Alberta On Record

Awaiting The Arrival of the Train in Hythe

CA GPR 0573-0573.08-0573.08.21
Item
1928

Part of Donna Shail fonds

People waiting for the arrival of the train to Hythe.

Building the Catholic Church

CA GPR 0573-0573.01-0573.01.009
Item
ca. 1950

Part of Donna Shail fonds

Carl Anderson and Johnny Olson in front of the Catholic Church that they were help building in Hythe.

Donna Shail fonds

CA GPR 0573
Fonds
1916-2010

The fonds consists of scrapbooks containing photographs, stories, paper artifacts, and news clippings covering the history of Hythe from the time it was established as a townsite on the NAR railway in 1929 into the 21st Century. There are also albums of the Hythe Homecoming in 1978, the opening of the Hythe Golden Age Craft Centre in 1981, and Celebrate Hythe in 1989; one album of people and buildings in Hythe ca. 1970-2000. There are also two scrapbooks containing 198 memorial cards to tell us about the people who lived in Hythe, and a loose collection of photographs which cover the history of Hythe from 1916-2007.

The paper records consist of receipts from various Hythe businesses: Frederick Tite, H.W. Reich, Frontier Lumber Company, W.R. Salmers, A.L. MacRae, Harold S. Tveten, Robert Reid, McLeod & Inkster, Chartier Bros., J.P. Gerlinger, F.F. Perdue, G.B. Howlett, E. Hansen, Oakfords, Peasron Garage, Geo. A. Pollock, Light & Swanston Ltd. And F. Adams and Son.

The photographs are described in the order in which they appeared in the scrapbooks.

Shail, Donna

Downtown Hythe

CA GPR 0573-0573.02-0573.02.02
Item
1930

Part of Donna Shail fonds

A photo of the building on one side of main street Hythe. Visible is J.H. McCann Real Estate, Bank of Montreal, Halvor Gara Farm Lands, as well as others.

Funeral Card Collection

CA GPR 0573-0573.09
Series
[ca. 1979-2010]

Part of Donna Shail fonds

Gault & Elliott Saw Mill on the Cut Bank

CA GPR 0573-0573.08-0573.08.47
Item
c. 1943

Part of Donna Shail fonds

The buildings at the Gault & Elliot saw mill on the Cut Bank River, located about 30 miles West of Hythe.

Happy Valley School Students

CA GPR 0573-0573.02-0573.02.21
Item
1933

Part of Donna Shail fonds

Students outside the Happy Valley School SD No. 3194 on NE 13-73-11-W6th The students are identified as Hazel Gregory, Nora Walker, Mary Lister, Ellen MacPherson, Nellie Perron, Olive Higgs, Anna Krantz, Flo Pearson, Howard Gimby – Teacher, Fannie Oakford, ? Wiebe, Olive Fimrite, Betty Mc Ewan, Nancy McPherson, Aldene Sexton, Jean McPherson, Dorothy Kring, Pauline Higgs, Evelyn Robertson, Myrtle Cowad (Robertson) Allan McEwan, Lee Borden, Lawrence Van Volkingberg, Vernon Nepstad, Ellsworth Nepstad, Roland Rever, Elliot Nepstad, Lawrence Kewley, Eugene Robson, Bob Pearson, Bob Spraggs, Doug Van Volkingberg, Gerald Clarke

History of Hythe Photograph Album One