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Riveredge Foundation Ships' Logs collection

  • GLEN glen-3094
  • Collection
  • 1790-1872

The collection consists of ships' logs, a shipboard newspaper, and a seaman's diary from merchant and naval sailing vessels. Includes the diary of John Bartlett (1790-1795), a member of the crew of the Massachusetts, an American merchant ship sailing from Boston to Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlotte Islands and back to Canton via the Sandwich Islands. Bartlett then joined the American whaling ship Elenoro, bound back to the USA via Madagascar. Includes the log (1805-1806) of the Royal George, a British merchant ship sailing from England via India to China and back. Includes a manuscript newspaper published aboard the British naval vessel Alceste in 1816. Also includes logs kept aboard British naval vessels as training exercises by junior officers George Buck Keene (1844-1848), G. T. L. Bolton (1860-1865), and Collingwood Fenwick (1870-1872). These logs feature watercolour views of ports visited, profiles of coastlines, and manuscript maps.

Riveredge Foundation Ships' Logs collection

Owen Gardner fonds

  • PPCLI Fonds 133
  • Fonds
  • 1794, 1924-1989

The fonds contains a copy of the Militia Act of Great Britain (1786) from Gardner's library; his Warrant (1939); his demobilization letter (1945); a transcribed poem; and a menu from the Sir Winston Spencer Churchill Society (Calgary) annual memorial dinner (1984). Includes photographs from Gardner's military career which he had framed (1924-1973); and photographs from his retirement collected by Evelyn de Mille (ca. 1980s).

Gardner, Owen Wallace

Vader-Grimm Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0676
  • Fonds
  • 1800-2018

This fonds contains records related to the Grimm, Vader, and Scott families. The material is largely concerned with time spent in Rycroft but this fonds also contains records created in Nebraska, Spirit River, and Calgary. The records consist of approximately 1500 photographs and negatives depicting farm life, school classes, locations, and people; newspaper clippings, pamphlets; posters; 2 family histories; 2 undated and unlabeled photograph albums; account books; and certificates.

The fonds has been arranged into the following series: Vader Family (1800-1980), Grimm family (1800-1980), and Ora and Edith [Vader] Grimm (1908-2008).

Vader-Grimm Family

Theodore Howard fonds

  • GLEN glen-3880
  • Fonds
  • 1801-1940, predominant 1915-1940

The fonds consists of his correspondence related to Gaults Limited, the Credit Men's Trust Association, his collecting activities and his personal life (1915-1940); stamped envelopes of special flights, including Canadian first flights (1924-1934); Masonic lodge records from Winnipeg (1913-1932); legal documents for Francis R. Drewe of Devon County (1801), Richard Graves and Christopher Flood of Devon County (1808), and Thomas Bishop of Feniton (1837); Hudson's Bay Company five shilling and one shilling notes (1820 and 1870); and miscellany. Also includes an album of photographs of log houses in the Winnipeg area.

Howard, Theodore E.

Mary Hanratty fonds

  • CA EDM MS-380
  • Fonds
  • 1803 - 1941

The fonds consists of sheet music collected and used by Mary Hanratty. The music is a variety of sacred and popular songs.

Hanratty, Mary Gladys Young

Roy William Devore fonds

  • CA EDM MS-67
  • Fonds
  • 1807 - 1965

File List:
File 1: Biographical article: “A Builder of the West”, re: John Walter. n.d.
File 2: Note: “River Drivers”, article in Alberta Hysterical [sic] Review, Winter 8:1, pp 21-23. 1960
File 3: Biographical article: “Hormidas Theophile Lamoureux”. Nov. 7, 1961
File 4: Article: “The North Saskatchewan River”. 1963.
File 5: Autobiographical article: “A Lost Cause”. n.d.
File 6: Timeline: Walter Historic Site and Museum. [ca 1965].
File 7: Extract from publication: “90 year old house still an original site”, re: John Walter house; also includes brief articles on McDougall
Methodist Church, Al Rashid Mosque, University of Alberta Campus. n.d.
File 8: Notes: Interview of Roy Devore by B. Jablonski. Sept. 11, 1962.
File 9: Thank-You Notes: from Helga Theophile and members of her school class. Nov 1-2, 1963.

Devore, Roy William

Weiller & Williams Co. Ltd. fonds

  • CA MHM 2015-01
  • Fonds
  • ca. 1810-2014, predominantly 1925-1990

This fonds consists of records of Weiller & Williams Co. Ltd.’s business dealings, the Williams’ family history, and Lee Williams' horse breeding and horse racing.

Weiller & Williams Co. Ltd.

Geraldine and Douglas Moodie fonds

  • GLEN glen-3916
  • Fonds
  • 1813-1967, predominant 1895-1915

The fonds consists primarily of photographs taken by Geraldine Moodie at Battleford (including an 1895 Cree sun dance), Maple Creek, and Hudson Bay; and photos taken by Douglas Moodie during the two Hudson Bay expeditions, and the Governor-General's trip. The fonds also consists of diaries kept by both Geraldine and Douglas during their time in the north, and registers and copyright records related to their photography. Significant records of their ancestors and descendants in this fonds include James FitzGibbons memoirs and correspondence re his military career and Isaac Brock (1813-1865); poems and correspondence of the Strickland women (1830-1907); Agnes Dunbar Chamberlin's botanical sketchbook (1874-1883); and newspaper clippings re the Earl and Countess of Egmont (1932-1938).

Moodie, Geraldine (family)

E.P. Scarlett fonds

  • GLEN glen-2056
  • Fonds
  • 1814-1981

The fonds consists of diaries (1909-1964) of Earle and Jean Scarlett; correspondence between Earle and Jean (1917-1929); correspondence with family members, friends and colleagues; copies of published articles; drafts of articles, addresses and broadcasts (1935-1979); interview with Scarlett by Charles Roland; reference files; and photographs of student years, military service, Calgary events and family.

Scarlett, E.P.

City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department fonds

  • CA EDM RG-21
  • Fonds
  • [ca.1828]-2017, predominant 1959 - 2000

This fonds consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, ledgers, and other records relating to the various functions performed by the Parks and Recreation Department and its successors.

An order has been imposed on the material. The arrangement includes 6 series and multiple sub-series. The series are as follows:

  • Series 1: Administration
  • Series 2: Heritage
  • Series 3: Parks
  • Series 4: Facilities
  • Series 5: Agencies and External Community Groups
  • Series 6: Photographs

City of Edmonton. Parks and Recreation Department

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