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Elizabeth Rushton collection

  • EDM edm-1720
  • Collection
  • [1910?]

The collection consists of materials collected by Elizabeth Rushton of Edmonton and created ca. 1910. The collection consists of postcards of the Totem Service Campground and the Royal George Hotel ca. 1910.

Elizabeth Rushton

Bjarne's Books collection

  • EDM edm-1465
  • Collection
  • 1908-1970

The collection consists of various historical material from Edmonton institutions such as the City Hospital (1909), St. George's Society of Edmonton, the McDougall United Church, the Empire and Little Theatres, the Edmonton Civic Opera Society and the University of Alberta. There are reports of City of Edmonton Council Committees including the Joint Industries Committee, a Survey of Social Services (1929) and a proceedings from a "Conference to Discuss Western Canada, Its Development and Requirements." There is one copy of the <i>Coal Miner</i>, a union flyer, and slate cards from various civic elections. There is material on sports teams including the Edmonton Commercial Grads, the Edmonton Oil Kings and Flyers Hockey teams. There is a promotional brochure with pictures, "Edmonton the Agricultural Possibilities and Resources of the Surrounding District" (1908), issued by the Edmonton Board of Trade. Other miscellaneous notices and programs are also in the collection.

Bjarne's Books

Athabasca Archives periodical collection

  • CA ATH ath-2199
  • Collection
  • 1883-2009

The fonds consists of periodical articles was used as research material for the book "Athabasca: an Illustrated History". 1) Outing, an international illustrated monthly magazine of Sport, Travel and Recreation. Oct-Dec, 1895. Includes a 4 part article titled "A Woman in the MacKenzie Delta" by Elizabeth Taylor. 2) Canadian Geographical Journal. May, July and August 1961. "Voyageurs Highway; the geography and logistics of the Canadian fur trade" by Eric Morse. 3) Alberta Transportation. Oct 1981. "A short history of Alberta's Riverboats" by Andy Turnbull. 4) Saint John's Edmonton Report. Aug. 2, 1976. "One man drownded, another floats". 5) Canadian Geographical Journal. Jan. 1947. "Athabasca River Transport" and "Athabaska Trail" by S.C.Ells. 6) The Trustee; Alberta School Trustees Association. 1907-1982. "My favorite trustees" by William H. Swift. He discusses Toles, Smith and Parkhurst Schools and Mr. Edwin Parr. 7) Forest Landscape: a newsletter published by Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. Sept. 2, 1993. "Homesteading's freedom carried a price" by Lillie Hagelund. 8) Royal Geographical Society. Nov. 1883. "On the Athabasca District of the Canadian North-West Territory" by Rev. Emile Petitot. Includes information on First Nations inhabitants. 9) Alberta Trails Task Force, Research Section, Historic Sites Service, Alberta Culture, 1975. "Historic Trails Report" by Anne Carscallen. 10) "The Klondyke Trail from Edmonton" by Harold Fryer. 11) Canadian Cattlemen. Nov. 1953. "Old Trails and New, from sternwheeler and pack-train to "Iron Horse" and Aeroplane" by Phillip H. Godsell. 12) New Trail, U of A. Winter, 1951. "The Athabasca Trail" by James MacGregor. 13) "Report on the drainage area of the Peace & Athabaska Rivers" by Wm. Pearce, 1908. 14) The Alberta Gold Rush News, Alberta Gold Prospectors Assoc. Spring, 2009. "Devil's Canyon Gold Mine,1918" by Mark Hayward. 15) Food For Thought. Fall, 2007. "The Rice Stuff, wild rice from farmer Wayne Ptolemy" by Wes Lafortune. 16) Canadian Geographical Journal. February, 1964. "My Home Town" by Charles Camsell. Drawings by S.C.Ells.

Athabasca Archives periodical collection

David Bressler Olympic Collection

  • CA OLY oly-195
  • Collection
  • 1948-1980

The collection consists of: stickers issued to celebrate the Olympic Winter Games at St. Moritz, Switzerland (1948), Lake Tahoe, California (1960), Squaw Valley, California (1960) and Lake Plaid, New York (1980); and a spectator ticket to an event at the 1972 Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan.

