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George family fonds
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21 cm of textual records and other material
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Biographical history
Henry George, 1864-1932, was born at Kirton-in-Lindsay, Lincolnshire, England, studied medicine at St. Bartholomew's, and qualified as a physician in 1887. He married Barbara Mary Bernard, 1867-1936, in 1888. They emigrated to Calgary, N.W.T., where Mary's father W. L. Bernard had begun a law practice, in 1889. Dr. George entered into a partnership with Dr. Neville Lindsay, then moved to Innisfail, N.W.T. to establish his own practice in 1893. Henry and Barbara collected First Nations artifacts, natural history specimens, and a wide variety of other items, and opened their collection to the public as the Innisfail Museum. Barbara was an amateur artist who, according to family legend, designed the Alberta coat of arms. Henry and Barbara founded the Alberta Natural History Society in 1906. They moved to Red Deer, Alberta, along with the museum, in 1907. They retired to Victoria, B.C. in 1922, and the museum artifacts became the nucleus of the Calgary Public Museum. They had eleven children who survived infancy: Henry Bernard, Charles Llewellyn, Ernest Scudamore, Desmond St. Clair, Freederick Morton, Barbara Mary Kathleen "Molly" (Macdonald), Norah Hellen (Heeney), Vivian Lizette (Gray), Henriette Caroline Alice (Day), William Godfrey Septimus, and Yule Christine Helliwell
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The fonds consists of family photographs; articles about the family; a collection of colour illustrations of birds; Barbara's watercolours of bird eggs; the constitution of the Alberta Natural History Society; the visitor's book of the Innisfail Museum which also contains correspondence, photographs, and news clippings about the Natural History Society; and a scrapbook of photographs and news clippings reflecting community activities in Innisfail
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Includes 17 cm of textual records, 6 photographs, 6 watercolours, and 3 cm of prints. The scrapbooks contain many additional photographs. The Innisfail community scrapbook is fragile due to water damage and mould
Immediate source of acquisition
Donated by Henry George's daughter Nettie George Parker, 1980-1999; his grandson W. Michael George, 1985-1989; and his grandson Paul Macdonald, 2000
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- The material is in English
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No restrictions on access; copyright restrictions may apply
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Other materials from the George family are at the Glenbow Archives and the City of Edmonton Archives;Further correspondence, articles and documentation are in the Red Deer and District Archives' Biographical File for Dr. and Mrs. George
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Additions to the fonds are expected
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Record No. MG 181<br><br>
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- George, Henry (family) (Subject)