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In 1955, Beth Flint Sheehan undertook a river boat trip on the Peace, from Dunvegan to Hudson’s Hope and back. Her companions on this trip were Mr. & Mrs. W. P. Loggie and their daughters, Isabel and Margaret, who were collecting material that summer on the pioneers of the south Peace and the importance of the river to the development of the country for the Glenbow Archives. The boat was skippered by Harry Taylor. Beth’s diary about this trip concludes that it was “one of the most wonderful experiences I ever expect to have.” This is evidenced by her continued interest in the Peace River for many years after the trip.

The series consists of “‘Firefly’ on the Peace,” the diary written by Beth Sheehan during her river boat excursion in 1955, a scrapbook of news articles kept by Beth from 1956-1979, and some articles on the Peace River written by Margaret Loggie in 1959. There are also files on the history and development of the Peace River with hydro-electric dams such as the Bennett Dam, the boats which plied the Peace and the communities along the Peace River: Hudson’s Hope, Taylor, Fort St. John, Dunvegan, Peace River, Fort Vermilion, and Watino.

The sub-series consists of 6 pages of textual records and 7 photographs. The papers include a history of the Lawrence Bode family, a history of the old stone house, floor plans for the house, a map of where it was located, and a poem by Lorraine (Bode) Nagel about the outhouses at Canuck School, called "Gotta Go."

The sub-series consists of a large number of postcards sent to Jean and Pierre Lozeron, as well as a collection of letters.

Sub-series consists of an recordings related to the Banff Film Festival Tour program.

The sub-series consists of scenes taken around Grande Prairie ca. 1925. Some are professionally taken and matted, stamped as Field’s Studio Photographs, while other are simple snapshots.

This subseries contains photographs from several Royal Canadian Legion District No. 1 Indoor Track & Field Meets. There are also several photographs from the NWASAA Zone Track & Field Championships that were held at Montrose Jr. High School.

The sub-series consists of correspondence, original drawings of historical images submitted for consideration as use for trade dollars, promotional literature, photographs and news clippings. Subjects for the coins include the Trumpeter Swan, Boxing Champion Willie de Wit, Canadian Chuckwagon Championships and chuck-driver Kelly Sutherland, the Canadian Hot Air Balloon Championship and Grande Prairie’s 75th Anniversary. The photographs are of Willie de Wit, the Canadian Chuckwagon trophy, and a display of the original drawings. There are also slides of four of the coins.

The file consists of 187 slides dating from 1954 to 1987 from a variety of locations including the Beaverlodge Experimental Station and the Beaverlodge Nursery.There are slides of spruce, larch, cedar, juniper, birch, and willow, including slides of one of John Wallace's cultivars, the Blue Dunvegan juniper. The slides have been numbered according to their original order within the binder labelled "Spruce, Birch, Juniper, Cedar", but blank spaces originally between some slides have been removed.

The sub-series consists of newspaper and magazine articles which add research material to the history of the Trelle family. It includes “The Mountain Fell on Her Town” by Jessie Bryan about the Frank slide when the Trelles were living in Frank, Alberta; “The Wife of the World’s Wheat King” which appeared in a 1931 Chatelaine Magazine; a 1951 address by J.E. Birdsall (in honour of Gordon Moyer) about the Peace Country grain kings; “Behind Wheat King was Aggression and Controversy” by Ina Bruns in 1979; “Wheat King of the Peace Country” by Eric Holmgren in 1980; and Herman Trelle’s entry in “Alberta, A Heritage of Pride” as one of the top 25 people in Alberta’s history.

The sub-series consists of photographs of the Andrew Trelle family farm from 1915-1921 and the farm auction in 1921; and of the Herman Trelle family farm from 1921-1938. Photographs include the buildings on each farm site; farm labourers such as Erich anderson, Fred Hamm and John Gershman; and the machinery.