The fonds consists of: research collections (4) by /1 Gordon Drever re: “Josephsburg and Newburg” (1983) /2 Neil Ward re: inventory of historic sites in the Medicine Hat/Redcliff areas (1982) /3 David Armitage re: “Medicine Hat Residents Holding Public Office in the Years Up to and Including 1930” and “A History of Suffield, Alberta” (1984) /4 Valerie Martins re: “First Street Homes,” "The Trenouth House, Irvine," "The Crawford House," "Irvine History," "Gravesite Locations in Medicine Hat," "St. Barnabas Church, Medicine Hat," "Victoria Nurses Residence, Medicine Hat" (1985-1986), paper (17 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987), site data form (3 pgs) re: Hewitt/Wallace House (1987), 14 photographs re: various images of the North West Mounted Police outpost at Writing-on-Stone Park.
The fonds consists of annual reports 1982-85 (not a complete series), some letters of transmittal to the Attorney-General of Alberta which accompanied the reports, and audited financial statements 1973/74-1993/94. Arranged by document type, chronologically.
The fonds consists of accused persons files (related to crimes such as arson, bank robbery, cattle rustling, horse stealing, juvenile delinquency, kidnapping, liquor traffic, murder, prostitution, seduction, and suicide), which were handled by Detective Alexander "Scotty" Lawrence of Lethbridge; criminal identification forms including descriptions and photographs of criminals; diaries and case evidence notebook of Thomas S. Symons, officer with the Brooks detachment; and records of Chief Detective J.D. Nicholson concerning the investigation and trial of Emilio Picariello and Florence Lassandro.
The fonds consists of photographs of Lethbridge Experimental Station and projects (1911-1942), soil erosion in Alberta and Saskatchewan (1930s), and agricultural views; discussion notes on irrigation for experimental station staff seminars and meetings (1933-1949); and Alex's papers on agriculture for the station (nd). Also consists of research materials including photographs of southern Alberta in the 1890s to 1910s, Alex's address on the history of the Western Stock Grower's Association (1971), and recorded conference on the Mounted Police held at University of Lethbridge (1974). Includes recorded Glenbow Foundation staff conference (1959), manuscript of "Indians of the Western Plains" by Mike Mountain Horse (1936), and miscellany.
Fonds consists of material relating to the career of the late Alexander Andrekson. Includes Law Society Heritage Committee files; draft historical articles submitted by Edmonton lawyer F. J. Newson to the committee relating to the development of the legal profession in Alberta; various pamphlets and tariff of fees schedules; other miscellaneous historical and biographical memorabilia; congratulatory letters and other documents regarding Andrekson's judicial appointment; photographs; certificates; a scrapbook; a print of the Edmonton Law Courts; and a ceramic plaque presented to Andrekson by the Law Society of Alberta.
