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John & Debbie Buitenhuis Collection

  • CA GPR 0672
  • Archief
  • 1974-1997

This collection contains five scrapbooks of news clippings about local people, sports, and history from the Grande Prairie area.

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Rudiger Schmidt Collection

  • CA GPR 0671
  • Archief
  • [1970-1980]

Dr. Lloyd Austin ran a religious commune on his homestead on the NE6-71-5-W6, southeast of the City of Grande Prairie. This land was homesteaded by Dr. Lloyd Austin ca. 1930 and turned over to Billy Blair after the Austins left the area.

William “Billy” Blair was born in 1886. He worked as a camp cook for Henry Selby, who surveyed land east of the fifth meridian, in 1905.

William Blair died in 1995 and is buried in the Grande Prairie Cemetery.

The material in this collection contains records related to Dr. Lloyd Austin’s religious commune.

The record consists of 15 photographs of the dilapidated buildings of a religious commune located on the NE 6-71-5-W6, on the banks of Bear Creek south-east of the City and one 40-minute oral history.

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John A. (Jack) Crerar Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0663
  • Archief
  • 1915-1940

The fonds consists of four photographs and two documents. The photographs are of Jack Crerar in 1924 and Doug Crerar ca. 1940, Bear Creek Bridge ca. 1915, and a Winter Carnival ca. 1924. The documents are a program for the “First Annual Banquet of Grande Prairie Conservative Association at the Empire Hotel Monday, January 17, 1916”; and a program for the “Third Annual Peace River Musical Festival on May 25 and 26, 1927 at Grande Prairie Alberta.” There is also a legal sheet of paper containing a short history of the Alexander and Sarah Crerar family produced ca. 2000.

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Eunice Maude Leonard fonds

  • CA GPR 0678
  • Archief
  • 1926

This fonds contains records related to Eunice Maude Leonard’s experiences while teaching at Clairmont in 1926. Clairmont, Beaverlodge, and Pouce Coupe are documented, as well as education, farming, and hunting.

These records consist of one typewritten biography by her niece, Marjorie Carlson and thirteen loose photograph album pages.

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Jillian Wright fonds

  • CA GPR 0680
  • Archief
  • 2010

This fonds contains records collected or created by Jillian Wright for her research about surveyors and early pioneers in the Peace Region.

These records consist of two copies of the booklets written by Jillian and copies of the newspaper articles the booklet was based upon.

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Wayne LaRoy Feil fonds

  • CA GPR 0681
  • Archief
  • 1956-1957

This fonds contains records created and collected by Wayne Fiel during his years as a Boy Scout in Grande Prairie.

These records consist of membership cards, scout booklets, troop records, and other ephemera related to the scouting movement. Boy Scout membership and test records of Wolf Patrol #2, belonging to Wayne Feil.

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Camp Tamarack Association fonds

  • CA GPR 0682
  • Archief
  • 1978-2004

This fonds contains records related to the activities of the Camp Tamarack Association, headquartered in Grande Prairie.

These records consist of three scanned to PDF copies of the 1979 – 2000 lease for NW 26-70-6-W6; 1979 – 2004 lease for N half 26-70-6-W6; and the original Tamarack Master Plan. Paper copies are available at the SPRA.

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Grande Prairie Public Health Unit No. 20 fonds

  • CA GPR 0683
  • Archief
  • 1955-1996

This fonds contains records related to the Grande Prairie Public Health Unit No. 20. These records contain information about various aspects of public health including sanitation inspections, dental programs, school programs, and environmental health for northwestern Alberta.

These records consist of an incomplete series of reports. There are thirty booklets and they reflect the changes in the name and mandate of the unit over the years.

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Lewis Garfield Walters fonds

  • CA GPR 0685
  • Archief
  • 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.

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Phyllis Stewart fonds

  • CA GPR 0059
  • Archief
  • 1909-2005

The fonds consists of the records of farm and personal records of the Stewart family, musical scores belonging to the Mattoon family, Phyllis' career as a teacher, farmer, county councillor and member of the Conservative Party; and materials preserved and collected from Bezanson School District 3302. The photographs are mostly of school classes and events.

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