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Glenbow Archives Collection Sports, recreation and leisure
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Albert Henry Ellison collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2637
  • Collection
  • 1936-1983

The collection consists of slides of Calgary, including the Royal Train (1939), Calgary Highlanders, Calgary Exhibition and Stampede, buildings, street scenes, Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, St. Andrew's district, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) station, Calgary Tower, and Chinatown; and views of the Banff Springs Hotel; slides for geology courses at SAIT, including "Color Slides of Canadian Geology" for Alberta Society of Petroleum Geologists.

Ellison, Albert Henry

Alberta newspapers advertisements collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2548
  • Collection
  • 1891-1919, predominant 1911-1913

The collection consists of advertisements for automobiles; farm machinery; household appliances; theatres, circuses, and entertainments; food and drink; political meetings; tobacco, cigarettes and liquor; clothing; general merchants; land and real estate sales throughout Alberta; sale of lots in Calgary; and the Calgary Stampede. Includes front pages about the Titanic sinking, first Alberta Legislature, and other stories.

Alberta newspapers advertisements collection

Bill Taylor's Football collection

  • CA GLEN glen-2787
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1935-1995]

The collection consists of Calgary Stampeder Football Club and Canadian Football League records, including programs, fact books, photographs, etc.

Taylor, Bill

Calmar and District Historical Society collection

  • CA GLEN glen-502
  • Collection
  • Copied 1981 (originally created 1895-1938)

The collection consists of photographs of local personalities, farming scenes, and social events.

Calmar and District Historical Society

Carbon and District Historical Society collection

  • CA GLEN glen-588
  • Collection
  • 1904-1955

The collection consists of posters for dances sponsored by the Carbon Old Timers' Association (1934-1949), Knee Hill Coal Company, prospectuses (1904), interview with Mrs. Van Loon (1955), Farmers' Exchange invoices (1919-1920), and photographs of the Gallagher and Stopp coal mines.

Carbon and District Historical Society

Carol Cooper's hostelling collection

  • CA GLEN glen-3193
  • Collection
  • 1952-2002

The collection consists of reminiscences and memorabilia from members who had enjoyed hostelling vacations in the Canadian Rockies and in Ontario in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes photographs from Peggy Love; written reminiscences from Violet and Joe Newell, Ken and Mary Jamieson, Tony Roberts, and Bill Tutte; recorded interviews with Willie Dougall, Kathleen McAdam, Vi Newell, Jack Poste, Muriel Poste, Peggy Love, Al Shaw, and Doug Stewart; a series of slides of hostelling in the Canadian Rockies by Ken Purvis accompanied by a recorded commentary; a few newsletters from affiliated hostelling associations; watercolours by Rod Sykes depicting the Dagmar Youth Hostel in the Toronto Region and the Happy Valley Hostel at Collingwood, Ontario; and the guest register of The Coach House Hostel in Woodstock, Ontario (1952-1954).

Cooper, Carol

Castor and District Museum collection

  • CA GLEN glen-613
  • Collection
  • Copied 1977-1980 (originally created 1906-1957)

The collection consists of photographs of personalities, buildings, schools, social and sports events, and coal mining.

Castor and District Museum

Coronation Local History Committee collection

  • CA GLEN glen-720
  • Collection
  • Copied 1979 (originally created 1911-1951)

The collection consists of photographs of Coronation and area personalities, farming views, street scenes and events.

Coronation Local History Committee

Dale Keenan Scrapbooks collection

  • CA GLEN glen-1353
  • Collection
  • Photocopied 1978 (originally created 1902-1977)

The collection consists of scrapbooks of newsclippings, booklets, photographs, etc. about the Champion-Carmangay-Vulcan area. Includes a 1915 photograph of Champion. RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS COLLECTION. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: LOCATIONS: Alston, Brant, Claresholm, Cleverille, Diamond City, Granum, Hiawatha School District, Little Bow Provincial Park, Lomond, Mossleigh, Nobleford, Parkland, Picture Butte, Queenstown, Stavely, and Travers. OTHER SUBJECTS: Andy Anderson, Barons Oil Ltd., baseball, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, blizzards, Mary Boose, Chautauqua, Martin George Clever, curling, Peter Dawson, grain trade, Andrew Brydon Hogg, Hutterites, David Charles Jones, Del McQueen, Albert James Miller, Dr. Charles Noble, Orcutt family, tornadoes, Ware family, Ray Wellman, wheat, and Women's Institutes.

Keenan, Dale

DeBolt Historical Society collection

  • CA GLEN glen-813
  • Collection
  • Copied 1979-1981 (originally created 1921-1964)

The collection consists of photographs of DeBolt personalities, farming views, picnics, sports days and other events.

DeBolt Historical Society

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