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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

Lubicon Lake Indian Nation Land Claim Research Collection fonds

  • GPR gpr-2555
  • Collection
  • 1987-1996

The fonds consists of: letters from the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation enclosing copies of documents supporting their land claim; statements from government and Lubicon officials; letters to and from the same; supporting resolutions from other Native bands; and news clippings of articles, editorials, cartoons and reader comments which support their position. Also included are direct statements from the Lubicon Lake Indian Nation; the March 1990, report from the Human Rights Committee (sent May 10, 1990), and "The Lubicon Settlement Commission of Review Final Report", (issued March, 1993).

Lubicon Lake Indian Nation Land Claim Research Collection

South Peace Regional Archives Film collection

  • GPR gpr-2988
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1952-2008]

The collection consists of films and videos relating to the history of the South Peace River Country of Alberta. These recordings were donated by various donors to South Peace Regional Archives after it was established in 2000, and are not associated with a fonds.

South Peace Regional Archives, collector

Kakwa/Two Lakes Folk History collection

  • GPR gpr-2673
  • Collection
  • 2002

The fonds consists of 21 audio cassettes (recorded on a Sony TcM 5000 EV) containing interviews with twenty longtime residents and travelers in the Kakwa and Two Lakes area: Phil Comeau, Bob Neufeld, Norm Drysdale, Dorothy Comeau, Fred Comeau, Norman Eng, Dave Robertson, June Neufeld, Luther Kozowan, Rick Erlendson, Ben Foster, Pete McCullough, Mable Tennant, Suzy Moberly, Lois Lofstrom, Michael Ryan, Don Nelson, Dave Schenk, Norm Trepanier, and Doug Tennant. The interviewer is Jim Nelson.

Alberta Community Development

Hudson's Bay Company fonds

  • GPR gpr-2650
  • Fonds
  • 1834-1863

The fonds consists of two fur-trade ledgers which detail transactions between the Hudson's Bay Company at Dunvegan and individuals trading with this post, including Tranquille, La Glace and L'Eau, who were leaders of the Beaver First Nation from the Grande Prairie. The first ledger (8 ½ x 13" and 160 pages) dates between 1834 and 1840, and the second ledger (9 ½ x 14" and 160 pages) is from 1861-1863. The ledgers disclose what goods were on hand at Dunvegan at the time and the kinds of furs being trapped in the area.

Hudson's Bay Co.

Gathering Story: Native Storytellers fonds

  • GPR gpr-2810
  • Fonds
  • 2002-2004

The fonds consists of handouts from the events, 1 news article, 3 audio cassettes and 2 - 8 mm video tape cassettes from the 2004 gathering. Participants whose stories were recorded were Shirley Plante, Valleyview; Kathleen Evans, Fairview; Henry McAllister, Hines Creek; Michael David, Valleyview; Donna Cummings, Fairview; and Frederick (Dave) Cummings, Fairview.

Plante, Shirley

Harry Tuffill fonds

  • GPR gpr-2588
  • Fonds
  • [1906-1935]

The fonds consists of 327 photographs, 110 of which portray surveying in the Peace Country from 1909 to 1911, and 5 picture life on the Tuffill homestead. The remaining 215 are of Mr. Tuffill's service in WWI and family and photographs from England. There are also 72 postcards from Canada and abroad. The collection of survey photographs is labeled and dated; the remainder have no identifying dates or notes.

Tuffill, Harry

Albert Karkonate fonds

  • GPR gpr-2579
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1965

The fonds consists of: documents regarding trap-lines 1899, 4543, (snaring permit 1807) and 7219; a series of licenses and receipts from various government departments for big game licenses and trap-line renewals, 1942- 1965; letters from the departments regarding renewal licenses; a market report from the Little Bros. Fur Sales Agency in 1950; receipts for groceries and dry goods; and documents evidencing his employment as a casual laborer with the Department of Highways, 1957.

Karkonate, Albert

Spirit of the Peace fonds

  • GPR gpr-2539
  • Fonds
  • 1990-1999

The fonds consists of: newsletters; written descriptions, photographs and pamphlets collected on three tours of the Peace Country, 1990-1991 ; Treaty 8 oral history tapes, 1999; and publications.

Spirit of the Peace

Field's Studio fonds

  • GPR gpr-2584
  • Fonds
  • [1920-1935]

The fonds consists of 12 glass plate negatives and 86 photographs. The glass plate negatives portray wild animals in nature and aboriginals in elaborate native dress posing in a classical setting. The major portion of the black and white photographs are studio portraits of unidentified people, but there are also scenes of the town of Grande Prairie in the 1930s.

Field's Studio

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