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James Braehead Cross collection

  • CA PAA paa-9511
  • Collection
  • 1973

The collection consists of images of James Braehead Cross at his home in Okotoks, Alberta taken by his wife in 1973.

Cross, James Braehead

James E. Campbell collection

  • EDM edm-1575
  • Collection
  • 1963-1985

The collection consists of biographical material on Fred Trofanenko, programs from Victoria High School's Official Opening and staff reunion. Photographs are catalogued separately.

Campbell, James E.

Wayne K.D. Davies collection

  • CA PAA paa-7865
  • Collection
  • 1989

The collection consists of photocopies of two original letters and then photocopies of translations by Eleanor Aubrey of letters, originally dating 1933 to 1935, to John Bodvan (Bodfan) Anwyl, a Congregational minister, lexicographer and author in Wales, from Rev. Thomas Edward Jeffreys. Jeffreys had studied to become a minister, but as he had little chance of becoming a minister as he was becoming deaf, he left for Canada in 1905 and homesteaded in the Ponoka area. Beginning in 1921 until 1939, other than three years he spent in Calgary, Alberta, he was the minister at Magic Field, as well as Climax and Eureka.

Davies, Wayne K.D.

Whyte Museum Oral History Programme (collection)

  • CA WHYTE whyte-708
  • Collection
  • 1967-1989

Fonds includes recordings of interviews, events, broadcasts, meetings, notes, readings and slide shows produced by and for the Archives of the Whyte Museum. I. Interviews with numerous individuals and groups of individuals. See subject headings for names. II. Events: dedication of Margaret Greenham Theatre; ceremony re Catharine Robb Whyte adoption in Stoney Tribe; Earth Day programme at Margaret Greenham Theatre; dedication of Mt. Jimmy Simpson; dedication of Edouard Deville historic site; Back to Banff Day, 10th anniversary; Louis Trono 75th birthday. III. Broadcasts re: Murray Adaskin, George Clutesi, Allan Jarvis, Kootenay River raft trip, Ottawa Ski Club, Helen Shandruk, Siri Strom, Springtime in the Rockies, Village Lake Louise Project, water pollution, Waterton area. IV. Meetings: Bow Valley Naturalists; National and Provincial Parks Association conference; Indian- Eskimo Conference re George Clutesi. V. Notes by Maryalice Stewart re: Cyril Fuller, Al Johnston, Maude Kidney, Norman Knight, Ulysses LaCasse. VI. Readings by: Ray Bagley, Earle Birney, Jon Whyte. VII. Slide shows: Jon Whyte slide show commentary re Peter and Catharine Whyte. Interviews and recordings were made by Maryalice Harvey Stewart, Elizabeth Rummel, Jon Whyte, E. J. (Ted) Hart, Sue Davies and others.

Whyte Museum Oral History Programme

University of Alberta. Cameron Library collection

  • EDM edm-1685
  • Collection
  • 1953 - 1978

This collection consists of a variety of materials collected by the Cameron library and relating to the City of Edmonton. The collection includes a 1954 Christmas Card from the Edmonton Eskimos football team; and a manuscript biography of Richard, Jane and Arthur Whiteside, the first minister of the First Methodist Church in Edmonton; assorted papers and brochures relating to: the Al Rashid Mosque; Bob Bradburn of CJCA radio; the Coliseum and the Omniplex projects; Dominion Folk Festival; Downtown Edmonton and Radioland weekly guides; Edmonton Chamber of Commerce; Edmonton District Labour Council; Edmonton Aquarium Society; Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues; Edmonton Fish and Game Association; the Edmonton Monastery of the Sisters Adorers of the Precious Blood; Communion tickets for Mrs. Peckham; Ukrainian Canadians; the circus in Edmonton; YWCA history; a copy of The Olympus, the arts magazine of Harry Ainley High School; and 3 photographs of an Edmonton May-Day parade ca. 1939.

University of Alberta: Cameron Library

Roy Brown collection

  • CA PAA paa-7535
  • Collection
  • 1911-1970

The collection consists of a letter from Arthur Meighen to Reuben West from 1911, and a copied newspaper article about Roy Brown's discovery of the cabin and its contents.

Brown, Roy

Julie Hrapko collection

  • CA PAA paa-9521
  • Collection
  • Copied 1973, 1974, and 1976 (orginally created 1919 - 1931)

The collection pertains to Julie Hrapko's career in the heritage industry, and consists of copies of photographs featuring the Miette Hot Springs circa 1930, Mr. and Mrs. Lakusta's wedding circa 1919, and a civil protest by Farmers in Two Hills in 1931.

Hrapko, Julie

Lac La Biche Mission Historical Society collection

  • CA PAA paa-7803
  • Collection
  • Copied 1988-1992

The collection consists of images, originally taken circa 1890 to the 1960s, from the Lac La Biche area, including images of the Filles de Jésus, priests, church exteriors and interiors, Lac La Biche Mission, mission students, houses, stores, buildings destroyed by a tornado, deer, barn building, potato picking, planting, skiing, chopping and hauling wood, a hockey team, children, Métis, families including members of the Ladouceur, Cardinal, Chevigny, families, and Italian settlers (Canterra, Biollo, Bonifacio) and a grain elevator in the Venice district. The collection also includes prints of some <em>Le Franco</em> images of the 1988 'Cultural Rendezvous Culturel,' a copy of Joseph Ladouceur's Bill of Landing Hudson's Bay Company (1877), copies of Cree grammar books and copies of certificates of Victor Parenteau.

Lac La Biche Mission Historical Society

Lea Wedro Kramer collection

  • JHSE jhse-196
  • Collection
  • 1996

Collection consists of a personal reminiscence by Lea Wedro Kramer of her experiences during the Holocaust, as told by Sam Frolich in 1996.

Kramer, Leah Wedro

Len Dutton collection

  • CA PAA paa-7258
  • Collection
  • 1975-1980

The collection includes a copy of a fictionalized article entitled "A suit for Herbie," by Terence Thompson, relating to banking in "Rose Valley," along with Thompson's account of how he came to Killam, Alberta as a Bank of Montreal employee and a letter addressed to Dutton from Thompson; and a copy of a biographical sketch entitled "The Saga of My Paternal Grandparents: Thomas and Margaret Henderson," by Ada Elizabeth Law, an account about the Henderson family's journey from Maple Ridge, British Columbia to Fort Edmonton, North-West Territories, in 1880 and their years homesteading in the Rabbit Hill area of Alberta, and an accompanying letter to Dutton from Irene Gillespie, Ada Elizabeth Law's cousin, who gave Law's article to Dutton.

Dutton, Len

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