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Buttons and Bows Square Dance Club fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9758
  • Fonds
  • 1953-2008

<p>The fonds consists of membership lists for the entire span of the group, newsletters, meeting minutes, registers of dance participants, financial statements, posters, flyers, correspondence, histories, and call sheets. <p>The newsletters include Buttons and Bows publications as well as publications from the Edmonton District Square Dance Association, the Alberta Square Dance Institute, the Alberta Square and Round Dance Federation, and the Canadian Square Dance Association. There is also correspondence from several of these organizations as well as from other clubs. <p>The histories were compiled by club members for various club anniversaries and consist of oral histories, recollections, and compendia of articles about club activities. <p>The photos are in albums arranged chronologically with all of the subjects meticulously identified. The badges were collected by club members from various dance that they attended, sister clubs, dance associations, and special events. The badges are arranged in polyethylene sleeves.</p>

Buttons and Bows Square Dance Club

Trick Rider Productions fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9753
  • Fonds
  • 1997-2008

<p>The fonds consists of production files, raw footage, and master tapes related to the production of Pretty Ladies, Fast Horses. The textual records include contracts, release forms, correspondence, scripts, budgets, financial information, shot lists, interview transcripts, and shooting schedules. <p>The audiovisual records include interviews with several subjects, footage of ranch work/life, footage of rodeos, and footage of the specific subjects of the documentary. The video footage is comprehensive in documenting ranch and rodeo life and extends beyond the immediate subject of the production. Subjects included in the footage include trick riding, cattle roping, cattle branding, barrel racing, bronco riding, rodeo culture, day-to-day work on cattle ranches, rodeo practice, among others.</p>

Trick Rider Productions

L'Unithéâtre fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9746
  • Fonds
  • 1984-2008

The fonds consists of operational files of L'Unithéâtre and its predecessors, Théâtre français d'Edmonton and Boîte à Popicos, including meeting minutes, financial records, project description, and annotated theatrical scripts.

L'Unithéâtre

Fédération du sport francophone de l'Alberta fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9731
  • Fonds
  • 1992--2009

The material relates to the planning and management of various annual editions of Jeux francophones de l'Alberta and other sport events and consists of annual reports and minutes, financial reports, project files, research material, correspondence and audio-video material documenting FSFA activities.

Fédération du sport francophone de l'Alberta

Alberta Summer Swimming Association fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9700
  • Fonds
  • 1984 -- 2007

The fonds consists of records created and maintained by the Alberta Summer Swimming Association, including minutes, bylaws, agendas, membership lists, and end of year financial reports dating from 1984 to 2007.

Alberta Summer Swimming Association

Lieutenant Governor's Purse collection

  • CA PAA paa-9689
  • Collection
  • 1974

The collection consists of images of the Lieutenant Governor's Purse thoroughbred horse race at the Northlands Racetrack in 1974. Images include the race track, grandstand, and race horses.

Vivian Gares fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9680
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1989

<p>The fonds consists of group portraits of the Order of Royal Purple, the Order of the Elk, Viking curling team, Wetaskiwin High School students, and the Viking Chamber of Commerce. All of the photos are identified with most of the subjects named.</p>;<p>The textual material includes a program from the 1974 reunion of the Alexandra School in Wetaskiwin and policy registers from the Fitzmaurice & Fitzmaurice Insurance and Real Estate Company of Viking.</p>

Gares, Vivian

Sybil Morgan fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9670
  • Fonds
  • [190-]-1993

<p>The fonds consists of photographs that include group portraits of the Edmonton Gradettes (including Sybil and Coach John Percy Page), a snapshot of Charles Lindbergh in an unidentified location, images of rail accidents and equipment from Sybil's father, family photos, locations around Edmonton and Alberta, images from the Central Alberta Sanatorium, First Nations images, farm fields and equipment, and snapshots of Sybil from the 1910s to the 1990s.</p>;<p>The textual material includes funeral programs, an autograph book filled by Sybil's friends from the Central Alberta Sanatorium, and a Christmas card from the early 20th century.</p>

Rocky Mountains home movie

  • CA PAA paa-9668
  • Fonds
  • 1948

Item is one 16mm colour silent film of home movie footage filmed in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, 8 minutes 20 seconds in length. Footage includes lakes, mountains and glaciers in the Lake Louise area, Chateau Lake Louise, Moraine Lake Lodge, Canadian Pacific Railroad Spiral Tunnels at Kicking Horse Pass with train (three steam engines), Takakkaw Falls and Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park, Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman (RCMP) and woman outside RCMP building in [Banff] , and black bears beside cars. People from an unknown family, principally a woman, appear from a distance in various scenes. Good footage of glaciers showing size and locations in 1948.

Bucknell family fonds

  • CA PAA paa-9667
  • Fonds
  • [195-]-[197-]

The fonds consists of 15 colour, silent 8mm home movies [1 hour 45 minutes] including footage of family events and activities such as weddings, anniversaries, vacations, picnics, waterskiing, camping, and hunting in locations such as Edmonton, Jasper, Lethbridge, Glenevis Alberta, Al Oeming's Game Farm outside Edmonton, Toronto Ontario, B.C., and the U.S. Also includes some footage of Don's work with the Northern Alberta Dairy Pool (N.A.D.P.) Don was one of Jim and Irene's sons.

Bucknell, Jim

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