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Leo Pantel fonds

  • CA GPR 0053
  • Fonds
  • 1942-1947

The fonds consists of one Royal Canadian Air Force Pilot’s Log Book recording training, duty and teaching activities from 1942-1945 and containing documents such as a Pilot’s Responsibility form and Certificate of Proficiency; a Statement of War Service Gratuity from the Department of National Defence, War Service Badge permission card; Personnel Counselling Report from the Air Force; and an Honourable Release Certificate from the Air Force.

Pantel, Leo

Lewis Garfield Walters fonds

  • CA GPR 0685
  • Fonds
  • 1919-1959

This fonds contains records related to Walters’ war service, his farm, and teaching experience.

These records consist of one black and white photograph, nd, 1 notebook, 4 Weekly Farm Record and Journal of Receipt and Expenses, 1 cloth bound journal, a Dispersal Certificate, a Discharge Certificate, and 1 journal page for April 1925.

Walters, Lewis Garfield

Louise Travis fonds

  • CA GPR 0189
  • Fonds
  • 1924-1977

The fonds consists of 13 early photographs of picnics, parades, and gatherings with friends, Mr. Ryley's involvement with Grande Prairie Municipal Hospital Board, the return of the Fifth Anti-Tank Regiment celebration featuring the new Governor General, Field Marshall Earl Alexander, and 2 photographs of Louise Ryley Travis with former Grande Praire friends in Calgary. Also included are 8 post cards of Grande Prairie and area.

Travis, Louise

Lunde family fonds

  • CA GPR 0517
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900]-1979

The fonds consists of personal papers and photographs belonging to members of the Lunde family. The fonds includes a 1927 Norweigian passport issued to Marie Bernfine Jorgensen Lunde, Olaf Lunde's 1941 National War Services Regulations (Recruits), Olaf Lunde's 1952 car insurance policy, the County of Grande Prairie's 1960 Auditor's Financial Statement and Annual Report of the Agricultural Service Board addressed to Jorenson O. Lunde, the 1961 United Farmers of Alberta Co-operative Limited List of Members and Nomination Paper Sub-District "G-31", and a Christmas card and note sent in 1979 from Olaf to J. Lunde at LaGlace.

The fonds also includes thirteen photographs believed to be of or have been sent to the Lunde family, although some of them may be Postman family photographs, since the two collections were mixed together at one point. The photographs include school, family, and wedding portraits, a platoon photograph, and photographs of family members and houses.

The records have been separated from the Postman family records (see fonds 515) and arranged in chronological order by the Archivist.

Lunde family

Marie Henning fonds

  • CA GPR 0176
  • Fonds
  • 1939-1958

The fonds consists of copies of news articles related to family members, clubs that Marie was involved in, sports news, and news of the local boys during WWII, the obituary and copy of the tribute at her funeral; and photographs and booklets related to her involvement in the Stagette Club.

Henning, Marie

Marion Hill fonds

  • CA GPR 0341
  • Fonds
  • 1920-2008

The fonds consists of five photograph albums documenting the life of Marion Hill, including her childhood in Beaverlodge and White Rock, B.C.; her life as a young adult in Beaverlodge, White Rock and Victoria; her teaching career in Beaverlodge and Victoria; and her life as an Navy WREN from 1944-1946. The papers include a series of Grade 9 High School Entrance examinations in mathematics, science, health education, english language and literature, and general knowledge; and brochures from musical and dramatic events from 1975-1979 which were preserved by her daughter.

Hill, Marion

Martha Jensen, RCAF, WD

  • CA GPR 0265
  • Fonds
  • Copied 2006 [1942]

The fonds consists of ten photographs relating to Martha Jensen's career in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Women's Division. They include two of her in uniform, six taken at Linton Air Base, and two of the work of demobilization.

Head, Martha

Navy League of Canada, Grande Prairie Branch fonds

  • CA GPR 0628
  • Fonds
  • 1961-1971

The fonds consists of the original certificate of Warrant from the Navy League of Canada, attendance records for the Mic Mac Corps from 1961 to 1971, a manual titled "The Regulations for the Administration of Navy League Cadet Corps", and another manual titled "Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Manual". The latter manual is for the Sea Cadets, which was an older group than the Navy Cadets.

Navy League of Canada, Grande Prairie Branch

Percy Romkey fonds

  • CA GPR 0058
  • Fonds
  • 1926-1955

The fonds consists of a soldier’s service book and pay book for the Canadian Army for 1944-1945; and one account book with 15 pages of records of accounts payable and receivable. Accounts are related to homesteading and agriculture.

Romkey, Percy

R. Kay Trelle fonds

  • CA GPR 0438
  • Fonds
  • 1924-2011

The fonds consists of Kay’s personal papers; his ideas as an engineer; the records of the N.E.W. Systems Ltd. company which he founded with two partners; patent applications for his inventions; files containing his designs and working papers for his original ideas, such as an expandable mobile housing unit, alternative energies, pyramidology, geodesic dome structures, and the magnet motor; files containing his work history, designs and working papers for projects such as helicopter design for Hiller Helicopters, the Boeing 747 Drone Carrier, the high sea system with capsule for Lockheed Petroleum Services, the Trident Amphibian aircraft, and his work at TRIUMF, Canada’s meson facility based at the University of British Columbia.
The photographs in this fonds are of the construction and finished prototype of the expandable mobile housing unit, and of the modified Boeing 747 commercial aircraft redesigned as a Drone Carrier.
Blueprints include 12 hand-drawn plans on graph paper for the testing of the components of the expandable mobile housing unit, 53 diazo plans related to the Boeing 747 Drone Carrier project, and 1 diazo plan for the Trident Amphibian aircraft.
The sound recording is an interview with Mae Trelle, in January 2011, regarding Kay’s life and work.
The files were retained in their original format, as Mr. Trelle had created them, with the same file label on each individual file. The order within the files, and the order of the files themselves were sometimes adjusted for date as Mr. Trelle appeared to keep the more recent files in a different location, as if he was working on the current files.

Trelle, Roy Kay

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