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Peterson papers fonds

  • Fonds
  • 1949 - 2021

This fonds cover Tom Peterson's research into the local history of the Yellowhead County area, including Jasper and Hinton. This collection was first developed by Peterson's stepmother, Constance Peterson (Barton), who was an early historian of the area, and added to over the years during Peterson's long tenure as a local guide and historian. Some of the significant topics represented in this collection are: early occupation and settlement of Yellowhead County, the foundation of Jasper National Park, Canadian Pacific Railway surveys, and Peterson’s various historical tours. The fonds mainly consists of textual material, including newspaper articles, handwritten notes, and photocopies of material that Peterson considered useful for his research, as well as many photographs of various trips around the Hinton-Jasper region.
The fonds consist of the following series:

  1. Archaeology and Early history of Yellowhead County
  2. Expeditions 1825-1853: Fur Trade era
  3. 1860-1900 Expeditions: Overlanders and CPR Survey
  4. Jasper Park Surveys
  5. Occupation and Exploration of Jasper National Park
  6. Historical Tours & Presentations
  7. Research with Peter Murphy
  8. Railroads
  9. Research with Fred Howlett
  10. Hinton in the 20th and 21st Century
  11. Northern Rockies and Central Alberta in the 20th and 21st Century

Vader-Grimm Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0676
  • Fonds
  • 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).

Vader-Grimm Family

Archaeology and early history of Yellowhead County

These records cover the history of the Yellowhead County region, including modern archaeological digs, details of voyageur expeditions through the area, and Aboriginal settlement. This series contains newspaper articles, photocopies of books and journal articles, photographs, handwritten notes of commentary and research, and a text essay on DVD.
This series consists of the following files:

  1. The Geological Story of Jasper National Park
  2. Archaeological Student Research - Devona, Talbot Lake - Program Palisades
  3. Recent Archaeological finds in the Robb Area and Brule (2005)
  4. Recent Archaeological finding in the Rockies & JNP
  5. Pre-Historic Snake Indian & Iroquois Archaeological Report Jack Elliot 2009
    Devona Caves exploration
    Henry House expeditions: Ottos, Work, Simpson, Moberly, Trapp, Smith
    The Trail Through the Pembina Valley 1790-1912 by W.G.P. Allen and Henry House
    David Thompson and First Nations
    Outfitting, Surveying, and Exploring the Athabasca Region
    David Thompson’s Good Shed and Hudson’s Bay Company
    Misc. Reaching the Pacific includes 1812-13 use of Athabasca Pass opening trail system to Caledonia
    David Thompson modern scholarship and publicity
    The Journal of Daniel Williams Harmon 1808-1814 Special Information of living standards of Indians of Rockies
    Gabriel Franchère 1819 A Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America
    Ross Cox 1817 The Columbia River
    John Work
    Aemilius Simpson - diary 1826
    Calder family history
    George Edward Camp
    Calder family history comments and Fort Langley: Outpost of Empire
    Calder family research references
    Smallpox epidemic c. 1870

William Alexander Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0572
  • Fonds
  • 1856-[ca. 2000]

The fonds consists of family photographs, correspondence, and genealogical records of the William Alexander Family. The photographs ([ca. 1966]-1980) show William Alexander, his wife Emilie Dannhauer, and their families, the Alexander children in Strathcona, Rycroft, and Grande Prairie, various boats on the Peace River, the Fort Fitzgerald wood camp, the Art Alexander family in Hudson's Hope, the O'Brien girls, Maggie and Emil Baron and their children, Ed and Bill Alexander in their army uniforms, and the Alexander gravesite and O'Brien Park.

The correspondence (1896, 1915-1986) includes letters from Emilie Alexander to her mother Caroline Dannhauer, Pringle to Bill Alexander, R. B. Leslie to the Alexanders, Bill Alexander to his sisters and father, Ed Alexander to his sister Maggie and father, William to his daughters, Aunt M. F. Wells to Jean and Maggie, Aunt H.(?) A. Alexander to Jean, Aunt Jessie Fairweather to her nieces and nephews, Art and Violet Alexander to his sister Maggie, Harry Newgord to Ed and Bill, cousin Ella F. Lyell to Jean and Maggie, W. J. C. Reed & Sons Solicitors and Notaries Public to Maggie, cousin Jessie (nee Bell) to Jean Pearce, Emil and Maggie Baron to their daughter Jean Pearce, cousin Jessie (nee Bell) to Violet Alexander, cousin Helen Truscott to Jean Pearce, Paul and Caroline Dannhauer to Sidney Truscott, Jean to her sister Maggie, cousin Jim Blacklaws to Maggie, Jean to niece Jean Pearce, cousin Wayne to Jean Pearce, cousin Isabel Besley to Jean Pearce, and the Public Archives of Canada to Jean Pearce.

Other records include German language records of Paul Dannhauer (permission for passport, Certificate of Qualification as Helmsmen 1st Class, Certificate of Baptism, and confirmation of birth), William Alexander's Birth Certificate, Ontario land records of Paul Dannhauer, William and Emilie Alexander's Marriage Certificate, Maggie Alexander's Birth Certificate, William Alexander's Certificate of Registration of Death, Emilie Alexander's Certified Abstract of Registration of Death, Maggie and Emil Baron's Marriage Certificate, obituaries of uncle James Alexander and aunt Maggie Wells, excerpts from the "Centennial History" of St. John Lutheran Church, Petatwawa Ontario, 1867-1967, newspaper articles about Maggie Baron and Jean Alexander, Rycroft homecoming program and newspaper article, and family trees compiled by various family members.

