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Bagnall Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0625
  • Fonds
  • 1912

The fonds consists of two pages of biography written by the Loggie sisters when they interviewed Dr. Lucy Bagnall in 1955; and a copy of the diary kept by Lucy on a daily basis from May 19 to December 15, 1912. It gives an account of their journey north from Calgary to Grande Prairie, and the first months of their life in the Grande Prairie district. Much of the diary is about building the house; everyday activities such as cooking, washing, and getting food; breaking land, threshing, and haying; church services, with topics and attendees; books that Lucy is reading; and visiting with the neighbours. Dr. Bagnall mentions names such as Appleton, Cranston, Braybrook, Lister, Roberts, Canon Smith, Sharpe, Anderson, McLevin, Trimming, Campbell, Lyster, Parker, Higbee, Meade and Grant, Van Schaick, Moxhay, Forbes, Bredin, Powell, Bousfield, South, Perraton, Matheson, Carter, Ray, Patterson, McAusland, Johnson, Blake, Norley, Hunskor, Hendry, Ryley, Ferguson, and Kennedy.

Bagnall family

Olson & Sons Meat Market fonds

  • CA GPR 0564
  • Fonds
  • 1912-[ca. 1980]

The fonds consists of 2 hand-written accounts books belonging to John Olson, who established Olson & Sons Meat Market in Sexsmith: a 1928 cash book for the meat market, and a notebook used by John Olson when attending the Lutheran College in 1912-1913. There is also one photograph of a 4-H Beef Steer purchased by Olsons ca. 1980.

Olson, John

James (Jim) Thompson fonds

  • CA ATH Ath 93.02
  • Fonds
  • 1912

Jim Thompson was a real estate agent in Athabasca Landing, and later Mirror Landing, who was associated with Jim Cornwall. He took photographs and collected colour postcards of the area including Egge's Stopping House, the Thompson home at Mirror Landing, Saulteaux (Soto) Landing, SS Midnight Sun, SS Midnight Call, Athabasca Forwarding Company at Mirror Landing, E. S. Viens General Merchant and Cornwall Rooms at Mirror Landing, Jim and Hazel Thompson, Nollie Nicol and a pet moose. Photographs # 11532, 11534 - 11544. The colour postcards are from the N. T. Coy series.

Thompson, James (Jim) A.

Municipal District of Bear Lake No. 740 fonds

  • CA GPR 0060
  • Fonds
  • 1912 -1944

The fonds consists of the records of the Municipal District of Bear Lake from 1912 to 1944. These records include by-laws and minutes, financial statements, Alberta Gazettes showing tax sales, miscellaneous financial records, a town plan of Lake Saskatoon, and a land ownership map. The fonds is divided into three series: Minutes, Financial Management, and Maps and Plans.

Municipal District of Bear Lake No. 740

Municipal District of Grande Prairie No. 739 fonds

  • CA GPR 0061
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1944

The fonds consists of the records of the Municipal District of Grande Prairie No. 739 from 1913 to 1944. These records include by-laws and minutes, financial statements, a 1943 Alberta Gazette showing tax sales, and a town plan of Bezanson. The fonds is divided into three series: Minutes, Financial Management, and Maps and Plans.

Municipal District of Grande Prairie No. 739

Edith Mair fonds

  • CA GPR 0555
  • Fonds
  • 1912-[ca.1922]

The fonds consists of twelve photographs of the Grande Prairie area from 1912 to ca. 1922, including fairs, sports, street scenes, and early pioneers. The images appear to have been removed from an album.

Mair, Edith

Lower Beaverlodge School fonds

  • CA GPR 0607
  • Fonds
  • 1912-1932

The fonds consists of records maintained by the Board of Directors for the operation of the Lower Beaverlodge School. It includes correspondence with the Departments of Education, Municipal Affairs and Public Health, the Soldier’s Settlement Board, the Workman’s Compensation Board, school inspectors and parents; financial records including annual financial statements and auditor’s reports, grant statements; insurance, education assessment and tax records, purchases of equipment and curriculum materials; school inspection reports; school census records listing the names and birthdates of children, their parents, and their address; agreements with teachers; supplementary curriculum aids such as radio programming and flags for Empire Day, rough voters lists for 1928 and 1931 elections

Family names common in the records include Idan Thoreson, Peter Benson, John Walton, Wesley Bell, Mrs. Shattuck, Wm Eisenmann, Jesse Romine, Victor Flint, Charles Cassity, Albert Henry, Duncan Hume, William Bernard, Charles Edgerton, Homer Jacque, William Oakford, Harry Parfrey, Gordon Sherk, and Frank Willsey.

Lower Beaverlodge School

Annie Fodchuk fonds

  • CA ATH Ath 06.24
  • Fonds
  • 1912 – 2004

Annie Fodchuk ordered an Eatons catalogue spinning wheel in the 1940s to make clothing for her young family on their homestead west of Athabasca, Alberta. It arrived via train at the CN train station in Athabasca.

Fodchuk, Annie (nee Kowalchuk)

Jack & Betty Lowe fonds

  • CA GPR 0610
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1913-1929]

The fonds consists of 36 photographs and 5 postcards collected by Jack and Betty Lowe on their trip into the Peace Country in 1929, on Jack's trip to the Peace in 1927, and from the trip of Betty's father (Mr. Zeigler) into the Peace Country in 1913. The photographs are glued into a 6 x 8 in. black album, and some are identified with accompanying notes.

Lowe, Jack & Betty

Grande Prairie Herald fonds

  • CA GPR 0618
  • Fonds
  • 1913-1938

The fonds consists of approximately 1250 issues of the Grande Prairie Herald from the first issue in March 25, 1913 to December 15, 1938. The content consists of community news on the front page, world news, editorials, generally helpful information, and advertisements.
From March 1913 to July 1916, the paper is an eight-sheet small format, 13 x 19 in. In August 1916 the size increases to 15 x 22 in.
For the first few months, the issues are sporadic--sometimes once a week, often once or twice a month. From Aug 5, 1913, there are regular issues once a week, and from Aug 25 to Dec 29, 1914 there are two issues each week. This reverts back to one issue per week and continues until 1938.
Also included with this set of papers is a July 21, 1913 letter to the Alberta Provincial Library from Editor W. Pratt advising that the Grande Prairie Herald is available to the Library.

Grande Prairie Herald

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