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Alberta Pioneer Railway Association fonds

  • CA PAA paa-7677
  • Fonds
  • 1959-1996, predominant 1962-1992

Fonds consists of the operational and administrative records of the Canadian Railroad Historical Association Rocky Mountain Branch, the Alberta Pioneer Railway Association, and the Alberta Railway Museum, including records pertaining to its collections and acquisitions, operations, fundraising, employees and volunteers, health and safety procedures, outreach programs, site development, and association with other railroad organizations and includes historical/biographical sketches, inventories, membership lists, reports, presentations, bylaws, resolutions, organizational charts, articles, correspondence, agreements, membership notices, share certificates, operations rule books, minutes, donor lists, convention programmes and newsletters, including <em>The Marker</em>, <em>The Rattler</em>, the <em>Alberta Railway Journal</em>, and <em>Highball</em>, a guest book, press releases, business plans, annual reports, budgets, financial records, grants applications, proposals, and equipment rosters, catalogues, drawings, and specifications. Fonds also includes plans, drawings, photographs and a slide which depict various railway equipment and members of the association. This fonds has been arranged into the following series: Canadian Railroad Historical Association Rocky Mountain Branch (1962-1990) and Alberta Pioneer Railway Association (1959-1996).

Alberta Pioneer Railway Association

Alberta Pioneer Railway Association railway collection

  • CA PAA paa-7676
  • Collection
  • [ca.1909]-1978

Collection consists of various records relating to the City of Edmonton Street Railway Department, Edmonton Street Railroad and Radial Railway, Canadian National Railroad, Canadian Northern Railway Company, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Grand Trunk Pacific Companies, Northern Alberta Railways Company, Edmonton, Dunvegan and British Columbia Railway Company, and Central Canada Railway Company. Collection includes financial records, passenger statistics, correspondence, telegrams, equipment inventories, specifications and advertising catalogues, tenders, equipment and track standards, duplicate certificates of title, newsletters, newspaper clippings, a conductor's book, public notices and transit system schedules, employee files and seniority lists, radio advertising broadcast transcripts and advertising copy. Collection also includes plans and maps depicting various areas in Edmonton, Alberta that are serviced by transit and railroad companies. Collection also includes photographs that depict the interior and renovations of a street-car, and various railroad construction crews and equipment.

Alberta Pioneer Railway Association