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Alberta Country and Western Artists collection

  • CA PAA paa-8608
  • Collection
  • 1945-1955

The fonds consists of ten 78 RPM LP recordings by the artists Stu Davis and the Northwesterners, Lennie Siebert and the Calgary Chuck Wagon Gang, Vic Siebert and the Westernnaires, King Ganum and his Sons of the West, Bill Dixie Hilton and his Calgary Range Riders, Buddy Reynolds with Calgary Range Riders, Keray Regan, Scotty Stevenson with the Edmonton Eskimos, Scotty Stevenson and the Canadian Nighthawks, and Lucille Starr. The fonds dates from 1945-1955.

Alberta Country and Western Artists

Alberta Playwrights collection

  • CA PAA paa-8695
  • Collection
  • [1943 -- 1988]

The collection consists of scripts that won the Alberta Playwriting Competition dating from 1970 to 1988. The fonds also consists of plays dating from 1943 to 1970 which likely won other playwriting contests. Additionally, the fonds includes two plays from Edmonton playwright and director Brad Fraser as well as two plays by Canadian actor Paul Gross, known for his work on the television series Due South.

unknown

Alberta School Broadcasts collection

  • CA PAA paa-8612
  • Collection
  • 1948-[197?]

The collection consists of two Alberta School Broadcast songbooks: "Sing and Play" from 1954 -1955, by Jane McIlrena and "Music Makers" from 1960 - 1961 by Hazel Robinson. The collection also contains 33 transcription discs created for Alberta School Broadcasts featuring music and narrated books such as Ivanhoe. The discs also include broadcasts featuring information on explorers of the Northwest Territories including David Thompson, James Cook Henry Kelsey, Samuel Hearne, and Anthony Henday. The transcription discs date from 1948 to 1949. The audio cassettes consist of several episodes from the following series: World of Today, Alberta at Work, We Live in Alberta, Alberta Album, Adventure Time, and Pioneer Communities. These episodes likely date from the 1970s.

Alberta. Department of Education

Andrij Baziuk collection

  • CA PAA paa-9751
  • Collection
  • 1922-1951

<p>The collection consists of films used in an itinerant picture show that toured through rural Saskatchewan, particularly through Ukrainian communities around Regina, during the 1930s-50s. The films include episodes of popular series such as Tarzan of the Apes, Dick Tracy, Krazy Kat, and Hopalong Cassidy; full-length genre films including Westerns and melodramas; comedy shorts; compilations of trailers for Hollywood features; episodes of Canadian Movietone News for 1950-51; a documentary about Inuit life in the 1940s; and two feature-length Ukrainian films that were made in North America. Both of these films were produced by Ukrainian-Canadian Vasile Avramenko. The first is entitled Cossacks in Exile (Zaporozhets za dunaem) (Edgar L. Ulmer, 1938), while the second is entitled Marusia (Leo Bulgakov, 1938). These films are in the Ukrainian language with English subtitles, were specifically made for the expatriate Ukrainian community in North America, and are rare examples of Ukrainian commercial filmmaking in North America.</p>;<p>Many of the films are fragments of larger works, but it is unclear if the complete films were ever shown as part of the travelling picture show.</p>;<p>The collection also contains a poster for Cossacks in Exile and an original cardboard box used to house one of the film reels.</p>

Baziuk, Andrij

Conrad Rochon collection

  • CA PAA paa-9614
  • Collection
  • Copied 1968 (originals 1966)

The collection consists of seven tapes of French folk songs collected and recorded by Conrad Rochon in 1966 in Central and Northern Alberta, and of the transcripts of songs, in French.

Rochon, Conrad, collector

Darlene Skaer collection

  • CA PAA paa-7957
  • Collection
  • 1943

The collection consists of 18 prints of Second World War cartoons by Stew Cameron, two of which have been signed by Cameron. The cartoon appeared in Cameron's book <em>Basic Training Daze</em>.

Skaer, Darlene

Edmonton Postcard Scenes collection

  • CA PAA paa-8675
  • Collection
  • [1915]

The collection consists of 11 photographic postcards featuring Edmonton scenes dating from ca. 1915.

unknown

Edmonton Recording Artists collection

  • CA PAA paa-8762
  • Collection
  • [1970 -- 1979]

The collection consists of one LP recording by Olga Cunningham recorded at Damon Sound Studios in Edmonton in 1979, one LP recording by the Ruscheinski Family recorded at Century II Studios in Edmonton in the 1970s, and one 45 RPM recording by the Maclin Alouettes recorded at Project 70 in Edmonton in the 1970s.

Cunningham, Olga

Fort Macleod Museum collection

  • CA PAA paa-7267
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1910]

Collection consists of postcards depicting the McKenzie Bridge and various street views in Fort Macleod, Alberta.

Fort Macleod Museum

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