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Comer family fonds

  • CA RED red-2682
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1970, predominant 1915-1960

The fonds consists of family correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, poetry, diplomas, newspaper clippings, and photographs of the Comer and Cody families of the Edwell and Willowdale districts. Includes minutes of the Edwell Social Club (1929-1935)

Comer (family)

de Wilton family fonds

  • CA RED red-2791
  • Fonds
  • [1776?]-1965, predominant 1830-1965

The fonds has been arranged into the following six series: theatrical records, legal records, personal records, family memorabilia, published materials, and photographs and consists of photographs of de Wilton family members in England, India, and Canada which includes a wedding photograph of Olive de Wilton and Herbert Warren Cluff in 1915; a photograph album of W. G. Chadwick as a cadet at Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario (1918-1920); assorted press clippings on the careers of Edith Juliette and Olive de Wilton (1915-1955); assorted playbills (1917-1958); various play scripts and screenplays (1926-1961); business records of mainly Olive de Wilton which includes a letter to Boris Karloff (1916-1960); marriage annulment record of Edith Doreen Cluff (1932); will of Sussex de Wilton (1936); personal correspondence of the de Wilton family including the draft of a letter to Boris Karloff (1908-1965); military certificates of Edith J. de Wilton (1916-1919); Edith J.'s scrapbook of a journey to Quetta via the Suez Canal (1887-1888); a painting of a Canadian winter scene; an academic pencil drawing (ca. 1915-1920); a transatlantic passenger liner dinner menu (1948); and books on dramatics and English drama and music (1776-1951). RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING PERSONS ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE FINDING AID FOR DETAILS: Alfred Aldidge, Sedric Barnes, Guy Boulton, W. G. Chadwick, W. M. Charlesworth, A. W. de Wilton, Edith de Wilton, Sussex de Wilton, Brian Doherty, Lady Dufferin, Jack Harp, Robert Henderson, Boris Karloff, Carrie Lamart, S. F. Makepeace, Lady Roberts, Sir Oriel Viveash Tanner, Lady Tanner, the Twinkling Stars, Edward J. Wood. PLAYWRIGHTS: Olive de Wilton, Michael Dyre, Charlotte Haldane, John Latimer, Richard Meadows-White, Molly Marguerite, Florida Scott-Maxwell. OTHER SUBJECTS: Ben Greet Players, Brian Doherty Theatre Productions, Canadian Players, Civic Theatre Association, Lynn Hardings Scala Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Montreal Repertory Theatre, National Film Board of Canada, Northern Repertory Theatre, Red Barn Theatre, Royal Alexandra Theatre, and Sir Frank Benson's Shakespearean Theatre.

de Wilton (family)

Dennis Scott fonds

  • CA RED red-2947
  • Fonds
  • 1914-1997

The fonds includes Dennis Scott's scrapbook documenting his POW experiences, including photographs and theatre tickets produced inside the prison camp. Includes his reminiscences of his prison experiences, news clippings, photographs, uniform badges, programs and photographs from military reunions, collected French patriotic paper lapel pins from the First World War, collected programs from Armistice Day ceremonies in Red Deer, and correspondence from René Cacheux, vice-president of the French Comité de monument aux soldats canadiens. Includes the memorabilia of Forbes Morton of Stettler, Alberta, who was also in the Calgary Tanks and imprisoned at Stalag VIII-B, including photographs of prison camp life, and photographs and memorabilia of an ex-prisoners' reunion. Includes histories of the 14th Canadian Armoured Regiment (The Calgary Regiment [Tank]) compiled by Dick Maltby.

Scott, Dennis

Don Jackman's H.M.C.S. Red Deer collection

  • CA RED red-2857
  • Collection
  • Photocopied 1987 (originally created 1942-1961)

The collection consists of photocopies of reports and naval messages of H.M.C.S. Red Deer (1942-1945); correspondence concerning payment to the crew for salvage of the S.S. Vermont (1948-1952); Don Jackman's correspondence concerning the ship's reunion (1987); and photographs

Jackman, Don

Eversole family fonds

  • CA RED red-2807
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1865]-1950, predominant 1902-1945

Fonds consists of Eversole family correspondence (1909-1950), contracts (1904), published material (1902-1909), and photographs (ca. 1865-ca. 1950). RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING PERSONS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS: Mike Anderson; Miss E. "Cissy" Black; E. G. Clayton; G. K. Colbourne; Shirley Davey; Mr. Dillon; Mrs. George H. Dodson; Frank Dodson Eversole; I. Eversole; James Eversole; Ted Fiddler; Basil H. Fry; Reverend Charles. E. M. Fry; Reverend Doctor T. C. Fry; Ben Greene; R. E. Gurney; Edward Hawley; Mr. Jackson; Miss Kader; Mr. Love; Mrs. McKinnon; Edward Michener; Eva Oliver; Lionel Page; Mrs. Page; the Patterson brothers; George R. Pearkes; Edward Pearkes; Alfred Pointer; Sophia Robinson; Emma Root; George F. Root; Glenn Speirs; Jean Speirs; Neil Speirs; Verne Speirs; Mr. Walde; Mrs. White. Fonds is composed of the following series:;I. Correspondence;11. Contracts and licenses;III. Published materials;IV. Photographs

Eversole (family)

Fong family fonds

  • CA RED red-3014
  • Fonds
  • Copied 2002 (originally created 1921-1945)

The fonds consists of family photographs, scenes of Red Deer, and Air Cadets.

Fong (family)

Fred Michiels fonds

  • CA RED red-2910
  • Fonds
  • [Ca. 1914]-1945

The fonds consists of Fred Michiels's first aid certificate; a certificate in appreciation of his participation in the Veterans' Volunteer Reserve (1945); and a photo album containing family portraits, photos of military units in Europe, and family postcards from Europe and the U.S. Includes photos of Percy Kent, Fred Anquetil, the 50th Battalion, C.E.F., the Canadian Forestry Corp, and Canadian participants in the Victory Day Parade in London, 1919.

Michiels, Fred

Gaetz-Cornett Drug and Book Company fonds

  • CA RED red-2688
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1974

The fonds consists of balance sheets of the Gaetz-Cornett Drug and Book Company, minutes, correspondence, land titles, prescription information, income tax notices, other financial records, and photographs. The fonds has been arranged into the following six series: financial, legal, administrative, and pharmaceutical records, and Thomas Roy Cornett, and photographs.

Gaetz-Cornett Drug and Book Company (Red Deer, Alta.)

Gathering of Veterans 1998 collection

  • CA RED red-2774
  • Collection
  • 1940, 1998

Collection consists of various manuscript drafts and published accounts (1998), and a photograph (1940).

Gathering of Veterans

George Kerr fonds

  • CA RED red-2845
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1994

The fonds consists of the following series: Penhold Military material and Personal Material. The Penhold Military material includes training manuals for Air Cadets; issues of Penhold, the newspaper of the Penhold Cadet Camp (1983-1990); Harvard Flyer, the newspaper of CFB Penhold (1988-1994); photographs of curling bonspiels and other social events (1983-1990); copies of historic photographs of RCAF Station Penhold as well as air fields at Bowden and High River (originally created 1944-1961). The Personal Material series contains photographs of George Kerr's elementary and high school classes in Red Deer (originally created 1940s, 1952), as well as miscellanious correspondence.

Kerr, George

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