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City of Red Deer Parks section fonds
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- Supports multiples
Titre parallèle
Parks department fonds
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Description matérielle
11.281 m of textual records
3901 photographs : col., b&w ; prints, negatives, slides, Polaroids
90 technical drawings
37 maps
18 plans
14 architectural drawings
5 optical discs : CD-ROM, CD-R
4 computer disks : 3" floppy
3 video cassettes : VHS
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Histoire administrative
The Parks section functions started in April 1904, when the Town of Red Deer passed a comprehensive Committees By-law (By-Law 57) assigning the responsibility for Parks to the Property Committee and the Public Works Committee, later the Public Works department.
In 1909, the Town of Red Deer acquired its first significant parkland, Gaetz Park, along the Red Deer River near the mouth of Waskasoo Creek. A town gardener and cemetery superintendent was hired in 1911. The position was renamed to Parks Foreman in 1913. This position reported to the Mayor and Commissioner. It is noteworthy that for several years the Parks Foreman / Superintendent was the same person as the Public Works Superintendent.
In 1949, both Parks and Public Works moved under the City Engineer. In 1964, a new Parks Board was created under Bylaw 2179 to "exercise such powers in the control, supervision and management of any park, street, boulevard, playground and cemetery as the Council may determine." In 1985, there was a new bylaw to change the Recreation Board to the Recreation and Parks Board (By-Law 2872/85). However, Recreation and Parks continued to be separate departments.
In 1989, the Community Services Directorate was created and Parks moved directly under that Directorate. In 1995 a new Recreation, Parks, and Culture department (RPC) was created under the Community Services Division, with the Parks section reporting to the RPC department.
Historique de la conservation
Records were transferred in 54 accessions between 1992 and 2023 per the City's records scheduling, retention and disposition schedule. Records were created as per daily business and operation function of the City of Red Deer's Parks section.
Portée et contenu
Fonds consists of the administrative and operational records created, accumulated, and used by the Parks section at the City of Red Deer between 1950 and 2014.
The types of records included are correspondence, minutes and agendas, memoranda, reports, plans, maps, drawings, computer disks and optical discs, and video cassettes. The topics covered by the records include budgets, Alto Reste cemetery operations and maintenance, tree planting, landscape maintenance, Lion's Campground, Waskasoo Park, City Hall Park, Rotary Recreation Park, Discovery Canyon, Riverside Athletic Park, policies and procedures, Communities in Bloom, Red Deer River flooding, Bower Ponds construction, picnic shelter, Heritage Square, Central Alberta Regional Trails Initiative Report (CARTS Report), Cross Country Ski Club, Red Deer BMX Club, Festival of Trees, Carnaval de Red Deer, CBC's Hockey Day in Canada, fish stocking, homeless camp reports, sports field inventories, mosquito control, war grave maintenance, garden plots, Urban Wildfire Management, and Red Deer River Corridor Integrated Management plan.
No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.
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No areas of concern
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Original order maintained
Langue des documents
- anglais
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Restrictions d'accès
Some records subject to restrictions.
Délais d'utilisation, de reproduction et de publication
Copyright generally assigned to the City of Red Deer.
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File list available
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Further accruals are expected.
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Mots-clés
Mots-clés - Sujets
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- City of Red Deer Parks section (Sujet)
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- anglais
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