Fonds red-2904 - Norman Bowles fonds

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Norman Bowles fonds

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CA RED red-2904

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12 cm of textual records. -- 24 photographs. -- 1 map

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The class records were found in a house formerly occupied by Norman Bowles by Wayne Fleury. The collected scrapbooks were formerly in the custody of the Royal Canadian Legion, Red Deer Branch No. 35

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The fonds includes photographs and correspondence of Mary T. Bowles concerning her volunteer service with the Red Cross in Red Deer; photographs of pupils in schools where Norman Bowles taught; class records of his students (ca. 1947-ca. 1949); news stories on Red Deer submitted to metropolitan newspapers by Norman as a freelance local correspondent (1942-1943); a scrapbook and collected pamphlets and posters on Social Credit and Alberta politics (1935-1943); and scrapbooks on the Red Deer Board of Trade and the Dieppe Raid. Includes historic documents collected by Norman Bowles: township survey map of Twp. 38, Ra. 28 W. of the 4th Meridian (Red Deer area, 1884); copy of the Calgary Tribune (1893); and oblique aerial photographs of Red Deer (1947). Includes an unrelated colour photocopy of a certificate presented to the Martin family of Red Deer whose four sons volunteered for wartime military service (ca. 1945, copied ca. 1996)

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Donated by Norman Bowles, 1989-1995; his stepdaughter Doreanne Bothwell, 1996; Royal Canadian Legion, Red Deer Branch No. 35, 1999; and Wayne Fleury, 2000

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Record No. MG 242<br><br>

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