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County of Forty Mile No. 8 fonds

  • PAA paa-8605
  • Fonds
  • [1932 -- 1970]

The fonds consists of includes minutes, cashbooks, assessment rolls and registers, cash book receipts, auditors financial statements, and tax rolls dating from ca. 1932 -- 1967. In addition, the fonds includes a map illustrating the land boundaries of the County of Forty Mile No. 8.

County of Forty Mile No. 8

Confederation and Alberta Provincial Autonomy collection

  • PAA paa-9266
  • Collection
  • Copied 1966

The collection consists of photographs of correspondence, orders-in-council, memorandum, drafts, and resolutions copied from the Library and Archives Canada related to the confederation of Canada and the provincial autonomy of Alberta.

Côté family fonds

  • PAA paa-9725
  • Fonds
  • [1920-1988]

The fonds is composed of various papers, genealogical material and photographs concerning the Côté family and its activities in Alberta.

Côté family

David E. Brown fonds

  • PAA paa-7147
  • Fonds
  • 1930

Fonds consists of a copied album, entitled Land Settlement Central and Northern Alberta, 1930, Department of Immigration and Colonization, Canadian Pacific Railway containing 85 images which depict immigrants who arrived in central and northern Alberta between 1928-1930 to homestead, and their farms, agricultural machinery, buildings, and livestock. The album also contains commentary about the homesteaders and the various costs associated with farming. There are also some panoramic views.

Brown, David 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

Girouxville Museum Photograph Collection

  • PAA paa-9518
  • Collection
  • Copied 1973 (originally created 1900 - 1940)

The collection consists of photographs originating from the Girouxville Museum. The photographs feature scenes of Giouxville and Grouard, Alberta in the early part of the 20th century.

Girouxville Museum

Gus Dotto fonds

  • PAA paa-7626
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1983

The fonds consists of images, from Canmore, Edson and Cadomin, Alberta, of hunting and hunting camps, a pack train, first aid training, views of Edson, a heated sleigh, the Cadomin baseball team, a mine near Cadomin, and the Red Cross school group.

Dotto, Gus

Héritage Franco-albertain collection

  • PAA paa-7173
  • Collection
  • [ca. 1895]-1975

The collection consists of some of the records collected through the Héritage Franco-albertain project in effort to preserve Franco-Albertan songs, dances, recipes, autobiographies, histories, and photographs. The collection includes a biography of Alphonse Corbière, a photocopy of a 1910 letter from Alexandre Mahé, photocopies of a poem and traditional songs collected by Henri Hétu, an autobiography of Joseph O. Tremblay, a photocopied history of François-Xavier Gauthier's family, photocopied financial reports from the Legal, Alberta parish and photographs from a number of different individuals: Bertha Lafrance, M. and Mme. Olivier Lafleur, Zéa Piquette, Maurice Langlais, Sister Antoinette Trudel, Monseigneur Raymond Roy, Diane Rémillard, M. and Mme. Adrien Pelletier, Ladislas Messier, Paul Montpetit, Jeanne Bilodeau, Jos L'Heureux, Aldège and Thérèse Arcand, M. and Mme. Ferrier Laflamme, Thérèse Beaudain, Yvette Laflamme, Carmen Maisonneuve, Lucienne Baril, Angélina Gobeil, Annette Bérubé, Alouisia Dansereau, Elizabeth Royer, Soeur Emile Hermary, Aimé Auger, Joseph Brosseau, Sarah Charest, Léopold Magnan, M. and Mme. Maurice Magnan, Alexina Zrion, Germaine Hurtubise, Thérèse Richard, Renée Labrecque, Jeanne Pivert and Marguerite Audet. The images, both original and copied, date from circa (ca.) 1895 to 1951, feature Beaumont, Bonnyville, Edmonton, Falher, Legal, Plamondon, Spirit River, Slave Lake, Girouxville, and the Grand Prairie, Red Deer and Lethbridge areas, as well as a few from Saskatchewan and Manitoba, and are of schools, churches, stores, houses, trades, automobiles and trucks, sports, farming, agricultural machinery, families, weddings, rites and ceremonies, musicians, children and town views.

Héritage Franco-albertain

Hicks family fonds

  • PAA paa-9568
  • Fonds
  • 1910-1959

The fonds consists of photographs and textual material related to the Hicks family and their homestead in northern Alberta.

Hicks (family)

A. Clayton Milroy fonds

  • PAA paa-6701
  • Fonds
  • Copied 1971-1977

Collection consists of records dating 1912-1973 and includes a report on the Canada Land and Irrigation Company Limited, which contains maps and photographs of areas in Medicine Hat, Alberta, a report entitled The Lost Mine of the Saskatchewan, and a brief history of Medicine Hat. Fonds also includes various photographs relating to engineering, railroads, land and irrigation, and farming.

Milroy, A. Clayton

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