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New Walrond Ranche Company Ltd. fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1743
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1957

The fonds consists of annual reports (1904, 1912-1923); prospectus of New Walrond Ranche (1898); letterbooks (1887-1915); inventories of "moveable effects" (1890-1907); daily journals (1886-1922); financial records and contracts (1883-1912, 1922); livestock records (1885-1919); township plans and topographical maps (1897-1906, 1942); and meteorological records (1916-1957).

New Walrond Ranche Company

Boorne and May fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-281
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1907

The fonds consists of traveller's sample book of photographs of mountain scenes, the British Columbia interior, CPR points and railway bridges, tunnels, trains and workers (1889). Includes photographs of native people and a Blood sun dance (1887); of May, his wife, family and ranch (1885-1907); of Boorne, his Manitoba homestead, and the Calgary studio; and experimental photographs (1883-1884). Includes his article, "With the Savages in the Far West", published in the Canadian Photographic Journal, 1893. Also includes a diary of Boorne's cousin Ernest May (1897).

Boorne and May

Brook family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3388
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1965, predominant 1916-1918

The fonds consists of Sidney’s diaries and notebooks (1883-1954); correspondence between Isabelle and Sidney during their courtship and early married life (1906-1910); extensive correspondence between Sidney (serving overseas) and Isabelle (on the home front) during the First World War (1916-1918); letters to Sidney from his Brighton siblings, whom he re-meets during the war (1916-1918); letters from Isabelle’s family in Manitoba (1908-1952); letters to Sidney and Isabelle from their children (1932-1947), in particular from Alice and Mabel who trained as nurses at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (1938-1941); and Isabelle’s scrapbook of articles and memorabilia about Craigmyle (1935-1965).

Brook (family)

Ralph C. and Kenneth R. Coppock fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-715
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1956

The fonds consists of cashbooks and ledgers of Coppock ranching and business operations (1904-1908, 1921-1950); Kenneth's 1956 manuscript, "Alberta Horse and Cattle Brands"; Visalia saddle order book (1892-1899); and photographs of Kenneth, Riel Rebellion personalities, the Coppock family and ranching. Includes manuscripts and reminiscences submitted to Canadian Cattlemen by Fred Ings, Phil Weinard, W.B. Cameron and others. Also includes account book of Frank Courtenay of Cluny, recording Blackfoot (Siksika) accounts (1887-1892).

Coppock (family)

Peter Turner Bone fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-278
  • Fonds
  • 1884-1974, predominant 1884-1947

The fonds consists of drafts and photoproofs of When the Steel Went Through (1940s); cancelled cheques, receipts and tax notices (1884-1903); oil stock certificates (1914-1941); and photographs of the family, irrigation, railway surveys, and Bow River floods (1884-1915). Includes Allan's reminiscences of Calgary in the 1900s-1910s (1974).
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: Atlantic and Northwest Railway, Calgary Gas and Waterworks Co., Calgary Irrigation Co., Stone and Co. (meat packers), and Western Canada College.

Bone, Peter Turner

R.G. Robinson family fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-3826
  • Fonds
  • 1885-1964

The fonds consists of R.G. Robinson's correspondence and legal papers, primarily about ranch matters (1885-1920); a small amount of Joseph and Hester's correspondence (1930-1931); and Kathleen's correspondence related to her genealogical research (1949-1964), including letters from her cousin Mary Campbell and her aunts Maria Van Wart and Belle Bogue.

Robinson (family)

Nill family fonds

  • ON00333 12-011
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1940

Fonds consists of correspondence, tax receipts, pamphlets, and invitations found in a home purchased by Martha Hendriks in 2001. The home is located at 1202 Morton Line, Cavan, Ontario and was owned previously by a farmer named Daniel Nill (1915-[1985]). Included are letters written by Frances [ ], New York, to Daniel Nill between 1933 and 1940. Also included are letters, agreements, pamphlets, etc. associated with John Mason, William Mason, Orlie Mason, and G.A. Mason. These items are dated between 1886 and 1915.

Nill (family)

Charles S. Noble fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1759
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1986, predominant 1912-1969

The fonds consists of biographical, personal and family papers (1886-1982); records about the establishment and promotion of the Noble Foundation (1912-1921); material compiled in 1957 by Glenbow staff member O.S. Longman about the Noble Foundation, Cameron Ranch, Sir Roderick W. Cameron, etc.(1913-1957); Noble Farms records including correspondence about farming operations, and the development, manufacture, patenting and marketing of the Noble Cultivator ((1933-1940); Noble Cultivators Ltd. patent records, promotional literature, patent infringement correspondence, financial ledgers, employee timesheets, and films (directed by Carly Stewart) featuring Noble agricultural implements (1937-1986). Includes extensive photographs of agricultural activities on the Cameron Ranch and Grandview Farm, the farm implements factory, family members, and Nobleford (aerial views).
Records related to the following subjects are also in this fonds. See inventory for details: agricultural machinery, Alberta Pacific Grain Company, Sir Roderick W. Cameron, Annie Delameter, George W. Gareau, Robert Gratz, R.J. Hutchings, John Deere Plow Company, Johnson Farm Machine Company (Barons), Ralph Kooy, Lethbridge Iron Works, Matthews Manufacturing Co. (Red Deer), Oscar A. Olson, Perfection Machine Works (Calgary), Riverside Iron Works (Calgary), Ralph and Daisy Vennum, and Victory Equipment Company (Lethbridge).

Noble, Charles S.

Thomas E. Riley fonds

  • CA GLEN glen-1958
  • Fonds
  • 1887-1907

The fonds consists of diaries pertaining to ranching and family business; miscellaneous personal papers; and photos of the Riley family and their farm.

Riley, Thomas E.

Varpu Lindström fonds

  • ON00370 F0558
  • Fonds
  • 1887-2012

Fonds consists of Lindstrom's professorial and scholarly research files throughout her career, as well as records documenting her academic activities. Research files pertain to her publications and monographs such as "Defiant Sisters : A Social History of Finnish Immigrant Women in Canada, 1890-1930" (both the English and Finnish editions), and "From Heroes to Enemies : Finns in Canada, 1937-1947," as well as book chapters, articles, papers, presentations and lectures, and her involvement with the National Film Board production "Letters from Karelia," and subsequent research. The research files span the activities of Finnish and Finnish-Canadian organizations across the political spectrum, such as the Finnish Organization of Canada (left wing), and Loyal Finns in Canada (right wing). Records include oral history interviews (audio cassettes and transcripts), research notes, clippings, a significant and extensive number of photograph and letter collections passed down through generations of Finnish Canadians, diaries, correspondence, publication drafts, academic and professorial notes, microfilm of Finnish language newspapers published in Canada and archival records, financial records of Finnish-Canadian organizations such as newspapers and post-World War II relief funding bodies, scrapbooks, photocopies of rare and unusual documents such as two volumes of a Soviet register of Finnish War Crimes, a list of persons found in the mass grave at Karhumaki, and Soviet lists of North American Finns who journeyed to Karelia to help build a socialist utopia there, academic and professorial files, publicity files, files pertaining to her work with the School of Women's Studies, and her own papers as a university student. The fonds also includes letters written by Lindstrom as a newly-arrived teenaged immigrant to Canada to her best friend in Finland; many of these letters were published in Finnish with English translation in 'Letters from an immigrant teenager' in 2012.

Lindström, Varpu

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