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Wozniak family fonds

  • GPR gpr-2831
  • Fonds
  • 1890-2000

The fonds consists of the 107 page memoirs of Maria (Parachin) Wozniak written in Polish in 1958 and translated by her son, Matthew; a story of Matthew's paternal grandmother, Katrina Wozniak (nee Wrobel). 131 photographs and newspaper articles concerning the Wozniakand Klukas families and Eaglesham's Co-op, Eaglesham Golf Clubhouse and ball team, and many of Barbara Wozniak's quilts and handicrafts. Mathew Wozniak's stories include: "Benny Houser's Sawmill", "Spinning Out of Wool", "The Story of Elko (Alex) Sanocki and Family", "South Slope School", "Modern Technology, " Paving the Grande Prairie Airport", and "Hamlet of Rehab later Codesa", "History of the Lakeside Golf and Country Club", "Short Period of Polish History", "Fox Creek School Van", "Country Icehouses", "Artificially Inseminating" ,"Wanham Codesa Fire", and "Automobile Engines", "Water", "Russia Destroying Poland". Also included is a biography of Herman Klukas, written by Mathew Wozniak and several pages of selected memories from his mother's diary. The fonds also includes the Mathew Wozniak family film collection of 26 feels of 8mm and Super 8mm film and a digital copy of 3 disks the films were transferred to.

Wozniak (family)

William J. Noll fonds

  • GPR 0575
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1914-1953]

The fonds consists of a journal kept by William J. Noll from about 1914 to 1925. It records events in his life including homesteading in the Peace River Country, enlisting in the RNWMP and WWI, working in various industries including Oregon's lumber camps, and becoming an early commercial pilot in Oregon. The journal includes written entries, photographs, posters, some employment records, receipts, tickets, cards, and newspaper clippings. Several other loose records are inserted into the pages of the journal, including a WWI medal, Great War Veterans Association membership booklet, 1935 US naturalization papers, correspondence about his homestead and petroleum and natural gas leases, [ca. 1952] USAF course application, and 1917 Canadian naturalization papers. Two pages of genealogical notes presumed to have been written by Clem Kinderwater are also inserted.

The journal ends rather abruptly in January 1925 as William is on his way from El Paso to Portland. The final entry states "Contd in next book." Subsequent book(s) have unfortunately been lost.

The original order of the journal has been maintained, including the original position of inserted material.

Noll, William J.

William Alexander Family fonds

  • GPR 0572
  • Fonds
  • 1856-[ca. 2000]

The fonds consists of family photographs, correspondence, and genealogical records of the William Alexander Family. The photographs ([ca. 1966]-1980) show William Alexander, his wife Emilie Dannhauer, and their families, the Alexander children in Strathcona, Rycroft, and Grande Prairie, various boats on the Peace River, the Fort Fitzgerald wood camp, the Art Alexander family in Hudson's Hope, the O'Brien girls, Maggie and Emil Baron and their children, Ed and Bill Alexander in their army uniforms, and the Alexander gravesite and O'Brien Park.

The correspondence (1896, 1915-1986) includes letters from Emilie Alexander to her mother Caroline Dannhauer, Pringle to Bill Alexander, R. B. Leslie to the Alexanders, Bill Alexander to his sisters and father, Ed Alexander to his sister Maggie and father, William to his daughters, Aunt M. F. Wells to Jean and Maggie, Aunt H.(?) A. Alexander to Jean, Aunt Jessie Fairweather to her nieces and nephews, Art and Violet Alexander to his sister Maggie, Harry Newgord to Ed and Bill, cousin Ella F. Lyell to Jean and Maggie, W. J. C. Reed & Sons Solicitors and Notaries Public to Maggie, cousin Jessie (nee Bell) to Jean Pearce, Emil and Maggie Baron to their daughter Jean Pearce, cousin Jessie (nee Bell) to Violet Alexander, cousin Helen Truscott to Jean Pearce, Paul and Caroline Dannhauer to Sidney Truscott, Jean to her sister Maggie, cousin Jim Blacklaws to Maggie, Jean to niece Jean Pearce, cousin Wayne to Jean Pearce, cousin Isabel Besley to Jean Pearce, and the Public Archives of Canada to Jean Pearce.

