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Peace Country Classic Agri-Show fonds

  • GPR gpr-2818
  • Fonds
  • 1986-1998

The fonds consists of posters, programs, special agri-show editions of the Peace Country Farmer, invitations and advertising placemats, pages of history and features of some of the agri-shows and a scrapbook of newsclippings.

Peace Country Classic Agri-Show

Percy Romkey fonds

  • GPR gpr-2590
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1955

The fonds consists of a soldier's service book and pay book for the Canadian Army for 1944-1945; and one account book, relating to homesteading and agriculture, with 15 pages of records of accounts payable and receivable. The homestead records date from 1926 to 1955.

Romkey, Percy

Rorem family fonds

  • GPR gpr-2856
  • Fonds
  • [1920-1960]

The fonds consists of 58 photographs, 3 newspaper articles depicting the Rorem family, Valhalla Center, Valhalla Luthern Church, and Valhalla School.

Rorem (family)

Robert Cochrane fonds

  • GPR gpr-2819
  • Fonds
  • 1911-2006

<p>The fonds consists of correspondence, seed registration certificates, award and honours, a scrapbook and newspaper clippings, an interview and historical notes, photographs of family and community interest, and booklets about the history of Grande Prairie and area. <p>The fonds is divided into three series: Personal Papers, Photographs, and Booklets. It has been arranged by the Archivist by record type, then chronologically.</p>

Cochrane, Robert

Milton Hommy family fonds

  • GPR gpr-2942
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1966

The fonds consists of 36 photographs covering 3 generations of the Hommy family.

Hommy, Milton

Bert Mackey Family fonds

  • GPR 0596
  • Fonds
  • 1941-1948

The fonds consists of a 1941-1942 Canadian Wheat Board Permit for Art Mackey, listing the land owned by the permit holder and crops under cultivation; two 1942 Assessment Slips for Angeline Mackey from the MD of Grande Prairie No. 739; a 1944-1945 Canadian Wheat Board permit application for Art Mackey; a 1946 Assessment Slip for Art Mackey; 1948 Tax Notices for Angeline and Art Mackey; and a 1948 Tax Receipt from the MD of Grande Prairie No. 127 for Art Mackey.

Bert Mackey family

Big Seven Co. Ltd. fonds

  • GPR gpr-2905
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1936

The fonds consists of an accounts book presumably relating to threshing done by the Big Seven Co. Ltd., an original copy of the sale agreement for the threshing machine, and an inspection certificate of the company's boiler. The fonds deals with the threshing business conducted by the Big Seven Co. Ltd.

Big Seven Co. Ltd.

Nick Poohkay fonds

  • GPR gpr-2880
  • Fonds
  • 1938-2007

The fonds consists of one oral history relating Nick's experience homesteading and farming in the Lassiter area north of Eaglesham, and stories about the communities of Eaglesham, Belloy and Codesa. There are two photographs of Nick's wife Mary before she left Poland c.1938.

Poohkay, Nick

Women of Unifarm Beaverlodge Local 107 fonds

  • GPR 0546
  • Fonds
  • 1955-1980

The fonds consists of records pertaining to the Beaverlodge Local of the Women of Unifarm from 1958-1980. They include minutes, financial records, correspondence, material from conventions, and pamphlets produced by the Women of Unifarm.

There was no discernable original order in the records when they arrived. Order was imposed in them by the archivist based on the content of the records.

Women of Unifarm Beaverlodge Local 107

William Alexander Family fonds

  • GPR 0572
  • Fonds
  • 1856-[ca. 2000]

The fonds consists of family photographs, correspondence, and genealogical records of the William Alexander Family. The photographs ([ca. 1966]-1980) show William Alexander, his wife Emilie Dannhauer, and their families, the Alexander children in Strathcona, Rycroft, and Grande Prairie, various boats on the Peace River, the Fort Fitzgerald wood camp, the Art Alexander family in Hudson's Hope, the O'Brien girls, Maggie and Emil Baron and their children, Ed and Bill Alexander in their army uniforms, and the Alexander gravesite and O'Brien Park.

The correspondence (1896, 1915-1986) includes letters from Emilie Alexander to her mother Caroline Dannhauer, Pringle to Bill Alexander, R. B. Leslie to the Alexanders, Bill Alexander to his sisters and father, Ed Alexander to his sister Maggie and father, William to his daughters, Aunt M. F. Wells to Jean and Maggie, Aunt H.(?) A. Alexander to Jean, Aunt Jessie Fairweather to her nieces and nephews, Art and Violet Alexander to his sister Maggie, Harry Newgord to Ed and Bill, cousin Ella F. Lyell to Jean and Maggie, W. J. C. Reed & Sons Solicitors and Notaries Public to Maggie, cousin Jessie (nee Bell) to Jean Pearce, Emil and Maggie Baron to their daughter Jean Pearce, cousin Jessie (nee Bell) to Violet Alexander, cousin Helen Truscott to Jean Pearce, Paul and Caroline Dannhauer to Sidney Truscott, Jean to her sister Maggie, cousin Jim Blacklaws to Maggie, Jean to niece Jean Pearce, cousin Wayne to Jean Pearce, cousin Isabel Besley to Jean Pearce, and the Public Archives of Canada to Jean Pearce.

Other records include German language records of Paul Dannhauer (permission for passport, Certificate of Qualification as Helmsmen 1st Class, Certificate of Baptism, and confirmation of birth), William Alexander's Birth Certificate, Ontario land records of Paul Dannhauer, William and Emilie Alexander's Marriage Certificate, Maggie Alexander's Birth Certificate, William Alexander's Certificate of Registration of Death, Emilie Alexander's Certified Abstract of Registration of Death, Maggie and Emil Baron's Marriage Certificate, obituaries of uncle James Alexander and aunt Maggie Wells, excerpts from the "Centennial History" of St. John Lutheran Church, Petatwawa Ontario, 1867-1967, newspaper articles about Maggie Baron and Jean Alexander, Rycroft homecoming program and newspaper article, and family trees compiled by various family members.

The records were arranged in a series of binders and albums, as assembled by Jean Pearce. They have been selected and rearranged by the Archivist into chronological order. The photographs have been left in the order they were given by Jean; not every photograph in the albums was copied.

Alexander family

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