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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

Walter Mazurkewich fonds

  • CA GPR 0551
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1941]-1945

The fonds consists of 15 photographs of the Polish Free Army in Italy, collected by soldier Walter Mazurkewich during WW II.

Mazurkewich, Walter

John Ernest Spry fonds

  • CA GPR 0560
  • Fonds
  • 1941-1946

The fonds consists of a log book from the Royal Canadian Air Force for 1941-1945. The log records a brief description of each mission flown, the pilot's name and the date.

Spry, John Ernest

Doreen Cooke fonds

  • CA GPR 0565
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1900-1947]

The fonds consists of 29 photographs and one certificate. The photographs include 4 military photos of platoons and regiments from Grande Prairie during World War II, 20 photos of nurses who worked at the Grande Prairie Municipal Hospital, and 3 of nurses on a bowling team. There are also two early family photos from the Boyd and Cooke families: one of the wedding of Jen Boyd and blacksmith Bob Barley ca. 1900, and the other of a group at the Boyd sawmill in 1945. The certificate is for Donald Cooke Grade 2 Piano.

Cooke, Doreen

John Sinclair fonds

  • CA GPR 0571
  • Fonds
  • 1930-2007

The fonds consists of financial records 1960-2007, personal papers that contain correspondence from family and friends as well as photographs 1940-2007, military information including a copy of John's WWII service record, a 1930 edition of the Fortyniner and a D-Day Reunion Tour book 1994, as well as photographs, and 4 maps of the communities of Wabasca, Falher and West of the Sixth and Fourth Meridian.

Sinclair, John

Lassiter Project fonds

  • CA GPR 0587
  • Fonds
  • 1953-1954

The fonds consists of one ledger detailing crop failures in the Wanham Lassiter Project from 1953-1954. The first part of the ledger has five pages containing a list of landowners, land locations, lease numbers and file numbers. One page of the list covers Township 82, Ranges 10-11, West of the 6th Meridian, which is in the Silver Valley area north-west of Spirit River. The remainder of the book contains township map forms with hand-drawn physical features and the names of landowners for use in crop failure calculations. In the back of the ledger is a ca. 1950 linen map of the Peace Country showing lands surveyed, roads, and communities.

Lassiter Project

Gordon Morrison fonds

  • CA GPR 0589
  • Fonds
  • 1915-1935

The fonds consists of World War I records from 1915-1929; correspondence from 1926-1935; financial records from 1916-1934; and photographs from ca. 1915-1930.

Morrison, Gordon

Ethel Buck fonds

  • CA GPR 0597
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1942-1950]

The fonds consists of 14 photographs of Ethel Foote, her cousin Ray Rappel, Jean Goff and Ray's other friends in England, and Ray's wife Rosina. There is also Ethel's war registration card, and a 16 page letter from Rosina to Ethel in September 1944, written in response to Ethel's first letter to her. At the time, Rosina was already married/engaged to Ray and had applied to come to Canada.

Buck, Ethel

Clarence & Nora Shields Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0627
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1895]-2003

The fonds consists of records relating to the Shields family. The records include Nora Shields’ personal and financial papers, the Shields family tree, early and later photographs from the Shields’ as well as the Dionne family, Jack Shields’ military papers and photographs from his experience as a soldier before and during the Korean War, and some military publications that he collected.

The records have been arranged by the Archivists by content and chronology into the various series and files. The Archivists imposed the order now shown by the records.

The records are divided into six series: Nora Shields Personal Papers, Nora Shields’ Financial Records, Shields’ Family Photographs, Jack Shields Korean War Records, Korean War Publications.

Shields family

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

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