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J.H.R. Thomson's Popular Songs collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2257
  • Collection
  • 1868-1969, predominant 1868-1949, 1969

The collection consists of sheet music (1874-1949); and lists and recordings of popular songs dating from 1847 to 1950 (1969).

Thomson, J.H.R.

Viking Historical Society collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2354
  • Collection
  • Copied 1968-1979 (originally created 1900-1967)

The collection consists of photographs of Viking, Harland, Gilpin, Innisfree, and Woodham, including personalities, farming, events and businesses (1900-1967); and E.A. Nelson's homestead receipt and certificate of naturalization (1907-1911).

Viking Historical Society

Alberta newspapers advertisements collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2548
  • Collection
  • 1891-1919, predominant 1911-1913

The collection consists of advertisements for automobiles; farm machinery; household appliances; theatres, circuses, and entertainments; food and drink; political meetings; tobacco, cigarettes and liquor; clothing; general merchants; land and real estate sales throughout Alberta; sale of lots in Calgary; and the Calgary Stampede. Includes front pages about the Titanic sinking, first Alberta Legislature, and other stories.

Alberta newspapers advertisements collection

Waterton Centennial Oral History Project collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2589
  • Collection
  • 1995

The collection consists of recorded interviews and interview summaries with pioneers of Waterton Lakes National Park. Frank Goble, and Ed and Cheryl Mitchell were interviewed but not recorded, although notes were taken and are found with the inventory. There is very poor sound quality on the Tom Jenkins recorded interview due to a cassette malfunction. The Frank Johansen interview summary is accompanied by extensive biographical material about his great aunt, Lu Nielson.

Waterton Centennial Oral History Project

Albert Henry Ellison collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2637
  • Collection
  • 1936-1983

The collection consists of slides of Calgary, including the Royal Train (1939), Calgary Highlanders, Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, buildings, street scenes, Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, St. Andrew's district, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station, Calgary Tower, and Chinatown; and views of the Banff Springs Hotel; slides for geology courses at SAIT, including "Color Slides of Canadian Geology" for Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists.

Ellison, Albert Henry

Milward Belmont Davis Marcell collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2648
  • Collection
  • Copied 1960-1980 (originally created 1912)

The collection consists of photographs of Marcell and the 1912 Calgary Stampede; and a biographical letter about Marcell's life.

Marcell, Milward Belmont Davis

Bill Taylor's Football collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2787
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1935-1995]

The collection consists of Calgary Stampeder Football Club and Canadian Football League records, including programs, fact books, photographs, etc.

Taylor, Bill

Carol Cooper's hostelling collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3193
  • Collection
  • 1952-2002

The collection consists of reminiscences and memorabilia from members who had enjoyed hostelling vacations in the Canadian Rockies and in Ontario in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes photographs from Peggy Love; written reminiscences from Violet and Joe Newell, Ken and Mary Jamieson, Tony Roberts, and Bill Tutte; recorded interviews with Willie Dougall, Kathleen McAdam, Vi Newell, Jack Poste, Muriel Poste, Peggy Love, Al Shaw, and Doug Stewart; a series of slides of hostelling in the Canadian Rockies by Ken Purvis accompanied by a recorded commentary; a few newsletters from affiliated hostelling associations; watercolours by Rod Sykes depicting the Dagmar Youth Hostel in the Toronto Region and the Happy Valley Hostel at Collingwood, Ontario; and the guest register of The Coach House Hostel in Woodstock, Ontario (1952-1954).

Cooper, Carol

Hugh and Pauline Dempsey's First Nations Posters collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3306
  • Collection
  • 1924-2002, predominant 1960-2002

The collection consists of posters advertising and promoting pow-wows, rodeos, sports (boxing, basketball, wrestling and hockey), various "Indian Days" and "Native Awareness" events, art and museum exhibits, dance competitions (especially Prairie Chicken), conferences and seminars, Indian Association of Alberta meetings, and Treaty 7-related commemorations.

Dempsey, Hugh A. Dempsey, Pauline

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