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G. S. Charlesworth fonds
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2 photograph albums
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Biographical history
Gerald S. Charlesworth was born circa (ca.) 1902 to Lionel Clare and Gertrude Charlesworth. Lionel was a longtime civil servant in Alberta, arriving in 1903 in Medicine Hat where he was district land surveyor for the North-West Territories government. Lionel was later Deputy Minister of Public Works and director of water resources for the Alberta Government. Gerald worked for an Alberta-British Columbia boundary survey team, and was a physician and obstetrician in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Scope and content
The fonds consists of two photograph albums containing 131 photographs from across Alberta including Peace River, Grande Prairie, Brulé, Red Willow Valley, Pouce Coupe, Spirit River, Jasper National Park, Crowsnest Pass; images include surveyors, camps, horses, views of various towns, buildings, creeks and rivers, Alberta-British Columbia boundary markers, mountains, water falls, riverboats, and the Provincial Mental Hospital at Ponoka and its nurses.
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Dr. G.S. Charlesworth deposited the records in the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 1982.
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- The material is in English.
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Access Conditions: None. Use Conditions: Permission for use required. Subject to the Copyright Act.
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Information for the biographical sketch is from the records, from the Provincial Archives of Alberta Reference Library Information Files for L.C. Charlesworth and Mrs. L.C. Charlesworth, and from the <em>Henderson's Edmonton, Alberta, City Directory</em>. The photographs can be located in the A file of the Provincial Archives of Alberta reference prints under the numbers A.8088 to A.8098.<br><br>Record No. Fonds consists of the following accessions: PR1982.0230<br><br>
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- Charlesworth, G. S. (Subject)