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| | LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: | Fonds | | No.: | PR0774 | | TITLE: | Hubert Thorne fonds | | CREATOR: | Thorne, Hubert | | DATE RANGE: | 1905-1941 | | EXTENT: | 0.11 m of textual records. – 23 negatives | | ADMINISTRATIVE | | HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Hubert Thorne was born at Christchurch, Hants, England on May 13, 1884. He immigrated to Canada and began farming at Whitewood, Assiniboia in Saskatchewan. On December 3, 1904 he joined the Royal North West Mounted Police (RNWMP) in Regina, Saskatchewan as a Constable, and in 1904 and 1905 was a member of a party that cut a pack trail from Fort St. John, British Columbia over the Rocky Mountains. On September 1, 1907 he was transferred from N Division, Lesser Slave Lake, to G Division, Fort Saskatchewan. In 1911 Thorne was a member of the Coronation Contingent that went overseas for the crowning of King George V, and then on December 22, 1911 he purchased his discharge from the RNWMP. He re-engaged in the RNWMP on October 3, 1912 and in 1914 he was in charge of the Fort McMurray Detachment. He married on April 9, 1917 and two years later was in charge of the Fort Simpson Detachment. On May 2, 1918 Thorne enlisted as a member of A Squadron, RNWMP, in Regina, Saskatchewan with the rank of Corporal, and served in the Canadian Light Horse until the unit was demobilized on April 14, 1919. In July 1925 he left Edmonton, Alberta for Fort Rae, Northwest Territories, and on May 10, 1929 he assumed charge of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) detachment at La Pas, Manitoba. Thorne retired from the RCMP with the rank of Sergeant on October 2, 1929 and operated a novelty shop in Jasper, Alberta. In 1934 he moved to Victoria, British Columbia with his wife Alvah, and daughter, Barbara. At the outbreak of World War II Thorne applied for re-engagement to the RCMP and on March 11, 1940 he was made a special constable of the RCMP and appointed supervisor of the dock guard at Esquimalt, British Columbia, serving in that capacity until his resignation on August 1, 1941. He died on November 19, 1941. | | CUSTODIAL HISTORY: | Mrs. Barbara Ashacker, daughter of Hubert Thorne, deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1973. | | SCOPE AND CONTENT: | Fonds consists of records relating to Hubert Thorne’s career as an officer with the RNWMP and RCMP and includes copied correspondence, telegrams, patrol reports, a will, discharge papers, a biographical sketch, and articles from Radio Broadcast Advertiser, Canadian Aviation, and True Detective Mysteries dating 1911-1941. Fonds also includes copied photographs depicting various people and buildings, mainly in the Fort Yukon and Jasper Park areas of Alberta, including RNWMP and RCMP officers and barracks, First Nations people and camps, the Fort Yukon Hospital, Haly’s Roadhouse and the Maligne Canyon Tea Room. Fonds also includes a poem and daily journals containing patrol reports and personal observations. | | PHYSICAL CONDITION: | Some pages from the daily journals are torn and/or detached. | | GENERAL NOTE: | Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the records.
Reference prints of photographs from this fonds can be found in A File under location numbers A.6846-A.6868.
Some of the records deposited by the donor were returned to her in 1981 and copies retained. | | RELATED ITEMS: | A6846 (Automobile on Train Tracks near Jasper, Alberta)
A6847 (Woman Raising a Flag)
A6848 (Sinnisiak, Uluksuk and Inspector LaNauze of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police)
A6849 (Woman Wearing Snow Shoe Skis)
A6850 (Whitehorse, Yukon Territory)
A6851 (Five Boys in Costume, [Fort] Providence, Northwest Territories)
A6852 (Hay River, Northwest Territories)
A6853 (Royal Canadian Mounted Police Base, Edmonton, Alberta)
A6854 (Child in Carriage)
A6855 (Fort Yukon, [Alaska])
A6856 (The "Edmonton")
A6857 (First Nations Village near Fort Yukon, Alaska)
A6858 (Fort Yukon, Alaska)
A6859 (Maligne Canyon Tea Room)
A6860 (First Nations Village near Banff, Alberta)
A6861 (Sour Dough Bill)
A6862 (Settler's Cabins)
A6863 (Haly's Road House, [Fort Yukon, Alaska])
A6864 (Interior of a Royal Northwest Mounted Police Barracks)
A6865 (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Teslin Lake, Yukon Territory)
A6866 (Royal Canadian Mounted Police Barracks)
A6867 (Camp with a Flag)
A6868 (Dr. J. M. Tofield House)
A6869 (Hubert Thorne)
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