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A. J. Watt family fonds

  • GPR gpr-2764
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1992

The fonds consist of personal papers in the form of genealogy records, income tax returns and correspondence; farm records consisting of income receipts and crop statements; hand-written recipes; a collection of booklets: coupon premium catalogues, cookbooks and household remedies; and some clippings on the Royal family from 1921-1938.

Watt, Albert

Alexander Forbes fonds

  • GPR 0127
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1925

The fonds consists of records of the planning for and the construction of the Presbyterian churches at Glen Leslie and Bezanson and photographs presumably assembled by Mrs. Forbes relating to their journey to the Peace Country and church and community activities, buildings, and people in the Grande Prairie area.

Forbes, Alexander

Andress family fonds

  • GPR gpr-2784
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1926

The fonds consists of 24 photographs of the Andress family, Allen Petty, and events and scenes in the Grande Prairie area between 1913 and 1926.

Andress (family)

Ann Macklin fonds

  • GPR gpr-2761
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1947

The fonds consists of colour copies of 96 photograph album pages which have been laminated and bound into an album for display in the Grande Prairie Museum; and 90 digitized scans of photographs which have been printed. Subjects of the photographs include the trip to Clairmont by caboose in 1916, Trevor Farm and animals, photographs of people and groups in the Clairmont area including United Farm Women and the I.V. Macklin family, Fletcher and Anna Bredin and their farm Twin Shacks, road gangs building the Dunvegan Hill Road, Ann as a child and teenager on the farm, a trip to Aurora Ontario, students at Grande Prairie High School and Grande Prairie Business College ca. 1935, and a pack trip to Nose Mountain in 1935 with two Cree families as guides and providers.

Macklin, Ann

Anne Popowich fonds

  • GPR gpr-2940
  • Fonds
  • 1938

The fonds consists of an excerpt from Anne's journal, "My Journey to This Rich New Rich Land" which tells the story of her journey with her mother, Suzanne Kapusta, to Canada in order to meet her father, Andy, on a homestead in 1938. Chapter 2 tells about the family's decision to come north to the Flying Shot Lake area where Ann and John farmed and raised their family. The second chapter includes their move to the Peace country.

Popowich, Anne

Bezanson family fonds

  • GPR gpr-2649
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1919

The fonds consists of a copy of the booklet, "Looking Ahead in the Peace River Country to the Building of a City," and photographs of the Bezanson family's life in the Peace: A.M. Bezanson's first trip in 1906, Teepee Ranch and all the activities there starting in 1908, Walter McFarlane's survey crews which arrived in 1909, his trip into the Peace by automobile with A.J. Davidson in 1913, the making of the roads and townsite of Bezanson, the activities on the Smoky River, plied by the riverboat, "The Beaver," and scenes from across the south Peace. There is also a sizeable collection regarding the McFarlane family at Buffalo Lake.

Bezanson (family)

Big Bend Historical Committee fonds

  • GPR 0532
  • Fonds
  • 1981

The fonds consists of family histories, school and church histories, community services and activities histories and miscellaneous writings, news clippings and correspondence used for producing The Big Bend, a community history book covering the areas of Blueberry Creek, Blueberyy Mountain, Fourth Creek, Ksituan, Silver Valley, and Whitburn.

Big Bend Historical Committee

Bill LeMarquand fonds

  • GPR gpr-2644
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1992

The fonds consists of records relating to the LeMarquand family in the Jersey Islands, ships' records for Bill's immigration to Canada, papers from his homestead at Thorhild and his farms at Wanham, and news clippings detailing his volunteer career after retirement. The sound recordings include an oral history of Mr. LeMarquand and some communications from the family in the Jersey Islanders. The photographs are of Bill with his first automobile in 1940 and of Bill in retirement, when he received the Volunteer of the Year award.

LeMarquand, Bill

Billy Salmond fonds

  • GPR gpr-2575
  • Fonds
  • 1906-1958

The fonds consists of: personal papers, (including a series of postcards with personal messages to Mr. Salmond); Kingston Business College workbooks relating to his education; a hotel register and account book from the Salmond Hotel; some miscellaneous business account books and papers; and photographs.

Salmond, William McCausland

Buffalo Lakes New Horizon Group fonds

  • GPR 0538
  • Fonds
  • 1978-1989

The fonds consists of 2 notebooks, one containing the minutes of meetings of the Buffalo Lakes New Horizon Group from 1978-1981 and the second with minutes of meetings of The Financial Group for the New Horizon Group from 1978-1989.

Buffalo Lakes New Horizon Group

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