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Perry family fonds

  • GLEN glen-1845
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1880s]-1976

The fonds consists of Thomas' land purchase records, farm diaries (1921-1929, 1934-1942), and marriage certificate (1911); Annie's nursing notebooks, certificates, correspondence, and an album of nursing cartoons (1900-1917); Jessie Perry's scribblers, art sketches, pressed plant album and memorabilia from St. Hilda's School for Girls (1925-1930); a small diary with entries by both Jessie and Lionel Perry as children (1922-1923); photographs of the Perry and Gibson family, nursing, a camping trip to the mountains, and the Balzac area; and various family certificates, greeting cards, programs, postcards and extensive popular and classical sheet music. Includes weather station records kept at Cochrane by Mrs. A.C. Kerfoot (1961-1976).
RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Mable Bleakney, Calgary Polo Club, Mary G.H. Dangerfield, Arthur George Hallifax, John Robert Hallifax, and weather.

Perry (family)

Hodgson Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0630
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1880-2005]

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.

Hodgson family

Bow 'N Arrow Ranch fonds

  • CA EDM MS-198
  • Fonds
  • 1880 - 1941

The fonds consists of material created by the Bow N' Arrow Ranch near Alliance, Alberta. The fonds consists of correspondence, pamphlets, and working ledgers of the Bow 'N Arrow Ranch near Alliance, Alberta and created between 1880 and 1941.

Bow 'N Arrow Ranch

Godsal family fonds

  • GLEN glen-2573
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1887, 1909, 1922

The fonds consists of microfilms of: letters of Fred to his father, P.W. Godsal (1882-1887); manuscript by Fred entitled "Memories of the Far West" (1922); and letters of Byam to his father (1883-1887). Also consists of photographs of the F.W. Godsal ranch (1909).

Godsal (family)

James Wallace's Bowness collection

  • GLEN glen-3879
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1940

The collection consists of 1882 order-in-council giving details of ranching leases in the area; Bowness electors' lists (1934, 1935); Wallace's correspondence regarding early ranchers, including Thomas Stone, John Lister Kaye, T.H.B. Cochrane, William Beresford, and others; plans of the Calgary Hydraulic Company's ditch (1894); and extensive newspaper clippings about Bowness (1920-1940).

Wallace, James Nevin

Pat Burns fonds

  • GLEN glen-385
  • Fonds
  • 1882-1985, predominant 1896-1960

The fonds consists of ranching records (1896-1985): correspondence, agreements, inventories, appraisals, financial statements, ledgers, maps, purchases and brand records; oil records (1911-1953): correspondence, leases and oil company prospectuses; legal records (1882-1959): mortgages, agreements and leases; investment records (1896-1955): correspondence, mortgages and agreements; records of Burns' companies (1898-1981): correspondence, ledgers, memorandum of association, financial statements and minutes; real estate records (1942-1973): correspondence, reports and maps; records of Burns' estate (1932-1983): will, reports, correspondence, minutes of executors' meetings and ledgers; personal account ledgers (1912-1936); share certificates (1903-1941); and collected samples of Metis scrip and North-West Mounted Police veterans' land scrip (1880-1911). Includes photographs of Alberta oil wells, Burns' ranches, the meat industry, and aerial views of Bow River Valley and Fish Creek. RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS ARE ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE INVENTORY FOR DETAILS: Adams River Lumber Co., Ainsworth Oils, Alberta Consolidated Oils, Alert Oils, Alliance Investments Co., Alsask Chemical Products, Anglo-American Exploration, Anglo-American Oil Co., Askalta Oils, Bar S Ranch, R.B. Bennett, Benton Oils, Big Valley Ranch, A.M. Bowlen, Buffalo Head Ranch, Isabelle Burnada, Fred W. Burns, Burns Coal Mines, Bush Petroleum Corporation, Canadian Club of Great Britain, Canadian Colonization Association, Canadian Exploration, Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) lands, Canadian Percheron Horse Breeders' Association, Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society, Carnation Silver Lead Mines, Carstens Packing Co., Frank Collicutt, Commonwealth Petroleum, Consumers' Co-op Refineries, Col. P.J. Daly, Count de Foras, Neil J. Duggan, Eden Valley Ranch, Edward Prince of Wales, Earl of Egmont, EP Ranch, Thomas Farrell, George Findlay, Findlay Ranch, Franco-Oils, Fraser Valley (BC), Clem Gardner, Henry Haffner, E.D. Hardwick, Hays Co., H.O. Heimbecker, Norman Hindsley, Home Oil, W.R. Hull, R. Frazier Hunt, Hunter Valley Oil Co., Indian supply farm, irrigation, Jenkins Groceteria, Lacombe Home, Lancashire Oils, George Lane, Lazy H. Ranches, Leader Petroleums, Henry Le Vasseur, J.C. Linton, Frank McHugh, McHugh Brothers Ltd., Neil McLean, McLeod Oil Co., Majestic Oils, William Mayhew, Mennonites, Minto Ranch, John T. Mitchell, James F. Moodie, Reuben Mottishaw, Mule Creek Cattle Co., Northern Syndicate, North West Commercial Travellers Association, Paramount Oils, Patrick Oils, Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration (PFRA), Ranchmen's Gas and Oil Co., Red Cross, Rialto Oils, Julius Rickert, Sen. D.E. Riley, G.T.C. Robinson, Ross Ranching Co., Royalite Oil Co., Sanata Catasma Development Co., Scottish Petroleum, Karl Selzler, Seneca Oils, Sentinel Oils, songs, Southern Alberta Pioneers' and Old Timers' Association, Stampede Ranch, Stockmen Oils, Transcontinent Oil, United Oils, Urban Oil Co., warble fly, Wayne Oils, Guy Weadick, Western Alberta Oil Co., Western Ranches, Weymarn Petroleums, and Wartime Prices and Trade Board.

