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Hope Johnson fonds

  • MED med-129
  • Fonds
  • 1907-1982

The fonds consists of: the following topographic maps: Halsbury, AB (1963, 1975), Buffalo, AB (2) (1961), Bindloss, AB-SK (2) (1961), Brooks, AB (2) (1951), Jenner (2) (1947), Middle Sand Hills (1953), Middle Sand Hills, AB-SK (1951), Tilley, AB (1955), Alderson (1950), Watching Hill (2) (1950), Hilda, AB-SK (1960), Suffield, AB (1975), Many Island Lake, AB-SK (2) (1960), Bow Island, AB(1975), Manyberries, AB (1967), Thelma Creek, AB-SK (1967, 1976), Foremost, AB (1940, 1975), Gleichen, AB (1963), Legend, AB (1975), Oyen, AB (1967), Taber, AB (1940), Cripple Creek, AB-SK (1976), Prelate, SK (1964), Cypress Hills (1964), Regina, SK (1935). Assorted papers from the Brenner Garage-Alderson, including: election material (1931-1949), cancelled cheques from the Alderson Store (7) (1919-1923); book of names and localities in "90 Years at Elkwater"; scrapbooks of Flora of Southeast Alberta, written and illustrated by Hope Johnson (2) (1962); "One Hundred Years of Alberta Women" by various authors for the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation (1982); paper entitled "Red Rock Coulee-A Preserved Natural Area" by Hope Johnson (6 pgs) (1977); booklets (2) entitled "About the Dinosaurs at Dinosaur Provincial Park, near Patricia, Alberta" (11 pgs) and "Dinosaurs-In the Southwest Prairie Area" (11 pgs) by Hope Johnson (1977); (undated); various papers on palaeontology by Hope Johnson (various dates); biography of Hope Johnson (author unknown) (1974); sketch and note books (6) of topographical features, botanical specimens, landscapes, fossils etc. done by Hope Johnson (19 pgs) (M2001.3.1-.6); copied sketch of Bearpaw Marine Fossils and art show listing and press release for Canadan Nature Art 74 exhibition (1973-75) (M2001.3.7); loose sketch titled Badland topography - Oldman formation (undated) (M2001.3.8); file of assorted correspondence (1966-1992) (M2001.3.9); newspaper "The Standard"of London, England (June 21, 1897) (M2001.3.10); publication titled About Dinosaurs at the Dinosaur Provincial (World Heritage) Park, near Patricia, Alberta by Hope Johnson . The material was compiled (with illustrations) for children of MHSD #76 and District #4 (1977) (M2001.3.11); notes listing dinosaurs which were present in SE Alberta, compiled by Hope Johnson (undated) (M2001.2.12); article (with illustrations) titled Red Rock Coulee - A Preserved Natural Area by Hope Johnson (undated) (M2001.3.13); The Blue Jay -Journal of Natural History and conservation for Saskatchewan, March 1969 with article by Hope, "A Paleontological Holiday: A Visit to the Hunter Quarry Near Eastend" ([ca. 1969]); images of first nations groups, paleontologists and the Jenner ferry.

Johnson, Hope

Roy Keating fonds

  • MED med-130
  • Fonds
  • 1900-1967

The fonds consists of: booklet entitled "Economic Survey of the City of Medicine Hat" by the Industrial Development Board (1950); sheet music for the song "Medicine Hat", a Centennial Musical presented by the Allied Arts Council (15) (1967); and an image of the Western Stock Growers Association.

Keating, Roy

Roy Hanlon fonds

  • MED med-132
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1913]-1981

The fonds consists of: a script for "Yeoman of the Guard" (undated); souvenir program for Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society's production of "The Mikado" (1925); booklet of words and music for "The Messiah" (undated); program for the 16th Alberta Musical Competition Festival held in Edmonton (1923); letter to Elliot MacDonald re: his liquor salesman's license (1914); liquor salesman license (1914); a Hawthorne's Clothing catalogue (1925); 175th Battalion Reunion Program (1946); map-Canada Land and Irrigation (undated); building permit issued to L.C. Brown (1908); airmail envelope with Medicine Hat logo (1930); miscellaneous Western Co-op Fertilizer material including: Engineer's Certificate to Roy Hanlon (1975); promotional pamphlet (undated); notice of strike vote (1981); Seniority list (1981); schematic diagram of Nitric Acid Plant (1981); procedure manual (undated); and family photographs.

