanding officers and the staff, whose hands are busy and burdened. If things continue as they have begun, this will be a record camp and a high mark to reach in future years. LINK to the complete article - www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-mail-no-disturbanc...
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Valentine and Sons of Dundee were once Scotland’s most successful commercial photographers. In 1907, at the height of the postcard revolution, the photographs they published showed scenes from around the world. Often regarded as only postcard publishers, Valentines produced images in various formats including fine early photographic prints.
The Valentine company was founded in Dundee by James’s father, John Valentine, in 1825. After learning the daguerreotype process in Paris in the late 1840s, James added portrait photography to the family business in 1851. By the 1860s the company had begun to cater to the growing tourist industry by producing photographic prints with views from around the country. After James’s death in 1880, his son William Dobson took over the ever-expanding business.
Valentine & Sons printed its first postcards in 1898. Canadian production began between 1903 and 1906 with offices established first in Montreal and then Toronto. The earliest Canadian postcards published by Valentine and Sons were monotone black, collotype views showing the scenery along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior and in the Rocky Mountains.
At Valentine’s the greeting card gradually replaced the picture postcard. What remained of a card making empire was sold to Hallmark Cards Inc. in 1980.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------In his history of Camp Aldershot published in 1983, Brent Fox writes that when it was moved from Aylesford Plain to its current site, “there was little in what became the new training ground.” There was the old Kentville racetrack near the gate, a carding mill on the north-east edge, a sawmill and adds Fox, “several farms were evident (on the grounds) at the turn of the century.”
Fox writes that between 1903 and 1907, the federal government purchased land for what was to become the new Camp Aldershot, the boundaries eventually becoming what they are today by the latter year. However, Steam Mill resident Harlan Adams tells me he was born in 1922 on his father’s farm on what is now the military camp ground; and it appears that from what he remembers, the current camp originally was much smaller than it is now.
George Adams owned land where Peach Lake is now and Harlan tells me spent the first decade of his life there. He describes the farm as situated on the long forgotten Garret’s or Garret Road, part of which is now North Aldershot Road. This road turned west into the camp grounds and eventually ran south-west to Brooklyn Street. Garret’s Road was connected to Lakewood Road by Reid Lane, also long forgotten, which is now a continuation of North Aldershot Road.
The Adams farm stood beside Garret Road, which was named after a man by that name who had a sawmill in this area. Near the farm was a small pond in a marshy area and a brook that was eventually dammed to form Peach Lake. The Adams farm consisted of most of the land around Peach Lake and it joined property owned by Clayton Crocker on the west or south-west and by Hughie McGregor on the north. Near George Adams along Garret Road were two farms, one operated by George Sherman, the other by his son, Fred. “There were other houses on what is now the Camp right out to the main road,” Harlan said.
Even though it contradicts what Brent Fox outlines in his history, Harlan is positive that his father’s farm and the farms of the Shermans and others were located inside the current boundaries of Camp Aldershot and weren’t part of the original grounds. In fact, he remembers the year the farms were expropriated by the federal government so the camp could be expanded. “It was in 1941,” he said. “The government gave us the choice of tearing down our house or moving it. We decided to move it.” LINK - edwingcoleman.com/category/history-columns/history-2005/
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The Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd.
The earliest Canadian postcards published by Valentine & Sons were uncoloured collotypes of scenery along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior and in the Rocky Mountains. Typically, Valentine postcards have a 6-digit serial number (###,###) on the view side with the initials “J.V.” in a circle adjacent to that number. The main series of numbering begins with a Halifax card as no. 100,000 and ends (as far as we know) with a postcard of Toronto as no. 115,981. There are also two short runs of numbers in the 400,000 range that are found on some cards from the Yukon Territory and a longer run of views from various parts of Canada that begins at 600,000 and continues past 602,000.
100,000 – 1905 (July)+
101,000 – 1906 (August)
102,000 – 1907 (January)
Link to everything you wanted to know about the - Valentine & Sons Publishing Co. - torontopostcardclub.com/canadian-postcard-publishers/vale...
69th Regiment of the Militia
c. 1906 Valentine & Sons Postcard No. 101,850 - General Inspection, Aldershot, Nova Scotia
c. 1906 Valentine & Sons Postcard No. 101,850 - General Inspection, Aldershot, Nova Scotia
(20 April 1905) - LINK to a newspaper article - The New Aldershot Camp at Kentville - www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-mail-the-new-alder...
(31 August 1905) - LINK to a newspaper article - Officers For Opening of the Aldershot Camp - www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-mail-officers-for-...
The photo for this postcard was taken on Sunday - 17 September 1905 - the opening of the Aldershot camp...here is a newspaper article on this event...