Other records include German language records of Paul Dannhauer (permission for passport, Certificate of Qualification as Helmsmen 1st Class, Certificate of Baptism, and confirmation of birth), William Alexander's Birth Certificate, Ontario land records of Paul Dannhauer, William and Emilie Alexander's Marriage Certificate, Maggie Alexander's Birth Certificate, William Alexander's Certificate of Registration of Death, Emilie Alexander's Certified Abstract of Registration of Death, Maggie and Emil Baron's Marriage Certificate, obituaries of uncle James Alexander and aunt Maggie Wells, excerpts from the "Centennial History" of St. John Lutheran Church, Petatwawa Ontario, 1867-1967, newspaper articles about Maggie Baron and Jean Alexander, Rycroft homecoming program and newspaper article, and family trees compiled by various family members.

The records were arranged in a series of binders and albums, as assembled by Jean Pearce. They have been selected and rearranged by the Archivist into chronological order. The photographs have been left in the order they were given by Jean; not every photograph in the albums was copied.

Alexander family

Welcome Wagon Club fonds

  • GPR gpr-2569
  • Fonds
  • 1965-1972

The fonds consists of: a scrapbook chronicling Welcome Wagon activities, 1965-1972, (containing membership lists, news clippings, photographs, cards and letters from appreciative club members, meeting announcements, posters from fund-raisers, and correspondence regarding their involvement with the Peace School of Hope and the Patterning Project); and Club Calendar announcements, 1970.

Welcome Wagon Club

Ward-Marcy family fonds

  • GPR gpr-2837
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1960

The fonds consists of the copies of 28 family photographs, 16 pages of family history and 10-8mm film reels containing a record of the Marcy family activities including home and family, camping and boating, a group picnic at Kleskun Hills, a trip to the Bennett Dam under construction and Kinuso Falls, an Elks Club convention, the Teepee Creek Stampede, and loading lumber at the lumber mill. A VHS recording shows clips from the 8 mm films.

Marcy, Miles

Walter Roberts fonds

  • GPR 0557
  • Fonds
  • 1917-[ca.1925]

The fonds consists of twenty-six photographs of the Grande Prairie area from 1917 to [ca. 1925], including picnics at the Wapiti and Haszards', boxing, and early pioneers. The images are contained in an album labelled Walter Roberts Photos.

Roberts, Walter

Wales family fonds

  • GPR gpr-2832
  • Fonds
  • 1914-2006

The fonds consists of 27 photographs (1915-2002) relating to family, horses and logging, and the Glen Leslie Community; a written history of Somme School; Glen Leslie Cemetery records, and documents relating to the Grande Prairie Lawn Bowling Club and the Rural Electrification Association.

Wales (family)

Volunteer Oral Histories fonds

  • GPR gpr-2961
  • Fonds
  • 2006

The series consists of a copy of the interview form used to obtain the oral histories from the Archives volunteer group and includes the written biographies of Phyllis Stewart, Marie Mencke, Cathy Van Everdink, Edith Burroughs, Betty Welter, and Martin Peterson as well as the oral recordings of their interviews.

Stewart, Phyllis

Violet & Arnold Dryer fonds

  • GPR 0553
  • Fonds
  • 1946-2013

The fonds consists of stories told by Violet for the War Brides project in 2006 and the 2013 Film & Story Tea. There are also seven photographs of Vi in her wedding dress and going-away suit over the years; 6 pp from a small notebook showing what she packed to travel to Canada, and detailing her expenses; and a copy of a newspaper clipping with the headline, "Three War Brides Arrive in Grande Prairie."

Dryer, Violet

Victor Nasedkin fonds

  • GPR gpr-2932
  • Fonds
  • 1921-1980

The fonds consists of income tax records for Victor from 1947-1980 and for his son, Ken Nasedkin in 1970, 1972, and a Historical Population Chart, 1921-1980.

Victor Nasedkin

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