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1920-1983 (Creation)
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- Pullen, Hugh F.
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- 10 meters of textual records
- ca. 2,500 photographs
- 1 audio recording (4 min. 6 sec.): cassette tape
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Hugh Francis Pullen was born 9 July 1905 at Oakville, Ontario and entered the Royal Naval College at Esquimalt, British Columbia in 1920. He spent two years at sea with the Canadian Pacific Steamships and rejoined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1924. In 1944 he received the Order of the British Empire for his services while commanding a convoy escort group. He retired from the navy in 1960, his last appointment as flag officer Atlantic Coast, Maritime commander Atlantic, and commander Atlantic Sub-Area (NATO), 1957-1960. Rear Admiral Pullen held executive positions in several voluntary organizations such as the United Appeal, The Royal Commonwealth Society, The Royal Life-Saving Society of Canada, the Canadian Mental Health Society, and the Anglican Church of Canada. In 1960 he was chairman for the World Refugee Campaign in Nova Scotia, and also served as a member of the National Council of the Duke of Edinburgh's Awards, 1963-1969. He was also co-founder of the Maritime Museum of Canada (now Maritime Museum of the Atlantic) and the Halifax Grammar School, and first commodore of the Nova Scotia Schooner Association. He was the author of several books and articles on Maritime history. Among his best known works are Atlantic Schooners (1967), The Shannon and the Chesapeake (1970), and The Pullen Expedition (1979), for which he won the John Lyman Book Award in 1980 from the North American Society for Oceanic History. Hugh F. Pullen died 4 May 1983 in England. He was married to Helen (MacKean); they had seven children.
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Consists of correspondence, notes, manuscripts, essays, addresses, imprints, newspaper clippings, catalogues, books, periodicals and other published material, ephemera, photographs (prints, negatives, slides), and photocopies and transcripts of admiralty papers from the Public Record Office in England. Records document Pullen's interests in naval, military, and maritime history, several community organizations, William Hall, VC, the Pullen family, as well as his navy career and personal life. A smaller portion of the records were created in the course of Pullen's research for his publications Shannon and the Chesapeake, The Pullen Expedition and The Sea Road to Halifax. Other subjects represented include the Royal Canadian Navy, defence policy, Captain James Cook, Lord Colville, Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, and the Anglican Church.
Includes unpublished typed manuscript, including photographs, on lighthouses of Nova Scotia (1983); full orchestra music score and sound recording of "Commodore Pullen March" composed by Petty Officer V. Miloslavich of Halifax, Nova Scotia in early 1950s recorded in 1978 by Kenneth Irons of Ottawa, Ontario.
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Donated by Pullen's estate, through Major H. Pullen, in 1984. The unpublished manuscript, music score and sound recording were donated by daughter, Margo (Pullen) Sly in 2018. William Hall, VC, research series was purchased by Nova Scotia Archives in 2023.
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- English
- German
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Some publications in German.
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Access to selected personal and family records is restricted until 2032.
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Various small artifacts (i.e. pins, buttons) included.
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Image: Cutting the cake, 50th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Navy Vice Admiral Henry DeWolf cutting the cake, Rear Admiral Hugh F. Pullen looks on.