Bressler, David

Centennial Year Events in Edmonton collection

  • CA PAA paa-9264
  • Collection
  • 1935-1967, predominant 1967

The collection consists of material related to events held in Edmonton during Canada's centennial year (1967). The collection includes of a copy of The Edmonton Unitarian Vol. 14, No. 37, a program from Sherwood Heights Junior High to commemorate the birthday of Sir John A. Macdonald, a bulletin from the Northern Alberta Centennial Indoor Match Rifle Championships, a souvenir program from the Centennial Midget Hockey Championship Tournament, a program from the noon day services at the All Saints Cathedral, a program of the presentation of T.S. Elliot's Murder in the Cathedral at the All Saint's Cathedral, a program and poster of the Mystery Plays at the All Saint's Cathedral, a program for Muk-luk Mardi Gras in Edmonton, an invitation to the opening of the Charles M. Russell exhibit at the Edmonton Art Gallery, a program on the opening of the "Midnight Stadium" and Rodeo of World Champions at Fort Macleod, an O'Hara Auctions Centennial Business Bulletin, an information pamphlet on the centennial conference on the History of the Canadian West, a Banff School of Fine Arts schedule, a Casbah restaurant advertisement, a brochure on the Avord Arms Apartments, and a poster for the RCMP Concert Band and Musical Ride. The collection also includes an Order of Service of the twenty-fifth anniversary services of Robertson Church, Edmonton dating from 1935.

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Cereal Prairie Pioneer Museum collection

  • CA PAA paa-7690
  • Collection
  • Copied 1974-1987

The collection consists of images, originally dating ca. 1914 to ca. 1983 from Cereal, Alberta, including images of views of Cereal, streets, hotels, train station, schools, hospitals, a restaurant interior, houses and log houses, children, residents, hospital matrons, a hospital doctor, the director of nurses, geese hunters, a fiddler, horse and carts, horse and sleigh, horses, cattle, oxen, barns, farming, harvesting, plowing, harrows, water well, baseball spectators, cars, picnics, skiing, trains, and a steam engine.

Cereal Prairie Pioneer Museum

Carbon and District Historical Society collection

  • CA GLEN glen-588
  • Collection
  • 1904-1955

The collection consists of posters for dances sponsored by the Carbon Old Timers' Association (1934-1949), Knee Hill Coal Company, prospectuses (1904), interview with Mrs. Van Loon (1955), Farmers' Exchange invoices (1919-1920), and photographs of the Gallagher and Stopp coal mines.

Carbon and District Historical Society

Archives General File collection

  • CA WHYTE whyte-979
  • Collection
  • [after 1890]

The Archives General File is an artificial collection of accessions which do not constitute separate fonds or collections or cannot be placed within existing fonds or collections. Included in the collection are textual records of many types, such as manuscripts, reports, letters, diaries, speeches, poetry, plans and others; photographs in the form of prints, negatives, transparencies, albums, postcards, etc. sound recorded interviews and programmes; and motion pictures. Material pertains broadly to the Banff area and many other areas within the Archives collecting mandate. Notable items include: Walter Wilcox letter; George Kinney report; interviews with Bill Round and Edward Feuz; original copy of Treaty Number Seven; Mary Schaffer material, including letters, notes, photograph and report; reports on the Nakimu Caves; film pertaining to Banff Winter Carnival; Georgia Engelhard letters and photos; plans for buildings and structures; George Noble photograph; W. S. Park photograph.

Archives General File

Provincial Archives of Alberta collection

  • EDM edm-1593
  • Collection
  • 1934-1983

Consists of a series of reports and pamphlets relating to municipal government in Edmonton between 1934 and 1967. There is also a 1939 edition of "The Bay Breeze," published by the Hudson's Bay Company. The collection also consists of materials collected by the Provincial Archives of Alberta related to the 1978 Commonwealth and the 1983 University Games. This fonds consists of various publications relating to the two games including programmes, venue schedules, newsletters, team handbooks, magazine coverage and souvenir books.

City of Edmonton

Murray Davis collection

  • EDM edm-1039
  • Collection
  • 1948-1987

The collection consists of materials collected by Murray Davis of Edmonton between 1948 and 1997. The fonds contains programs and magazines pertaining to the cultural life of Edmonton and Canada. Programs of such groups as the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Opera Association, the Citadel Theatre, and the Alberta Ballet are included. There is also a collection of Canadian cultural magazines such as Encore, Update, Celebrity News, and Arts West. In addition, there are programs and brochures of special social, cultural, and sporting events in Edmonton.

Davis, Murray

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