Fonds contains: 1 black and white magazine clipping photograph of Mr. & Mrs. Visscher (192-?); 1 black and white print of the Visscher family (1923); A joint Canadian Passport for Luite and Johanna Visscher (October 5, 1936); A Canadian Registration Board Certificate for Johanna Visscher (June 22, 1918); A Rolling Hiils School public health notice regarding Johanna Visscher (July 22, 1929); a deposit slip [in Dutch] for passage on the ship S.S. Virginian from Rotterdam, Netherlands to ? for Ms. Johanna Japin (January 31, 1911); a ticket for Ms J. Japin sailing on the S.S. Virginian from Liverpool to Halifax, N.S (March 11, 1911); a ticket, possibly for Mr. Luite Visscher, for travel on the S.S Virginian from Liverpool to Halifax, NS (March 4, 1910); a share certificate for one share in the Southern Alberta Co-operative Association Ltd issued to L. Visscher (October 1, 1942); Marriage certificate for Luite Visscher and Johanna Japin (March 17, 1911); A notice [in Dutch] from the Netherlands Minister of War permitting Luite Visscher to stay in North America until 1915 (February 1913).
The fonds consists of Ernest Brookes’s certificate of award of the Military Medal; documentation of his acquisition of land from the Soldier Settlement Board; his marriage certificate; invoices and receipts; his application for employment with the Civil Service of Canada; his portrait (ca. 1910); snapshot of his sister’s family (Mrs. Arthur Gyatt of Hussar, Alberta, ca. 1920s); and a snapshot of Ernest, Emily, and Alice Brookes (ca. 1930s).
Fonds consist of approximately 200 mages of the Sillak family at Elkwater and farming near Josefsburg (Josephburg, Josephsburg). Included are many images related to the Flath family in Elkwater.
The fonds consists of an excerpt from Anne's journal, "My Journey to This Rich New Rich Land" which tells the story of her journey with her mother, Suzanne Kapusta, to Canada in order to meet her father, Andy, on a homestead in 1938. Chapter 2 tells about the family's decision to come north to the Flying Shot Lake area where Ann and John farmed and raised their family.
