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Provincial Archives of Alberta Collection Sports, recreation and leisure
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Youth Recreation and Activities collection

  • CA PAA paa-9299
  • Collection
  • 1958 - 1959

The collection consists of material related to youth recreation and activities in Alberta including a post-summer evaluation of Edmonton's playground and parks program dating from 1958, a report on the proceedings of Western Recreation Conference held in the Banff School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta, dating from 1958, a report on a playground teacher's training course for Edmonton Recreation Department dating from 1959, and the minutes of a meeting of the Edmonton Council of Community Services, Youth Service Division, Executive Workshop dating from 1959.

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South Dakota State Historical Society collection

  • CA PAA paa-6931
  • Collection
  • 1907-1928

The collection is made up of items donated to the Provincial Archives of Alberta from the Society's holdings. The collection is made up of postcards and postcard-format photographs depicting places in Alberta, including views of Banff, Mount Stephen and Cathedral Peak, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Lacombe, a train on the Lacombe Branch of the C.P.R., Lacombe High School, an early view of Calgary, and the Lacombe hockey team, winners of the Alberta Amateur Hockey Association championship. Addressees of the postcards are: Miss Ruth McKenzie (Ft. Pierre, SD), Mr. L.M. Fortune (Andover, SD), Miss Sarah Summerside (Pierre, SD), Mrs. Emma Fortune (Coude, SD), Mrs. T. Jones (Andover, SD), Mr. And Mrs. R.W. Fortune (Coude, SD), and H.D. Parhauw (Woonsocket, SD).

South Dakota State Historical Society

Seba Beach Heritage Society photograph collection

  • CA PAA paa-7736
  • Collection
  • Copied 1986 and 1987

The fonds consists of images from Seba Beach, originally dating circa (ca.) 1910, of the beachfront, the lake, picnics, store exteriors and interiors, a baseball team and canoes and canoeing, and images from Lesser Slave Lake and Waterways, originally dating from 1930s and 1940s, possibly once belonging to Knute Booth, of commercial fishing operations.

Seba Beach Heritage Society

Redwater and District Museum collection

  • CA PAA paa-7203
  • Collection
  • Copied 1980 and 1985

The collection consists of 71 images, originally dating from 1914 to 1958, of schools, churches, sports teams, stores, bands, automobiles, ferries, coal mines, bicycles, horses and carriages, weddings, and Ukrainian Associations, all primarily in the Redwater, Alberta area and includes Redwater, Radway, Egremont, Eldorena, Waskatenau, Vinca, Opal and Fedorah, as well as Skaro, Brule, and Drumheller.

Redwater and District Museum

Plamondon Municipal Library Photograph Collection

  • CA PAA paa-7723
  • Collection
  • 1900-1959 (Copied 1982-1987)

The images are of Plamondon, originally dating circa 1900 to the 1950s, and include students, canoe-building, store interiors and exteriors, buildings, post offices, houses and house building, horses, automobiles, churches, baseball teams, funerals, families, nuns, picnics and other social gatherings and views of Plamondon and area.

Plamondon Municipal Library

Pincher Creek and District Historical Society photograph collection

  • CA PAA paa-8095
  • Collection
  • Copied 1974

Collection consists of copied photographs dated 1883-1917 that depict various people, buildings, and views in Pincher Creek, Alberta including a sawmill, Hotel Arlington, the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) store interior, a hockey rink, street views, log buildings, horses, carts, the Union Bank of Canada, agricultural machinery, branding cattle, houses, Allison's Store, the Lynch Brothers Livery, and the railroad.

Pincher Creek and District Historical Society

Photograph of Cowboys at Calgary Stampede collection

  • CA PAA paa-9288
  • Collection
  • Copied 1968, originally created [ca. 1926]

The collection consists of a copy photograph and negative featuring cowboys from the Calgary Stampede circa 1926. The collection also includes a list identifying the individuals in the photograph. The photographer remains unidentified.

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Opening of Fort Edmonton Park collection

  • CA PAA paa-9287
  • Collection
  • 1967

The collection consists of material commemorating the dedication ceremony of Fort Edmonton Park in 1967 collected by R.O. Harrison, Director of the Provincial Museum of Alberta. The collection includes a clipping from The Edmonton Journal, an invitation, a program, a letter requesting a copy of the dedication speech by V.M. Dantzer from R.O. Harrison to V.M. Dantzer and a reply from V.M. Dantzer, and a map of Fort Edmonton Park.

Fort Edmonton Park

Mountain View Museum collection

  • CA PAA paa-8079
  • Collection
  • Copied 1976

Collection consists of copied photographs dating about 1910-1930 that depict various people, buildings and views in the Olds, Alberta area and includes picnics, automobiles, houses, the Percy Edwards threshing outfit, a men's curling team, logging, street views, and Moritz Lake. Collection also includes a photocopied history of Olds district by O.S. Moore entitled <em>In the Shadow of the Rockies</em>.

Mountain View Museum

Morinville Historical and Cultural Society Museum Committee photograph collection

  • CA PAA paa-7813
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1915]-1987

The collection consists of images of Morinville, Alberta, originally dating circa (ca.) 1900 to ca. 1920, and includes images of streets, buildings, stores, banks, hotels, restaurants, interior of a saloon, hearse, a religious procession, horses, sleighs, wagons, delivery wagons, trains, the Cardiff Coal Mine, a church service, tennis players and a marching band and Byron-May Company, Limited photographs of buildings and views along Morinville's main street.

Morinville Historical and Cultural Society Museum Committee

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