Fonds consist of records generated in the administration of the Corporation of the City of Wetaskiwin including financial records; public relation and event files; City Council documents including Council minutes, by-laws, Board minutes, correspondence, and journals; City division records related to the hospital, cemetery, land transactions and mapping, engineering and public works files, and a variety of legal/financial records involving various agreements, contracts, certificates, proposals, and insurance files. A significant series of files are those maintained by City Clerk C.J. Brown, retained in their original alphabetic and chronological order, and containing a wealth of information related to the administration of the City, 1949-1960. Other records include photographs of various civic events, and the formal City Council portraits taken annually. Fonds include records now considered part of the Community Services and Operational Services Departments. The Corporate Service Fonds are of value to researchers interested in the history of Wetaskiwin, and serve to place this history in the wider social milieu of setting and place. Information from the earliest years include the travails the City faced in trying to fund the building of a water tower; the completion of the sewer and water program; the development of the provincial phone system; and the establishment of its own light and power plant. The effects of recessions, wars, and an ever-changing relationship with the provincial government are also reflected in these records, and their research value is significant.
City of Wetaskiwin. Corporate Services
