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The collection consists of amateur and professional film and video recordings relating to the history of the South Peace River Country of Alberta. These films and videos were donated by various donors to South Peace Regional Archives after it was established in 2000, and are not associated with a fonds. Recordings range in date from 1937-2006 and cover a range of subjects.

The fonds consists of scrapbooks created by Mr. Boman from 1964 to 2006. They contain articles from the Daily Herald Tribune, the Valley Views, and other newspapers and magazines on the following subjects:
Dinosaurs, 2000-2006
Early Indian Life, 1968-2005
Metis Association, 1977-2005
Pioneers, 1975-1999
Veterans, 1977-2005
Artists, 1980-1999
Memories, 1964-1999 (many small communities such as Five Mile and Silverwing)
Stories of the Past, 1987-1999
Miscellaneous Happenings in the Peace Area, 1983-1999
Seniors Scene, 1985-1999
Miscellaneous, 1986-1999
Crooked Creek and DeBolt, 1973-2002
Bezanson and Teepee Creek, 1989-1993
Sexsmith, 1981-1992
Grande Prairie & Beaverlodge Museums, 1986-2005
Valleyview Museum, 1987-1991
Scandinavian history and Peace Country, 2001-2006
East Smoky Recreation Board, 1976-1978
Peace Country Farmers, 1976-2002
New Democratic Party News and Unifarm Reports, 1970-1978

The fonds consists of 4 pages of memoirs, 3 CDs, and 73 photographs: 9 of Family and Friends, 26 of Grande Prairie and Area, and 38 of Growing up in the Forties and Fifties. One CD is a power point presentation of nostalgic Grande Prairie photographs produced for Grande Prairie ex-patriots reunion held in Edmonton on September 14, 2002. A second CD contains 134 photographs, 38 of which have been printed, borrowed from participants of a 2004 Grande Prairie Alumni reunion. A third CD includes 18 photographs, which have been printed.

The fonds consists of records collected and created to celebrate the Blueberry Creek and District Homecoming and School Reunion held July 14-16, 2006. Materials include a written history of the committee, minutes and financial records, registration records, lists of supplies and volunteers, lists of teachers, a display of photographs and documents related to the Blueberry Creek School, the schools consolidated under it, and the surrounding community, and a list of photograph donors.

The fonds consists of personal and military papers and photographs belonging to Roland Pivert. The records include photographs and documents from his time as a Boy Scout and student at St. Joseph High School; information and photographs about Exercise Sweetbriar, a joint Canadian and U.S. training exercise in the Yukon and Alaska; information and photographs of the Prairie Command Display taken from community to community in Northwestern Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan; slides, photographs and paper artifacts from Roland’s tour of peace-keeping duty in Korea in 1953-1954; military service records and publications; information on Veterans' benefits claims; documents and images of projects from his post-military electrical career; correspondence and related records on his land holdings; and personal records and photographs of family, friends, and community life.

The fonds is divided into nine series: Early Life, Exercise Sweetbriar, Prairie Command Display, Korean Service, Military Service, Veterans' Benefits, Work and Business, Land, and Personal Life and Family.

The records have been arranged in primarily chronological order by the Archivist.

The fonds consists of personal stories of Peggy’s childhood and early teaching career and 4 photographs.

The fonds consists of records relating to the Hodgson family. The records have been divided into nine series; John Fulton personal & financial; Fulton Lea & Sophia Hodgson personal, financial and correspondence; family photographs from Kinistino and Hythe; Edna Hodgson's scrapbook; Hodgson's Mill; H.O.P. Lake/One Island Lake and Hodgson family tree.
The records have been arranged by the Archivists by content and chronology into the various series and files. The records came from so many individual sources, the overall original order of the records had been obscured. The Archivists imposed the order now shown by the records.

The fonds consist of a list of teachers and students, research material, the story and some photographs of teacher Dora Doyle, and a guest book from the reunion.

The fonds consists of the following series: personal and family papers and photographs including diaries written by Beth over an extensive period beginning in 1939 (with lapses) and into the 2000s; publications from "The Bull Outfit" with which her father came to the Beaverlodge area 1909; organizational files showing Beth's involvement with Trumpeter Swan preservation, the Home and School Association, the Grande Prairie County Agricultural Society, the Grande Prairie Book Club, and the Grande Prairie Hot Air Balloon Events Association; files relating to her work as author and historian of Clairmont and District, the Monkman Pass, Grande Prairie's 25th Anniversary, Pioneers of the Peace, and the Peace River itself, complete with the diary of a trip down that river in 1955, and a reference system of news clippings on the people and events in the Grande Prairie area from [1970-2000]. There is also a large collection of photographs, both historical and documentary, detailing her activities and showing her interests as a photographer.

The fonds consists of records relating to the Shields family. The records include Nora Shields’ personal and financial papers, the Shields family tree, early and later photographs from the Shields’ as well as the Dionne family, Jack Shields’ military papers and photographs from his experience as a soldier before and during the Korean War, and some military publications that he collected.

The records have been arranged by the Archivists by content and chronology into the various series and files. The Archivists imposed the order now shown by the records.
The records are divided into six series: Nora Shields Personal Papers, Nora Shields’ Financial Records, Shields’ Family Photographs, Jack Shields Korean War Records, Korean War Publications.