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City of Red Deer Red Deer and District Emergency Measures unit
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1953-1974 (Creation)
- Creator
- Red Deer. Red Deer and District Emergency Measures Unit
- Place
- Red Deer, Alberta
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Physical description
0.15 m of textual records
27 photographs
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Administrative history
Red Deer became an unincorporated town in 1894, and a village in 1898, under the ordinances of the then Northwest Territories. It was incorporated as a town in 1901; and incorporated as a city in 1913. As a result of the Alberta Civil Defence and Disaster Act (1951), the City of Red Deer created a municipal civil defence unit with the mandate to deal with natural and wartime emergencies, including nuclear attacks. By 1963, the name of the Red Deer Civil Defence agency had changed to the Red Deer and District Emergency Measures Unit. In 1974 the unit changed its name to Disaster Services, with the then City Commissioner being the director. The following persons headed the Red Deer Civil Defence Unit and the Emergency Measures Unit: Lt. Col. R.C. Lister (1951-1954), Sir Arthur Stonhouse, Bt. (1954-1961), and W.M. Ogilvie (1961-1974).
Custodial history
Records were transferred in 1 accession in 1986 by the Emergency Services department. The records were originally maintained by the agency and transferred to Emergency Services department for storage in 1985.
Scope and content
Fonds consists of the administrative and operational records created, accumulated, and used by the Red Deer and District Emergency Measures unit at the City of Red Deer between 1953 and 1974.
Includes correspondence, warning siren procedures, survival planning, emergency contact lists, auxiliary police training, Nuclear Threat to Alberta paper (1971), planning documents, photographs, and reports.
No series assignment has been applied to the records in this fonds.
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Physical condition
Good
Immediate source of acquisition
Records were transferred by the Emergency Services department
Arrangement
Records were arranged in alphabetical order at some point.
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No restrictions noted.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Many records are Crown copyright.
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Associated materials
See also City of Red Deer, City Commissioners fonds (RG 2); City of Red Deer, Office of the City Clerk fonds (RG 6)
Accruals
No further accruals are expected.
General note
There are three other accessions that appear to belong to this fonds. They could not be located at time of processing so have not been included in this description.
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- Red Deer. Red Deer and District Emergency Measures Unit (Subject)
- Red Deer Civil Defence (Subject)
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Language of description
- English