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Provincial Archives of Alberta Exploration, discovery and travel*
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May Family fonds

  • PAA paa-7808
  • Fonds
  • 1886-2014

The fonds includes articles, certificates, correspondence, scrap books, journals, cards, postcards, programs, drafts, publications, magazines, reminisces, booklets, and a screenplay that cover the life of the Mays and individual family members. Subjects of photographs, negatives, slides, and CDs include aviation, the First World War, family life, Vi’s horse riding career, friends, travels, Boy Scouts, ceremonies, and reminisces.

Denny and Margaret May

Gerald S. Anderson fonds

  • PAA paa-3841
  • Fonds
  • 1893-1999

The fonds consists of records that were created and maintained by Gerald S. Anderson which document his careers, interests and hobbies, covering the period of the late 1890’s to 1999. The photographs and negatives cover his travels through Canada, the United States and Europe as well as the Anderson family and Gerald's army training unit.

Gerald S. Anderson

Christina Olsen fonds

  • PAA PR3678
  • Fonds
  • 1953-[2009?]

Fonds consists of records relating to the life and work of Christina Sharon Olsen. The records include a news article from the Calgary Herald published in 2009 detailing Christina’s childhood and experience as a preoperative trans woman living and working in Alberta and overseas; report cards and photographs from Christina’s schooling in Claresholm, Alberta between 1953 and 1965; photographs documenting Christina’s work as a drilling engineer in Africa and Alberta between 1977 and 2000; and photographs of Christina’s cats and visiting wildlife to her acreage west of Calgary taken in the years after her gender reassignment surgery in 2004.

Olsen, Christina Sharon

David Thompson Inventory collection

  • PAA paa-9351
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1968]

The collection consists of an archival inventory of the David Thompson journals held at the Archives of Ontario and exploratory notes on the inventory prepared by the Archives of Ontario circa 1968.

Thompson, David

Edith Roberts fonds

  • PAA paa-9102
  • Fonds
  • 1913 - 1919

The fonds consists of five postcards featuring images of the Blairmore, Alberta area, four postcards featuring images of the Turner Valley oilfields, and one postcard featuring images of the Lethbridge Canadian Pacific Railway Viaduct. The postcards date from 1913 to 1919.

Roberts, Edith

Frank Marleau fonds

  • PAA paa-7013
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1980

The fonds consists of photographs copied from photograph albums of geological survey trips in 1921 and 1922, and primarily includes images of coal mines, mining camps, railroads and towns in Alberta.

Marleau, Frank

First Flight over the Rockies Commemoratory collection

  • PAA paa-8851
  • Collection
  • 1966

The collection consists of material commemorating the first flight over the Canadian Rockies in 1919 by pilot Captain Ernest C. Hoy including two formal invitations for the City of Lethbridge luncheon proceeding the ceremony to unveil a plaque, an official program, photographs, and newspaper clippings dating from 1966.

Gerald Bressmer fonds

  • PAA paa-8622
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1914

The fonds consists of one photo album including views of Grouard, Banff, and Edmonton dating from 1913-1914 taken by an unknown photographer.

Bressmer, Gerald

Hugh Macintyre fonds

  • PAA paa-7420
  • Fonds
  • 1912

The fonds consists of a diary tracing Hugh Macintyre's journey from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Edson, Alberta and primarily from Edson to the Spirit River Settlement, Alberta, near Dunvegan, Alberta.

Macintyre, Hugh

Augustus Clements Finley fonds

  • PAA paa-6982
  • Fonds
  • 1909-1910

Fonds consists of an annotated photograph album entitled "Surveying and prospecting for coal in the wilds of Western Alberta, Canada and British Columbia, during the Spring, Summer and Fall of 1909" containing photographs which depict the survey party led by Augustus Clements Finley. Also included is a list of members in the party and an itinerary compiled by Finley.

Finley, Augustus Clements

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