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Healey Willan collection

  • UVICARCH AR194
  • Collection
  • 1937-1981

The collection primarily consists of memorabilia and newspaper clippings, collected by Willan's son, Patrick Willan. Files include correspondence and minutes of the Healey Willan Centennial Celebration Committee, 1978-1980; programmes, 1936-1980; clippings, 1936?-1965; programmes and clippings of Willan's opera, Deirdre; obituaries and memorials, 1968; Church of St. Mary Magdalene, 1979-1980; Willan Centenary, 1980; articles on Willan, 1980-1981; memorabilia, 1968-1979; and photographs of Willan with family and musicians.

Stephen Mandel collection

  • JHSE jhse-202
  • Collection
  • 2002-2008

Collection consists of records pertaining to Stephen Mandel, from 2002-2006, mainly concerning his political career, and includes photocopied newspaper clippings, election materials, posters and correspondence. Fonds also includes photographs depicting Stephen and Lynne Mandel, and a wedding invitation for their daughter, Rachel.

Mandel, Stephen

Tom Maccagno collection

  • CA ATH ath-2206
  • Collection
  • 1832-1998

The fonds consists of an excerpt from the book "Adventures on the Columbia River, including the narrative of a residence of six years on the western side of the Rocky Mountains, among various tribes of Indians hitherto unknown: together with A Journey across the American continent" by Ross Cox, 1832; an article by Nick Tanasiuk about homesteading at Rock Island Lake, Alberta; an article from the magazine Encompass, Oct. 1998 "Portage La Biche, the forgotten portage" by Tom Maccagno; a copy of 1915 "An act to incorporate the Athabasca and Fort Vermilion Railway Company"; information on Lac La Biche's 200th Anniversary in 1998; 1913 "An act to incorporate the Athabasca Club"; newspaper articles regarding Athabasca from the Calgary News Telegram, Calgary Albertan, and Edmonton Journal. There are also articles about Alex Stratton, Athabaska Investment Co., 1911; NWMP report mentioning Constable Hubert Thorne; excerpts from "Journal Notre Dame Des Victoires, Lac La Biche".

Maccagno, Tom

Toni Ross collection

  • CA PAA paa-7318
  • Collection
  • Copied 1974

Collection consists of copied photographs dating circa (ca.) 1900-1955 that were collected for use in her book, <em>Oh! The Coal Branch</em>. The photographs were borrowed by Toni Ross from various photographers, including Charles Lee, and they depict various people, views, buildings, machinery and accidents in mining towns such as Edson, Luscar, Cadomin and Mountain Park, Alberta. The collection also includes captions for the photographs and a book of ration coupons, likely from the 1940s.

Ross, Toni

Marion Harriet Lockerbie collection

  • EDM edm-1180
  • Collection
  • 1941-1968

The collection consists of brochures on Germany, Canadian cities, Alberta, and programs from the Edmonton Symphony Society.

Lockerbie, Marion Harriet

Robert and Shirley Hendriks collection of William Bleasdell Cameron

  • CA ATU atu-3
  • Collection
  • 1860-2006, predominant 1885--1951.

Collection consists of the textual records, photographs, tintypes, copied photographs, postcards and copies of illustrations and paintings of W.B. Cameron, as well as the research records accumulated by Robert Hendriks during the course of writing a biography about W.B. Cameron. The photographs depict various First Nations people, often dressed in traditional clothing with objects such as the Sioux pipe bag, as well as W.B.'s family and friends. There are also photographs of the site of the Frog Lake Massacre and the Frog Lake Massacre Memorial Cairn. The photographic postcards depict views of the various towns that W.B. Cameron resided in such as Le Pas, Manitoba and Lac La Biche and Vermilion, Alberta. Textual records consist of correspondence to and from family members and friends, manuscripts, editions of The Beaver, Scarlet and Gold and Saturday Night, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook of Cameron's early writings, paperwork relating to the publishing of Cameron's book as well as the republishing of the book in the 1940s and by his family in the 1970s, certificates, letters relating to the NWMP Memorial & Indian Museum in Battleford, Saskatchewan and to the Hudson's Bay Company. Also included is a videotape of W.B. Cameron's speech in 1950 at the Elk Point Bridge Opening.

Hendriks, Robert

Richard McCarty Fort Assiniboine Oral History collection

  • CA PAA paa-8063
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1975]

Fonds consists of oral histories given by residents of Fort Assiniboine, Alberta including Dutie Cartwright, Naomi Dobels, Enid MacArthur, Ray Olson, Elsie Thompson, and Tom Wolfinger.

McCarty, Richard

May Dornan collection

  • EDM edm-1638
  • Collection
  • 1912-1998

MS-515: This fonds consists of programs and sheet music from the Light Opera of Edmonton. MS 515.1: This fonds consists of personal and family records of May Dornan. These records break down into four groups: scrapbooks, Catholic Church materials, miscellaneous materials, and Dennis Dornan materials. The scrapbooks consists of a photograph album of a production of "The Lass of Limerick Town"; two scrapbooks of miscellaneous materials including newspaper clippings on history, architecture and the catholic church in Edmonton, cards, notices, invitations and other ephemera; a scrapbook on family and church history; and finally a scrapbook on "The First Fifty Years" A Pictorial Review of the Origin of the Parish of St. Anthony of Padua and the Contributions made by the Pioneers, both for the Church and in the Community." Catholic Church materials consists of various publications on the church in Edmonton, including material on St. Anthony's, the Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton, the Catholic Women's League, St. Agnes, St. René / Our Lady of Assumption, and Edmonton Catholic Schools. The miscellaneous materials consist of Women's Aid Society of the Royal Alexandria Hospital Recipe Book, Celebration of Marriage between Doreen Gale and Wayne Bard, Obituary: A Story, "Canada's Constitution--A Proud Moment for Alberta," Theatre Programmes, and a Granite Curling Club Roster. This fonds also contains material from Dennis Dornan, including material from his time with the Edmonton Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Dornan, May

Metis Genealogy Researchers' collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3057
  • Collection
  • 1999-2009

The collection consists of correspondence from researchers and inquirers which includes significant and substantial compilations on Metis genealogy. Includes pedigree charts, descendancy charts, family group sheets, essays, articles, and photocopied newsclippings. The files are arranged alphabetically by the names of the researchers or inquirers, and include William Frederic James Bell, Rhiannon Boardman, Jim Bowman, James D. Campbell, Mary Sandison Fox, Malcolm S. Gray, Kelly Guilmette, Jim Lavers, Gail Morin, Garnet Quigley, Tammy Rempel, and the Wylie family. Files include information on families descended from early fur trader bearing the following surnames: Auld, Bethune, Cook, Erasmus, Favell, Fellers, Gariepy, Gray, Kwaraconte, Latreille, Laurence, McKay, McKinlay, Mowat, Nepissing, Robertson, Sandison, Wylie.

Metis Genealogy Project

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