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Toni Ross collection

  • CA PAA paa-7318
  • Collection
  • Copied 1974

Collection consists of copied photographs dating circa (ca.) 1900-1955 that were collected for use in her book, <em>Oh! The Coal Branch</em>. The photographs were borrowed by Toni Ross from various photographers, including Charles Lee, and they depict various people, views, buildings, machinery and accidents in mining towns such as Edson, Luscar, Cadomin and Mountain Park, Alberta. The collection also includes captions for the photographs and a book of ration coupons, likely from the 1940s.

Ross, Toni

Richard McCarty Fort Assiniboine Oral History collection

  • CA PAA paa-8063
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1975]

Fonds consists of oral histories given by residents of Fort Assiniboine, Alberta including Dutie Cartwright, Naomi Dobels, Enid MacArthur, Ray Olson, Elsie Thompson, and Tom Wolfinger.

McCarty, Richard

Tofield Historical Society collection

  • CA PAA paa-7329
  • Collection
  • Copied 1969-1978

Collection consists of records dating circa (ca.) 1900-1958 relating to Tofield, Alberta and includes publications about the Tofield area and its history, maps, and photographs of the Tofield area, including panoramic views.

Tofield Historical Society

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

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.

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

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

George McManus Carson collection

  • CA PAA paa-6660
  • Collection
  • [Transcribed ca. 1973]

Collection consists of a photograph of Carson from ca. 1916, a reminiscence of Carson's relative Charles Lee, from 1908, and a short biography of George McManus Carson.

Carson, G.D.

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