Burns, Patrick

New Walrond Ranche Company Ltd. fonds

  • GLEN glen-1743
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1957

The fonds consists of annual reports (1904, 1912-1923); prospectus of New Walrond Ranche (1898); letterbooks (1887-1915); inventories of "moveable effects" (1890-1907); daily journals (1886-1922); financial records and contracts (1883-1912, 1922); livestock records (1885-1919); township plans and topographical maps (1897-1906, 1942); and meteorological records (1916-1957).

New Walrond Ranche Company

Ralph C. and Kenneth R. Coppock fonds

  • GLEN glen-715
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1956

The fonds consists of cashbooks and ledgers of Coppock ranching and business operations (1904-1908, 1921-1950); Kenneth's 1956 manuscript, "Alberta Horse and Cattle Brands"; Visalia saddle order book (1892-1899); and photographs of Kenneth, Riel Rebellion personalities, the Coppock family and ranching. Includes manuscripts and reminiscences submitted to Canadian Cattlemen by Fred Ings, Phil Weinard, W.B. Cameron and others. Also includes account book of Frank Courtenay of Cluny, recording Blackfoot (Siksika) accounts (1887-1892).

Coppock (family)

Brook family fonds

  • GLEN glen-3388
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1965, predominant 1916-1918

The fonds consists of Sidney’s diaries and notebooks (1883-1954); correspondence between Isabelle and Sidney during their courtship and early married life (1906-1910); extensive correspondence between Sidney (serving overseas) and Isabelle (on the home front) during the First World War (1916-1918); letters to Sidney from his Brighton siblings, whom he re-meets during the war (1916-1918); letters from Isabelle’s family in Manitoba (1908-1952); letters to Sidney and Isabelle from their children (1932-1947), in particular from Alice and Mabel who trained as nurses at the Royal Alexandra Hospital (1938-1941); and Isabelle’s scrapbook of articles and memorabilia about Craigmyle (1935-1965).

Brook (family)

Boorne and May fonds

  • GLEN glen-281
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1907

The fonds consists of traveller's sample book of photographs of mountain scenes, the British Columbia interior, CPR points and railway bridges, tunnels, trains and workers (1889). Includes photographs of native people and a Blood sun dance (1887); of May, his wife, family and ranch (1885-1907); of Boorne, his Manitoba homestead, and the Calgary studio; and experimental photographs (1883-1884). Includes his article, "With the Savages in the Far West", published in the Canadian Photographic Journal, 1893. Also includes a diary of Boorne's cousin Ernest May (1897).

Boorne and May

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