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Winifred Ross fonds
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0.44 m of textual records
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The fonds consists of records, including radio transcripts, newspaper clippings and other information, related to Winifred Ross's interests in agriculture and education, as well as records, including reports and minutes, relating to her involvement with the Alberta Federation of Agriculture, Alberta Health Survey Committee, Canadian Federation of Agriculture, Alberta Division of the Canadian Red Cross, Alberta Council of Women, Canadian Association for Consumers, Board of Industrial Relations, the University of Alberta's Board of Governors, Women's Regional Advisory Committee of the Consumer Branch.
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Mrs. Winifred Ross (PR1971.0420), Jeane Thompson, Winifred Ross's daughter, (PR1975.0520) and John O. Thompson, Winifred Ross's grandson, (PR1977.0113) deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1971 and 1977
Arrangement
Due to the disorganized nature of the records, those records not directly relating to the United Farm Women of Alberta or the Farm Women's Union of Alberta were included in Winifred Ross's personal fonds.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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An inventory (PR1977.0113) and a file list (PR1971.0420) are available.
Associated materials
Also see the United Farmers of Alberta fonds, United Farm Women of Alberta sous-fonds and the Farmers' Union of Alberta fonds, Farm Women's Union of Alberta sous-fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
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Further accruals are not expected.
General note
Information for the biographical sketch is from <em>Tales and Trails of Millet</em>, which can be located in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 M619t PAA, and from the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame website, <A HREF="http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/info2057?opendocument"target=NEW>www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/info2057?opendocument</A>,accessed September 8, 2004. Included in accession PR1971.0420 are records belonging to the United Farm Women of Alberta sous-fonds, the Farm Women's Union of Alberta sous-fonds and the U.F.A. and U.F.W.A. Independent Political Association of the Strathcona Federal Constituency sous-sous-fonds. Included in accession PR1977.0113 are records belonging to the United Farm Women of Alberta sous-fonds, Junior United Farmers of Alberta sous-fonds, Farm Women's Union of Alberta sous-fonds (including the Hillside Local No. 906 sous-sous-fonds), the Alberta Federation of Agriculture fonds, the Millet Branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society fonds, the Millet Home and School Association fonds and the Jeane Thompson fonds.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1971.0420, PR1975.0520, PR1977.0113<br><br>
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- Ross, Winifred (Subject)