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Gil Cardinal fonds

  • CA PAA PR3684
  • Fonds
  • 1954-2010

The fonds consists of records from Gil Cardinal’s independent and freelance projects; the film companies co-founded by Cardinal (Great Plains Productions, Kanata Productions, Strange Empire Productions); and his work for NFB, BBC, or other broadcasters.

The textual materials contain the complete business records of Great Plains Productions, creative records for specific projects (including scripts, notebooks, shot lists, story boards, and editing notes), administrative records for specific projects (including contracts, financial records, grant applications, and correspondence), developmental records related to unrealized projects, and personal records (including correspondence, speaking notes, speeches, and teaching material).

The films consist of home movies from Cardinal’s foster family (some of which were used as part of Foster Child); a tour of the Canadian Museum of Civilization with its architect, Douglas Cardinal; and release prints of Foster Child.

The videocassettes consist of original shooting tapes and completed masters of several projects. Most prominent among these are My Partners, My People, Our Home and Native Land, The Great Possibility, and David with F.A.S. There are also masters, but not shooting tapes, for several other projects including Big Bear, Chiefs (for both episodes directed by Cardinal), Totem, and others. Some of these masters are on DVD as well as videocassette.

The photographs, negatives, and slides consist of images shot by Cardinal during the course of filming, images of special events, and family photos.

Zandra Bell fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9710
  • Fonds
  • 1990-2009

The fonds consists of scripts, research notes, correspondence, and posters related to Bell's performance career. There are also videocassettes that contain TV appearances by Bell, promotional clips of her various performances and characters, complete recordings of her one-person shows, and demo reels.

Bell, Zandra

Women's Musical Club of Edmonton fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9620
  • Fonds
  • 1935-1966

The fonds consists of programs of concerts sponsored by the Women's Musical Club of Edmonton, including mainly performances by the Don Cossack Chorus singers who were former officers in the Czar's Imperial Cavalry. In 1942, 1945 and 1946 the Women's Musical Club of Edmonton had invited the members of the Don Cossack Chorus, the leading musical attraction in the world, to perform in Edmonton.

Women's Musical Club of Edmonton

Wilson family fonds

  • CA PAA paa-7050
  • Fonds
  • 1887-[197-?], predominant 1887-1901

Fonds consists of a letter written from Sir John A. McDonald to Anne Jackson Wilson's father, John Jackson, reminiscences of Anne Jackson Wilson and of "Dad" Sharples, theater memorabilia, and photographs.

Wilson family

Willie and the Walkers fonds

  • CA PAA paa-8500
  • Fonds
  • 1966 - 1989

The fonds consists of set lists, album cover art, clippings, pamphlets, photographs documenting the career of Willie and the Walkers. The fonds also includes 9 45 rpm recordings by Willie and the Walkers. The fonds dates from the 1960's to the 1980's.

Willie and the Walkers

William W. Parker fonds

  • CA PAA paa-37
  • Fonds
  • 1913-[ca. 1964]

Fonds consists of published and unpublished literary works written by Parker as well as other personal records, including family photographs taken during the time of World War I.

Parker, William W.

William Henry and Edwin Henry Turton fonds

  • CA PAA paa-7330
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1971

The fonds includes newspaper clippings, a Cree election pamphlet (1911), <em>Alberta: A Land for Living</em> magazines, Gyro Club of Edmonton roster book, a copy of <em>Jerry Potts, plainsman</em> (by Hugh Dempsay), a copy of <em>The Prairie Garden</em> (magazine), certificates belonging to Harry and Edwin Henry Turton, a marriage certificate for Kenneth Campbell MacLeod and Winifred Viola Macdonald (1920), booklets about Freemasonry, Jacques De Molay (order of De Molay) and the Grand Lodge of Alberta, a souvenir program of 1939 Royal Visit, a booklet of Alberta Historic Sites, Clarence Tillenius wildlife and prairie prints, and photographs and photographic postcards mostly dating circa (ca.) 1909 to 1915 and 1952, including Grouard, Sawridge, Sturgeon Lake, Peace River, Dunvegan, Athabasca Landing and the areas around Lesser Slave Lake, and include Cree Indian chiefs (Moostoosh and Kinis?oo), the Peace River landing, the first car in Grouard, Sturgeon Lake Mission, churches, local people, mail delivery, homesteads, main streets, horse and carts, stores, buildings, bridges, snowplough, dogsleds, band, natives, as well as photographs and photographic postcards of Fort Edmonton, views of Edmonton, the 1915 Edmonton flood, 19th Alberta Dragoons, First World War Honour rolls, soldiers, mountain scenes around Banff, portraits of John Stocks, L.C. Charlesworth, H.P. Keith, J.D. Robertson, G.H.N. Monkman, Peter Tomkins, Kenneth MacLeod, Winifred Macdonald, and postcards from Bath, Folkestone and Taunton, England.

Turton, William Henry (Harry)

William Hastings McMahon fonds

  • CA PAA paa-6843
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1912

Fonds consists of photographs depicting William Hastings McMahon and images of some of his cartoons. Fonds also includes a copy of the Edmonton <em>Plaindealer</em> newspaper.

McMahon, William Hastings

William Copeland McCalla family fonds

  • CA PAA paa-8287
  • Fonds
  • 1904-1940

The fonds consists of hand-coloured lantern slides of flowers, the movement of floral parts, fertilization and seed production, fruits, flower gardening, ornamental planting, vegetable gardening, farm scenes, potatoes, the microscopic structure of plants, landscapes (Pacific Coast, mountains, park country, plains), farms, mammals, birds, the erosion of rocks, sunsets and clouds, clouds, deposits of sand and gravel, stratification of rocks and soil, plants as soil makers, erosion of rocks, logging and lumber, and trees; glass plate negatives of the Banff area including hotels, golf courses, mountains; farm machinery; negatives of the family's farm, family members, farming, harvesting, picnics, the Drumheller area including hoodoos; and a photograph of William Copeland McCalla. Fonds also includes three ledgers of farm notes, seed records, accounts of receipts and expenditures, manure records, etc. for William Copeland McCalla and Margaret McCalla's farms at St. Catherines, Ontario and Bremner, Alberta. Part of the third ledger is farm notes, accounts of receipts and expenditures, etc. for Frederick and Gladys McCalla, who took over the Bremner farm from parents William and Margaret. Includes some loose notes, correspondence, receipts, Alberta Wheat Pool grading slips, etc. Fonds also includes a CD made in 2008 by Alex McCalla that contains scans of all the pages in the ledgers. Fonds also includes McCalla's lantern slide projector and a wooden lantern slide case in a canvas carrying bag.

McCalla, William Copeland

William C. Rutledge Architects Limited fonds

  • CA PAA paa-7980
  • Fonds
  • 1983

The fonds consists of records created by William C. Rutledge Architects Limited as part of a study for the City of Edmonton and includes images of the Alberta Hotel (built 1903) on Jasper Avenue in Edmonton, Alberta as well as images of a model of the hotel and neighbouring buildings; the images were to have been used to panelize the walls which would then be used in a new construction. The Alberta Hotel was dismantled in 1984 and replaced by Canada Place.

William C. Rutledge Architects

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