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50th anniversary collection

  • CA MEUA meua-071
  • Collection
  • 2022

Fonds consists of the contents of a time capsule created by the Students’ Association in 1993 to commemorate the official opening of City Centre Campus with instructions that it be opened during MacEwan’s 50th anniversary. Contents include promotional brochures, student handbooks, program guides, event programs, staff and student memories, newspapers, photographs, t-shirts, and objects. A file list is available. Also included are materials produced for the 50th anniversary: A commemorative look at 50 years / MacEwan University, 50 years of MacEwan memories / Retirees of MacEwan University, a schedule of events for 50th on Fourth, held April 29 - 30, 2022, and a commemorative view master.

Grant MacEwan University

St. Albert Healing Garden collection

  • CA MHM MHM
  • Collection
  • 2021

Collection consists of records pertaining to the St. Albert Healing Garden. Records include the Residential schools public memorial photographs series, which contains photographs of the community memorial at the St. Albert Healing Garden in response to the discovery of unmarked graves at residential school sites.

St. Albert Healing Garden

Blair Jean Photograph Collection

  • CA ATH ATH
  • Collection
  • 2019

Ninety photographs taken on a river excursion on the Athabasca River in August-September, 2019 of the Athabasca River, House River, Pelican River, Grand Rapids and Calling River cemetery. 20137 - 20142 general views of the trip; 20143 - 20153 Calling River; 20154 - 20179 Grand Rapids; 20180 - 20202 House River; 20203 - 20226 Pelican Portage.

Jean, Blair

Gina Payzant collection

  • CA ATH Ath 19.32
  • Collection
  • 2018

In 2018, former Athabasca Archives archivist Gina Payzant researched, wrote and produced a DVD called "Just a Ploughboy," about playwright George Ryga, a former resident of Athabasca, Alberta. The recording was produced by Payzant with Jared Paul at Reel Mensch Studios in Edmonton, Alberta.

Payzant, Gina

One Room Schools collection

  • CA MILO ORS
  • Collection
  • 2009 - 2013

Since 1908, the area around Milo has been home to 14 one-room schools. School districts were established when a group of three or more ratepayers petitioned the Provincial Ministry of Education, and there generally had to be at least five eligible students within a 4-5 mile radius.

The first one-room schools in the area were established at Queenstown (April 1908) and Pioneer (June 1908), and they were quickly followed by Liberty (1909), Corbie Hill and Willard (1910), Lake McGregor (1912) and Eastway (1913). East Majorville was established in 1917 (though it didn’t open until 1920), then Giffen and Kirkdale (1918), Fawn Hill (1919), Rocky Buttes (1921), Sunny Lake (1922) and finally Robertson (1928). Enrollment at the schools ranged from five to twenty-five students, and occasionally if the numbers dropped too low, a school might close for a year until enrollment increased. Since many of the students travelled long distances each day, schools were often closed when the weather was bad, with the missed time being made up in the summer. Closures due to epidemics lasted anywhere from a few weeks to several months. Most schools offered grades 1-8, after which students who wanted to continue their education had to travel to – or board in – a larger community. In 1926 Queenstown School moved into town and became a two-room school, going through to grade 12.

Corbie Hill and Kirkdale were the first of the one-room schools to close, both in 1937, and in 1938 supervision of the remaining schools was taken over by Bow Valley School Division #43. Consolidation became the guiding principle, and by the end of World War II the only one-room school left in the Milo area was East Majorville, which closed in 1952. A van was used to transport the children from Pioneer, Liberty and Rocky Buttes School Districts into Milo.

The collection consists of Minute Books, Daily Registers, correspondence and Assessments and Tax Rolls from some of the one-room school districts in the Milo area.

The collection has been arranged into the following series: Bow Valley School Division #43, Liberty, Pioneer, Rocky Buttes.

South Peace Regional Archives Story collection

  • CA GPR 0509
  • Collection
  • 2002-2013

The collection consists of stories submitted to or gathered by the Archives for a variety of purposes including the annual Film and Story event, newsletters and other publications, and additional information for fonds.

South Peace Regional Archives, collector

Friendly fire incident (2002) collection

  • PPCLI Collection 93
  • Collection
  • 2001-2005

The Tarnak Farm incident, more familiarly known in Canada as "the friendly fire incident", occurred on April 17, 2002 near Kandahar, Afghanistan during Operation Apollo. The 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) was conducting night-time anti-tank and machine gun firing exercises, which were mistaken for enemy fire by U.S. Air National Guard fighter jet pilots. The pilots attacked, killing Canadian soldiers Marc Leger, Ainsworth Dyer, Richard Green, and Nathan Smith, and injuring at least eight others. They were the first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan War, and the incident generated a massive public response. The collection consists of news clippings; printouts of online news stories; TV news clips; scrapbooks of news clippings; messages of condolence received by PPCLI in the form of email messages, condolence books, letters, and sympathy cards; eulogies of the deceased soldiers; and the contents of an album of photographs and memorabilia from Marley Leger's visit to Bosnia.

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Sons of Norway, Valhalla Lodge Oral History Project collection

  • GLEN glen-3022
  • Collection
  • 1998

The collection consists of recorded interviews with these lodge members: Mabel Green, Rolf and Ingeborn Hartvigsen, Gladys Jackson, Liv Jonsberg, Olga Perry, Lilly Mirtle and Carol Sellick, Roy Swanbert, and Knut Verterdal. Also includes the booklet "The Valhalla Cornerstone, 1928-1998".

Sons of Norway, Valhalla Lodge

Fast Forward Weekly (FFWD) collection

  • CA MRUASC C0005
  • Collection
  • 1995-2015

Collection consists of a near-complete print run of Fast Forward Weekly (FFWD), a Calgary-based local news and entertainment weekly newspaper that was published from 1995 to 2015 by Great West Newspapers Limited Partnership. The 934 newspaper issues in the collection are bound in volumes in chronological order. The collection also contains one series of CD and DVDs containing digital photographs, articles, and web page images created by Fast Forward Weekly's staff for the newspaper.

"Fast Forward Weekly (FFWD) was a news and entertainment weekly which provides news, alternative viewpoints, entertainment information, review articles and specialized advertising. It was distributed throughout Calgary, Banff and Canmore. It is owned by Great West Newspapers, LP. With an assessed readership of 70,000 upon a distributed circulation of 30,000, the paper was one of the most widely circulated and well-respected alternative newspapers in Canada."

Great West Newspapers Limited Partnership

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