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Hugh Allen fonds
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1900-1974, predominant 1930-1966 (Creation)
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- Allen, Hugh
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- Included in this fonds is some correspondence dated after the death of Hugh Allen.
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0.20 m of textual records. -- 14 photographs. -- 2 maps
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Mrs. Lulu Gertrude Allen deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1975.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of the personal records of Hugh Allen and contains records that pertain to his farm, his involvement with various agricultural associations, and his time as an MLA, and includes correspondence, insurance policies, receipts, electoral results and voters lists, memorandum, resolutions, petitions, telegrams, UFA newspapers, radio broadcast transcripts, speeches, a daily journal, greeting cards, driver's licenses and registrations, gas ration coupons, school exams, a family genealogy, newspaper clippings, tax notices and receipts, permits, income tax returns, farm employee records and grain and livestock records. Fonds also contains correspondence, financial records, wills, and inventories relating to the settlement of the estates of Marjorie McKenzie and Sarah Anne Jackson, a transcript of diary entries by Mrs. Percy Clubine, maps depicting sites of various agricultural operations in Alberta and the main natural resources in Canada, and photographs which depict bridges, roads, Hugh Allen, various agricultural association members, and the Alberta Relief Commission Labour Camp Number (No.) 115. This fonds has been divided into three series: Personal Papers (1900-1974); Farm Account (1927-1961); MLA Papers (1926-1935)
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Any records not readily identifiable as belonging to any particular series, or which seem to fit into more than one series, have been included in the Personal Papers series.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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Inventory is available.
Associated materials
Records related to Lulu Gertrude Allen can be found in accession PR1970.0030. Other records deposited by Lulu Gertrude Allen can be found in PR1123 United Grain Growers, PR1109 Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company, PR1110 Lower Beaver School District No. 2812, and PR0971 Alberta Livestock Co-operative fonds. Other records pertaining to Hugh Allen can be found in the Hugh Allen fonds and the United Farmers of Alberta Oral History Project collection, both located at the Glenbow Archives in Calgary, Alberta.
Accruals
Further accruals are not expected.
General note
Some photographs from this fonds can be found in A File under location numbers A.4254-A.4257. This fonds was donated at the same time and in the same accession as records belonging to the following fonds: PR1123 United Grain Growers, PR1109 Lower Beaver Lodge Mutual Telephone Company, PR110 Lower Beaver School District No. 2812, and PR0971 Alberta Livestock Co-operative fonds. The location of Hugh Allen's farm is represented according to the Alberta Township Survey (ATS) system. Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the records and from the 1935 <em>Canadian Parliamentary Guide</em>.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1975.0188<br><br>
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- Allen, Hugh (Subject)