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Chalifoux family fonds

  • PAA paa-9719
  • Fonds
  • 1911-1995

The records are composed of an extensive family tree of the Chalifoux family, charting the descendants of Paul Chalifoux. Each page charts genealogical information for a specific family member, including: dates and places of birth, marriage and death, and information about children.

Chalifoux family

Bilodeau family fonds

  • PAA paa-9716
  • Fonds
  • [1900]-2007

The fonds consists of family and pen pal correspondence, cards, diaries, scrapbooks, genealogical material on the Gagné, Bilodeau and Hartry families, paper clippings, photographs and local histories relevant to the family's history. Records also include Joseph Bilodeau's correspondence with his family while in the army and cover the last years of World War II and his service in the period immediately after the war. The photographs range in date between ca. 1900 to ca.1994, and document family members and friends, and events from their lives.

Bilodeau family

Belcourt family fonds

  • PAA paa-9715
  • Fonds
  • 1946

Fonds consist of one photocopy of the Belcourt tricentennial family history.

Belcourt family

Sonia de Grandmaison fonds

  • PAA paa-9713
  • Fonds
  • 1915-2000

The fonds consists of photographic images that depict de Grandmaison from the 1910s to the 1980s in several locations. There are also portraits of de Grandmaison with friends and family over a similar time span. The remainder of the photos depict de Grandmaison's sculptures and work studio, including some images of de Grandmaison at work.
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The fonds also consists of textual material that includes a history of the Dournovo family from their time in Russia until their immigration to Canada, other genealogical information, programs from de Grandmaison's shows and unveiling ceremonies of her public works, correspondence (including with prominent figures such as Pierre Trudeau and Peter Lougheed), and legal documents such as de Grandmaison's Russian birth certificate, certificate of Canadian citizenship, and passport.

de Grandmaison, Sonia

Wolfgang Witschl fonds

  • PAA paa-9708
  • Fonds
  • 1956-1979

The fonds consists of films that were created by Wolfgang Witschl and document travel, hobbies, family activities, and community events. Activities such as hunting, fishing, camping, road trips, and family celebrations are all captured. Witschl also documented various wildlife in natural settings across Alberta, including bighorn sheep, bears, salmon, elk, moose, and caribou.
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Public events documented by Witschl include Edmonton's Heritage Days and Klondike Days, the closing of the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, marches and parades through Edmonton's downtown, a pageant and powwow to mark the 100th anniversary of the signing of Treaty 6 at Dried Meat Hill (Ka-Ke-Wuk), the christening of Mount Michener (which features Peter Lougheed and Rt. Hon. Daniel Roland Michener), and 1967 centennial celebrations in Edmonton (featuring Lester Pearson and Edmonton mayor Vincent Dantzer).

Witschl, Wolfgang

von Berg family fonds

  • PAA paa-9707
  • Fonds
  • 1957-1993

The fonds consists of films and videos that were created by Victor von Berg and document family activities as well as events and activities related to the Edmonton Soaring Club and the Phoenix Club. Footage includes glider and small-engine plane flights around Alberta and British Columbia, water skiing, the construction of facilities at Lake Isle, church services at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and family excursions to Jasper, California, Mexico, and around Alberta. There is also a video of Victor narrating his life story.
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The remainder of the material was created by Reinhard von Berg and focuses on his family in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

von Berg family

Peter Svarich fonds

  • PAA paa-9704
  • Fonds
  • 1894-1967

The fonds consists of material relating to the activities and;interests of Peter Svarich. The papers include autobiography, diaries, articles, correspondence, certificates, mementos, financial records, photographs, artwork, printed material, maps, blueprints and more.

St. John's Institute, Edmonton

Murray Family fonds

  • PAA paa-9699
  • Fonds
  • 1892-[197?]

The fonds consists of black and white photographs of members of the Murray family, their farm, the Leduc area, a logging camp in Entwistle, and a camp in Wildwood; photo postcards, mostly of the Edmonton area, some colour, some black and white, dating c. 1910-1930 some of which contain correspondence sent to Ellen Murray from her daughter Mary in Edmonton, and what may be a promotional postcard booklet; correspondence relating to John Murray's involvement in the creation of the West Union Public School District, No. 753, in 1902; and materials relating to John and Ellen Murray including their marriage certificate, 1889, letters from John to Ellen when he was in Vancouver, 1892-1893, a Dominion Lands Tax Receipt for their homestead in the Leduc area, 1899, a letter to John and Ellen from her [sister] S. Tripp in 1912, a receipt for John's tombstone, 1920, a tax notice for the Leduc property from 1938, and other ephemera.

Murray Family

Lillian Maude McLachlan Fonds

  • PAA paa-9697
  • Fonds
  • [193?]-2009

The fonds consists of the memoir of Lillian McLachlan's experiences as a homesteader in the Dunvegan area of Alberta including original handwritten drafts, sections transcribed by other family members, additional family information contributed by other family members, and a typewritten copy of the memoir created for a family reunion with an index created by wife of Dr. Robin McLachlan (c. 1930s-2009). It also includes a short typed memoir about Lillian McLachlan written by her son Clifford and a mimeographed letter from the Old Timers Association, Fairview, 1969, calling for contributions for a local history being produced.

McLachlan, Lillian Maude

Empress, Alberta

  • PAA paa-9690
  • Fonds
  • [193?]

The photograph depicts the town of Empress, AB with the Empress Hotel featured prominently.

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