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Bar U Ranch Oral History Project collection

  • CA GLEN RCT 946
  • Collection
  • Copied 2003 (originally created 1992-1993)

The collection consists of oral history interviews with L., J., and S. Alwood, Alf Baines, Allen Baker, Gordon Davis, Tom Feist, Ray Fetterly, Jim and Mary Hughes, Lillian Knupp, George Lawrence, Jim Lawrence, Mrs. R. R. Leitch, Johnny Lefthand, Mark Lefthand, Bud Long, Hugh McLaughlin, Roy McLean, Melvin Nelson, Jack Peach, Marie Peake, George Read, Bert Sheppard, Lloyd Wambeke, Bedford Warren, Mary Wildman, Chuck Williams, Stan Wilson.

Bar U Ranch Oral History Project

Hart family genealogy

  • PANB MC330
  • Collection
  • Photocopied 1979

These records were collected by members of the Hart family while researching their family history. They include family letters, telegrams, research notes, pedigree charts, newspaper clippings, and outlines of biographical sketches of Joseph William Hart, Minnie Blanche Hart, Dorothy Hart, Charlotte Robertson Hart, James Gilbert Hart, and William Edward Hart.

Hart, Joseph William (family)

Irrigation Research Project (Lawrence Burns) collection

  • CA GLEN glen-1292
  • Collection
  • 1958-1961

The collection consists of records extracted from the Alberta Water Resources Branch about irrigation in the drainage basins of the following: Bow River, Red Deer River, Milk River, South Saskatchewan River, Oldman River, Seven Persons River, Lodge River, Battle River, Many Islands Lake, Forty Mile Lake, Kindersley Lake, Pakowki Lake, McGregor Lake, Wild Horse Lake, Todd Creek, and the Great Sandhills. Also consists of extracts of House of Commons debates about the Robins Irrigation Company; a history of the Eastern Irrigation District and Western Irrigation District; 24 microfilms of general irrigation extracts from the Water Resources branch; and letters about irrigation to C.D. Richards, John Stewart and J.S. Dennis.

Irrigation Research Project

Don Peacock's Harry Hays Research collection

  • CA GLEN glen-1830
  • Collection
  • 1940-1984, predominant 1963-1984

The collection consists of biographical sketches; Hays' speeches, newspaper columns and radio broadcasts; transcripts of interviews with and about Hays; two recorded Hays' speeches; Hays' outgoing letters, much of it written on his behalf by Peacock; Hays' campaign speeches and literature; and newsclippings and press releases about Hays' career. Includes extensive photographs of Hays, his family, ranch, livestock, Stampede breakfasts, and political activities.

Peacock, Don

Eileen Nagel's Farm Organizations collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3881
  • Collection
  • 1905-2005

The collection consists of minutes, convention programs, reports of activities, newspaper clippings, submissions and briefs, photographs, scrapbooks and other records created primarily by and about the following organizations: United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), founded in 1909; United Farm Women of Alberta (UFWA), founded in 1914; Farmers' Union of Alberta (FUA) and Farm Women's Union of Alberta (FWUA), both founded in 1949; Unifarm and the Women of Unifarm, both founded in 1970; and Wild Rose Agricultural Producers, founded in 1996. Many of these records have been annotated by Eileen with her identifications and personal comments.

Nagel, Eileen

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

David Breen's National Archives Ranching collection

  • CA GLEN glen-393
  • Collection
  • Photocopied 1971 (originally created 1880-1926)

