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Lella Bodwell collection

  • CA RED red-2818
  • Collection
  • [1921, 1975]

The collection consists of newspaper clippings (1921), and a biography of the Farley family of the Willowdale district (1975).

Bodwell, Lella

Lorene Anne Frere's St. Ann Ranch Research collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3064
  • Collection
  • Compiled 1974-1992 [originally created 1904-1992]

The collection consists of drafts of St. Ann Ranch Book I and Book II; research material and copies of photographs relating to the St. Ann Ranch Trading Co. and the history of Trochu, Alberta; feasibility study and publicity relating to the designations of the St. Ann Ranch as an historic site and development of a bed and breakfast and teahouse; biographical information on Louis and Lorene Frere.

Frere, Lorene Anne

Lorene Frere's St. Ann Ranch Trading Company collection

  • CA RED red-2942
  • Collection
  • 1990-1994

The collection includes photocopies and transcripts of historic documents relating to the St. Ann Ranch, the town of Trochu, and the French families that initially settled there; includes brochures, news clippings, and magazine excerpts about the St. Ann Ranch Bed and Breakfast

Frere, Lorene

Louis Rouselle collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3610
  • Collection
  • Photocopied 2008 (originally created 1882-2008)

The collection consists mostly of transcripts of legal documents concerning Louis Rousselle's land claim in the Fort Calgary district. Includes a list of all settlers in the district who filed claims after the land survey was completed. Includes a report on Tail Creek Cemetery (ca. 1993) commissioned by Alberta Genealogical Society.

Rouselle, Louis

Mack Prentiss collection

  • GPR gpr-2680
  • Collection
  • 1906-[ca. 1988]

The collection consists of a computer disc containing 86 images of the Prentiss and Sheer family, their farm on the shore of Bear Lake, Mack's activities as a child on the farm, workers and farm activities throughout the seasons, and a few scenes of Grande Prairie, as well as 7 photographs relating to the personal life of the Prentiss Family. The Bezanson portion of the collection consists of 66 photographs and 12 postcards and covers Bezanson's first trip into the Peace County in 1906, their homestead on the Smoky River from 1908-1913, his 1913 trip over the Edson Trail in a 1912 Cadillac with an Edmonton Realtor named Davidson, and a collection of Peace Country scenes dating from 1910 to 1930. There is also a Grande Prairie High School newsletter from 1935, a promotional picture of the Dunvegan Bridge, miscellaneous correspondence of the Prentiss family, and a collection of newspaper clippings about the family.

Bezanson, A. M. Prentiss, Mack

Manitoba Museum collection

  • CA PAA paa-8974
  • Collection
  • 1907 -- [ca. 1927]

The collection consists of postcards featuring views of Alberta locations including Wainwright, Fort McMurray, and Edmonton circa 1907 to 1927.

unknown

Mark Young Stark family papers

  • Collection
  • 1812-[ca. 1878] predominant after 1833

Most of the records consist of letters written to Mark Young Stark and his wife, Agatha, in Dundas. Correspondents include friends and family in Scotland or friends and colleagues in Upper Canada. Of the Scottish letters, those from Stark’s stepmother (Mary Bannatyne) and aunt (Grace Young) are the most numerous. Some letters predate Stark’s immigration to Canada in 1833. Other letters were written to his wife and to their daughter, Mary Ann, after Stark’s death in 1866. Topics addressed in the letters revolve around personal and family news but occasionally touch on current events, including politics and ecclesiastical affairs.

Stark, Mark Young

Marvyn Rogers collection

  • CA ATH ath-2153
  • Collection
  • [1977]

The fonds consists of brief biographies of Jim Appleby, Hugo Carlson, Todd Richards and Jettie (Day) Willey who were interviewed by high school students. These biographies probably accompany the cassette tapes in accession 93.13

Rogers, Marvyn

Maurice Stochinsky collection

  • JHSE jhse-106
  • Collection
  • 1969 - 2000

The fonds consists of materials collected by JAHSENA from Eva Shoctor Gorasht in 2002, including several speeches and poems written in tribute to Maurice Stochinsky and delivered at a Beth Israel Synagogue tribute dinner in 1969, as well as a photocopy of a photograph from the Provincial Archives of Alberta.

Stochinsky, Maurice

Medicine Hat District Surveyor's Plans collection

  • CA PAA paa-9533
  • Collection
  • [between 1911 -- 1912]

The collection consists of surveyor's plans created between 1911 and 1912 by Dominion Government surveyors for the Medicine Hat district including plans for the subdivisions of Rosemount Medicine Hat, Suffield, Fairview, Arlington, Burrell, Kenilworth, north Redcliff, Broadway Extension, and Parkview.

unknown

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