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Dixon Family fonds

  • PAA paa-8443
  • Fonds
  • [1920]

The fonds consists of 37 photographs of members of the Dixon family, and other individuals working at harvest on homesteads in Alberta in [1920.]

Dixon (family)

Dominion Agencies Limited fonds

  • PAA paa-7371
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1925

Fonds consists of the business records of the Dominion Agencies Limited and includes income tax returns, correspondence, financial records, applications for stock, notes, newspaper clippings, capital share summaries, tax notices, receipts, telegrams, reports, oil surveys, share purchasing contracts, land transfers and agreements, a technical drawing for and oil well electric heater, and photographs depicting funerals in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, boats, ships, a hunting party, buildings, and various unidentified men and women. Some records of General Agencies Limited and Western Consolidated Oils Limited may be intermingled with the records of the Dominion Agencies. The fonds has been divided into the following series: Financial records; Resource Development records; Land records; Photographs.

Dominion Agencies

Don Spence fonds

  • PAA paa-9150
  • Fonds
  • 1975

The fonds comprises 1 audio reel featuring an interview conducted in Lebanese with Muhammad Awid discussing his life in Edmonton as an early immigrant. Don Spence recorded the interview in 1975 as part of the Religious Diversity Series at the University of Alberta.

Spence, Don

Donald M. Stewart fonds

  • PAA paa-7453
  • Fonds
  • 1844-1979

The fonds consists of 2 printer's proofs and 27 original land scrips for the purchase of Dominion lands, including predominantly scrips granted by the North-West Half-Breed Commission (Dominion of Canada, Department of the Interior), but also colonization scrips, and scrips for military service, originals dating 1844 to 1909, and the three journals in which Donald M. Stewart's article installments were published.

Stewart, Donald M.

Donald Roderick Cameron fonds

  • PAA paa-8705
  • Fonds
  • 1864-[187-]

The fonds consists of a diary, a photograph of Captain Donald Roderick Cameron and photographs of the International Boundary Commission.

Cameron, Donald Roderick

Dron family fonds

  • PAA paa-9728
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1933

The fonds consists of correspondence, other personal papers and images of the Dron family.

Dron (family)

E. Kendrick fonds

  • PAA paa-9386
  • Fonds
  • 1928-1936

The fonds consists of a notebook detailing the activities of E. Kendrick. The notebook refers to weather, harvesting, and also contains verses, and dates from 1928 --1936.

Kendrick, E.

Edmonton Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission fonds

  • PAA paa-9514
  • Fonds
  • 1950 - 1972

The fonds consists of material created by the Edmonton Regional Metropolitan Planning Commission including site plans created by the Commission in 1966 for the communities of Alcomdale and Mearns, Ardrossan, Glenevis, Magnola, Gunn, Kaunagh, Looma, Namoa, Nisku, Riviere Qui-Barre, Rochford Bridge, Rollyview, Sherwood Park, Sunnybrook, Tomahawk, Telfordville, Villeneuve, Calmar, Devon, Fort Saskatchewan, Leduc, Mayterthrope, Morinville, Stony Plain, Bon Accord, Breton, Entwistle, Gibbons, Legal, New Sarepta, Onaway, Sanguido, Thorsby, Spruce Grove, and Warburg; a map created by the Commission in 1964 displaying Edmonton and Environs; and a 1972 report created by the Commission entitled "Report of Market Areas and Service Centres Edmonton Regional Planning Commission Area."

Edmonton Metropolitan Regional Planning Commission

Edo Nyland fonds

  • PAA paa-9538
  • Fonds
  • 1886 - 1971

The fonds consists of material acquired by Edo Nyland and includes a map featuring Townships 53 to 68 between the 4th and 5th Meridian in Alberta dating from 1886; a copy of a map of the North-West Territories in 1877; copies of photographs featuring the Cooking Lake Forest Reserve dating from the early part of the 20th century; and diaries of two homesteaders dating from 1917 to 1925. The fonds also includes material related to an article Edo Nyland published in the 1969 edition of Alberta entitled, "Lost Loggers Railway Found" including research notes, photographs of a logging camp in the early part of the 20th century as well as maps and photographs taken in 1968 featuring the area of Connor Creek Brown Zone.

Nyland, Edo

Edward McDonnell fonds

  • PAA paa-8727
  • Fonds
  • 1879-1935

The fonds consists of commemoratory certificates, financial records, personal correspondence, and records related to McDonnell's transactions with the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society from 1879 to 1935. The documents also describe key moments in what appears to be the bankruptcy of Edward McDonnell's farm near Clandonald Alberta.

Edward McDonnell

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