The collection consists of correspondence, circulars, petitions, and records about land and grazing leases.
Records related to the following subjects are also in this collection. See inventory for details: Agricultural Societies, Sgt. Charles Allen, Thomas Anderson, George Barry, Battle Creek Association, R.B. Bennett, Benton and St. Louis Cattle Co., Bow River Horse Ranch, H.L. Bowyer, British American Ranch Co., J.M. Browning, Brown Ranch Co., Calgary and Edmonton Railway lands, Canadian Agricultural, Coal and Colonization Co., Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) lands, William Carter, Hugh St. Quentin Cayley, J.E. Chipman, George Cloakley, Matthew Henry Cochrane, Cochrane Ranche Co., William F. Cochrane, Collingwood Ranch, Conrad Brothers, Conrad Price Cattle Co., J.M. Conger, A.E. Cox, Crow Indian reserve, Dakota Stock Grazing Co., Hon. Mayne Daly, R. Burton Deane, Col. John S. Dennis, Edgar Dewdney, Insp. Arthur W. Duffus, Charles Elliott, George B. Elliott, Moreton Frewen, J.A. Gemmill, Gilbert Goddard, Charles Grayson, William Antrobus Griesbach, James Hargrave, Alexander Stavely Hill, Walter Ings, William H. Irvine, Sir John Lister Kaye, William Duncan Kerfoot, J.K. Kerr, George Lane, G.H. Lydiard, Dr. Duncan McNab McEachran, Hon. David L. McPherson, Maunsell Brothers, C.R. Mitchell, Mount Head Ranch, Mount Royal Ranch, Augustus Meredith Nanton, New Walrond Ranch, H.A. Noble, Northwest Cattle Co., Northwest Stock Association, Frank Oliver, William G. Oliver, Oxley Ranch, Sgt. D. Paterson, William Pearce, Hon. J.H. Pope, Powder River Cattle Co. prairie fires, Const. A. Purves, Quorn Ranch, Sgt. Major C.C. Raven, 1885 Riel Rebellion (North West Rebellion), Daniel E. Riley, Philips Ross, Saskatchewan Stock Growers' Association, Walter Scott, C. Sharples, sheep, Hon. Clifford Sifton, Spencer Brothers, Charles Stewart, Charles Stimson, Frederick S. Stimson, Thomas Stone, Thomas B. Strange, Samuel B. Steele, William W. Stuart, J.R. Sutherland, E.E. Taylor, Sir Charles Tupper, Twin Butte Cattle and Horse Association, United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), R.A. Wallace, Walrond Ranch, Western Stock Growers' Association, Hon. Thomas White, Winder Ranche, and Wood Mountain Stock Ranch.

Breen, David

Peace River Country Research Project collection

  • CA GLEN glen-1828
  • Collection
  • Compiled 1955-1956 (originally created 1837-1956)

The collection consists of typescripts of interviews (1955-1956), reminiscences, diaries (1897-1914), and autobiographies; files of biographical and historical notes; and photographs of pioneers and the area. Includes typescripts of Fort St. John fur trade post journal (1866-1924), and Fort Dunvegan post account book (1837-1864).
Records related to the following subjects are also in this collection. See inventory for details: W.D. Albright, Kristjan F. Anderson, Athabasca Trail, Dr. Lucy Bagnall, Frank Ward Beatton, John Beatton, Beaver Indians, Bredin and Cornwall, Charles Bremner, Absalom Clark Bury, Mrs. Harry Clifford, Louise Clubine, James Kennedy Cornwall, S.E. Cushway, Henry Fuller "12 Foot" Davis, Ralph Dyer, Edson Trail, Agnes Sorrel Forbes, I.E. Gaudin, H.A. George, Pliny E. Goddard, Bishop Emile J.B.M. Grouard, Peter Gunn, Mrs. Robert Holmes, William Innes, Oliver H. Johnson, George Kennedy, Klondike gold rush, Albert Lawrence, L. Grace Lawrence, Margaret M. Lawrence, Sheridan Lawrence, A.H. McQuarrie, Mrs. Sam McNaught, Metis, Alwexander Monkman, Father Philippot, Mrs. Guy Randall, H.N. Ronning, Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Adolphus St. Germaine, St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Grande Prairie), school districts (Kleskun, Wapiti, MacHenry, Halcourt, Lower Beaverlodge), Felix Shaw, William Shaw, Mrs. Thomas B. Sheehan, and Treaty 8.

Peace River Country Research Project

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