The records were arranged in a series of binders and albums, as assembled by Jean Pearce. They have been selected and rearranged by the Archivist into chronological order. The photographs have been left in the order they were given by Jean; not every photograph in the albums was copied.

Alexander family

1860-1900 Expeditions: Overlanders and CPR Survey

"These records cover the early expeditions into the Yellowhead area from 1860 to 1900, including the Overlanders group of settlers and early surveys by the Canadian Pacific Railway to expand the railroad through this area and into western Canada. This series contains newspaper articles, photocopies of books and journal articles, photographs, transcripts of documents, and handwritten notes of commentary and research.
This series consists of the following files:

  1. Milton & Cheadle 1863
  2. Overlanders 1862
  3. Dr. John Rae’s Telegraph Survey Edmonton-Yellowhead to Quesnel 1864
  4. CPR Survey T.W. Trutch Present conditions of trails 1821
  5. Fleming, Sandford Ocean to Ocean
  6. Pierre Berton The Railway Pathfinders chapter 4 Moberly disobeys orders
  7. 1872 Walter Moberly - Diary (Dave Suttell) Wood River Trail
  8. Moberly - Columbia River 1871-1872 Building Scene
  9. Moberly - Walter Blazing the Trail Through the Rockies
  10. Moberly, Walter and the Northwest Passage by Rail - Daphne Sleigh
  11. Reports to Sandford Fleming Jan 13? 1873
  12. Walter Moberly petition for compensation 1875
  13. Klettl, Shirley Sept 12 1973 depot location
  14. Cook, Ken 1990-92 re Memories of a building structure in upper Whirlpool River
  15. Moberly, Walter 1872 Ross Cox Creek Building T. Peterson record of finding locations
  16. CPR Survey 1873 Temporary Storage Area opposite Wabassa campground
  17. Moberly, Frank
  18. Rylatt, RM 1871-73 Memories of a CPR Surveyor
  19. Athabasca Depot
  20. Green, Ashdown diary 1872-73-74
  21. Thomas Trapp general information
  22. 1876-77 Trapp, T J Journal
  23. CPR Surveys - E.W. Jarvis and C.F. Hanington
  24. Railroad Searching for a Seaport Author James Sirios
  25. Canadian Pacific Railway Report on Program rep to January 1874 Sandford Fleming
  26. 1877-78 Two Excursions H Percy & Mrs. Percy Jasper Area
  27. 1899 NW Mounted Police Patrol Edmonton-Jasper-Jasper House
  28. Maps of Jasper"

Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District fonds

  • CA GPR 0001
  • Fonds
  • 1875-2007

The fonds consists of the records of the Board of Directors; Administrative planning documents, financial and personnel records, information on the physical plant, and subject and correspondence files; photographs and information on Collections’ artifacts, buildings, and displays; photographs and files of Programming and special events. Completing the collection are brochures and books published by the society, associated organizations; and photographs, scrapbooks and guest books from the Grande Prairie Museum.

Pioneer Museum Society of Grande Prairie and District

Gass Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0631
  • Fonds
  • [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.

Gass family

Betty Welter fonds

  • CA GPR 0129
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1880-2007]

The fonds consists of school memorabilia and paper artefacts from Betty’s childhood, building the Welter family home, and her volunteer activities; certificates and news clippings detailing Betty’s activities with the Canadian Red Cross, and a book of minutes from the Local Association (Mother’s Auxiliary) of Guides, Brownies and Rangers from 1965-1970; a writing portfolio of biographies of the Smart family and Jack Welter, as well as memories of incidents which happened in her childhood, her teenage years and years as a young wife including income tax forms from 1943-1973; a wide subject range of photographs, from local Grande Prairie scenes and people to the construction of the Alaska Highway; and research files containing material researched for the archives: Miller’s Taxi; Teen Town; and a publication "The Inside Track" which traces the history of Union Tractor which Betty's husband Jack worked for. An accrual in 2010 consists of plans and blueprints of the Welter house and their duplex.

Welter, Betty

Hodgson Family fonds

  • CA GPR 0630
  • Fonds
  • [ca. 1880-2005]

The fonds consists of records relating to the Hodgson family. The records have been divided into nine series; John Fulton personal & financial; Fulton Lea & Sophia Hodgson personal, financial and correspondence; family photographs from Kinistino and Hythe; Edna Hodgson's scrapbook; Hodgson's Mill; H.O.P. Lake/One Island Lake and Hodgson family tree.
The records have been arranged by the Archivists by content and chronology into the various series and files. The records came from so many individual sources, the overall original order of the records had been obscured. The Archivists imposed the order now shown by the records.

Hodgson family

Lewis family fonds

  • CA GPR 0195
  • Fonds
  • 1883-2000

The fonds consists of records collected as well as created by Ursula and Richard Lewis.

Lewis (family)

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