Fonds 657 - Dunn family fonds

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Dunn family fonds

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CA MED 657

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1 album (346 photographs). -- 13 photographs

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(1902-1942)

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The Dunn family originally lived on a farm near Franklin Cantre, Quebec, that contained apple and maple orchards. The five sisters were all school teachers and four of the five brothers came west to Alberta in 1902. Robert (1872), Richard (1877), George (1886) and Jeremiah (1890) came to Medicine Hat where Robert opened one of the first grocery stores in town. Dunn's Grocery was located in the Bell Block on South Railway Street, where the first Co-op store was built after the war. Jerry Dunn settled on a farm near Irvine and returned to Quebec in the late 1940's to buy an apple orchard and he remained a bachelor. Richard and George were bricklayers and plasterers who built many of the brick homes on the S.E. Hill. They contributed to the construction of the original City Hall, the Courthouse, the Eatons building, and Fifth Avenue United Church, as well as the Banff Springs Hotel. Richard married Christena (Tena) MacEchern and they had four children, Harold (1908), Janet (1909), Mary and Ruth. Richard died in 1942. Robert Dunn married Jennie Thompson and had three children, Phyllis, Robert Jr. and Edmund. Robert died in 1934.

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The fonds consists of a photograph album containing various candid shots of Dunn family members and friends, gatherings, Irvine Church, school, the Dunn Grocery Store, and various city and scenic views (ca. 1915).

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0207 -- Gift of Phyllis Dunn, April 5, 1972.
0668 -- Gift of Mary Bailey, January 24, 1993.
0722 -- Acquired through purchase by the Medicine Hat Museum and Art Gallery from Old World Antiques, 1995.
Mary Bailey is the daughter of Richard Dunn.
Phyllis Dunn is the daughter of Robert Dunn.

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Biography file; "A new beginning : Irvine & district", 20 Mile Post Historical Society, 1989 (p. 205).

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Record No. P 0207;PC 0668;P 0722

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Esplanade Archives

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  • English

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