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Ethel Wilson fonds
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40 slides. -- 5 photographs. -- 0.01 m of textual records.
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Ethel served as Recording Secretary for the Edmonton District Labour Council and the Labour representative and the Unemployment Insurance Appeals board when she ran as an Alderman for the City of Edmonton council in 1953. She served as an alderman from 1953 to 1966. She was also active in the Social Credit Party. In 1959, she was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, serving as a Cabinet Minister without Portfolio until 1971. In 1966, she revived the Alberta Women's Bureau, a Government of Alberta department.
Custodial history
In 1971, Ethel Wilson donated material comprising PR1971.0300 to the Provincial Archive of Alberta. It's unknown how she obtained the material. In 1991, Lillian French donated the material comprising PR1991.0311 to the Provincial Archives of Alberta. The provenance of the material prior to 1991 is unknown.
Scope and content
The fonds consists of a script and accompanying slides entitled "Historical Fashion Pageant" created by Ethel Wilson regarding the history of women in Alberta, dating from 1966. The fonds also includes photographs featuring the "Famous Five": Irene Parlby, Louis McKinney, Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, and Henrietta Muir Edwards dating from the early part of the 20th century.
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Material arranged according to original order.
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- The material is in English.
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There are no restrictions on access. Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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A file list/inventory is not available.
Associated materials
For material on the Women's Bureau, please see the Alberta Women's Bureau fonds at the University of Alberta Archives. For more material on the Women's Bureau, please see the Alberta Women's Bureau Sous-Fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta.
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Further accruals are not expected.
General note
Information for the administrative history/biographical sketch sourced from the fonds. Labor Omni Vincant; the Edmonton Labour Council in Municipal Politics 1903 -- 1960, Eugene W. Plawiuk, Presentation for Edmonton's Bicentennial Historical Reflections Symposium May 1995. Available at: <a href="http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/CITYHALL1.htm" target="_blank">www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5202/CITYHALL1.htm</a> (Accessed Oct 2, 2008). Photographs of the "Famous Five" can be found under the numbers A3458 -- A3462 in the photographic reference section of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.<br><br>Record No. The fonds includes the following accession: PR1971.0300, PR1991.0311<br><br>
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- Wilson, Ethel (Subject)