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C.W. Youngs collection
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26 negatives. -- 13 photographs.
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Charles Walton (Wally) Youngs was born in Didsbury, Alberta; he was the son of George A. and Janet May (Bradshaw) Youngs. He complete High School in 1947 and then worked as a rodman and instrumentman for the Department of Public Works; this marked the beginning of his interest in surveying. He qualified as an Alberta Land Surveyor in 1953 and received his commission as a Dominion Land Surveyor in 1955. In 1953 he was appointed Assistant Director of Surveys for the Alberta Government, and became Director of Surveys from 1964 until 1982. He served as a member of council for the Alberta Land Surveyors' Association from 1956 to 1962, vice-president in 1959 and president in 1960. Wally married his wife Doreen in 1953.
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The collection consists of images from a surveying crew that worked in the Peace River area, and includes images of pack horses, camps, trees and crew.
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The Provincial Museum of Alberta, on behalf of C.W. Youngs, deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1987. C.W. Youngs was given the photographs by a member of the survey crew, possibly a Mr. McKenzie. According to information provided by Mr. Youngs, the surveyor to whom the images originally belonged, along with the date of the survey, are unknown.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required.
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Information for the biographical sketch is taken from Alberta's Survey History website, <a href="http://www.landsurveyinghistory.ab.ca/Characters/Youngs_CW.htm" target="_blank">www.landsurveyinghistory.ab.ca/Characters/Youngs_CW.htm</a>, accessed March 22, 2006, from <em>Echoes of an Era: History of Didsbury & District</em>, which is available in the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library, 971.233 D562, and from the records. The images can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.20,648 through A.20,667.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1987.0368<br><br>
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- Youngs, C.W. (Subject)