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Wilber D. Holland fonds

  • PAA paa-9658
  • Fonds
  • 1943-2006

The fonds consists of photographs taken by Holland during the course of his work as a pedologist at several of his work sites in Sri Lanka, Chile, and across Alberta and other Canadian locations. Specifically, the images show measurements, digs, surveys, and Holland and his colleagues in the field. There are also images from Holland's personal life including family photos, photos and slides of Holland's gardens and rose bushes, and photos and slides taken while travelling, including time spent in Chile and Sri Lanka. The remainder of the fonds consists of 8mm film of Holland's personal and professional life and Holland's incomplete auto-biography.

Holland, Wilber D.

Wilhelmine and August Falkenberg fonds

  • PAA paa-8686
  • Fonds
  • [1893 -- 1910]

The fonds consists of 2 framed photographs featuring Wilhelmine and Augsut Falkenberg dating from ca. 1893--1910.

Falkenberg, Wilhelmine

Willard Dean Trimble fonds

  • PAA paa-7461
  • Fonds
  • Copied ca. 1904-1969

Fonds consists of copy photographs of newspaper halftone photographs dating circa (ca.) 1883 to ca. 1925 which depict various people, streets, buildings, businesses, churches, horse and carriages, sports events, and farms in the Red Deer, Alberta area.

Trimble, Willard Dean

William Begert fonds

  • PAA paa-8619
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1944

The fonds consists of certificates, photographs, and financial records relating to William Begert's farm in Cornation, Alberta, and his marriage to Rosa Belle Finch dating from [1912] to 1944.

Begert, William

William Bell fonds

  • PAA paa-8889
  • Fonds
  • 1939 - 1952

The fonds consists of the personal records of William Bell including a certificates and licenses documenting his training and accomplishments in the dairy trade, a report from the 21st annual meeting of the Northern Alberta Dairy Pool Ltd., a Canadian Red Cross Volunteer Donor Card, ration books, and membership cards and receipts for the Masons and the St. Paul Fish and Game Association dating from 1939 to 1952.

Bell, William

William C. Marshall family fonds

  • PAA paa-48
  • Fonds
  • 1880-1929

Fonds consists of records belonging to various members of the William C. Marshall family including postcards, report cards, newspaper clippings, programs and land sale agreements.

William C. Marshall family

William Cooper Shaw fonds

  • PAA paa-6550
  • Fonds
  • 1883-1937

Fonds consists of correspondence, registration of birth, pamphlets, bank cheques, telegrams, diaries, financial records, game regulations, photographic postcards, as well as instructions to police magistrates and Justice of the Peace. Photographs depict an alcohol still from a bootlegging liquor operation, other police photographs and portraits. Material has been arranged in chronological order.

Shaw, William Cooper

William Hastings McMahon fonds

  • PAA paa-6843
  • Fonds
  • 1888-1912

Fonds consists of photographs depicting William Hastings McMahon and images of some of his cartoons. Fonds also includes a copy of the Edmonton Plaindealer newspaper.

McMahon, William Hastings

William Henry and Edwin Henry Turton fonds

  • PAA paa-7330
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1971

The fonds includes newspaper clippings, a Cree election pamphlet (1911), Alberta: A Land for Living magazines, Gyro Club of Edmonton roster book, a copy of Jerry Potts, plainsman (by Hugh Dempsay), a copy of The Prairie Garden (magazine), certificates belonging to Harry and Edwin Henry Turton, a marriage certificate for Kenneth Campbell MacLeod and Winifred Viola Macdonald (1920), booklets about Freemasonry, Jacques De Molay (order of De Molay) and the Grand Lodge of Alberta, a souvenir program of 1939 Royal Visit, a booklet of Alberta Historic Sites, Clarence Tillenius wildlife and prairie prints, and photographs and photographic postcards mostly dating circa (ca.) 1909 to 1915 and 1952, including Grouard, Sawridge, Sturgeon Lake, Peace River, Dunvegan, Athabasca Landing and the areas around Lesser Slave Lake, and include Cree Nation Chiefs Moostoosh and Kinisāoo, the Peace River landing, the first car in Grouard, Sturgeon Lake Mission, churches, local people, mail delivery, homesteads, main streets, horses and carts, stores, buildings, bridges, snowploughs, dogsleds, Indigenous peoples, as well as photographs and photographic postcards of Fort Edmonton, views of Edmonton, the 1915 Edmonton flood, 19th Alberta Dragoons, First World War Honour rolls, soldiers, mountain scenes around Banff, portraits of John Stocks, L.C. Charlesworth, H.P. Keith, J.D. Robertson, G.H.N. Monkman, Peter Tomkins, Kenneth MacLeod, Winifred Macdonald, and postcards from Bath, Folkestone and Taunton, England.

Turton, William Henry (Harry)

William James Fraser fonds

  • PAA paa-8000
  • Fonds
  • 1908

The fonds consists of two photographs, one of the Jackson Coulee Post Office and residents, and one of the Fraser homestead and family in Jackson Coulee, and a list of the children of Colin Fraser, who died April 19, 1867.

Fraser, William James

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