Hanlon, Roy

Orville Kope fonds

  • MED med-137
  • Fonds
  • 1957-1965

The fonds consists of: Easter Seal Campaign packet (1958); magazine entitled "TV Scoop" (40 pgs) (1957); typed note and autographed by Boris Karloff regarding his donation of 2 neckties (97.8.1-.2) in support of the local Flood Committee efforts to raise money for flood relief. [Bob Busse of CHAT TV and Fred McGuiness of the Medicine Hat News solicited Hollywood stars for donations. Orv Kope purchased the two ties auctioned for $5.00.] (M2001.2.1) (1965); Maclean's Magazine printers proof sheets (5 pgs) of an article on Medicine Hat titled "Look What comes Out of the Hat!"; with accompanying note addressed to Mr. Buss (sp?). (M2001.2.2) (November 1, 1953).

Kope, Orville

Hawthorne family fonds

  • MED med-140
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1880]-1974

The fonds consists of: a booklet entitled "Prize List for Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede" (1917); promotional pamphlet "What was found under the Hat" compiled for Medicine Board of Trade (1903); history of Hawthorne's Men's Wear* (undated); advertising card ([ca. 1904]); souvenir programs for Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society "Chimes of Normandy" (1915), and "The Toreador" (1922); 12th Annual Report of Medicine Hat General Hospital (1901); invoice and promissory note for A.C. Hawthorne's store from F.A. Martin (1900); invitation card to Medicine Hat Bicycle Club ball made out to A.C. Hawthorne and Ladies (1897); receipt from A.C. Hawthorne Clothing Store (1901); W.C. Yuill file re: loans to Cypress Club members for building club (1907); receipt, certificate and letter to A.C. Hawthorne re: automobile license (1907); receipt for life membership in Cypress Club made out to A.C. Hawthorne (1913); letter to H. Baker (City Clerk) from H.W. Gibbon Stocken re: origin of Medicine Hat's name (1915); Medicine Hat Stampede envelope (1917); Medicine Hat money "Confederate Dollar" (1917); newsclipping re: A.C. Hawthorne's retirement (undated); images of various views in and around Medicine Hat, including indian camps and the Hawthorne family.

Hawthorne (family)

May Laidlaw fonds

  • MED med-146
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1887]-1973

The fonds consists of: agreement of Land Sale between Daniel, John and Bruce Mitchell, Percy White and J. Harvey Cashore for building lots (1913); various programs of the Medicine Hat Amateur Operatic Society: "Merrie England" (1928), "The Geisha" (1929), "The Chimes of Normandy" (1915), "Dorothy" (1927), "The Yeoman of the Guard" (1926), "The Mikado" (1925), "The Arcadians" (1924), " The Toreador" (1922), "The Chimes of Normandy" (1921), "Er Minie" (1917), "Tom Jones" (1916), "H.M.S. Pinafore" (1916), "The Mikado" (1914), "The Gondoliers" (1915); script for "Yeoman of the Guard" (undated); letter to Mary Laidlaw re: Liberal Leadership Candidates (1968); Community Oil Wells share certificate issued to F.O. Sissons (1922); images of family and views in and around early Medicine Hat; 3 audio cassette interviews with Mae Laidlaw (1964, 1972), and with Jane and Larry Laidlaw (1990).

Laidlaw, May

Anderson family fonds

  • MED med-15
  • Fonds
  • 1905-1976

The fonds consists of: "Canadian Cattlemen" (1938-1976); Certificates of Regulation, permits and licenses for use of Rifles and Shotguns, driving, and liquor possession, medical examination for J.L. Anderson (1931-1956); gasoline licenses and ration books (4) (1943/44, 1944/45, undated); dance cards for University of Alberta dances (10) (1935-1938); booklets entitled "Four Year Diary-Senior Class '45" University of Alberta (1945); "S.A.R. Officer's Mess Rules and Regulations" (1951); "Individual and Team Bowling Record" (undated); various booklets re: dryland farming, country medicine, and veteran settlement (1929-1970); various dinner programs, military, medical University of Alberta (1903-1975); programs for Annual Meeting of Agricultural Institute of Canada (1947); letter to "Doc" Anderson from Jupp Kassel, former Prisoner of War (POW) (1947); letter to Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve re: Jack Anderson (1942); tissue and envelope imprinted with caricature of Hitler's face and words "Wipe Out Hitler" ([ca. 1940]); O.S. Notice of Public Auction for cattle, farm equipment and household effects of W.G. Anderson (1948); 1 collage of 39 portraits of the Moorhouse Scoundrels (1912) and images of agricultural scenes, family members and views of Granum.

