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T. Milton and Katherine Williams fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-2441
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1936

The fonds consists of a recounting of his 1885 experiences in Steele's Scouts (1895); Glenmore SD cashbook (1889-1909) with Katherine's diary written in the back (1911-1913); Glenmore SD tax record book (1897-1909) with William's cattle records and accounts in the back; LID No. 221 minutes (1907-1920); appointments (1914, 1936); and photographs of Calgary area pioneers (1887-1903).

Milton (family)

Cecil Rice-Jones fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1945
  • Fonds
  • 1894-1980

The fonds consists of family correspondence (1894-1980), South African War diary transcript and discharge certificate (1900-1901), biographical sketch, farm statements (1920, 1921), and miscellany. Includes photographs of the Rice-Jones farm, and Cecil in Strathcona's Horse (1900) and as UGG director (1916-1922).

Rice-Jones, Cecil

Giles family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-2739
  • Fonds
  • 1898-1935

The fonds consists of military papers and photographs of William Giles; school papers of Mabel; photographs of the Klondike; aerial views of Calgary; and photographs of the Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute.

Giles (family)

Toole family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-2268
  • Fonds
  • 1899-1979

The fonds consists of Phoebe Toole's certificates, diaries, school records, memberships, programs, recorded interview, and correspondence (primarily extensive letters from Archer); Archer Toole's will, First World War papers, memberships and some financial records; and William Toole's school notes and exams, correspondence, memberships and programs. Includes extensive photographs of Toole, Jukes, and Sanders families.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Alberta Military Institute, Calgary and District Beekeepers Association, Elbow Park Residents' Association, Lost Lemon Mine, Montessori School, Peigan Post, Ranchmen's Club, Trinity College School (Port Hope, Ontario), Union Milk Co, and University of Alberta.

Toole (family)

John Nisbet Gunn fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1093
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1966, predominant 1916-1918

The fonds consists of photographs of military activities, Kananaskis logging, George Lane hunting, EP Ranch, and Calgary views; personal and military papers; and a microfilm copy of a family scrapbook.

Gunn, John Nisbet

Arthur Edward Wilson fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-2445
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900-1935]

The fonds consists of photographs of Wilson family in England, Saskatchewan, Calgary and Vancouver including views of Calgary buildings, the Calgary Hunt Club, Bankview district, Bowness Park and the Banff area. Includes Arthur's military service awards.

Wilson, Arthur Edward

Arthur family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-145
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1930, predominant 1910-1925

The fonds consists of a calendar of pictographs, recording significant annual events for the North Peigan Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy, from 1764 to 1910. The winter count was compiled ca. 1910 by Bull Plume (and annotated by Anglican missionary W.R. Haynes), and records battles and deaths, the arrival of diseases like smallpox and measles, the disappearance of the buffalo, the signing of Treaty 7, and the death of Queen Victoria. The volume also lists the leaders of the Blackfoot, and includes drawings of material culture items. The fonds also consists of one page of Blackfoot syllabics with English translation; an article about Bull Plume written by Moses B. Cotsworth (1939); photographs of the Arthur family, Fort Macleod, Alberta and region, and Peigan Indian Agency at Brocket. Includes the school and military records of Clive Arthur.

Arthur, Chester

Galloway family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3861
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1904-1945]

The fonds consists of postcards sent to Ruby by various men serving in the First World War including C.R. Sharman and Les Doolan; military papers of Howard and Victor including his diary (1915); photographs of events, buildings, etc in Olds, Banff, Calgary, England, Bowden, Innisfail, and France; building permit and other documents relating to the construction of James H. Galloway's home in Calgary (1904-1905); and copies of two Siberian expedition newsletters, The Siberian Sapper (1918-1919).

Galloway (family)

Theodora McKay fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1611
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1945, predominant 1912-1919

The fonds consists of Theodora's First World War records, including letters from soldiers in the trenches (especially Ralph Burman and Howard Green); a plan of the No. 4 CCCS; a map of the Mons area used on the last day of the war; dance cards and greeting cards from various military units; souvenir postcards and travel guides from France, Belgium and Italy; an invitation to Buckingham Palace to receive her Royal Red Cross decoration; and photographs of nurses and patients. The fonds also consists of miscellaneous records of her life before and after the war, including wedding invitations, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, etc.

McKay, Theodora

George Whitlock fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3767
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1982 (originally created 1908-1945, predominant 1941-1945)

The fonds consists of photographs of service during the war (1941-1945) and photos, posters, maps and minutes regarding Canadian Pacific Railway agents in Calgary (ca. 1908).

Whitlock, George M.

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