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Yvonne E. Kee Collection

  • CA ccg ccg-2107
  • Collection
  • 1911

The collection consists of one book titled "The Story of Calgary and Tuxedo Park", compiled under the personal supervision of Joseph Ruse, President of the Canadian Estates Company Limited, Toronto, and C. A. Owens, Manager of The Land and General Investment Company Limited. The book contains images of Calgary and buildings in Tuxedo Park Community.

Kee, Yvonne E.

Wes Mattie collection

  • CA PAA paa-8986
  • Collection
  • 1911 - 1967

The collection consists of records pertaining the Edson Kinsmen Centennial Trail Ride including images documenting the journey, research materials related to the journey, correspondence, reports, publications recounting the journey dating from 1966 -- 1967 as well as original photographs from a journey on the Edson Grande Prairie Trail dating from 1912; materials related to the centennial celebration commemorating bush pilots including clippings from The Edmonton Journal, and photographs capturing the celebration dating from 1967; and materials pertaining to the Athabasca to Edmonton trail ride dating from 1966 including Wes Mattie's notebook, a typed log of the trip, newspaper clippings, and images from the journey.

Mattie, Wes

Valleyview & District Chamber of Commerce Millenium Photograph Collection

  • GPR gpr-2759
  • Collection
  • 1907-1994

The fonds consists of a binder containing scanned copies of photographs, articles and maps with photographs; a CD containing digital images of 500 photographs used in the "Journey to the Millenium" display chronicalling the growth of the Valleyview and Sturgeon Lake area; and a CD containing digital images of a 1910 Fur Trade Ledger from the Revillon Freres Trading Post at Sturgeon Lake operated by the Williamson family.

Valleyview & District Chamber of Commerce

University of Alberta Extension Department collection

  • CA PAA paa-9194
  • Collection
  • Copied [ca.1966]

The collection consists of a variety of copied images including photographs featuring maps of the areas of Fort Garry, Fort Ellice, Fort Pitt, Fort Edmonton, the Yellowhead Pass, the North Saskatchewan River, and Fort McMurray dating from the 1880s; photographic copies of certificates and correspondence related to Col. Francis Mewburn dating from 1776 to 1880; photographs of the Lethbridge area featuring images of railways, dwellings, minters, engines, businesses such as H. Bentley and Co., T. Botterill Hardware, and members of the Blood Nation dating from the 1880s; photographs of Medicine Hat featuring a hospital and the Lady Aberdeen's Women's Hospital dating from 1894; images of Saskatchewan including a carbonizing and briguetting plant; photographs of the University of Alberta and the Edmonton area including images of campus residences, the Royal Alexandra Hospital, the University Hospital, classes of students, St. Joseph's College, CKUA Radio Station, farm buildings, the Oliver Institute, and First Nations dating from the 1920s.

University of Alberta

Town of Rainbow Lake collection

  • CA PAA paa-9295
  • Collection
  • 1968

The collection consists of materials related to the formation of the Town of Rainbow Lake in 1966 and includes clippings from The Edmonton Journal.

Town of Rainbow Lake

Tim Janzen collection

  • CA MENN menn-62
  • Collection
  • Copied 2001-2005 (originally created 1799-2005)

The fonds consists of microform and digital copies of archival records documenting the history and genealogy of Mennonites in Prussia, Russia, and North America. Included are the Molotschna Colony Census file (1835) documenting a Mennonite settlement in Russia; excerpts from the Guardianship Committee of Foreign Settlers in South Russia fonds (1799-1833) documenting early Mennonite relations with the government of Russia; Ulrich Dueck fonds (ca. 1950-ca. 2001) describing genealogies of Mennonite families in West Prussia; Tim Janzen's historical map collection (1914-2005) documenting the locations of Mennonite colonies in West Prussia and southern Russia (1914-1921) including a partial transliterated index to place names (2005); and the Herman Thiessen fonds (ca. 1950-ca. 2001) describing the Thiessen family genealogy.

Janzen, Tim

The Bashford collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3881
  • Collection
  • 1890-1928

The collecton consists of Russian death certificates of Joseph and Anna Vlalaitis (1891); Canadian immigration card (1914); miscellaneouss land titles certificates for properties in Pine Creek, Frank, Stavely, Wetaskiwin, Bawlf and High River in Alberta, and the Kootenay district in British Columbia (1890-1912); fire insurance policies in Calgary and Medicine Hat (1907-1913); company incorporation documents for Jenckes Machine Company, H.F. Sandeman Company, Saskatchewan Savings Society, Alberta Loan and Investment Company, and Western Agencies and Development (1906-1919); bonds for Diamond Coal Company, Consolidated Diamond Collieries and Drumheller Consolidated Collieries (1910-1928); livestock certificates for British Americam Live Stock Association and Percheron Society of America (1904-1914); townsite plan for Kindersley, Saskatchewan (1913); map of petroleum and gas rights in the Turner Valley oilfields, and ad for Big Chief Oil shares (1926); posters for farm auction sales at Jackville, Coaldale, Milk River, Chapman and Airdrie (1917-1919); poster for Percheron stallion (1920); and German-American Colonization Company poster (1914).

Bashford, Christopher

St. Albert Urban Planning collection

  • CA PAA paa-9457
  • Collection
  • 1966 -- 1967

The fonds collection consists of material pertaining to urban planning in St. Albert including a briefs and studies prepared by the City of St. Albert and the City of Edmonton in 1966 and 1967 identifying problems and suggestions for urban renewal in St. Albert.

St. Albert

Spiritwood, Mildred, Norbury History Society collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3651
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1900-1958]

The fonds consists of photographs of the Spiritwood, Mildred, Norbury and Shellbrook districts of Saskatchewan, including views of pioneers, buildings, sports and schools.

Spiritwood, Mildred, Norbury History Society

Southern Alberta Irrigation and Agriculture collection

  • MED med-534
  • Collection
  • 1911-1979

The collection consists of numerous pamphlets relating to irrigation and other agriculture primarily in southern Alberta, but also Saskatchewan and Manitoba. This fonds consists of two series;Early agriculture and irrigation. -- 90 cm textual records. -- 1910-1963;Series consists of various pamphlets and published reports, primarily produced by the Department of the Interior Government of Canada, Canada Department of Agriculture, and Province of Alberta regarding agricultural production and irrigation. Oldman River Basin. -- 45cm textual records. -- 1978-1979. In 1978, the Oldman River Study Mangement Committee directed numerous studies and held public consultations regarding the Oldman River Basin, and possible damming. A dam was completed in 1992. This series consists of many of the reports, and transcripts compiled in 1978.

Southern Alberta Irrigation and Agriculture

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