Anderson (family)

New York Fur Exchange/Levinson Hide and Fur fonds

  • MED med-152
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1961

The fonds consists of: the following materials from Levinson's Fur Store: "Private Code Books" (2) (undated); "C.M. Lampson and Co's Private Code Book" for telegraphing gross average prices of fur sales (undated); purchase book (1926-1932); exporting book (1913-1946); sales book (1924-1940); images of views of Medicine Hat and various productions of Medicine Hat Civic Theatre, the Moore family, and Mrs. Bea Levinson.

New York Fur Exchange/Levinson Hide and Fur

City of Medicine Hat fonds

  • MED med-154
  • Fonds
  • 1894-1989

The fonds consists of blueprint of C.P.R. Bridge (1915); cloth map of Medicine Hat Industrial Site (1919); blueprint-City of Medicine Hat (1914); "Consolidated By-Laws" (1912); By-laws No. 366-378 (1913), No. 417-423 (1913), No. 449-454 (1914); Amendments to Charter of City of Medicine Hat (1947); manuscript material gathered in the writing of book "All Hell for a Basement" (1981-83); Medicine Hat Community Profile Booklet (1984); WWII Honor Roll Book (on indefinite loan to the Royal Canadian Legion) (1945); ledger of building permits (1909-1947); receipt book-Town Weigh Scales (1905); Historic Title Search (1903-1975), St. Patrick's Church (1908-1972); photographic views of Medicine Hat (16) (undated); ticket to TeCo Social Welfare Club Dance (1931); Honor Rolls (7): City Employees (1914), Dulce it Decorum ist Pro Patria Mori (ca. 1914), 3rd C.M.R. (ca. 1914), 175th Battalion (ca. 1914), 13th Mounted Rifles (ca. 1914), 10th, 31st and 50th Battalions (ca. 1914), 63rd, 56th and 82nd Battalions (ca. 1914); land survey and blueprint album for City of Medicine Hat (1913); article "Life in Medicine Hat POW [Prisoner of War] Camp" (1945); bound copies re: Medicine Hat Industries-Research Project (1986); Final Report-Historic Resources Impact Assessment S. Railway St. Realignment (1987); report entitled "Specification for a Bridge" (1915); report on conditions at Medicine Hat Pumping and Power Plant (1920); contract and specifications for Bridge, Piers and Abutments (undated); bid and contract specifications for the Concrete Floor of Finlay Bridge (1920); description of land required by Ogilvie Milling Comapny as a Spur Right of Way (1913); City land leases (1926); land transfers (13), to the Society of the Nurses of Jesus (undated), to the Rosery Flower Co. (1927), to Rutherford and Merriam Planing Mill Co. (1907), to Lake of the Woods Milling Co. (undated), to Alberta Clay Products (1911), of the J.H. Bray property (1911), of the Shannon property (1913-1914), to Kennedy and Swan (1918), to the YMCA (1914), to the Prairie City Oil Co. (1913), of the Wm. Cousins property (includes blueprint) (1914), to A.A. Johnson (1914), to the Canadian Farm Implement Co. (1919); description of Alberta Foundry and Machine Co. property (1941); "Medicine Hat News: Industrial Section (1919, 1920); correspondence, letters, leases, etc. of the City of Medicine Hat (1913-1920); public works department statistics (1914-1943); O.S. atlas of the Medicine Hat Region (undated); O.S. plan showing sub-division of a portion of the town of Medicine Hat and attached proposed sub-division (2) (undated); O.S. map of Medicine Hat, Dunmore and Redcliff (undated); O.S. map of Redcliff future sub-divisions; O.S. maps of the planned sub-divisions (2) (1883); map of Medicine Hat Land District (1913); booklet of By-Laws from the Medicine Hat Board of Trade (1913); cemetery ledgers (3) (1894-1946); O.S. laminated blueprint maps of "St. Barnabas Cemetery" (2) (undated); O.S. Election Posters (9): Separate School Board (1949, 1951), Municipal (1949, 1950, 1951), Public School Board (1950, 1951), Municipal Polling Stations (1950, 1951); blueprints (5): boundary plan of the POW Camp (1947), POW Camp (3) (1946), Joint Air Training Plan (1940), Final Site Plan-SFTS (1944), slaughter house (1947); O.S. framed petition re: Incorporation of Medicine Hat as a town (1897); map of Redcliff (undated); two horse stand reciept books (undated); gas utility business plan (1989); gas utility business plan workshop presentation (1989); Town and City Council minutes, Committee and Committee of the Whole Minutes (1899-1950); 2 O.S. blueprint ledgers showing gas lines in the SE (M99.19.1), NE/NW areas of town (M99.10.2); one pamphlet from the City of Medicine Hat Natural Gas Department, showing the "schedule of rates for gas service - effective April 15th, 1935" (M99.10.3); City of Medicine Hat Minute Books, 1 tax assessor's notebook (1946-1948); Blueprint showing diversion of Seven Persons creek for CPR spur line (1911); City of Medicine Hat Financial Statements, (1930-1977); Medicine Hat General Municipal Plan (1979); Video Tape of Sept 3, 2002 City Council meeting discussing the Esplanade; O.S. maps (4): East Crescent Heights (undated), Northwest Crescent Heights (1962), Crestwood (1962), City of Medicine Hat (1955); photographs of Medicine Hat ([ca. 1905-1981]). M91.5 .1 to M91.5 ..8 Juvenile Court records from Medicine Hat Community Services Department: M91.5 .1 - Diary of Curtis Hollinger; Probation Officer OS (1917). M91.5 .2 - Juvenile Court register (1923 - 1955), M91.5 .3 Juvenile and family Court record OS (1913 - 1965), M91.5 .4 Case Record Book OS (1965 - 1967), M91.5 .5 Case Number Record Book (1958 - 1967), M91.5 .6 Files Closed Record Book (1958 - 1964), M91.5 .7 Occurence Reports Record Book (1959 - 1967), M91.5 .8 Index of file Numbers and Names (nd). Framed collage (1 O.S.) of portraits of the City Mayor and Council, and two images of a public demonstration in front of City Hall following the signing of the armistice (1918).