(20 September 1905) - The Camp was never - So Clean or So Healthy and Bids Fair to Be a Record One. Sunday opened with splendid weather at Aldershot camp the threatening clouds disappeared before a west wind which died away to, a calm before 10 a. m., when the camp was all energy and movement getting ready for divine service parade. Already the public began to arrive in carriages and on foot, presenting a moving panorama of color effects, novel and dazzling. Amid the lively music of several bands, regiment after regiment formed into a hollow square, the centre of which was occupied by the division staff In front of whom were five chaplains, choir and the massed bands of the 13th battalion. Photographers and others took snap-shots here and there probably remembering the proverb: "The better the day, the better the deed" and no doubt many an officers' and private's face will be printed and toned without their consent. At 10:20 the service began under the direction of the senior chaplain, W. G. Lane, of the 93rd Cumberland regiment; Chaplains Wallis, of the 75th Lunenburg regiment, and McQueen, of the 94th Cape Breton regiment, took part, .and Chaplain E. B. Moore, of the 69th regiment, preached in a forcible manner on "Duty," the whole service being much enjoyed by both military and civilians. The inspection at the close of the service by Lord Aylmer and staff gave satisfaction as did the march back to the tents by men hungry and expectant. The march was very creditable, especially the diagonal movement of the 92rd Cumberland regiment, which was done with the steadiness of veterans. The 75th showed marked improvement over former years on the drill ground - in fact all show a decided advance and a more intelligent grasp of what is required of them than heretofore, which must be pleasing to the officers in command. So far the conduct of the troops is excellent. It is to be expected that with such a large body of men assembled, mistakes will be made - there are a few who need to reform for their own sake and the honor of their regiments - yet we must not complain in view of the general Improvements.
The camp Itself was never so clean as now, the men never so healthy, sickness being practically nil, disorder in Kentville not as it used to be. This is due to the vigilance of commanding officers and the staff, whose hands are busy and burdened. If things continue as they have begun, this will be a record camp and a high mark to reach in future years. LINK to the complete article - www.newspapers.com/article/the-evening-mail-no-disturbanc...
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Valentine and Sons of Dundee were once Scotland’s most successful commercial photographers. In 1907, at the height of the postcard revolution, the photographs they published showed scenes from around the world. Often regarded as only postcard publishers, Valentines produced images in various formats including fine early photographic prints.
The Valentine company was founded in Dundee by James’s father, John Valentine, in 1825. After learning the daguerreotype process in Paris in the late 1840s, James added portrait photography to the family business in 1851. By the 1860s the company had begun to cater to the growing tourist industry by producing photographic prints with views from around the country. After James’s death in 1880, his son William Dobson took over the ever-expanding business.
Valentine & Sons printed its first postcards in 1898. Canadian production began between 1903 and 1906 with offices established first in Montreal and then Toronto. The earliest Canadian postcards published by Valentine and Sons were monotone black, collotype views showing the scenery along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior and in the Rocky Mountains.
At Valentine’s the greeting card gradually replaced the picture postcard. What remained of a card making empire was sold to Hallmark Cards Inc. in 1980.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------In his history of Camp Aldershot published in 1983, Brent Fox writes that when it was moved from Aylesford Plain to its current site, “there was little in what became the new training ground.” There was the old Kentville racetrack near the gate, a carding mill on the north-east edge, a sawmill and adds Fox, “several farms were evident (on the grounds) at the turn of the century.”
Fox writes that between 1903 and 1907, the federal government purchased land for what was to become the new Camp Aldershot, the boundaries eventually becoming what they are today by the latter year. However, Steam Mill resident Harlan Adams tells me he was born in 1922 on his father’s farm on what is now the military camp ground; and it appears that from what he remembers, the current camp originally was much smaller than it is now.
George Adams owned land where Peach Lake is now and Harlan tells me spent the first decade of his life there. He describes the farm as situated on the long forgotten Garret’s or Garret Road, part of which is now North Aldershot Road. This road turned west into the camp grounds and eventually ran south-west to Brooklyn Street. Garret’s Road was connected to Lakewood Road by Reid Lane, also long forgotten, which is now a continuation of North Aldershot Road.
The Adams farm stood beside Garret Road, which was named after a man by that name who had a sawmill in this area. Near the farm was a small pond in a marshy area and a brook that was eventually dammed to form Peach Lake. The Adams farm consisted of most of the land around Peach Lake and it joined property owned by Clayton Crocker on the west or south-west and by Hughie McGregor on the north. Near George Adams along Garret Road were two farms, one operated by George Sherman, the other by his son, Fred. “There were other houses on what is now the Camp right out to the main road,” Harlan said.
Even though it contradicts what Brent Fox outlines in his history, Harlan is positive that his father’s farm and the farms of the Shermans and others were located inside the current boundaries of Camp Aldershot and weren’t part of the original grounds. In fact, he remembers the year the farms were expropriated by the federal government so the camp could be expanded. “It was in 1941,” he said. “The government gave us the choice of tearing down our house or moving it. We decided to move it.” LINK - edwingcoleman.com/category/history-columns/history-2005/
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The Valentine & Sons' Publishing Co., Ltd.
The earliest Canadian postcards published by Valentine & Sons were uncoloured collotypes of scenery along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior and in the Rocky Mountains. Typically, Valentine postcards have a 6-digit serial number (###,###) on the view side with the initials “J.V.” in a circle adjacent to that number. The main series of numbering begins with a Halifax card as no. 100,000 and ends (as far as we know) with a postcard of Toronto as no. 115,981. There are also two short runs of numbers in the 400,000 range that are found on some cards from the Yukon Territory and a longer run of views from various parts of Canada that begins at 600,000 and continues past 602,000.
100,000 – 1905 (July)+
101,000 – 1906 (August)
102,000 – 1907 (January)
Link to everything you wanted to know about the - Valentine & Sons Publishing Co. - torontopostcardclub.com/canadian-postcard-publishers/vale...
69th Regiment of the Militia