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Western Stock Growers' Association fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-2413
  • Fonds
  • 1896-1988

The fonds consists of ordinance of incorporation, constitution and bylaws, minutes, correspondence, convention proceedings, financial statements, committee reports, newsletters, press releases, and photographs of members and events. Includes interviews with early members of WSGA (1965-1967) and a 1948 radio broadcast by James G. Gardiner, Minister of Agriculture.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Alberta Federation of Agriculture, Alberta Fish and Game Association, Alberta Provincial Police, American Society of Range Management, F.V. Bennis, Edward Philip Benoit, A.H. Bowler, W.C. Bryan, Calgary stockyards, cattle rustling, Cattlemen's Protective Association of Western Canada, Dr. Michael Clarke, Dr. S.E. Clarke, Colorado Cattlemens' Association, Council of Western Beef Producers, A.E. Cross, Fred Davis, O. Des Jarding, J.M. Dillon, Eastern Irrigation District, J.H. Frankel, Basil Gardon, grazing, J.R. Hallam, J.C. Hargrave, Harmon and Henderson, R.B. Hunter, Ed Kennedy, Knight-Watson Ranching Co., Guy Lafferty, M.B. Mabee, Duncan Marshall, Meat Packers Council of Canada, C.H. Morse, C.W. Peterson, poetry, Dan E. Riley, W.T. Ritch, Henry Arild Ruste, Saskatchewan Stock Growers' Association, Stuart B. Smith, Special Areas Board, Harry P. Streeter, meat industry and trade (strikes), Harry Strom, Gordon Taylor, Dr. F.S. Tolmie, Jack Thompson, Dr. F. Torrance, Robert Weir, Thomas Willdegg, and W.H. Willson.

Western Stock Growers' Association

Elgin Co-Operative Services fonds

  • Fonds
  • [191-?]-1988

Fonds consists of records created, collected and maintained by Elgin Co-Operative Services, [191-?]-2007. Fonds is organized into the following series:
Photographs, [191-?]-1988
Miscellaneous Records, 1940-1984
Minutes, 1943-1998
Financial Statements, 1944-1995
Elgin Fruit Growers' Co-Operative Records, 1945-1961
Annual Reports, 1945-2007
Bond Issues, 1965-1975

Elgin Co-Operative Services

Concerned Farm Women fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1981 - 1988

This fonds consists of materials reflecting the concerns, research and activities of Concerned Farm Women from 1981 to 1988.
It consists of administrative records including documents reflecting the group’s aims and objectives, meeting minutes (primarily 1983), membership lists (1983-1988), pamphlets, newsletters (1982-1988), project activity reports, and correspondence. Scrapbooks and folders of newspaper clippings reflect the group’s activities as well as the financial crisis facing farmers in the 1980s. Two videocassettes also review the history and accomplishments of the organization. Correspondence, conference materials and speech scripts reflect the group’s lobbying efforts. Books, reports, articles and promotional material from other agricultural organizations concerning the financial state of agriculture in Ontario and across North America informed the group’s research and activities. Finally, two books published by the group: (1) The Farmer Takes a Wife: a study by Concerned Farm Women, resulting from a 31-page survey of approximately 600 Bruce and Grey County farm women, and (2) To Have and To Hold: a guide to property and credit law for farm families in Ontario” are included in the fonds.

Concerned Farm Women

Osoyoos Co-operative Fruit & Vegetable Growers fonds

  • OSOY MS 19
  • Fonds
  • 1960 - 1987

Fonds consists of the textual records of the Osoyoos Co-operative Fruit & Vegetable Growers from 1932–1968. Includes correspondence, financial records, legal records, personnel records, lists, notices, regulations, circulars, and publications.

Osoyoos Co-operative Fruit & Vegetable Growers

New Brunswick Agricultural Societies

  • PANB MC361
  • Fonds
  • 1822, 1826, 1850-1987, predominant, 1850-1854, 1874-1875

This fonds includes correspondence (mostly of the New Brunswick Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce), 1850-1854, 1858, 1868, 1871, 1882-1900, and later with the Director of Agricultural Societies, 1961, 1969-1971; Schedules of Awards (and prize lists for fairs and exhibitions), lists of subscribers, Annual Returns, receipts for purchases and work performed for the individual Societies; 1874-1875 etc. and for the provincial Society (including Matthew Stead's receipts for work on the Exhibition buildings (1850s), (Printed) Minutes of the New Brunswick Society for the Encouragement of Agriculture, Home Manufactures and Commerce, 1850-1854 and handbills from various agricultural societies.

For the most part, this fonds consists of individual documents, but does include minute books for the following Agricultural Societies: Blackville and Derby, 1889-1944; Black River, 1953-1992; Gloucester County, 1848-1852; Loggieville, 1936-1945; Northumberland County, 1960-1970; Salmon Beach, 1919-1982; St. Hilaire, 1875-1976; and York County, 1841-1863.

