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Cdr. W.A. West collection

  • CA EDM MS-723
  • Collection
  • 1979-1998

This collection consists of material from W.A. West's work on the book "Army of the West" on the history of western Canadian military units and their involvement in various military campaigns. This includes his research, book drafts and proofs, as well as numerous photographs. Also with this collection are files related to updating the chain of office for the Mayor of the City of Edmonton, and a scrapbook and tapes from the second ride of the Alberta Field Force from Calgary to Edmonton in 1979 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the City of Edmonton. Finally, this collection includes files, newspaper clippings and photographs related to the Prince of Wales Armoury Foundations efforts to "save" the Prince of Wales Armouries.

West, W.A.

Charles Hodson fonds

  • CA EDM MS-909
  • Fonds
  • 1915 - 1920

The fonds consists of photographs of Charles "Charlie" Hodson's time in the 51st Battalion during the First World War.

Hodson, Charles Edward

Citizens' Cenotaph Committee fonds

  • CA EDM MS-86
  • Fonds
  • 1935-1936, 1949

This fonds consists of a bank book and deposit slips documenting the fund-raising for the Edmonton Cenotaph and copies of the programmes for the unveiling and re-dedication of the cenotaph.
File List:
File 1: Bank book and deposit slips
File 2: Programmes - Unveiling of the Edmonton Cenotaph, August 13, 1936 (3 c.); Re-dedication of the Edmonton Cenotaph, August 26, 1946 (3 c.)

Citizens' Cenotaph Committee

City of Edmonton. Municipal Airport fonds

  • CA EDM RG-2
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1974, predominant 1955-1963

The fonds consist of meeting minutes, agreements, financial records, personnel records, correspondence, and other material generated through the business conducted at the Municipal Airport.

An order has been imposed on the material. The arrangement includes three series.

  • Series 1 – Administration
  • Series 2 – Correspondence
  • Series 3 – Airport Tenants

City of Edmonton. Edmonton Municipal Airport

Colonel Eric Wyld Cormack fonds

  • CA EDM MS-275
  • Fonds
  • 1939 - 1945

The fonds consists of materials created by Colonel Eric Cormack between 1939 and 1945. The fonds consists of an article on war brides and war time marriages written by Colonel Cormack and based on his own experiences as a commanding officer during the war.

Cormack, Colonel Eric Wyld

E. E. Kirkpatrick fonds

  • CA EDM MS-374
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1945

The fonds consists of scrapbooks, photographs and other records pertaining to the construction of the Alaska Highway and the Canol Project and the air facilities related to them and dating from 1942 to 1945.
File list:
File 1: Reports on the Canol project, poetry, menus, bulletin
File 2: Welcome American, The Alaska Highway revised edition, money. Includes 10 coins
File 3: The Story of the tour on the Skagway, Alaska Street Car
File 4: Menus, newspaper clippings, letters, maps, train time table, work feasibility chart
File 5: Scrapbook on the military. 49 photographs : b&w
File 6: Scrapbook on newspaper articles on Alaska Highway and Canol Project. – 1943-1944. Scrapbook extremely fragile, access copy in box.
File 8: Whitepass Railroad. 11 photographs : b&w
File 9: U.S. Army H.Q. Site – Jesuit College. 5 photographs : b&w & sepia
File 10: 3 photographs : sepia & b&w. Alaska Highway, Lt. Col. E.E. Kirkpatrick portrait, unidentified military group portrait.
Library: 665.54 FIN o/s Canol: the sub-Arctic Pipeline and Refinery Project constructed by Bechtel-Price-Callahan for the Corps of Engineers United States Army 1942-1944.

Kirkpatrick, E. E.

Edith Sparks fonds

  • CA EDM MS-450
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1981

The fonds consists of materials created or collected by Edith Sparks of Edmonton and dating from 1886 to 1981. The fonds consists of miscellaneous notes on Edmonton, Strathcona, Edmonton hotels, schools (especially Norwood), clippings from the Bulletin (or transcriptions of) concerning Community Leagues, the Dickens Fellowship and the International Order of Daughters of the Empire in Edmonton, a history of the Mounted Police, a biography of Mary Harvey Hilton, Royal Canadian Air Force badges and buttons, coupon book, Demolay programs and "the Alberta Story".

Sparks, Edith

Edmonton Remembers VE Day collection

  • CA EDM MS-669
  • Collection
  • 1939 - 1995

The collection consists of personal items, photographs, stories, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings and memorabilia relating to the experiences of some Edmontonians in the Second World War. There are also two books – ‘The Royal Canadian Legion 1926-1986’ (369.271 ROY SWI 1986) and ‘Valour Remembered: Canada and the Second World War 1939-1945’ (940.540 GIE c. 2).

Edmonton Remembers VE Day

Ethel MacKenzie fonds

  • CA EDM MS-224
  • Fonds
  • 1900 - 1930

The fonds consists of two scrapbooks created by Ethel MacKenzie between 1900 and 1930, consisting of newspaper clippings, marriage announcements, wedding invitations, dance cards, postcards, theatre programs, and souvenirs.
File list:
Box 1, File 1: ephemera removed from scrapbook 1
Box 1: Scrapbook 1
Box 2, File 2: scrapbook 2
Box 2, File 3: plan of table at civic luncheon in honour of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
Box 2, File 4: page from scrapbook 1, includes Summer School for Teachers 1917, bulletin no. 24 and Western Universities Battalion 196th, October 21, 1916
Box 2, File 5: Summer school for teachers, 1917, bulletins 1 thru 23

MacKenzie, Ethel

Florence Jean Cahill fonds

  • CA EDM MS-114
  • Fonds
  • 1914 - 1941

The fonds consists predominantly of the records of Florence Jean Cahill, including school and teaching records, memorial card and letters from family. There are also photographs of some members of the Cahill and O’Callaghan families, including Cliff Cahill (a cousin from the United States who was killed in action in France, 1918), Everett Cahill (a cousin in the UK Royal Flying Corps in 1917), and Walter O’Callaghan’s parents, Bridget and Edward O’Callaghan.

Cahill, Florence Jean

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