Fonds glen-2652 - Alfred von Hammerstein fonds

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Alfred von Hammerstein fonds

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GLEN glen-2652

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0.5 cm of textual records. -- 4 photographs.

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(1867-1941)

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Count Alfred von Hammerstein, 1867-1941, was born in Germany, and as a young man embarked on a military career. In 1895 he gave this up and moved to New York, USA. In 1898 he headed for the Klondike gold rush via Edmonton, Alberta, but turned back before reaching the Yukon. Instead, he joined another adventurer and travelled down the Athabasca River to Fort McMurray. Here he first encountered the Athabasca Tar Sands, which he later attempted to develop. Between 1898 and 1907 he ran German language newspapers in Edmonton and Winnipeg, and learned about the oil industry in Oklahoma. In 1907, he took a drilling crew to Fort McMurray and spent the next five summers drilling. He was unsuccessful in finding a way to extract the oil from the sand. In about 1912 he married Dorothy Clarke, 1877-1964, of England. He died in St. Albert, Alberta.

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  • The papers were originally received by Glenbow Archives in 1963, but were inadvertently kept by a former archives employee, Una MacLean Evans, who repatriated them in 1995.
  • Records originate from the Glenbow but are available at the Glenbow Western Research Centre, University of Calgary

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The fonds consists of correspondence and notes of Dorothy von Hammerstein about her husband's life (1963); and photographs of Count von Hammerstein (ca. 1900-1940).

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Gift of Dorothy von Hammerstein, 1963.

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  • The material is in English.

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Record No. M-8457;PA-3920<br><br>

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