City of Medicine Hat

No. 34 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) fonds

  • MED med-165
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1994, predominant 1942-1944

The fonds consists of: framed O.S. crest (1944); correspondence to and from Mr. Walter King re: duties (1942-1944); correspondence to Mr. Walter King from Y.M.C.A. National War Services Committee (1942-1946); information about the Y.M.C.A. War Services Committee and Walter King's duties compiled by Dr. E. King-Shaw (1942-1945); programs (10) of various plays and revues performed on the base (1942-1944); dance invitations (5) (1943-1944); Christmas dinner menu (1942); New Year's Eve dinner menu (1943); programs (7) for record recitals held by the Medicine Hat Music Appreciation Group (1944); programs (21) of various plays presented at #34 SFTS by the Prairie Players, Mad Hatters and others including: "New School of Wives", "The Singapore Spider", "Distinguished Gathering", "The Mad Hatters Revue", " Spring Meeting", "Babes in the Wood", "Night Must Fall", "French Leave", "Lets Go!!", "A Murder Has Been Announced", "The Valiant", "Take it Easy" (2), "Hay Fever", "Dripstream", "B for Bertie", "Dickery Dickory Doc" (1943, 1944); logo entitled "Out West" (undated); history of No. 34 SFTS, by Ralph Palmer (undated); Minutes of the SFTS Association (1979); information and program of the first reunion of No. 34 SFTS (1979-1980); SFTS pass book ([ca. 1944]); research paper entitled "History Study of No. 34 Service Flying Training School" compiled by Mr. Gordon Elmer (1994); 3 aerial photographs over Medicine Hat taken by Rex Dawson (1943-1944).

No. 34 Service Flying Training School

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