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Norman Bowles fonds

  • RED MG 242
  • Fonds
  • 1884-[ca. 1996]

The fonds includes photographs and correspondence of Mary T. Bowles concerning her volunteer service with the Red Cross in Red Deer; photographs of pupils in schools where Norman Bowles taught; class records of his students (ca. 1947-ca. 1949); news stories on Red Deer submitted to metropolitan newspapers by Norman as a freelance local correspondent (1942-1943); a scrapbook and collected pamphlets and posters on Social Credit and Alberta politics (1935-1943); and scrapbooks on the Red Deer Board of Trade and the Dieppe Raid. Includes historic documents collected by Norman Bowles: township survey map of Twp. 38, Ra. 28 W. of the 4th Meridian (Red Deer area, 1884); copy of the Calgary Tribune (1893); and oblique aerial photographs of Red Deer (1947). Includes an unrelated colour photocopy of a certificate presented to the Martin family of Red Deer whose four sons volunteered for wartime military service (ca. 1945, copied ca. 1996)

Bowles, Norman

Maki family fonds

  • RED MG 237
  • Fonds
  • 1886-1969

The fonds includes the Maki family's immigration, baptismal, and homestead documents. Includes Gust's First World War service records, and a wartime letter to Mary

Maki, Erik (family)

Jack Reidy fonds

  • RED MG 233
  • Fonds
  • [Ca. 1929-ca. 1960]

The fonds includes Jack Reidy's elementary school class photo (ca. 1929). group portraits of the 20th Field Brigade (1936), photos of the Royal Canadian Artillery at work, miscellaneous wartime photos, collected postcards, collected newspapers, program for the opening of the Red Deer and District War Memorial Centre (1951), and an aerial view of Red Deer (1953)

Reidy, Jack

Fred Michiels fonds

  • RED MG 225
  • Fonds
  • [Ca. 1914]-1945

The fonds consists of Fred Michiels's first aid certificate; a certificate in appreciation of his participation in the Veterans' Volunteer Reserve (1945); and a photo album containing family portraits, photos of military units in Europe, and family postcards from Europe and the U.S. Includes photos of Percy Kent, Fred Anquetil, the 50th Battalion, C.E.F., the Canadian Forestry Corp, and Canadian participants in the Victory Day Parade in London, 1919.

Michiels, Fred

Gaetz-Cornett Drug and Book Company fonds

  • RED MG 223
  • Fonds
  • 1892-1974

The fonds consists of balance sheets of the Gaetz-Cornett Drug and Book Company, minutes, correspondence, land titles, prescription information, income tax notices, other financial records, and photographs. The fonds has been arranged into the following six series: financial, legal, administrative, and pharmaceutical records, and Thomas Roy Cornett, and photographs.

Gaetz-Cornett Drug and Book Company (Red Deer, Alta.)

Swanson family fonds

  • RED MG 22
  • Fonds
  • [189-]-1982, predominant 1920-1980

Time books (1937-1962), bridge work files (1951-1963), personnel cards and time sheets (1949-1962), annotated maps (1930-1955). Also contains the records of the Admiral Sir Christopher Craddock chapter of Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire (Red Deer, Alta.)

Swanson (family)

de Wilton family fonds

  • RED MG 21
  • Fonds
  • [1776?]-1965, predominant 1830-1965

The fonds has been arranged into the following six series: theatrical records, legal records, personal records, family memorabilia, published materials, and photographs and consists of photographs of de Wilton family members in England, India, and Canada which includes a wedding photograph of Olive de Wilton and Herbert Warren Cluff in 1915; a photograph album of W. G. Chadwick as a cadet at Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario (1918-1920); assorted press clippings on the careers of Edith Juliette and Olive de Wilton (1915-1955); assorted playbills (1917-1958); various play scripts and screenplays (1926-1961); business records of mainly Olive de Wilton which includes a letter to Boris Karloff (1916-1960); marriage annulment record of Edith Doreen Cluff (1932); will of Sussex de Wilton (1936); personal correspondence of the de Wilton family including the draft of a letter to Boris Karloff (1908-1965); military certificates of Edith J. de Wilton (1916-1919); Edith J.'s scrapbook of a journey to Quetta via the Suez Canal (1887-1888); a painting of a Canadian winter scene; an academic pencil drawing (ca. 1915-1920); a transatlantic passenger liner dinner menu (1948); and books on dramatics and English drama and music (1776-1951). RECORDS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING PERSONS ALSO IN THIS FONDS. SEE FINDING AID FOR DETAILS: Alfred Aldidge, Sedric Barnes, Guy Boulton, W. G. Chadwick, W. M. Charlesworth, A. W. de Wilton, Edith de Wilton, Sussex de Wilton, Brian Doherty, Lady Dufferin, Jack Harp, Robert Henderson, Boris Karloff, Carrie Lamart, S. F. Makepeace, Lady Roberts, Sir Oriel Viveash Tanner, Lady Tanner, the Twinkling Stars, Edward J. Wood. PLAYWRIGHTS: Olive de Wilton, Michael Dyre, Charlotte Haldane, John Latimer, Richard Meadows-White, Molly Marguerite, Florida Scott-Maxwell. OTHER SUBJECTS: Ben Greet Players, Brian Doherty Theatre Productions, Canadian Players, Civic Theatre Association, Lynn Hardings Scala Theatre, Mercury Theatre, Montreal Repertory Theatre, National Film Board of Canada, Northern Repertory Theatre, Red Barn Theatre, Royal Alexandra Theatre, and Sir Frank Benson's Shakespearean Theatre.

de Wilton (family)

Terence Oldford fonds

  • RED MG 207
  • Fonds
  • 1934-1990

The fonds includes Red Deer High School student newspapers and yearbooks (1930s); a pamphlet on the history of the Red Deer Rotary Club (1955); postcard depicting the interior of the Club Cafe, Red Deer (ca. 1960); maps and photographs from Terence Oldford's military career in Alberta and in Europe; and an autobiographical account of his military career (1990)

Oldford, Terence

George Kerr fonds

  • RED MG 201
  • Fonds
  • 1930-1994

The fonds consists of the following series: Penhold Military material and Personal Material. The Penhold Military material includes training manuals for Air Cadets; issues of Penhold, the newspaper of the Penhold Cadet Camp (1983-1990); Harvard Flyer, the newspaper of CFB Penhold (1988-1994); photographs of curling bonspiels and other social events (1983-1990); copies of historic photographs of RCAF Station Penhold as well as air fields at Bowden and High River (originally created 1944-1961). The Personal Material series contains photographs of George Kerr's elementary and high school classes in Red Deer (originally created 1940s, 1952), as well as miscellanious correspondence.

Kerr, George

Thomas Hall collection : [1916-1919]

  • RED MG 20
  • Collection
  • Copied 1999

The collection consists of photograph of Thomas A. Hall and his wife Gladys (1916), a copy of his enlistment documents (1919), and a copy of the memorial certificate given to his wife (1923)

Hall, Thomas A.

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