Industries

RED MG 41
Fonds
1887-2000

Fonds consists of administrative, financial, operational, and promotional material created, accumulated, and used by the Markerville Creamery in its activities as a creamery and as a tourist site.

Types of records include bills, invoices, receipts, reports, correspondence, envelopes, stationary, cheques, pamphlets, instructions, coupons, newspaper clippings, notebooks, tables, photographs, employment records, notebooks, inventories, and butter wrappers.

Markerville Creamery

Looking Ahead in the Peace Country to the Building of a City

CA GPR 0155-0155.01-0155.01.01
Item
[1914]

Part of Bezanson Family fonds

Booklet by A.M. Bezanson presenting the reasons for the rapid development of the Peace River Country and arguing for the inevitable trend of this development to lead to the establishment of important trade centers.

Moving the portable steam engine of the Beaverlodge Industrial Co. Ltd.

CA GPR 0362-0362.02-0362.02.12.04
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of W. D. Albright fonds

Pioneer Series - 28. Moving the portable steam engine of the Beaverlodge Industrial Co. Ltd. Freighted in from Edson in 1914, this engine was used for threshing, gristing and sawing wood. It is still in use in 1929. Photograph taken by W. D. Albright. Used in 1937 Homestead Days lecture as H.D. 42.

Chimney Sweep

CA GPR 0052-0052.01-2002.54.10
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Field's Studio fonds

A "prop" photograph of Clarence Field in a Chimney Sweep costume.

"I knew I would end up in Jail"

CA GPR 0052-0052.02-2002.57.04
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Field's Studio fonds

"Cartoon-type" photograph of a man behind the bars on a brass bed. Caption reads: "I knew I would end up in jail if I didn't quit drinking."

Grande Prairie Fire Hall

CA GPR 0052-0052.03-0052.03.02-1997.13.88
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Field's Studio fonds

New fire hall and water tower with well-equipped firefighters ready for service.

Robert Millar fonds

CA GPR 0143
Fonds
1923-1957

The fonds consists of photographs of Robert Millar as mayor, and on various hunting and camping expeditions as well as photographs of Chrysler dealerships in the Peace country; newspapers containing articles relating to his tenure as mayor; copies of speeches; programs from event; financial statements; yearly report booklets; and correspondence all relating to his tenure as councilor and mayor. Also included is a 1923 calendar.

Millar, Robert