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Elmer Roper collection
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0.90 m of textual records
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Biographical history
Elmer Ernest Roper was born on June 4, 1893 in Ingonish, Nova Scotia to George Franklin and Nettie Edith (nee MacDonald) Roper. He attended school in Sydney, Nova Scotia and when the family moved to Calgary, Alberta in 1907 he apprenticed there as a printer. He married Goldie C. Bell on June 15, 1914 and together they had three daughters and one son. Roper later worked for the <em>Calgary Herald</em>, and in May 1917 became the foreman of the <em>Edmonton Bulletin</em>. He started his own printing business in 1921,which became Commercial Printers Limited in 1932, and also started two other associated companies, Comset Business Forms Limited and Plastic Platemakers Limited. He was elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1942 and was an MLA until 1955 during which he served as the leader of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), which he also took a part in forming. Roper was also Mayor of Edmonton from 1959-1963 and served on a number of boards including the library, public school, and University of Alberta Hospital boards. He was an honorary life member of the Edmonton Rotary Club and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of Alberta in 1959. Roper retired to Victoria, British Columbia in 1975 and died on November 12, 1994, pre-deceased by his wife who died in August of the same year.
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Collection consists of bound volumes of three newspapers, the Edmonton Free Press , Alberta Labour News, and The People's Weekly.
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Dr. Elmer Roper deposited these records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1970.
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- The material in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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Inventory is available.
Associated materials
Other records regarding Elmer Roper can be found in the Elmer Roper fonds and the City of Edmonton Archives in Edmonton, Alberta. An oral history given by Elmer Roper can be found in accession PR1978.0098.
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Further accruals are not expected.
General note
Information for the biographical sketch was taken from the Edmonton Public Library website- located at;<A HREF="http://www.epl.ca/Elections/Results/EPLBiographies/R.cfm#6" target=NEW>www.epl.ca/Elections/Results/EPLBiographies/R.cfm#6</A><br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1970.0394<br><br>