Fonds MS-531 - Alex Mair fonds

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Alex Mair fonds

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CA EDM MS-531

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3 m of textual records. - 1 videotape

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Alexander John Mair was born in Edmonton on October 5, 1926. Alex Mair earned a Civil Engineering Degree from the University of Alberta in 1948 and worked for the city until the mid fifties when he tried and succeeded at writing. He was best known as a local writer, broadcaster and humorist with a regular segment on the morning show of the local CBC radio. He initiated the Radio and Television Arts Course at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in 1967 and left NAIT in 1982. He had a regular column in the Edmonton Journal for five years following which he wrote several books. His books include, "EPS: the First Hundred Years - A History of the Edmonton Police Service," a highlighted history of Edmonton titled "Gateway City". For more than a decade he also wrote a weekly column in the "Real Estate Weekly" on Edmonton's history. Mr. Mair married his wife Vivienne in 1948 and they had three daughters Kathleen, Lory and Sandy. Mr. Mair died Saturday, September 15, 2001, just short of his 75th bithday.

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  • The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Alex Mair of Edmonton between 1973 and 1995. The fonds consists of materials collected during research for columns, including a history of the Tegler Trust, a copy of the Hudson's Bay anniversary publication, books including the "EPS: the First Hundred Years - A History of the Edmonton Police Service," badges and a copy of the "Edmonton Journal" (08/23/1973) on the James Cameron bomb threat edition, and a videotape titled "Canada in View: Living Ghosts" (CFRN April 1995).
  • MS 531.1: This fonds consists of Mair's research into the Edmonton Police Service, including his finished manuscript and drafts, files from the Edmonton Police Service, Newspaper clippings primarily from the 1980s, and his research into the Frank Willey and Robert Nevelle murders (both murder files are restricted).
  • MS 531.2: This fonds consists of Alex Mair's research into the history of the Edmonton Police Service, including transcripts and notes from interviews with various members of the EPS, as well as research notes and manuscript drafts.
  • MS 531.3: This fonds consists of Alex Mair's research into the history of Edmonton and Alberta, some personal papers (including engineering material), and his scripts and notes for his CBC radio broadcasts from the 1970s to 2001.

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This fonds was donated to the City of Edmonton Archives by Alex Mair or family in a series of donations between 1988 and 2002.

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Accession numbers: A89-33, A91-87, A91-120, A92-14, A92-124, A94-53, A95-68, A2000-100, A2001-15, A2002-63

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