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Historical Society of Medicine Hat and District fonds

  • CA MED med-33
  • Archief
  • 1947-2017

Consists of minutes plus related documents (1947-2015, incomplete); Society papers including constitutions, bylaws, and incorporations records; administration records including membership, financial reports, guest registers, and insurance; historical research including written biographies, 45 audio recordings and interviews of early pioneers (1950-1981), over 30 video interviews conducted as part of the Living History project (2011-2021) as well as subject files, student papers, and records of the Preservation and Research Committee; special projects such as Altaglass inventories and sales, centennial projects (including working towards a new museum building, and the short-lived Historic Resource Development Alliance; Publications including the Bulletin and Smoke Signals newsletters (1972-2008), as well as miscellaneous historical materials including Cummins Rural Directory maps, pamphlets, envelopes and other minor ephemera.

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White family fonds

  • CA MED 378
  • Archief
  • 1886-1993

The fonds consists of: a biography of the Naismith and Allen families (undated); correspondence from the Oxarart Ranch/Maple Creek Cattle Co./Wylie Ranch (1896-1899); receipt book of W.R. Abbott for guns and ammuntition used during the Riel Rebellion (1886); research papers (2) entitled "Indians of the Cypress Hills" (1980), and "Ranching in the Cypress Hills: 1883-1910" by Donny White (1980); pamphlet of the Old Timers Association (Maple Creek) with membership list (1981); history of the Garrison Family by Judy Ann Tuttle Garrison (1982); certificate issued to Henry Sorensen (1947); Defense Research Board award certificate issued to Henry Sorensen (1957); retirement certificate from I-XL Industries Ltd. issued to Henry Sorensen (undated); Community Centennial Train, CP Rail Station, O.S. Maple Creek posters (1983); 1994 Maple Creek Souvenir Calendar (1993); research notes made by Donny White from interviews with Walt Fenrick in 1988-1989; booklets (2) entitled the Fur Trade Journal (1944, 1953); unused stationery from Medicine Hat Fur Breeders Co-op and Fenrick Fur Farms (undated); hand drawn diagrams (2) of the Exhibition Grounds, ca. 1930, drawn by Donny White from information supplied by Bill Woolfrey and Lorne Thompson Sr. (undated); images of various views and residents of Maple Creek, the White family, and views of DRES; 8 Misc. photographs possibly pertaining to the White family members of ranch life and horses (ca. 1928).

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Lewis Garfield Walters fonds

  • CA GPR 0685
  • Archief
  • 1919-1959

This fonds contains records related to Walters’ war service, his farm, and teaching experience.

These records consist of one black and white photograph, nd, 1 notebook, 4 Weekly Farm Record and Journal of Receipt and Expenses, 1 cloth bound journal, a Dispersal Certificate, a Discharge Certificate, and 1 journal page for April 1925.

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Vader-Grimm Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0676
  • Archief
  • 1800-2018

This fonds contains records related to the Grimm, Vader, and Scott families. The material is largely concerned with time spent in Rycroft but this fonds also contains records created in Nebraska, Spirit River, and Calgary. The records consist of approximately 1500 photographs and negatives depicting farm life, school classes, locations, and people; newspaper clippings, pamphlets; posters; 2 family histories; 2 undated and unlabeled photograph albums; account books; and certificates.

The fonds has been arranged into the following series: Vader Family (1800-1980), Grimm family (1800-1980), and Ora and Edith [Vader] Grimm (1908-2008).

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Walter McNaughton fonds

  • CA GPR 0666
  • Archief
  • [ca. 1945]

This fonds consists of a collection Edmonton papers from the end of the war and two prayer cards.

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Thew Family collection

  • CA GPR 0636
  • Collectie
  • [1941-1945]

The collection consists of 17 photographs of Grande Prairie including parades, a rubber drive, Frank Donald's funeral, Alaska Highway machinery, and aircraft.

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Gass Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0631
  • Archief
  • [ca. 1880-2014]

The fonds consists of records relating to the Gass family. They are divided into four series: Ignatz and Katherine Gass, Thomas Gass, Gass family miscellaneous papers and Gass family photographs. There was no discernable order when the records arrived and an order was created by the archivist.

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Navy League of Canada, Grande Prairie Branch fonds

  • CA GPR 0628
  • Archief
  • 1961-1971

The fonds consists of the original certificate of Warrant from the Navy League of Canada, attendance records for the Mic Mac Corps from 1961 to 1971, a manual titled "The Regulations for the Administration of Navy League Cadet Corps", and another manual titled "Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Manual". The latter manual is for the Sea Cadets, which was an older group than the Navy Cadets.

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Clarence & Nora Shields Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0627
  • Archief
  • [ca. 1895]-2003

The fonds consists of records relating to the Shields family. The records include Nora Shields’ personal and financial papers, the Shields family tree, early and later photographs from the Shields’ as well as the Dionne family, Jack Shields’ military papers and photographs from his experience as a soldier before and during the Korean War, and some military publications that he collected.

The records have been arranged by the Archivists by content and chronology into the various series and files. The Archivists imposed the order now shown by the records.

The records are divided into six series: Nora Shields Personal Papers, Nora Shields’ Financial Records, Shields’ Family Photographs, Jack Shields Korean War Records, Korean War Publications.

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Ethel Buck fonds

  • CA GPR 0597
  • Archief
  • [ca. 1942-1950]

The fonds consists of 14 photographs of Ethel Foote, her cousin Ray Rappel, Jean Goff and Ray's other friends in England, and Ray's wife Rosina. There is also Ethel's war registration card, and a 16 page letter from Rosina to Ethel in September 1944, written in response to Ethel's first letter to her. At the time, Rosina was already married/engaged to Ray and had applied to come to Canada.

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