Lastly, it includes one ledger of the New Brunswick Agricultural Societies United, 1955-1973.

New Brunswick Agricultural Societies

Charles S. Noble fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1759
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1986, predominant 1912-1969

The fonds consists of biographical, personal and family papers (1886-1982); records about the establishment and promotion of the Noble Foundation (1912-1921); material compiled in 1957 by Glenbow staff member O.S. Longman about the Noble Foundation, Cameron Ranch, Sir Roderick W. Cameron, etc.(1913-1957); Noble Farms records including correspondence about farming operations, and the development, manufacture, patenting and marketing of the Noble Cultivator ((1933-1940); Noble Cultivators Ltd. patent records, promotional literature, patent infringement correspondence, financial ledgers, employee timesheets, and films (directed by Carly Stewart) featuring Noble agricultural implements (1937-1986). Includes extensive photographs of agricultural activities on the Cameron Ranch and Grandview Farm, the farm implements factory, family members, and Nobleford (aerial views).
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: agricultural machinery, Alberta Pacific Grain Company, Sir Roderick W. Cameron, Annie Delameter, George W. Gareau, Robert Gratz, R.J. Hutchings, John Deere Plow Company, Johnson Farm Machine Company (Barons), Ralph Kooy, Lethbridge Iron Works, Matthews Manufacturing Co. (Red Deer), Oscar A. Olson, Perfection Machine Works (Calgary), Riverside Iron Works (Calgary), Ralph and Daisy Vennum, and Victory Equipment Company (Lethbridge).

Noble, Charles S.

William Roper Hull fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1243
  • Fonds
  • 1879-1986

The fonds consists of agreements and specifications for the Grain Exchange building; floor plans of the Hull house; a partnership agreement with F.G. Topp; miscellaneous correspondence, invitations, greeting cards and certificates; and brief biographies. Includes a promotional leaflet for the Chipman Ranch.

Hull, William Roper

Sussex and Studholm Agricultural Society

  • CA MNBM ID3532
  • Fonds
  • 1841-1985

This fonds consists of the administrative records of the society. It includes minute books, 1841-1981, accounting records, membership lists, 1959-1971, reports and programs, 1844-1932. There is also some correspondence between Clyde Macdougall, Sussex Agricultural Representative, and A. F. Colwell, Cumberland Bay, 1939-1947.

Agricultural Society (Sussex and Studholm, N.B.)

Orville Brunelle fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-367
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1985, predominant 1953-1967

The fonds consists of photographs and slides taken while Lethbridge Herald photographer (1953-1967): Lethbridge personalities, events and industry including the Galt #8 mine and construction of Travers Dam; personalities, businesses, industry and agriculture in southern Alberta towns including Pincher Creek, Fort Macleod, Vulcan; Enchant, New Dayton, Coaldale, Crowsnest Pass, Vauxhall, Raymond, Cardston, Taber, Bow Island, Carmangay, Claresholm, Warner, Champion and Michel, British Columbia; views of Ross and McIntyre ranches; Prince Albert National Park, Uranium exploration in Saskatchewan, Oldman River flood, Lethbridge feedlot, Western Stockgrowers convention, Lethbridge Experimental Farm, Lethbridge Collegiate Institute, Lethbridge stockyards, Lethbridge Handicapped Association, Civic defence exercises, Superior Masonry, Catelli Pasta plant, Leth Turkey farm, Lethbridge Meterological Station, Lethbridge Iron Works, Kishinena trail, visit of John Diefenbaker and Prince Philip, Haynes family and Kainai chieftainship ceremonies at Stand Off and Brocket (including recognition of Nicholas de Grandmaison, Charlotte Whitton and H. N. Woodsworth); public relations photographs taken while army photographer including Camp Dundurn and No. 6 Elementary Flight Training School (EFTS) at Prince Albert (1942-1945); photographs taken while photographer at Saskatoon Star-Phoenix (1944-1950) and Prince Albert Daily Herald (1933-1939, 1941-1942); and photographs of the Brunelle family in LaFleche, Regina and Prince Albert (1900s-1942). Also consists of personal and business correspondence (1930s-1985), awards, notes on news photography, and newsclippings of photograph assignments (1933-1968).

Brunelle, Orville

Horticulture Centre of the Pacific fonds

  • SMA CA SMA 2010-032
  • Fonds
  • Predominant 1979-1984

Fonds consists of textual records and other material relating to the establishment and development of the Horticulture Centre of the Pacific located at 505 Quayle Road in Saanich and includes concept descriptions; constitution, by-laws and minutes of the society; legal agreements; correspondence; personnel documents; newsletters and brochures; plans and photographs.

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